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Presents a multitude of practice examples to help critical care students and practitioners grasp and excel at key concepts of 12-Lead EKG and dysrhythmia interpretation. This straightforward resource is ideal for new graduates and nurses who are considering a switch to critical or acute care.

Provides readers an understanding of how improving access to healthy foods at individual, local, regional and global levels as well as improving food security and sustainability can improve community health and combat non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases, malnutrition, obesity, social injustice, and debilitating food environments.

Features a new intersectional approach to assessment and treatment and interweaves the perspectives of psychologists. Focusing on critical emerging issues in regard to multicultural families, the fourth edition of this popular book reflects fundamental issues surrounding assessment and treatment of families from diverse cultural backgrounds.

This clinically oriented guide to nursing care during childbirth is distinguished by its strong focus on evidence-based practice as well as its engaging style and user-friendly format. It reviews the nursing process from admission to delivery focusing on proper surveillance and care, comprehensive data acquisition, interpretation, and teamwork.

The only current text to critically examine the vast array of legal and ethical matters confronting nursing faculty in classroom and clinical settings. Filled with practical advice from experts, this text guides the reader through legal and ethical principles, analyses of relevant case-based scenarios, and practical recommendations.

Delivers evidence-based teaching strategies that educators can use to engage nursing students and enhance their learning in a variety of teaching environments. The book provides a wealth of new teaching designs faculty can use to inspire and motivate learners in the classroom, through simulation, online, and in community or hospital settings.

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.

Addresses the influence that nurses have on environmental health. This volume contains research, education, advocacy, and practice-based articles that provide nurses with a primer on this growing issue, as well as the information needed to provide capable care while supporting environmentally healthy solutions.

Written for the soon-to-be, novice, or adjunct counselor educator, this is an accessible, practical guide to preparing and teaching a graduate counseling course from start to finish. Authored by skilled counselor educators, the book proffers their hard-earned wisdom to help new faculty confidently take over the role of instructor.

This compilation of stories from more than 40 diverse nurse leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs portrays the winding and demanding paths that every nurse has braved in order to improve themselves, their patients' care, and the healthcare of today.

A comprehensive case-based text combining essential quality management knowledge with real-world scenarios. With in-depth healthcare quality management case studies, tools, activities, and discussion questions, the text will help build the competencies needed to succeed in quality management.

The ultimate resource for all students and practitioners seeking the professional credential and committed to lifelong learning and career growth in public health. Covering over 150 topic areas, each chapter introduces the key words and core objectives of each domain area to frame the goals of the CPH exam.

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.

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 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

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.