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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.

  • Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques

    • 10th Edition
    • March 9, 2021
    • Anne G. Perry + 3 more
    • English
    Learn clinical nursing skills and prepare for success on the Next Generation NCLEX® Examination! Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 10th Edition provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. With more than 1,200 full-color illustrations, a nursing process framework, and a focus on evidence-based practice, this manual helps you learn to think critically, ask the right questions at the right time, and make timely decisions. New to this edition are NGN-style unfolding case studies, preparing you for the changes to the NCLEX exam. Written by respected nursing experts Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter, Wendy Ostendorf, and Nancy Laplante, this trusted text is the bestselling nursing skills book on the market!

  • Nursing & Healthcare Ethics

    • 6th Edition
    • March 8, 2021
    • Simon Robinson + 1 more
    • English
    Now in its sixth edition, this highly popular text covers the range of ethical issues affecting nurses and other healthcare professionals. Authors Simon Robinson and Owen Doody take a holistic and practical approach, focused in the dialogue of ethical decision making and how this connects professional, leadership and governance ethics in the modern healthcare environment. This focuses on the responsibility of professionals and leaders, and the importance of shared responsibility in the practice of healthcare. With a foreword by the eminent medical ethicist Alastair Campbell, the revised edition includes contemporary topics, such as the duty of candour, recent cases, such as the Mid Staffs scandal, and ethical perspectives on vulnerable groups, such as; persons with intellectual/learnin... disability, dementia and those with an enduring mental illness. It builds on professional identity and personal development as part of ongoing learning, individual and organizational, and provides interactive ways that helps the reader to develop reflective ethical practice. This text aims to enable ethical engagement with the ever changing healthcare environment, and is a must-have for anyone serious about ethics in healthcare.

  • Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing

    • 11th Edition
    • March 5, 2021
    • Marilyn J. Hockenberry + 2 more
    • English
    **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Pediatrics**As the #1 title in the pediatric nursing market for over 40 years, Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, 11th Edition continues to leverage its trademark developmental approach as it equips readers with the very latest research and guidelines for treating children today. The text utilizes a highly-readable writing style and encourages a whole-body approach — beginning with child development and health promotion to better understand the later chapters on specific health problems. This new eleventh edition also features Next Generation NCLEX®-style case studies and questions, a new chapter covering all systems cancers, additional case studies within the nursing care plans, and updated and expanded evidence-based content throughout to best reflect the latest standards and trends impacting pediatric nursing care today.

  • Case Studies in Nurse Anesthesia

    • 1st Edition
    • March 3, 2021
    • Sass Elisha
    • English
    Clinical case studies make it easy to learn and master perioperative nurse anesthesia! Written in a succinct question-and-answer format, Case Studies in Nurse Anesthesia covers anesthesia management for the most frequently performed surgical procedures. Chapters are organized by surgical specialty, and each case describes the entire perioperative course of care, including the patient’s history, physical assessment, anesthetic considerations, surgical concerns, differential diagnosis, and potential complications. From noted anesthesia educator Sass Elisha, this reference will help you learn how to think like a highly skilled nurse anesthetist!

  • Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation

    • 8th Edition
    • March 2, 2021
    • Kenneth Lyons Jones + 2 more
    • English
    Long known as the go-to resource for superbly illustrated, up-to-date coverage in this complex field, Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation, 8th Edition, provides a wealth of information on malformation syndromes of environmental and genetic etiology, recognizable disorders of unknown cause, clinical approaches to specific diagnoses, and normal standards of measurement for the entire spectrum of disorders. This award-winning reference is indispensable for clinicians in pediatrics, neonatology, family medicine, and genetics, as well as nurse practitioners and physician assistants—anyone who needs a complete, authoritative, and easy-to-read guide to help accurately diagnose human disorders, establish prognoses, and provide appropriate management and genetic counseling.

  • Guide infirmier des examens de laboratoire

    • 3rd Edition
    • February 27, 2021
    • René Caquet
    • French
    Cette 3e édition entièrement actualisée couvre en 150 fiches les examens de laboratoire les plus courants à l’hôpital.La nouvelle maquette, en couleurs, permet une meilleure lisibilité et navigation entre les différentes fiches en mettant l’accès sur le côté pratique et la rapidité d’accès à l’information recherchée.Sur chaque fiche : Les objectifs de l’examen. Les techniques de prélèvement (choix du matériel, déroulement de l’examen, précautions à prendre).Les valeurs usuelles de référence (valeurs dites « normales »).L’interprétation des résultats du point de vue de l’infirmier(e) en donnant une place particulière aux situations d’urgence et à celles où l’examen de laboratoire prend une place importante dans le diagnostic infirmier.De nouveaux examens (SARS-CoV -2, dépistage moléculaire des trisomies, etc.) viennent également enrichir cette nouvelle édition.L’index, considérablement enrichi, permet de consulter l’ouvrage de façon plus rapide et plus efficace.Un rabat détachable propose un tableau des valeurs normales des principaux examens.

  • Anatomie et physiologie en fiches pour les étudiants en IFSI

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    • 2nd Edition
    • February 24, 2021
    • Anne Muller
    • French
    273 fiches en couleurs d’anatomie et de physiologie pour apprendre, mémoriser et évaluer ses connaissances sur les structures anatomiques et les notions essentielles de physiologie ! Chaque fiche présente en face à face : à gauche, une planche muette ; à droite, les légendes accompagnées de commentaires anatomiques, physiologiques et cliniques. Cette 2e édition s’ est enrichie d’une quinzaine de planches supplémentaires. Issues du Ross & Wilson Anatomie et physiologie normales et pathologiques, les planches ont été sélectionnées pour correspondre parfaitement aux modalités d’apprentissage du référentiel de formation. Les fiches sont présentées selon un découpage par système (cardiovasculaire, lymphatique, nerveux, endocrinien, respiratoire...), chaque système déclinant les muscles, les nerfs, les vaisseaux et les structures viscérales. Le format poche spiralé facilite la consultation et permet au lecteur, quel que soit son degré de connaissances, une utilisation multiple : apprendre, réviser, s’entraîner et/ou s’autoévaluer. L’ouvrage est accompagné d’un glossaire établissant la correspondance entre l’ancienne et la nouvelle nomenclature anatomique, et d’un minisite qui propose des exercices interactifs : une centaine de QCM et une centaine de schémas à légender issus des fiches de l’ouvrage.

  • Critical Care Nursing

    Diagnosis and Management
    • 9th Edition
    • February 18, 2021
    • Linda D. Urden + 2 more
    • English
    Winner of the 2nd-place American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award in emergency/critical care nursing for 2021!**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Critical Care**Prepare for success in today’s high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings! Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 9th Edition helps you understand and apply critical care nursing principles and concepts to clinical assessment, diagnostic procedures, and therapeutic management. Known for its comprehensive coverage, this leading textbook uses a logical, body systems organization to address the care of patients with physiological alterations. New to this edition are illustrated Patient-Centered Critical Care features aimed at "humanizing the ICU" as well as Next Generation NCLEX® Exam–style case studies to help you further develop your clinical judgment skills and prepare for the latest nursing licensure exam. Also ideal for CCRN® and PCCN® exam preparation, this book is a one-stop resource on the concepts and skills required for critical care nursing!

  • Comunicación en Enfermería

    • 9th Edition
    • February 15, 2021
    • Julia Balzer Riley
    • Spanish
    Este texto ofrece estrategias de aprendizaje para preparar a enfermeras en el desarrollo de capacidades de comunicación esenciales, de manera que intervengan de un modo pleno en el equipo de atención sanitaria. Cada capítulo incluye diversos tipos de estrategias de aprendizaje, y algunos de ellos ofrecen la oportunidad de desarrollar las competencias sobre calidad y seguridad integradas hoy en día en todos los estándares de enfermería. Incorpora ejercicios de expresión creativa adicionales, para desarrollar la inteligencia emocional necesaria para contar con el autoconocimiento, el autocontrol y el automanejo necesarios para ser un miembro efi caz del equipo. A lo largo del texto, se perfila el concepto de mindfulness con el fin de que esté plenamente presente para pacientes y profesionales de la salud. La comunicación interprofesional se destaca especialmente como un elemento fundamental del trabajo conjunto para la prestación de una asistencia segura y humanitaria.

  • Bioética en Ciencias de la Salud

    • 2nd Edition
    • February 15, 2021
    • Miguel Ángel Sánchez González
    • Spanish
    Obra que es una revisión crítica de los principales conceptos, problemas y métodos de la ética general y de la ética médica; describe la historia y los fundamentos de la bioética, y analiza sus aplicaciones biomédicas más relevantes. Presenta los contenidos integrando tres perspectivas: médica, histórica y filosófica. Así, cada uno de los temas se contempla desde su génesis, sus condicionantes históricos, su importancia teórica y su aplicación clínica. Recoge la experiencia docente, de más de 30 años, del profesor Miguel Ángel Sánchez González en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, la cual ha sido, durante todos estos años, un centro clave de difusión de la bioética en España. Con el objetivo de ser una obra de estudio y consulta para la enseñanza y la investigación de la bioética, pretende ser útil para alumnos y profesores que estudian o imparten esta asignatura en las facultades de Medicina y demás Ciencias de la Salud. Esta segunda edición, incluye esquemas aptos para la docencia, disponibles en línea.

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