This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature.
This book analyzes schizophrenia management in the context of recent clinical therapeutic advances that have transformed the measurements and outcomes landscape.
This guide walks you through the set-up, supplies, nursing considerations, troubleshooting, and steps to successfully assist during cutting edge interventional Gastroenterological procedures that are being performed to offer patients a safer and more cost effective treatment option.
Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, this book demonstrates the best quality care for pregnant women and new mothers who may have complex social needs.
Forces such as political conflict, globalisation and the growth of the internet, offering news of life elsewhere, mean levels of migration are higher now than at any other time in history.
This new edition updates the previous one and adds additional content related to postoperative management, pain management, LGBTQ care, and uroradiology.
The systematic review is a rigorous method of collating and synthesizing evidence from multiple studies, producing a whole greater than the sum of parts.
This textbook presents a practical guide for new and experienced health or social care staff, helping them promote the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities.
This book introduces students and professionals, family and friends of people with eating disorders to the key concepts and skills that underpin a holistic and recovery orientated approach to the care of eating disorders.
Advanced Nursing Practice is a topical and emergent area of developing health practice, but as an area that is still developing it can also be seen as one of uncertainty.
Thought as a primary reference on cutaneous ulcer management, written in a clear style by multidisciplinary experts and carefully edited and crafted, this volume covers of the complex topic of Wound Care, highlighting Pearls and Pitfalls in Skin Ulcer Management: from anatomy, epidemiology, pathogenesis and prevention, to diagnosis and selection of the best treatment options.
This is a unique, innovative professional nursing ethics textbook designed specifically for all practicing nurses and to meet the educational needs of all nursing students, including RN to BSN and RN to MSN students.
There's no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjectsMedical Terminology Demystified covers all the basic terms of disease and injury, abnormal anatomy and physiology, surgical techniques, drugs, and other therapies--in the context of real, practical health issues.
If you or someone close to you is devoted to their church but still struggles to find meaning and passion in their faith; who loves their family, works hard, contributes to their community, but still feels life is somehow incomplete and hollow at the core; who is restless in spirit, with a nagging sense that there must be something more .
Psychology: An Introduction for Health Professionals will appeal to the undergraduate nursing and health science student seeking to understand patient responses and behaviours to various diagnoses, interventions and health outcomes.
This breakthrough new text is the first 'theory' textbook published for ODP students studying at degree level and maps neatly onto the ODP degree curriculum.
- A suite of scenario-based videos supporting key communication skills and concepts, including empathy, challenging behaviours, advocating for a patient and admitting a patient with reflections from both the nurse and patient perspective- A series of video interviews - exploring diverse cultural backgrounds from the patient and practitioner perspective- More than 40 Learning Activities to help develop featured skills and concepts- Research highlights in each chapter covering the most recent research on communication in nursing
- A reinforced focus on person- and family-centred care- Chapter 2 Partnerships in collaborative care includes new sections on the role of the pharmacist, paramedic and exercise physiologist- Principles for nursing practice are embedded throughout Section 2- Evolve Resources for students and instructors provide additional multimedia resources and reflective questions to assist learning and promote self-inquiry
Portfolios for Health Professionals 3e is a practical guide to designing and developing a portfolio that documents and communicates your professional achievements and competencies, in order to meet the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) annual registration requirements.
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.
Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand mental health and become rounded practitioners.
Translates difficult concepts into easy-to-master competenciesThis is a user-friendly, step-by-step approach to the challenging clinical topic of Arrhythmia and 12-lead EKG interpretation in the Critical Care and Acute Care settings.
Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty womenmembers of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corpswho went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War.
The first book about Guided Participation written for nursesThis authoritative publication delivers an in-depth examination of Guided Participation (GP), a dynamic process of teaching and learning that parents and guardians have used for generations to help their charges become self-reliant.
El libro presenta una panorámica sobre los desarrollos históricos y recientes en la construcción de conocimiento acerca de la Pedagogía del Cuidado y del Cuidado de la Salud.
Prepared under the auspices of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), this first volume provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly emerging field of advanced nursing practice.
