Friday, January 6, 2012

Community Health Nursing Promoting and Protecting the Public's Health

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
7th edition - February 3, 2009
Hardcover: 958 pages
ISBN-10: 0781765846
ISBN-13: 978-0781765848
 

Now in its Seventh Edition, this comprehensive text provides unique coverage of vulnerable aggregate populations while using the levels of prevention approach. The book focuses on public health concerns including health promotion and protection, provides strong nursing application coverage, and addresses timely issues such as disaster nursing, urban clients, and clients with disabilities/chronic illness. This edition retains popular features such as "Stop and Think" boxes, levels of prevention displays, and Using the Nursing Process and includes new features such as Evidence: The Bridge to Practice, Healthy People 2020, Student Voices, and appendices of communicable diseases.  

Monday, December 19, 2011

Positioning Patients for Surgery

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
2nd edition - October 1, 2009
Paperback: 116 pages
ISBN-10: 0521741459
ISBN-13: 978-0521741453
 

This volume is a practical, procedure-by-procedure guide to patient positioning for about 50 of the most common surgical procedures, written by a multidisciplinary team of surgeons, nurses, ODAs and anaesthetists. Positioning for each procedure is described in detail and points of interest or potential hazards discussed where appropriate. Each procedure is clearly illustrated using photographs and explanatory line diagrams. Positioning Patients for Surgery is an invaluable guide for all theatre-based healthcare professionals. 


The Ethical Component of Nursing Education Integrating Ethics into Clinical Experiences

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
1st edition - February 23, 2006
Paperback: 480 pages
ISBN-10: 0781748771
ISBN-13: 978-0781748773
 

This new primary ethics textbook is uniquely designed to integrate ethics content into the clinical nursing curriculum and to be used throughout the nursing curriculum. This textbook is designed to ensure that the nursing student benefits from a systematic coverage of clinical ethics, moving from simple ethical issues to more complex. The book covers clinical ethics in theory and practice by building upon the foundations of ethics using the traditional clinical practice content areas such as children and adolescents, adult, critical care, and women's health. 

The ECG Workbook

Publisher: M&K Update Ltd
2nd Revised edition - August 1, 2011
Paperback: 108 pages
ISBN-10: 1905539770
ISBN-13: 978-1905539772
 

Many books on ECG interpretation use simulated ECG tracings. Most of the traces that you find in this book are from real people and of the quality that you will be expected to interpret from in practice. The second edition of worldwide popular ‘The ECG Workbook’ continues with a straightforward, systematic approach to ECG interpretation and includes:-TWO NEW chapters Common Arrhythmias explains five of the most common types of arrhythmia: Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter, Ventricular Tachycardia, Supraventricular Tachycardia and Ventricular Fibrillation, and a whole chapter is devoted to Ectopics and Extrasystoles.

Contents include: 
•Recording a readable electrocardiogram (ECG) 
• The electrical conducting system of the heart 
• A systematic approach to rhythm strip analysis • Heart blocks • Common Arrhythmias 
• Ectopics and Extrasystoles 
• The 12 lead ECG 
• Axis deviation 
• Ischaemia, injury and necrosis 
• Sites of infarction 
• Bundle branch blocks 
• Chamber enlargement 
• A systematic approach to ECG interpretation 

LPN to RN Transitions Achieving Success in Your New Role

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 
Third edition - January 24, 2008 
Paperback: 400 pages 
ISBN-10: 0781767571 
ISBN-13: 978-0781767576 

Now in its Third Edition, this book meets the needs of practical/vocational nurses and nursing faculty, as they work together to smooth the transition from the LPN to the RN role. The text provides interactive student exercises and strategies to "socialize" the LPN nurse/student into an RN program, taking into consideration its philosophy and curricular framework. This Third Edition includes an expanded chapter on communication and a new chapter on the NCLEX®. 

Medical Dosage Calculations: A Dimensional Analysis Approach


Publisher: Prentice Hall
10 edition - January 21, 2011
Paperback: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 013215661X
ISBN-13: 978-0132156615 



Fully revised for current practices and medication, this MEDICAL DOSAGE CALCULATIONS: A DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS APPROACH, 10/e remains the field’s most complete, user-friendly and accessible drug calculation text and workbook. Using the dimensional analysis format it pioneered, students begin with simple arithmetic, progressing to the most complex drug calculations. As they develop mathematical skills for accurate dosage calculations, they also gain a thorough professional understanding of safe drug administration. Compared with competitors, our text contains deeper, more realistic problems, incorporating actual dosages and requiring real critical thinking. Coverage includes titrations, IV push, VCC, and other complex calculations. Updates include: revised safety recommendations and insulin coverage; new equipment and labeling photos; and 0.5 mL and needleless syringes. Pedagogical aids include case studies, self-tests, and a website for student resources. 

2012 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
June 14, 2011
1536 pages
ISBN-10: 1609136217
ISBN-13: 978-1609136215
 

The 2012 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide, the comprehensive nursing drug resource for nurses and nursing students, is now updated with more than 1,200 additions and changes to provide the most accurate drug information available.

This comprehensive drug guide incorporates the nursing process to provide extensive medication information, with complete monographs on 700 common drugs—including 15 new drugs—and appendices that summarize key information on 200 less commonly used drugs. Organized alphabetically by generic drug name, this drug resource provides fast access to the information needed to prevent drug errors and administer medications safely and accurately.
 

Med-Surg Success A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company  2nd edition - November 19, 2010  Paperback: 816 pages  ISBN-10: 0803625049  ISBN-13: 978-0803625044  The ro...