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The Nursing & Midwifery subject area provides evidence-based content to support nurses and interprofessional teams in preparation, development, and everyday clinical care. Providing content for nursing students, nurse educators, NPs, LPNs/LVNs, RNs, APRNs, and more, the nursing portfolio covers all areas of nursing including NCLEX & Certification titles, Community Nursing, Nursing Pharmacology, Oncology, Nutrition, Home Health, Case Management, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Gerontology, Critical Care, Pediatric Nursing, Care Planning, Midwifery, Leadership & Management, Nurse Anesthesia, Psychiatric Mental Health, and more.

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    • Manual of Critical Care Nursing

      • 7th Edition
      • October 1, 2015
      • Marianne Saunorus Baird
      • English
      • eBook
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      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.

    • Management of Patients with Traumatic Injuries, An Issue of Critical Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 27-2
      • June 4, 2015
      • Karen Bergman
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Special considerations arise as critical care nurses care for victims of trauma and violence. This issue highlights the recent advances in the care of these patients, including victims of street crime and domestic violence. As a result of the wars in Afganistan and Iraq, changes in the echelons of care have been brought to U.S. trauma centers in order to better triage, manage, and provide post-surgical care to trauma patients. Articles in this issue address the advances in this field.

    • Palliative Care in Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 27-3
      • September 7, 2015
      • Tonja Hartjes
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 3 9 5 5 9 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 3 9 5 6 0 1
      Intensive care units (ICUs) provide comprehensive, advanced care to patients with serious or life-threatening conditions and consequently, a significant amount of end-of-life care (EOLC). Indeed, approximately 20% of deaths in the U.S. are associated with an ICU stay, and nearly half of U.S. patients who die in hospitals experience an ICU stay during the last 3 days of life. Despite the commonality of the ICU experience, ICU patients typically suffer from a range of distressing symptoms such as pain, fatigue, anxiety, and dyspnea, causing families significant distress on their behalf. Thus, there is a growing imperative for better provision of palliative care (PC) in the ICU, which may prevent and relieve suffering for patients with life threatening illnesses. Effective palliative care is accomplished through aggressive symptom management, communication about the patient and family’s physical, psychosocial and spiritual concerns, and aligning treatments with each patient’s goals, values, and preferences. PC is also patient-centered and uses a multidisciplinary, team-based approach that can be provided in conjunction with other life-sustaining treatments, or as a primary treatment approach. Failure to align treatment goals with individual and family preferences can create distress for patients, families, and providers. If implemented appropriately, palliative care may significantly reduce the health care costs associated with intensive hospital care, and help patients avoid the common, non-person centered treatment that is wasteful, distressing, and potentially harmful. Due to the success of many PC programs, administrators, providers, and accrediting bodies are beginning to understand that palliative care in the ICU is vital to optimal patient outcomes.

    • Telemedicine in the ICU, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 31-2
      • April 13, 2015
      • Richard W. Carlson
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Drs. Richard Carlson and Corey Scurlock have put together a cutting edge list of topics regarding the use of Telemedicine in the Intensive Care Unit. Topics include: Tele-Neurocritical Care, Outcomes related to Telemedicine in the ICU,Telemedicine in the ICU: Its role in Emergencies and Disaster Management,Increasin... Quality through Telemedicine in the ICU,The Role of Telemedicine in Pediatric Critical Care,Telemedicine and the Septic Patient,Taking Care of the Cardiac Critical Care Patient with Telemedicine,Barrier... to ICU telemedicine,and Design and Function of Tele-ICU.

    • Réflexothérapie occipito-podale

      • 1st Edition
      • August 19, 2015
      • Guy Boitout + 1 more
      • French
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 2 2 9 4 7 4 3 8 1 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 2 2 9 4 7 4 5 6 6 9
      Cet ouvrage fondateur énonce les bases scientifiques et l'originalité de la réflexothérapie occipito-podale. Le potentiel réflexogène récepteur et émetteur de la peau du pied et d'une partie de l'occiput est abordé en première partie. S'appuyant sur l'embryologie et la neurophysiologie, les auteurs démontrent comment, dès qu'un organe innervé est en dysfonction, les informations sont réceptionnées et enregistrées de manière topique sur les centres nerveux supérieurs qui les « réverbèrent » sur l'écran occipital, témoin de l'activité de la formation réticulaire, et sur l'écran podal, prolongement embryologique de notre cerveau archaïque. Les zones réflexes sont objectivables à la palpation par une modification de la texture de la peau, dont la vasomotricité et la trophicité sont régulées par le système orthosympathique. Une fois les zones réflexes de toutes les régions anatomiques du corps reformatées, l'image globale est celle d'un nouveau-né en siège décomplété. Cette représentation tridimensionnelle du corps sur les pieds prenant la forme d'un nouveau-né en siège décomplété constitue une découverte majeure. La deuxième partie est consacrée aux zones réflexes occipitales et podales. Chaque région anatomique est visualisée avec une iconographie originale modélisée. La technique de massage cible la couche épidermo-dermique des claviers occipital et podal, point de départ des voies de la sensibilité tactile, fine et épicritique du système lemniscal choisi pour solliciter les centres nerveux supérieurs chargés de donner les ordres correctifs nécessaires aux organes en dysfonction.

    • Pathology and Intervention in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

      • 2nd Edition
      • November 3, 2015
      • David J. Magee + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Design and implement a rehab program on your own with Pathology and Intervention in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition. Part of Magee’s popular Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Series, this pathology text for physical therapists provides clear guidance on patient management relative to specific musculoskeletal pathology, injury, and illness — all based on a sound understanding of basic science and principles of practice. It focuses on the specific pathologies most often seen in the clinic, and discusses the best methods for intervention for the different areas of the body in the context of the tissue-healing model. Each intervention features a rationale, along with the pathology and problem presented; stage of healing; evidence in the literature; and clinical reasoning considerations.

    • Mosby's PDQ for LPN

      • 4th Edition
      • November 27, 2015
      • Mosby
      • English
      • Spiral-bound
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      • eBook
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      • eBook
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      Find essential nursing information at a glance! Mosby’s PDQ for LPN: Practical, Detailed, Quick, 4th Edition is an easy-to-use, pocket-sized guide to important facts, formulas, and procedures used in the clinical setting. It offers quick access to details you need but don’t usually memorize, such as signs and symptoms, medications, conversions, abbreviations, and normal/abnormal ranges for lab tests. Durable pages and spiral binding can withstand the wear and tear of daily use on the job. When in doubt, check this handy reference!

    • Instrumentation for the Operating Room

      • 9th Edition
      • January 29, 2015
      • Shirley M. Tighe
      • English
      • Spiral-bound
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      • 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!

    • Study Guide for Understanding Pharmacology

      • 2nd Edition
      • December 9, 2015
      • M. Linda Workman + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Corresponding to the chapters in Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety, 2nd Edition, this study guide offers content review, a wide range of engaging activities, and medication safety practice questions to help users master pharmacology concepts, learn drug safety, and practice dosage calculation.

    • Documentation for Rehabilitation

      • 3rd Edition
      • November 18, 2015
      • Lori Quinn + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 3 1 2 3 4 9
      Better patient management starts with better documentation! Documentation for Rehabilitation: A Guide to Clinical Decision Making in Physical Therapy, 3rd Edition shows how to accurately document treatment progress and patient outcomes. Designed for use by rehabilitation professionals, documentation guidelines are easily adaptable to different practice settings and patient populations. Realistic examples and practice exercises reinforce concepts and encourage you to apply what you’ve learned. Written by expert physical therapy educators Lori Quinn and James Gordon, this book will improve your skills in both documentation and clinical reasoning.

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