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What do students learn? How do they learn? Can they express themselves in writing? This book helps educators resolve these questions and more. Here are strategies to enhance critical thinking, communication, professional growth, research, and classroom skills. This book is a valuable aide for scholars, educators, and clinicians in nursing, health science and other disciplines.
Provides an introduction to service learning principles, practice, and community-based nursing education, with an emphasis on practice and teaching. Links service learning with community-based learning opportunities as a tool for applying content learned in the classroom and as a strategy for improving the ability of students to help communities themselves. Gives details on how to incorporate service learning and community-based curricular strategies into the curriculum. The author teaches nursing at the University of Louisiana. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
For students of health education, this volume advocates a combined cognitive-behavioral approach which aims to identify unhealthy behaviors and their cognitive support and then design and implement learning experiences that will help effect change. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This overview takes a multidisciplinary perspective, integrating history, sociology, psychology, pathophysiology, philosophy, and law. It covers theoretical foundations, holistic models, the grief process and responses to loss, ethical and legal considerations, patient centered care, and management of specific terminal illnesses. Learning features include objectives, critical thinking exercises, activities, and case scenarios. Poor is instructor and coordinator in the Continuing Education Nursing Program at the University of Louisiana- Lafayette. Poirrier is acting dean and professor in the College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions at the University of Louisiana. c. Book News Inc.
The first-ever step-by-step guide to the full continuum of care! Includes 30 pathways, each covering prehospital admission, acute care, and home care; multidisciplinary care interventions; medical, surgical, and psychosocial problems; and patient outcomes, patient teaching, and nursing research. Contents include contributors, consultants, and reviewers; preface; overview; respiratory problems; cardiovascular problems; metabolic function problems; cancer; renal disorders; musculoskeletal problems; neurologic problems; bowel elimination problems; pressure ulcers; psychiatric disorders; appendices, including NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses and national resources; selected references; and index.
An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II. Nurses represent the largest segment of the US health care workforce and spend significantly more time with patients than any other member of the health care team. Dr. Nurse probes their history to examine major changes that have taken place in American health care in the second half of the twentieth century. The book examines the major changes in nursing education and the place of nursing in the post-war research university, revealing how federal and state health and higher education policies shaped education within health professio...
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Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the Yalu River, he was captured by the Chinese infantry. Moore and other American POWs suffered from starvation rations, bitter cold, and mental torment. Although the intense Chinese efforts to change the prisoners’ ideologies were largely unsuccessful, they were very effective in engendering distrust among the prisoners and abandonment of duty by the officers. Encouraged by an American sergeant, Mo...
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