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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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    • Moderne Wundversorgung

      • 9th Edition
      • April 14, 2019
      • Kerstin Protz + 1 more
      • German
      • eBook
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      Moderne Wundversorgung – praxisnah und anschaulich Alles rund um chronische Wunden, bekannt, bewährt und hoch aktuell: Auch in der 9. Auflage behandelt Wundexpertin Kerstin Protz die moderne Wundversorgung in deren gesamter Komplexität Sie wollen Menschen mit Wunden professionell pflegen und suchen einen Überblick über angepasste Vorgehensweisen und Versorgungsformen? Sie kennen ein gutes Produkt zur Wundversorgung, sind aber in der Anwendung unsicher? Dann ist „Moderne Wundversorgung" genau das Richtige für Sie. Kompetent und verständlich führt das bewährte Standardwerk durch das Dickicht des modernen Wundmanagements. Nach einer anschaulichen Einführung in Aufbau und Funktion der Haut, sowie mögliche Wundarten, erfahren Sie alles Wichtige über phasengerechte Wundversorgung, Verbandwechsel und Hygiene. Eigene Kapitel widmen sich der Versorgung von chronischen Wunden wie dem Diabetischen Fußsyndrom, Dekubitus oder Ulcus cruris. Auch die Themen Ernährung und Wunden sowie Schmerz und Schmerzeinteilung werden ausführlich behandelt. Egal ob erfahrener Wundtherapeut oder Neueinsteiger – dieses Buch bietet Ihnen wertvolle und praxisnahe Informationen, erweitert Ihr Wissen und unterstützt Sie so bei der Behandlung der Patienten. Das erwartet Sie in „Moderne Wundversorgung": Standards der modernen Wundversorgung Viele praktische Tipps mit anschaulichem Bildmaterial Optimal auf die Anforderungen des Expertenstandards abgestimmt CD und online* als Plus im Web mit aktuellen Standards, Wunddokumentationsfo... angepasst an die Kriterien des DNQP-Expertenstandar... „Pflege von Menschen mit chronischen Wunden"; Assessmentinstrument... Patienten- und Angehörigenbroschüre... *Online Angebot freibleibend

    • Bioethics

      • 7th Edition
      • April 11, 2019
      • Megan-Jane Johnstone
      • English
      • eBook
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      Written by Australia’s foremost nursing ethics scholar, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective comprehensibly addresses the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities nurses will encounter in practice. With a strong emphasis on the principles and standards of human rights and social justice, the 7th edition examines the spectrum of bioethical issues in health care with a focus on patients’ rights, cross-cultural ethics, vulnerability ethics, mental health ethics, professional conduct, patient safety and end-of-life ethics.

    • Practice Guidelines for Family Nurse Practitioners

      • 5th Edition
      • March 23, 2019
      • Karen Fenstermacher + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      The latest evidence-based guidelines to prepare you for FNP practice! Practice Guidelines for Family Nurse Practitioners, 5th Edition provides essential, information on the latest national and international guidelines and evidence-based protocols for primary care patients of all ages. Key details are easy to find with the book’s concise, outline-style guidelines and abundant summary tables and charts. Content highlights now include the use of bold type for "not-to-be-missed" content, bold italic type for non-urgent/non-emerg... interprofessional referrals, and bold italic type plus an eye-catching icon for urgent/emergent interprofessional referrals. In addition to coverage of the most common conditions seen in outpatient settings, this edition includes the latest information on topics such as jaundice, fever of unknown origin, and unexpected weight loss. Plus, the popular Practice Pearls boxes have been expanded throughout the book.

    • Bailliere's Dictionary for Nurses and Health Care Workers

      • 27th Edition
      • March 21, 2019
      • Jayne Taylor
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Baillière's Dictionary for Nurses and Health Care Workers remains the nursing dictionary of choice throughout the world! The latest edition of this authoritative paperback has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of nurses and health care workers in a variety of clinical settings. Published for the first time in full colour, the comprehensive dictionary entries are supplemented by common abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes and roots, together with units of measurement and tables of normal values. Other helpful appendices include nutrition, resuscitation, first aid, medicines control, the legal and professional framework of nursing, professional standards of practice and behaviour, immunization and vaccinations, prevention and control of infection, revalidation, and clinical supervision.

    • Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 31-1
      • March 15, 2019
      • Leanne H Fowler + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      With collaboration of Dr. Jan Foster, Consulting Editor, Drs. Landry and Fowler has created a current clinical look at nursing interventions for cardiovascular disease. They have invited authors from top institutions to contribute reviews on the following topics: Evidence-Based Strategies for Late Stages of Heart Failure; Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: A Pharmacotherapeutic Update for Antiplatelet Medications; Comprehensive Nursing Management for Cardiac Valvular Dysfunction; Recovery Management After Cardiothoracic Surgery: Nursing Priorities; Cardiovascular Disease Management in Minority Women: Special Considerations; STEMI and NSTEMI: Medical and Surgical Interventions; Nursing Management for Patients Post-Operative Cardiac Device Insertion & Minimally Invasive Procedures; Acute and Chronic Nursing Management of Atrial Fibrillation; Hospital Discharge Teaching for Patients with Peripheral  Vascular Disease; Acute and Chronic Hypertension: Advanced Nursing Management; and Culinary Medicine: Patient Education for Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes. Readers will come away with the clinical updates they need to improve outcomes in cardiovascular patients.

    • Cuidados prenatales

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 15, 2019
      • Helen Baston + 1 more
      • Spanish
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Escritas por destacadas académicas de la enfermería obstétrica, estas monografías constituyen una práctica fuente de información y están completamente actualizadas para reflejar la praxis diaria basada en la evidencia. Con un diseño mejorado, que facilita aún más el aprendizaje, cada volumen de la colección destaca la importancia de la comunicación y la atención centrada en la mujer, y presenta situaciones útiles para fomentar el debate y la reflexión. Este volumen, con un enfoque en forma de "rompecabezas", aborda cuestiones profesionales y legales relacionadas con la práctica actual. Asimismo, los capítulos han sido ideados para ser leídos por separado o como una secuencia. Además, hace referencia a las últimas directrices internacionales y adopta los principios del informe Better Births. Colección ideal para todas las matronas, tanto diplomadas como para las que estan en formación, y también resultará útil para el resto del personal de enfermería y para los asistentes de salud que trabajen en el ámbito de la maternidad.

    • Applying the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model in Practice

      • 3rd Edition
      • March 11, 2019
      • Karen Holland + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      New edition of a successful textbook which demonstrates the theory and practice of one of the most popular models of nursing. Karen Holland, Jane Jenkins and their colleagues carefully explain and explore how the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model can help today’s student learn how to care for patients in a variety of health care contexts and use it as a framework for their nursing practice. Rich with ‘real-life’ case studies and thought provoking exercises, this book has a helpful problem solving approach which strongly encourages further learning and reflection.

    • Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants

      • 8th Edition
      • March 10, 2019
      • Clare Kostelnick
      • English
      • eBook
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      Get a wide variety of exercises to enhance your learning with the Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review to Mosby’s Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition. This chapter-to-chapter companion to Mosby’s Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition, builds critical thinking skills and prepares you for your certification exam and clinical practice. Engaging review questions, exercises, and independent learning activities go beyond the textbook to help you practice procedures required for certification and help you learn to provide competent and respectful care.

    • Moderate Procedural Sedation and Analgesia

      • 1st Edition
      • March 9, 2019
      • Michael Kost
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Introducing the definitive resource designed for practitioners working in the rapidly expanding area of moderate procedural sedation and analgesia clinical practice. Moderate Procedural Sedation and Analgesia: A Question and Answer Approach focuses on the preprocedural, procedural, and postprocedural care of the moderately sedated patient in a variety of settings. This comprehensive text is designed to provide all the content and tools nurses and other clinicians need to demonstrate competency in moderate sedation and analgesia. Additionally, this user-friendly text is written by well-known sedation/analgesia expert, Michael Kost and recommended by standards of practice from the ANA, AORN, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

    • Concise Text Book for Pediatric Nursing

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 8, 2019
      • Assuma Beevi
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Concise Textbook of Pediatric Nursing is a revised and thoroughly updated edition of Elsevier’s previous offering, Textbook of Pediatric Nursing. The book, written in accordance with the INC syllabus, is targeted at undergraduates and is designed to help students develop an understanding of the modern approach to childcare, identification, prevention and nursing management of common health problems of neonates and children. The book is aimed to enhance the capabilities of a nurse in nurturing a child. Not only that, the study questions given at the end of each chapter will allow the student to self-evaluate their understanding of the topic.

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