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This is a unique, innovative professional nursing ethics textbook designed specifically for all practicing nurses and to meet the educational needs of all nursing students, including RN to BSN and RN to MSN students. Written by experts in the field, it discusses ethical concepts relevant to the registered nurse who has practiced for several years but is learning higher level concepts and applications. This text addresses different areas of professional...
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"Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Fourth Edition focuses on caring for the elderly by employing a holistic and interdisciplinary approach. The text follows the framework of the core competencies for baccalaureate nursing education published by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. This framework is structured to ensure nursing students attain the recommended...
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This comprehensive text helps you develop the critical knowledge, skills, and behaviors to succeed as an entry-level medical assistant. Now featuring a streamlined organization for greater effectiveness, the text maintains the easy-to-understand, proven format that has made it a perpetual favorite. The new edition includes an updated, thorough introduction to the structure and function of body systems; the latest information on nutrition, the Affordable...
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"This practical guide explores professional values in nursing, helping you to develop safe, compassionate, person-centred and evidence-based practice. The fundamental values of equality, anti-discriminatory practice and caring are discussed throughout. Chapters explore person-centred and holistic nursing care. They discuss working in partnership with people and families and working in partnership within the interprofessional team. The book explores...
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Every day, hospital nurses must negotiate intimate trust and intimate conflict in an effort to provide quality health care. However, interactions between nurses and patients - which often require issues of privacy - are sometimes made more uncomfortable with inappropriate behaviour, as when a patient has a racist and/or sexist outburst. Not all nurses are prepared to handle such intimacy, but they can all learn how to "be caring." In Catheters, Slurs,...
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"This book is undertaken to: 1. Provide a conceptual and historical description of EI as a concept and its application to nursing practice. 2. In a very specific and granular manner, illustrate use of EI abilities across various aspects of nursing practice (see chapter titles for these aspects). 3. Describe the current evolution of the body of nurse EI research, including a summary of both the existing evidence and opportunities for future.research....
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"Many faculty members struggle as they watch students who were successful in school become discouraged upon entering clinical practice. The questions become, 'Who is failing?' and 'What can be done to better prepare novoice nurses for the reality of today's nursing field?' Author and educator Leslie Neal-Boylan asks hard questions about why students who succeed academically may fail in nursing jobs. Both faculty members and students will find insight...
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In this nursing education text that can also be used for inservice training, readers step through a number of scenarios that explain how critical thinking (CT) works and how it applies to the profession. It covers the basic theories behind critical thinking, profiles those who use CT, such as clinicians and educators, explains why critical thinking is important and how it relates to patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, informatics, and...
13) Quality caring in nursing and health systems: implications for clinicians, educators, and leaders
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Quality Caring in Nursing and Health Systems, Third Edition delivers a detailed framework of the Quality Caring Model©, a theory that analyzes the relationships among the self, the community served, patients and families, and the health care team. As the population requiring healthcare increases, so does the room for error and the demand for patient-centered care. The health system, focused on procedures, protocols, technology, and lower costs, continues...
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"This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal system. The only truly integrated text in the field, it opens with overviews of law and nursing, and ethical theories and nursing. It goes on to explore key...
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This book is a compendium of case studies on patient safety, told from the perspective of the patient and the family. The text illustrates 24 stories of preventable health care errors that led to irreparable patient harm. The reader is guided through an analysis of the events, eliciting lessons learned and strategies for preventing similar events in the future. Learning objectives for each case facilitate the reader's development of a set of core...
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