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Fundamentals of Nursing (Fundamentals of Nursing (Potter & Perry))

Comprehensive, logically organized, and now easier to read, this market-leading fundamentals text provides you with up-to-date coverage of nursing principles, concepts, and skills. The book's nursing process framework, critical thinking emphasis, health promotion focus, and thorough coverage of acute and continuing care in all settings help prepare you for nursing practice today. This new edition addresses the increased focus on evidence-based practice and new guidelines for safe patient handling. Plus, a new, cutting-edge chapter on Surviving Cancer helps prepare you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.

• The 5-step nursing process provides a consistent framework for clinical chapters.
• UNIQUE! Critical Thinking in each clinical chapter includes Critical Thinking Models demonstrating the application of the nursing process and critical thinking.
• More than 60 skills are generously illustrated and provide clear, step-by-step instructions for practicing safe nursing care.
• Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions for skills alert you to possible problems and appropriate action.
• Procedural Guidelines boxes provide streamlined, step-by-step instructions for performing very basic skills.
• More than 20 care plans demonstrate the application of the 5-step nursing process to individual patient problems to help you understand how a plan is developed and how to evaluate care.
• Clients in the care plan extend to the critical thinking activities at the end of each chapter.
• Over 20 concept maps visually demonstrate planning care for clients with multiple nursing diagnoses.
• Planning sections include sections on Goals and Outcomes, Setting Priorities, and Collaborative Care to help you plan and prioritize comprehensive client care.
• Implementation sections include health promotion, acute care, and continuing care to prepare you for all levels of care in all settings.
• UNIQUE! Safety Alerts provide information and techniques to ensure client and nurse safety based on The Joint Commission's list of National Patient Safety Goals.
• Cultural Aspect of Care boxes summarize cultural considerations related to the chapter topic and provide practical guidelines for how to meet clients' cultural needs and preferences.
• Client Teaching boxes help you plan effective teaching by first identifying outcomes, then developing strategies on how to teach, and, finally, implementing measures to evaluate learning.
• Focus on Older Adult boxes highlight key aspects of nursing assessment and care for this population.
• Key concepts neatly summarize the most important content for each chapter to help you review and evaluate learning.

• UNIQUE! An ESL/Readability specialist has edited each chapter to streamline the text and improve readability.
• UNIQUE! Companion CD, included with the text, provides you with interactive learning activities, searchable audio glossary, Spanish/English audio glossary, Butterfield's Fluids & Electrolytes Tutorial, test-taking skills, and NCLEX® exam-style review questions.
• UNIQUE! Evidence Based Practice boxes summarize the results of a research study and describe the difference the study has made in nursing practice.
• Evidence-Based Practice chapter helps you understand how nursing research serves as the basis for determining best practice, and the critical importance of this continually evolving dynamic.
• UNIQUE! Surviving Cancer chapter prepares you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.
• NCLEX® examination-style review questions for each chapter include new alternate-item format questions, as well as rationales for all answer choices.
• Delegation coverage is enhanced, noting which skills can and cannot be delegated, and indicating related tasks that should be delegated. To help you apply this information, many chapters incorporate delegation considerations into the chapter case study and address them in the critical thinking and NCLEX® exam-style review questions.
• Nursing Assessment Questions boxes help you learn to effectively phrase questions for clients.
• Expanded coverage of informatics familiarizes you with the use of information technology in documenting care and researching best practices.
• UNIQUE! Critical Thinking in Practice sections at the end of each chapter provide questions that require you to apply knowledge, often to the case study detailed in the chapter's care plan.
• New Safe Patient Handling Guidelines are included in the Safety chapter.
• NOC outcomes, as well as NIC interventions, are incorporated in care plans to reflect the standard used by institutions nationwide.
• Key terms are conveniently placed at the beginning of each chapter and include page references where definitions can be found.
• The companion Evolve website offers free downloadable skills video clips and audio chapter summaries.

Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention (Nursing Care Plans)

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.

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.

Patient Care Skills (5th Edition) (PATIENT CARE SKILLS ( MINOR))

A revision of a highly successful text that demonstrates proper positioning techniques and other patient care competencies that a physical therapist must master. New features in this edition, which will be completely redesigned include: Key Terms, Procedure boxes, new photos and Video CD-ROM. Physical Therapy / Occupational Therapy students and professionals.

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

Help your students save valuable time -- make sure they use the best care planning book available! Extensively revised and updated throughout with the latest NANDA, NIC and NOC content, Nursing Care Plans Across the Life Span, 7th edition, also addresses the most recent advances in diagnostic testing and pharmacological therapies.

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.

Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals

The 2nd edition of this clinically based guidebook that focuses on the initial psychiatric interview provides practical suggestions for analyzing and altering the interview to mesh with the specific needs of the patient. Contains detailed discussions of how to open an interview, how to interpret nonverbal communication, how to make more natural transitions, and how to arrive at accurate diagnoses. Offers special techniques for eliciting information from depressed, psychotic, and personality-disordered patients. This edition presents updated DSM-IV criteria, new strategies in suicide assessment, and an annotated interview section accompanied by sample write-ups with tips in the appendix.

Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-596-0

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

Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention (NURSES AND FAMILIES)

Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention, 4th Edition, is the ideal text for your undergraduate and graduate students. It is the only family textbook that provides specific "how to" guidelines for clinical practice. Your students are guided through the process of preparing for, conducting, and documenting family meetings from the very first interview through discharge.

Guide To Culturally Competent Health Care

With its focus on clinical relevance, this quick reference for students and health care practitioners, who provide direct patient care in diverse settings, meets an emerging need for information regarding nursing care for cross-culturally diverse populations. It will boost the confidence of students who feel uncomfortable dealing with those from a cultural background different than their own. It provides a summary of issues to be aware of, including cultural variations regarding personal space, dietary preferences, activities of daily living, communication, symptom management, activities of daily living, religious and health practices. Written in outline format, it focuses on clinically relevant information for each culture discussed.