Nurse to Nurse Dementia Care

Nurse to Nurse Dementia Care

Author by:
Cynthia D. Steele

Books Details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (August 24, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071484329
ISBN-13: 978-007148432

The Nurse to Nurse new series is specifically designed to simulate the teaching experience nurses learn best from: trusted mentors carefully explaining what they must do in specific clinical situtions. Written in a consistent, single-author voice, this series brings the wisdom and experience of some of the foremost experts to non-specialist nurses in clinical care.

Part of McGraw-Hill's Nurse to Nurse series, this title includes PDA download of the entire text, vignettes, nursing alerts that provide just-in-time information on complex or particularly important aspects of patient care, and Therapeutic Dialogue Boxes that provide nurses with specific communication solutions for both patients and their families. Coated flex-binding repels stains.

From the co-director of Johns Hopkins University's neuropsychiatry clinic and senior faculty member at the Copper Ridge Institute comes the first pocket-sized reference for generalist nurses on care for patients with dementia, one of the most emotionally-trying disorders they will face in clinical practice.

• The first handbook on dementia care for nurses
• Dementia is one of the most commonly occuring disorders nurses face
• Includes full-text PDA download
• Handy, portable trim-size
• Written in a consistent, single-author tone

Table of contents

Nursing Care Plans for Clients with Dementia

1. Key features of dementia
2. Definition of other complicating psychiatric and medical conditions
3. Recognition and management of delirium in the person with dementia.
4. Daily care
5. The 5 D approach to behavior problems.
6. Common behavior problems, risk factors and response.
7. Creating activities for the person with dementia
8. The use of companions and sitters
9. Communication with the health care team
10. Transferring of the patient and essential information for their care to another provider.

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Nursing Care of Older People with Diabetes

Nursing Care of Older People with Diabetes

Editor by:
Trisha Dunning

Books Details:
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (August 5, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1405123648
ISBN-13: 978-1405123648

Description
Diabetes presents differently in older people and normal aging processes, predisposition to specific complications, and other co-morbid conditions complicate its management. The underlying philosophy of this book is that there are opportunities for prevention, health maintenance and rehabilitation for older people with diabetes, which can realistically improve their quality of life.

This book is an easy to follow essential guide to providing skilled and effective care for older people with diabetes in community, acute and residential care settings. It aims to provide nurses and other health professionals with the knowledge needed to accurately diagnose, treat and care for older people with diabetes. It draws upon guidance from the National Service Frameworks for Diabetes and Care of Older adult People and the Department of Human Service Standards  and provides an ideal companion to Care of People with Diabetes.

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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

Author by:
Betty J. Ackley
Gail B. Ladwig

Books Details

• Paperback: 960 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 8 edition (June 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323048269
• ISBN-13: 978-0323048262

Book Description
Create effective, customized nursing care plans with ease and confidence

This innovative resource teaches you the critical thinking and assessment skills you need to build customized care plans based on each patient's unique needs. Its step-by-step approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidence-based rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.

• Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.
• Includes examples nursing  care plans and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes for each care plan.
• A convenient A-to-Z organization in Sections I and II helps you quickly locate key information.
• Evidence-based practice information is incorporated throughout.
• Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.
• A Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website helps you create customized plans of care.
• Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, including approximately 15 new, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.
• Provides a more detailed explanation of NIC and NOC taxonomies and their use in care planning.
• Explanations of assessment versus action interventions help guide you to the correct choice of intervention.
• Covers important information on concept mapping.
• Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.
• Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.
• Includes the latest evidence-based nursing rationales.

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Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination
Author by:
Linda Anne Silvestri

Details
Paperback: 1280 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 4 edition (October 23, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 141603708X
ISBN-13: 978-1416037088

Books Description
There is a reason the new edition of Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination has been called "the best NCLEX review book ever." Essentially, you'll find everything you need to review for the NCLEX exam under one cover - complete content review and over 4,200 NCLEX-style questions in the book and on the free companion CD! Don't make the mistake of assuming that the quality of the questions is the same in all NCLEX review books, because only Silvestri's Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination includes the kind of questions that consistently test the critical thinking skills necessary to pass today's NCLEX exam. And, what's even better is that ALL answers include detailed rationales to help you learn from your answer choices, along with test taking strategies that provide tips for how to best approach each question. It's easy to see why Silvestri is THE book of choice for NCLEX review. But don't just take our word for it -- read any customer review or ask your fellow classmates to see why Silvestri users believe that there's nothing else like it!

• Each question includes the correct answer, a complete rationale for all responses, and a test-taking strategy to help students develop strategies for locating the correct response.
• Each question includes a page reference to an Elsevier nursing textbook to help with remediation.
• All alternate item format questions are included, with multiple response, prioritizing, fill-in-the-blank, figure/illustration, chart/exhibit, and audio questions.
• Organization by nursing content areas provides a logical, effective review.
• Pyramid Terms define key terms at the beginning of each major unit or chapter.
• Pyramid Points within each chapter highlight the content that is important in preparing for the NCLEX-RN examination.
• Pyramid to Success sections provide an overview of major units or chapters and specific content related to the latest NCLEX-RN test plan.
• Pharmacology is emphasized with 13 pharmacology chapters, a medication and intravenous calculation chapter, and a pediatric medication calculation chapter to reflect priority content on the NCLEX exam.
• Introductory chapters cover preparation for the NCLEX-RN exam, nonacademic preparation, test-taking strategies, the NCLEX-RN exam from a student's perspective, and transitional issues for the foreign-educated nurse.
• A comprehensive exam consists of 265 questions related to all content areas in the book and representative of the percentages identified in the NCLEX-RN test plan.
• CD-ROM allows practice in quiz, study, or exam modes, with questions selected from content area, integrated process, category of client needs, or alternate item format type.

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Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention

Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention
Author by:
Meg Gulanick
Judith L. Myers

Books Details
Paperback: 1168 pages
Publisher: Mosby; 6 edition (September 28, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0323039545
ISBN-13: 978-0323039543

Book Description
A comprehensive guide to nursing care planning for adult medical-surgical patients, with the most care plans of any care planning resource
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 Nursing care plans 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.

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Diagnostic Neuroradiology

Diagnostic Neuroradiology

Author by:
Valery N. Kornienko
Igor Nikolaevich Pronin

Details
Hardcover: 1288 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (January 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540756523
ISBN-13: 978-3540756521

In this monograph, the authors summarize their findings in complex neuroimaging work (cranio-, spondylo-, myelo- and angiography as well as CT and MR imaging of the brain and spine) during their longstanding experience at the N. Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow. The book begins with a review of modern neuroimaging techniques: CT and MR angiography, perfusion and diffusion imaging, tractography, spectroscopy and functional MR imaging.

The problems and various other aspects of diagnosis of intra- and extra-axial brain tumors (more than 30,000 verified cases) as well as of cerebrovascular, infectious, demyelinating, degenerative and traumatic brain and spine lesions are discussed. The volume is well illustrated with angiographic, CT and MR images of complex diagnostic studies. The numerous images represent a "visual text," which can be used as an atlas by practical clinicians.

The book contains 15 chapters. The first chapter outlines the stages of formation and development of neurovisualisation technology, with a historical background, and gives information necessary for understanding the novel diagnostic methods that help to visualise pathology in the context of anatomical and pathophysiological changes, even on the molecular level. New diagnostic technology makes it possible to obtain quantitative estimation of changes in disease progression, and it plays an important role in making early diagnoses within routine protocols of investigations. The chapter is aimed at readers who are familiar with the basic principles of CT and MR imaging, which is why in it we consider only the main principles and practical aspects of the newest quantitative CT and MRI diagnostic technologies, including diffusion MRI and diffusion tensor imaging, CT perfusion and MR perfusion, functional MRI, proton spectroscopy, and CT angiography and MR angiography.

In other chapters, we discuss the diagnostic principles of the main categories of diseases of, and damages to, the CNS. Most of this volume is devoted to the diagnoses of cerebrovascular disease, intracerebral and extracranial tumours and tumour- like processes, inflammatory, demyelinative, and neurodegenerative disease, and traumatic brain and spinal damage.

Chapters dedicated to the diagnoses of brain tumours are based on verified clinical cases (more than 30,000) using the complex approach including MRI, MRS, CT and MR perfusions, and diffusion-weighted imaging. Proton MR spectroscopy information is given in single- and multivoxel-regime formats Each clinical chapter contains the most important information on CNS pathological changes, basic markers for specific diagnose of the diseases, and unique images of rare pathologies.

Content Chapter:

1. Neuroradiology: History and New Research Technologies
2. Congenital Malformations of the Brain and Skull
3. Cerebrovascular Diseases and Malformations of the Brain
4. Supratentorial Tumours
5. Pineal Region Tumours
6. Sellar and Parasellar Tumours
7. Infratentorial Tumours
8. Tumours of the Meninges
9. Head Trauma
10. Hydrocephalus
11. Intracranial Infections
12. Toxic and Metabolic Disorders
13. Demyelinating Diseases of the Central Nervous System
14. Neurodegenerative Disorders of the Central Nervous System
15. Spine and Spinal Cord Disorders

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