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Books in Nursing and midwifery

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.

  • Essential Nursing Skills

    Clinical skills for caring
    • 4th Edition
    • Maggie Nicol + 5 more
    • English
    As a nursing student you learn lots of nursing theory and research – but how do you translate this into practice and apply it to the skills you need? Where do you start? What steps should be carried out and in what order? What should you do afterwards? Essential Nursing Skills answers these questions for over 130 clinical skills. Each one is explained from start to finish, using a step-by-step approach, with clear illustrations and colour photographs to enhance understanding. Small enough to carry with you and specifically designed and written to aid learning, this book is invaluable for nurses across all fields.

  • A Nurse's Survival Guide to the Ward

    • 3rd Edition
    • Ann Richards + 1 more
    • English
    The new edition of this highly popular book is an indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems for nurses starting work on the ward or returning to practice. It provides guidance in a variety of areas including: how to organise your job and yourself; how to assess patients; clinical information on a wide range of conditions; important principles, procedures and investigations; how to administer drugs safely; and what to do in an emergency. As well as information on how to do the job, the importance of communication and nursing care issues is emphasised. Background information is also given on underlying legal, health and safety issues.

  • Tratado de enfermería del niño y el adolescente

    Cuidados pediátricos
    • 2nd Edition
    • María José Aguilar Cordero
    • Spanish
    Segunda edición de este tratado que revisa, desde una perspectiva integral, los principales problemas fisiológicos, psicológicos y sociales en la infancia. Estudia el desarrollo normal del niño y sus posibles enfermedades para cada etapa vital: recién nacido, niño en edad escolar, adolescente, haciendo especial hincapié en los aspectos clínicos, prevención de la salud y comunitarios. Adaptada a los nuevos planes de estudio, en esta edición se refuerzan más los contenidos del adolescente con dos capítulos nuevos. Se acompaña con un recurso online en inglés http://www.studentco... que incluye un práctico apartado de evaluación con preguntas y respuestas.

  • Financial Management for Nurse Managers and Executives

    • 4th Edition
    • Cheryl Jones + 2 more
    • English
    Covering the financial topics all nurse managers need to know and use, this book explains how financial management fits into the healthcare organization. Topics include accounting principles, cost analysis, planning and control management of the organization's financial resources, and the use of management tools. In addition to current issues, this edition also addresses future directions in financial management.

  • Nonmalignant Hematology, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28-3
    • Robert I. Parker
    • English
    Topics include: A Critical re-appraisal of Factor VIIa; Thrombocytopenia: Hit vs non-HIT causes; Transfusion Reactions: Newer concepts on the pathophysiology, incidence, treatment and prevention of TRALI; The utility of diagnostic scoring systems for DIC; Newer anticoagulants; Anemia in the ICU; The role of plasmapheresis in critical illness; The use of erythropoiesis stimulating agents in the ICU; and Coagulopathy in the ICU: DIC vs Liver disease. Is this distinction important?

  • Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing

    • 10th Edition
    • Gail Wiscarz Stuart
    • English
    Using the latest clinical research and diagnoses, Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing, 10th Edition provides a holistic, biopsychosocial approach to psychiatric nursing care. It follows the popular Stuart stress-adaptation framework and includes comprehensive coverage to simplify important nursing and medical concepts, promote quality and safety in care, and address psychobiology and psychopharmacology topics integral to today’s psychiatry. New to this edition is a chapter on psychiatric care of military personnel, plus the latest on health care reform, prescription abuse, and obesity issues. Written by psychiatric nursing expert Gail W. Stuart, this market-leading text makes it easy to apply classroom theory to clinical practice.

  • Future of Advanced Registered Nursing Practice, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 47-2
    • Robin Donohoe Dennison
    • English
    This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Robin Dennison, DNP, MSN, CCNS, RN, will focus on Future of Advanced Nursing Practice with topics including: regulatory procedures for APNs; future of the NP role; future of CNS role; future of nurse midwife role; future of the nurse anesthetist role; impact of LACE in public health; merging roles of the psychiatric mental health CNS and NP; impact of DNP on AP roles; future of reimbursement for APNs; role of APN in EBP; genetics and APNs; APNs in medical home; and executive role of the APN.

  • Survival Guide to Midwifery

    • 2nd Edition
    • Diane M. Fraser + 1 more
    • English
    Perfect for practice placement, this handy Survival Guide gives you the clinical information you need at your fingertips.

  • Enfermería y envejecimiento

    • 1st Edition
    • Misericordia García Hernández + 1 more
    • Spanish
    Este libro, de carácter práctico, responde a la importante demanda de conocimientos por parte del colectivo de enfermería geriátrica. Incluye temas de gran interés, como los diferentes síndromes geriátricos, procesos oncológicos, alteraciones cognitivas, cirugía, situaciones de urgencia, procesos crónicos o principios éticos aplicados en el cuidado a los ancianos, entre otros. La obra va dirigida a alumnos de másteres de enfermería geriátrica y a profesionales de esta especialidad.

  • Nursing Informatics, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7-2
    • Joy Don Baker
    • English
    This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Joy Don Baker, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, CNOR, NEA-BC, will focus on Informatics with topics including: Distance education; computer science and cognitive science; role of the perioperative nurse as informaticist; cyber diving: literature search; website evaluation; bibliographic software; relational database programs; virtual learning environments; digital divide; and social networking legality.

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