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Procedures for the Primary Care Provider

  • 3rd Edition
  • December 1, 2015
  • Marilyn Winterton Edmunds
  • English
  • Other
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 3 4 0 0 3 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 3 4 0 0 4 - 5
Confidently perform the most common office procedures with Procedures for the Primary Care Provider, 3rd Edition. This practical, spiral-bound reference provides step-by-step illustrated guidelines for basic and advanced office procedures commonly performed by Nurse Practitioners and Physician’s Assistants. Each procedure follows a consistent format including a brief description of the procedure, a review of relevant anatomy and physiology, indications and contraindications, precautions, assessment, patient preparation, treatment alternatives, a list of equipment needed, and a step-by-step illustrated procedure. This third edition features nine new procedures, new illustrations, a more user-friendly full-color design, and much more.

Manual of Critical Care Nursing

  • 7th Edition
  • November 13, 2015
  • Marianne Saunorus Baird
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 1 8 7 9 2 - 3
The compact, yet comprehensive, Manual of Critical Care Nursing: Nursing Interventions and Collaborative Management, 7th Edition is your students’a go-to reference forto help you provide safe, high-quality nursing care in the clinicalcritical care settings. Written in an abbreviated outline format, this easy-to-use Manual presents essential information on more than 75 disorders and conditions, as well as concepts relevant to caring for all critically ill patients and functioning in the critical care environment. Award-winning clinical nurse specialist Marianne Baird separates the content first by body system and then by disorder, with each disorder including a brief description of pathophysiology, assessment, diagnostic testing, collaborative management, nursing diagnoses, desired outcomes, nursing interventions, and patient teaching and rehabilitation. With the latest NANDA-I nursing diagnoses and new sections on Bariatric Considerations and Caring for the Elderly, this practical manual is designed to help critical care nurses and nursing students better care for any critically ill patient.

Autoevaluación en enfermería médico-quirúrgica

  • 1st Edition
  • July 16, 2015
  • Juan Luis Soto de Lanuza + 3 more
  • Spanish
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 8 4 - 4 5 8 - 2 6 1 9 - 5
Esta práctica obra, con una estructura de 405 cuestiones con respuestas razonadas y casos prácticos, ha sido ideada con el fin de servir de ayuda a los profesionales de enfermería para preparar el examen de acceso a la especialidad de Enfermería Médico Quirúrgica por la vía extraordinaria. Tanto las preguntas como los casos prácticos están inspirados en las competencias requeridas a la enfermera especialista y sigue los criterios actuales de división y abordaje del área de cuidados de enfermería médico-quirúrgicos. Ha sido realizado por profesionales con experiencia como enfermeros y que tienen también una larga trayectoria en el ámbito de la formación, coordinados por Juan Luís Soto de Lanuza, diplomado en Enfermería por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y en Psicología por la Universidad de Comillas. Incluye un primer capítulo de técnicas de estudio que facilite un abordaje más eficaz de los temas que se pretende estudiar, de modo que se logre un mayor rendimiento y un apartado de consejos para realizar exámenes tipo test que, seguramente, facilitará una mejor comprensión y aumentará el rendimiento en este tipo de pruebas.

Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care

  • 7th Edition
  • April 24, 2015
  • Diana J. Mason + 3 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 2 9 9 9 2 - 3
Featuring analysis of cutting-edge healthcare issues and first-person stories, Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 7th Edition is the leader in helping students develop skills in influencing policy in today’s changing health care environment. Approximately 150 expert contributors present a wide range of topics in this classic text, providing a more complete background than can be found in any other policy textbook on the market. Discussions include the latest updates on conflict management, health economics, lobbying, the use of media, and working with communities for change. With these insights and strategies, you'll be prepared to play a leadership role in the four spheres in which nurses are politically active: the workplace, government, professional organizations, and the community.

Instrumentation for the Operating Room

  • 9th Edition
  • January 29, 2015
  • Shirley M. Tighe
  • English
  • Other
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 2 4 3 1 5 - 5
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 2 4 3 2 0 - 9
A must-have manual for anyone working with instruments in the clinical environment! Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual, 9th Edition provides a practical, true-color guide to today’s most commonly used surgical instruments. A reader-friendly format includes clear instructions on preparation, sterilization, and setup, and goes beyond other books in showing not only individual instruments but also instruments in sets according to surgical procedure. This edition includes 13 new chapters as well as many new photographs throughout the book. Written by an experienced perioperative nurse, Shirley Tighe, this resource includes more than 1,000 photographs of instruments and instrument tips in the book and on the Evolve companion website — that’s more than any other manual!

Práctica basada en la evidencia

  • 1st Edition
  • October 24, 2014
  • M.ª Isabel Orts Cortés
  • Spanish
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 8 4 - 9 0 2 2 - 6 4 3 - 8
Cuidados de Salud Avanzados es una colección de monografías dirigidas a profesionales de la salud y estudiantes de posgrado, educativo.máster y doctorado, dentro del ámbito de las ciencias de la salud. Su objetivo es ampliar los conocimientos básicos adquiridos durante el grado, proporcionando contenidos avanzados en cada una de las materias tratadas. Tras el estudio de esta monografía el lector podrá contextualizar el movimiento de la práctica basada en la evidencia (PBE) y su relación con la utilización de la investigación, formular la pregunta clínica en función de su naturaleza, identificar los tipos de estudios y describir la jerarquía de evidencias, discernir entre las diferentes preguntas clínicas, elaborarlas bien, establecer su alcance, realizar una búsqueda de la evidencia tanto en fuentes primarias como secundarias y conocer y manejar los operadores booleanos en la construcción de cadenas de búsqueda. Asimismo, ayudará a definir el concepto de lectura crítica y conocer los procedimientos que se deben seguirse así como las herramientas útiles para su realización, valorar críticamente la calidad de los estudios científicos y entender los conceptos metodológicos claves, describir el proceso de implementación de evidencias, identificar dificultades y conocer la aplicación de la metodología de la PBE en el contexto

Gerontologic Nursing

  • 5th Edition
  • October 17, 2014
  • Sue E. Meiner
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 2 9 3 7 9 - 2
Gerontologic Nursing, 5th Edition offers comprehensive disorder and wellness coverage to equip you with the essential information you need to provide the best nursing care to older adults. A body-system organization makes information easy to find, and includes discussions on health promotion, psychologic and sociocultural issues, and the common medical-surgical problems associated with aging adults. Written by expert educator and clinician Sue Meiner, EdD, APRN, BC, GNP, this book also emphasizes topics such as nutrition, chronic illness, emergency treatment, patient teaching, home care, and end-of-life care.

Essentials for Nursing Practice

  • 8th Edition
  • February 28, 2014
  • Patricia A. Potter + 3 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 1 8 8 8 1 - 4
Taking all the expert nursing content and student-friendly features of Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals text and streamlining it into a shorter format, Essentials for Nursing Practice, 8th Edition is the perfect choice to help busy nursing students master all the fundamental nursing principles in less time! This new 8th edition contains the nursing principles, concepts, skills, and easy-to-follow format that nursing students have come to love about Potter and Perry’s Basic Nursing — all updated with the latest information, visuals, and learning features. Plus, this reinvigorated Essentials text is streamlined and re-designed to work better with the rest of your books. It also comes with a wide array of online learning tools (free with book purchase) to help you master the important nursing concepts and skills with ease.

Instrumentation for the Operating Room

  • 8th Edition
  • June 1, 2013
  • Shirley M. Tighe
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 2 4 2 4 2 - 4
With more than 1,000 photographs of surgical instruments and instrument tips in the book and online, Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual, 8th Edition, shows more illustrations than any other manual. Instruments are organized by surgical specialty, beginning with basic sets and progressing to more advanced sets. Instructions on preparation, sterilization, and setup, as well as clear explanations for common surgical procedures can be found throughout the book. Within each chapter, instruments are commonly featured individually and as parts of sets, often showing close-up, individual tips. Written by an experienced perioperative nurse, Shirley Tighe, this edition includes new photographs of the operating room and of robotic and micro-surgical instruments, plus a companion Evolve website with additional photographs, flashcards, and review questions.

Lehrbuch für Operationspflegekräfte

  • 4th Edition
  • March 14, 2013
  • Marija Kucharek + 2 more
  • German
  • eBook
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Kurzbeschreibung Alles für Fort- und Weiterbildung im OP Das topaktuelle Lehrbuch für Operationspflegekräfte ist das optimale Buch für die Fachweiterbildung OP-Pflege und für die Zeit danach. Neben einem ausführlichen medizinischen Teil bietet es Informationen zu Lagerung, Instrumenten und Assistenz und unterstützt Sie optimal bei der Fachpflege. So können Sie im Pflegealltag stets professionell und richtig handeln. Mit dem Code im Buch haben Sie zeitlich begrenzten, kostenlosen Online-Zugriff auf den Buchinhalt und die Abbildungen. Langbeschreibung Medizinische und pflegerische Grundlagen für Operationspflegekräfte Besucht man die Fachweiterbildung OP-Pflege, dann braucht man ein Buch, das einen durch die gesamte Pflegeausbildung begleitet und die theoretischen Hintergründe liefert - und zwar die der gesamten Ausbildungsinhalte, nicht nur einen Teil davon. Neben einem ausführlichen medizinischen Teil bietet das Buch - als Plus für die Ausbildung - Lagerung, Instrumente, Assistenz. Gleichzeitig sind in den DKG-Empfehlungen zu den Weiterbildungsinhalten auch berufswissenschaftliche Inhalte hinzugekommen. Auch sozialwissenschaftlichen Werte wurden berücksichtigt. Dieses Buch unterstützt Operationspflegekräfte in Weiterbildung, Operationspflegekräfte, OTA-SchülerInnen in der täglichen Praxis und in der Ausbildung.

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