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Patient Care Skills (6th Edition)
Author: Scott Duesterhaus Minor
ISBN-10: 0132082349
ISBN-13: 9780132082341
Published: 2009-07-26
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Book Description:
Enriched with new photographs, Patient Care Skills continues its tradition of excellence with a refreshed approach to covering all aspects of basic care skills. This book helps readers learn both the specifics of the procedures as well as general rules of good body mechanics, patient handling, and safety for patients and physical therapists/assistants. Comprehensive coverage provides all the information health care professionals need to perform skills related to patient positioning and transfer, vital signs, aseptic technique, and more. For each procedure presented, step-by-step illustrations are accompanied by brief written explanations. Following the sequence of illustrations for a specific procedure decreases the need for extensive text explanations and provides readers with a visual reference to determine if the sequence of steps they are performing matches the sequence of steps presented.
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Pocket Guide to Cultural Assessment
Author: Elaine Geissler PhD RN CTN
ISBN-10: 0815136331
ISBN-13: 9780815136330
Published: 1998-08-15
Publisher: Mosby
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This practical, concise guide presents information on cultural variations that potentially impact patient and family care. The dominant cultures of more than 180 countries are presented alphabetically. Information regarding major language, health care beliefs, ethnic or racial specific diseases, and national childhood immunizations is among the valuable data included.* Organizes countries alphabetically to provide quick access to important cultural information. * Provides national childhood immunization schedules and the latest information from the World Health Organization to ensure timely and accurate information. * Includes culture data categories to assist the reader in developing an individualized patient assessment. * Features brief descriptions of each country's topography and provides maps to illustrate potential environmental etiologies of an illness. * Presents references and related readings to facilitate search for in-depth information. o Highlights information on 20 more countries than the last edition. o Updates on country names, information and topographic maps.A Volume in the Nursing Pocket Guides Series
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Chronic Illness: Impact and Interventions (Jones and Bartlett Series in Oncology)
Author: Pamala D. Larsen
ISBN-10: 0763715700
ISBN-13: 9780763715700
Published: 2002-01-15
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
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A textbook for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in nursing, social work, and rehabilitation. The previous editions appeared between 1986 and 1998; the latest adds chapters on home care, long-term care and the role of the advanced practice nurse. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland
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Communication in Nursing: Communicating Assertively and Responsibly in Nursing, 4e
Author: Julia Balzer Riley RN MN AHN-BC REACE
ISBN-10: 0323008720
ISBN-13: 9780323008723
Published: 2000-01-15
Publisher: Mosby
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Book Description:
COMMUNICATION IN NURSING contains an abundant use of examples and exercises on communication skills and techniques to help the reader first understand basic concepts of therapeutic communication, and then apply them in different clinical situations. The fourth edition includes two new chapters on communication technology and cultural communication, increased content on communicating with the family, groups, children and the elderly, and victims of abuse, and communication with theinterdisciplinary health care team.
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Meditations on Hope: Nurses' Stories about Motivation and Inspiration (Kaplan Voices)
Author:
ISBN-10: 1427798249
ISBN-13: 9781427798244
Published: 2008-10-07
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
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There are over three million nurses in the United States who deal with a multitude of issues every day, from patient suffering and death to the stress of dealing with insurance companies. With a growing shortage of nurses, finding inspiration and keeping hope alive is necessary for nurses to keep up their morale and to have a good quality of life outside of the workplace. In Meditations on Hope, nurses from a variety of specialties share their tales of staying positive and focused, maintaining hope in the face of patients’ suffering, triumphing over tragedy, overcoming adversities and challenges, and developing relationships that bring hope, understanding, and healing to themselves and their loved ones. Nurses—from hospitals, private practices, and in home health care—tell about how they keep their faith and hope in the healing process, in the face of patients' suffering. Hear from people new to the field as well as those who have been in nursing for decades about the cases that have buoyed their spirits and those that require their greatest reserve of strength.
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Mosby's Handbook of Patient Teaching, 2e
Author: Mary M. Canobbio
ISBN-10: 0323011039
ISBN-13: 9780323011037
Published: 2000-04-15
Publisher: Mosby
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Book Description:
Thoroughly revised and updated, MOSBY'S HANDBOOK OF PATIENT TEACHING is a comprehensive resource of information for patient teaching, covering more than 200 major diseases, disorders, and procedures. Topics are arranged alphabetically with colored tabs for easy access. The outline format of each entry includes all information that the health care provider needs to convey to the patient: definition, signs and symptoms, complications, diagnostic tests, treatment (including medication, activity, and surgical procedures), and home care.
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Client Education: Theory and Practice, 1e
Author: Dorothy E. Babcock RN MS
ISBN-10: 0801669421
ISBN-13: 9780801669422
Published: 1993-09-01
Publisher: Mosby
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Book Description:
CLIENT EDUCATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE provides comprehensive information on educating clients based upon their individual learning needs. Focusing on the unique needs of clients, this text helps nurses meet the various learning needs of children, adults, and older adults as well as ethnically diverse clients. Strategies for analyzing, planning, implementing, and evaluating client learning appear throughout the text.
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Communication for Nurses: Talking with Patients, Second Edition
Author: Lisa Kennedy Sheldon
ISBN-10: 0763769924
ISBN-13: 9780763769925
Published: 2008-12-17
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
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Book Description:
Communication for Nurses offers direct, effective techniques that are delivered in a concise, user-friendly format that enables readers to develop a professional communication style. Topics include nursing, communication, and developmental theories; issues of cultural diversity and patient rights; concepts and interviewing techniques are presented for starting and developing the nurse-patient relationship; communicating with specific groups, including patients of different ages, patients with physical impairments, and patients in crisis. The Second Edition has been completely revised and updated with new, enhanced sections on emotional work in nursing, working with unmotivated patients, and communicating with colleagues. In addition, Web sites have been included throughout to provide additional learning resources.
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Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses
Author: Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety
ISBN-10: 0309090679
ISBN-13: 9780309090674
Published: 2004-02-27
Publisher: National Academies Press
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Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports "To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm", "Keeping Patients Safe" lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition in the groundbreaking "Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm" series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.
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Interpersonal Relations In Nursing: A Conceptual Frame of Reference for Psychodynamic Nursing
Author: Hildegard E. Peplau RN
ISBN-10: 0826179118
ISBN-13: 9780826179111
Published: 2004-01-01
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
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Originally published in 1952 by a towering figure in nursing history, this book stresses the then novel theory of interpersonal relations as it was relevant to the work of nurses. Her framework suggested that interaction phenomena that occur during patient-nurse relationships have qualitative impact on patient outcomes. While the past four decades have seen a substantial expansion in the use and understanding of interpersonal theory, such as cognitive development and general systems theory, this classic book remains a useful foundation for all nurses as so much subsequent work used this work as its starting point. Springer Publishing Company is delighted to make this book available again.
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