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Davis's Q&A for the NCLEX-RN Examination
by Kathleen A. Ohman Prepare for your nursing exams with the newest resource available.
This book and accompanying CD-ROM allows you to design your own practice tests based on your nursing
knowledge and skills. |
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The Nurse Leader Handbook: The Art and Science of Nurse Leardership
by Studer Group Coaches, nurse leaders and other health care professionals share their
insights into the complexities of balancing personnel management and exceptional patient care. |
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Advanced Cardiac Life Support: A Guide for Nurses (2nd ed.)
edited by Phil Jevon In the event of an adult cardiac arrest, it is essential to be able
to respond rapidly, providing safe and effective care. This new and updated edition of provides the
theoretical background to resuscitation as well as explaining the essential resuscitation skills
required to manage an adult cardiac arrest—from the time it occurs until subsequent transfer
to the ICU. |
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Medical Terminology Made Incredibly Easy (3rd ed.) Medical Terminology Made Incredibly Easy contains
everything nurses and other health care practitioners need to promote real understanding and retention
of "must-know" medical terminology. |
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Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice (6th ed.)
by Susan G. Dudek The Sixth Edition of this nursing-focused nutrition text
has been updated to reflect the latest evidence-based practice and nutrition recommendations
and streamlined to emphasize what the nurse really needs to know. |
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Study Guide to Accompany Drug Therapy in Nursing (2nd ed.)
by Diane S. Aschenbrenner and Samantha J. Venable This Study Guide is designed to reinforce the content of Drug Therapy in Nursing, Third Edition. |
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Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Case Studies, Research, and Nursing Care (2nd ed.)
by Cheryl Tatano Beck Designed for clinicians delivering postpartum care, including clinicians,
midwives, OB-GYN nurse practitioners, and women's health practitioners, this text overviews the six different
mood and anxiety disorders that may present during a woman's postpartum year. |
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Nursing Care of the Woman Receiving Regional Analgesia/Anesthesia in Labor: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline
by AWHONN "Expansion of the information about perianesthesia nursing care of the pregnant
woman in AWHONN's Standards and Guidelines for Professional Nursing Practice in the Care of Women and
Newborns, 5th edition (AWHONN, 1998)". |
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Late Preterm Infant Assessment Guide (2nd ed.)
by Debbie Fraser Askin, et al. Published by the Association of Women's Health Obstetric and Neonatal
Nurses, this book describes in detail the care for late preterm infants. Enhances health care providers
and parents' awareness of risk associated with late preterm infants. |
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Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care (6th ed.)
edited by Gerald B. Merenstein, Sandra L. Gardner Since it first published, the Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care
has been the mainstay reference for neonatal nurses. |
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Perioperative Safety
edited by Donna S. Watson All aspects of safety are covered ranging from medication use and
infection prevention to coverage of staff. Watson, a leading expert in the field, outlines the latest
safety strategies. |
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Our Image, Our Choice: Perspectives On Shaping, Empowering, And Elevating The Nursing Profession
edited by Shelley Cohen and Kathleen Bartholomew This unique book brings you a historical assessment of the current
image of nursing, as well as practical strategies you and your staff can use to elevate your image
from focusing on the ethics of nursing to professional communication with patients, physicians, and
peers. |
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Nursing Pathways for Patient Safety
by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing,
Expert Panel on Practice Breakdown With a wealth of helpful guidelines and assessment tools, Nursing
Pathways for Patient Safety makes it easy to identify the causes of practice breakdowns and to
reduce health care errors. |
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Nurse To Nurse: Nursing Management
by Linda J. Knodel Nurse to Nurse: Nursing Management goes beyond theory
and academic discussion to provide real-world solutions to the management problems nurse-managers
face today. |
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Acute Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses
edited by Angela M. Kucia, Tom Quinn Acute Cardiac Care provides nurses with a
comprehensive understanding of the current practice and principles underlying the care
and management of acute cardiac conditions. |
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Cardiac Nursing
edited by Susan L. Woods, et al. Woods is considered "the" reference book for nurses caring
for patients who have or are at risk for developing cardiac disease. Known as "the red book,"
this indispensable reference for cardiac and critical care nurses working with cardiac patients
provides both basic and advanced content in evidence-based care. |
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Maternal-Newborn Nursing: The Critical Components of Nursing Care
by Linda Chapman, Roberta F. Durham This is a better way to learn maternal and newborn nursing!
This unique multi-media package presents tightly focused coverage in a highly structured book
of 500 pages plus 10 hours of recorded content. |
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Nursing the Neonate (2nd ed.)
edited by Maggie Meeks, Maggie Hallsworth Written by a multidisciplinary team of medical and nursing
experts, this fully-updated second edition provides evidence-based coverage of all frequently
seen neonatal conditions. |
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Pediatric Nursing Demystified
by Joyce Y. Johnson, James Keogh If you're looking for a fun, fast review that boils pediatric
nursing down to its most essential, must-know points your search ends here! Pediatric Nursing
Demystified is a complete yet concise overview of all the important pediatric nursing concepts
and the disorders that most often afflict infants to adolescents. |
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Advanced Cardiac Life Support: A Guide for Nurses (2nd ed.)
by Phil Jevon In the event of an adult cardiac arrest, it is essential to
be able to respond rapidly, providing safe and effective care. This new and updated edition of
provides the theoretical background to resuscitation as well as explaining the essential
resuscitation skills required to manage an adult cardiac arrest- from the time it occurs until
subsequent transfer to the ICU. |
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New Nurse's Survival Guide
by Genevieve E. Chandler Packed with real-life examples and indispensable advice from
novice nurses and staff development experts, New Nurse's Survival Guide is the single
best book available on how to get the job you want and become the nurse you aspire to be after
you graduate from nursing school. |
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Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management (2nd ed.)
by Patricia Kelly Text covering issues and trends in nursing, including:
delegation, personal career development, time management, motivation, communication, and
conflict resolution. |
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Competency-Based Nursing Education: Guide to Achieving Outstanding Learner Outcomes
by Marion G. Anema, Jan Mccoy This book is designed as a resource for nurse educators
who are responsible for diverse education programs. |
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Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation
editied by Patricia Benner This book represents a call to arms, a call for nursing educators
and programs to step up in our preparation of nurses. |
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Teaching IOM: Implications of the Institute of Medicine
Reports For Nursing Education (2nd ed.)
by Anita Finkelman, Carole Kenner This edition describes 20 key IOM reports (though 2009) relevance to nursing. |
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CCRN Certification Examination Review Course
by Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio Provided as review of necessary information prior to taking
CCRN nursing certification exam. Contains practice test questions and answers. |
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Nurse As Educator: Principles of Teaching and
Learning For Nursing Practice (3rd ed.)
edited by Susan B. Bastable Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for
Nursing Practice prepares nurse educators, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners
for their ever-increasing roles in patient teaching, health education, health promotion, and nursing
education. |
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Perianesthesia Nursing Core Curriculum: Preprocedure,
Phase I and Phase II, PACU Nursing (2nd ed.)
edited by Lois Schick, Pamela E. Windle
(American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses) Coverage of both in-hospital and ambulatory care make this
text the perfect text for any care setting. Plus, new chapters on bariatric care and postoperative
and postdischarge nausea and vomiting and the newest guidelines in all key clinical areas keep you
up to date with the latest advances and concerns in the field. |
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Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing (3rd ed.)
edited by Susan Mattson, Judy E. Smith Presents essential knowledge required in today's maternal-newborn
nursing practice. |
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Essentials of Perioperative Nursing (4th ed.)
by Cynthia Spry Gives new perioperative nurses a head start on achieving
perioperative competency, as well as serving as an excellent refresher for the experienced
nurse. |
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Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare (3rd ed.)
by Immy Holloway, Stephanie Wheeler The third edition of this successful book incorporates
recent developments in nursing research, with updates to every chapter. Abstract ideas
in qualitative research are clearly explained and more complex theories are included. |
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Improving Health through Nursing Research
edited by William L. Holzemer Improving Health through Nursing Research is a
practical guide to research and research utilization in nursing. The book draws upon
international expertise in nursing research, reflecting the worldwide demand for evidence-based
practice. |
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Introduction to Nursing Research: Incorporating
Evidence-Based Practice (2nd ed.)
edited by Carol Boswell, Sharon Cannon Introduction to Nursing Research: Incorporating Evidence
Based Practice Second Edition teaches students how to incorporate research into their daily
practice, while incorporating all the newest trends and issues, with a focus on evidence based
practice. |
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Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing Research (2nd ed.)
by Denise F. Polit The second edition of Statistics and Data Analysis for
Nursing, uses a conversational style to teach students how to use statistical methods and
procedures to analyze research findings. |
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Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing
Client Care Across the Life Span (8th ed.)
by Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr More than just a book of Med-Surg care plans thoroughly
revised and updated, this all-in-one resource continues to provide the step-by-step guidance
readers need to develop individualized plans of care, while also honing their critical thinking
and analytical skills. |
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Nurses' Guide to Clinical Procedures (6th ed.)
by Jean Smith-Temple, Joyce Young Johnson Now completely revised and updated, this quick-reference,
pocket-sized handbook features a nursing process format with clear, step-by-step guidelines.
It presents more than 200 common nursing skills in a readable, practical style. |
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Fetal Heart Monitoring: Principles and Practices (4th ed.)
edited by Audrey Lyndon and Linda Usher Ali An indispensable resource for every perinatal setting and
perinatal nurse's library. Information is presented using a physiologic approach to fetal
heart monitoring to assist nurses and other health care providers in developing a systematic
and consistent approach to fetal heart monitoring. |
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Nursing Theorists and Their Work (7th ed.)
edited by Martha Raile Alligood, Ann Marriner Tomey This book serves as a model or a paradigm: it represents
the notion of theory to students, and provides an induction into what, for the nursing
literature, counts as theoretical discourse. |
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Nursing Theory: Utilization & Application (4th ed.)
edited by Martha Raile Alligood With a consistent focus on application throughout, Nursing
Theory covers the development of nursing theory; the application of different nursing theories,
models and philosophies; and the expansion of these practices with a look toward the future. |
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Nursing Knowledge: Science, Practice, and Philosophy
by Mark Risjord Nurses who conduct research have a longstanding interest in
questions of nursing knowledge. Nursing Knowledge is a clear and well-informed exposition
of the philosophical background to nursing theory and research. |
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Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Nursing (6th ed.)
edited by Mariah Snyder, Ruth Lindquist Now in its sixth edition, this highly acclaimed book continues to provide nurses
with cutting-edge research and practice guidelines for complementary and alternative therapy. |
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Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective
Nurse-Physician Communication
by Kathleen Bartholomew Both witty and entertaining, and drives home the mission-critical
message: Nurse-physician communication breakdowns are disastrous to patient care and emotionally
disruptive to all those in the profession. |
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Ending Nurse-To-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat
Their Young and Each Other
by Kathleen Bartholomew With the nursing shortage and high turnover rates affecting nearly
every facility, it is imperative that nurse leaders determine, assess, and eliminate the factors that
influence and perpetuate the problems facing the nursing profession today. |
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Strengthening Nurse-To-Nurse Relationships:
A Guide to Ending Horizontal Hostility [DVD]
by Kathleen Bartholomew This educational video helps nurses to recognize the signs of
horizontal hostility and offers ways solutions. Realistic scenarios demonstrate how to take a
pro-active approach to this problem. |
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Stressed Out: About Communication Skills
by Kathleen Bartholomew Effective communication is essential to successful patient
outcomes and to your professional development. But as a new nurse, your lack of professional
experience may cause communication difficulties with patients, physicians, managers, and other
coworkers. |
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Faith Community Nursing: Developing a Quality Practice
by Carol J. Smucker Covering all aspect of basic practice for the beginner,
this handbook addresses the essentials for all stages of a quality health ministry program
in a faith community or agency. |
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Transforming Nurses' Stress And Anger:
Steps Toward Healing (3rd ed.)
by Sandra P. Thomas During this critical nursing shortage, the profession
cannot afford to lose RNs to stress-related illnesses and burnout. Thomas' award-winning
series guides nurses to optimize their efficiency and relationships in the workplace, and
to solve work-related problems. |
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Clinical Coach for Nursing Excellence
by Linda Campbell, Marcia A. Gilbert, Gary R. Laustsen Accelerate your mastery of the important knowledge,
skills, and attitudes you need to succeed as an RN. You will find coverage that encompasses
simple solutions to the most common challenges faced in the workplace. |
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Essential Decision Making and Clinical Judgment for Nurses
edited by Carl Thompson, Dawn Dowding This book provides the skills and knowledge to use
information effectively when exercising professional judgment and clinical decisions. |
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Health Promotion throughout the Life Span (7th ed.)
edited by Carole Lium Edelman, Carol Lynn Mandle Up to date and easy to read, this textbook provides comprehensive
coverage of all major concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. |
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Nursing Diagnosis Manual: Planning, Individualizing, and
Documenting Client Care (3rd ed.)
by Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr Provides a practical approach to planning and documenting patient
care. It includes introductory information about the nursing process and nursing diagnosis, interactive
care plan worksheets, NIC/NOC, concept mapping, and highlights community-based/home care interventions. |
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Physical Assessment for Nurses (2nd ed.)
edited by Carol Lynn Cox It will appeal to those clinicians moving into the field of
undertaking and recording physical assessments and presenting findings and also provides enough
material to act as a teaching resource for any level of children. |
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Health Assessment in Nursing (4th ed.)
by Janet Weber, Jane H. Kelley Now in its Fourth Edition, Health Assessment in Nursing is a
colorful, user-friendly introductory level health assessment text for RN-level students. |
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Assessing and Measuring Caring In Nursing
and Health Sciences (2nd ed.)
by Jean Watson New instruments, focusing on assessing caring at the administrative-relational
system caring level, addressing a new a population. |
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Leadership and Nursing Care Management (4th ed.)
edited by Diane L. Huber Gain the knowledge and expertise you need to excel in any supervisory
or management role. |
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Nurse-Managed Wellness Centers: Developing
and Maintaining Your Center
edited by Tine Hansen-Turton, Mary Ellen Miller, Phil Greiner This practical and authoritative book provides a step-by-step guide to starting
and sustaining an effective wellness center, whether non-profit or academic based. |
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Rural Nursing: Concepts, Theory, and Practice (3rd ed.)
edited by Charlene A. Winters, Helen J. Lee Thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of Rural
Nursing provides the knowledge, skills, and insight nurses must acquire to meet the unique
needs of rural populations. |
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Foundations of Nursing in the Community:
Community-Oriented Practice (3rd ed.)
edited by Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster Learn the essentials of community nursing with this practical, easy-to-read textbook. |
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Community and Nurse-Managed Health Centers:
Getting Them Started and Keeping Them Going
by Donna L. Torrisi, Tine Hansen-Turton This book provides a step-by-step guide to starting and sustaining a community
health center, with an emphasis on nurse-managed centers. |
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The Magnet Model Components and Sources of Evidence:
Magnet Recognition Program®
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center This brief text outlines the magnet model and uses empirical evidence
to show its successes. |
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Advanced Practice Nursing: Core Concepts for
Professional Role Development (4th ed.)
edited by Michaelene P. Jansen, Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed book remains the key title serving
graduate-level advanced practice nurses (APNs) and recent graduates about to launch their careers. |
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Foundations of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice
edited by Janet S. Fulton, Brenda L. Lyon, Kelly A. Goudreau Foundations of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice serves
as a comprehensive textbook and practice reference for graduate-level CNS students and practitioners. |
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Care of the Dying and Deceased Patient: A Practical Guide for Nurses
edited by Philip Jevon This is a practical, accessible guide for nurses on the management and care of
the dying and deceased patient. |
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Critical Care Nursing of Older Adults: Best Practices (3rd ed.)
edited by Marquis D. Foreman, Koen Milisen, Terry T. Fulmer This book is an evidence-based, best-practices guide that directs the bedside
care of critically ill elders. |
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Palliative Nursing: Across the Spectrum of Care
edited by Elaine Stevens, Susan Jackson, Stuart Milligan This book first explores the history and ethos of palliative
care, and then looks at palliative nursing across various care settings. |
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Cardiothoracic Care for Children and Young People:
A Multidisciplinary Approach
edited by Kerry Cook, Helen Langton Cardiothoracic Care for Children and Young People is a
comprehensive and interprofessional guide aimed at all healthcare professionals working with children
and young people with Congenital Heart Disease. |
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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care
by Sharon L. Edwards, Mimma Sabato This small, pocket-sized book provides a solid introduction
to aspects of care and management in critical care. |
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Perianesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach (5th ed.)
by Cecil B. Drain, Jan Odom-Forren As the touchstone for practicing perianesthesia nurses for 25 years,
Perianesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach, 5th Edition is the only book on the market
that provides comprehensive clinical content specifically tailored to perianesthesia nurses. |
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Maternal Child Nursing Care (4th ed.)
by Shannon E. Perry, et al. Divided into two sections, the first part of the
book includes 28 chapters on maternity nursing and the second part contains 27 chapters
covering pediatric nursing. |
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Perinatal Nursing (3rd ed.)
edited by Kathleen Rice Simpson, Patricia A. Creehan Co-published with the Association of Women's Health,
Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), this book is a comprehensive clinical resource
for practicing perinatal nurses and an excellent staff educator's guide and textbook. |
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Maternal & Child Health Nursing: Care of the
Childbearing & Childrearing Family (6th ed.)
by Adele Pillitteri Now in its Sixth Edition, Maternal and Child Health Nursing
helps nurses understand wellness and illness as family-centered events. |
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Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice and Research (4th ed.)
edited by Joanna Rowe Kaakinen, et al. Significantly updated and thoroughly revised, the 4th edition approaches
family nursing the way it is practiced today—with an evidence-based, clinical focus built on a firm
foundation of theory and research. |
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Advanced Practice Nursing, an Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics
edited by Cecil A. King This issue devoted to advanced practice is designed both to reach out
to the younger nurses in this field in terms of options they have, and to stimulate discussion on a
business model for the OR nurse and the clinical and research aspects of advanced practice. |
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Ethics, an Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics
edited by Nancy Girard This issue addresses ethics in the nursing field. |
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Evidence-Based Practice, an Issue Of Perioperative Nursing Clinics
edited by Victoria M. Steelman This issue highlights the methods and challenges involved in the
implementation of evidence-based practice in a surgical setting. |
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Infection Control, an Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics
edited by George Allen Hand-washing to operating room sanitation are just two of the topics
explored in this special issue. |
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Perioperative Care of the Child: A Nursing Manual
edited by Linda Shields Perioperative Care of the Child is an essential resource for any
children's nurse working in a perioperative setting and all student nurses on the child branch. |
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