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  • Evidence-Based Practice, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 44-1
    • February 25, 2009
    • Alyce A. Schultz
    • English
    The idea of evidence-based practice for nursing has grown out of the evidence based medicine movement. Evidence-based practice requires nurses to learn new skills in order to use a different process for clinical decision making. Nursing is gradually building its base of knowledge. More and more clinical intervention studies are being conducted and published in the literature. This comprehensive new issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Alyce Schultz, explores this new movement and where it is leading nurses. It includes topics such as: Creating an Evidence-Based Practice Mentoring Program within an Academic Medical Center, Renewing the Spirit of Nursing By Embracing Evidence-Based Practice, and Evidence-Based Policies and Procedures.

  • Guide to Nursing Management and Leadership

    • 8th Edition
    • February 27, 2008
    • Ann Marriner Tomey
    • English
    The 8th edition of this popular text has been completely revised and updated to include the latest strategies for improving your nursing leadership and management skills. It offers in-depth coverage and practical management strategies for a wide range of workplace issues such as delegation, diversity, evidence-based practice, stress management, quality improvement, legal issues, and recruitment and retention. A detailed analysis of today’s nursing environment prepares you to successfully manage in the midst of a nursing shortage and an emerging multigenerational workforce.

  • Budgeting Concepts for Nurse Managers

    • 4th Edition
    • September 6, 2007
    • Steven A. Finkler + 1 more
    • English
    An in-depth guide to preparing accurate nursing budgets, this book will help you improve your financial skills and contribute to your organization's strategic planning. It discusses the different types of budgeting, the budgeting process, forecasting, variance analysis, and costing out nursing services. A variety of settings are included: hospitals, long-term care, home health, community health, managed care, and others. With this guide, you'll learn how to communicate effectively with financial managers, succeed in your role in the budgeting process, and assist in the delivery of high-quality patient care at the lowest possible cost.

  • Praxiswissen Arbeitsrecht für die PDL

    Rechtssicherer Umgang mit Mitarbeitern in der Pflege
    • 1st Edition
    • May 10, 2007
    • Elke Bachstein
    • German
    Ob im Krankenhaus, in der häuslichen Pflege oder im Pflegeheim - mit dem Thema Arbeitsrecht muss sich jede leitende Pflegefachkraft auseinandersetzen. In diesem Buch finden Sie alle Informationen, die eine Leitungsperson in der Pflege braucht, z. B.: Abmahnung Stellenausschreibung Mutterschutz und Elternzeit Probezeit Vorlagen für Stellenbeschreibunge... Abmahnungen, Kündigungen und Arbeitszeugnisse machen dieses Buch für den Pflegealltag unverzichtbar. Die Autorin ist Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegerin sowie Juristin und kennt den Alltag in der Pflege ebenso gut wie das Arbeitsrecht.

  • Key Debates in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

    • 1st Edition
    • August 11, 2006
    • John R Cutcliffe + 1 more
    • English
    This book is unique, because no other psychiatric/mental health nursing text has ever brought together 'opposing' or contrasting views of the same issue, and subsequently invited two seperate chapters to be written in order to articulate the different perspectives in the debate. Further, no book has then followed up such a wide and thorough discussion by inviting a third party to offer commentary. The purpose of this book is to present a range of key issues that psychiatric/mental health nurses face. They are practice, policy, research and education related issues. The purpose then is to present the most complete, balanced arguments possible in order to inform, educate, and stimulate psychiatric/mental health nurses.Furthermore the purpose of the book is to make psychiatric/mental health nurses more aware of the, often, uncertain nature of much of psychiatric/mental health nursing practice and knowledge. Psychiatric/mental health nursing is not characterised by 'black and white', easily delineated issues, and is perhaps characterised by various 'shades of grey'. Indeed, it is often stated as axiomatic that psychiatric/mental health nurses can be described as a 'broad church'. Consequently, the purpose of this book is to help psychiatric/mental health nurses appreciate this broad church, be able to understand the various 'shades of grey', be able to understand that, often, there are differing views, inconclusive arguments and contentious debates and for this to influence their clinical practice. As the international range of contributors illustrates, these debates (to a greater or lesser extent) are issues and debates that psychiatric/mental health nurses face the world over; these are matters of real international importance and significance. These issues have been touched upon, and to a limited extent, debated at psychiatric/mental health nursing conferences and, to an even lesser extent, within some psychiatric/mental health nursing journals. Thus, they are real issues that many nurses are facing, talking about and trying to resolve.

  • Urinary & Fecal Incontinence

    Current Management Concepts
    • 3rd Edition
    • December 15, 2005
    • Dorothy B. Doughty
    • English
    Completely updated to reflect current practice, the 3rd edition of this comprehensive resource provides a multi-disciplinary, in-depth review of the physiology of continence, the pathologic mechanisms producing incontinence, and current treatment options for the various types of incontinence. Assessment, behavioral therapies, and multidisciplinary care are emphasized as key elements in the treatment and management of incontinence. In addition to the life-span content discussed throughout the book, an entire chapter is devoted to bowel and bladder management in children.

  • Managing Health Services

    Concepts and Practice
    • 2nd Edition
    • October 1, 2005
    • Mary G. Harris
    • English

  • Evidence-Based Practice

    A Primer for Health Care Professionals
    • 2nd Edition
    • October 26, 2004
    • Martin Dawes
    • English
    The book is a comprehensive guide to all the main strands of EBHC - finding and implementing evidence for use in clinical practice. Its focus is health professionals in the primary care field, and it consciously uses case examples from a variety of professional contexts. Examples and questions relevant to primary care practice are featured throughout the text. It discusses principles as well as practice, and provides guidance for teachers.

  • Clinical Decision-Making and Judgement in Nursing

    • 1st Edition
    • December 14, 2001
    • Carl Thompson + 1 more
    • English
    The book provides a critical overview of the current research literature regarding the topic of clinical decision making and judgement in nursing. The text helps individuals apply different techniques to practice, aiming for a 'non-academic' style which will be easy for readers to understand. Both the editors are researchers in the field of nurse decision making and have considerable experience teaching the subject on third level diploma/degree, masters level and post-registration nursing courses. This text is therefore unique in drawing together both the research and practical experience of implementing techniques in practice.

  • Managing Diversity & Inequality in Health Care

    Six Steps to Effective Management Series
    • 1st Edition
    • August 17, 2001
    • Carol Baxter
    • English
    This volume focuses specifically on the importance of managing diversity in todays health services. It examines what is meant by managing diversity and outlines the nature of current inequalities in the UK, and their implications for health care professionals. A practicaland practice focussed guide to developing the management skills and understanding required, this book provides an accessible mix of theory and practice, and a unique emphasis on real life applications. These are drawn from all sectors of healthcare, acute and primary, as well as the private and independent sectors. It explicitly and realistically explores the interface between management skills and knowledge and quality, fit-for-purpose practice.

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