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Advocacy, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 7-4
  • November 28, 2012
  • Terrie Goodman
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 5 5 7 - 4 7 3 0 - 6
This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Terri Goodman, PhD, RN, CNOR, will focus on Nurse Advocacy, with article topics including: the Nurse advocate; Patient right to safety; Advocacy through public policy; Advocating for patient families; Advocating for Laryngectomy Patients; Advocating for cancer patients; and Advocating for the patient in industry.

Placement Learning in Medical Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • October 9, 2012
  • Maggie Maxfield + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Are you unsure about your medical nursing placement? Do you need guidance on what to prepare to get the most out of your practice learning? Will you have the range of clinical skills to care for individual patients? What learning opportunities will there be to meet your competencies? How can you maximise your learning during this placement? This book will help you with all these concerns. It will advise you on what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities and meet your competencies.

Strategies for National Quality and Payment Policy, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 7-3
  • August 20, 2012
  • Nancy Girard + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 5 5 7 - 4 7 2 9 - 0
This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mickey L. Parsons, PhD, MHA, RN, FAAN, and Nancy Girard, PhD, RN, FAAN, will focus on National Quality and Payment Policy: Strategies for Nursing Leadership and Practice, with article topics including: Value Based Purchasing; Leadership and Practice Framework for Success in the Era of Transparency; Evaluating an Innovative Organizational Strategy; Nursing Units as Learning Practice Communities; Healthcare Quality: Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Role; Teaching Nurses to Utilize Dashboards; Understanding the Patient’s Experience; Healthcare Quality and Ethics; and PACU Nurses and Patient Safety Climate.

Essential Nursing Skills

  • 4th Edition
  • August 3, 2012
  • Maggie Nicol + 5 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 3 4 - 3 7 7 7 - 2
As a nursing student you learn lots of nursing theory and research – but how do you translate this into practice and apply it to the skills you need? Where do you start? What steps should be carried out and in what order? What should you do afterwards? Essential Nursing Skills answers these questions for over 130 clinical skills. Each one is explained from start to finish, using a step-by-step approach, with clear illustrations and colour photographs to enhance understanding. Small enough to carry with you and specifically designed and written to aid learning, this book is invaluable for nurses across all fields.

Nursing Informatics, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 7-2
  • June 8, 2012
  • Joy Don Baker
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 5 5 7 - 4 4 2 8 - 2
This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Joy Don Baker, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, CNOR, NEA-BC, will focus on Informatics with topics including: Distance education; computer science and cognitive science; role of the perioperative nurse as informaticist; cyber diving: literature search; website evaluation; bibliographic software; relational database programs; virtual learning environments; digital divide; and social networking legality.

Collaborative Care of the Facial Injury Patient, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 6-4
  • November 30, 2011
  • Vivek Shetty + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Vivek Shetty and Grant Marshall, will focus on Collaborative Care of the Facial Injury Patient, with topics such as: Psychosocial issues; Substance Use and Injury; Intimate Partner Violence, and Barriers to Collaborative Care.

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Practice

  • 1st Edition
  • June 23, 2011
  • Jean Marc Canard + 4 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Practical GI Endoscopy provides an illustrated concise guide to the use of endoscopy in the diagnosis and management of disorders in the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. There is a clinical “hands on” emphasis throughout with expert advice on the practical aspects of performing endoscopic techniques in both diagnosis and therapy, tips for avoiding complications and how best to deal with them if and when encountered. Written by the leading international names in gastrointestinal endoscopy, the text has been expertly edited into a succinct, instructive format. Presented in short paragraphs structured with headings, subheadings and bullet points and richly illustrated throughout with full-color photographs and line drawings the book will be an invaluable companion to the busy practicing gastroenterologist.

Magnet Environments: Supporting the Retention and Satisfaction of Nurses, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 46-1
  • February 22, 2011
  • Karen Hill
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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This issue of Nursing Clinics of North America will focus on Magnet Hospitals. Article topics will include nursing workforce data on magnet versus non-magnet hospitals, magnet culture and satisfaction, best practices in ensuring engagement among nurses, nursing retention, partnerships between academics and practice, and nursing retention strategies.

Infection Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Zero Tolerance for Infections, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 5-4
  • December 9, 2010
  • George Allen
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by George Allen, features subject topics such as: OR Attire's Potential for Infection Transmission; Strategies for Preventing Sharps Injuries; Managing Patients with MDROs – Implementing Isolation Procedures in the Perioperative Setting; Anesthesia Care Providers – Identifying/Mitigating Potential for Infection Transmission; Urinary Catheter Insertion and Care in the Perioperative Setting; Hand Hygiene and the Surgical Team; Outlining Effective Strategies for Preventing SSI; Environmental Sanitation – Review of New Technologies; Reprocessing Instruments: Focus on Eye Surgery and TASS (Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome); Skin Prepping to Maximize Positive Outcomes; Improving the process of supplying instruments from central processing to the OR using the LEAN method; Using Performance Improvement Methodology in Finding the Cause of Increase Biological Cultures in the Operating Room and Solutions for Corrections.

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