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Amazon.com Books: Professional Nursing
Now in its Seventh Edition, this broad-based text addresses the philosophical, developmental, theoretical, accountability, care delivery, and leadership issues encountered by professional nurses throughout a lifetime career. The book outlines the multidimensional roles that encompass professional nursing practice. This edition includes key updated information regarding the influence of nurses in public policy formation, changes in health care delivery, multicultural issues in professional practice, and nursing practice implications of new advances in technology, management, and nursing research. Clinical vignettes based on real-life scenarios illustrate key concepts in each chapter while offering an opportunity to prepare for future professional challenges. From Theory to Practice questions offer a way to link key chapter points to daily practice. To stimulate critical thinking and classroom discussion, Questions for Reflection are interspersed throughout each chapter. Research Briefs appear in chapters when applicable to promote the use of research in clinical practice. Updated Internet exercises provide current online resources to expand knowledge related to each chapter. Author: Lucy Jane Hood Paperback: 640 pages Company: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2009-09-29) ISBN: 0781792487 List Price: $61.95 Amazon Price: $39.00 Used Price: $27.79 
This easy-to-read text introduces you to the issues and trends you're likely to encounter in any nursing practice setting. Each stand-alone chapter introduces and explores a specific topic and gives insightful discussions of issues such as the health care delivery system, professionalization in nursing, standards and scope of practice, socialization and nursing theories surrounding the profession, and political action facing nurses. Evidence-based Practice boxes offer insight and highlight research that affects patient care.Case studies allow you to put information from the text into practice. Critical thinking questions and challenges guide you to apply chapter-relevant information to scenarios and envision a personal philosophy of nursing. Interviews with practicing nurses focus your attention on pertinent information throughout the text. Cultural Consideration Challenges help you develop cultural sensitivity and familiarize you with cultural influences. News Notes tie information from the text to real-life nursing situations Historical notes emphasize chapter content by providing interesting side notes about the changes in nursing practice. Updated content on topics such as the socialization of nursing, nursing activism, evidence-based practice, and nursing education degree programs, ensures that you have the most up-to-date and relevant information for your career. A variety of student activities for each chapter on the Evolve companion website help you apply topics presented in the text. 
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Professional Nursing Concepts: Competencies for Quality Leadership takes a patient-centered, traditional approach to the topic of nursing education and professional development. This dynamic text engages students in recognizing the critical role that nurses play in healthcare delivery. Divided into four sections, this text has a unique framework and exclusively covers the Institute of Medicine s (IOM) five core competencies on quality and healthcare for all healthcare professionals. The first section introduces students to the history of the nursing profession, and covers such topics as nursing education, regulation, and accreditation. Section two explores the healthcare context in which nursing is practiced including continuum of care, health promotion, disease prevention, and illness, nursing ethics, and the nurse s role in health policy. The third section focuses on each of the five core competencies set forth by the IOM, and the final section focuses on the practice of nursing today and in the future particularly exploring the critical issue of the nursing shortage and the transformation of nursing practice.Author: Anita Finkelman, Carole Kenner Paperback: 584 pages Company: Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2009-01-14) ISBN: 0763754129 List Price: $67.95 Amazon Price: $24.58 Used Price: $21.71 
This engagingly written text offers nursing students comprehensive ideas and perspectives that are basic to the practice of contemporary nursing. Each chapter focuses on a foundational area of study and explores the central concepts, relevant issues, dilemmas, and debates. It presents a broad-range of professional issues, ranging from a brief history of nursing in the U.S., research and legal issues, to an introduction to nursing organizations and regulatory bodies. Paperback: 376 pages Company: Springer Publishing Company (2005-02-18) ISBN: 0826125549 List Price: $62.00 Amazon Price: $40.00 Used Price: $6.00 
An ideal choice for anyone who wants to gain a professional edge in the world of nursing today, the latest edition of this popular book introduces you to the issues and trends you're likely to encounter in any practice setting. Each stand-alone chapter introduces and explores a specific topic, enabling them to be read in any order. You'll find insightful discussions of professionalization in nursing, standards and scope of practice, socialization and nursing theories surrounding the profession, critical thinking, research and evidence-based practice, the health care delivery system, and professional associations and political action facing nurses. Additionally, thought provoking questions, practical strategies, real-life scenarios, self-assessments, and personal viewpoints and interviews help you extend and apply the ideas presented.Critical Thinking Challenges and self-development activities help you develop your applied knowledge skills, guide your professional socialization initiatives, and envision your personal philosophy of nursing.Case studies identify the professional behaviors demonstrated, in a column adjacent to that behavior mentioned in the text.Interviews with established and respected professional nurses offer their perspectives on current issues facing the nursing profession today.Evidence-Based Practice Notes offer descriptions of relevant studies to show the importance of evidence-based practice and insights that nursing research provides.News Notes compile excerpts from general press resources to illustrate public perceptions of nurses and the nursing profession.Where appropriate, historical notes supplement and enhance chapter content.Updated content throughout includes discussions on collective bargaining, the status of the Nursing Doctorate Degree, the faculty shortage, nursing theorists, evidence-based practice, critical thinking, spirituality and caring, and death and dying.Additional content has been added to this edition on Aiken studies, the impact of computerized records, alternative/complementary care, Bloom's taxonomy to domains of learning, crisis intervention, adult teaching learning principles, delegation and stress, and the Patient Self-Determination Act.Cultural Consideration Challenges weave a common thread of cultural diversity throughout the book for sensitive patient care.Additional clinical examples throughout help improve your understanding of concepts.Bolded key terms integrated into the narrative of every chapter familiarize you with terminology presented in the context of the discussion.A revised glossary includes additional words and phrases beyond the key terms in each chapter, to improve your general understanding.Author: Kay Kittrell Chitty RN EdD CS, Beth Perry Black RN MSN PhD Paperback: 512 pages Company: Saunders (2007-03-28) ISBN: 1416044736 List Price: $59.95 Amazon Price: $5.00 Used Price: $0.12 
Completely updated in a new sixth edition, this book provides knowledge of the historical, theoretical, ethical, and legal foundations of professional nursing. This resource explores the changing health care system especially related to health care economics, nursing in a culture of violence, and nursing in a culturally and spiritually diverse world. Also included is a chapter on returning to school after already practicing nursing in the field. The book serves as a refresher for topics and issues previously covered in nursing school, but also addresses issues that nurses will face in their new professional practice. This book is an excellent resource for professionals in the nursing field and is specifically designed the transition from RN-to-BSN. These are professionals that have their RN, but are returning for their BSN to further advance their careers. Author: Kathleen Koernig Blais, Janice S. Hayes Paperback: 504 pages Company: Prentice Hall (2010-06-04) ISBN: 0135080908 List Price: $57.20 Amazon Price: $39.68 Used Price: $31.10 
Conceptual Foundations: The Bridge to Professional Nursing Practice, 5th Edition provides the background you need to succeed in your role as a professional nurse. It discusses the concepts that define the nursing profession, covering everything from the history of nursing to current challenges in the profession. Expert educators Joan L. Creasia, PhD, RN, and Elizabeth E. Friberg, MSN, RN, bring together the best minds of nursing for an in-depth look at the profession's major theories, practices, and principles. Vignettes, each written by a practicing nurse, open each chapter with a specific scenario and application of professional behaviors. Critical Thinking Exercises at the end of each chapter help you to use and apply what you've learned. Objectives at the beginning of each chapter provide a framework for study. Key points at the end of each chapter help you focus on important information. New Patient Safety chapter prepares you for expanded nursing responsibility for patient safety, adherence to regulatory requirements of the Joint Commission, and the implementation of best practices to create health care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered. New Genetics and Genomics in Professional Nursing chapter defines the nurse's role in family history assessment and genetic testing, explains how genetic testing is used in clinical practice, and identifies ethical issues related to this emerging practice. Author: Joan L. Creasia PhD RN, Elizabeth E. Friberg DNP RN Paperback: 464 pages Company: Mosby (2010-09-23) ISBN: 0323068693 List Price: $64.95 Amazon Price: $35.88 Used Price: $35.77 
Using an approach that fosters critical thinking and values clarification, this textbook examines the full range of professional issues facing contemporary nursing. Coverage includes critical issues such as the nursing shortage, mandatory staffing ratios, violence in nursing, legal and ethical issues, plus the latest HIPAA regulations, career advancement and evaluations, and best practices for today and the future. This edition includes a broader discussion of the Clinical Nurse Leader, expanded discussion of generational diversity, a new chapter on simulation as a training/education tool, new models of distance education, updated information on importing international nurses, and new material on the Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) debate as entry for advanced practice nurses. Author: Carol J. Huston Paperback: 528 pages Company: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2009-06-01) ISBN: 1605473952 List Price: $61.95 Amazon Price: $46.00 Used Price: $31.99 
Advance your career to the next level of professional practice with the guidance you ll find in the New Edition of this popular text. Here are all the concepts you need to progress from RN to BSN and beyond from new and timely topics such as quantum physics and genomics and how they are influencing the delivery of care to domestic violence and the potential impact of bioterrorism. Carefully constructed interactive exercises in the book and on the web help you to use all of your current knowledge to master the theories that are changing nursing practice today...and help you to apply them in the real world. Perfect for both classroom-based and online courses!Author: Dr Rose Kearney-Nunnery Paperback: 576 pages Company: F.A. Davis Company (2008-03-21) ISBN: 0803618271 List Price: $49.95 Amazon Price: $34.50 Used Price: $20.94 |
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Amazon.com DVD: professional nursing
This 17 minute video shows the steps needed to perform two major parts of the neurologic examination: assessment of mental status and cranial nerves. With the patient seated, it demonstrates how to evaluate the patient's general appearance and behavior, cognitive abilities, emotional stability, and speech and language skills as well as the functioning of all twelve pairs of cranial nerves, using the appropriate equipment. The video shows expected findings in healthy adults and presents variations in assessment techniques and expected findings in pediatric and geriatric patients.Animations and overlays demonstrate content and processes that cannot be shown on video (e.g., organs under the skin, lymph nodes, abdomen, pregnancy, transillumination of the sinuses, hydrocele, or scrotal cyst)A booklet is provided with each video, containing overviews and outlines, learning objectives, discussion topics, and review questions with answersCompletely redone normal physical examination contentExamination content is more fast-paced and streamlined for a more contemporary lookMore culture, age, and gender variations are featured to reflect a diverse populationLifespan considerations are depicted throughout, with variations in assessment for pediatric and geriatric patients Author: Henry M. Seidel MD, Jane W. Ball RN DrPH CPNP DPNAP, Joyce E. Dains DrPH JD RN FNP BC DPNAP, G. William Benedict MD PhD DVD: NTSC Company: Mosby ISBN: 0323035116 List Price: $500.00 Amazon Price: $510.34 Used Price: $487.65 
Author: Thomson Delmar LearningDVD: NTSC Company: Delmar Cengage Learning (2004-09-15) ISBN: 140183499X List Price: $228.95 Amazon Price: $197.50 Used Price: $197.50 ![Trauma and You and Me [Trauma Series Course 8028/Applied Courseware for Radiology, Nursing, and Allied Health Professionals] VHS VIDEO](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51crpc9ANtL._SL160_.jpg)
(1 VHS Video) Live class presentation conducted by Jim Lund and Sue Lund, North Dakota Society of Radiologic Technologists. This presentation covers a very brief history of trauma EMT and ambulance workers. The main presentation deals with patient care by EMT/ambulance workers in the field. The trauma and mechanism of injury in motor vehicle accidents and what to expect when you get to an accident: pre-crash, crash, and post crash phases.VHS Tape: Company: EduMed Corporation (1999) List Price: $99.00 Amazon Price: Used Price: $34.99 
Director: Syd MacCartneyAmazon Instant Video: Company: (2011-06-07) List Price: Amazon Price: $3.99 
Author: Not Available (NA)DVD: Company: Delmar Cengage Learning (2004-09-15) ISBN: 1401835058 List Price: $228.95 Amazon Price: $90.00 Used Price: $197.45 ![Assessing Fluids and Electrolytes [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41OTUXidMJL._SL160_.jpg)
This video covers homeostasis and third-space shifting; assessing for edema, dehydration, and acid-base imbalance; monitoring electrolytes (potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, and chloride); identifying patients at risk for imbalance; and key signs and symptoms.VHS Tape: NTSC Company: Springhouse Publishing Co ,U.S. ISBN: 0874341981 List Price: $42.95 Amazon Price: $3.24 Used Price: $3.23
Author: Not Available (NA)DVD: Company: Delmar Cengage Learning (2004-09-15) ISBN: 1401835066 List Price: $228.95 Amazon Price: $90.00 Used Price: $194.38 
A complete full-color overview of obesity surgery -- written by the field's foremost experts A Doody's Core Title for 2011! Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice brings together the top minds in the discipline who, collectively, deliver a benchmark reference that will prove indispensable for general and bariatric surgeons and residents. In page after page, the book's esteemed editors take you step by step through the very latest, most advanced surgical techniques and clinical protocols. Using full color throughout, this logically organized guide begins with an insightful look at the general principles of obesity surgery--one that provides a vital theoretical framework for subsequent chapters. The next sections of the book offer an in-depth review of surgical procedures and postoperative management that no other text can match. Features: Unequaled coverage that delivers an up-to-date, comprehensive survey of today's obesity surgery practice Valuable, skill-building insights that reflect the expertise of an international pool of editors and authors in the field of bariatric surgery Focus on topics not covered in other books, including Surgery in Adolescents, Cost Analysis of Laparoscopic versus Open Surgery, and Surgery in the “Super Obese” Unique DVD with videoclips of critical need-to-know procedures Full-color art program to clarify surgical protocols (20081118)Author: Cid Pitombo, Kenneth Jones, Kelvin Higa, Jose Pareja DVD: NTSC Company: McGraw-Hill Professional ISBN: 0071482814 List Price: $195.00 Amazon Price: $21.00 Used Price: $15.34 ![Therapeutic Touch: Healing Through Human Energy Fields - A 3 VHS Video Course for Health Care Professionals [3 VHS Videos]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514kAGnpYDL._SL160_.jpg)
3 VHS Video Set. Therapeutic Touch: Healing Through Human Energy Fields. I: Theory and Research. II: The Method III: Clinical Applications. Therapeutic Touch, an intervention practiced by thousands of nurses worldwide, is being promoted by some as a unique contribution to the new "science of healing." Others see it as nothing more than a timeworn technique rooted in a mystical mix of Eastern/occult philosophies. Significantly, Therapeutic Touch is one of the most visible examples of an increased acceptance of psychic healing in health care. Therapeutic Touch has been taught as a required or elective part of the curriculum in over 80 colleges and universities, with research-based and popular anecdotal articles abounding in nursing journals. These three VHS videos will help you to understand the method and how it can be used in clinical applications. Could also be an excellent tool for those individuals interested in learning more about various healing arts.VHS Tape: Color Company: National League for Nursing (1993) List Price: $225.00 Amazon Price: Used Price: $59.95
Author: Not Available (NA)DVD: Company: Delmar Cengage Learning (2004-09-15) ISBN: 1401835007 List Price: $228.95 Amazon Price: $197.50 Used Price: $197.50 |
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