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Manual of Medical-Surgical Nursing

  • 7th Edition
  • December 1, 2010
  • Frances Donovan Monahan + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Known for its reliable, clinically focused content, Swearingen's Manual of Medical-Surgical Nursing provides a quick reference to 125 of the most commonly encountered medical-surgical conditions. Expert authors Fran Monahan, RN, PhD, ANEF, Marianne Neighbors, EdD, RN, and Carol Green, PhD, RN, CNE make it easy to find and use the information you need to know to provide optimal patient care. Unique to this manual, outcome criteria include specific and measurable timeframes to help in establishing realistic treatment goals and evaluating the effectiveness of care. For students, it's an ideal resource for care planning and clinicals; for practitioners, it's a great clinical reference!

Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Practical Nursing for the NCLEX-PN® Exam

  • 16th Edition
  • October 15, 2010
  • Mary O. Eyles
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 0 6 9 4 1 - 0
Prepare for success on the boards with Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Practical Nursing for the NCLEX-PN® Examination! An outline format makes studying easier, and chapters organized by core clinical areas make review more efficient. Separate chapters help you focus on the specialty areas such as pharmacology, nutrition, and emergency nursing. Practice questions in each chapter are written in NCLEX examination style and include detailed rationales for both correct and incorrect answers. Developed by NCLEX-PN expert Mary O. Eyles, PhD, RN, this guide also includes a comprehensive exam to prepare you for the test-taking experience. Together, the book and CD offer a total of more than 3,600 practice questions.

Ulrich & Canale's Nursing Care Planning Guides

  • 7th Edition
  • October 13, 2010
  • Nancy Haugen + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 1 7 2 8 - 0
Practical and comprehensive, this essential resource helps you plan individualized care for clients in a variety of settings, including acute care, extended care, and home care environments. It features 33 detailed nursing diagnosis care plans and 65 disease/disorder care plans that are keyed to specific expected outcomes and interventions. This book also includes the popular Online Care Planner that allows you to edit and print standardized nursing diagnosis care plans.

Surgical Instruments

  • 4th Edition
  • October 1, 2010
  • Maryann Papanier Wells
  • English
  • Other
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 2 0 1 9 - 8
Make sure you can identify the many different types of surgical instruments! Surgical Instruments: A Pocket Guide, 4th Edition is a quick "go-to" source for information on over 160 of the most commonly used surgical instruments. Each two-page spread features full-color photos of an instrument and its tip (if applicable), and then describes how it is used, its common variations, and any alternative names. Written by Maryann Papanier Wells, this compact, durable reference is easy to keep with you at all times. With instruments alphabetized within each major instrument class, locating specific information has never been easier!

Palliative and End of Life Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 45-3
  • September 28, 2010
  • Mimi Mahon
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 5 5 7 - 0 0 4 6 - 2
This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mimi Mahon, features subject topics such as: Understanding Children's Involvment in Medical Decision Making; Symptom Management at End of Life; Assessing respiratory distress when the patient can’t self-report; Barriers to Palliative Care, Legislative Issues; End Stage Liver Disease: Symptoms & Practice Implications; Dying children: Creating opportunities out of a “Last Chance”; Decision making in palliative care; Discussing a family member's serious illness: children's and families' perspectives; Living with cognitive impairments in Long Term Care: Palliative Care & End of Life implications; Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy; The patient and family perspectives: Living with cancer; Palliative care concepts in the sickle cell population.

Sterilization and Disinfection for the Perioperative Nurse, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 5-3
  • September 28, 2010
  • Terrie Goodman-Kent
  • English
  • Hardback
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This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Terri Goodman-Kent, features subject topics such as: high temperature, low temperature sterilization; flash sterilization; Environmental Management; Monitoring, Packaging, Education in Sterilization and Disinfection; Reprocessing of Single Use Devices.

Mosby's Assessment Memory NoteCards

  • 2nd Edition
  • July 7, 2010
  • JoAnn Zerwekh + 1 more
  • English
  • Other
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 0 6 7 4 5 - 4
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 0 8 6 1 1 - 0
Use this set of colorful cards to review concepts in physical examination and health assessment! With 80 full-color cartoons covering key concepts, Mosby's Assessment Memory NoteCards, 2nd Edition uses humor and mnemonics to make studying easier and more fun. These durable, detachable cards are useful in preparing for the NCLEX® or classroom exams, as a clinical reference, for writing care plans, or for patient teaching information. Created by nursing educators JoAnn Zerwekh, MSN, EdD, RN, and Tom Gaglione, RN, MSN, this convenient study tool may be used as either a spiral-bound notebook or as individual flashcards.

Radiology, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 5-2
  • June 29, 2010
  • Kathleen A. Gross
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 1 8 5 8 - 4
This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Kathleen Gross, MSN, RN, BVC, CRN, on the topic of Radiology will include the following article topics: Contrast Media Nephropathy; Vein Ablation/Sclerotherapy; Radiation Exposure; Embolic and Sclerotherapy Agents; CO2 Contrast; Sepsis in the Perioperative/Radiology Area; Local Anesthetics Used in Perioperative Areas; Hybrid IR; Uterine Artery Embolization; Periprocedural Hemostasis Management; Intraoperative MRI; Vertebral Augmentation: Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty; and IVC Filters.

Mosby's Pathophysiology Memory NoteCards

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 18, 2010
  • JoAnn Zerwekh + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Use this set of colorful cards to learn and remember pathophysiology! With 96 full-color cartoons covering pathophysiologic concepts, Mosby's Pathophysiology Memory NoteCards, 2nd Edition uses humor and mnemonics to make review easier and more fun. These durable, detachable cards are useful in preparing for the NCLEX® or classroom exams, as a clinical reference, for writing care plans, or for patient teaching information. Created by nursing educators JoAnn Zerwekh, MSN, EdD, RN, Jo Carol Claborn, MS, RN, and Tom Gaglione, RN, MSN, this convenient study tool may be used as either a spiral-bound notebook or as individual flashcards.

Manual of High Risk Pregnancy and Delivery

  • 5th Edition
  • May 24, 2010
  • Elizabeth S. Gilbert
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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The only book of its kind, Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery provides a complete resource for care of this special patient and her complex needs. It helps you provide positive outcomes with coverage of today's newest technology, physiologic considerations, psychologic implications, health disorders, and other complications in pregnancy. Written by noted educator and practitioner Elizabeth Stepp Gilbert, RNC, MS, FNP-BC, CNS, this book also describes how to screen for risk factors, provide preventive management, and intervene appropriately when problems arise. It's a concise, hands-on reference for both inpatient and outpatient settings!

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