San Antonio College Library

Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice, Fourth Edition, integrates the concept of nursing ethics across the curriculum by preparing students and professionals for the moral issues encountered in practice....

Critical Conversations provides direction and solutions for deficits in healthcare that exist in verbal and non-verbal communication as well as scripting tool kits that can be applied in various situations and health care settings between nurses and colleagues and nurses and patients. Each chapter features dos and don'ts, reflective questions, and practical tools. Whether you are a new nurse at the bedside or the CNO of a major healthcare facility,...

" ... From Suffering to Hope takes a new approach to educating psychiatric nurses, teaching them how to guide patients from a place of despair to a new beginning. Students will learn to speak like a competent, caring nurse and communicate effectively and compassionately with their patients. A unique chart outlines what patients might be thinking, feeling, and perceiving during encounters with patients, enabling nurses to facilitate more useful discussions...

"Advances in information technologies, changes in societal demographics, and a greater emphasis on interdisciplinary teams to deliver quality and individualized health care necessitate astute listening and interpersonal skills. Nurse-Client Communication presents an overview of effective communication and its influence on therapeutic relationships across the life span."--Jacket.

"A Contemporary Nursing Process re-envisions the practice of nursing by configuring caring in terms of the person the nurse cares for. Locsin and Purnell stress the importance of knowing the patient, and differentiating the person from the disease. This text addresses this highly relevant issue, and provides a wealth of insight on how to care for the patient on a personal level, while still professionally administering clinical treatment."--Publisher's...

"The text explores the history of nursing rituals and the symbols, meanings and overall usefulness nursing rituals can convey to the profession today. These rituals--marking the sacred and profane of nursing--serve functions both practical and social and offer a window into the art of nursing that runs beneath the surface. Not only does the book examine rituals that take place in nurse-to-patient direct care situations, in nurse-to-nurse relationships,...

"The seventh edition of this highly acclaimed book continues to deliver evidence-based practice guidelines for the use of complementary and alternative therapies in nursing. It is the only book about complementary/alternative therapies that is focused on nursing, has chapters that examine specific therapies along with guidance for their implementation, and addresses therapies through a cultural/international lens. It reflects the rapid expansion of...

"This book contains a collection of true stories from ordinary nurses, about ordinary patients, and the ordinary miracles that occur when they come together. Illustrating the routine acts nurses perform to improve the lives of their patients, the stories span a myriad of patients and settings."--Jacket