Nursing

This is a unique exploration of the nature of health, and the various ways in which it can be understood and interpreted.

This book proposes a 'strong' (action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making within contemporary nursing practice.

This comprehensive text provides a systematic explanation of major conditions such as cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke and hypertension.

How do we know we are ill?

Successful Statistics For Nursing and Healthcare helps students to gain an understanding of statistical methods within the evidence-based health care context.

Risk and Nursing Practice introduces the reader to a range of sociological theory that has arisen about the 'risk society'.

Principles of Professional Studies in Nursing supports readers as they work towards becoming professional nurses.

An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II.

Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient.

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally.

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally.

A Practical Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology focuses on the skills required in testing and treating the older adult population.

A Practical Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology focuses on the skills required in testing and treating the older adult population.

Pre- and post-operative care of transplant patients is an aspect of Critical Care Medicine in which most ICU physicians and nurses have received little or no formal training and are left to cope with this complex population with only incomplete "e;on the job experience"e; as a guide.

Critical care happens where it is needed, not just in the ICU.

The chapters in Patient Care and Professionalism are ordered so that the main character in this book, the patient, has the first voice, followed by the ancient history of professionalism, the recent resurrection of professionalism in the United Kingdom (UK), and finally professionalism in the United States (US).

In 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "e;One-Hundredth-Birthday"e; cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000.

Social Work and Social Justice transcends discussions of abstract social justice concepts and goals by focusing on how these concepts can be used as guides for socially just practice at the interpersonal, organizational, community, and societal levels.

Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr.

The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties.

In 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "e;One-Hundredth-Birthday"e; cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000.

Riveting in their emotional clarity and utterly jargon free, these 30 stories from real life penetrate how we grieve and how we can help those who grieve- whether the griever is oneself, someone we care about, or a client or patient.

Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr.

In Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together, Dr.

Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness.

Improving care for the patients who are in the last phase of their lives has been a field that most health care providers have struggled with during last few years.

Originally published in 2001, the Textbook of Palliative Nursing has become the standard text for the field of hospice and palliative care nursing.

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received.

This extensively illustrated reference work is designed for health professionals who care for newborn infants including neonatologists, pediatricians, NICU nurses, pediatric neurologists, pediatric surgeons, geneticists, and genetic counselors.

The essence of nursing care continually exposes nurses to suffering.

Few publications have changed the landscape of contemporary psychology more than Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman's landmark work, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping.

Neuropsychiatric problems after critical illness are receiving increasing attention, particularly in the critical care medicine literature, but mental health and primary care clinicians should also be interested in these common problems, given the growing number of critical illness survivors who need care.

Neuropsychiatric problems after critical illness are receiving increasing attention, particularly in the critical care medicine literature, but mental health and primary care clinicians should also be interested in these common problems, given the growing number of critical illness survivors who need care.

The study and practice of end-of-life care has seen an increasing understanding of the need for care that integrates clinical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and ethical expertise.

Pediatric Intensive Care offers clinicians and trainees a concise, easy-to-carry resource on pediatric critical care medicine, designed for frequent and quick reference at the bedside, providing solutions to questions and situations encountered in practice.

As people are living longer on average than ever before, the number of those with dementia will increase.

As people are living longer on average than ever before, the number of those with dementia will increase.

This text focuses on the under-recognized and undertreated problem of addiction in later life.

This text focuses on the under-recognized and undertreated problem of addiction in later life.

The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties.

The study and practice of end-of-life care has seen an increasing understanding of the need for care that integrates clinical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and ethical expertise.

Creating Aging-Friendly Communities (CAFC) examines the need to redesign America's communities to respond to the realities of our rapidly aging society.

Creating Aging-Friendly Communities (CAFC) examines the need to redesign America's communities to respond to the realities of our rapidly aging society.

Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders aims to engage young caregivers in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work so that they will be able to become well informed about this significant--and at times confusing--illness.

Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders aims to engage young caregivers in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work so that they will be able to become well informed about this significant--and at times confusing--illness.

The Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care is an easily-navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care.

The Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care is an easily-navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care.

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness.

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness.

The chapters in Patient Care and Professionalism are ordered so that the main character in this book, the patient, has the first voice, followed by the ancient history of professionalism, the recent resurrection of professionalism in the United Kingdom (UK), and finally professionalism in the United States (US).