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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.

  • Mosby's Emergency & Transport Nursing Examination Review

    • 4th Edition
    • March 15, 2005
    • Renee S. Holleran
    • English
    This valuable study resource provides a thorough, comprehensive review for the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) exam – and it's the only review book that also helps readers prepare for the Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) and Flight Paramedic Certification (FP-C) exams. No other resource provides both a review of content as well as over 1,400 questions and a CD-ROM with 3 practice tests. Each chapter features questions with answers and rationales for every question – explaining the "why" behind every answer. Packed with all the essential information needed for a complete review, it includes a new section on critical care, a new chapter on bioterrorism, and new content on conscious sedation issues, RSI, airway management, and safety training. The Transport section now includes new content on CAMTS standards and transport operations.

  • Handbook of Psychiatric Nursing

    • 6th Edition
    • March 15, 2005
    • Gail Wiscarz Stuart
    • English
    This invaluable pocket guide equips readers with clinical tools to help conceptualize, plan, and document nursing care actions – based on the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of health and wellness from Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing. Brief paragraphs and bulleted lists point out general psychiatric care planning concepts, followed by specific psychiatric nursing care considerations with dozens of treatment plan summaries and other assessment tools. It offers the latest information on all topics, including psychotropic medications, somatic treatments, and alternative therapies.

  • Practical Guide to Moderate Sedation/Analgesia

    • 2nd Edition
    • March 9, 2005
    • Jan Odom-Forren + 1 more
    • English
    When it comes to managing the care of a patient receiving conscious sedation/analgesia during a short-term therapeutic, diagnostic, or surgical procedure, this easy-to-follow book is an ideal clinical reference. It covers everything you need to know – from practice guidelines for administering sedation, to pre-sedation requirements, intra-procedure monitoring and documentation, and discharge criteria. Detailed sections discuss the basic concepts of medications, administration techniques, potential complications and emergencies, monitoring parameters, developing a credentialing program, legal implications, and patient discharge, as well as separate chapters on pediatric and geriatric sedation. The book also provides practical learning tools such as sample documentation forms, learner feedback, and questions and answer sections.

  • Disease Management

    A Guide for Case Managers
    • 1st Edition
    • February 4, 2005
    • Diane Huber
    • English
    Written specifically for case managers, this innovative reference presents a practical integration of disease management and case management to ensure comprehensive coverage of these two rapidly evolving and expanding fields. It explains and clarifies these two areas with in-depth expert commentary that offers a fresh, contemporary approach and captures both provider and payor perspectives. Its strong emphasis on evidence-based practice helps ensure that disease managers are using the best evidence to formulate the best results.

  • Evidence-Based Nursing

    A Guide to Clinical Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • January 10, 2005
    • Alba DiCenso + 2 more
    • English
    Evidence Based Nursing is written in response to numerous requests by nurse practitioners and other graduate faculty for a nursing literature resource. This reader-friendly, accessible guide features plentiful examples from the nursing literature and the addition of specific nursing issues such as qualitative research, with direct application for clinical practice. The guide enables nurses to: frame their clinical questions in a way that will help them find the evidence to support their opinions; distinguish between strong and weak evidence; clearly understand study results; weigh the risks and benefits of management options; and apply the evidence to their individual patients to improve outcomes. Part One provides a basic approach to the problems faced by nurses when determining optimal care, predicting patient progress, and protecting patients from potentially harmful side effects, in addition to including a literature assessment summary and management recommendations. Part Two expands on Part One, providing concrete examples through case studies.

  • Living with Illness

    Psychosocial Challenges
    • 1st Edition
    • December 30, 2004
    • Cath Rogers-Clark + 2 more
    • English
    Living with Illness: Psychosocial Challenges focuses on developing and strengthening understanding of the illness experience. It encourages students to critically appraise conventional approaches to understanding and caring for those who are ill, to empower readers to off true holistic care and to, where appropriate, change nursing practice in light of current research findings. Traditionally nurses have drawn on knowledge from sociology and psychology as two separate but related disciplines to nursing, leaving the beginning level nurse to relate, integrate and translate knowledge gained into nursing practice. Living with Illness combines, in a unique way, sociological and psychological perspectives to creatively represent psychosocial knowledge that is innovative and directly applicable to contemporary nursing practice.

  • Understanding Autism

    • 1st Edition
    • December 29, 2004
    • Susan M. Dodd
    • English

  • Real World Nursing Survival Guide: Hemodynamic Monitoring

    • 1st Edition
    • December 22, 2004
    • Rebecca K. Hodges + 3 more
    • English
    The latest title in the Real World Nursing Survival Guide series, this fun and engaging book makes it easy to review must-know concepts associated with hemodynamic monitoring. Its lighthearted, cartoon-filled approach guides readers through challenging concepts and procedures. The book begins with an overview of five main concepts: cardiac output, stroke volume, preload, afterload, and contractility. It discusses equipment used for specific procedures, followed by discussions of specific aspects of hemodynamic monitoring including cardiac output, intra-arterial, central venous, pulmonary artery, and mixed venous oxygenation. The final chapter focuses on clinical applications with case studies, clinical interventions, and exercises.

  • Birth and Parenting Skills

    New Directions in Antenatal Education
    • 1st Edition
    • December 8, 2004
    • Mary L. Nolan + 1 more
    • English
    A research-based, up-to-the minute account of the current status of antenatal education, focusing on the key challenges it faces in the future, offering suggestions for how these challenges might best be met. It describes some innovative approaches to accessing vulnerable groups of parents and how collaboration between the statutory and voluntary sectors might result in a better educational service for pregnant women and their families. Narratives from parents are analysed and commented upon, and underpinning the book will be an account of how the principles and practices of adult education should inform antenatal education.

  • Pour une mort plus humaine

    Expérience d'une unité hospitalière en soins palliatifs
    • 3rd Edition
    • November 15, 2004
    • Maurice Abiven
    • French
    Les soins palliatifs sont, selon la belle formule du Dr Thérèse Vanier, « tout ce qui reste à faire quand on croit qu’il n’y a plus rien à faire ». Pour les malades en phase terminale, le temps qui leur reste à vivre doit être, non pas le plus long possible, mais de la meilleure qualité possible. La première USP ouverte en France l’a été en 1987 à l’Hôpital international de l’Université de Paris, à l’initiative du Dr Abiven. Cette unité a été transférée en 2001 à l’hôpital des Diaconesses de Paris. S’appuyant sur l’expérience du fonctionnement dans ce service, le Dr Abiven et son équipe définissent, dans cet ouvrage, la nature des soins palliatifs, en décrivent les composantes médicales, psychologiques, sociales et en montrent les aspects humains, notamment dans les relations avec les familles. À l’intention des personnels médicaux et infirmiers, ils proposent des stratégies, des grilles d’évaluation thérapeutiques et tirent de leur expérience des recommandations précieuses pour les professionnels désireux d’ouvrir de tels services. Cette troisième édition propose notamment la mise à jour des stratégies thérapeutiques. Soucieux d’éviter tout jargon médical, cet ouvrage passionnera, à travers les nombreux cas instructifs qu’il présente, les soignants et les familles qui s’interrogent sur les meilleurs moyens de prendre en charge, aujourd’hui, les malades à l’approche de la mort. Il s’agit donc de soulager le malade de ses douleurs et de tous les symptômes qu’il présente, dans la plus grande sérénité possible, entouré de ses proches. Tel est l’objectif des unités de soins palliatifs (USP), services hospitaliers spécifiques dotés d’un personnel spécialisé travaillant dans des locaux adaptés.

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