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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Chronic Illness and Disability

1st Edition
November 20, 2008
Esther Chang + 1 more
English

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.

Introduction to Public Health

1st Edition
November 17, 2008
Elizabeth Parker
Mary Louise Fleming
English

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.

Introduction to Public Health

1st Edition
November 17, 2008
Elizabeth Parker
Mary Louise Fleming
English

Guide pratique de l'infirmière

2nd Edition
November 14, 2008
Gabriel Perlemuter + 1 more
French

Cette 2e édition du guide qui a connu un grand succès, met en lien les informations médicales et pharmacologiques dont l'infirmier(e) a besoin en pratique quotidienne dans le cadre de son rôle propre comme de son rôle sur prescription : pathologie, médicament, surveillance. Véritable livre-outil, il offre un classement par spécialités, et propose pour chaque pathologie : - Une fiche maladie avec les informations nécessaires sur la maladie et le malade, le bilan (examens biologiques, d'imagerie etc.), un rappel sur le traitement (chirurgical et médicamenteux) et le pronostic. Cette nouvelle édition a vu un enrichissement, en particulier, de la pédiatrie. - Une fiche infirmière avec la conduite à tenir face au patient, en particulier face à son traitement : surveillance du traitement, de son efficacité et des effets secondaires, éducation-conseils au patient. - Une fiche technique détaillant quand nécessaire les gestes indispensables à maîtriser. Du fait de leur succès, de nouvelles fiches ont été ajoutées. - Une fiche pharmacologie actualisée et mise à jour, reprenant sous forme de tableau : la classe, la DCI, le nom commercial, le mode de prescription, le prix par conditionnement et par unité, le taux de remboursement. Pour chaque classe, les propriétés, les indications et les contre-indications, les précautions d'emploi et les effets secondaires sont indiqués. Ce "tout-en-un", très pratique grâce à son format de poche, est un guide indispensable au quotidien : en cours, en stage, en ville ou à l'hôpital.

Midwifery: Best Practice Volume 5

1st Edition
November 12, 2008
Sara Wickham
English

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

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

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.

Bioethics - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource

5th Edition
November 4, 2008
Megan-Jane Johnstone
English

Understanding the Australian Health Care System - E-Book

1st Edition
October 30, 2008
Helen Keleher
Louise Reynolds
English

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.

Perioperative Nursing

1st Edition
October 30, 2008
Brigid M. Gillespie + 3 more
English

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.

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Books in Nursing and midwifery

Chronic Illness and Disability

Introduction to Public Health

Introduction to Public Health

Guide pratique de l'infirmière

Midwifery: Best Practice Volume 5

Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing

Bioethics - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource

Bioethics - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource

Understanding the Australian Health Care System - E-Book

Perioperative Nursing

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