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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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    • 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.

    • Chronic Illness and Disability

      • 1st Edition
      • November 20, 2008
      • Esther Chang + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 6 8 4
      This text provides evidence-based principles for practice for chronic illness and disability. It provides a solid theoretical and practical foundation for students in their 2nd and 3rd years. The book will included a holistic framework for major and common chronic illness and disability.

    • Tabbner's Nursing Care

      • 5th Edition
      • November 20, 2008
      • Gabby Koutoukidis + 3 more
      • Gabrielle Koutoukidis + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 5 7 8
      A vital member of the health care team, the contemporary enrolled nurse faces increasing challenges and an increasing level of responsibility. Written specifically for Australian and New Zealand enrolled nurse students, this long awaited new edition reflects the changes and challenges in contemporary enrolled nurse practice as well as the additions and modifications that are occurring in nursing curricula. Tabbner’s Nursing Care: Theory and Practice 5th edition has been written, reviewed and edited by the people who educate the enrolled nurse and continues to provide enrolled nurse students with the most comprehensive resource available.

    • 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.

    • Midwifery: Best Practice Volume 5

      • 1st Edition
      • November 12, 2008
      • Sara Wickham
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 7 5 0 6 7 5 4 0 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 4 0 7 7 1
      This is Volume 5 in the Midwifery: Best Practice series. Each of the volumes in this Series is built around the familiar core of four main topic areas relevant to midwifery: pregnancy, labour / birth, postnatal and stories / reflection - and also includes a number of ‘focus on…’ sections. These are different in each volume and reflect a wide range of key and topical issues within midwifery. Each volume builds upon the others to provide a comprehensive library of articles that shows the development of thought in key midwifery areas. Volume 5 offers a range of wholly new topic areas within the ‘focus on…’ sections covering: ‘the birthing environment’, ‘women, midwives and risk’, ‘holistic health’ and ‘working/internation... stories’.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Perioperative Nursing

      • 1st Edition
      • October 30, 2008
      • Brigid M. Gillespie + 3 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 8 7 5
      This is an introductory level text designed to appeal to a broad-based market from Division 2 ‘Enrolled Nurse’ students through to UG students doing an ‘operating room’ clinical placement, to PG students in specific Perioperative grad cert/diploma courses. It is also designed to be of use to Registered Nurses already working in or preparing to work in this area, and other Operating Room staff such as anaesthetic technicians. It is a standalone text that discusses the roles and responsibilities involved in perioperative nursing, some technical aspects such as wound care, the changing face of perioperative nursing with a greater emphasis on day surgery, anaesthesia, medico-legal aspects and professional development. It is not intended to address surgical procedures which is covered in-depth in existing resources, but rather it is designed to contextualize essential information in the hospital setting.

    • Understanding the Australian Health Care System - E-Book

      • 1st Edition
      • October 30, 2008
      • Helen Keleher
      • Louise Reynolds
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 8 6 1 5
      The text provides an overview of the Australian Health Care System at a level suitable for 1st year undergraduate students. It describes the ‘architecture’ of the system and its key components (public hospital sector, private hospital and health insurance, GPs and primary care, community health, public health), some of the things that shape the system and introduces key concepts that underpin it such as the idea of the welfare state or a universal health system.

    • Mental Health Nursing

      • 2nd Edition
      • October 29, 2008
      • Rob Newell + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 4 0 7 9 5
      This new edition of Mental Health Nursing: an evidence-based approach has been fully updated to include the latest research-based guidance. A wide variety of client problems is covered with , so that students are assured that what they learn is underpinned by a sound evidence base for treatment, and qualified mental health nurses can be confident that their practice is informed by the most up-to-date research. Skills acquisition is emphasised and experiential exercises encourage connections between theory and practice.

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