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Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses: Achieving the IOM Competencies is a reader-friendly guide to performing, learning and evaluating critical thinking in all aspects of nursing care. Award winning authors M. Gaie Rubenfeld and Barbara K. Scheffer draw on their research and expertise in teaching and practice to blend critical thinking components with the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) five core competencies: patient-centered care, interdisciplinary team work, evidence-based practice, informatics, and quality improvement. Issues addressed include critical thinking language and awareness enhancement, the impact of critical thinking on quality care, mentoring the critical thinking of staff and students and designing performance criteria for critical thinking. New to this edition: Significant updates and additional current references to all 5 IOM chapters. New Chapter 10 - Assessing Critical Thinking. New Chapter 11 - Thinking Realities of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. New “stories” from practicing nurses and others.
The only computer and information literacy book designed specifically for students in health care disciplines, Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals, Fourth Edition explains hardware, popular software programs, operating systems, research applications, and computer-assisted communication, including sections on information access, evaluation and use, and the Internet. Built on the Computers in Small Bytes Foundation, the revised Fourth Edition continues to present this information with great detail and clarity, featuring the most recent MS Office programs, and focusing on the security of systems and data.
Case Studies in Nursing Ethics presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice through analysis of over 150 actual ethical case study conflicts that have occurred in the practice of nursing. Each case study allows readers to develop their own approaches to the resolution of ethical conflict and to reflect on how the traditions of ethical thought and professional guidelines apply to the situation.
This Protocol delineates the evidence for using devices for noninvasive patient monitoring of blood pressure, heart rhythms, pulse oximetry, end-tidal carbon dioxide, and respiratory waveforms. These protocols guide clinicians in the appropriate selection of patients for use of the device, application of the device, initial and ongoing monitoring, device removal, and selected aspects of quality control.
Designed for use in sequential professional development courses across the curriculum, Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice covers role development of the professional nurse as it occurs in three developmental stages, moving from the simple to the more complex: Nurse as Individual; Nurse/Client Relationships; and Nurse as Member of the Health Care Team.
This book provides thorough coverage of both theory and practice of nursing diagnosis. It uses a narrative rather than a list format to explain nursing diagnosis. The book details the formulation of a nursing diagnosis and writing a care plan, as well as providing a resource to clear assessment parameters and planning care.
Based on the concept that compassionate relationships between nurses and patients form a vital element of humanistic nursing, Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice provides foundational knowledge about ethics to prepare nursing students for the moral issues they will experience daily. Derived from theoretical foundations, clinical evidence and case study, this text is ideal for nursing students by providing decision-making approaches and models, rationale for decisions, and management of care for various topics. Addressing a wide array of nursing moral issues, this text includes current scholarly literature, related news briefs, and research and legal findings regarding ethical issues.
This text makes learning and teaching a lot easier! Using a nursing process framework, this active learning book helps students develop effective thinking skills. Readable, thorough and well-organized, the book's practical approach covers all aspects of critical thinking, and progresses from less complex to more complex material. Activities throughout the text encourage readers to identify, value, and enhance their thinking. Multiple examples of concepts from everyday life and nursing situations help readers apply learned information. Special features include: Action Learning exercises; Tracking Nursing Thinking checklists; Thinking-Learning Checks; multi-cultural focus; and numerous case studies. New in this edition: chapter on Designing Care: A Nurse and Patient Thinking Partnership; Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC); and a New Foreword by the authors of NIC.