This innovative volume provides fresh perspectives on how medical students and patients construct identities in relation to each other, using stories of their clinical encounters.
Awarded second place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Advanced Practice Nursing categoryiFinally, a definitive financial management book geared to nursing professionals who need to know health care finance in non-CPA terms.
This book seeks to provide students and practicing nurses with the tools to better understand and engage in scientific arguments to support quality nursing and evidence-based practice.
This textbook provides a practice-focused case study based exploration of how the ideas of person-centeredness can be developed and incorporated in to everyday practice.
This award-winning text guides nursing graduate students in developing the key skills they need to fulfill emerging leadership roles as our health care system experiences profound change and increasing complexity.
In this up-to-date guide the highly experienced authors take you through the latest clinical leadership and management thinking showing how this linksin with the Clinical Leadership Competency Framework.
Written by and for nurses, this key foundational text helps to build the fundamental economics and financial management skills nurses and nurse leaders need for daily use.
Wohlstandskrankheiten, geringe Gesundheitskompetenz, zunehmende Frühberentungen, pflegebedürftige Angehörige – dem stehen Fach- und Arbeitskräftemangel gegenüber.
This practical guide provides essential knowledge and tools for nursing and healthcare students and practitioners to develop their leadership skills, from the very beginning of their practice and throughout their careers.
Bullying in the Workplace will enable nurses to understand and deal with bullying and its perpetrators and to counter the culture of bullying in their work environments.
A single comprehensive reference for nursing leaders, leadership organizations, nursing clinicians, and educators, Nursing Leadership is the only compendium of nursing terminology in existence.
Combining an accessible presentation of the underlying theory of transfer of learning which explains how to put theory into practice, this is a text which is relevant to 'teaching for transfer' in any professional or vocational context.
This easy-to-use handbook is a useful resource for all health professionals engaged in processes of evaluation in a variety of contexts within the world of healthcare.
Awarded second place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Nursing Education/Continuing Education categoryThis AJN award-winning text is the only book to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) content grounded in a tested philosophy of teaching and learning.
While vast numbers of nurses across the globe contribute in all areas of healthcare delivery from primary care to acute and long-term care in community settings, there are significant differences in how they are educated, as well as the precise nature of their practice.
This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society.
Bringing together the crucially important topics of cultural competence and compassion for the first time, this book explores how to practise 'culturally competent compassion' in healthcare settings - that is, understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it using culturally appropriate and acceptable caring interventions.
Doing Clinical Healthcare Research: A Survival Guide will help students, academics and healthcare staff identify and overcome organisational barriers to conducting research in busy clinical environments and show how research should be project managed in order to guarantee successful outcomes for all involved.
Over the past decades, reflection has taken centre stage in nursing education but it is easy to get stuck in a superficial cycle of storytelling and self-examination, without getting any further insights into your own practice and abilities.
The premier resource for today's nurse administrator, Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition is informed by ongoing advances in health care, professional nursing, and organizational and administrative management.
This guide introduces a humanistic, solution-focused coaching model, using lived experience to demonstrate how profound changes in our healthcare experiences and system, for patients and staff, are possible; while also supporting readers to develop their own coaching skills.
Medical researchers including doctors, nurses, medical students and allied health professionals are required to undertake a period of research as part of their career pathway.
The potential for health professionals to learn and practice the process of entrepreneurship to improve the quality of health care and services is enormous and untapped.
"e;Whether you are just starting out in nursing, getting ready to retire, or anywhere in between, The Ultimate Career for Nurses: Practical Advice for Thriving at Every Stage of Your Career offers something of value for every current and future nurse.
This book provides a practical, multidisciplinary approach to support a broad range of health professionals, social workers, public health workers and others tasked with providing health and care to young adults.
Administrators and managers in healthcare can improve their own expertise and performance by learning and mastering the 12 critical interpersonal, financial, and organizational management skills in this highly practical guide.
Studying for a Foundation Degree in Health is designed to provide clear, relevant knowledge and to support appropriate skills development amongst students enrolled on foundation degree and equivalent level courses, in health and social care.
This new approach to leadership focuses on how students can develop leadership skills right from the start of their nursing programme through to transitioning to their first role.
