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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and healthcare providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics. This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how healthcare professionals can get involved and be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients. Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a tool kit that includes a "skills" section.
The goal of this book is to provide the reader with the research findings from international qualitative human science studies on hope conducted in nine countries including Australia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, The United Kingdom, And The United States. The findings from these qualitative research studies enhance the knowledge base on the phenomenon of hope, shed new light on its meaning, and expand understanding of human becoming theory.
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and healthcare providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics. This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how healthcare professionals can get involved and be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients. Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a tool kit that includes a "skills" section.
This book uses the latest research findings to apply critical thinking processes for the development of diagnostic reasoning and the selection of patient outcomes and nursing interventions.Four chapters describe the meaning of intelligence, critical thinking, and application of critical thinking processes within nursing. The case studies and their ultimate resolution to intervention and outcome illustrate these processes by enabling repeated practice. Case studies are organized into four sections; problem diagnoses, risk diagnoses, health promotion diagnoses, and strength diagnoses. A companion website provides on-line resources.
The Drug Reference That Gives You More! Jones and Bartlett Publisher’s Nurse's Handbook of Behavioral and Mental Health Drugs is the most practical, most up-to-date, and easiest to use nursing drug book! Concise drug entries include: Chemical and therapeutic classes FDA pregnancy risk category Controlled substance schedule Indications and dosages Route, onset, steady state peak, half-life, and duration information shown as a chart Mechanism of action (many with illustrations) Incompatibilities Contraindications Interactions with drugs, food, and activities (such as smoking) Adverse reactions Overdose signs and symptoms and nursing interventions Nursing considerations, including key patient-teaching points The Nurse’s Handbook of Behavioral and Mental Health Drugs, 3rd Edition also provides: Dosage adjustments for elderly patients, patients with renal impairment, and others with special needs; Mechanism-of-action illustrations that enhance the detailed explanations of how drugs work at the cellular, tissue, or organ levels; Warnings that highlight important facts you need to know before, during, or after drug administration.
Praise for the Third Edition: “The third edition of this outstanding resource reflects the many advances in the care of older people that have occurred since the publication of the second edition...The vast bulk of the content is accessible and relevant to an international audience. The indexing and cross-referencing are excellent... Score: 5/5 stars." -- Margaret Arthur, Nursing Standard "The information [in this book] is amazing. I reviewed topics in which I have expertise and was very satisfied. This is an excellent addition to my library and I will refer to it often, much like a medical dictionary... Score: 90, 4 Stars." --Doody's Medical Reviews “Provides 273 comprehensive, yet succ...
This handbook provides accurate, timely, and reliable facts on hundreds of drugs organized alphabetically. The drug entries include chemical and therapeutic classes, indications and dosages, and nursing considerations. The entries also give information on incompatibilities, contraindications, and adverse reactions. It contains mechanism-of-action illustrations that enhance the detailed explanations of how drugs work at the cellular, tissue, or organ levels. This handbook provides dosage adjustments for elderly patients, patients with renal impairment, and others with special needs. Warnings are given that highlight important facts you need to know before, during, or after drug administration. It also contains additional reference sections that cover the nurse's role in all aspects of behavioral and mental health drug therapy, classification of seizures, and herbal remedies with psychotropic effects.
This up-to-date and easy-to-use handbook gives you: Accurate, reliable facts on hundreds of drugs presented alphabetically. Concise drug entries that are organized consistently for quick reference.- Vital information you need to know about each drug: Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category, and controlled substance schedules. Indications and dosages, route, onset, steady state, peak, half-life and duration. Mechanism of action. Incompatibilities, contraindications, and interactions with drugs, food, and activities. Adverse reactions and overdose signs and symptoms and nursing interventions. Nursing considerations, including key patient-teaching points.- Special Features...
Provides access articles selected from the best of the public press. This book features: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and, an instructor's resource guide with testing materials.
Rev. ed. of: Nursing: human science and human care / Jean Watson. c1999.