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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.

  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Part I: Therapies, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 55-4
    • Stephen D. Krau
    • English
    In this unique issue, Dr. Stephen Krau, Consulting Editor, is serving as Guest Editor to present a topic not easily found in the nursing literature: complementary and alternative medicine. This issue serves as Part I and is devoted to therapies. Part II publishes in March 2021 and is devoted to herbal supplements and vitamins. This information is invaluable to nurses who care for patients taking complementary and alternative supplements and therapies, which often have an impact on care and healing. Specific articles are devoted to the following topics of Part I: Overview and History of Alternative and Complementary Interventions; Presence and Therapeutic Listening; Impact of Music Therapy on Mind-Body-Spirit; Impact of Music Therapy on Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Pilot Study; Guided Imagery; Meditation Journaling; Aroma Therapy; The Differences Between Healing and Therapeutic Touch; Therapeutic Effects of Reiki; Acupressure and Acupuncture; Therapeutic Effects of Tai Chi; and Exercise as a Therapeutic Intervention. Readers will come away with hard-to-find information on complementary and alternative therapies, which will have an impact on patient outcomes.
  • Lilley's Pharmacology for Canadian Health Care Practice

    • 4th Edition
    • Kara Sealock + 3 more
    • English
    Let Canada’s #1 pharmacology text help guide you in mastering the complicated world of nursing pharmacology. Now in its fourth edition, Lilley’s Pharmacology for Canadian Health Care Practice covers all the key pharmacology content needed by today’s Canadian nurses. Known for its vibrant design, abundance of visuals, and wealth of helpful feature boxes, this engaging text brings important pharmacology concepts to life. The text’s popular and unique key drug approach focuses only on the drug information you need to know to safely and effectively administer drugs. Along with its exam preparation and insightful learning strategies, it’s the complete (and proven) pharmacology text to help you succeed in school, clinicals, and professional practice.
  • Stories in Mental Health

    Reflection, Inquiry, Action
    • 2nd Edition
    • Debra Nizette + 2 more
    • English
    Stories in Mental Health 2nd edition is an insightful collection of personal stories from a range of mental health consumers, carers and mental health nurse clinicians who openly share their experiences. Through listening and observing, this extraordinary resource offers nursing students and health professionals a unique perspective on what it is like to live with a mental health disorder, care for a family member with a mental health disorder or work within various mental healthcare settings. Available as a print or eBook, this valuable resource builds empathy and understanding and provides examples of innovative approaches to care with a focus on reflection, inquiry and action. The teaching and learning strategies assist in developing skills, attitudes and appropriate responses when working in a range of mental healthcare settings. Most importantly, Stories in Mental Health provides a much-needed consumer voice to mental healthcare.
  • Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions

    • 7th Edition
    • Regina F. Doherty
    • English
    Build the skills you need to understand and resolve ethical problems! Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions, 7th Edition provides a solid foundation in ethical theory and concepts, applying these principles to the ethical issues surrounding health care today. It uses a unique, six-step decision-making process as a framework for thinking critically and thoughtfully, with case studies of patients to illustrate ethical topics such as conflict of interest, patient confidentiality, and upholding best practices. Written by Regina F. Doherty, an educator and occupational therapist, this book will help you make caring and effective ethical choices that improve patient care and outcomes.
  • Medical-Surgical Nursing

    Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care
    • 10th Edition
    • Donna D. Ignatavicius + 3 more
    • English
    Master the essential medical-surgical nursing content you’ll need for success on the Next Generation NCLEX® Exam (NGN) and safe clinical practice! Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, 10th Edition uses a conceptual approach to provide adult health knowledge and help you develop the clinical nursing judgment skills that today’s medical-surgical nurses need to deliver safe, effective care. "Iggy" emphasizes three emerging trends in nursing — interprofessional collaborative care, concept-based learning, and clinical judgment and systems thinking — trends that will ground you in how to think like a nurse and how to apply your knowledge in the classroom, simulation laboratory, and clinical settings. A perennial bestseller, "Iggy" also features NCLEX Exam-style Challenge and Mastery questions to prepare you for success on the NGN!
  • Pocket Medical Terminology

    • 2nd Edition
    • Andrew Hutton
    • English
  • Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives

    CDN NURSING ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES
    • 6th Edition
    • Lynn McCleary + 1 more
    • English
    Get an in-depth look at where nursing’s most timely issues and trends all began with Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing: Issues & Perspectives, 6th Edition. This extensively updated, engaging text examines the latest issues and trends in Canadian nursing, along with the history which laid the groundwork for where nursing in Canada is now and can be in the future. Comprehensive coverage includes everything from the development of the profession of nursing in Canada to discussions of nursing knowledge, nursing research, and the theoretical foundations of modern nursing. The authors also examine issues in the delivery of nursing care as well as nursing education, credentialing, standards of care, entry to practice, informatics, and much more. In addition to its relevant and cutting-edge content additions, this new dual-colour sixth edition boasts a wealth of new reader-friendly learning features, easy-to-follow explanations, consistent chapter formatting, and extensive visual updates to help you better engage with content and apply learning.
  • Examination of the Newborn and Neonatal Health

    A Multidimensional Approach
    • 2nd Edition
    • Lorna Davies + 1 more
    • English
  • Sheehy. Enfermería de Urgencias

    Principios y práctica
    • 7th Edition
    • Spanish
    Obra, con un planteamiento global y basado en la evidencia, que cubre todos los temas y las técnicas específicas del servicio de enfermería de urgencias. Esta séptima edición tiene por objetivo perfeccionar la práctica de la enfermería de urgencias. Sintetiza la práctica clínica, la evidencia científica y las directrices clínicas más actuales, proporcionando un recurso que refleja el ejercicio óptimo de la enfermería de urgencias. Incorpora nuevos capítulos dedicados a consideraciones éticas, violencia en el lugar de trabajo, y urgencias y traumatismos en geriatría. Se han actualizado los capítulos sobre práctica de la enfermería de urgencias, enfermedades contagiosas, urgencias relacionadas con el balance hidroelectrolítico, traumatismos obstétricos, y malos tratos y abandono, y se han introducido importantes mejoras en el resto centradas en los retos y prácticas específicos de la especialidad. Los autores de todas las áreas de la enfermería de urgencias, comparten sus conocimientos para mejorar los resultados clinicos de la atención al paciente, apoyándose además en valiosas ilustraciones, muchas de ellas incluidas en una nueva sección de imágenes en color.
  • Anatomía humana para estudiantes de ciencias de la salud

    • 2nd Edition
    • Juan Antonio Suárez Quintanilla + 3 more
    • Spanish
    Segunda edición de una guía de estudio que describe las bases anatómicas de los aparatos y los sistemas del cuerpo humano con rigor y claridad, conocimiento imprescindible para el resto de asignaturas, preclínicas y clínicas, y el ejercicio profesional. Destacan las sobresalientes ilustraciones Netter, que facilitan la comprensión del contenido a lo largo de todo el libro. Además, es esta segunda edición se incorporan ilustraciones nuevas y cuadros que recogen los detalles del tronco y las extremidades. Otro de los puntos a resaltar de la obra es que incluye terminología adaptada a la Nómina Anatómica. Los autores, gracias a su amplia experiencia en la docencia uni versitaria de la Anatomía,han conseguido armar una herramienta útil y de fácil manejo que da perfecta respuesta alas necesidades de los estudiantes de los grados de ciencias de la salud que se inician en el estudio de esta especialidad, ofreciéndoles una anatomía aplicada a su futura profesión.