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Focuses on intentional communication, team building, and relational maintenance. Whether you are starting a new team or helping an existing team, this text addresses aspects of team players, leadership, meetings, organisational culture, and self- and team-care through a combination of empirical data and real voices in palliative care practice.

Provides nurses, physicians, specialists, and providers with the information needed to provide capable care and treatment to individuals of diverse cultures. The book offers a look at classic contributions to the field, up-to-date research, and evaluates the impact of diverse cultures on issues that may affect nursing and health care.

Learn and innovate with the latest technologies in Nursing and Healthcare! The first text of its kind in nursing, this book provides up-to-date information on innovative, smart technologies that nurses can use in clinical and non-clinical settings to keep up with the changing face of healthcare.

Presents fundamental concepts of what constitutes reliable tools to use in measuring students' classroom and clinical performance. This book describes: concepts of evaluation, measurement, and testing in nursing education; qualities of effective measurement instruments; and, how to evaluate thinking in written assignments and clinical performance.

Showcases the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history.

A practical guide to the diagnosis and management of benign hematologic conditions. The book offers a uniform and engaging approach that clinicians and practitioners can easily follow and use in practice or for review.

Focuses on current, ICU-specific information needed daily by busy ICU nurses. This updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions.

Addresses the extraordinary breadth of the social work profession and the diverse career paths available. Updated and expanded, the third edition includes 15 vivid new profiles of social workers who describe the rewards and challenges of their distinct roles.

This fourth edition of the incomparable review bible for the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Examination has been thoroughly updated to reflect current practice and the core knowledge tested on the exam. The book distils the essentials and provides focused reviews of all major PM&R topics.

This core, introductory textbook for undergraduate and graduate level courses is the first volume to combine the knowledge and skills of counselling psychology with current theory and research in grief and bereavement. It is grounded in the belief that grief counselling is distinct from other therapeutic issues because grief is an adaptive response rather than a form of pathology.

Takes a unique approach to electrodiagnostic (EDX) medicine, using case studies and exercises to teach clinical reasoning and build technical skills. Through the EDX case studies, lesion localization and characterization are demonstrated and discussed step-by-step using a floating text box that tracks the findings for each case.

This unique reference is written specifically for graduate nursing students who need an effective college-funding plan. It offers little-known but highly effective strategies for financing graduate nursing programs without going broke.

Your all-in-one resource for quantitative, qualitative, and spatial analyses in Excel (R) using current real-world healthcare datasets. This is a practical resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in programs studying healthcare administration, public health, and social work.

Provides a wealth of proven anti-bullying resources for all nursing settingsThis pocket-sized, quick-access guide gives nurses crucial information they need to know to understand, identify, and effectively counter incivility, bullying, and violence in all nursing settings. Viewing nurse bullying as an institutional problem, this text expounds upon the ANA position statement, "Incivility, Bullying, and Workplace Violence" and includes definitions and statistics about nurse bullying, and what nurses at any level can do when faced with a bully.Delivered in an easy-to-read, bulleted format, this resource covers all aspects of bullying, including an overview of the problem; why nurses bully each other; a discussion and quantification of the cost and impact of bullying on individuals, the workplace, and the broader health care system. Four instructional case study chapters delineate the different forms bullying can take and how to handle them, and a "bully-proofing" chapter replete with such useful tools as a bullying checklist, a guide to "de-toxifying" the workplace, and an explanation of the ANA Code of Ethics related to bullying.Key Features:Addresses all facets of nurse bullying, from origins and manifestations to evidence-based interventions and prevention strategiesBased on the hallmark ANA document "Incivility, Bullying, and Workplace ViolenceContains 10 instructive case studies depicting common bullying scenariosProvides a wealth of anti-bullying resources for use in all nursing settingsOffers overview and chapter objectives and Fast Facts in a Nutshell boxes

This newly updated, step-by-step guide to the key points of conducting the GYN exam addresses everything both busy nurse practitioners and NP students need to know, from basic procedures to high-level challenges. This second edition delivers a new chapter on providing care to transgender and LGBT women and includes new information on intimate partner violence.

This narrative-based work is the first to describe Human Caring Literacy from the perspective of caring scientists who "live the life" by incorporating the precepts of human caring into every aspect of their personal and professional lives. It demonstrates, for nursing students and experienced nurses in a variety of roles, the abundant ways in which Caring Science Theory powerfully informs the lives of frontline clinicians, nursing deans and faculty, APRNs, and administrators in the United States and globally.The book goes beyond theory to illustrate how Caring Science is used every day in a variety of arenas and scenarios, ranging from the advancement of the discipline of nursing in South America to peacemaking in the Middle East. It describes the methods that help practitioners develop mindfulness, reflection, authentic presence, intentionality, and a caring consciousness in the service of providing authentic, heart-centered care for patients, their families, and societies. Designed to cultivate loving-kindness behaviors in all settings, including among nurses themselves, these narratives provide welcome alternatives to current ways of being, both professional and personal.Provides Examples of Caring Science Theory as a Guide to:Advancing professional nursing practice in South AmericaTranscending politics and conflict in the Middle EastEvolving global caring consciousness through online educationDeveloping nursing leaders who are heart-centered and intentionalExploring relationships between caring and Ubuntu in South AfricaTeaching through simulation to promote humanistic practiceKey Features:Provides real examples of living the theoryDemonstrates the use of Caring Science in leadership, practice, research, the healing arts, education, and praxisIllustrates practices that develop mindfulness, reflection, authentic presence, intentionality, and a caring consciousnessProvides evidence of an evolving global caring consciousness on five continents

Focuses specifically on doctoral level advanced nursing practice. This revision encompasses both the historical advanced nursing practice role and the evolution of the new doctoral level roles, and delineates and highlights the variety of roles new DNP graduates have assumed and will assume, along with coverage of actual skills that will advance the role of the doctoral level APRN.

Distinguished by its critical perspective, this book delivers a balanced and comprehensive examination of the child welfare system in the US today. In a clear and accessible style, it outlines key issues, reviews the history of the child welfare system, and explores the challenges to developing appropriate federal, state and local policies that address child welfare concerns.

The only resource of its kind, this is a concise, practical guide to GI and Liver Disease that delivers current information on diagnosing, managing, and treating common GI and liver disorders, along with liver transplant guidelines. It fills a gap in information needed by primary and acute care professionals who are the chief caretakers for GI and liver patients.

Provides insight for proteges and mentors on using mentoring to build new generations of successful nurses. This book covers a quick history of why mentoring is important, how a protege can identify and mentor, and how to develop and maintain a healthy mentor-protege relationship. It also contains the necessary tools to help novice nurses benefit from mentor support.

Fosters fundamental skills needed to critically evaluate evidence from published research studies. This is the first resource to provide APRN students and practicing clinicians with a step-by-step guide to critically analyse evidence from research studies. Equipped with these skills, nurses will lead an informed practice and improve patient care.

Designed for recently-graduated RNs, and nurses transitioning to a new clinical area, this extensive clinical reference is the best resource to provide essential information on the paediatric and neonatal specialty areas. Concise and practical entries provide fundamental coverage of the most common clinical problems and issues encountered in nursing practice today.

A concise, quick-access guide to the full continuum of care for all major health care professionals working with individuals suffering from PTSD. The most comprehensive book available about caring for this population, it encompasses the history of PTSD, its theoretical underpinnings, and complete instructions for conducting a full screening, assessment, and diagnosis for people with PTSD.

Delivers concise, quick-access information about caring for patients with common physical complaints who also have a psychiatric diagnosis. It is the first book written for non-psychiatric nurses to address the needs of patients with co-morbid diagnoses, and facilitates the integration of skills and strategies that support recovery for patients diagnosed with mental illness.

Rapidly changing research has led to numerous advances in genetic testing, diagnosis, and treatments. This quick reference delivers complex information in an easy-to-read, step-by-step format with bitesize info boxes and bulleted information to provide the tools necessary to understand genetics/genomics and identify "red flags" that can appear in patient assessments.

This convenient and easy-to-use pocket-sized reference provides gerontology nurses with the foundational knowledge they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective care to older patients. It contains crucial evidence-based information that enables nurses to differentiate between normal and abnormal findings, understand the presentation and management of common diseases of the gerontological population, and integrate age-specific considerations into care planning and implementation with older adults. Pervading the resource is a holistic approach in which all facets of the individual: physical and mental health, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, self-care, family relationships, and unique risks for this population, are considered. Designed for daily use, the guide is consistently organized in bullet-point Fast Facts style for easy access to information. Also included are such helpful features as "Clinical Snapshots" and "Fast Facts in a Nutshell" to reinforce content and aid in speedy information retrieval. A resources section guides nurses to additional information on each topic. Key Features: Presents all aspects of current evidence-based practice in gerontology in user-friendly style Uses a holistic approach that considers all facets of the individual Provides key information that demonstrates the impact of aging on assessing, planning, and implementing care Features "Clinical Snapshots" and "Fast Facts in a Nutshell" for speedy information retrieval Includes information on gerontology care that is needed daily

Provides an effective, proven blueprint that enables students to disseminate their DNP Projects. This book provides step-by-step instruction for all methods of dissemination, from print to digital media. The text provides step-by-step instructions for each type of dissemination, and highlights specific resources and their benefits and drawbacks.

Written by experts in the field, this volume discusses ethical concepts relevant to the registered nurse who has spent several years in practice but is learning high-level concepts and applications. It addresses different areas of professional practice and is rich with case studies illustrating the need for ethical competence and decision-making.

By embracing the major conceptual and theoretical contributions to nursing research that are outside of "traditional" nursing theory, this is a vital resource for nurse researchers, and one that is indispensible for doctoral nursing students. The book examines in-depth the components of nursing theory and the types and uses of theory in nursing research and practice.

This is the only up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary resource on clinical hypnosis research and applications in psychology and medicine. Authored by hypnosis experts worldwide, it encompasses state-of-the-art scholarship and techniques for hypnotic treatments along with hypnosis transcripts and case examples for all major psychological disorders and medical conditions.