Reference

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Thumb Index))

Because for more than 65 years, Taber's has provided students and practitioners with the definitions and information they need to provide superior care for their patients: 56,000 definitions with 2,400 brand new to the 20th edition.almost 50% more than our nearest competitor. More than 6,000 revised terms. 700 superior illustrations with more than 500 in full color 100 more Patient Care sections NEW! Cautions statements added to almost 350 terms bold and in a second color New and revised appendices, including Nutrition, Complementary Medicine, and Appendix 13, which explains the roles of the Health Professions health care team members NEW! Improved placement of multi-word entries (for example, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease and Irritable bowel syndrome are now listed in natural word order) NEW! Almost 30,000 pronunciations of new and current terms More colorful interior design NEW! Easier to understand definitions NEW!

Mosby's 2008 Nursing Drug Reference (Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference)

Elsevier's bestselling nursing drug reference is the one you need to stay up-to-date and avoid medication errors. Thoroughly revised and updated every year, Mosby's 2008 Nursing Drug Reference provides all the information necessary for safe administration of more than 1,300 generic and 4,500 trade name drugs. This portable handbook organizes drugs alphabetically, and features an improved, two-color interior design with A-to-Z thumb tabs to make it even easier to find essential information quickly. This edition continues to feature do-not-confuse headings, nursing alert icons, "Tall Man" lettering as recommended by the FDA, specially grouped administration-route considerations, an emphasis on IV information, the highlighting of high alert drugs, and the identification of common and life-threatening side effects to promote safe medication administration and prevent drug errors. Fifteen detailed, four-color illustrations show how select drugs and drug classes work at the cellular level. Approximately 20 new drugs, thousands of new and updated drug facts, and new appendices are included in this latest edition, which also features a revamped mini Companion CD-ROM. A free internet drug updates website provides the latest drug alerts, new drug monographs and many more helpful features. Thousands of drugs facts change every year - make sure you stay current! Mosby's 2008 Nursing Drug Reference is also available as an interactive PDA powered by Skyscape.

• Presents comprehensive coverage on more than 1,300 generic drugs (encompassing more than 4,500 trade names) that nurses commonly administer.
• Organizes monographs alphabetically by generic drug name to allow for fast retrieval of needed information.
• Includes comprehensive drug monographs containing generic names; Rx or OTC designations; pronunciation; U.S. and Canadian trade names; functional and chemical classification; controlled-substance schedule; do-not-confuse drugs; action; uses; unlabeled uses; dosages and routes; available forms; side effects; contraindications; precautions; pharmacokinetics; interactions (including drug/herb, drug/food and drug lab test); nursing considerations; and treatment of overdose.
• Provides extensive nursing considerations in a concise, practice-oriented framework: assess, administer, perform/provide, evaluate, and teach patient/family.
• Highlights IV drug information under the Administer heading that includes special considerations and Y-site, syringe, and additive compatibilities, ensuring that all of the IV drug administration content is grouped together in one easy-to-find place.
• Features boldface route subheadings (PO, IV, IM, etc.) under the Dosage and Routes and Administer headings to help the user find information quickly.
• Identifies high alert drugs that pose the greatest risk for patient harm if administered incorrectly.
• Highlights common and life-threatening side effects in different typefaces for easy identification.
• Features a second color safety alert icon to identify considerations that require special attention.
• Features over 400 potential interactions between drugs and herbal products.
• Includes lifespan and disorder-related dosages for newborns; children; adolescents; adults; geriatric, hepatic and renal patients.
• Lists over 1,200 pairs of look-alike/sound-alike drug names in an appendix as well as in special do-not-confuse headings at the beginning of drug monographs to help nurses avoid administering the wrong drug.
• Includes several detailed multi-product monographs that group all chemically similar forms of insulin, cephalosporin (1st-, 2nd-, 3rd-generation), contraceptives, and penicillin together into single monographs. Cross-references to the individual forms of these drugs appear alphabetically throughout the book in easy-to-find colored monograph header blocks.
• Features key Canadian drug content including a listing of high alert Canadian medications, a Canadian controlled substance chart, an immunization schedule, and a maple leaf to designate Canadian brand names.
• Includes a separate section of drug category information that includes nursing considerations and a list of common generic drugs for each category.
• Features 15 full-color illustrations that show mechanisms or sites of action for select drug classes such as antidepressants, antiinfectives and antiretroviral agents.
• Provides a Syringe Compatibility Chart and IV Drug/Solution Compatibility Chart
• Presents new drug monographs in a separate appendix and throughout the text. Cross-references make these new drugs easy to find no matter where they are.
• Includes an appendix that lists the names and uses of approximately 50 of the most commonly used herbal products.
• Offers a combination products appendix that provides details on the forms and uses of more than 700 products.
• Features formulas for drug calculations and a nomogram for calculation of body surface area for quick retrieval.
• Provides a visual guide to using this book.
• Features an improved two-color design that streamlines content and enhances readability for quick, easy reference.
• Offers a flexible, water-resistant cover that provides durability in the clinical setting.
• Provides a free mini Companion CD-ROM that includes complete, printable information on the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States, a comprehensive drug interaction tool, patient teaching guides in English and Spanish, herbal monographs with detailed information for more than 40 of the most commonly used herb and natural supplements, and 30 clinical calculators.
• Includes free Internet updates at http://evolve.elsevier.com/nursingdrugupdates/Skidmore/NDR/ to provide users with the latest drug alerts, new drug monographs, tables of recently released U.S. drugs, links to useful drug-related websites, an extensive table of orphan drugs, a detailed table of AHA drug dosing guidelines, and a comprehensive Drug Safety reference.

• Contains approximately 20 new monographs for drugs recently approved by the FDA.
• Presents thousands of new and updated drug facts, including doses, side effects, pharmacokinetics, interactions and nursing considerations.
• Includes an appendix of newly approved key drugs that provides generic names, trade names, and uses for drugs so recently approved that only limited information was available at the time of publication (Appendix B)
• Offers a revamped mini Companion CD-ROM with printable monographs for the most commonly prescribed drugs and herbal supplements, patient teaching guides in English and Spanish, and 30 clinical calculators.

Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide, 4th edition

• Expand your working medical vocabulary
• Work at your own pace to master the latest terms and techniques
• Learn all the essential Greek and Latin building blocks

Learn at your own pace with the guidebook that has sold over 400,000 copies

What word is used to describe a fatty tumor? Why are qualifiers necessary in medical terminology? How does kinesialgia occur? What does "involution" mean? With Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide, Fourth Edition, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more.

Using a unique word-building system that begins with a review of Greek and Latin word roots, Shirley Steiner provides the tools necessary for building and sustaining a large working repertoire of medical terms. This new fourth edition helps readers understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, featuring new review exercises and up-to-date examples. The step-by-step, clearly structured format of Quick Medical Terminology makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview.

Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Quick Medical Terminology allows you to build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for practitioners and students who need to expand, improve, or refresh their medical vocabularies.

Rnotes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide

Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination Edition 3

From the author of market-leading Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, this unique review book gives you 5,000 additional NCLEX-RN® practice questions all organized according to the NCLEX-RN® test plan. Like all of Linda Silvestri's review books, detailed rationales are provided for all answer choices, plus comprehensive test-taking strategies, and references to Elsevier nursing textbooks. This review also includes many critical thinking and alternate item formats, plus a comprehensive exam consisting of 300 questions.

Please check out these other great NCLEX-RN® review books from Linda Silvestri:

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination (9781416037088)
Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-RN® Exam PDA Software Powered by Skyscape (9781416048510)
Saunders Strategies for Success for the NCLEX-RN® Examination (9781416000952)
Strategies for Alternate Item Formats for the NCLEX-RN® Exam (9781416038412)
Saunders Q & A Review Cards for the NCLEX-RN® Exam (9781416047261)

• The text and accompanying CD-ROM provide a total of 5,010 practice questions, offering a thorough preparation for the NCLEX-RN exam.
  
• Alternate item format questions are included throughout the text and CD-ROM to help readers become accustomed to the new question styles.
  
• Every practice question provides a correct answer, rationales for all responses, test-taking strategy, level of cognitive ability, integrated concepts and processes category, client needs category, and a reference to a major Elsevier nursing textbook.
  
• Text presents introductory chapters on the NCLEX exam, the CAT exam, and test-taking skills.
  
• Text is uniquely organized, containing chapters that specifically address each category of client needs, along with the integrated concepts and process identified in the NCLEX-RN test plan.
  
• Practice questions help readers develop the reading, critical thinking, and analytic skills they need to succeed on the exam.
  
• Makes further study easier with specific references for every question.
  
• The text contains a comprehensive exam consisting of 300 questions representative of the percentages identified in the NCLEX-RN test plan.

• Features a new chapter addressing transitional needs of foreign-educated nurses.
  
• Includes over 5,000 questions, approximately 1,510 more than the 2nd edition. All of the questions in the book, plus additional questions, are included on the CD-ROM.
  
• New alternate item format questions include drag-n-drop, illustration questions, and multiple-response questions to prepare users for these questions on the NCLEX-RN examination.

Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! 2nd Edition (Incredibly Easy! Series)

Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice

Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice, 4th Edition is a market-leading textbook written by two of the most renowned experts in the nursing research field. Now in full-color, this thoroughly updated 4th edition reflects today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. Refined format and features enhance the book's readability and bring include examples and critiques that help students better understand the concepts. The book also features an enhanced emphasis on the emerging, cost-driven field of outcomes research, as well as an improved balance of quantitative and qualitative research. In addition to a full complement of student and faculty ancillaries, a companion Nursing Research Online course is now available for separate purchase with this edition.

• Written by two of the leaders in the field of nursing research, the book presents time-tested content with ideal breadth, depth, and readability for students.
• Research Examples throughout the text illustrate key concepts with excerpts from the best of the nursing and health sciences literature.
• Critiquing Guidelines provide a systematic tool for critiquing published research studies.
• Example Critiques demonstrate how to critique an article with excerpts from published studies.
• A full Sample Critique of an entire quantitative study helps students synthesize the critiquing skills they have developed through the preceding chapters.
• A comprehensive Glossary serves as a convenient quick reference.

• Includes a fresh emphasis on the role of nursing research in building an evidence-based practice, with in-depth Research Examples now concluding with Implications for Practice.
• A new Outcomes Research chapter addresses this emerging, cost-driven discipline.
• Redesigned Critiquing Guidelines offer expert advice on evaluating research articles.
• New Sample Critique of a qualitative study complements the quantitative critique.
• Tips for Further Study identifies concepts in each chapter students tend to have the most trouble with and points them to corresponding sections in the Study Guide and the Evolve resources for further study.

Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach

The expanded 3rd edition presents a comprehensive and scholarly presentation of the roles and issues related to advanced practice nursing. Specifically, it provides the practical strategies nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, case managers, and nurse anesthetists need in order to improve patient care and legitimize their roles in an ever-changing health care system. In fact, it's the only text available that provides conceptually consistent definitions and complete exploration of advanced practice nursing. And with expanded coverage that further synthesizes concepts and explores new issues, this edition contains the comprehensive coverage necessary to guide advanced practice nurses. Instructor resources available; contact your sales representative for details.

• Time-sensitive content available on the website for easy updates
• Discusses all the major competencies of advanced practice nursing: direct clinical practice, consultation, coaching/guidance, research, leadership, collaboration, and ethical decision-making
• Offers the most wide-ranging discussion of the various roles in advanced practice nursing
• All chapters on competencies include in-depth discussions on educational strategies to allow faculty and students to see how the competencies are developed as the nurse progresses in practice
• Provides a particularly unique and pragmatic model for understanding the research utilization, interpretation, and conduct competency of the advanced practice nurse
• Discussion of role development is thorough, current, and research-based, clearly explaining the career trajectory that advanced practice nurses can anticipate
• Conceptual framework places competencies, roles, and challenges posed by the turbulent health care environment in clear relationship to each other
• Provides strategies related to business management, contracting, and marketing

• Explores Evolving Roles and Innovative Opportunities for the advanced practice nurse
• Focus on Scope of Practice, Certification, and Legal Ramifications in clinical practice
• Contains sample collaborative agreements and contracts that provide illustrated examples for the advanced practice nursing student
• Increased emphasis on evidence-based practice to help improve patient care
• Community-focused content included in several chapters
• Expanded Instructor's Resource package facilitates the teaching experience

Winningham & Preusser's Critical Thinking in Medical-Surgical Settings: A Case Study Approach

Drawing upon actual clinical experiences and case studies, the 3rd edition of this popular reference stimulates critical thinking while bridging the gap between knowledge and clinical practice. Each of the 14 chapters are organized by specific body system disorders and feature cases integrating pharmacology, nutrition, and diagnostic/laboratory tests. The introduction of 15 brand-new cases provides real-life examples to test reader knowledge on a variety of clinical settings including acute, community, home, and long-term care. In addition, there are three new chapters on women's health disorders, psychiatric disorders, and alternative therapies.

• Case studies from actual clinical experiences teach students to think critically and emphasize proactive nursing care.
• Organized into 14 chapters focusing on specific body systems to provide easy access to information
• Body systems organization compatible with any medical-surgical nursing textbook
• Each case study helps students to identify changes, anticipate possible complications, and initiate therapeutic interventions, thus preventing crises
• Cases increase in complexity within each chapter so students can build on experiences previously learned

• Updated cases in each body system focus on different problems and interventions
• Increased number of cases center on the care of conditions in older adults
• Three new chapters expose readers to a greater variety of disorders and alternative therapies

Nursing Today: Transition and Trends (NURSING TODAY: TRANSITION & TRENDS ( ZERWEKH))

Whether it's passing the NCLEX or surviving practice, the real world can leave even the best students scared and unprepared. That's why it's important that students learn the most up-to-date, relevant information on the challenges and opportunities they will face upon graduation. With new chapters, a new full-color design, and content covering the hottest topics in nursing today, students will discover that the 5th edition of this market-leading issues and trends text is an easy-to-use source for understanding the professional skills needed for practice.

• The NCLEX-RN and the New Graduate chapter is dedicated to success on the NCLEX-RN exam, including valuable tips on how to prepare for and pass the exam.
  
• The Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing chapter combines in-depth coverage on seeking employment, resume writing, and interviewing techniques and prepares students to find and get the job they want.
  
• Updated content on effective communication and team building, conflict management, collective bargaining, and nursing informatics.
  
• Other outstanding features include lively cartoons, chapter objectives and exercises, boxed information, and critical thinking questions to keep students focused on pertinent information.

• Full-color design highlights important information and enhances visual appeal.
  
• Updated Table of Contents and streamlined organization improves the flow of material covered.
  
• New chapter on Mentoring and Preceptorship provides an in-depth look at strategies useful when assuming these roles in practice.
  
• New chapter on Nursing Theories includes discussion on nursing theorists, how nursing theory is used in practice, and the future of nursing theory.
  
• New chapter on Work Place Issues includes timely information on workplace advocacy, the nursing shortage, mandatory overtime, workplace safety, and bioterrorism.
  
• New chapter on Quality Patient Care focuses on quality management principles and their subsequent effect on both external and internal forces, and the role of the nurse in quality process improvement.
  
• New chapter on Cultural & Spiritual Awareness describes cultural competence and the principles of culturally competent care and how end-of-life issues impact nursing practice.