Nursing

The most comprehensive UK Adult Nursing core text, now in its third edition, for the next generation of nurses.

This best selling textbook has been revised and updated to present the knowledge and skills required for competent, evidence-based nursing practice, whilst maintaining the thorough approach that was welcomed in the first two editions.

The book remains the core text of choice for students of adult nursing.

The third edition continues to reflect the issues and challenges for nursing practice in an era of rapid developments in diagnosis, therapy and care. As always, the importance of the patient as partner in care is emphasised.

The three section format which has proved so effective is retained, progressing from a broad systems approach to more detail on specific patient concerns and nursing issues. Ample cross-referencing encourages links between the sections:

. Section One – Care of patients with common disorders
. Section Two – Common patient problems and related nursing care
. Section Three – now entitled – Nursing patients with special challenges.

This text is an invaluable resource, not only for student nurses, but also for qualified nurses, those returning to practice and nurse educators.

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Medicines are a crucial part of the jigsaw when considering how to provide recovery-focussed care in mental health. It is important that mental health nurses understand how psychiatric drugs work, what the common treatments are and appreciate the ethical and legal dimensions that affect how medicines can and should be used in mental health care. Using innovative activities and real-life case studies, this book has been carefully designed to provide all this and more making it the ideal resource to build knowledge and confidence in this crucial area of practice.

Key features

· Clear explanations of both the underlying biology and pharmacology as well as the wider practicalities of working with medicines

· Provides accessible information on the most common conditions and treatments

· Linked to the NMC standards and essential skills clusters

· Activities and case studies help students to apply what they have learnt to practice and consider the full impact that medicines will have on service users

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Keeping tomorrow’s nurses at the forefront of today’s changing healthcare environment, Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 15th Edition delivers the most comprehensive resource available for nursing students in the medical-surgical course. This bestselling text is designed for the way students like to learn, combining a highly readable approach with engaging case studies and learning tools to help students explore essential patient care practices in real-world terms and gain a more practical understanding of how they’ll apply what they’ve learned in practice.Trusted by instructors, students, and practicing nurses for nearly 60 years, this landmark resource has been comprehensively updated for the 15thEdition to reflect the latest research, evidence-based practices, settings, issues, ethical challenges, and concerns of today’s healthcare practice. Complete integration with Lippincott® CoursePoint+ allows you to easily map out your entire course, provide personalized student remediation, and simulate real-world nursing scenarios involving patients mentioned in vignettes in the text, giving your students unparalleled preparation for success in the medical-surgical nursing workforce.

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This popular text provides a clear introduction to the principles and processes of nursing research. Parahoo has brought his book up-to-date by including all relevant government initiatives, reworking the text’s Research Examples and including new chapters and expanded sections.

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′The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures Student Edition’ has been specially compiled for pre–registration students to include the essential procedures needed to meet the competencies of the Essential Skills Clusters (NMC2007).

The Student Edition presents revised and updated evidence–based clinical skills, enabling student nurses to deliver clinically effective patient–focused care. With this invaluable companion during their training, student nurses will gain the confidence they need to become safe, informed and skilled practitioners.

Clinical procedures are a fundamental aspect of nursing care so it is essential that they are evidence–based. ‘The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures Student Edition’ provides evidence for procedures related to every aspect of a person’s care. The new edition rates evidence according to the validity of the original sources.

• Abridged edition for pre–registration students
• Includes the key evidence–based procedures students need to know
• All procedures include the rationale for each action
• Includes multiple–choice questions to help students test their knowledge
• Focuses on patient–centred care
• Related topics grouped for quick reference
• Clear, unambiguous and easy to understand
• New improved colour layout with more illustrations
• Compact and handy–designed to be taken everywhere

  Also available: the full edition for qualified nurses: The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures Seventh Edition ISBN 9781405169998

  Now available online to Hospitals, NHS Trusts and Academic Institutions

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Nurses Reflection Diary ReValidation

Beware all buyers – this is a workbook, a diary you keep of your own career experiences.

Follow the stages of the Gibbs model which I explain and signpost.

It has blank pages for you to fill in.

All nurses and midwives who practice must revalidate their registration regularly. Part of the process includes reflection.

• Where to consider different ways of working
• Interventions which would have helped.
• What could I have done better?
• How can I improve my professional practice?
• This wouldn’t have happened if…

This workbook provides a means of capturing your own confidential reflections with prompts for you to follow.

There is also a dissected example of one of my own ‘not so brilliant’ nursing experiences for you to see and hopefully sympathise. See where I put each step of my disaster in the reflective cycle. The example gives you a follow-along plan to do the same with yours!

Once done, you can ask your professional supervisor to review your own written reflections and sign them off. Then scan the document and insert into your continuing professional development (CPD) portfolio.

Never search for that piece of paper again.

The Nurses Reflection Diary for Revalidation could cover over 12 years of your nursing life.

Now nurses and midwives will show their professionalism and development in one simple, easy to use, easy to keep and find diary and workbook.There are references and website links for further advice; but the genuine beauty of this workbook is that the Nurse’s Reflection Diary is a stand-alone document to look back, as I do now, and see how far you have come.

Purchase Jane Coomb’s ‘Nurses Reflection Diary’ today and start mapping your professional progression from qualification to promotion, from student to top dog.

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The first practical illustrated guide to all aspects of caring from first aid to caring for th elderly at home.

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The new edition of this bestselling and trusted dictionary has been fully revised to take account of recent developments in nursing practice and related fields. Updates to this edition cover many areas, with a particular focus on radiography, public health and the NHS, theoretical concepts familiar in nursing education, and key vocabulary used in the 2018 Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses.

Written by medical and nursing specialists, and offering more than 10,500 clear and concise entries on nursing theory and practice, the dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions. As well as nursing-specific terms, there are also many entries in the fields of medicine, anatomy, physiology, ethics, psychiatry, nutrition, dentistry, statistics, and pharmacology. Almost 100 helpful illustrations and tables, and 16 appendices covering the calculation of drug dosages, religion and nursing practice, recommended alcohol intake, and much more, help to make this an essential reference tool for all nursing students and professionals.

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Understanding how drugs work is made simple in this easy to use pocket-sized guide. Drugs in common use are described under each body system and will form an aid to your confident administration of drugs to fit your patients’ needs.

The Nursing & Health Survival Guides have evolved – take a look at our our app for iPhone and iPad.

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Solving calculations in a busy environment can be tough and time consuming. This quick reference guide, featuring basic maths concepts and medication administration, will help you take the problem out of problem solving. The Nursing & Health Survival Guides have evolved – take a look at our our app for iPhone and iPad.

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With the number of people living with long term conditions set to increase, ensuring nurses are equipped with the knowledge and skills required to care for this group of people is essential. This book focuses on the relevant essential knowledge and skills, including the impact of long term conditions across the lifespan, the therapeutic relationship, health promotion and empowerment, self-management, symptom management, case management and advance care planning.

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Clinical decision-making is a vital part of professional nursing care and it is essential that as a student nurse you develop sound judgement and decision-making skills in order to deal confidently with the challenges you will encounter as a registered nurse. By using this book, you will be able to understand, develop and apply these skills in order to practise safely and effectively. The book links theory to realistic student experiences and clinical scenarios to show you how to use these skills in practice.

Key features:

·        Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses (2018)

·        Contains clinical scenarios demonstrating decision making in practice

·        Helps build confidence in your judgement and decision making skills through interactive activities.

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Welcome to the second edition of our dosage calculations book!

Are you a nursing student, or nurse, who wants to learn a few simple methods of solving dosage
calculations without a bunch of formulas?

Would you like to raise your hand in your dosage calculation class, after the instructor explains a
complicated formula, and ask to approach the white board to show the class a much simpler method?

Do you want to go on your clinicals knowing that you have a solid foundation in dosage calculations?

Do you want to walk into your Nursing Calculations Class on the first day knowing that you can ace all
the tests before the course begins?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you!

The book is divided into seven units containing thirty-five chapters.

Unit 1: Essential Skills:

You can’t learn to drive a car if you don’t understand the function of the steering wheel. The same applies to the following subjects when learning dosage calculations.

• The Metric System
• Apothecary/Avoirdupois/Household Systems
• Ratios
• Dimensional Analysis (DA) and Ratio Proportion (RP)
• Rounding Numbers
• Military Time

Unit 2: Auxiliary Subjects:

• Roman Numerals
• Scientific Notation

Unit 3: Unit Conversions

Unit 3 covers converting between and within the various systems of measurement using dimensional analysis and ratio proportion.

• Unit conversions Within the Metric System
• Unit Conversions Within the Household System
• Unit Conversions Between Metric, Household and Apothecary Systems
• Unit Conversions Involving Pounds and Ounces
• Unit Conversions Involving Hours and Minutes

Unit 4: Dosage Calculations

Unit 4 builds on the knowledge gained in the previous units and covers dosage calculations, starting with the terminology and set up of problems, then progressing from easy, one-step, problems through multi-step problems.

• Dosage Calculations-The Basics
• Dosage Calculations Levels 1-3
• Body Surface Area Dosing Calculations
• Pediatric Dosage Calculations
• Pediatric Maintenance Fluid Replacement Calculations

Unit 5: IV Flow Rate Calculations

Unit 5 starts with the basic terminology and set up of IV flow rate problems, then moves on to:

• Simple and Advanced Problems
• IV Flow Rate Adjustment Calculations
• Heparin Infusion and Adjustment Calculations

Unit 6: Percent and Ratio Strength Calculations

• Percent,
• Percent Strength
• Percent Change
• Ratio Strength

Unit 7: Miscellaneous Subjects

• Reconstitution Calculations
• Concentrations and Dilutions
• Milliequivalent Calculations
• Dosage Calculations Puzzles
• Self-Assessment Exam

The book contains over 600 high quality practice problems with answers. We look forward to your feedback!

Chase Hassen and Brad Wojcik

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Nurses must deliver up-to-date, clinically effective, evidence-based care across a range of settings and develop nursing services to meet changing demands. The revised and expanded Oxford Handbook of Cardiac Nursing 3rd edition is tailored to provide the essential knowledge nurses need; at their fingertips when they need it.

This handbook will guide the reader systematically through the care of patients with a wide range of cardiac problems. Each chapter contains the up to date evidence-based guidelines for cardiac conditions and treatments. It now includes new topics such as stroke, genetics, computed tomography coronary angiogram. Valvular heart disease has been expanded, as well as the chapter on congenital heart disease and inherited cardiac conditions. Providing key summaries of common problems and essential issues, it will provide both an invaluable reference for cardiac nurses, as well as a precise, targeted guide for nurses from other specialties caring for patients with cardiac problems.

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As a nurse, you always have to be at your best. Diagnosing different medical conditions on sight and having plausible solutions to each problem could be the only thing between you and a life. Even though your training will rigorously take you through the remedies for the most common diseases, a frequent reminder on the latest symptoms and treatment options will not only keep you up to date but also ensure that you present the very best treatment services to your patients.

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Anatomy and Physiology WORKBOOK

This workbook contains well over 500 questions and exercises designed to test your knowledge and memory retention so that you can feel more confident that you have mastered this topic. Nobody likes failing an exam. So avoid feeling nervous and uncertain before the test by making sure you are thoroughly prepared. This book goes well with any textbook or pamphlet covering the topic of anatomy and physiology.

The fundamental blocks for any clinical career are rooted in the understanding of anatomy and physiology. Only when we have a good understanding of the normal structure and function of the human body can we identify any anomalies and pathology.

This Anatomy and Physiology workbook contains different types of exercises. Some examples are:

• Label the picture
• Match the columns
• True or false
• Multiple choice questions
• Fill in the blanks

Being a companion to any Anatomy and Physiology textbook, it can be used in the following ways:

1. After you’ve finished the textbook, you can use this workbook to test your knowledge retention.
2. If you have studied this topic in the past, and you’re feeling really confident, you can actually start off with the workbook first and see where you stand. If you find knowledge gaps, then you can go through the textbook to improve your grasp of the subject.

We hope you’ll find this workbook a good practice tool to improve your learning. Click on the “Add to Cart” button so that you can start testing your knowledge and maximize your chances of passing the exam!

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