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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McCance & Huether’s Pathophysiology

10th Edition
February 1, 2027
Julia Rogers
English

Learn the what, how, and why of pathophysiology! With easy-to-read, in-depth descriptions of disease, disease etiology, and disease processes, McCance and Huether’s Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children, 10th Edition helps you understand the most important and most complex pathophysiology concepts. This updated text includes more than 1,300 full-color illustrations and photographs to make it easier to identify normal anatomy and physiology, as well as alterations of function. It’s the most comprehensive and authoritative pathophysiology text available!

Health Informatics

4th Edition
February 1, 2027
Lynda R. Hardy
English

Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, 4th Edition, expands the tradition of expert informatics educators Ramona Nelson and Nancy Staggers with lead author Lynda R. Hardy to prepare students for success in today’s technology-filled healthcare practice. Concise coverage includes information systems and applications such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, telehealth, mHealth, ePatients, and social media tools, as well as system implementation. New to this edition are topics including analytical approaches to health informatics, increased information on FHIR and SMART on FHIR, and the use of health informatics in pandemics. This unique text continues to provide the content students need as recognized by the 2023 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award!

Hemodynamic Monitoring

2nd Edition
February 1, 2027
Mary E. Lough
English

Written by a leading expert in the field of hemodynamic monitoring and critical care, this richly illustrated, comprehensive, and evidence-based guide provides everything that nurses and respiratory therapists need in order to provide high-quality care to patients undergoing hemodynamic monitoring procedures.

Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care

8th Edition
February 1, 2027
Joyce E. Dains + 2 more
English

Take the next step in health assessment by building your skills in diagnostic and clinical reasoning! Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 8th Edition goes beyond the basic physical examination to help you learn to accurately evaluate common conditions. Organized by patient symptoms or complaints, the book follows a systematic approach beginning with a chief concern rather than a specific diagnosis or disease entity, then guides you step-by-step through a diagnostic reasoning process to lead to a clinical diagnosis. Written by a team of advanced practitioners led by Joyce E. Dains, this AJN award-winning text helps you learn to think like an expert clinician.

Pocket Companion for Jarvis' Physical Examination & Health Assessment

10th Edition
February 1, 2027
Ann L. Eckhardt + 1 more
English

A concise, practical handbook for the assessment lab and the clinical setting, the Jarvis Pocket Companion for Physical Examination & Health Assessment, 10th Edition makes it fast and easy to review essential assessment skills and techniques. You’ll conduct more effective exams by referring to summaries of examination steps, comparisons of normal versus abnormal findings, lifespan and cultural considerations, and numerous full-color photos and drawings. Inclusive photos identify common skin conditions in both light skin and dark skin, increasing representation for better health outcomes. Social and Genetic Determinants of Health sections highlight key parameters that have an impact on patient health. This companion handbook is an ideal clinical tool whether you’re a beginner who is learning health assessment skills or a practitioner who needs a portable reference!

Lehne's Pharmacology for Nursing Care

13th Edition
February 1, 2027
Laura D. Rosenthal + 1 more
English

Master an understanding of pharmacology — and apply that understanding to nursing practice! With an engaging approach that actually makes learning nursing pharmacology enjoyable, Lehne's Pharmacology for Nursing Care, 13th Edition makes it easier to understand difficult pharmacologic principles and the clinical use of drugs. The book reviews key physiology and pathophysiology for each of the major drug families, using a freshly refocused drug prototype approach addressing the most commonly prescribed drugs to simplify learning. It focuses your attention on the most important content, limiting discussions of drug interactions and adverse effects to those that matter most for safe nursing care. This bestselling text emphasizes the understanding of drugs and drug therapy as opposed to simply memorizing drug facts.

Jarvis' Physical Examination and Health Assessment

10th Edition
February 1, 2027
Ann L. Eckhardt + 1 more
English

With an easy-to-follow approach and unmatched learning support, Jarvis's Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 10th Edition is the most widely used, authoritative, complete, and easily implemented learning solution for health assessment in nursing. This hub of a tightly integrated learning package continues to center on Carolyn Jarvis's clear, logical, and holistic approach to physical examination and health assessment across the patient lifespan. It's packed with vivid illustrations, step-by-step guidance, and evidence-based content to provide a complete approach to health assessment and physical examination. With an enhanced focus on today's need-to-know information, the 10th edition integrates concepts of interprofessional collaboration, social determinants of health (SDOH), enhanced transgender considerations, and integrated content and electronic resources for success on the Next Generation NCLEX®.

Study Guide & Laboratory Manual for Jarvis' Physical Examination & Health Assessment

10th Edition
February 1, 2027
Ann L. Eckhardt + 1 more
English

Both a comprehensive lab manual and a practical workbook, the Study Guide & Laboratory Manual for Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 10th Edition, gives you the tools you need in order to master physical examination and health assessment skills in the assessment lab and in clinical practice. Corresponding to the best-selling Jarvis textbook, this guide features terminology reviews, application activities, review questions, regional write-up sheets, and narrative summary forms, with answers to study questions at the back to facilitate both learning and review. The Study Guide & Laboratory Manual has been thoroughly updated to reflect the 10th edition text and includes Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Exam–style case studies to prepare you not only for the skills laboratory but also success on the NCLEX® Exam and in interprofessional collaborative practice.

Varcarolis’ Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

6th Edition
February 1, 2027
Chyllia D Fosbre
English

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Communication Approach to Evidence Based Care, offers the perfect balance of essential nursing interventions and clinical content. It incorporates a reader-friendly style, and an emphasis on therapeutic communication and evidence-based practice. The psychiatric disorders are organized by the nursing process, with sound coverage of the biological factors, and the latest DSM-5 disorder criteria will be outlined within each relevant chapter. This new edition will maintain all of the key features of the current edition. New edition features include integrative care boxes, Giddens concept boxes, updated clinical disorders chapters and patient problems. The new edition of Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Communication Approach to Evidence Based Care, will include all of the information students need to pass their psychiatric nursing course and prepare for the Next-Generation NCLEX Exam.

Calculation of Drug Dosages

13th Edition
February 1, 2027
Sheila J. Ogden + 1 more
English

Calculation of Drug Dosages is a drug calculations work text that covers the ratio and proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis methods of drug calculation. It is designed for students in professional and vocational schools of nursing and for nurses returning to practice. It offers multiple worksheets pre and post- tests and a comprehensive post-test making it ideal to be used in the classroom or for individual study. This popular work text offers an extensive review of basic mathematics to assist students who have not mastered the subject in previous educational experiences. It covers the use of the metric system, and includes coverage of specialty areas such as pediatrics and obstetrics. The current edition includes Next Generation NCLEX® practice problems appropriate for drug calculations and they promote critical thinking related to drug calculations and administration.