This must-have study guide for nurses seeking to obtain Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse status provides state-of-the-art information about all aspects of this specialty. It features 300 Q&As that offer a detailed rationale for each question, along with tips and strategies to promote exam mastery and frequently asked questions about the exam.
Full of expert guidance on leadership and management, this unique book is geared specifically to the needs of social work administrators, educators and practitioners in both academic and agency settings. The contents are fully comprehensive and encompass both theoretical approaches and a wide variety of practical strategies.
Delivering the first comprehensive analysis of elder justice and its implications for policy and practice, this book offers an approach that ensures the rights, safety, and security of all older adults. It explains the antecedents of elder justice, and describes the opportunities for achieving more comprehensive public policy.
A practical guide to cancer genomics and its application to cancer diagnosis and care. Each chapter provides explanations of concepts, terminology, and methods. Also included are tips for interpreting and analysing molecular data, and discussion of molecular predictors for targeted therapies covering haematologic malignancies and solid tumours.
Written for both students and practitioners of gerontology, along with all professionals involved in the well-being of older adults, this highly accessible book provides a current and detailed description and analysis of local to global services for older people with or without cognitive, physical, or social needs.
This evidence-based manual reflects important advances in neuroscience that underscore the important role of emotion as a crucial aspect of behavioral health treatment. This updated treatment model moves emotion to a critical position that is integrated throughout its therapeutic strategies.
A practical guide to providing evidence-based and value-based care to adult and paediatric cancer patients experiencing severe symptoms and stressors due to cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment, and comorbid conditions. This accessible reference provides the art and science behind the whole-person and family approach to care.
The only comprehensive and accessible collection of validated and reliable instruments for care measurement in clinical and educational nursing and health professions research. These measurements address quality of care; patient, client, and nurse perceptions of caring; and caring behaviours, abilities, and efficacy.
This one-of-a-kind resource is specifically designed to guide DNP students in the essentials of conducting practice-based studies. It helps students to identify the methodology that best fits their project idea, envision the key elements of the project, design, set up, and run the project, and write up and disseminate the project outcome.
Provides evidence-based information and strategies for nurses who work with individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs). Written in a concise, bulleted style, the reference addresses often-undiagnosed medical and psychiatric conditions which may accompany SUDs and the ethical considerations of working with affected patients and families.
Covers the defining characteristics, clinical presentation, diagnostics, treatment, and nursing considerations of common neurological disorders seen in acute care settings. Chapters review the assessment and diagnosis of common and not-so-common neurologic conditions that can often be difficult to recognise and manage.
This up-to-date, evidence-based resource addresses all facets of forensics nursing, including legal and ethical issues, conducting interviews, trauma-informed care, delivering expert testimony, documenting injuries, and collecting and preserving evidentiary substances for Medico-Legal purposes.
Provides a succinct guide for nurses in adult-health clinical settings and fills the need for an easy-to-use clinical reference that delivers a quick-access reference on ways to incorporate wellness into their work, helping to improve patient outcomes, and helping to reduce personal and professional stress and improve overall wellness.
Expertly presents how to identify fetal wellbeing and the signs of fetal and uterine compromise. Chapters present the best practices in distinguishing normal from abnormal fetal heart rate patterns and uterine activity. The book is designed in an engaging workbook-style format with step-by-step instruction.
Examines both direct care roles, indirect care roles, and new emerging areas. Step-by-step, chapters address the key concepts of role transition including preparation for a particular role, ethical practice, theory application, quality control, and terminal degree options.
Written by an experienced PA educator, this guide details the clinical approach to common obstetric and gynecologic presentations, and gives an overview of the initial prenatal visit. It also provides treatment and management details for more than 30 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as cough, fever, and skin changes. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 60 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Awareness and preparedness for potential complications in the aftermath of acute stroke is as important as initial treatment to achieve good clinical outcomes. Complications of Acute Stroke is the first book to focus exclusively on specific post-acute stroke complications that require timely and urgent attention.
This graduate-level text on rehabilitation and mental health counseling disseminates foundational knowledge of assessment principles and processes with a focus on clinical application. Chapters - written by leading practitioners with specialized knowledge - focus on specific populations and service delivery settings.
Examining the crucial interrelationship between nursing research and health policy, this book presents examples of specific health care policies that have been influenced, implemented, or changed as a result of nursing research. It builds on the discussion of this relationship in the editors' earlier book, Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing Research, named a Doody's Core Title in 2013 and an AJN Book of the Year in 2011. This book updates earlier information with new nursing research by esteemed scholars. It encompasses research related to major policy directives of the decade, including the Institute of Medicine's The Future of Nursing report, the Affordable Care Act, and the genomic nursing science blueprint, and highlights how they have influenced, and will continue to influence, health policy.Relevant for a wide range of readers, including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and nursing professionals, the book describes how science shapes health policy in general, discusses models and strategies for linking research and health policy, and presents multiple examples of how major nursing research has influenced health policy. The text provides both a conceptual orientation and an operational approach to strategies linking research to policy and influencing policy makers at the organizational, community, state, national, and international levels.Key Features:Offers examples of cutting-edge nursing research providing a foundation for practice and policyIncorporates major policy directives of this decade and highlights how nursing research has influenced health policyDemonstrates to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and nursing professionals how nursing research can shape health policy decisionsIncludes perspectives, models, and strategies for using nursing research to influence health policyAddresses how nursing research shapes policy at organizational, community, state, national, and international levels
This innovative text, built on the foundations of Watson's Caring Science, demonstrates how nursing professionals can develop virtual relationships that encompass caring and understanding in professional, teaching/learning, and everyday cyber communications. It describes how caring and love can transcend distance, space, and time in our increasingly virtual world to preserve the basic fabric of humanity as we physically interact less and electronically interact more. Straightforward and concise, the text offers specific practices for teachers, students, and professionals to support caring in a digital world, along with practical examples that enable readers to envision ways to create their own caring online presence.The text provides examples of initiatives aimed at establishing ongoing intent to care on levels ranging from personal to global. Included are a variety of educational activities that rely on digital resources to facilitate interaction, collaboration, learning, and connection. Learning objectives and knowledge-check questions in each chapter reinforce information, and a corresponding MOOC and other free professional online trainings are available to readers to augment study.Key Features:Built on Watson's Caring Science and expanded through Sitzman's researchContains specific information and practical examples for faculty, students, and professionals who interact onlineProvides examples of online caring initiatives from personal to globalValidated by seven research studies and extensive online experience of the authors
Praise for the Previous Edition:"This is a valuable resource for readers seeking basic to advanced information on measurement. It should be on the bookshelf of all researchers, and a requirement for graduate nursing students." Score: 100, 5 stars-- Doody's Medical Reviews"...this book is a wonderful shelf reference for nurse researcher mentors and investigators who may need to explore content or use content to design, test, select, and evaluate instruments and methods used in measuring nurse concepts and outcomes."--Clinical Nurse Specialistâ??Presents clearly the methodological principles for research planning in nursing with examples that facilitate the understanding of them. Excellent.â?? 5.0 out of 5 stars--Nursing ResearchThis highly popular resourceâ??written in an easy-to-read style and format-- delivers everything nurses and other health researchers need to know about designing, testing, selecting, and evaluating instruments and methods for measurement in nursing. The Fifth Edition features the most current content, strategies, and procedures available with direct applicability to nurses and health researchers engaging in interprofessional research, collaboration, education, and evidence-based practice. Five new chapters focus on challenges to using big data, evaluation and measurement in interprofessional practice and education, metrics and benchmarking in health professions education and practice, and measurement issues in translational science.The book gives particular attention to measurement issues resulting from changes in nursing, health research, and the increased emphasis on and undertaking of interprofessional research and evaluation. Presenting the material in step-by-step format, the book is designed for readers with little or no experience in measurement, statistics, or interprofessional issues. It focuses on increasing the reader's ability to use measures that are operationalized within the context of theories and conceptual frameworks, derived from sound measurement principles and practices and adequately tested for reliability and validity. Additionally, the text provides a pragmatic account of the processes involved in all aspects of measurement. Studies conducted by nurses and researchers in varied settings illustrate the measurement processes.New to the Fifth Edition:Thoroughly updated and revisedDelivers new and emerging strategiesReflects recent changes to nursing, health research, and emphasis on interprofessional researchIncludes five completely new chapters addressing challenges to using big data, evaluation and measurement in interprofessional practice and education, metrics and benchmarking in health professions education and practice, and measurement issues in translational scienceKey Features:Easy-to-read content and formatAssumes no prior knowledge of measurement, statistics, or interprofessional issuesProvides studies conducted by nurses and researchers in varied settingsOffers a pragmatic account of the processes involved inn all aspects of measurement
This one-of-a-kind book delivers challenging, clinically relevant case-based learning tools regarding orthopaedics and sports medicine for advanced practice nursing students and practitioners. Written by nurse practitioner/educators, it fills a gap in information and guidelines for treatment of this population in primary and acute care environments.
Written by an experienced PA educator, this guide details common surgical procedures you'll see, such as thyroidectomy, hernia repair, mastectomy, and appendectomy. It also provides important information on surgical emergencies, including gastrointestinal bleeding, perforated viscus, and limb ischemia.
Written by an experienced PA educator, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders. It also provides a systems-based approach to 40 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as chest pain, altered mental status, and headache. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 40 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as chest pain, dyspnea, and fever. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 60 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as abdominal pain, headache and fatigue. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 70 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
This new addition to the Fast Facts series delivers the core information for orientingnovice nurses or nursing students to the challenging field of pediatric nursing.Pocket-sized and formatted for quick access to the knowledge a pediatric nurseneeds daily, it is packed with concise information on both disease processesand well child care, and offers the clinical advice that comes from years ofexperience. A particularly helpful feature is frequently used terminology that isreferenced in the index for rapid access of crucial information. Importantly, theguide offers valuable suggestions for how to best communicate and work withchildren using age-appropriate techniques.Seasoned pediatric nurses describe how to assist compassionately and efficientlywith painful procedures that can be emotionally taxing for all involved. Theyshare proven and time-tested tips for easing trauma for both child and parent.Chapters feature an introduction and key chapter objectives, followed by shortparagraphs and bulleted information organized according to body systems. Theyfocus on the most commonly seen illnesses within each system and include,for each diagnosis, an easy-to-understand description, disease manifestations,diagnostic criteria, and interventions. Fast Facts in a Nutshell provide highlighted,critical information and key clinical tips that can be put to work immediately.
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