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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.

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    • Bioethics - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource

      • 5th Edition
      • November 4, 2008
      • Megan-Jane Johnstone
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 7 3 8
      The 5th edition of Bioethics provides nursing students with the necessary knowledge and understanding of the ethical issues effecting nursing practice. Groundbreaking in its first edition, Bioethics continues its role as a vital component of nursing education and provides a framework for students to understand the obligations, responsibilities and ethical challenges they will be presented with throughout their careers. This latest edition responds to new and emerging developments in the field and marks a significant turning point in nursing ethics in that it serves not only to inform but also to revitalise and progress debate on the issues presented.

    • Birth Territory and Midwifery Guardianship

      • 1st Edition
      • May 23, 2008
      • Kathleen Fahy + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 7 5 0 6 8 8 7 0 3
      Midwives and other healthcare providers are grappling with the issue of rising intervention rates in childbirth and trying to identify ways to reverse the trend. It is increasingly accepted that intervention in childbirth has long-term consequences for women and their children. Birth Territory provides practical, evidence-based ideas for restructuring the birth territory to facilitate normal birth.

    • AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing

      • 1st Edition
      • April 24, 2008
      • American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) + 1 more
      • Karen K. Carlson
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 2 6 2 0 6
      From AACN experts comes a resource dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting. This comprehensive critical care nursing textbook addresses serious and potentially life-threatening patient conditions with a foundation rooted in the critical thinking process: the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and application of knowledge.

    • Kompetenzorientiert prüfen

      • 1st Edition
      • July 14, 2008
      • Mathias Bonse-Rohmann + 2 more
      • German
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 3 4 3 7 3 1 9 0 6 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 3 4 3 7 5 9 6 3 5 3
      Kompetenzorientiert prüfen - ein Leitfaden für alle Lehrer in der Pflegeausbildung! Wie kann berufliche Handlungskompetenz in mündlichen und schriftlichen Prüfungen getestet und mit Noten bewertet werden? Mit welchen Methoden werden kommunikative und kooperative Fähigkeiten überprüft? Welche Bewertungsrichtlinie... können zur Notengebung herangezogen werden? Dieses Buch bietet dem Lehrer praxistaugliche Lösungen. Aufbauend auf einer theoretischen Einführung werden sechs unterschiedliche Instrumente zur kompetenzorientierte... Lernerfolgsüberprüfu... dargestellt. Präzise und detaillierte Beschreibungen der Instrumente, Checklisten und Formulare ermöglichen eine einfache und rasche Umsetzung.

    • Psychopharmacology for Health Professionals

      • 1st Edition
      • November 20, 2008
      • Kim Usher + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 6 0 8
      This book provides and overview of all psychotropic drugs, their uses, side effects, contraindictions as well as an overview of related issues and relevant information and resources. Each chapter incorporates the realted physiological information to assist the student to understand the actions and side effects of the drugs along with detailed information on each drug and/or drug type.

    • Introduction to Public Health

      • 1st Edition
      • November 17, 2008
      • Elizabeth Parker
      • Mary Louise Fleming
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 9 0 5
      This text introduces students to the core concepts and principles of public health: the nature and scope of public health; its history; an introduction to health determinants and epidemiology; evidence-based practice in public health and understanding public health data plus more.

    • Patient Safety, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 3-4
      • December 10, 2008
      • Donna S. Watson
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 1 6 0 6 3 3 6 0
      Perioperative nursing encompasses caring for the patient as a whole being, taking into account physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual issues. The perioperative nurse is responsible for patient safety throughout the surgery. This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics focuses on topics such as essential components for an effective patient safety strategy, initiatives to improve quality and safety in health care, medication error prevention in perioperative services, fire prevention, bloodless surgery and patient safety issues, moderate sedation, and preventative measure to reduce incidence of a retained foreign body.

    • Common Foundation Studies in Nursing

      • 4th Edition
      • January 9, 2008
      • Jenny Spouse + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 3 3 4 4 5
      An essential textbook for pre-registration nursing students, this book will be a key part of your introduction to nursing and will prepare you for entry into your chosen nursing branch. It is fully up to date in line with developments in nursing education. It includes case studies and activities to develop and test your knowledge.

    • Managing Clinical Processes

      • 1st Edition
      • October 8, 2008
      • Roslyn Sorensen + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 2 5 7
      This book will provide clinicians, clinical managers and corporate managers with a practical guide to managing clinical processes and managing change in health services. It also provides the theory behind the practice.

    • Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing

      • 2nd Edition
      • November 7, 2008
      • Ruth Elder + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 7 7 6
      The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client’s experience of mental illness.

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