Nursing Older Adults

Publisher: Open University Press
1st edition - August 1, 2011
Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0335240844
ISBN-13: 978-0335240845 

This timely textbook aims to provide adult nurses with the principles and practice insights needed to deliver exceptional care in partnership with older adults. Written by a world renowned author team and includes contributions by older people, ensuring their needs and concerns about nursing care are reflected across the book. 

This important book: 

1. Considers the social perspectives, wider issues and themes, such as ageism, policy, services and demographics 
2. Evaluates daily activities and needs, including: mobility, nutrition, communication, sexuality and leisure 
3. Features scenarios based on real situations and narratives from older people 
4. Examines the use of affirmative language to promote wellbeing and dignity when nursing older adults 

Nursing Older Adults will help nurses to better appreciate the experiences and strengths of older people. The book emphasises the importance of undertaking a collaborative approach when shaping the care that older people receive in a variety of healthcare settings. 

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Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Second, North American Edition
August 1, 2010
Hardcover: 912 pages
ISBN-10: 078178722X
ISBN-13: 978-0781787222 

The new Second Edition of Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing covers a broad scope of topics emphasizing common issues and maternity-specific information. With a unique concept-based approach and nursing process focus, this book helps students go from concept to application by building on previously mastered knowledge. This edition has an updated focus on evidence-based practice and increased emphasis on nursing management, focusing on assessment and interventions.

The outstanding artwork includes nearly 500 photos and diagrams that clearly illustrate concepts and clinical conditions. Healthy People 2010 boxes identify maternity-specific health trends and nursing implications for achieving these objectives. Each chapter opens with a case study, which unfolds throughout the chapter to inspire critical thinking. The book includes nursing care plans that highlight each step of the nursing process, and incorporates teaching guidelines to prepare students to educate families. Watch and Learn icons direct students to free video clips highlighting growth and development, communication, and nursing care. 

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Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
3rd edition - September 28, 2011
Paperback: 736 pages
ISBN-10: 1609136497
ISBN-13: 978-1609136499 

This comprehensive reference takes the Incredibly Easy approach to one of the most demanding and complex areas of nursing. Covering all aspects of critical care and updated to reflect current evidence-based nursing practice, this new edition offers coverage of moderate sedation and perianesthesia management, updated ACLS and code management, information on rapid response teams, and a new “Handle With Care” icon to identify concerns and actions relating to elderly, pediatric and bariatric patients. It also includes a quick reference comparing the types of shock, as well as access to online case studies to improve critical thinking skills, an NCLEX tutorial, test-taking strategies, and over 1,000 NCLEX-style questions. 

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Health Assessment in Nursing

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
4th international edition
November 1, 2009
Hardcover: 896 pages
ISBN-10: 1608316084
ISBN-13: 978-1608316083 

This comprehensive assessment text is designed as a learning system, with a modular format that allows personal customization and ease of use. Unit One provides a complete "Overview of nursing". Unit Two, which covers "Nursing Assessment of the Adult and Older Adult", includes a chapter on general impressions and 14 body system chapters. Each of these is divided into three distinctive parts: structures and functions; nursing assessment; and analysis of data (this explains the second step of the nursing process in relation to particular data collected during assessment). The third and final unit, "Nursing Assessment of Special Groups", includes chapters on infants and children, childbearing women, the family and the community. A nursing history section uses a 2-column question/rationale format to explain why each question is asked. A physical assessment section uses a 3-column format for assessment techniques, including procedure, normal findings and abnormal findings. Useful pedagogy includes a physical assessment checklist, risk factor displays, "how to use" equipment displays, and critical thinking exercises. Learning system enhancements include a clear plastic ruler, tape measure, pen light, pencil and pen which are provided for students to use in real life assessment situations. 

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Pediatric Nursing Caring for Children and Their Families

Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
3rd edition - February 9, 2011
Hardcover: 1496 pages
ISBN-10: 1111319626
ISBN-13: 978-1111319625 

PEDIATRIC NURSING: CARING FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, third edition, offers a dynamic and insightful guide to caring for pediatric clients. The authors embrace a holistic, family-centered approach to the care and nurturing of children in all states of health, exploring healthy growth and development milestones, as well as illness states and chronic conditions. All nursing care is framed within a family context, underscoring the importance of viewing children not just as individuals, but as members of a family. General nursing skills such as assessment, communication, and health promotion are presented within the pediatric framework to help nurses approach children and their families with an authentic, informed understanding of their conditions and needs. 

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Introductory Maternity and Pediatric Nursing

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
2nd edition - September 23, 2009
Paperback: 1088 pages
ISBN-10: 0781785588
ISBN-13: 978-0781785587 

The Second Edition of Introductory Maternity and Pediatric Nursing reflects the underlying philosophy of love, caring, and support for the childbearing woman, the child, and the families of these individuals. Recognizing that the responsibility of caring for the pregnant woman and ill child increasingly falls on the family, this text stresses teaching the patient, family, and child with an emphasis on prevention. This edition's updated full-color photos and drawings enliven and support the text, especially for visual learners.

A companion Website includes video clips related to developmental tasks of pregnancy, vaginal birth, Cesarean delivery, assisting with breastfeeding, developmental considerations in caring for children, care of the hospitalized child, and pediatric medication administration. 

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Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
5th edition - June 30, 2010
Paperback: 530 pages
ISBN-10: 160547861X
ISBN-13: 978-1605478616 

This fully updated Fifth Edition explores the full psychiatric nursing curriculum, from theoretical foundations to application of interventions for commonly encountered disorders. The focus is on treatment modalities, nursing care, therapeutic communication, and self-awareness. The built-in study guide helps reinforce student learning and knowledge retention. Abundant features highlight the most pertinent learning concepts. 

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