Nursing

The lymphatic system is one of the more complex systems of the body.

Pediatric nursing is the niche area of nursing where one works solely with babies, toddlers and children.

The muscular system is the network of body tissue or muscle bands that are formed over your skeleton frame.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) vigorously promotes competition in the health care industry through enforcement, study, and advocacy.

The advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) is a critical part of today's healthcare delivery system.

There are 2,600 hospitals in Asia, Africa and South America which could be classified as Mission Hospitals - far off the beaten path, providing basic medical service to the poorest people of the world.

In the 1950s, nurses served as handmaidens to the physician; by the start of the new millennium, they had become admired independent practitioners.

Running a clinic for seniors requires a lot more than simply providing medical care.

A Palliative Care Book of the Month: IAHPC (International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care) From a medical insider comes a plea to renew medicine's mandate to relieve suffering.

The differences in personalities and how they shade our perceptions can affect the way healthcare professionals communicate and interact with patients, colleagues, and other individuals in their workplace.

Framed by the author's personal odyssey as a caregiver and richly informed by the inspiring and poignant tales of others, Caregiving explores medical and financial problems, all aspects of spirituality, and such issues as depression, stress, housing, home care, and end-of-life concerns.

"e;Surviving Leukemia and Hodgkin's Lymphoma"e; is a text that will give the reader a more than basic insight into the inner workings of both diseases.

Anatomy and Physiology is effectively a broad introductory course that requires the student to devote an enormous amount of effort to understand it on even a basic level.

Nursing Scope of Practice is every nurse's guidebook to understanding this terrain.

Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare exposes a vast conspiracy of political maneuvering and corporate greed that has led to the replacement of qualified medical professionals by lesser trained p

This fourth edition of Introducing Pharmacology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the subject of pharmacology for nursing and healthcare students - in fact any healthcare professional needing to refresh their knowledge of this important area.

This revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants is an accessible and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary skills for your practice.

This is the only book to offer an evidence-based model for retaining students and ensuring success across the nursing education spectrum.

It's time for loved ones to come together and celebrate positive energy before an ill family member goes off to receive intensive surgery, i.

Natural products are the most successful source of drugs.

Risk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health organisation's agenda.

This book provides case study analyses of actual management dilemmas and how they were resolved.

Easing the Way to a New Stage in Life.

With today's large aging population, a growing number of people face the burden of placing their spouses or elder relatives in long term care.

Supervising and Assessing Student Nurses and Midwives in Clinical Practice is a practical guide for healthcare practitioners responsible for the supervision and assessment of students.

Das Buch befasst sich mit dem ressourcenorientierten Pflegekonzept der Aktivierend-therapeutischen Pflege, das geriatrische Patientinnen und Patienten bei ihrer Alltags- und Lebensgestaltung unterstützt.

Kommunikation und Interaktion gehören zu den zentralen Kompetenzen, die es in der Pflegeausbildung zu erwerben und in der Praxis anzuwenden gilt.

Anatomy and Physiology is effectively a broad introductory course that requires the student to devote an enormous amount of effort to understand it on even a basic level.

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Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD in Children and Adults -- A Practical Guide identifies assumptions about ADD/ADHD that demand reevaluation in light of recent research.

- New chapter: Assessing Risk- Loss and Grief chapter has a stronger focus on Trauma- Consistent structuring across disorders and medications- Increased content on ice, the therapeutic relationship, pain, the links between physical health and mental, childhood, additional/new cultural groups- Significantly more content on self-care and inter-professional practice highlighting the different roles involved.

This book is a collection of work that demonstrates the needs and importance of addressing many under-explored issues in clinical issues in nursing.

Creating Livable Communities is an outgrowth of the National Council on Disability's (NCD) interest and recent work in the topic of livable communities for people with disabilities.

In the past 20 years, the number of women over 65 has grown enormously.

Psychiatric nursing is invariably linked with a therapeutic role; however the question remains unanswered in relation to the extent psychiatric nurses perceive the importance of the constituents of the therapeutic relationship.

For some elderly people, the body weakens while the mind stays alert.

This new book is the first comprehensive reference to the relationship between a myriad of drugs commonly used in neurology, psychiatry and internal medicine, and the occurrence of acute or sub-acute encephalopathy.

The quintessential guide to nursing diagnoses from NANDA-I experts in new updated editionFully updated and revised by editors T.

Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelated and incurable cancer--multiple myeloma.

A Blueprint for Community Action From Award-Winning Journalist Larry Hayes Written with authority and compassion, this is the book that rescues mental illness from the shadows and takes the disability into the community.

With its unrivaled scope, easy readability, and outstanding clinical relevance, Complementary and Integrative Treatments in Psychiatric Practice is an indispensable resource for psychiatric and other health care professionals.

Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD in Children and Adults -- A Practical Guide identifies assumptions about ADD/ADHD that demand reevaluation in light of recent research.

Integrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation provides a detailed, thoughtful, and experience-based guide to the complex and potentially overwhelming process of implementing an integrated care program.

This book isn't about dying.

Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying.

This comprehensive book provides a review across methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings.

Fully revised to conform to the 2004 NCLEX Test Plan, this study guide and test includes "e;hot spot,"e; fill-in-the-blank, and select-all-that-apply questions to reflect the new test format.

When it was originally published in 1986, this book was one of the few to be written on social skills and mental health specifically for nurses.