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Primary Care

  • 7th Edition
  • March 2, 2024
  • Terry Mahan Buttaro + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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There’s no better preparation for Nurse Practitioners and other adult primary care practitioners! Buttaro’s Primary Care: Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, 7th Edition provides the concise yet thorough information that you need in today's fast-paced, interprofessional, collaborative environment. With authorship reflecting both academic and clinical expertise, this comprehensive, evidence-based primary care text/reference shows you how to deliver effective, truly interdisciplinary health care. It covers every major adult disorder seen in the outpatient office setting and features a unique interprofessional collaborative approach with referral and “Red Flag” highlights and more. New to this edition are chapters on health equity, public health preparedness, endocannabinoids, and self-care.

Paediatrics and Medications: A Resource for Guiding Nurses in Medication Administration

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2024
  • Kerry Reid-Searl + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Unique resource on medication administration to support students and nursesThis handy new guide offers concise and specific information for nurses on preparing and administering medications for children in Australia and New Zealand.Unlike other medication administration textbooks, Paediatrics and Medications provides comprehensive information, tips and evidence-based strategies directly related to paediatric patients. Focusing on the ‘how to’ of safe medication administration for paediatric patients, this resource also includes a focus on health literacy considerations, techniques in play and other unique elements specifically related to children and their caregivers.This book is perfect for students undertaking paediatric nursing units of study, and is also highly clinically relevant across broader nursing practice.

Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques

  • 11th Edition
  • February 12, 2024
  • Anne G. Perry + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Track your performance of clinical nursing skills with this convenient resource! Skills Performance Checklists makes it easy to document and assess your proficiency in each of the more than 200 skills and procedures presented in the Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition text. Simply follow these checklists step by step, mark the completion of each step, then tear off the perforated pages to submit your work for evaluation. It’s an excellent tool for building and assessing essential nursing skills!

Les anticancéreux injectables en un coup d'oeil

  • 1st Edition
  • February 6, 2024
  • Valérie De Chabalier
  • French
  • Paperback
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La cancérologie est une discipline transversale en constante évolution qui implique la connaissance par l’infirmier des pathologies et des stratégies de prises en charge qui s’y rattachent.La mise en œuvre du raisonnement clinique, l’éducation thérapeutique du patient, les actes d’évaluation, de surveillance, de prévention et de soins sont au cœur desmissions de l’infirmier de cancérologie.Dans ce contexte diversifié, l’administration des anticancéreux injectables, qui repose en grande partie sur les infirmiers, nécessite une méthode de travail fiable et rigoureuse pour garantir la sécurité du patient et le respect des bonnes pratiques dans l’administration de ces prescriptions médicales complexes.Nous avons conçu ce guide pour fournir aux infirmiers qui exercent en oncologie les connaissances indispensables et une méthode de travail et d’analysereproductible, quels que soient le protocole et les molécules à administrer.Après un rappel des notions de base (définitions, repères, effets secondaires et gradation, évaluation, procédures, entretien patient, rôle infirmier), les différentesmolécules injectables sont présentées par ordre alphabétique sous forme de tableaux synthétiques et pédagogiques. L’information est ainsi facile d’accès, et permet une mise en pratique immédiate.Pour chaque anticancéreux injectable sont déclinés :• le mode d’action• l’indication• La prémédication• les modalités de passage et les surveillances• les précautions particulières• les effets secondairesUn glossaire vient compléter l’ouvrage.PUBLICCet ouvrage s’adresse à tous les infirmiers, professionnels ou étudiants, amenés à travailler dans un service d’oncologie.L’AUTEURValérie de Chabalier est cadre de santé en oncologie, CRLCC, à l’Institut Bergonié de Bordeaux, et impliquée dans l’encadrement pédagogique des nouveaux infirmiers.

80 concepts en Santé

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2024
  • Anne Muller
  • French
  • Paperback
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The Culture of Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 59-1
  • January 25, 2024
  • Kellie Bryant + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editors Kellie Bryant of Columbia University School of Nursing and Tiffani Chidume of Auburn University College of Nursing bring their considerable expertise to the topic of The Culture of Care. Although it has long been debated whether caring can be taught, guest editors and authors here examine best practices and strategies to provide optimal patient care. This issue will also address caring for special populations that face specific challenges and/or have been historically marginalized, with a focus on Black mothers and the LGBTQ+ community.

Mon stage infirmier en Gériatrie. Mes notes de stage IFSI

  • 1st Edition
  • January 25, 2024
  • Mouna Mouna
  • French
  • Other
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Fini le stress du premier jour de stage, cet ouvrage de fiches synthétiques vous propose toutes les connaissances indispensables pour intégrer les services de soin avec confiance et maîtriser les compétences à évaluer et les protocoles à respecter en fonction de chaque situation.Conçus par des Infirmier·es et médecins sur le terrain, chaque ouvrage se découpe en 6 parties : Connaître votre lieu de stage : Quelle famille de stage ? Comment est organisé le service ? Quels sont les grands services de cette spécialité en France ? Quels patients allez-vous rencontrer ? Quels professionnels allez-vous côtoyer ? Les compétences infirmières en lien avec les situations cliniques récurrentes et les prises en charge thérapeutiques ; Les prérequis en physiopathologie ; Les fiches pathologies déroulées selon un plan identique : définition, épidémiologie, étiologie, diagnostic, traitement et rubrique « conduite à tenir IDE » ; Les examens complémentaires les plus courants ; Tous les médicaments abordés dans l’ouvrage.En bonus Les fiches sont accompagnées de cartes mentalescorrespondant à la pathologie, vous permettant une mémorisation plus rapide grâce à la synthèse visuelledes informations importantes.Et enfin, les pages vierges « Mes notes de stage » en fin d’ouvrage vous offrent la possibilité de prendre vos propres notes.Cette collection vous accompagnera efficacement tout au long de votre stage. Au total, 15 spécialités sont proposées, couvrant la quasi-totalité des lieux de stage.

Care Trajectory Management

  • 1st Edition
  • January 23, 2024
  • Davina Allen
  • English
  • Paperback
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‘Care trajectory management’ refers to the work that nurses do to coordinate and organise patient care. It’s a relatively unseen element of the nursing role that is absolutely vital for patient safety and quality care.Care Trajectory Management for Nurses is the first ever textbook of its kind for nurse educators, practice facilitators and policy makers as well as undergraduate nurses. It is both a theoretical and practical resource covering the concepts and theories around the organisational components of nursing practice, derived the research of nurse academic Davina Allen.This excellent book will help prepare nurses to be the ‘glue’ in increasingly complex healthcare systems, and provides an excellent foundation for embedding this important subject into student curricula.

Statistics for Nursing Research

  • 4th Edition
  • January 20, 2024
  • Susan K. Grove + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Get the review and practice you need to critically appraise the statistical methods used in published research! Statistics for Nursing Research, 4th Edition helps you understand and interpret statistical methods, sampling and measurement techniques, and statistical analysis techniques. This unique and practical workbook is divided into two parts to differentiate between basic and advanced statistical methods, with dozens of hands-on exercises that will help you practice working with the statistical methods needed for building an evidence-based practice. This workbook is an indispensable resource for any nursing student or practicing nurse wishing to gain competency in conducting statistical analyses.

Case Studies in LPN/LVN Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • January 18, 2024
  • Janis McMillan
  • English
  • Paperback
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Gain valuable experience applying your knowledge and critical thinking skills to real-world scenarios! Case Studies in LPN/LVN Nursing features 50 case studies that cover all clinical areas of practice: fundamental skills, medical-surgical adult health nursing, pediatric, maternity, mental health, geriatric nursing, and leadership management. Patient scenarios help you learn how to apply nursing knowledge to nursing practice by promoting the development of critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. Cases integrate content on assessment findings, diagnostic/laboratory tests, pharmacology, and nutrition to encourage you to think critically about all aspects of patient care, including the physical and psychosocial needs of the patient, communication, collaboration with the health care team, teaching wellness and health promotion, and integration of cultural competence. Cases unfold as care is provided and a variety of multiple-choice, select-all-that-apply, prioritization, and short-answer questions challenge you to formulate and select relevant and/or potential decisions. The case studies are separated by clinical area, allowing you to use this worktext throughout your nursing program. Questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN) prepare you for the biggest change to the NCLEX-PN® test plan to date. Answer keys are available to instructors on our accompanying Evolve website.