Get the big picture on professional nursing issues and prepare for leadership and management! Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 10th Edition ensures that you are prepared for the complex and rapidly changing world of today’s nursing. Coverage of key topics includes nursing theories and evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality care, clinical judgment, delegation and supervision, communication and interdisciplinary collaboration, and working within a multicultural and multigenerational environment. Written by noted nursing educators Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob, this text not only prepares you for success on the NCLEX-RN® examination but for a role as an effective nursing manager and leader.
Practical General Practice is designed as a highly useful quick reference guide to be used by busy GPs during consultations. This handy book contains the latest guidelines and treatment recommendations for the vast majority of presentations commonly seen in general practice. Information is presented in a way that is quickly accessible in a time-pressured environment, including assessment, clinical investigations and management options. Edited by practising GPs, this eighth edition has been fully updated and will be valuable to GP registrars, newly qualified GPs, and more experienced practitioners who wish to keep their knowledge up to date.
Learn how to provide safe, effective nursing care for patients receiving drug therapy! Clayton’s Basic Pharmacology for Nurses, 20th Edition helps you understand the principles of pharmacology and apply them to nursing practice. This text explains how to make informed decisions about drug therapy, educate patients, and administer medications. This edition adds enhanced coverage of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model to prepare you for the critical thinking questions on the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) exam. Concise and easy to use, this essential resource helps you master the basics of medication administration and drug actions.
Effective scar management is an essential clinical skill—one that calls for the most up-to-date management and treatment options to help patients minimize the physical, aesthetic, psychological, and social consequences that can be associated with scarring. Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology: Scar Management, 2nd Edition, provides current, practical guidance on medical treatments, light/laser treatment, surgical and non-surgical procedures, and more, edited by the foremost pioneers in the field. Succinctly written and lavishly illustrated, this resource focuses on procedural how to's and offers step-by-step guidance on proper techniques, pitfalls, and tricks of the trade.
Reinforce your understanding of nursing pharmacology and prepare for success on the NCLEX-PN® exam! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in Clayton’s Basic Pharmacology for Nurses, 20th Edition, this study guide provides a variety of exercises to help you review and practice the LPN/LVN’s role in drug therapy and patient care. Review questions make it easier to achieve the chapter objectives from the textbook, and patient scenarios help you develop clinical judgment skills. Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style questions ensure that you will be ready for the critical thinking questions on the NGN exam.
Specialty Imaging: HRCT of the Lung 3e delivers a powerful solution to make lung diseases diagnoses easier for radiologists, including general radiologists, cardiothoracic radiologists, pulmonologists, and rheumatologists. High-resolution computer tomography has long been identified as delivering enhanced resolution and is most commonly used for lung disease diagnoses. Lung disease diagnoses are quite complex though, and have an anatomical and pathological component in addition to the radiology perspective. In over 130 chapters, this book’s organization provides the path to successful diagnosis with chapter titles that include the name of an entity as in chapters that use specific imaging patterns or even pathologic patterns to help determine the correct diagnosis. While the radiologist will often not know which specific pathologies are involved when reading a case, the content in SI: HRCT of the Lung 3e offers additional direction to determine the dx based on morphologic features, distribution of abnormalities, and/or histologic patterns. Since this book’s 2e published in 2017, there have significant changes and updates to identified diseases, including new morphological patterns for pulmonary fibrosis, a new classification for hypersensitivity pneumonia that has been endorsed globally by the ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT federations. In addition, there are new chapters in place for post-COVID-19 findings, EVALI (lung disease caused by e-cigarettes and vaping), and RSV, along with updated images and new literature references throughout.
In this issue of Heart Failure Clinics, guest editor Dr. Scott Visovatti brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Exercise Testing in Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Failure. Top experts in the field discuss the invasive cardiopulmonary exercise test; cardiopulmonary exercise testing in advanced heart failure management; exercise testing in elite athletes; cardiopulmonary exercise testing in pulmonary hypertension; and much more.
In this issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. D. Nageshwar Reddy and Partha Pal bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Updates on Endoscopic Diagnosis in IBD: From White Light to Molecular Imaging. Top experts in the field address recent advances in endoscopic diagnosis in IBD that are relevant to everyday practice, including indications, timing, and biopsy protocol; current endoscopic scoring systems in IBD; endoscopy in special situations in IBD, such as acute colitis, pregnancy, and pediatrics; and much more.
In this issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, guest editor Dr. Neal Blitz brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Minimal Incision Surgery. Recent advances in techniques, instrumentation, and technology have led to many changes to minimally invasive approaches to deformity correction, resulting in less soft tissue distribution, fewer complications, less postoperative pain, and improved cosmesis. This issue brings readers up to date with how and when to use these innovative techniques for a variety of conditions through the foot and ankle.