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    • Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques

      • 11th Edition
      • February 12, 2024
      • Anne G. Perry + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Track your performance of clinical nursing skills with this convenient resource! Skills Performance Checklists makes it easy to document and assess your proficiency in each of the more than 200 skills and procedures presented in the Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition text. Simply follow these checklists step by step, mark the completion of each step, then tear off the perforated pages to submit your work for evaluation. It’s an excellent tool for building and assessing essential nursing skills!

    • Study Guide for Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology

      • 11th Edition
      • December 18, 2023
      • Constance G. Visovsky
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Reinforce your understanding of nursing pharmacology with this practical study guide! Corresponding chapter by chapter to Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology, 11th Edition, this workbook provides the practice and review needed to help you master pharmacology knowledge and prepare for the NCLEX-PN® Examination. A variety of questions includes a math review, dosage calculation exercises, and case studies that emphasize clinical decision-making and prioritization. It’s the ideal study tool and review companion for your textbook!

    • Foundations of Nursing

      • 9th Edition
      • February 9, 2022
      • Kim Cooper + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • LooseLeaf
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      Master the skills that LPN/LVNs need to care for patients across the lifespan! Foundations of Nursing, 9th Edition provides an essential guide to nursing care for pediatric, maternity, adult, and older adult patients. Through use of the nursing process, you will develop clinical judgment skills to assess patient needs, develop nursing care plans, and plan effective nursing interventions. Case studies provide practice with critical thinking and clinical judgment, and new Next Generation NCLEX®-format questions help you apply theory to practice. Written by nursing educators Kim Cooper and Kelly Gosnell, this text also helps you prepare for success on the NCLEX-PN® examination.

    • Study Guide for Foundations of Nursing

      • 9th Edition
      • April 14, 2022
      • Kim Cooper + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Reinforce your understanding of LPN/LVN nursing skills — and prepare for the NCLEX-PN® exam! Corresponding to the chapters in Foundations of Nursing, 9th Edition, this study guide provides a variety of exercises to help you review, practice, and apply nursing concepts and principles. Review questions make it easier to achieve the chapter objectives from the textbook, and critical thinking activities help you develop clinical judgment skills. Now with Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style case studies and questions, this guide provides you with an effective study tool for the NGN exam.

    • Nursing & Healthcare Ethics

      • 6th Edition
      • March 8, 2021
      • Simon Robinson + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Now in its sixth edition, this highly popular text covers the range of ethical issues affecting nurses and other healthcare professionals. Authors Simon Robinson and Owen Doody take a holistic and practical approach, focused in the dialogue of ethical decision making and how this connects professional, leadership and governance ethics in the modern healthcare environment. This focuses on the responsibility of professionals and leaders, and the importance of shared responsibility in the practice of healthcare. With a foreword by the eminent medical ethicist Alastair Campbell, the revised edition includes contemporary topics, such as the duty of candour, recent cases, such as the Mid Staffs scandal, and ethical perspectives on vulnerable groups, such as; persons with intellectual/learnin... disability, dementia and those with an enduring mental illness. It builds on professional identity and personal development as part of ongoing learning, individual and organizational, and provides interactive ways that helps the reader to develop reflective ethical practice. This text aims to enable ethical engagement with the ever changing healthcare environment, and is a must-have for anyone serious about ethics in healthcare.

    • Fundamentals of Nursing

      • 3rd Edition
      • December 7, 2021
      • Barbara L. Yoost + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • Paperback
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      • LooseLeaf
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      Build a solid foundation in the knowledge and skills you need to succeed as a nurse! Designed specifically for today’s students, Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition takes a fresh, conversational approach that is friendlier than typical books on nursing fundamentals. To make understanding easier, the book introduces basic information first and then follows with progressively more nuanced and complex nursing concepts. Practical exercises provide a unique kind of active learning, allowing you to apply concepts to actual patient care. Even care planning is different, as authors Barbara L. Yoost and Lynne R. Crawford are pioneers of conceptual care mapping — a visual, holistic way of making clinical judgments and planning patient care. Essentially, this text offers an easier, fundamentally different way to learn the nursing profession!

    • Deutsch A2/B1 in der Pflege

      • 1st Edition
      • August 14, 2021
      • Sarah Micucci + 1 more
      • German
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Das neue Lehr- und Übungsbuch für Pflegekräfte in der Alten- und Krankenpflege für das Sprachniveau A2/B1: Anhand von praxisnahen Lese- und Hörtexten des Pflegealltags werden wichtige Formulierungen, Redewendungen und Grammatikstrukturen geübt. Viele erklärende Bilder vermitteln Ihnen so auf einfache Weise den relevanten Pflege-Wortschatz. So macht Lernen Spaß, und das Gelernte kann auch gleich im Arbeitsalltag angewendet und geübt werden. Das besondere Plus: Korrekte Pflege-Inhalte und optimale Sprachdidaktik, da das Buch gemeinsam von einer Pflegepädagogin und einer Sprachlehrerin verfasst wurde. Ideal für Pflegefachpersonen aus dem Ausland, die in die deutsche Pflege einsteigen möchten; Pflegeschulen, die eigene Deutschkurse aufsetzen, Migranten in Erstausbildung sowie Pflegehilfskräfte aus dem Ausland.

    • Ross en Wilson Anatomie en Fysiologie in gezondheid en ziekte

      • 13th Edition
      • April 13, 2021
      • Anne Waugh + 1 more
      • Dutch
      • Paperback
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      De nieuwste editie van 's werelds meest populaire inleiding tot de menselijke anatomie en fysiologie in gezondheid en ziekte! De nieuwe editie van de buitengewoon succesvolle Ross & Wilson Anatomie en Fysiologie in Gezondheid en Ziekte biedt opnieuw de belangrijkste elementen van de menselijke biologie, weergegeven op een duidelijke en eenvoudige manier. Het boek is nu volledig herzien en heeft verbeterde leeronderdelen en nieuw getekende illustraties – ontwikkeld door het team van Gray's Anatomy for Students – om het leren nog makkelijker te maken. De aanvullende onderdelen zijn: Een nieuw, fris uiterlijk met nuttige kleurcodering en icoontjes bij afbeeldingen. Prachtige kleurenillustraties die de anatomische structuren en fysiologische processen helpen verduidelijken. Handige toetsen aan het einde van elk onderwerp zorgen ervoor dat studenten hun vorderingen kunnen volgen. De zelftests aan het einde van het hoofdstuk helpen de lezer bij het begrijpen en onthouden van de tekst. Duidelijke definities van veelgebruikte voorvoegsels, achtervoegsels en grondbegrippen, plus een verklarende woordenlijst en een bijlage met de biologische normaalwaarden. De begeleidende website bevat animaties, een audiowoordenlijst, casestudy’s en ander testmateriaal, het unieke Body Spectrum© online kleur- en zelftestprogramma en handige weblinks. Ross & Wilson Anatomie en Fysiologie in Gezondheid en Ziekte kan worden gebruikt door studenten in de verpleging en aanverwante zorgberoepen, biomedische en paramedische wetenschappen, het praktijkonderdeel van de opleiding tot operatieassistent, in complementaire behandelingswijzen en massage therapie, maar ook door assistenten in opleiding in de gezondheidszorg. Het boek en de bijbehorende website zijn met name waardevol voor lezers die nieuw zijn in het vakgebied, voor mensen die weer gaan studeren na een periode van afwezigheid, en voor al degenen wiens eerste taal niet Engels is.

    • Applying the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model in Practice

      • 3rd Edition
      • March 11, 2019
      • Karen Holland + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      New edition of a successful textbook which demonstrates the theory and practice of one of the most popular models of nursing. Karen Holland, Jane Jenkins and their colleagues carefully explain and explore how the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model can help today’s student learn how to care for patients in a variety of health care contexts and use it as a framework for their nursing practice. Rich with ‘real-life’ case studies and thought provoking exercises, this book has a helpful problem solving approach which strongly encourages further learning and reflection.

    • Fundamentals of Nursing

      • 2nd Edition
      • January 23, 2019
      • Barbara L. Yoost + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Yoost and Crawford’s Fundamentals of Nursing is back for a second-edition encore! The text that made its name by focusing on simple language and active learning continues its focus on helping you truly understand, apply, and retain important nursing information and concepts. Using a warm and conversational style, this new second edition guides you towards a basic understanding of the nursing profession and then logically progresses through the nursing process and into the safe and systematic methods of applying care. Each chapter features realistic and complex case studies and critical thinking exercises woven throughout the content to help you continually apply what you've learned to actual patient care. A conceptual care mapping approach — created by Yoost and Crawford themselves — further your ability to make clinical judgments and synthesize knowledge as you develop plans of care after analyzing and clustering related patient assessment data. All of this paired with a wealth of student-friendly learning features and clinically-focused content offers up a fundamentally different — and effective — way for you to easily master the fundamentals of nursing.