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"The authors provide in-depth, accurate information, a compelling continuing case study that covers every step in the assessment process, a focus on diversity and health assessment through the lifespan. New features: focused/specialized assessments signaled with icons and introduced with explanatory text help differentiate between skills that are more specialized for specific settings. and communicating findings boxes that include brief biographical...
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This book includes the kinds of questions that consistently test the clinical judgment skills necessary to pass today's NCLEX exam. Even better, all answers include detailed rationales to help you learn from your answer choices as well as test-taking strategies with tips on how to best approach each question.
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Neither in my own nursing education at the B.S.N. nor at the M.S.N. level, was it even suggested, much less required, that I read any of Florence Nightingale's original writings. Even as a nurse educator for over 30 years, I did not require my students to read her writings either. After reading this book, I now believe it is a void in the education of a nurse not to read at least some of the writings of the founder of modern day nursing. Notes on...
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"This Fifth Edition is a comprehensive text that seamlessly integrates ethics across the nursing curriculum. Going beyond the evolving laws and policies affecting nursing practice today, the Fifth Edition focuses on the complex and provocative ethical dilemmas that students and nurses may face throughout the lifespan of a patient while also offering complete coverage of everyday ethical matters. This new edition will also include an appendix focused...
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A multi-part model exam plus many shorter tests in each of this book's chapters will give nursing school applicants the review and test preparation they need before they take an actual nursing school entrance exam. Though entrance exams vary from one school to another, this manual offers comprehensive coverage of virtually all possible test topics. The book presents a detailed description of the nursing profession, its duties, responsibilities, and...
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"Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice, 9th Edition gives nursing students the understanding of nutrition theory and application to ensure effective client care across the life cycle and the health-illness continuum. Incorporating nutrition throughout the nursing care process, Susan Dudek's concise yet thorough text equips tomorrow's nurses with the latest evidence-based practices and recommendations to facilitate nutrition on the front lines...
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"This 9th edition of this award-winning book continues to offer fresh, new, readily accessible, and timely information regarding the most important and commonly used complementary therapies. These can be introduced to graduate and undergraduate nursing students in educational programs and used by entry level, more experienced and advanced practice nurses for professional practice and self-care. Credible information is needed to provide the safe and...
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"The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. Nurses work in a wide array of settings and practice at a range of professional levels. They are often the first and most frequent line of contact with people of all backgrounds and experiences seeking care and they represent the largest of the health care professions. A nation cannot...
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This third edition of "Introducing Pharmacology" provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the subject of pharmacology for nursing and healthcare students -- and anyone needing to refresh their knowledge of this important area. The third edition recognizes that many nursing and healthcare courses are now requiring students to engage with the subject at a higher level. Accordingly, this edition has been reinforced with more advanced pharmacology...
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Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country, and by the end of the shift, we have...
13) The locket
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A man unable to decide whether to marry is helped to reach a decision by a woman patient in an old people's home where he is a nurse. By the author of The Christmas Box.
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With an easy-to-read approach and unmatched learning resources, this text offers a clear, logical, and holistic approach to physical exams across the lifespan. A total of 1,200 illustrations, checklists of key exam steps, and practical insights ensure that you learn all the physical exam skills you need to know. Written by Carolyn Jarvis, an experienced educator and clinician, this gold standard in physical examination reflects what is going on in...
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"From the author of the highly acclaimed The Railwayman's Wife, called a "literary and literate gem" by Psychology Today, comes an emotionally resonant and profound new novel of two families, interconnected through the house that bears witness to their lives. When Elsie Gormley leaves the Brisbane house in which she has lived for more than sixty years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to establish their new life. As they settle in, Lucy and...
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"Apply the five patterns of knowing to improve nursing care! 'Knowledge development in nursing: theory and process, 11th edition' explores nursing theory and how it is related to nursing research and quality patient care. It examines the principles of knowledge development, using the patterns of knowing to help you develop sound clinical judgment. Each chapter begins with a 'Basics' section, which is followed by a 'Now that you know the basics' section...
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"After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boarding house. Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances,...
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About 900 questions in all -- including a 100-question, comprehensive exam at the end of the book and 150 unique questions online -- Approximately 44% alternate-format questions, including SATA, fill-in-the-blank, ordered response, chart/exhibit, hot spot, drag-and-drop, and graphic -- Detailed rationales for correct and incorrect responses -- Study and test-taking strategies with basic nursing theory and skills -- Introduction that focuses on how...