Forensic Nursing

Publisher: CRC Press
1st edition - January 13, 2006
Hardcover: 664 pages
ISBN-10: 084933540X
ISBN-13: 978-0849335402 

Written by an award-winning investigative journalist with more than twenty years of experience, Forensic Nursing takes an objective yet engaging look at a profession that according to the author, "is only for those with a strong stomach, a pure heart, and a quick mind." It presents the personal experiences and perspectives of forensic nurses that work in all areas of forensic and critical care/emergency practice. 

The book explores the many medico-legal issues that a forensic nurse will encounter during the course of a career. It details the pertinent medico-legal skill sets that every forensic nurse should acquire. It describes how to effectively yet sensitively approach situations involving sexual assault and interpersonal violence. The text also illustrates how to conduct a successful medico-legal death investigation. 

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The Artinian Intersystem Model Integrating Theory and Practice for the Professional Nurse

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
2nd edition - April 1, 2011
Paperback: 322 pages
ISBN-10: 0826107524
ISBN-13: 978-0826107527 

This second edition graduate textbook and reference guide for nurses presents a practice-focused intervention from the notable Artinian Intersystem Model. While the first edition focused largely on theory, this second editions seeks to integrate both theory and practice to ultimately help enhance the nurse-patient relationship as well as nursing practice at large. 

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Reflective Practice A Guide for Nurses and Midwives

Publisher: Open University Press
2nd edition - 1 Dec 2005
Hardcover: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0335217435
ISBN-13: 978-0335217434 

This book provides a practical guide to help nurses and midwives improve their work practices constantly. The new edition includes expanded sections on the nature of reflection and practice, preparing for reflection, and types of reflection, plus a new chapter on the ‘Taylor Model of Reflection’ and reflective practice in research and scholarship. 

The writing style is accessible to any nurse or midwife interested in reflecting on her or his practice and the practice stories are of relevance to both new and experienced clinicians. 

Reflective Practice is essential reading for nurses and midwives who are being introduced to reflective processes in their education and practice, and also for renewing interest and enthusiasm for health workers and practitioners who use reflective practices in their day-to-day work. 

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Forensic Nursing A Concise Manual

Publisher: CRC Press
1st edition - October 26, 2009
Paperback: 461 pages
ISBN-10: 1420067303
ISBN-13: 978-1420067309 

The forensic nurse has a powerful role in medical-legal investigations. Going beyond the nurse’s traditional role, forensic nurses are often at the forefront of evidence collection and preservation. They can maintain an evidentiary chain of custody, testify as an expert witness in a court of law, care for victims, assist victims’ families, and work with the community and law enforcement by providing educational programs. Forensic Nursing: A Concise Manual presents practical information directed at the range of activities that forensic nurses perform, offering guidelines for examining and correlating medical, psychological, ethical, and legal data specific to victims. 

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Rights, Risk and Restraint-Free Care of Older People Person-Centred Approaches in Health and Social Care

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
1st edition - January 2010
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1843109581
ISBN-13: 978-1843109587 

The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice. This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint. The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions under which they are used, and their implications for the health and wellbeing of older people. Practical approaches to minimising are then explored, underlining the importance of person-centred care. Innovative programmes and approaches to reducing the use of restraint from around the world are described and assessed, and case studies are drawn upon to highlight practice challenges and their effective resolutions. The perspectives of older people and their carers and families, as well as of professionals, commissioners and regulators of health and social care, are also taken into account. The contributors are drawn from an international range of health and social care settings, as well as from the academic world. This in-depth volume will help health and social care professionals better understand the complex issues that surround the use of restraint, support practice that puts older people at the centre of decision-making about their care, and enable services to provide safer and more appropriate care. This series constitutes a set of accessible, jargon-free, evidence-based good practice guides for all those involved in the care of people with dementia and their families. The series draws together a range of evidence including the experience of people with dementia and their families, practice wisdom, and research and scholarship to promote quality of life and quality of care. 

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Law and Ethics in Children's Nursing

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
18 Jun 2010
Paperback: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 140516106X
ISBN-13: 978-1405161060 

An important and practical guide on the legal and ethical aspects of child health care that enables nurses to understand the legal and ethical principles that underpin everyday nursing practice, and explores the way in which legal and ethical aspects of children?s nursing differs from those of adults. 

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Nursing and Collaborative Practice A Guide to Interprofessional and Interpersonal Working

Publisher: Learning Matters 

2nd edition - June 14, 2010 Paperback: 200 pages ISBN-10: 1844453731 ISBN-13: 978-1844453733 

As modern healthcare evolves, it is essential for nurses to understand and work with a diverse range of people to provide quality care. But it is often difficult to grasp the many roles of those in healthcare services. This book provides a clear, practical and up-to-date guide to the various people that nurses work with, including the essential role of service users themselves, and how to work with them to improve care. This new edition includes increased coverage of teamwork and improving mental health. It is updated throughout including discussion of LiNKS, the Care Quality Commission and Every Child Matters. 

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Legal Aspects of Nursing

Publisher: Longman
4th edition - 2 Sep 2004
Paperback: 808 pages
ISBN-10: 0582822785
ISBN-13: 978-0582822788 

Legal Aspects of Nursing is a highly successful and well respected text which introduces nurses and other health care professionals to the law via everyday nursing situations of legal consequence and includes specialist chapters on paediatrics, ITU and many other areas. Specifically written with the non-lawyer in mind, the book takes a practical approach via fictional 'Situation' boxes which expertly highlight the relevance of the law to health care professionals' daily work. Relevant cases are also highlighted in this way. Suitable for degree, diploma and masters courses in nursing and related areas. 

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Emotional Labour in Health Care The unmanaged heart of nursing

Publisher: Routledge
1st edition - August 17, 2008
Paperback: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 0415409543
ISBN-13: 978-0415409544 

Do nurses still care? In today’s inflexible, fast-paced and more accountable workplace where bio-medical and clinical models dominate health care practice, is there room for emotional labour? 

Based on original empirical research, this book delves into personal accounts of nurses' emotion expressions and experiences as they emerge from everyday nursing practice, and illustrates how their emotional labour is adapting in response to a constantly changing work environment. 

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What Makes a Good Nurse Why the Virtues Are Important for Nurses

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
1st edition - May 2011
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1843109328
ISBN-13: 978-1843109327 

In recent years, the human values at the heart of the nursing profession have been sidelined by an increased focus on evidence-based, target driven outcomes. They are in danger of becoming marginalised further precisely because that which nursing does best - providing care and helping individuals through the human trauma of illness - is difficult to measure, and therefore plays little, if any, part in official accounts of outcome measures for healthcare. Derek Sellman re-establishes the primacy of the virtues that underpin the practice of nursing to answer the question: what makes a good nurse? He provides those in the caring professions with both a rationale and a practical understanding of the importance that particular character traits, including justice, courage, honesty, trustworthiness and open-mindedness, play in the practice of nursing, and explains why and how nurses should strive to cultivate these virtues, and the implications of this for practice. This original and thought-provoking book will be essential reading for nurses and pre-registration student nurses, care workers, care commissioners, and many others who work in the caring professions. 

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Mental Health Law A Practical Guide

Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
1st edition - March 31, 2005
Paperback: 262 pages
ISBN-10: 0340885033
ISBN-13: 978-0340885031 

This multidisciplinary team of authors has produced a clear, clinically relevant guide to all aspects of mental health law implementation. This is an introductory book, appropriate for students and trainees embarking on mental health nursing, psychiatry, clinical psychology or mental health social work, but with sufficient detail to carry readers through to the complex issues that will continue to face them during their years of practice. Providing a highly readable account of the subject, it also serves as a well-referenced handbook. To ensure that this is an authoritative guide throughout, specialist authors have joined the team to contribute chapters on Children and Learning Disabilities, and the whole manuscript has been reviewed by solicitors specializing in mental health law and in criminal law. 

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Synergy The Unique Relationship Between Nurses and Patients

Publisher: Sigma Theta Tau International
1st edition - October 31, 2007
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1930538510
ISBN-13: 978-1930538511 

Synergy: The Unique Relationship Between Nurses and Patients offers a practical and intuitive framework that resonates with nurses from varying subspecialties, levels of expertise, and roles from staff nurse to chief nurse executive. It resonates with clinicians because it describes what nurses do based on the primacy of patients and optimal nurse-patient relationships. Large and small health care systems, schools of nursing, and professional organizations are working to develop and implement this new way of looking at nursing practice that is driven by the fundamental assumption that patient characteristics drive nurse competencies to ensure optimal patient outcomes. Through these 16 chapters, you will find the model revealed through the knowledge and experience of staff nurses, nurse leaders, educators, scientists, peer reviewers, and certification experts. 

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Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care: An Introductory Text

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
2nd edition - July 4, 2010
Paperback: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0340972904
ISBN-13: 978-0340972908 

The second edition of this popular introductory text explores the many sensitive issues of culture, race and ethnicity as they affect patient care, including: 

-Health and illness beliefs, and their relationship to religious beliefs 

-Mental health and culture 

-Women's health in a multicultural society -Caring for older people 

-Death and bereavement 

All chapters have been updated to present the latest theory and practice and new chapters on men's health and cultural care, and migration and asylum seekers have been added, along with updated case studies and reflective exercises to help the reader link theory to practice. This book is essential reading for all nursing students, as well as midwifery, allied health and health and social care students. It is also a useful reference for qualified nurses, midwives, health care assistants, assistant healthcare practitioners and allied health professionals. 

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Legal, Ethical, and Political Issues in Nursing

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
2nd edition - January 2004
Paperback: 480 pages
ISBN-10: 0803605714
ISBN-13: 978-0803605718 

This second edition aims to retain its user-friendly, practical approach and provide all the features nursing educators and students rely on for comprehensive legal and ethical advice. New chapters are included on risk management and conflict management, and there is greater emphasis on ethics. 

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Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring

Publisher: University Press of Colorado
May 30, 2008
Paperback: 313 pages
ISBN-10: 9780870818981
ISBN-13: 978-0870818981 

Jean Watson's first edition of Nursing, now considered a classic, introduced the science of human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used and respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new edition offers a contemporary update and the most current perspectives on the evolution of the original philosophy and science of caring from the field's founding scholar. 

A core concept for nurses and the professional and non-professional people they interact with, "care" is one of the field's least understood terms, enshrouded in conflicting expectations and meanings. Although its usages vary among cultures, caring is universal and timeless at the human level, transcending societies, religions, belief systems, and geographic boundaries, moving from Self to Other to community and beyond, affecting all of life. 

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Spirituality in Nursing From Traditional to New Age

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company 

2nd edition - June 14, 2006 

Paperback: 216 pages 

ISBN-10: 0826191827 

ISBN-13: 978-0826191823 

Thoroughly updated, the new edition of this award-winning book looks at spirituality and nursing from many perspectives: theoretical, historical, religious, psychological, physiological. In this thoughtful exploration of the reemergence of spirituality as an important factor in nursing practice, the author traces Nursing's involvement with spirituality from its historical ties with religion to the current interest in New Age and alternative health methods. Nursing theories involving spirituality such as Dossey, Newman, and Watson, are examined, and nursing trends are seen in the larger context of trends in society and other disciplines, such as psychology, physics and philosophy. In this new edition there is more information on techniques and therapies for incorporating spirituality into patient care. 

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Making Sense of Spirituality in Nursing And Health Care Practice An Interactive Approach

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2nd edition - August 15, 2006
Paperback: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 1843103656
ISBN-13: 978-1843103653 

Caring for the spiritual needs of patients is a highly significant yet often neglected and misunderstood aspect of health care. This results, in part, from a general lack of guidance and instruction given to healthcare professionals on the subject. This new edition of an established introductory guide to spirituality and health care practice draws extensively on case studies illustrating the application of theory to practice. It encourages the exploration, through reflective activities, of what spirituality means, both to patients and to the healthcare professionals caring for them. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to spiritual care for heath care professionals in all areas of practice. 

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Patient Safety First Responsive Regulation in Health Care

Publisher: Allen & Unwin
April 1, 2010
Paperback: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1742370586
ISBN-13: 978-1742370583 

This title presents a much needed systematic analysis of the current issues, challenges, and outcomes surrounding patient safety in health care. It features dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to healthcare related media & organisations. Each year more people die in health care accidents than in road accidents. Increasingly complex medical treatments and overstretched health systems create more opportunities for things to go wrong, and they do. Patient safety is now a major regulatory issue around the world, and Australia has been at its leading edge. Self-regulation by professional and industry groups is now widely regarded as insufficient, and government is stepping in. In "Patient Safety First", leading experts survey the governance of clinical care. Framed within a theory of responsive regulation, core regulatory approaches to patient safety are analysed for their effectiveness, including information systems, corporate and public institution governance models, the design of safe systems, the role of medical boards, open disclosure and public inquiries. This is essential reading for all medical and legal professionals working in patient safety as well as readers in public health, health policy and governance. 

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Ethical Decision Making in Nursing and Health Care The Symphonological Approach

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
4th edition - November 23, 2007
Paperback: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0826115128
ISBN-13: 978-0826115126 

This book provides a systematic approach to bio-ethical decision making that can help clarify issues in situations where "right" and "wrong" may not be clearly defined. 

Key Features of this Book: 

*Gives a step-by-step process that guides the practitioner to justify ethical decisions and how to implement them 

*The only nursing book that actually features a comprehensive system of bio-ethical decision making 

*Applicable to practice as well as being useful for at-risk students and general ethics courses 

*Presents a practice-based decision making model 

*Easy to apply--students and practitioners have reported immediate ability to use what they have learned 

*Provides an examination of person, their motivations, and their rights 

*Gives a careful and comprehensive discussion of the meaning and definition of terms and how they relate to decision making 

*Helps to give the health care professional confidence in his or her ethical decision making 

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Public Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers 

First Edition (March 26, 2010) 

Paperback: 400 pages 

ISBN-10: 0763756598 

ISBN-13: 978-0763756598 

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and healthcare providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics. This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how healthcare professionals can get involved and be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients. 

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