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Achieving Evidence-Based Practice

  • 2nd Edition
  • November 17, 2005
  • Susan Hamer + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 2 7 7 6 - 5
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 6 3 0 8 - 4
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book provides a practical introduction to and overview of the development and implementation of evidence-based practice. It focuses on how to look for and appraise the available evidence, how to apply the evidence using a variety of approaches and in different organisational contexts, and how to understand different dimensions of personal and organisational change and its ethical components.

Saunders Nursing Survival Guide: Fluids and Electrolytes

  • 2nd Edition
  • November 8, 2005
  • Cynthia C. Chernecky + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 1 6 0 - 2 8 7 9 - 6
Saunders Nursing Survival Guide: Fluid and Electrolytes, 2nd Edition presents a complete review of the ever-challenging topic of fluid and electrolytes, using lighthearted cartoons and mnemonic tools designed to make your learning experience more relaxed and enjoyable. Each book in the unique Saunders Nursing Survival Guides series features brief, focused material and lively illustrations that make complex subjects approachable and easy to understand. Consistent unit headings - What You Will Learn, What It Is, What You Need to Know, What You Do, and Do You Understand? - break information into manageable sections to make learning easier. Each chapter also includes a number of NCLEX® Exam-style review questions to reinforce important information and help you prepare for the examination as well as future clinical applications.

Starting Your Practice

  • 1st Edition
  • October 28, 2005
  • Jean Nagelkerk
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 0 2 4 8 8 - 4
This unique resource is an ideal career-planning guide for advanced practice students, recent graduates, and practicing nurse practitioners who want to expand their careers. It's filled with helpful guidelines and proven strategies for success in every aspect of NP practice, including certification and licensure, finding and negotiating a practice opportunity, and developing community and professional partnerships.

Herbal Treatment of Children

  • 1st Edition
  • August 26, 2005
  • Anne McIntyre
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 5 1 7 4 - 5
Increasingly, healthcare professionals are encountering patients who are, or wish to be, taking herbal medicines. This book not only provides answers to frequently asked questions, but will also enable healthcare professionals to recommend safe alternatives to orthodox treatment if appropriate.

Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of Children

  • 1st Edition
  • May 24, 2005
  • Carol Chamley + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 7 3 4 1 - 0
This book is a comprehensive guide to developmental anatomy and physiology of children, related to the developing child from fetus up to adolescence. It takes a systematic approach and addresses all the body systems. As well as addressing normal growth and development it places pathology in perspective when related to developmental issues, such as congenital abnormalities.

Physiotherapy in Orthopaedics

  • 2nd Edition
  • March 22, 2005
  • Karen Atkinson + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 7 4 0 6 - 6
Drawing on their many years of experience in various orthopaedic settings, the authors of this valuable resource describe how to apply clinical reasoning to a diverse range of patient problems. The content of the book progresses logically from normal to abnormal findings and from simple to complex conditions. Engaging case studies and self-assessment sections help readers develop a reasoned and logical approach to the management of orthopaedic patients.

Disease Management

  • 1st Edition
  • February 4, 2005
  • Diane Huber
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 1 6 - 3 9 1 1 - 6
Written specifically for case managers, this innovative reference presents a practical integration of disease management and case management to ensure comprehensive coverage of these two rapidly evolving and expanding fields. It explains and clarifies these two areas with in-depth expert commentary that offers a fresh, contemporary approach and captures both provider and payor perspectives. Its strong emphasis on evidence-based practice helps ensure that disease managers are using the best evidence to formulate the best results.

Evidence-Based Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • January 10, 2005
  • Alba DiCenso + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 0 2 5 9 1 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 0 8 0 9 0 - 3
Evidence Based Nursing is written in response to numerous requests by nurse practitioners and other graduate faculty for a nursing literature resource. This reader-friendly, accessible guide features plentiful examples from the nursing literature and the addition of specific nursing issues such as qualitative research, with direct application for clinical practice. The guide enables nurses to: frame their clinical questions in a way that will help them find the evidence to support their opinions; distinguish between strong and weak evidence; clearly understand study results; weigh the risks and benefits of management options; and apply the evidence to their individual patients to improve outcomes. Part One provides a basic approach to the problems faced by nurses when determining optimal care, predicting patient progress, and protecting patients from potentially harmful side effects, in addition to including a literature assessment summary and management recommendations. Part Two expands on Part One, providing concrete examples through case studies.

Living with Illness

  • 1st Edition
  • December 30, 2004
  • Cath Rogers-Clark + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 7 7 5 0 - 2
Living with Illness: Psychosocial Challenges focuses on developing and strengthening understanding of the illness experience. It encourages students to critically appraise conventional approaches to understanding and caring for those who are ill, to empower readers to off true holistic care and to, where appropriate, change nursing practice in light of current research findings. Traditionally nurses have drawn on knowledge from sociology and psychology as two separate but related disciplines to nursing, leaving the beginning level nurse to relate, integrate and translate knowledge gained into nursing practice. Living with Illness combines, in a unique way, sociological and psychological perspectives to creatively represent psychosocial knowledge that is innovative and directly applicable to contemporary nursing practice.

Real World Nursing Survival Guide: Hemodynamic Monitoring

  • 1st Edition
  • December 22, 2004
  • Rebecca K. Hodges + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 1 6 - 0 3 7 5 - 9
The latest title in the Real World Nursing Survival Guide series, this fun and engaging book makes it easy to review must-know concepts associated with hemodynamic monitoring. Its lighthearted, cartoon-filled approach guides readers through challenging concepts and procedures. The book begins with an overview of five main concepts: cardiac output, stroke volume, preload, afterload, and contractility. It discusses equipment used for specific procedures, followed by discussions of specific aspects of hemodynamic monitoring including cardiac output, intra-arterial, central venous, pulmonary artery, and mixed venous oxygenation. The final chapter focuses on clinical applications with case studies, clinical interventions, and exercises.