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Preceded by Complementary and alternative therapies in nursing / Ruth Lindquist, Mary Fran Tracy, Mariah Snyder, editors. Eighth edition. 2018.

Awarded third place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Nursing Education/Continuing Education/Professional DevelopmentDelivers a comprehensive toolbox for understanding race and racism at structural, institutional, and individual levelsThis nursing handbook introduces and defines key terms about race and racism for nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators. It addresses how race and racism act as structural and core social determinants of health and propel health inequities. It moves beyond a focus on multicultural approaches for understanding inequity toward a recognition of the broader impact that both systemic and structural racism have had on inequality in health and life opportunities. Through a social justice lens, the book underscores how nurses, as frontline health professionals, need to understand racism as a factor behind these inequities and its significance to their working environment and nursing practice.In concise chapters with brief paragraphs and bulleted information, this practical handbook offers strategies for how to productively engage in a dialogue about race and racism. It considers the history of racism in the United States and then breaks down how it operates at structural, institutional, and individual levels. Case studies illustrate such concepts as microaggressions, implicit bias, power, privilege, and intersectionality in order to foster understanding and provide opportunities for both self-reflection and collective conversation.Key Features:Delivers clear and easy-to-read content in concise, bulleted formatEmpowers nurses to initiate conversations about race and racism in the workplace and classroom with confidence and easeProvides an historical context for understanding how racism contributes to inequities in health and economic opportunitiesIllustrates concepts with case studies and reflection questionsFeatures "Fast Facts" boxes that highlight essential information at a glancePromotes the concepts of antiracism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the transformative teaching of Caring Science,Creating a Caring Science Curriculum: A Relational Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing reflects theparamount scholarship of Caring Science educators. This second edition intertwines visionary thinking withblueprints, exemplars, and dynamic direction for the application of fundamental principles. It goes beyondthe conventional by offering a model that serves as an emancipatory, ethical-philosophical, educational, andpedagogical learning guide for both teachers and students.Divided into five units, the text addresses the history of the caring curriculum revolution and its powerfulpresence within nursing. Unit I lays the foundation for a Caring Science curriculum. Unit II introducesintellectual and strategic blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented approachesfor faculty-student relations, teaching/learning skills, pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creativeapproaches to evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. Unit III addresses curriculumstructure and design, the evolution of a caring-based college of nursing, caring in advanced practice education,and the development of caring consciousness in nurse leaders. It also features real-world exemplars of CaringScience curricula. Unit IV includes an alternative approach to clinical and course-based evaluation, and thetext concludes with an exploration of the future of the Caring Science curriculum as a way of emancipatingthe human spirit. Each chapter is structured to maximize engagement with reflective exercises and learningactivities that encourage the integration of theory and practice into the learning process.

The first graduate text to address health literacy in the aging populationLow health literacy is a critical issue among adults, with over one third found to have difficulty understanding such basic information as that found on prescription bottles. This is the first graduate textbook to address key health literacy issues as they affect the health and wellbeing of the aging population. Embracing a topic spanning numerous disciplines, it features a dynamic, multicontextual systems approach and includes contributions from renowned scholars and practitioners in gerontology, public health, social work, nursing, and other related fields. The text emphasizes increasing health literacy among older adults through the use of technological tools and features, the most current research, and evidence-based programs and practices.The book provides expansive coverage of the intersection of technology and health literacy, highlighting innovative approaches and discussing how to use technology with resource-limited groups. The text gives special consideration to rural, impoverished, culturally diverse, and lowliteracy elders and presents gold standard intervention programs and models. Also covered are the policy implications of programs focusing on increasing health literacy and future directions for meeting the Healthy People 2020 initiative. Case studies, review questions, learning objectives, and supplemental PowerPoint presentations will reinforce learning.Key Features:Provides a one-of-a-kind, multidisciplinary survey of the key health literacy issues of older adultsFocuses on increasing health literacy across the disciplinesAddresses a priority area of Healthy People 2020Incorporates research and practice from gerontology, psychology, public health, social work, sociology, medicine, and nursingIncludes case studies, review questions, learning objectives, and PowerPoint slides for assisting instructors

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of theAmerican Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase forthe most significant current research on nursing history. Regularsections include scholarly articles, as well as reviews of the latestmedia and publications on nursing and healthcare history that haveappeared in the past year. Historians, researchers, and individualsfascinated with the rich field of nursing will find Nursing HistoryReview an important resource.The 29th volume of the review features a new section,"Hidden in Plain Sight," dedicated to highlighting nurses fromunderrepresented groups.Included in Volume 29:¿ Rethinking the Tulsa Race Riot¿ The Nurses of Ellis Island: Caring for the Huddled Masses¿ Different Stories, Similar Results: Urban and Rural Nursingin the First Half of the Twentieth Century¿ The Nursing of the All Saints Sisters¿ Those of Little Note: Enslaved Plantation "Sick Nurses"

This 36th volume in the Annual Review of Nursing Research series delves into the rapidly evolving area of health policy and nursing. The study of policy is not an academic discipline that one usually associates with research, much less nursing research. The study of policy began a century ago during the age of America's Progressive Movement. Since that time, the discipline has developed rigorous methods to analyze social problems related to policy and structure viable solutions to those problems

This unique text elucidates the relationship between global nursing and global health. It underscores the significance of nurses' contributions in furthering the post-2015 agenda of the United Nations regarding global health infrastructures and examines opportunities for nurses to promote the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to foster health and healthy environments worldwide. While past nursing literature has emphasized nursing's potential involvement and influence in the global arena, this is the first book to identify, validate, and promote nurses' proactive and multidimensional work in furthering current transnational goals for advancing health on a global scale.The book includes an introduction to global health; clarification of terms and roles; perspectives on education, research, and theory related to global nursing; a history of the partnership between the United Nations and the nursing profession; and an in-depth exploration of the 17 SDGs and relevant nursing tasks. It is based on recent and emerging developments in the transnational nursing community and establishes a holistic dialogue about opportunities for nurses to expand their roles as change agents in a global context. The personal reflections of contributors animate such topics as global health ethics, the role of caring in a sustainable world, creating a shared humanity, cultural humility, and many others.KEY FEATURES:Written by leading nurses from around the world, this unique text integrates international initiatives and describes a proactive nursing role in the future of global health.Organized into three units, the book opens with 10 key chapters that outline the importance of nursing in global health, education, and research, highlighting the history of the United Nations as it relates to the nursing profession and examining the legacy of Florence Nightingale.Unit II includes chapters devoted to each of the 17 SDGs and outlines succinctly how nurses can help effect them.

The official publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a peer-reviewed journal, published annually.

Designated a Doody's Core Title! Once you begin to read the book, you will not be able to put it down. [An] excellent guide for nursing faculty just getting started with simulations or faculty who are already using this pedagogy."" Pamela R. Jeffries, DNS, RN, FAAN, ANEF Associate Dean, Indiana University School of Nursing Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including live actors and static mannequins. This book also provides options for building a learning resource center, and offers guidance on faculty development. Additionally, the contributors present 17 exemplars of actual scenarios in multiple clinical areas, as well as testimonies of practicing faculty. Key Features: Numerous checklists, including health communication checklists, evaluation criteria checklists to assess student performance, and debriefing guidelines Forms to enhance the realness of the scenario, such as patient data forms, patient medication forms, and assessment tools Suggested readings, lists of skills necessary for scenario enactment, and websites for further research This book will encourage the development of critical thinking, reasoning, and judgment, and help to create a new generation of caring, competent, and confident practitioners.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the essentials of the Therapeutic Community (TC) theory and its practical "whole person" approach to the treatment of substance abuse disorders and related problems. Part I outlines the perspective of the traditional views of the substance abuse disorder, the substance abuser, and the basic components of this approach. Part II explains the organizational structure of the TC, its work components, and the role of residents and staff. The chapters in Part III describe the essential activities of TC life that relate most directly to the recovery process and the goals of rehabilitation. The final part outlines how individuals change in the TC behaviorally, cognitively, and emotionally. This is an invaluable resource for all addictions professionals and students.