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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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    • The Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses

      • 3rd Edition
      • August 11, 2011
      • Rosalind L Smyth
      • Jean V. Craig
      • English
      • eBook
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      Printed book plus Pageburst™ access. You will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst™ enhances learning not only by bringing world class content to your fingertips but also by letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it in a way that suits you. Pageburst™ frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching. The Evidence-based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills for evidence-based nursing into manageable components. The reader will learn how to find, critically read and interpret a range of research studies, and will discover optimal approaches to helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence. The more-strategic concepts of developing an organisational evidence-based culture and making evidence-based changes at organisational level are the focus of the final section.

    • Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing

      • 8th Edition
      • August 18, 2011
      • Marilyn J. Hockenberry + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Portable and convenient, Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 8th Edition is your "go-to" clinical guide for the care of children and their families, whether in the hospital, clinic, community setting, or home. It includes assessment tools that may be used in practice, nursing care plans for specific disorders, and new information on pediatric pain assessment and management. Evidence-based guidelines are updated and also include patient teaching instructions, so you'll find all information on a specific procedure in one location. Written by leading pediatric experts David Wilson and Marilyn Hockenberry, this reference includes a companion Evolve website with nursing care plans that may be customized and printed for use with individual patients.

    • Collaborative Care of the Facial Injury Patient, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6-4
      • November 30, 2011
      • Vivek Shetty + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 1 1 8 7 1
      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Vivek Shetty and Grant Marshall, will focus on Collaborative Care of the Facial Injury Patient, with topics such as: Psychosocial issues; Substance Use and Injury; Intimate Partner Violence, and Barriers to Collaborative Care.

    • Instrumentation for the Operating Room

      • 8th Edition
      • March 8, 2011
      • 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.

    • Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing

      • 2nd Edition
      • February 23, 2011
      • Shannon E. Perry + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Provide competent and sensitive maternal and newborn nursing care with Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing, 2nd Edition! Ideal for quick reference in the clinical setting, this book offers the information you need on topics such as pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care, and care of the newborn, including potential complications for each. Expert authors Dr. Shannon E. Perry, Kitty Cashion, Dr. Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, and Kathryn R. Alden stress the importance of safe nursing practice as outlined in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative.

    • Culturally Competent Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 46-2
      • May 20, 2011
      • Diane B. Monsivais
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of the Nursing Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Diane B. Monsivais, PhD, CRRN, will cover Culturally Competent Care topics including such articles as The Clinically Relevant Continuum Model; Culturally Competent Care for Families with Burn Injury, Chronic Pain, End Stage Renal Disease and Parkinson’s Disease; an Innovative Model for Teaching Culturally Competent Care; Acculturation, Somatization of Depression, and Function in an Hispanic American Population; Culture of the Colonias/Constructin... the Meaning of Asthma in the Colonias; Genetics and its Relevance on Culture and Ethnicity; and Creating Culturally Appropriate Language Translation.

    • Robotic Surgery, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6-3
      • October 3, 2011
      • John Zender
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 0 4 8 6 6
      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics will focus on Robotic Surgery. Article topics will include robotic cardiac surgery, robotic urologic surgery, anesthesia with robotic surgery, robotic surgery in a rural hospital, patient positioning, keeping pace with robotic technology, and educational competencies for robotic surgery.

    • Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

      • 5th Edition
      • September 14, 2011
      • Katherine M. Fortinash + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 0 7 5 7 2 5
      • eBook
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      Focusing on what psychiatric nurses actually do in everyday practice, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 5th Edition, uses a balanced nursing-medical approach to cover all of the most common disorders and treatments. The text's full-color illustrations and straightforward style help you make sense of challenging material. And its strong emphasis on the nursing process, updated DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, interdisciplinary interventions, and the latest mental health practices boost your confidence in managing clients and prepare you for success on the NCLEX¨ examination.

    • Rééducation posturale globale

      • 1st Edition
      • October 17, 2011
      • Philippe Souchard
      • French
      • eBook
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      Cet ouvrage est l´aboutissement de trente ans d´évolution de la méthode de Rééducation Posturale Globale et en constitue un guide complet et actualisé, tant du point de vue des fondements scientifiques que de la mise en oeuvre. Son auteur s´y livre à une relecture de la physiologie et de la physiopathologie de la fonction musculaire statique, associée à des observations personnelles et à des recherches en biomécanique solidement étayées. Ce travail de synthèse, richement documenté et illustré, permet d´identifier clairement la responsabilité de la rétraction musculaire dans les pathologies musculo-squelettique... qu´elles soient morphologiques ou lésionnelles, et de proposer un traitement original de ces dysfonctionnements. L'ouvrage s'articule en quatre parties : • Physiologie et physiopathologie des muscles de la statique ; • Principes de traitement ; • Règles d'application thérapeutique ; • Autopostures – Stretching Global Actif-SGA.

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