Nurse & Patient

Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention

Nursing Care Plans, 6th Edition is the most comprehensive nursing care planning book on the market, with 183 care plans covering the most common nursing diagnoses and clinical problems in medical-surgical nursing. It reflects the most current clinical practice and professional standards in nursing and presents the content in an easy-to-use, reader-friendly format. The book functions as two books in one, with one section including a collection of nursing diagnosis care plans and the other providing a library of disease/disorder care plans that serve as models of care planning for the most common medical diagnoses, medical procedures, and psychosocial conditions seen in nursing practice.

• Includes the most extensive array of care plans found in any nursing care planning book, with 62 nursing diagnosis care plans and 121 disease/disorder/procedure care plans, for a total of 183.
• The nursing diagnosis care plan format includes a NANDA definition, a brief explanation of the diagnosis, related NOC outcomes and NIC interventions, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions.
• The disorders care plan format includes synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a clear and succinct definition of the disorder, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, NIC interventions and NOC outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant nursing diagnosis.
• Eye-catching icons distinguish collaborative from independent interventions.
• Covers adult lifespan issues and issues related to various healthcare settings to equip nurses for a broad range of practice settings, from hospital to home.
• Provides an alphabetical list of NANDA diagnoses inside the front cover.

• Includes new disease/disorder care plans for SARS, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and obstructive sleep apnea.
• Includes new nursing diagnosis care plans for risk for falls, latex allergy response, nausea, and impaired memory.
• A revised care plan format makes this user-friendly reference even easier to use.
• Updated and expanded rationales throughout reflect the latest clinical evidence and clinical practice guidelines.
• Incorporates the 2005-2006 NANDA nursing diagnoses throughout.
• NIC and NOC classifications reflect the latest editions of Nursing Interventions Classification and Nursing Outcomes Classification.
• Sample care plan clips in Chapter 1 help orient the user to the rest of the book.
• The expanded index includes entries for all nursing diagnoses, medical diagnoses, and synonyms for the medical diagnoses.
• An expanded Evolve website now features 18 Bonus Care Plans.
• The revised Online Care Plan Constructor includes the four new nursing diagnosis care plans and offers enhanced functionality, allowing users to save created care plans and export them to their word processing program.

All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (All-In-One Care Planning Resource: Med-Surg, Peds, Maternity, & Psychiatric Nursing)

Unlike any other care plan book on the market, this resource contains selected care plans for pediatric, maternity, and psychiatric nursing in addition to medical-surgical nursing care plans for adult care. This is the only care planning resource that allows you to use one book throughout your nursing curriculum. Color-coded medical-surgical, maternity, pediatric, and psychiatric sections help you quickly find each content area while giving the book a full-color look and feel.

• Clinical experts update each subject area to ensure the most current, accurate, and clinically relevant content available.
• Each care plan employs a consistent format of Overview/Pathophysiology, Health Care Setting, Assessment, Diagnostic Tests, Nursing Diagnoses, Desired Outcomes, Interventions with Rationales, and Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning.
• An open and attractive two-color design facilitates quick and easy retrieval of information.
• Nursing interventions and rationales are listed in a clear two-column format to make the information more accessible.
• Related NIC intervention and NOC outcome labels are listed for each nursing diagnosis.
• The Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning section highlights key patient education topics and list resources for further information.
• Health Care Setting is specified for each care plan, since different conditions are treated in various settings such as hospital, primary care, long-term care facility, community, and home care.
• Outcome criteria with specific timelines enable nurses to set realistic goals for nursing outcomes and provide quality, cost-effective care.
• Detailed rationales for each nursing intervention help you to apply concepts to clinical practice.
• Includes the most recent NANDA Taxonomy II nursing diagnoses.
• Separate care plans on Pain and Palliative and End-of-Life Care focus on palliative care for patients with terminal illnesses, as well as relief of acute and chronic pain.

• A new "Overview/Pathophysiology" heading helps you easily locate this key content.
• Nursing diagnoses listed in order of importance/physiologic need helps you learn about prioritization.
• All content has been thoroughly updated to cover the latest clinical developments, including the most recent JNC7 hypertension guidelines, the latest breast cancer screening and treatment information, revised cholesterol parameters, new drug therapies, and much more.
• Patient teaching content and abbreviations have been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest JCAHO guidelines.
• Expanded and clarified rationales help you understand each intervention more clearly.

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewin)

Interpersonal Relationships: Professional Communication Skills for Nurses (Interpersonal Relationships)(5thedition)

2007 AJN Book of the Year!
With practical guidance for effective interactions with clients, colleagues, and families, Interpersonal Relationships: Professional Communication Skills for Nurses, 5th Edition, is the definitive source on communication skills for nurses. The book combines proven communication strategies and nursing principles with psychology and related theoretical frameworks. Plus, the text includes numerous experiential exercises to critically evaluate their communication skills as well as those of others.

• Grounded in theory, the text provides a framework for gaining a theoretical perspective.
• Ethical Dilemma boxes appear in each chapter and highlight ethical dilemmas in interpersonal relationships.
• Critical thinking content promotes the application of critical thinking processes essential for effective communication in the nursing practice.
• Discusses humor, gender, and touch in Chapter 10 as important means of communication in interpersonal relationships.
• Communication with patients of all ages, patients with special needs, and colleagues increases awareness of the issues involved in communicating with patients and promotes successful collaboration with coworkers.
• Case examples and exercises appear throughout the text to promote understanding and discussion of topics in the chapter.
• Learning objectives, chapter overviews, and glossary focus the student on essential information and help them study for tests.

• Two new chapters on Documentation in the Age of the Electronic Health Record and Communicating in the Age of eHealth Technology describe how to understand and utilize the most current healthcare communication technology.
• Developing an Evidence-Based Practice boxes appear in each chapter and describe a current research study and how it connects to the concepts in the text.

Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care

Build students' confidence when relating to different cultures in a health care environment. This concise, easy-to-read handbook tackles an often awkward subject in a direct, non-intimidating style. Students will explore all of the issues they need to be sensitive to, including cultural variations regarding personal space, dietary preferences, communication, symptom management, activities of daily living, and religious and health practices. The book includes two new chapters - Hmong Heritage and Somalian Heritage; two new sections in each heritage chapter; a Workforce Issues and a Health Conditions table that highlight commonly occurring health conditions and causes; and two bonus chapters online at DavisPlus. It discusses the 12 domains of Culturally Competent Care and examines how they apply to all ethnic groups; highlights specific instructions, guidelines, tips, warnings, intervention strategies and approaches; and, includes a language translator.

From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know And Must Communicate to the Public, Second Edition

From Silence to Voice provides essential information that will heighten nurse's awareness of issues that systematically deny the critical contributions of nurses to patient care. Buresh and Gorden meticulously examine the influence of history, culture and gender that have affected theimage of the nurse and therefore the care of the patient. Intuitively, nurses know what the authors have documented: that nurses silence about their vital role in patient care portends invisibility which results in lack of recognition, reward and job satisfaction. From Silence to Voice walks the reader through the practical steps, that can be incorporated in every nurse's practice, that are required to break through the silence and flourish.

The Case Manager's Handbook, Fourth Edition

Written by renowned author, Catherine Mullahy, The Case Manager s Handbook, Fourth Edition, is the ultimate how-to guide for case managers. This practical resource helps case managers build fundamentals, study for the CCM exam, and most importantly, advance their careers after the exam. Using real-life examples and an easy-to-read, conversant style, this reference defines Best in Class case management, examines the case management process, and presents practical procedural information. It is an excellent daily reference and training resource for new case managers and seasoned professionals in various setting facing the day-to-day challenges of case management. Certain to become the go to resource resource that previous editions have, this Fourth Edition features updated and enhanced chapters, and brand new chapters covering such timely topics as: Obesity The New Epidemic; Our Nation s Multiculturalism and Challenges to Case Managers; Health Literacy and Adherence Issues; Pharmaceuticals The Ever-Evolving World; Our Aging Population, Medical Advancements and New Case Management Considerations; Direct to Consumer Community-Based Case Management; Continuum Concepts

12-Lead Ecg: The Art of Interpretation

Designed to bring you from your current level of knowledge to a fully advanced ECG interpreter, this book features 200+ full-size, real- life ECGs accompanied by thorough explanations and analyses. Presented in a clear and casual writing style, the book's leveled approach takes a complex subject and makes it simple. Whether you are an EMT, nurse, medical student, or physician wanting to learn or brush up on your knowledge of electrocardiography, this text will meet your needs. Containing more than 200 ECG strips, 12-Lead ECG is designed to be accessed by three different levels of readers--beginner, intermediate, and advanced--and is designed to grow with you as your knowledge of electrocardiography progresses. The text has been created to be continuously useful during your development and is intended to be read and reread as you advance in your knowledge and comfort level with the material. By rereading the material at increasingly advanced levels, you will get more out of the material and retain it with greater use.

Healing Touch: A Guide Book for Practitioners, 2nd Edition (Healer Series)

Healing Touch is a practical guide for those interesting in training in the healing arts. The essentials of energy healing are examined through relevant theoretical and research information and case studies and reference practically reinforce material. Covers general course curriculum, the credentialing process and practical step-by-step guides to basic techniques. Includes a glossary, links to outside resources and sample client consent and intake forms. · User-friendly · New chapter on theory of energy healing cites recent discoveries · Emphasizes self-care of the practitioner

Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span

Addresses several advances in diagnostic testing and pharmacological therapies.