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Kindle Fire

2012-01-26T18:45:00.000-08:00

Full Color 7" Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi

Movies, apps, games, music, reading and more, plus Amazon's revolutionary, cloud-accelerated web browser

19 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books
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Favorite children's books, graphic novels, and magazines in rich color

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7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45" (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm).

Weight
14.6 ounces (413 grams).

System Requirements None, because it's wireless and doesn't require a computer.
On-device Storage 8GB internal (approximately 6GB available for user content). That's enough for 80 apps, plus 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.
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Battery Life Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as web browsing and downloading content.
Charge Time Fully charges in approximately 4 hours via included U.S. power adapter. Also supports charging from your computer via USB.
Wi-Fi Connectivity Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, or enterprise networks with support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
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Anemia in the Elderly

2010-06-24T18:54:00.000-07:00

Anemia in the Elderly

Anemia in the Elderly

Anemia in the Elderly
Editor:
Lodovico Balducci
William B. Ershler
John M. Bennett

Anemia in the Elderly

From the reviews: “This multiauthored monograph on anemia in older persons discusses the nature of aging and red cell levels in the body as well as the various causes of anemia in older persons. Its purpose is to review the nature of anemia in older persons. The book succeeds admirably. The audience is hematologists and physicians treating older persons and researchers of blood physiology. … Because anemia is common in older persons, this book is important and timely. It points the way to the future studies.” (David O. Staats, Doody’s Review Service, May, 2008) “Anemia in the Elderly offers a thoughtful overview of a common yet underdiagnosed medical condition. this book carries tremendous clinical relevance for its intended audience physicians and other clinicians who care for older adults. The major contribution of this text is the elegant integration of geriatrics throughout. By offering a thoughtful approach to anemia that takes functional status into account, this book is an important addition to the fields of geriatrics and hematology.”

Anemia in the Elderly

Anemia in the elderly has been properly defined as the silent epidemic, representing 3 million people in the United States aged 65 years and older. Incidence and prevalence of this condition increase with age. It differs in its etiology, pathogenesis and treatment from anemia in children and younger adults. Anemia is associated with reduced survival, increased risk of functional dependence and hospitalization, increased risk of congestive heart failure and stage renal disease and cognitive disorders. Approximately 70% of anemia in older individuals is reversible.

Anemia in the Elderly
Details

* Paperback: 146 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 28, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0387097910
* ISBN-13: 978-0387097916
* Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.4 inches

Anemia in the Elderly

Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease

2009-12-18T10:52:00.000-08:00

Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease (Des Jardins,Clinical Manifestations and Assesments of Respiratory Disease) (Paperback)

Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease
Author by:

Terry Des Jardins MEd RRT
George G. Burton MD FACP FCCP FAARC

Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease
Book Description
Current, comprehensive coverage in an easy-to-read format

Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease Book Description

The new edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest changes in the field. The introductory chapters address the fundamental skills and protocols necessary for clinical assessment. Each disease is presented in relation to one of six clinical scenarios: atelectasis, consolidation, increased alveolar-capillary membrane thickness, bronchospasm, excessive bronchial secretions, and distal airway and alveolar weakening. Students are provided with an illustration of the major alterations of the lungs, the etiology of the disease, an overview of clinical manifestations, a discussion of management, and a series of self-assessment questions.

Emphasis on clinical scenarios that allows the student to better understand the diseases. It shows them why they are seeing what they are seeing and why certain treatment modalities are being used.
Focus on assessment and therapist-driven protocols (TDPs) so students can incorporate this into their care of patients.
Full-color insert that aids the reader in visualizing and understanding the pathophysiology of the diseases.
Clinical Manifestation Overview boxes that enable students to easily refer back to the most important information about the pathophysiologic mechanisms for each disorder of the lung and confirm that they have learned the key information.
Case studies that aid the student and the instructor in applying the fundamental information to the assessment and treatment of respiratory patients.
Twelve easily accessible appendices featuring commonly needed information such as abbreviations, equations, medications, hemodynamic measurements, and more.

Two color design that engages the reader by highlighting different elements of the text and details within the line drawings.
Access to the Evolve Learning System that includes additional case studies, a PowerPoint presentation of lecture material, a test bank, an image collection, and Weblinks

Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease
books Details

Paperback: 688 pages
Publisher: Mosby; 5 edition (November 10, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0323028063
ISBN-13: 978-0323028066

Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease (Des Jardins,Clinical Manifestations and Assesments of Respiratory Disease)

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing

2009-12-09T07:14:00.000-08:00

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing
Author:
Tony Gilliam.

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing
Book Description

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing provides a broad range of insights into many aspects of the CPN's work. Writing in a fresh and accessible style, Tony Gillam, a practicing CPN, explores professional identity, the community and the role of the nurse, good practice and the concept of risk, user involvement treatment and more. Practicing nurses and other professionals will find it useful in developing their own reflective practice as well as offering a useful overview of an increasingly important area of nursing.

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing
book Details

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 14, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415259797
ISBN-13: 978-0415259798
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches

Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing

Clinical Manual for the Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents

2009-12-09T06:22:00.000-08:00

Clinical Manual for the Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents

Clinical Manual for the Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Editorial Reviews

An excellent overview of what is known about Bipolar in Youth. From epidemiology to diagnosis to evidence based theory regarding the etiology and treatment this book has it all. The 3 Bob s, with the additional of Dr. Fristad have done it again. --Russell E. Scheffer, M.D., Chair and professor, Kansas University School of Medicine- Wichita

The book is a comprehensive yet readable synthesis of the existing research and expert opinion on pediatric bipolar disorder. The authors have made this complex area of psychiatry accessible to everyone but were able to maintain scientific rigor so that the book is useful to a wide range of readers, including specialists in the field. --David Axelson, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Child & Adolescent Bipolar Services, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

This book is an invaluable resource for clinicians who treat bipolar disorder. It contains up-to-date scholarly, yet practical information on diagnostic and treatment issues in pediatric bipolar disorder. --Karen Dinnen Wagner, M.D., Ph.D., Marie B. Gale Centennial Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry& Behavioral Sciences, Director, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch

Clinical Manual for the Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Books Description

Clinical Manual for Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents was written in response to the growing body of knowledge surrounding pediatric bipolar illness and the underlying biological, environmental, and psychosocial influences that exacerbate symptoms and behavior. Written to provide clinically useful information about diagnosis and management, this manual is a comprehensive collection of empirical evidence, case studies, and the growing number of evidence-based reports on pediatric bipolar disorder over the past five years. This revised and extended manual thoroughly examines how the past dualism of nature versus nurture should be replaced with the more accurate nurture enhancing or igniting nature in young patients facing bipolar disorder. This enhanced text also features several new chapters by Dr. Mary Fristad and team at The Ohio State University, who are experts in the family and psychosocial aspects of pediatric bipolar disorder.

Clinical Manual for the Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Book Details

Paperback: 355 pages
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.; 1 edition (December 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1585622915
ISBN-13: 978-1585622917
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches

Clinical Manual for the Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Second Edition (Lung Biology in Health and Disease: Hardcover)

2009-11-18T22:34:00.000-08:00

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Editor: Augustine M. K. Choi

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Book Description
The only available text to focus primarily on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
Thoroughly revised content and ten new chapters provide pulmonologists with the latest developments and applications of pharmacological and mechanical therapies needed to treat the debilitating and difficult condition of ARDS.

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
REVISION OF A BESTSELLER-Updated content and ten new chapters cover the latest developments and applications physicians need to treat ARDS

EVALUATION OF CURRENT THERAPIES-Surfactant therapy, glucocorticoid therapy, invasive and non-invasive prone position forms of mechanical ventilation, and mesenchymal stem cells helps clinicians give patients the best possible care

INTERNATIONAL TEAM OF EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS-Key opinion leaders with diverse backgrounds and experience provide authoritative guidance physicians want and trust

A COMPLETE STAND-ALONE GUIDE-the only available comprehensive volume to tackle this pertinent issue and cover both its pathophysiology and pathogens

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Book Details

Hardcover: 472 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 2 edition (November 16, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420088408
ISBN-13: 978-1420088403

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Second Edition (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation

2009-11-18T11:35:00.000-08:00

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation
Author By: Joel Stein

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Book Description

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary textbook devoted exclusively to stroke rehabilitation and recovery. This new comprehensive guide is the gold standard for managing and rehabilitating stroke patients. Beginning with detailed information on risk factors, epidemiology, prevention, and neurophysiology, the book details the acute and long-term treatment of all stroke-related impairments and complications. Additional sections discuss psychological issues, outcomes, community reintegration, and new research.

Written by dozens of acknowledged leaders in the field, and containing hundreds of tables, graphs, and photographic images, Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation features:

The first full-length discussion of the most commonly-encountered component of neurorehabilitation
Multi-specialty coverage of issues in rehabilitation, neurology, PT, OT, speech therapy, and nursing
Focus on therapeutic management of stroke related impairments and complications
An international perspective from dozens of foremost authorities on stroke
Cutting edge, practical information on new developments and research trends

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation is a valuable reference for clinicians and academics in rehabilitation and neurology, and professionals in all disciplines who serve the needs of stroke survivors.

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Book Details

Hardcover: 992 pages
Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing; 1 edition (December 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933864125
ISBN-13: 978-1933864129
Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 1.6 inches

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Acute Stroke Nursing

2009-11-18T11:24:00.000-08:00

Acute Stroke Nursing

Acute Stroke Nursing
Editor:

Jane Williams
Lin Perry
Caroline Watkins

Acute Stroke Nursing Book Description

Stroke is a medical emergency. With active and efficient nursing management in the initial hours after stroke onset, effective recovery and rehabilitation is increased. Acute Stroke Nursing provides nurses with a current, evidenced based, practical text facilitating the provision of optimal stroke Nursing care during the primary prevention and acute phases.

This timely and practical text is structured to follow the acute stroke pathway experienced by patients. It explores the symptoms, causes and effects of stroke and provides guidance on issues such as nutrition, continence, positioning, mobility and continence. The text also considers rehabilitation. discharge planning, palliative care and the role of the nurse within the multiprofessional team. Acute Stroke Nursing is an essential guide to the Nursing management of stroke for all nurses health care professional wishing to extend their knowledge of stroke nursing

Acute Stroke Nursing Book Details

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (April 19, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1405161043
ISBN-13: 978-1405161046

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Acute Stroke Nursing

Pre-eclampsia: Etiology and Clinical Practice

2009-09-12T14:33:00.000-07:00

Pre-eclampsia: Etiology and Clinical Practice

Preeclampsia: Etiology and Clinical Practice Editor by
Fiona Lyall
Michael Belfort

Pre-eclampsia: Etiology and Clinical Practice Book Review

"This book receives my highest recommendation. It is a highly comprehensive book and one that any obstetrician/gynecologist would find useful. It is a valuable contribution to the field of obstetric and perinatal medicine."

Pre-eclampsia: Etiology and Clinical Practice Book Description

Pre-eclampsia is one of the leading causes of death and disability in mothers and babies. Over four million women worldwide will develop the disorder every year. This book, written by an international team of experts, focuses on both the scientific basis of pre-eclampsia and its management. The basic science section contains up-to-date reviews of the most exciting research developments in pre-eclampsia. The clinical chapters provide a comprehensive review of the pertinent literature, highlighting recent data and new ideas or developments in current management. There is a section in each chapter (where relevant) that deals with practical management, giving clinicians a formulated treatment plan that they can implement directly. The book will be of interest to all professionals interested in the reproductive sciences, and to obstetricians and physicians with an interest in pre-eclampsia.

Pre-eclampsia: Etiology and Clinical Practice Book Details

Hardcover: 566 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 18, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 052183189X
ISBN-13: 978-0521831895
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches

Pre-eclampsia: Etiology and Clinical Practice

Pre-eclampsia: Current Perspectives on Management

2009-09-12T06:50:00.000-07:00

Pre-eclampsia: Current Perspectives on Management

Pre-eclampsia: Current Perspectives on Management Editor by

Philip Baker
John C. P. Kingdom

"Pre-eclampsia is much more than just 'pregnancy-induced hypertension'..."

Preeclampsia: Current Perspectives on Management Book Description

With its massive implications for both mothers and babies, pre-eclampsia continues to be one of the medical communities greatest challenges. Edited by renowned experts in this field, this book presents a comprehensive overview of pre-eclampsia. Providing a definition and classification of the disease, and the etiology and pathogenesis of the condition, the authors cover screening, presentation, and diagnosis, and review maternal and fetal complications. They take a multidisciplinary approach to labor ward management of the severe disease, anaesthetic implications, and post-partum care. The book concludes with an examination of future therapeutic strategies and directions.

Pre-eclampsia: Current Perspectives on Management Book Details

Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher: Informa HealthCare; 1 edition (December 2, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1842141805
ISBN-13: 978-1842141809
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.1 x 1 inches

Pre-eclampsia: Current Perspectives on Management

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

2009-09-03T08:34:00.000-07:00

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Author by Sheila L Videbeck

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Book Description

Now in its updated Fourth Edition, this popular text is designed for undergraduate nursing programs that teach a shortened or integrated psychiatric-mental health core course. The book presents sound nursing theory, therapeutic modalities, and clinical applications for the major DSM-IV-TR disorders across the treatment continuum, from hospital to home setting. The text uses the nursing process framework and emphasizes assessment, therapeutic communication, neurobiology, and psychopharmacologic intervention. Features focus on developing student self-awareness, communication skills, and utilizing family and community resources.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Book Details

Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth Edition edition (October 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781764254
ISBN-13: 978-0781764254

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Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children

2009-09-03T08:25:00.000-07:00

Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children

Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children
Editor by Vidya Bhushan Gupta

Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children book Description

Impeccably researched and written by a nationally known team of specialists from neurodevelopmental pediatrics, psychology, epidemiology, education, occupational therapy, and speech therapy backgrounds, Autistic Disorders in Children presents a multidisciplinary profile of autism and pervasive developmental disorders in children. Tracing the history of autism and tracking the latest research on its causation and neurological basis, this volume offers both traditional medical and complementary and alternative medicine approaches—as well as reliable methods for assessing treatment efficacy.

Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children Book Details

Hardcover: 338 pages
Publisher: Informa HealthCare; 1 edition (March 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824750616
ISBN-13: 978-082475061

Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children (Pediatric Habilitation)

Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD - A Biopsychological Model with Guidelines for Diagnostics and Treatment

2009-08-27T04:47:00.000-07:00

Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD

Author by Martine F. Delfos

Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD Book Description

In this wide-reaching and comprehensive book psychologist Martine F. Delfos provides practical guidance on the diagnosis, support and treatment of a variety of childhood behavioural problems, including anxiety problems, aggression, depression and ADHD. Presenting a useful and compelling model of the interplay of environment, disposition and central nervous system development, Delfos shows how differences in brain structure between the sexes may have a part to play in behavioural problems in children and adolescents. Children and Behavioural Problems is an essential resource for teachers, psychologists, social workers and other professionals working with children, as well as for parents seeking to support their children with special needs throughout their development.

Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD Author

Martine F. Delfos PhD is a psychologist who works with clients with a broad spectrum of behavioural problems. She is the author of several books in the field of child psychology, autism and behavioural difficulties. She is committed to the development of theoretical models that are directly applicable in the daily work of professionals.

Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD Details

Paperback: 303 pages

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 1 edition (May 2004)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1843101963

ISBN-13: 978-1843101963

Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing

2009-08-27T04:37:00.000-07:00

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing

Editor by Tim McDougall

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing Book Review

"This is a long-overdue book, and one which is surely set to become a standard text It deserves to stand out on the bookshelf of every nursing library, and to be close to hand for every specialist CAMHS nurse in the UK and further afield."

Mental Health Nursing

"This book provides sound, innovative advice to update, improve and develop practice so that nurses can make a difference to the children and young people in our care."

Paediatric Nursing

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing Book Description

All nurses share a responsibility to promote the mental health and mental wellbeing of children and young people in the context of recent developments including the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing equips nurses with the essential skills and competencies needed when working with this important group of people. It explores best practice in a variety of settings and addresses issues such as eating disorders, self-harm, ADHD, learning disabilities, forensic mental health issues and misuse of drugs and alcohol in children and young people, as well as child protection, clinical governance and legal requirements.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing enables nurses working in CAMHS to provide a high quality, evidence-based service to all children and young people with mental health problems and disorders, ensuring effective assessment, treatment and support, for them and their families. It is essential reading for all nurses working with children and young people, particularly those working in specialist child and adolescent mental health settings.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing Book Details

Paperback: 328 pages

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (October 2, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1405128011

ISBN-13: 978-1405128018

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision) (Paperback)

2009-08-20T07:58:00.000-07:00

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition

by American Psychiatric Association

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition

Book Description

Since the DSM-IV® was published in 1994, we’ve seen many advances in our knowledge of psychiatric illness. This Text Revision incorporates information culled from a comprehensive literature review of research about mental disorders published since DSM-IV® was completed in 1994. Updated information is included about the associated features, culture, age, and gender features, prevalence, course, and familial pattern of mental disorders.

The DSM-IV® brings this essential diagnostic tool up-to-date, to promote effective diagnosis, treatment, and quality of care. Now you can get all the essential diagnostic information you rely on from the DSM-IV® along with important updates not found in the 1994 edition.

Stay current with important updates to the DSM-IV®:

Benefit from new research into Schizophrenia, Asperger’s Disorder, and other conditions
Utilize additional information about the epidemiology and other facets of DSM conditions
Update ICD-9-CM codes implemented since 1994 (including Conduct Disorder, Dementia, Somatoform Disorders)

DSM-IV-TR, the handheld version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision, is now available for both Palm OS and PocketPC handhelds. This Text Revision incorporates information culled from a comprehensive literature review of research about mental disorders and includes associated features, culture, age, and gender features, prevalence, course, and familial pattern of mental disorders. And with Skyscape's patented smARTlink™ technology, DSM-IV-TR can easily cross-index with other clinical and drug prescription products from Skyscape to provide a powerful and integrated source of clinical information that you can carry with you wherever you go!

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition

Book Details

Paperback: 943 pages
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.; 4th edition (June 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0890420254
ISBN-13: 978-0890420256

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision)

Somatoform Disorders: WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry

2009-07-31T03:38:00.000-07:00

Somatoform Disorders: WPA Series in Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry

Editor by:
Mario Maj
Hagop S. Akiskal
Juan Mezzich
Ahmed Okasha

Somatoform Disorders: WPA Series in Evidence and ; Experience in Psychiatry
Description
Be Guided by the Evidence

Somatoform disorders are more common than many clinicians realize and are often underdiagnosed and poorly managed.

This practical guide provides a comprehensive overview of all somatoform disorders. It aims to enable the mental health practitioner to properly diagnose and manage the disorders as well as to provide the appropriate advice to colleagues of other medical disciplines.

Somatoform Disorders offers:

Detailed coverage of the concepts of each disorder: diagnosis, classification, co-morbidities and course and outcome
An outline of clinical, biological and psychosocial research in the area
An overview of clinical management and future perspectives
The unique series format of systematic reviews followed by commentaries

Somatoform Disorders is the ninth volume of the WPA Series "Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry. The book is an unbiased and reliable reference point for all psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses and policy makers.

Somatoform Disorders: WPA Series in Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry
Book Details

Hardcover: 414 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 21, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470016124
ISBN-13: 978-0470016121

Somatoform Disorders (WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry)

Foundations of Nursing Research (5th Edition)

2009-07-12T08:45:00.000-07:00

Foundations of Nursing Research (5th Edition) (Nieswiadomy, Foundations of Nursing Research) (Paperback)

Foundations of Nursing Research (5th Edition)
Author by: NIESWIADOMY

Foundations of Nursing Research (5th Edition) Book Description

This book provides registered nurses with an easy-to understand description of nursing research. Everyone who reads this book, including people outside the nursing profession, agree that it is very readable and concise. Nursing Research on the Web sections have been added, increasing readers' interest in nursing research as they discover information available on the Internet. Concepts of evidence-based practice and outcomes research have been added. Excerpts from 58 published nursing research studies are integrated throughout the book. Most are from studies published in 2000. Self-tests are included. An invaluable reference book for registered nurses.

Foundations of Nursing Research (5th Edition)
From the Back Cover

A conversational style and comprehensive, step-by-step approach makes Foundations of Nursing Research, Fourth Edition one of the best-selling research texts for nurses. Following the steps of the nursing process, it diligently moves from problem identification and literature review, to development of hypotheses, design formulation, samples and data collection and data analysis. Case studies and self-tests provide further review. Additional features include:

New - Concepts of evidence-based practice and its implications for nursing practice.
Updated - Review of the Literature provides the most current nursing research.
Excerpts from 58 published nursing research studies.
Get-Involved Activities provide real-life examples of what it is like in the field.
Self-tests allow for reinforcement and review of material.
Critiquing guidelines highlight steps for judging the appropriateness of study findings.

Foundations of Nursing Research (5th Edition) Book Details

Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (May 7, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0136129803
ISBN-13: 978-0136129806
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches

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Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice

2009-07-12T07:39:00.000-07:00

Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice (Essentials of Nursing Research (Polit)) (Paperback)

Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice
Author by:

Denise F Polit
Cheryl Tatano Beck

Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice Book Description

Essentials of Nursing Research is designed to teach students how to read, understand, analyze, and evaluate research reports in nursing practice. The Seventh Edition has been updated with stronger coverage of evidence-based practice, including content on how to read, interpret, and critique systematic reviews, which are considered by many to be a cornerstone of evidence-based practice. Also included in the Seventh Edition: a more balanced presentation of medical and social science methods and nomenclature; enhanced coverage of qualitative research; and more!

Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice Book Details

Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 7th edition (January 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781781531
ISBN-13: 978-0781781534

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Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research

2009-07-08T06:34:00.000-07:00

Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) (Paperback)

Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research

Author by:

Denise F Polit

Cheryl Tatano Beck

Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research Book Description

This Resource Manual with its accompanying "Toolkit" CD-ROM is a study guide that provides abundant research tools unlike any on the market! The Resource Manual provides exercises corresponding to each chapter from Polit and Beck's Nursing Research, with a focus on critiquing actual studies. Students will find such comprehensive assets as 11 complete research reports covering a range of nursing research endeavors; full critiques of two systematic reviews providing models for a comprehensive research critique; and a never-before-published funded NINR grant application. The free accompanying Toolkit CD-ROM offers dozens of resources for conducting research that can be downloaded and used directly or adapted. The resources reflect best-practice research material, most of which has been pre-tested and refined in the authors' own research, including such tools as: templates for wording research questions; informed consent forms; a confidentiality pledge for research staff; literature review protocols; content validity forms; and much, much more.

Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research Book Details

Paperback: 400 pages

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Eighth Edition edition (June 1, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0781770521

ISBN-13: 978-0781770521

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The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence

2009-07-07T05:28:00.000-07:00

The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence (PRACTICE OF NURSING RESEARCH: CONDUCT, CRITIQUE, & UTIL ( BURNS)) (Hardcover)

The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence

by Susan K. Grove PhD RN ANP-BC GNP-BC (Author), Nancy Burns PhD RN FCN FAAN (Author)

The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence Book Description

The most authoritative textbook of nursing research now makes it clearer than ever how to appraise, synthesize, and generate evidence for practice

The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence Book Description

With frequent examples from the best of the research literature, this authoritative textprovides you with a comprehensive foundation for appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence for clinical practice. This new edition features an enhanced focus on research as the foundation for evidence-based practice, along with improved readability and more background coverage of qualitative research. This textbook prepares you to understand and apply research, and to go on to conduct original research.

Includes all the information needed to help both beginning nurses and beginning nurse-researchers understand and applying research findings to practice and conducting research.
Includes frequent research examples from the best of the literature, strengthened with high-quality examples from the latest published studies, both qualitative and quantitative.
Provides the most in-depth coverage of quantitative research methods of any nursing research text on the market.
Comprehensive EVOLVE teaching/learning package includes an Instructor's Resource Manual, an enriched Test Bank, a PowerPoint Collection, syllabi, Data Set Activities (qualitative and quantitative), and more.

Enhanced emphasis on research appraisal and synthesis for evidence-based practice equips students not just to generate research evidence but also to appraise and synthesize existing evidence for application to practice.
Carefully edited for a more student-friendly readability and active-voice writing style reduces barriers to learning the typically challenging research content.
In order to focus the text on the more "need to know" content most important for the majority of students, more in-depth content on conceptual models for those planning to lead research studies has been moved from the book to the companion EVOLVE website.
Fresh, new, full-color design provides a more "open" look that facilitates learning with Key Terms highlighted in color and color tabs for the Index and Glossary.
Research examples have been updated throughout to reflect the most current research from the published literature, including excellent examples of qualitative studies.
The coverage of qualitative research has been carefully revised to highlight examples of high-quality qualitative research and to present both qualitative and quantitative approaches as equally valuable.
EVOLVE website provides examples of both qualitative and quantitative research proposals.
Now focuses on the "how to's" of seeking research funding and provides a practical tool to help new researchers move from research proposal to funded research project.
Authoritative coverage provides students the opportunity to learn first-hand from the leaders in the field.
Separate chapter on the cost-driven field of outcomes research helps nurses to demonstrate that what they do results in positive healthcare outcomes.
Provides a separate chapter on the emerging field of intervention research, which establishes "causal explanations" for nursing interventions in response to the growing difficulty of performing true experimental research on human participants.

The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence Book Details

Hardcover: 768 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 6 edition (October 16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416054685
ISBN-13: 978-1416054689

The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence

Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice

2009-07-07T04:51:00.000-07:00

Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice (Paperback)

Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice Author by:

Nancy Burns PhD RN FCN FAAN
Susan K. Grove PhD RN ANP-BC GNP-BC

Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice Book Description
Equips students to read and understand nursing research as a foundation for evidence-based practice

Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice Book Description

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.

Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice Book Details

Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 4 edition (September 12, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416026401
ISBN-13: 978-1416026402

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Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence

2009-07-07T04:42:00.000-07:00

Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence (Paperback)

Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence
Author by: Janet Houser

Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence Book Description
Intended to help the undergraduate student learn to read and use research as a basis for nursing practice, this new nursing research textbook puts research into the context of evidence-based practice, helping students gain knowledge of research concepts while learning to apply them. The conversational style of the text minimizes the intimidating aspects of research to maximize understanding.

Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence Book Details

Paperback: 586 pages
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 1 edition (August 17, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763742678
ISBN-13: 978-0763742676
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 1.2 inches

Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice

2009-07-07T04:33:00.000-07:00

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice (Nursing Research (Polit)) (Hardcover)

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice Author by:

Denise F Polit
Cheryl Tatano Beck

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice Book Description

Thoroughly revised to emphasize the link between research and evidence-based practice, this Eighth Edition presents methods and tools for generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice. This edition offers more guidance on evaluating and critiquing research evidence. Other revisions include more in-depth coverage of both qualitative and quantitative research and a new chapter on developing and testing new instruments. Note: The for-sale Student Resource guide to accompany the text is now fully revised to meet emerging graduate course needs. New features include a free CD-ROM called the "Toolkit," which includes copious application exercises, samples of systematic reviews, and full critiques of two of the eight studies in the text. Please note that this is sold separately: Student Resource Manual with Toolkit

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice Book Details

Hardcover: 816 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Eighth Edition edition (June 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781794684
ISBN-13: 978-0781794688
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice (Polit)

Liver Diseases: An Essential Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

2009-07-03T09:48:00.000-07:00

Liver Diseases: An Essential Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

Liver Diseases: An Essential Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

Editor by Suzanne Sargent

Liver Diseases: An Essential Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals Book Description

Liver disease is a rapidly growing speciality, and nurses and health care professionals need to have the relevant knowledge and skills to care for patients with liver problems in a safe and effective way. Liver Diseases is a comprehensive, evidence-based, practical guide to the nursing care and management of patients with liver disease.

Liver Diseases explores a range of liver conditions, including cirrhosis, portal hypertension, alcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, Wilson’s disease and acute liver failure. It looks at the anatomy and physiology of the liver, assessment of liver function and diagnostic studies, acute and chronic liver disease, pregnancy related liver disease, liver transplantation and infectious liver diseases. For each condition the epidemiology, complications and nursing management are provided, along with illustrative case studies and further reading. Liver Diseases is an invaluable tool for all nurses and health care professionals working with people with liver disease.

Liver Diseases: An Essential Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

SPECIAL FEATURES

The first UK book on care of the liver from a nursing and healthcare perspective
Written by a well-respected and renowned author in the field
Covers a wide spectrum of liver diseases, with relevant nursing management guidelines
With case studies, further reading and illustrations throughout

Liver Diseases: An Essential Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

From the Back Cover

Liver disease is a rapidly growing speciality, and nurses and health care professionals need to have the relevant knowledge and skills to care for patients with liver problems in a safe and effective way. Adult Liver Care is a comprehensive, evidence-based, practical guide to the nursing care and management of patients with liver disease.

Adult Liver Care explores a range of liver conditions, including cirrhosis, portal hypertension, alcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, Wilson’s disease and acute liver failure. It looks at the anatomy & physiology of the liver, assessment of liver function and diagnostic studies, acute and chronic liver disease, pregnancy related liver disease, liver transplantation and infectious liver diseases. For each condition the epidemiology, complications and nursing management are provided, along with illustrative case studies and further reading. Adult Liver Care is an invaluable tool for all nurses and health care professionals working with people with liver disease.

Liver Diseases: An Essential Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

Book Details

Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (June 22, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1405163062

ISBN-13: 978-1405163064

Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches

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Basics of Anesthesia: with Evolve Website

2009-07-03T09:29:00.000-07:00

Basics of Anesthesia: with Evolve Website

Basics of Anesthesia: with Evolve Website Author by:

Robert K. Stoelting MD
Ronald D. Miller MD

Basics of Anesthesia: with Evolve Website Book Description

In full color with new topics including Medical Informatics, Basic Cardiopulmonary Physiology,Hemostasis,and

Widely acknowledged as the foremost introductory text, this latest edition provides the most authoritative and complete overview of anesthesia theory and practice and continues to serve as an excellent primer on the scope and practice of anesthesiology. Superbly edited by two of the foremost experts in the field, the new edition is presented in full color and includes updated information on new and rapidly changing areas in anesthesia practice. The new topics include Approach to Learning Anesthesia; Medical Informatics; Basic Cardiopulmonary Physiology; Hemostasis; Congenital Heart Disease; Trauma; Bioterrorism; and Medical Direction in the Operating Room.

Comprehensive coverage of the basic science and clinical topics in anesthesiologyI ncludes pathophysiology, pharmacology, regional anesthesia, anesthetic management, and special problems and patient groupsNumerous figures and tables throughout the book condense complex material for easier retentionConcise writing style facilitates learning and review of content

Now in full color throughout
All chapters rigorously updated to reflect the latest advances in practice
New Topics: Approach to learning Anesthesia, Medical Informatics, Basic Cardiopulmonary Physiology, Hemostasis, Congenital Heart Disease, Trauma, Bioterrorism, Medical Direction in the Operating Room, and more

Basics of Anesthesia: with Evolve Website book Details

Hardcover: 712 pages

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 5 edition (November 2, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0443068011

ISBN-13: 978-0443068010

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Fundamentals of Nursing (Hardcover)

2009-07-02T07:02:00.000-07:00

Fundamentals of Nursing (Hardcover)

Fundamentals of Nursing Author by:
Patricia A. Potter PhD RN FAAN CMAC
Anne Griffin Perry RN MSN EdD FAAN

Fundamentals of Nursing Book Description
The solid base nurses need for their education, complete with the principles, concepts, and skills required in both the classroom and in practice

Fundamentals of Nursing Book Description

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 nursing video clips and audio chapter summaries.

Fundamentals of Nursing Book Details
Hardcover: 1824 pages
Publisher: Mosby; 7 edition (December 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0323067840
ISBN-13: 978-0323067843

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Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition

2009-07-01T08:08:00.000-07:00

Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition

Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition Author by:

G. Morgan

Maged Mikhail

Michael Murray

Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition book Description

Clinical Anesthesiology integrates succinct coverage of basic principles and clinical considerations in the anesthetic management of patients. It features up-to-date discussion of all relevant areas within anesthesiology, including equipment, pharmacology, regional anesthesia, pathophysiology, pain management, anesthetic management, and critical care. Extensive use of case discussions, figures, and tables in each chapter promotes application of the concepts to practice.

Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition Back Cover

Key Benefit: This popular book combines succinct, clinically oriented coverage of the basic science underlying anesthesiology with case studies illustrating important practical issues. Key Topics: This second edition features an extensively revised section on regional anesthesia and pain management as well as two new chapters. A second color has been introduced to highlight important features and key points in the book. Market:

Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition book Details

Paperback: 1105 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 4 edition (August 26, 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0071423583

ISBN-13: 978-0071423588

Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.6 x 1.7 inches

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All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans

2009-07-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans

Author by Pamela L. Swearingen RN

All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans Book Description:

The most student-friendly and clinically relevant nursing care plan book with 101 nursing care plans for all core clinical areas

All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans

Description

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 Diagnosis, 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 nursing diagnosis. 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.

All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans

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.

All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans Book Details

Paperback: 862 pages

Publisher: Mosby; 2 edition (September 24, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0323044166

ISBN-13: 978-0323044165

Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 1.4 inches

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Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!

2009-07-01T07:40:00.000-07:00

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!
Editor by Springhouse

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy Book Description

Completely updated, and now in full color, this Fourth Edition presents assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings. Abundant full-color illustrations, charts, memory joggers, and other special features help nurses master Nursing assessment techniques and remember key information. This edition includes additional coverage of obesity. A new logo, Handle with care, spotlights the unique needs of pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric patients. The Practice makes perfect self-test includes updated NCLEX®-style questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers. A companion Website will offer ancillary materials such as an image bank and printable study cards.

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy! Book Details
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth Edition edition (January 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781779103
ISBN-13: 978-0781779104
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1 inches

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Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes (Hardcover)

2009-05-23T08:52:00.000-07:00

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes Author by :

Eli Gelfand
Christopher Cannon

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes Book Description

Acute Coronary Syndrome covers the spectrum of clinical conditions ranging from unstable angina to non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and ST elevation myocardial infarction. These life-threatening disorders are a major cause of emergency medical care, hospitalization and mortality. Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes is designed to provide busy clinicians with a comprehensive guide to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of these syndromes. It encompasses the latest technologies, including the use of biomarkers and non-invasive imaging procedures.

For each condition, the reader is taken through all of the therapeutic options available; in each case the indications and contraindications are evaluated in the light of the latest clinical trials. Potential complications are dealt with in a similar fashion, permitting the reader to anticipate and manage problems as they arise. The authors also present evidence-based recommendations for long-term care of at-risk patients, encompassing pharmacologic therapies and lifestyle management.

The book concludes with a comprehensive collection of appendices that include treatment algorithms, risk scores and a summary of the latest management guidelines.

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes is the most up to date and comprehensive evidence-based guide to managing acute coronary syndromes, in a compact and usable format. It will be of interest to busy specialist physicians in cardiovascular medicine, cardiac and vascular surgery, and critical care, as well as primary care physicians and hospitalists who care for patients with these syndromes.

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes From the Back Cover

Acute coronary syndromes cover the spectrum of clinical conditions ranging from unstable angina to non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and ST elevation myocardial infarction. These life-threatening disorders are a major cause of emergency medical care, hospitalization and mortality. Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes is designed to provide busy clinicians with a comprehensive guide to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of these syndromes. It encompasses the latest technologies, including the use of biomarkers and non-invasive imaging procedures.

The book concludes with a comprehensive collection of appendices that include treatment algorithms, risk scores and a summary of the latest management guidelines.

Comprehensive review of the evidence base for acute coronary syndrome
Practical guidance on therapeutic strategies for principal clinical problems
Clear description of potential complications and how best to manage them

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes is the most up to date and comprehensive evidence-based guide to managing acute coronary syndromes, in a compact and usable format. It will be of interest to busy specialist physicians in cardiovascular medicine, cardiac and vascular surgery, and critical care, as well as primary care physicians and hospitalists who care for patients with these syndromes.

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes Book Details

Hardcover: 238 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 15, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470725575
ISBN-13: 978-0470725573
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes

Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas with DVD (Cardiovascular Emergencies: Atlas and Multimedia) (Hardcover)

2009-05-23T05:51:00.000-07:00

Complications of Myocardial Infarction

Complications of Myocardial Infarction Author by:
Stuart J. Hutchison MD FRCPC FACC FAHA FASE FSCMR FSCCT ()

Complications of Myocardial Infarction Book Description
Preempt the many complications of myocardial infarction
1.2 million myocardial infarctions occurred last year in the U.S., and 480,000 patients died following complications of infarction. Now, you can detect and treat the many complications associated with myocardial infarction in time to save many more patients. This title in the brand-new Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas Series offers you authoritative guidance from a well-known cardiologist and imaging expert about when and how to perform the latest diagnostic imaging tests, interpret the results, and effectively treat the emergency. Detailed discussions of hot topics, full-color illustrations, and a DVD of procedural video clips, animations, and downloadable image libraries help you provide fast, appropriate treatment for each challenging case you face

Offers detailed advice on when and how to screen for the most prevalent but often difficult-to-diagnose complications of myocardial infarction to help you improve care and increase survival rates.
Discusses the hottest topics in myocardial infarction, including cardiogenic shock . left ventricle remodeling . thrombi . right ventricle infarction . free wall rupture . false aneurysms . tamponade . ventricular septal rupture . papillary muscle rupture . and more that prepare you to better diagnose and manage whatever you see.
Presents 70 fully illustrated case presentations with teaching points that make information easy to understand and digest.
Addresses the advantages and limitations of chest radiology, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, cardiac CT, MR, angiography, and nuclear cardiology techniques so you can quickly determine the best imaging approach.
Includes supporting evidence and current AHA/ACC guidelines for more accurate interpretations of your imaging findings.
Uses a consistent, easy-to-follow chapter format that includes topic overview, an outline of imaging/diagnostic options, and case-based examples to make reference easy.
Provides more than 400 full-color illustrations for expert visual guidance.
Includes a bonus DVD containing hundreds of video clips of techniques and animations that show you what to look for and how to proceed as well as downloadable image libraries for use in electronic presentations.

Complications of Myocardial Infarction Book Details

Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 Har/DVD edition (December 10, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416052720
ISBN-13: 978-1416052722
Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches

Complications of Myocardial Infarction

The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina

2009-05-23T01:20:00.000-07:00

The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina

The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina Author by:
H.J.J Wellens
Anton M. Gorgels
P. Doevendans

The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina Book Description

This volume, written by the leaders in the field, will provide a practical and comprehensive overview of the electrocardiogram (ECG). The ECG remains the most accessible and inexpensive diagnostic tool to evaluate the patient presenting with symptoms suggestive of acute myocardial ischemia. The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina, written by Drs. Hein Wellens, Anton Gorgels and Pieter Doevendans, is an excellent reference for any cardiac electrophysiologist, cardiologist, internist or emergency room physician

The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina Book Details

Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (May 25, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402072147
ISBN-13: 978-1402072147
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 9.2 x 0.6 inches

ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina

Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis

2009-05-23T00:34:00.000-07:00

Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis

Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis Author by:
Gail B. Ladwig MSN RN CHTP
Betty J. Ackley MSN EdS RN

Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis Book Description
Everything you need to create custom care plans any time, any place
This convenient, portable resource features much of the content from Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 8th Edition in a concise, take-anywhere format. Perfect for use in clinicals, in class, and at the bedside, Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis is logically organized for quick access to essential nursing care plans information and guidelines.

Provides care plans for every NANDA approved nursing diagnosis.
A convenient A-to-Z organization helps you quickly locate key information.
Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.
Portable format makes it easy to carry and use while in clinicals, in class, or at the bedside.
Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA approved nursing diagnosis, including 15 new nursing diagnosis, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.
Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.
Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.

Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis Book Details

Paperback: 800 pages
Publisher: Mosby; 2 edition (August 16, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0323051928
ISBN-13: 978-0323051927
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches

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Acute and Chronic Renal Failure: Pathophysiology for Nurses (Nurses Video Series: CD-ROM)

2009-05-18T06:56:00.000-07:00

Acute and Chronic Renal Failure: Pathophysiology for Nurses

Acute and Chronic Renal Failure: Pathophysiology for Nurses Author by:
Blanchard-Loeb

Acute Renal Failure and Chronic Renal Failure: Pathophysiology for Nurses Description

See exactly what's happening inside your patients with acute renal failure or chronic renal failure. Learn how to spot the signs of these pathophysiologic changes and intervene to prevent life-threatening complications. In just 30 minutes, you'll get a wealth of in-depth, practical information to help you understand and treat these serious disorders. Among other things, you'll learn how to: identify key risk factors for renal failure and understand how each type of acute renal failure occurs, affects other body systems spot the effects of each phase of acute renal failure, detect characteristic signs and symptoms of chronic renal failure, explain to patients how diagnostic tests reveal renal failure and how drugs and other treatments can control the disorder , teach patients to make diet and lifestyle changes to minimize complications

Acute and Chronic Renal Failure: Pathophysiology for Nurses Details

CD-ROM
Publisher: Delmar Learning; 1 edition (January 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1930138075
ISBN-13: 978-1930138070
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches

Acute and Chronic Renal Failure: Pathophysiology for Nurses (Video Series)

Renal Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment (Hardcover)

2009-05-18T06:21:00.000-07:00

Renal Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment

Renal Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment Editor by:
J.G. Abuelo

Renal Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment Book Description

Renal Failure, Diagnosis and Treatment is a practical book that provides a comprehensive description of the evaluation of renal insufficiency. It teaches the physician how to recognise the tell-tale signs of the diseases that cause kidney failure and how to confirm their presence in an efficient manner. Major teaching points are reinforced by the presentation of 20 problem cases for the reader's diagnosis. The book also details the general management of the patient with renal failure and the treatment of various causative diseases.

Renal Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment Book Details

Hardcover: 276 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 31, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0792334388
ISBN-13: 978-0792334385
Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds

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Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure

2009-05-16T06:40:00.000-07:00

Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure

Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure Editor by:
Claude Jacobs

Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure Book Description

During the past 40 years there have been major conceptual and technical advances in the domain of dialysis methods and renal/organ transplantation for long-term treatment of patients with End-Stage Renal Failure (ESRF). This now enables better defined, more selective strategies of treatment to be undertaken, according to patient-specific criteria such as age or underlying renal disease also taking into account the lifetime duration of these treatments. For many patients this implies necessary successive changes of mode of therapy depending on their availability, occurrence of medical/technical complications or failure and social environment and economic factors. This rationale has inspired the structure of this volume which is divided into four sections: 1/A descriptive overview of the various modes of renal replacement therapy (RRT): Extracorporeal dialysis/filtration, peritoneal dialysis, kidney and multi-organ transplantation. 2/Most appropriate indications and use of these methods, respective advantages, drawbacks and outcome in children, pregnant women and elderly patients. 3/ In diabetic patients and in patients with heredity/congenital diseases.4/ The ethical issues generated by this new domain in Medicine by limitations in treatment facilities or medical dilemas for acceptance, best technical choices, withdrawal or termination of RRT in individual patients. Finally, contributors from Eastern European Coutnries, Africa and Far Eastern Countries analyse the current status of RRT in their respective geographical area and the ways and means required for a wider implementation of RRT in thus far lesser economically developed countries where the great majority of the populations still have no access to these life-saving therapeutic procedures.

Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure Book Author

Claude Jacobs is a Professor of Nephrology (Emeritus), Service de Nephrologie, UFR Pitie-Salpetiere, Paris.

Optimal Treatment Strategies For End Stage Renal Failure Book Details

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (July 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0192629719
ISBN-13: 978-0192629715
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches

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Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care (Hardcover)

2009-05-14T10:10:00.000-07:00

Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care

Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care Editor by:
Meredith Wallace PhD APRN-BC
Lorrie Powel PhD RN

Prostate Cancer Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care Book Description

Southern Connecticut State Univ. Developed by clinical nurse experts, this text provides information on the state-of-the-art care of men with prostate cancer. Covers symptoms, diagnostic methods, treatment options, and psychosocial effects of this disease. Quality of life is a major focus. DNLM: Prostatic Neoplasms--nursing.

Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care Book Author

Meredith Wallace, PhD, APRN-BC, has been a nurse since she completed her BSN nursing degree Magna Cum Laude at Boston University in 1988. Following this, she earned an MSN in medical-surgical nursing with a specialty in geriatrics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in nursing research and theory development at New York University. During her time at NYU she was awarded a predoctoral fellowship at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. In this capacity she became the original author and editor of Try This: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing series. In 2001, she won the Springer Publishing Company Award for Applied Nursing Research. She was the Managing Editor of the Journal of Applied Nursing Research and is currently the research brief editor for the journal. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Wallace published Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment Management and Care, (Springer Publishing Company, 2002), which won the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. Preceding this, she was the Associate Editor of The Geriatric Nursing Research Digest, which also won the AJN Book of the Year Award in 2002. She is the recent recipient of the Eastern Nursing Research Society/John A. Hartford Foundation junior investigator award. Dr. Wallace currently an Associate Professor and the Elizabeth DeCamp McInerney Chair in Health Sciences at Fairfield University School of Nursing.

Lorrie L. Powel, PhD, RN, is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Boston University School of Public Health and the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts. She recently completed her doctoral degree at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she received a dissertation award from the Health Care Financing Administration for her research focusing on the impact of postprostectomy urinary incontinence on psychosocial adjustment to illness and quality of life. Her current research, funded by the Department of Defense, will continue to explore postprostatectomy incontinence with a focus on ethnic identity. During the past several decades Dr. Powel has been a frequent contributor to the oncology nursing literature focusing on issues of quality of life and the management of treatment-related symptoms in patients with cancer.

Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care Book Details

Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (May 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0826187455
ISBN-13: 978-0826187451
Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches

Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care

Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimers Disease: Molecular and Neurobiological Foundations (Hardcover)

2009-05-14T09:40:00.000-07:00

Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimers Disease

Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimers Disease Editor by:

Jorge D. Brioni
Michael W. Decker

Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimers Disease Book Description

Prominent Alzheimer's investigators provide a comprehensive and balanced overview of the neuropharmacological basis for therapeutics in this devastating disease. Divided into three parts, the book begins with basic research on the neurobiology of cognitive function, offering relevant information on the way the brain encodes and stores data. The second segment explores the molecular aspects of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), emphasizing investigations of possible etiological factors. In the final section, a variety of issues important in developing treatments are discussed including cholinergic-based treatments, the role of neuroinflammin in AD and the therapeutic potential of anti-inflammatory agents.

Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimers Disease
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Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimers Disease Book Details

Hardcover: 549 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Liss; 1 edition (January 15, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471167584
ISBN-13: 978-0471167587
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches

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Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease (Hardcover)

2009-05-14T09:26:00.000-07:00

Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease

Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease Editor by:
Robin G. Morris
James T. Becker

Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease Books Description

Alzheimer's disease can be thought of as a multi-faceted neuropsychological disorder, with diverse impairments in cognitive abilities, such as attention, memory, language and executive functioning. Over the last decade cognitive neuropsychology has provided a far richer understanding of these impairments, and this book describes these advances, placing them in their clinical context. The first section deals with background theoretical and clinical issues, such as the extent to which Alzheimer's disease can be considered as a single entity or whether it is more fruitful to explore the neuropsychology of individual patients. It considers the diagnostic aspects of Alzheimer's disease, the natural history of the disease, how it progresses over time and the characteristics of the prodromal phase. A second section, the core of the book, covers major cognitive functions and delineates how

Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease Book Review

"This is a highly readable volume that also can function as a reference source. I recommend it to all clinical and basic scientists with an interest in the brain and its diseases."--American Journal of Psychology

Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease Book Details

Hardcover: 434 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (February 3, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198508301
ISBN-13: 978-0198508304
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches

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Alzheimer's Disease, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

2009-05-14T09:18:00.000-07:00

Alzheimer's Disease, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

Alzheimer's Disease, An Issue of Nursing Clinics Author by:
Ivo Abraham PhD RN FAAN

Alzheimer's Disease, An Issue of Nursing Clinics Books Description

The statistics for Alzheimer's Disease are staggering. It is the most common dementia, affecting as many as 4.5 million Americans. Recent studies have even projected that 1 person in 2 at the age of 85 will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. The March 2006 issue of Nursing Clinics of North America offers nurses a much needed update on the current research, assessments, and treatment of the disease. Nurses, who often work with clinicians, educators, researchers, will not want to miss this issue of Nursing Clinics

Alzheimer's Disease, An Issue of Nursing Clinics Books Details
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (March 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416035346
ISBN-13: 978-141603534

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Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (Hardcover)

2009-05-10T20:28:00.000-07:00

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Editor by:
Kenneth O'Byrne
Valerie Rusch

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Book Review

"Anybody dealing with diffuse malignant mesothelioma, in either a research or clincial setting, should learn a great deal from this book in topics outside his or her own immediate specializations. As this clinically relentless disease continues to increase but has proven so refractory to therapy, any additional knowledge is welcome ideed, and this book is also welcome indeed." Respiratory Care

"A comprehensive overview of the subject, aimed at all health care professionals who come into contact with patients with the disease." Anticancer Research

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Book Description

Malignant pleural mesothelioma, a malignancy due largely to asbestos exposure, represents an increasingly common challenge to clinical and medical oncologists, respiratory physicians, and cardiothoracic surgeons, as well as researchers in the field. The disease has yet to reach its peak and is expected to kill over 100,000 people worldwide. As malignant pleural mesothelioma gains in profile, Kenneth O'Byrne and Valerie Rusch present a comprehensive overview of the subject, aimed at all health care professionals who come into contact with patients with the disease. The book includes chapters on epidemiology, diagnosis, histopathology, radiology, surgery, chemotherapy, immune therapy, radiotherapy, and palliative medicine, written by an international team of contributors. A molecular biology section focuses on the carcinogenic effects of asbestos fibres and simian virus 40, angiogenesis and angiogenic growth factors, the immune response, and genetic abnormalities detected in the disease. Future therapies are also covered, as is a perspective on the distinct legal issues related to the disease. This highly-illustrated, full colour book provides the ultimate, timely resource on this devastating disease.

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Book Details

Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (January 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198529309
ISBN-13: 978-0198529309
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches

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The Biological Basis of Nursing: Cancer Care (Paperback)

2009-05-10T20:15:00.000-07:00

Biological Basis of Nursing: Cancer Care

Biological Basis of Nursing: Cancer Care Author by:
William Blows

Biological Basis of Nursing: Cancer Care Book Description

In 2000 the Department of Health issued a number of initiatives, with improving cancer treatment and research, and providing greater resources for cancer care being made a priority. Nurses and their colleague will be at the forefront of these changes.

The book presents specialized biological information on what cancer is, how it damages the body, and how cancer treatments work. Engaging, accessible and illustrated throughout, this unique text:

explains the basic biology of cancer
discusses the biology of wide range of common cancers
identifies and explains the biological causes of cancer
explains drug action in chemotherapy and analgesia
explains the link between diet and cancer, and how diet is important in cancer therapy
discusses the biological basis of a range of nursing skills linked to cancer.

This book will provide nurses with the essential knowledge required for working with cancer patient and their families, and will enable them to work with current and new forms of cancer treatment. It will also be of great use to clinical staff and nurse educators.

Biological Basis of Nursing: Cancer Care Book Details

Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 29, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415327466
ISBN-13: 978-0415327466
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches

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Pathology of Malignant Mesothelioma (Hardcover)

2009-05-10T16:16:00.000-07:00

Pathology of Malignant Mesothelioma

Pathology of Malignant Mesothelioma Editor by:
Françoise Galateau-Sallé

Pathology of Malignant Mesothelioma Books Description

Mesothelioma is a global problem, its incidence is rising in Europe, and it is a major health problem in the USA and other parts of the world, largely related to the previous use of asbestos products. Diagnosis, which rests on the pathology, is very difficult because of its diverse appearances and the potential for other diseases to mimic it.

This monograph has been assembled by an international group of experts with a wealth of experience from France, UK, USA, Australia and Canada to aid in pathological diagnosis. In all these countries, the disease poses significant health problems. This book deals with clinical, radiological, epidemiological, molecular, and histopathological aspects of the disease. Tumors of the pleural, pericardial, peritoneal cavities as well as the ovary and tunica vaginalis are considered. Differential diagnoses of serosal-based lesions are fully discussed and the use of immunohistochemical stains is explained. Plentiful illustrations give further aid to diagnosis

An essential read for all diagnostic pathologists as well as general pathologists, who are sometimes required to diagnose the disease at biopsy or post mortem. The book will be also invaluable to members of the medical and legal professions who are involved with various aspects of this disease.

Pathology of Malignant Mesothelioma Books Details

Hardcover: 204 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 30, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1852338725
ISBN-13: 978-1852338725
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

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Handbook of Metastatic Breast Cancer (Hardcover)

2009-05-10T09:29:00.000-07:00

Handbook of Metastatic Breast Cancer

Handbook of Metastatic Breast Cancer Author by:
Stephen Johnston
Charles Swanton

Handbook of Metastatic Breast Cancer Book Description

There used to be limited therapeutic options for women who developed metastatic breast cancer. However, recent development with novel systemic drugs and palliative surgical techniques, together with advances in diagnostic imaging, have given new hope for these patients and made the treatment of these patients considerably more challenging. One convenient source bringing together the various relevant aspects is long overdue. This handbook covers treatment for both the cancer and the complications that can arise from treatment itself.

Handbook of Metastatic Breast Cancer Books Details

Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Informa HealthCare; 1 edition (October 13, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1841844888
ISBN-13: 978-1841844886
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches

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Breast Cancer Nursing: Clinical Nurse Specialist (Paperback)

2009-05-10T09:19:00.000-07:00

Breast Cancer Nursing

Breast Cancer Nursing
Author by Denton
Editor by S. Denton

Breast Cancer Nursing Books Description

This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to breast cancer care. It includes an introductory chapter looking at the incidence, epidemiology, aetiology and histology of the disease. There are chapters on the essential topics of screening, politics and multi-cultural aspects of care. Methods of treatment which include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and endocrine therapy are discussed. The remaining sections are devoted to important issues in after care and the importance of the multidisciplinary team approach. This book is intended to be of use to clinical nurse specialists in oncology, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, students of Project 2000 and ENB courses A11 and 237.

Breast Cancer Nursing books Details

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC (January 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0412412004
ISBN-13: 978-0412412004

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Contemporary Issues In Breast Cancer: A Nursing Perspective (Hardcover)

2009-05-10T09:13:00.000-07:00

Contemporary Issues In Breast Cancer: A Nursing Perspective

Contemporary Issues In Breast Cancer: A Nursing Perspective
Author by KAREN HASSEY DOW

Contemporary Issues In Breast Cancer: A Nursing Perspective
Books Details

Hardcover
Publisher: JONES AND BARTLETT PUBLISHERS (2004)
ASIN: B000MDBK3G

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Breast Cancer: Nursing Care and Management (Paperback)

2009-05-10T06:35:00.000-07:00

Breast Cancer: Nursing Care and Management

Breast Cancer: Nursing Care and Management Author by:
Victoria Harmer

Breast Cancer: Nursing Care and Management Books Description

This comprehensive book is for all nurses and other health professionals involved in the care of people with breast cancer, and covers all aspects of the subject. It gives sound evidence-based information and advice on the nursing care fore each stage of the patient's journey.

Breast Cancer: Nursing Care and Management From the Back Cover

This comprehensive book is for all nurses and other health professionals involved in the care of people with breast cancer and covers all aspects of the subject. It gives sound evidence-based information and advice on the nursing care for each stage of the patient's journey.

Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and topics include the anatomy of the breast, all available treatments, complementary therapies, the psychological care of both patients and their families, and the role of the specialist nurse. With breast cancer increading as the population ages, this book provides a well-balanced approach to all aspects of managing malignancy. The importance of writing from a nursing perspective is underlined so that the essence of support and bedside care is not missed.

Breast Cancer: Nursing Care and Management Books Details

Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1861563531
ISBN-13: 978-1861563538
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1 inches

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Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemias: New Trends in Therapies

2009-05-02T23:19:00.000-07:00

Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemias: New Trends in Therapies

Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemias: New Trends in Therapies Editor By:

Y. Beuzard
Y. Lubin
J. Rosa

Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemias: New Trends in Therapies Books Details

Hardcover: 662 pages
Publisher: Editions Inserm (December 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 2855985781
ISBN-13: 978-2855985787

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Pediatric Oncology Nursing: Advanced Clinical Handbook

2009-05-02T23:10:00.000-07:00

Pediatric Oncology Nursing: Advanced Clinical Handbook

Pediatric Oncology Nursing: Advanced Clinical Handbook Books Description

This comprehensive clinical Pediatric Oncology Nursing handbook for nurses in pediatric hematology/oncology, authored by nurse experts from the United Kingdom and North America, contains in-depth information regarding pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, advanced assessment, and interventions. The book is divided into 5 sections: pediatric cancers, hematologic disorders, treatment of childhood cancer, side effects of treatment and disease, and supportive and palliative care. It is organized in a user-friendly format with quick reference guides for the nurse. With the ongoing, challenging developments faced during the clinical nursing care of children with cancer, this handbook will provide an indispensable tool for those working in this speciality.

Pediatric Oncology Nursing: Advanced Clinical Handbook Books Details

Hardcover: 450 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 18, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540408517
ISBN-13: 978-3540408512

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Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach

2009-04-20T09:26:00.000-07:00

Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach Editor by:
Louis B Harrison
Roy B Sessions
Waun K Hong

Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach Books Reviews
From The New England Journal of Medicine

Head and neck cancer is a devastating illness. This year, the disease will develop in about 46,000 people and cause 12,000 deaths in the United States alone. More than 600,000 cases are predicted worldwide. These numbers cannot describe the physical, emotional, and psychosocial damage wrought by head and neck cancer. Extraordinarily debilitating, the disease affects vital functions people use to define themselves in society. Speech, swallowing, phonation, and appearance are substantially impaired by both the malignancy and its treatment. Advanced cases frequently require both extensive surgery and radiation therapy, leaving functional and cosmetic deficits to challenge even the most skilled reconstructive surgeon and speech pathologist. Despite the disease's incidence, the number of legitimate experts in the field of head and neck cancer, which receives only modest federal funding, is substantially smaller than for cancers of the breast, lung, colon, or lymphatic system. (Figure) Ably edited by Harrison, Sessions, and Hong, this book is a tour de force. Experts on the biology, epidemiology, imaging, chemoprevention, and treatment of head and neck cancer contribute first-rate chapters. The book's major thrust is to provide state-of-the-art discussions of current standards of treatment as well as strong reviews of rare tumors that originate in the head and neck, including soft-tissue and bone sarcomas, paragangliomas, tumors of the salivary gland, lymphomas, and melanomas. Emphasizing the anatomical importance of the site of origin in this disease, the book juxtaposes extensive radiographs of different tumors and stages of cancer with treatment recommendations from William Mendenhall, an internationally respected radiation oncologist, and other luminaries, including Drs. Jatin Shah, Gary Clayman, Randal Weber, Jesus Medina, Paul Harari, Dong Shin, and Merrill Kies. Other strengths include stellar chapters on molecular epidemiology and genetic predisposition, the targeting of the epidermal growth-factor receptor, and gene-replacement therapy, all of which represent important future directions for the treatment of this disease. Several leaders are notably absent, however, and consequently their areas of expertise are less well represented. Organ-preserving techniques and the indications for their use, particularly in cancers of the larynx and hypopharynx, could have been emphasized by contributions from other pioneers, as could approaches to intensive concurrent chemoradiation and re irradiation. Furthermore, the authors of some chapters struggle to integrate surgical, pathological, and molecular prognostic markers, although this deficiency is reduced by a comprehensive chapter on the molecular biology of head and neck cancer. A chapter that systematically discusses the pathogenesis of the disease would have been preferable to the existing segmented information. Finally, a more international focus for a disease that is considered a worldwide public health menace certainly would have been desirable. Major contributions from international experts on this disease and their roles in the pioneering meta-analyses of chemotherapy are underplayed in this otherwise outstanding book. The book's inclusive, multidisciplinary nature is its greatest strength. It flows well; the chapters are readable, concise, and informative. The reference sections are excellent and representative. The book does not advocate individual points of view (e.g., medical, surgical, or radiologic-oncologic), and authors generally cover their assigned topics thoughtfully and thoroughly. Like the rare well-made movie sequel, this textbook in important ways trumps an already excellent predecessor. From my perspective as a physician for whom a major focus is the care of patients with head and neck cancer, this book is at once heartening and informative. It achieves a generational equipoise among authors, combining contributions from rising stars in the field with others from established leaders, often in the same chapter. On balance, this book expertly covers the multidisciplinary management and underlying biology of head and neck cancer, and, given its structure and crisp editing, it sets a daunting standard for its competitors

Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach Books Details

Hardcover: 992 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third Edition edition (September 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781771366
ISBN-13: 978-0781771368

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Laryngeal Cancer - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

2009-04-20T09:06:00.000-07:00

Laryngeal Cancer

Laryngeal Cancer - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Laryngeal Cancer Author by:
ICON Health Publications

Laryngeal Cancer Books Description

National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading." Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so.

Laryngeal Cancer

In addition to offering a structured and comprehensive bibliography, this medical reference on laryngeal cancer will quickly direct you to resources and reliable information on the Internet, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. Public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research studies are emphasized. Various abstracts are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date. Abundant guidance is given on how to obtain free-of-charge primary research results via the Internet. E-book and electronic versions of this book are fully interactive with the Internet. For readers unfamiliar with the Internet, detailed instructions are offered on how to access electronic resources. For readers unfamiliar with medical terminology, a comprehensive glossary is provided. For readers without access to Internet resources, a directory of medical libraries, that have or can locate references cited here, is given. We hope these resources will prove useful to the widest possible audience seeking information on laryngeal cancer.

Laryngeal Cancer Books Details

Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: ICON Health Publications (October 8, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0497006413
ISBN-13: 978-0497006419

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Surgical Management of Congestive Heart Failure

2009-04-19T06:11:00.000-07:00

Surgical Management of Congestive Heart Failure

Surgical Management of Congestive Heart Failure Editor by:
James C. Fang
Gregory S. Couper

Surgical Management of Congestive Heart Failure Books Review
Although much work has been done in this area, a concise book summarizing all the issues has not been previously available. A book dedicated to this topic is a welcome addition to the literature. This is a great book for all those involved in the caring of patients with ventricular failure. The book delineates surgical options and current thinking for the management of these patients.
most up-to-date review and each chapter has an extensive list of references...should find a place on the shelf of the library in every cardiac unit

Surgical Management of Congestive Heart Failure Books Description
James C. Fang, MD, and Gregory S. Couper, MD, have assembled a panel of prominent surgeons and cardiologists to review the latest clinical, scientific, and investigational surgical and mechanical approaches to heart failure in hopes of improving the lives of this challenging group of patients. Topics range from such traditional strategies as high-risk surgical revascularization in advanced coronary artery disease, to more novel approaches such as ventricular reconstruction and mechanical assist devices. Many chapters are contributed by the original pioneers of specific surgical techniques, which provide s invaluable perspective from personal experience.

Surgical Management of Congestive Heart Failure Books Details

Hardcover: 344 pages
Publisher: Humana Press; 1 edition (October 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1588290344
ISBN-13: 978-1588290342

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RN Expert Guides: Cardiovascular Care

2009-04-18T06:47:00.000-07:00

RN Expert Guides Cardiovascular Care

RN Expert Guides Cardiovascular Care Editor by:
Springhouse

RN Expert Guides Cardiovascular Care Books Description

RN Expert Guides are presented in the quick-reference, easy-to-follow style that exemplifies all the RN Expert Guides. Also, as with other RN Expert Guides, explanations are clarified and enhanced by abundant illustrations and tables. This RN Expert Guide covers principles and practices of cardiovascular care, along with anatomy and physiology, assessment, diagnostic test results, and specific treatments. These chapters are followed by chapters on cardiovascular disorders, and emergencies and complications. The book is further supplemented through the use of eye-catching icons and by a thorough list of important selected references.

RN Expert Guides Cardiovascular Care Books Details

Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (July 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1582557047
ISBN-13: 978-1582557045

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Device Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure

2009-04-18T06:12:00.000-07:00

Device Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure

Device Therapy for Congestive Heart FailureAuthor by:
Kenneth A. Ellenbogen
Bruce L. Wilkoff
G. Neal Kay

Device Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure Books Description
The field's foremost authorities offer guidance on the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and pacemakers for the management of congestive heart failure. They explain how these devices work; examine the patient-and device-selection proce

Discusses patient selection as well as aftercare.
Features practice guidelines and techniques for implanting all new devices.
Offers an outstanding review of cardiovascular anatomy.
Provides an overview on the prognosis for congestive heart failure, and clinical rationales for the selection of device therapy.
Reviews the results of clinical trials.

Device Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure Books Details

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (December 17, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0721602797
ISBN-13: 978-0721602790

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Cardiovascular Disorders in Hemodialysis: 14th International Course on Hemodialysis, Vicenza, May 2005

2009-04-05T20:19:00.000-07:00

Cardiovascular Disorders in Hemodialysis

Cardiovascular Disorders in Hemodialysis Author by :
Mohammed S. Razzaque
Takashi Taguchi

Cardiovascular Disorders in Hemodialysis Books Description
Hemodialysis therapy has become a well-established form of renal replacement, and due to continuous improvements in technology, a series of new biomaterials and techniques for the clinical routine have been developed. Nevertheless, cardiovascular disorders in hemodialysis and uremia represent one of the most important aspects of modern nephrological care. This publication is therefore dedicated to cardiovascular risk factors, the role of the endothelium, problems related to mineral disorders and finally to the possible impact of new technologies on the final outcome in hemodialysis. Being a state-of-the-art appraisal of today's technology and current issues in hemodialysis with special regard to cardiovascular disorders and risk factors, this book is a synthesis between an educational effort aimed at the newer generations of physicians and nurses in the field of hemodialysis and a state-of-the-art description of the most advanced technologies in this field. At the same time, the lessons learned from large international trials, either already completed or to be completed in the years to come, are presented. The content includes: Technology Perspectives; Dialysis Principles and Technology; Lessons from International Trials; Dialysis Schedules and Techniques; Vascular Access Management; Dry Weight Assessment; Biological Markers in Dialysis; Cardiovascular Risks and Inflammation; Cardiovascular and Mineral Disorders; New Technologies and Future Trends.

Cardiovascular Disorders in Hemodialysis Books Details

* Hardcover: 363 pages
* Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland); 1 edition (May 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 3805579381
* ISBN-13: 978-3805579384

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Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery: A Nursing Perspective

2009-03-29T07:34:00.000-07:00

Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery: A Nursing Perspective

Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery Author by:
Mark Mitchell

Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery Books Description

The book is the first of its kind to specifically outline the psycho-educational nursing interventions required by the anxious, adult patient undergoing elective, ambulatory surgery. Anxiety management is a considerable issue for the majority of surgical patients and has been recognised as such for many decades. However, no formal nursing intervention currently exists to support patients during this acute phase.

This book is one of the first to provide strong evidence for the way in which patients can be assisted in the management of their anxiety. Moreover, it provides future direction for surgical nursing intervention in this new era of minimal invasive surgery where patients undergoing elective procedures increasingly require less physical nursing intervention and spend very little time within the acute hospital setting.

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Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery Books Details

Paperback: 246 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 29, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1861564635
ISBN-13: 978-1861564634

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Pocket Guide to Lung Cancer

2009-03-28T22:19:00.000-07:00

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Pocket Guide to Lung Cancer
Author by:
Marilyn Haas

Pocket Guide to Lung Cancer Books Description
This new Pocket Guide to Lung Cancer addresses the epidemiology, risk factors, prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of lung cancer by oncology nurses. Haas provides resources and information on understanding lung cancer, standard treatment modalities, symptom management,evidence-based guidelines, and clinical trials.

Pocket Guide to Lung Cancer Books Details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 1 edition (December 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763724211
ISBN-13: 978-0763724214

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Textbook of Lung Cancer, Second Edition

2009-03-28T22:10:00.000-07:00

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Textbook of Lung Cancer, Second Edition
Editor by:
Heine Hansen

Textbook of Lung Cancer, Second Edition Books Description

Textbook of Lung Cancer, 2nd edition, published in association with the European Society of Medical Oncology, is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary text, which examines all aspects of this disease, with contributions from a multinational team of authors on etiology, epidemiology, molecular biology, pathology, smoking, detection and management, clinical features, staging and prognostic factors, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It provides essential information and guidance for specialist trainees in oncology, and for the many physicians and specialists involved in the field of lung cancer.

Textbook of Lung Cancer, Second Edition Books Details
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Informa HealthCare; 2 edition (March 17, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415385105
ISBN-13: 978-0415385107

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Lung Cancer: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

2009-03-28T22:04:00.000-07:00

Lung Cancer: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

Lung Cancer: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment Author by:
Walter Scott

Lung Cancer: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
From Library Journal
Written for patient and caregiver, this thorough and easy-to-read guide covers the basics of lung cancer and its management. Scott, a cardiothoracic surgeon specializing in lung cancer treatment, presents clinical information in a lucid and compassionate manner. This well organized book capably guides the reader through a logical series of discussions, ranging from how the lungs work to end-of-life care. Treatments by disease type and stage (and the staging process itself) are smoothly explained. Another strong point is the appendix, which contains a concise list of chemotherapy agents and provides essential drug information, including brand and generic names. Although the text lacks a formal glossary, definitions of technical terms are skillfully woven into the context. Few consumer health titles are exclusively devoted to lung cancer, and this one should prove a valuable addition to consumer health and public library collections.

Lung Cancer: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment Books Description
Are You Receiving the Best Treatment for Lung Cancer?
If you’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer, you’re probably frightened. And, you probably have many questions. You’re wondering about prognosis and treatment. What will the treatments be like? Will you have side effects? But…are you asking whether or not you’re receiving the best treatment possible?

In Lung Cancer—A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, most promising therapies for lung cancer, including the multimodality approach—a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Among the other topics he covers:

• Tests for early detection of lung cancer
• Staging the cancer and why it is so important
• Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy . . . how they kill Lung cancer cells
• Alternative treatments can they help?
• The importance of clinical trials
• Coping with emotions such as “smoker’s guilt

Lung Cancer: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment Books Details
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Addicus Books; 1 edition (April 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1886039437
ISBN-13: 978-1886039438

A Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice

2009-03-28T21:53:00.000-07:00

A Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice

A Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice
Editor by:
Harvey I Pass
David P Carbone
David H Johnson
John D Minna
Andrew T Turrisi

A Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death in men, and in women it has surpassed even breast cancer. The primary cause of lung cancer in up to 90 percent of patients is smoking, and it is estimated that bronchiogenic carcinoma will develop in 10 to 15 percent of all smokers. Environmental factors -- for example, passive smoke, occupational exposure to asbestos or chromium, and air pollution -- as well as genetic predisposition in a multistep carcinogenic process may both play a part. Nevertheless, cessation of cigarette smoking is the most effective, most easily achievable, and least expensive intervention in reducing the risk of lung cancer.

Despite marked progress in the treatment of lung cancer, most patients still die of their disease within several months to a few years. Some patients and physicians have a nihilistic perception of the treatment of lung cancer, and adequate treatment is often delayed or not even considered. However, even locally advanced disease can be cured in many patients with the appropriate multimodal therapy. Patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of lung cancer are best evaluated by a team of lung-cancer specialists consisting of thoracic surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation therapists, pneumologists, radiologists, and pathologists.A Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice.

Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice reflects this multidisciplinary approach to a common disease. Lung cancer should be suspected in any patient who presents with persistent cough or hemoptysis or with deep venous thrombosis, without other clinical explanations or constitutional symptoms. A simple chest radiograph may reveal a pulmonary mass, and subsequent computed tomography of the chest and upper abdomen will allow rapid assessment of any extension of the tumor into the mediastinum and of any metastases to the liver and adrenals. Tissue diagnosis should then be performed by the most appropriate means

Most patients in whom treatment can be administered with curative intent present with locally advanced disease. In these patients, monotherapy (surgery alone) is rarely sufficient, and a multimodal approach to treatment should be considered. Although adjuvant chemotherapy has failed to offer a survival advantage, modern combination chemotherapy has shown promise as neoadjuvant therapy before surgery or radiation. The indications and limitations of adjuvant radiotherapy after complete resection of non-small-cell lung cancer are discussed, and current controversies are highlighted. The reader will find precise answers to most relevant clinical questions. Rare topics, such as the occurrence of multiple primary tumors and the difficulty and occasional impossibility of distinguishing them from metastases, are also addressed. The role of surgery in patients with stage T4 primary tumors with infiltration of the superior vena cava is critically reviewed.

An issue rarely discussed in clinical textbooks is cost effectiveness. Here, methods are briefly reviewed, and the cost effectiveness of some therapeutic interventions, in contrast to screening programs, is emphasized. Despite the proven cost effectiveness of palliative chemotherapy in comparison with the best supportive care, global budget restrictions may not allow this treatment to be offered to all patients. Given the growing importance of health care expenditures and limited resources, an even more extensive review of this subject would be welcome in a future edition.

The first section of this textbook is devoted to the biology and molecular genetics of lung cancer. Potential targets for future therapeutic interventions, such as ras and erbB2, epidermal growth-factor receptors, telomerase, and angiogenesis, are appropriately reviewed. The difficulties, challenges, limitations, and opportunities of studying lung cancer in experimental models are highlighted. This information, together with the sections on clinical issues, makes Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice a truly comprehensive and valuable textbook on a common and often ultimately fatal disease.

A Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice Books Details

Hardcover: 1000 pages

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins;

Third Edition edition (December 1, 2004)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0781746205

ISBN-13: 978-078174620

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Surgery of the Esophagus: Textbook and Atlas of Surgical Practice

2009-03-18T07:40:00.000-07:00

Surgery of the Esophagus: Textbook and Atlas of Surgical Practice

Surgery of the Esophagus: Textbook and Atlas of Surgical Practice Editor by:
Jakob R. Izbicki
Alexander F. Chernousov
Dieter C. Broering
Yuri I. Gallinger
Emre F. Yekebas
Pavel M. Bogopolski
Asad Kutup
Nib Soehendra

Surgery of the Esophagus: Textbook and Atlas of Surgical Practice Books Description

This atlas provides a thorough overview on current surgical strategies in the treatment of esophageal diseases. The first part of this atlas is focused on basic diagnostic tools, indications and preoperative work up. The second part exhibits profound instructions for current surgical procedures illustrated with precise drawings in detail and operation note style text to enable the learning surgeon as well as the experienced surgeon to perform even the most complex operations. The basic principles of esophageal surgery as well as conventional surgery, endoscopic and minimal invasive techniques are vividly presented in response to the advances achieved in esophageal surgery. This atlas includes: basic principles in esophageal surgery, surgical techniques including endoscopic and minimal invasive procedures, precise drawings with operation note style text and detailed anatomic and surgical knowledge, clearly defined strategies to enable the surgeon to perform even the most complex op's.

Surgery of the Esophagus: Textbook and Atlas of Surgical Practice Books Details
Hardcover: 380 pages
Publisher: Steinkopff-Verlag Darmstadt; 1 edition (May 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3798513090
ISBN-13: 978-3798513099

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Adult Chest Surgery

2009-03-18T06:27:00.000-07:00

Adult Chest Surgery

Adult Chest Surgery Author by:
David Sugarbaker
Raphael Bueno
Mark Krasna
Steven Mentzer
Lambros Zellos

Adult Chest Surgery Books Description

The full spectrum of thoracic operative concepts and procedures at your fingertips.

Here, in a single all-inclusive volume, is the sum of clinical knowledge in chest surgery, primarily drawn from the perspectives of internationally known innovators in thoracic surgery. In this text you will find all of the concepts and procedures that comprise the core of the discipline, making it unique among all other general surgery textbooks.

Completely up-to-date with the latest non-invasive techniques, Adult Chest Surgery features a logical organization based on anatomy, and each section has an overview chapter, which summarizes the relevant anatomy, pathophysiology, and diagnostic and procedural options. Throughout, operations and diagnostic procedures are highlighted in succinct, illustrated technique chapters, making the book ideal for practicing cardiothoracic, thoracic, and general surgeons, as well as for residents, fellows, and allied healthcare providers.

Adult Chest Surgery Books Features

From one of the largest thoracic surgery practices and training programs in North America.
Covers the entire range of thoracic surgical techniques and management, along with crucial preoperative evaluation, staging, and postoperative strategies .
600 illustrations commissioned especially for this book.
A timely focus on the trend toward minimally invasive, endoscopic, and robotic techniques.
Non-surgical management chapters emphasize how to successfully manage specific clinical situations.
Insightful overviews of topics related to particular surgical procedures are presented, including survival rates, indications, patient characteristics, and technical and oncological principles .
Emphasizes the basic tenets of thoracic surgery and chest disease, making it ideal for board review and recertification

Adult Chest Surgery Books Details
Hardcover: 976 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (July 10, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071434143
ISBN-13: 978-0071434140

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Mind Maps in Surgery

2009-03-18T06:18:00.000-07:00

Mind Maps in Surgery

Mind Maps in Surgery Author by:
Pouya Youssefi
Pooneh Youssefi
Irving Taylor

Mind Maps in Surgery Books Description

Mind Maps in Surgery uses a concise and visually stimulating method, Mind Maps, to teach the reader the main topics in surgery. Each Mind Map covers a particular topic, disease, or condition; and includes the various aspects of a surgical disorder such as its pathophysiology, etiology, symptoms and signs, investigations, differential diagnosis, and management. In addition to covering the major types of surgery, the book contains chapters on the management of acutely ill patients and surgical patients, which is of vital importance for the reader.

Instead of presenting the information in seemingly endless, lengthy text, the book is thoughtfully and carefully structured so that it contains only the essential knowledge. It is aimed especially at undergraduate medical students doing their surgical rotations, as a wonderful study aid for their final exams. It is also useful for surgical trainees working towards their membership exams, as well as doctors and nurses in the surgical profession.

Mind Maps in Surgery Books Contents:
(Instruction Mind Map);
Gastrointestinal;
Hepatobiliary;
Head,
Neck and Skin;
Vascular;
Breast;
Urology;
The Acutely Ill Patient; The Surgical Patient; Specific Examinations.

Mind Maps in Surgery Books Details
Paperback: 148 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; 1 edition (September 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9812834370
ISBN-13: 978-9812834379

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Introduction to Nursing Informatics

2009-03-17T07:19:00.000-07:00

Introduction to Nursing Informatics

Introduction to Nursing Informatics
Author by:
Kathryn J. Hannah
Marion J. Ball
Margaret J.A. Edwards

Introduction to Nursing Informatics Books Description
This book is intended to be a primer for those just beginning to study nursing informatics, simultaneously providing a thorough introduction to basic terms and concepts, and an in-depth exploration of the most popular applications in nursing practice, education, administration and research. This revised second edition is updated and expanded to reflect the vast technological advances achieved in healthcare in recent years, including new chapters on both HIS and Internet usage, and many more graphics and resources for the reader. Readers will learn how to use computers and information management systems in their practices, make informed choices related to software/hardware selection, and implement computerized solutions for information management strategies.

Introduction to Nursing Informatics Books Details
Hardcover: 354 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (December 14, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387984518
ISBN-13: 978-0387984513

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First Aid Radiology for the Wards

2009-03-15T00:51:00.000-07:00

First Aid Radiology for the Wards

First Aid Radiology for the Wards Author by:
Latha Stead
S. Matthew Stead
Matthew Kaufman

First Aid Radiology for the Wards Books Details:
Paperback: 271 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 1 edition (October 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071381015
ISBN-13: 978-0071381017

First Aid Radiology for the Wards Contents:
SECTION I: HOW TO SUCCEED I N THE RADIOLOGY CLERKSHIP
SECTION II : HIGH-YI E LD FACTS

Neuroradiology
Chest Radiology
Gastrointestinal Radiology
Genitourinary Radiology
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Musculoskeletal Radiology
Pediatric Radiology

SECTION III : CLASSI FIED

Awards for Medical Students Intending to Pursue Radiologic Specialties
General Medical Student Awards
Websites & Resources of Interest

First Aid Radiology for the Wards Books Description:
This survival guide for the radiology wards teaches you how to read and present normal and abnormal x-rays, CTs, and MRIs for the most commonly seen diseases and disorders. You'll find 150 radiologic images divided by modality, clear guidelines on when to order a specific modality and how to read the results, and illustrations of classic results of important conditions.

Prepare for and take the test.
Perform a basic study.
Determine if a film is adequate.
Present each study on the ward.
Spot the strengths and weaknesses of studies.
Recognize basic anatomical structures.
Identify abnormal conditions
The only student-to-student, step-by-step guide to interpreting and presenting radiology studies.
Detailed how-to-succeed and what-to-study guidance from clerkship vets.
75 radiology images of the most commonly seen disorders illustrate each modality and detail .
Illustrates normal as well as abnormal results.
Classic results of important conditions often seen on the wards and tested on the USMLE Step 2CK.
Clear guidelines on when to order a specific modality and how to read the results.
Classifieds feature high-yield websites, top extracurricular opportunities, and scholarships.
Tear-out cards with essential radiology concepts in pocket-ready format

This clinical study aid was designed in the tradition of the First Aid series of books. It is formatted in the same way as the other books in the series. You will fi nd that rather than simply preparing you for success on the clerkship exam, this resource will also help guide you in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of many of the problems seen by radiologists, physicians, and trainees across several specialties.

The content of the book is based on the objectives for medical students laid out by the National Medical Student Curriculum in Radiology which may be viewed at: http://www.aur.org/amser/AMSER_national_curriculum.html. “Must see” images are incorporated into the chapters based on anatomy. There is also a practical section on “lines and tubes” that will come in handy for ward rounds in other clerkships. The content of the text is organized in the format similar to other texts in the First Aid series. Topics are listed by bold headings, and the “meat” of the topic provides essential information. The outside margins contain mnemonics, diagrams, summary or warning statements and tips. Tips are denoted by .

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Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist: A Positive Care Approach

2009-03-14T21:58:00.000-07:00

Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist: A Positive Care Approach

Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist: A Positive Care Approach
Author:
Association of Surgical Technologists books Description

Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist books Description
This Study Guide is your companion to the Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist, Third Edition textbook. This edition includes more opportunities to practice and demonstrate what you learn as you develop the unique skills that make the surgical technologist integral to the surgical environment.

Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist Features:

23 new surgical procedures written up in paragraph or outline formats
19 surgical procedures now presented in comprehensive format
Addition of microbiology where appropriate
More images of live surgery, instruments, and step-by-step surgical procedures
Free StudyWare CD-ROM provides games, quizzes, certification exam-style questions, image labeling and ordering exercises, as well as case studies paired with video clips for more critical thinking practice
Accompanying Study Guide features a new lab manual
Pearls of Wisdom from surgical technologists that can only come from years of on-the-job experience
Uses the "A POSitive CARE" memory tool to reinforce the thought process
Full-color anatomy and surgical procedure drawings
Technique boxes highlight skills required in most operative procedures, such as donning and removing surgical attire, and setting up the operating room
Case studies open and close each chapter for application to real-life situations

Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist Books Details
Paperback: 472 pages
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 3 edition (February 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1418051705
ISBN-13: 978-1418051709

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Community Palliative Care: The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist

2009-03-14T21:22:00.000-07:00

Community Palliative Care: The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist

Community Palliative Care: The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist
Author by:
Sandra Aitken

Community Palliative Care: The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist Books Details
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (May 18, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1405180765
ISBN-13: 978-1405180764

Community Palliative Care: The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist Books Description

Community Palliative Care examines the complex support and information needs of seriously ill patients and their families and will encompass not only the patients journey, but that of the family during the illness trajectory and into the bereavement period.

Community Palliative Care examines the complex support and information needs of seriously ill patients and their families and will encompass not only the patient’s journey, but that of the family during the illness trajectory and into the bereavement period.

The text is divided into three sections- professionals, patients and carers. The first section discusses the roles and contributions made by other members of the primary health care team and examines the role of the nurse. Section two explores the psychosocial support needed by patients receiving palliative care, and looks at the community palliative care clinical nurse specialists’ role in relation to psychological, as well as practical problems surrounding a life threatening illness. The final section will look at the needs of the family and carers and the support that the community palliative care clinical nurse specialist can offer to the individuals. Included in this segment will be the complex issues faced by carers in relation to the changing roles within the family, children, death and bereavement.

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Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy

2009-03-14T06:05:00.000-07:00

Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy

Editor by:
Springhouse

Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy Books Details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (April 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1582555532
ISBN-13: 978-1582555539

Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy Books Description
Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy! is the resource every student needs to master the art of care planning, including concept mapping. Starting with the nursing process, the book provides the foundations for writing practical Nursing Care Plans, walks students through the care planning process, builds the critical thinking skills needed to individualize care, and offers tips on incorporating evidence-based standards and rationales into nursing interventions. Coverage includes up-to-date NANDA nursing diagnoses, NIC and NOC, and an English-NANDA dictionary that makes understanding nursing diagnoses fun. Sample care plans appear throughout the book. A bound-in CD-ROM contains over 150 customizable care plans.

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Culture, Communication & Nursing: A Multicultural Guide

2009-03-14T00:19:00.000-07:00

Culture, Communication and Nursing: A Multicultural Guide

Author by:
Philip Burnard

Culture, Communication &; Nursing: A Multicultural Guide Books Details
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Pearson Education (January 31, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132328925
ISBN-13: 978-0132328920

Culture, Communication &; Nursing: A Multicultural Guide Books Description

Good communication is an essential part of delivering effective nursing care. Nursing students work in a variety of multicultural settings and therefore it is imperative that they fully understand their own cultural context and that of others. This text illustrates the important differences between cultures and how these differences can enhance practical nursing. Through the comprehensive use of case studies and interactive exercises, the book invites students to reflect on their own knowledge and skills about culture so that they can learn to communicate in a more effective and culturally sensitive way. All theory is applied to nursing practice to demonstrate how situations can arise and be dealt with appropriately whilst working on clinical placement. This text is written for students studying the CFP at Year 1. Communication will be studied either as part of a Professional Issues module, or Nursing Practice.

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Nurse Anesthesia

2009-03-13T20:42:00.000-07:00

Nurse Anesthesia

Author by:
John J. Nagelhout CRNA PhD FAAN
Karen Plaus PhD CRNA FAAN

Nurse Anesthesia Books Details
Hardcover: 1408 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 4 edition (February 11, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416050256
ISBN-13: 978-1416050254

Nurse Anesthesia Book Description

The one and only resource by nurse anesthetists for nurse anesthesia just got better.

Long respected as the most comprehensive nurse anesthesia resource available, this new edition continues the tradition of bringing together leading experts to create a balanced reference that applies scientific principles to today's clinical anesthesia practice. Inside you'll find a solid introduction to the equipment and patient care techniques unique to nurse anesthesia side-by-side with the cutting-edge research and application of evidence necessary to prepare you for tomorrow.

Over 700 tables and boxes highlight the most essential information in a quick, easy-to-reference format.
An easy-to-use organization with basic principles covered first, followed by individual chapters for each surgical specialty, ensures you have the information you need to build your knowledge.
Over 650 figures of anatomy, nurse anesthesia procedures, and equipment enhance your understanding of complex information.
Expert CRNA authors provide the most up-to-date and relevant clinical information you'll use in daily practice.
The latest pharmacology information on pharmacokinetics, drug delivery systems, opiate antagonists, and key induction drugs to keep you up-to-date.
Thoroughly updated references make finding the latest and most important research in the field quick and simpl
New chapters address legal issues, neonatal anesthesia, anesthesia education, clinical monitoring, regional anesthesia, unexpected complications, and more.
Expanded coverage of chemistry and physics as well as immunology makes these difficult fundamental topics easier to understand and apply to everyday practice.
Over 100 new images enhance your understanding of difficult anesthesia concepts.

NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages: Nursing Diagnoses, Outcomes, and Interventions

2009-03-13T06:32:00.000-07:00

NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages: Nursing Diagnoses, Outcomes, and Interventions

Author by:
Marion Johnson PhD RN
Gloria M. Bulechek PhD RN FAAN
Joanne McCloskey Dochterman PhD RN FAAN
Meridean L. Maas PhD RN FAAN
Sue Moorhead PhD RN
Elizabeth Swanson PhD RN
Howard K. Butcher PhD RN APRN BC

NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages: Nursing Diagnoses, Outcomes, and Interventions Book Description
This book unifies the languages of nursing, Complete with the most up-to-date NIC, NOC, and NANDA approved lists.

Based on years of research at the University of Iowa, this one-of-a-kind reference provides linkages between three standardized languages recognized by the American Nurses Organization: NANDA, Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC). A perfect companion to Dochterman: NIC, 4th Edition and Moorhead: NOC, 3rd Edition, this book is a useful tool for nurses in developing care plans for patients, and for institutions in tracking and quantifying nursing care Plans.

Links all of the NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses to outcome labels and three levels of suggested interventions
Uses easy-access, user-friendly tables to show terminology and criteria.
Presents case studies along with nursing care plans to demonstrate the application of linkages.
Defines all NANDA, NOC, and NIC labels.
Makes an excellent companion to the new editions of NIC and NOC

Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing, North American Edition: In One Volume

2009-03-13T05:29:00.000-07:00

Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing, North American Edition: In One Volume

Author by:
Suzanne C Smeltzer

Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing Description
Now in its Twelfth Edition, Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing is designed to assist nurses in preparing for their roles and responsibilities in the health care settings. This leading textbook focuses on physiological, pathophysiological, and psychosocial concepts as they relate to nursing care Plans Brunner is known for its strong Nursing Process focus and its readability.

Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing Books Details
Hardcover: 2272 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Twelfth Edition edition (December 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781785898
ISBN-13: 978-078178589

Consent, benefit, and risk in anaesthetic practice

2009-03-13T02:19:00.000-07:00

Consent, benefit, and risk in anaesthetic practice

Editor by:
Jonathan G. Hardman
Iain K. Moppett
Alan R. Aitkenhead

Consent, benefit, and risk in anaesthetic practice Books Description

Patient expectations regarding involvement in their own healthcare have increased dramatically over the past few years. It is no longer acceptable for the doctor to dictate treatment; patients demand information regarding treatment options, and input into the selection of the most appropriate treatment plan. This is evidenced by court decisions that have upheld patient litigation on the basis that inadequate information was given to them before treatment, and that they were unaware of risks of complications which subsequently materialized. While these complaints are more typical against surgeons, similar claims are likely in relation to anaesthetic procedures. Anaesthesia is no longer considered a non-negotiable aspect of surgical care, and anaesthetists need to be aware of current issues surrounding provision of information concerning risks and benefits of anaesthesia, and obtaining consent.

This book provides useful, up-to-date information for anaesthetists and medico-legal practitioners regarding consent, risk and benefit in anaesthesia. It begins with the general principles of consent, and how risks and benefits might be conveyed. This is followed by an exploration of the clinical contexts in which consent is needed, covering obstetrics, emergency surgery, and critical care. Special considerations such as children, high risk patients, and the incapacitated/incompetent adult are also identified. Section 3 covers specific risks and benefits associated with anaesthesia. These are referenced by phsyiological system and and anaethetic technique, and illustrated with case scenarios to provide the reader with accessible information that is relevant to daily practice. The book concludes with valuable contributions from those outside anaesthesia: the legal perspective, and that of the patient. Edited by experts in medico-legal studies and anaesthesia, this first book in this complex field will prove invaluable for those dealing with the increasing demands of consent, benefit, and risk in anaesthesia.

Consent, benefit, and risk in anaesthetic practice Books Details
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 30, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199296871
ISBN-13: 978-0199296873

Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy

2009-03-12T23:48:00.000-07:00

Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy

Author by:
Josef Zentner
Wolfgang Seeger

Books Description

Surgery offers a highly efficient treatment option for patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsies. While most surgical procedures aim at curative treatment, others have been designed for palliative purposes. Although standardized procedures are available, surgical techniques actually applied vary greatly. However, to date no comprehensive overview on different methods is available. The book by Zentner and Seeger compensates for these shortcomings. It comprises the wide spectrum of current procedures and provides a thorough description of surgical steps. Moreover, detailed information as to results and complications of different procedures is given. Thus, this book not only contains practical instructions for neurosurgeons, but also enables neurologists and epileptologists to understand possibilities and limitations of epilepsy surgery and facilitates adequate consultation of patients and relatives.

In the majority of patients with epilepsy, seizures can be well controlled with appropriate medication. However, current estimates indicate that 20 - 30% of patients with epilepsy are refractory to all forms of medical therapy.(1) These medically intractable patients are candidates for surgical treatment in an attempt to achieve better seizure control. Another group of patients who might benefit are those whose seizures may be relatively well controlled but who have certain characteristic presentations or lesions that strongly suggest surgical intervention might be curative. Overall, the single most important determinant of a successful surgical outcome is patient selection. This requires detailed presurgical evaluation to characterize seizure type, frequency, site of onset, psychosocial functioning and degree of disability in order to select the most appropriate treatment from a variety of surgical options. This type of evaluation is best carried out at a multi-disciplinary center experienced in the investigation and treatment of epilepsy.

Books Details
Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (January 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3211837701
ISBN-13: 978-3211837702

Infection and Rheumatic Diseases: Mimicking and Complicating Effects on Rheumatic Disorders

2009-03-12T05:55:00.000-07:00

Infection and Rheumatic Diseases: Mimicking and Complicating Effects on Rheumatic Disorders

Author by:
Georg Schett
Jochen Zwerina

Books Details
Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (January 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3211792813
ISBN-13: 978-321179281

Books Description

Autoimmune and rheumatic diseases are two close allies. Differential diagnosis of both disease groups can be cumbersome since the clinical signs of rheumatic and infectious disorders are very similar. This book addresses the fact that infectious disease can either mimic or complicate rheumatic diseases. In the first part, cases of with standard rheumatic symptoms patients triggered by infections and differential diagnosis are presented. The second part is dedicated to the complications of rheumatic disease infections. Standard patient cases are presented as well as risk factors, clinical features and microbial spectra. Further chapters inform about the impact of anti-rheumatic and immunomodulatory drug therapies (incl. biological agents) on infectious risk, the specific aspects of vaccination during immunosuppressive therapy and issues about the infectious risk and chemoprophylaxis during orthopedic surgery. This book provides clinicians a detailed insight between rheumatic and infectious disease.

Written for:
Rheumatologists, immunologists, internists, clinicians

Keywords:
Arthritis
Complicating
Infection
Mimicking
Rheuma
Rheumatic Diseases

NANDA Nursing Diagnoses, 2009-2011 Edition: Definitions and Classification

2009-03-02T18:44:00.000-08:00

Author by: NANDA International

Details
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd edition (November 10, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1405187182
ISBN-13: 978-1405187183

Books Description
A nursing diagnosis is defined as a clinical judgment about individual, family or community responses to actual or potential health problems or life processes which provide the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable.
Accurate and valid nursing diagnoses guide the selection of interventions that are likely to produce the desired treatment effects and determine nurse-sensitive outcomes. Nursing diagnoses are seen as key to the future of evidence-based, professionally-led nursing care – and to more effectively meeting the need of patients and ensuring patient safety. In an era of increasing electronic patient health records standardized nursing terminologies such as NANDA, NIC and NOC provide a means of collecting nursing data that are systematically analyzed within and across healthcare organizations and provide essential data for cost/benefit analysis and clinical audit.
Nanda 'Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification' is the definitive guide to nursing diagnoses worldwide. Each nursing diagnoses undergoes a rigorous assessment process by NANDA -I with stringent criteria to indicate the strength of the underlying level of evidence.
Each diagnosis comprises a label or name for the diagnosis and a definition. Actual diagnoses include defining characteristics and related factors. Risk diagnoses include risk factors. Many diagnoses are further qualified by terms such as effective, ineffective, impaired, imbalanced, readiness for, disturbed, decreased etc.
The 2009-2011 edition is arranged by concept according to Taxonomy II domains (i.e. Health promotion, Nutrition, Elimination and Exchange, Activity/Rest, Perception/Cognition, Self-Perception, Role Relationships, Sexuality, Coping/ Stress Tolerance, Life Principles, Safety/Protection, Comfort, Growth/Development). The book contains new chapters on ‘Critical judgement and assessment’ and ‘How to identify appropriate diagnoses’ and core references for all nursing diagnoses..

2009-2011 edition arranged by concepts
New chapters on ‘Critical judgement and assessment’ and ‘How to identify appropriate diagnoses’
Core references for new diagnoses and level of evidence for each diagnosis
Companion website available

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Nurse to Nurse Dementia Care

2009-02-28T18:15:00.000-08:00

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

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

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Nursing Care of Older People with Diabetes

2009-02-28T16:23:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-02-28T15:57:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-28T09:14:00.000-08:00

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.

Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention

2009-02-28T08:55:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-26T09:16:00.000-08:00

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:

Neuroradiology: History and New Research Technologies
Congenital Malformations of the Brain and Skull
Cerebrovascular Diseases and Malformations of the Brain
Supratentorial Tumours
Pineal Region Tumours
Sellar and Parasellar Tumours
Infratentorial Tumours
Tumours of the Meninges
Head Trauma
Hydrocephalus
Intracranial Infections
Toxic and Metabolic Disorders
Demyelinating Diseases of the Central Nervous System
Neurodegenerative Disorders of the Central Nervous System
Spine and Spinal Cord Disorders

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The Double Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS)

2009-02-20T07:32:00.000-08:00

The Double Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS): Adjustable Implant System for Proximal and Distal Femur Fractures

Editor by:
Karl-Klaus Dittel
Matthias Rapp

Product Details
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Steinkopff-Verlag Darmstadt; 1 edition (October 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3798518416
ISBN-13: 978-379851841

This publication is primarily directed to the amplification of a new treatment modality that addresses only a fraction of the problem. It is, however, a quantum leap in the evolution of fixation with compression hip screws which are still the gold standard for surgical stabilization of pertrochanteric hip fractures.

The Dynamic Martin Screw (DMS) addresses the issue of adjustability of the fixation angle with appropriate mechanical strength characteristics that were lacking in its historical predecessors.

It exhibits the unique ability to allow the surgeon to improve the reduction to a more advantageous valgus angle even after it is rigidly attached to the femur. This provides a more stable construct that will allow for a more successful recovery of the patient to their previous ambulatory life.

In addition, the device is ideally suited for a new challenge in hip fractures, the MRI fracture. These are undisplaced fractures diagnosed almost entirely by magnetic resonance imaging. Since they are, by definition, undisplaced, the infinite adjustment of the femur neck angle of this device is the perfect solution.

The variable angle system has been adapted for paediatric use. While useful for fracture fixation, it is an excellent option for fixation in the varus femoral osteotomy for dysplastic hips and subluxation in children with cerebral palsy.

Further on the supracondylar version is very valuable for distal femur fractures. The supracondylar version with cable extraordinarily is suited for the devastating periprosthetic femoral fracture in the total hip patient. This situation, by the way, is a new epidemic!

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Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (Varcarolis, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans)

2009-02-19T15:26:00.000-08:00

Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (Varcarolis, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans)
Diagnoses, clinical Tools, and Psychopharmacology

Varcarolis, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans
Author by:
Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

Product Details
* Paperback: 816 pages
* Publisher: Saunders; 3 edition (December 28, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1416029168
* ISBN-13: 978-1416029168

Book Description
Designed to assist in the assessment, formulation of nursing diagnoses, and the design of psychiatric nursing care plans This pocket-sized clinical companion is designed to assist in the assessment of psychiatric nursing clients, formulation of nursing diagnoses, and design of psychiatric nursing care plans. It provides quick and easy access to the detailed and concrete information students need to know as they visit the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. The content is clinically based, rather than theory based. This avoids repetition of material that students already have in their mental health nursing textbooks and makes it a perfect reference for clinical use.

The latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information relevant to nursing care of clients with psychiatric disorders.
A focus on clinical information in order to assist the nurse in providing patient care in the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting.
Coverage of all major disorders commonly encountered in a clinical setting.
Care plans with a nursing diagnosis etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long-term goals, short-term goals, and interventions and rationales.
A chapter on Major Psychotropic Interventions and Client and Family Teaching provides coverage of psychopharmacology in addition to the content found in each disorder chapter.
The most recent information in the field, including the DSM-IV-TR taxonomy and 2005-2006 NANDA nursing diagnoses.
Assessment tools collected in an appendix for quick reference.
An appendix of drug monographs features the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications.
Revised and expanded client outcome sections include additional outcome criteria, short-term goals, and long-term goals for each diagnosis.
Additional content on forensic issues in psychiatric nursing is integrated throughout as applicable.
Online drug cards, updated quarterly, provide users with the latest drug information and can be
printed and carried along with the manual.

Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans

Pharmacology for Nursing Care

2009-02-19T06:10:00.000-08:00

Pharmacology for Nursing Care

Author by:
Richard A. Lehne

Pharmacology for Nursing Care Details:
Hardcover: 1376 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 6 edition (June 20, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416025529
ISBN-13: 978-1416025528

Pharmacology for Nursing Care Description

Always a student favorite, Pharmacology for Nursing Care offers a clear approach explaining drug prototypes and how they work. It provides the background needed to understand related drugs currently on the market, as well as drugs yet to be released. In simplifying a complex subject, this text focuses on the essentials of pharmacology. Large print is used to show "need-to-know" information, and small print is used for "nice to know" material. At the end of each chapter, a summary of major nursing implications helps in applying the material to real-world situations. This edition includes a new companion CD-ROM featuring NCLEX® examination-style review questions, a variety of electronic calculators, and animations depicting drug mechanisms and effects.

Uses a prototype drug approach that places a strong emphasis on understanding over memorization equipping students with the knowledge to learn not only about related drugs currently on the market, but also about those drugs that will be released once the student begins practice.
Summaries of Major Nursing Implications at the end of each chapter provide an in-depth look at assessment, implementation, and ongoing evaluations.
Utilizes large print for essential information and small print for "nice-to-know" information to help both faculty and students focus their limited classroom and study time on understanding the essentials.
Concise drug summary tables present detailed information on individual drugs, including class, generic and trade names, dosages, routes, and indications.
Key Points at the end of each chapter summarize content in a bulleted format to help students review important concepts.

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Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach Fifth Edition

2009-02-19T05:42:00.000-08:00

Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach

Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, Fifth Edition
Author by:
Elizabeth M. Varcarolis
Verna Benner Carson
Nancy Shoemaker

Details Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach
Hardcover: 864 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 5 edition (October 7, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416000887
ISBN-13: 978-1416000884

Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach The new edition of this popular text offers a clear, straightforward way to understand the often intimidating subject of psychiatric nursing. Its practical, clinical perspective and user-friendly writing style engage the reader in a learning process that both informs and enlightens. Clinical chapters progress consistently and logically from theory to application. Specific psychobiological disorders are organized from moderate to severe along the mental health continuum. The nursing process is the strong, visible framework throughout.

User-friendly writing style and a full-color design make psychiatric nursing content come alive! Case studies and personal stories show a compassion and understanding unique among psychiatric nursing texts. Special features are easily located and identified.
Nursing process framework provides a strong underpinning for all clinical chapters. A sixth step, Outcome Criteria, identifies specific patient outcomes, then justifies the subsequent nursing interventions based on results.
Assessment Guidelines boxes provide summary points for client assessment.
Spiritual assessment is found in Assessment Strategies and the Nursing Process and Care for the Dying and for Those Who Grieve.
Biologic Basis for Understanding Psychotropic Drugs lays the foundation for the study of psychotropic drug therapy to treat psychobiologic disorders.

Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, Fifth Edition

Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2009

2009-02-19T05:06:00.000-08:00

Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2009

Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2009
Product Details:
Author by:
Stephen McPhee
Maxine Papadakis (Author)
Paperback: 1728 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 48 edition (October 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071591249
ISBN-13: 978-0071591249

The first annually updated text in internal medicine — trusted, authoritative, and essential to daily practice CMDT delivers the most current insights into signs, symptoms, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment for over 1,000 diseases and disorders. Turn to any topic, and you’ll find on-the-spot, evidence-based answers that reflect the most recent developments in diagnosis and treatment. This concise, authoritative reference gets you up to speed–fast–on the latest medical advances, prevention strategies, cost-effective treatments, and more.

Comprehensive coverage of inpatient and outpatient care, focusing on the diagnostic tools relevant to your day-to-day practice.

Full review of all primary care topics, including gynecology, obstetrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, psychiatry, neurology, toxicology, and urology.
Only text with an annual review of advances in HIV treatment.
Essentials of Diagnosis? for most diseases/disorders.
Hundreds of quick-access drug treatment tables, with indexed trade names and updated drug prices.
ICD codes featured on inside covers.
Diagnostic and treatment algorithms present important information in an at-a-glance style.
Up-to-date references provide peer-reviewed, evidence-based information

New to this Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2009 edition:

Color insert expanded to 16 pages.
Latest developments in HIV infection, including new drugs, recommended treatment regimens, and antiretroviral drug resistance.
All new chapter on hemostasis and antithrombotic therapy.
Completely revamped End of Life Chapter, now called Palliative Care And Pain Management to reflect its new emphasis.
Sections on asthma (includes 2007 NAEPP guidelines) and palpitations.
More algorithms throughout and increased coverage of Canadian and International Guidelines

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2009 CONTENTS:
Chapter 1 Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
Chapter 2 Common Symptoms
Chapter 3 Preoperative Evaluation & Perioperative Management
Chapter 4 Geriatric Disorders
Chapter 5 Palliative Care & Pain Management
Chapter 6 Dermatologic Disorders
Chapter 7 Disorders of the Eyes & Lids
Chapter 8 Ear, Nose, & Throat Disorders
Chapter 9 Pulmonary Disorders
Chapter 10,11 Heart Disease, Systemic Hypertension
Chapter 12 Blood Vessel & Lymphatic Disorders
Chapter 13 Blood Disorders
Chapter 14 Disorders of Hemostasis & Antithrombotic Therapy
Chapter 15 Gastrointestinal Disorders
Chapter 16 Liver, Biliary Tract, & Pancreas Disorders
Chapter 17 Breast Disorders
Chapter 18 Gynecologic Disorders
Chapter 19 Obstetrics & Obstetric Disorders
Chapter 20 Musculoskeletal & Immunologic Disorders
Chapter 21 Fluid & Electrolyte Disorders
Chapter 22 Kidney Disease
Chapter 23 Urologic Disorders
Chapter 24 Nervous System Disorders
Chapter 25 Psychiatric Disorders
Chapter 26 Endocrine Disorders
Chapter 27 Diabetes Mellitus & Hypoglycemia
Chapter 28 Lipid Disorders
Chapter 29 Nutritional Disorders
Chapter 30 Common Problems in Infectious Diseases & Antimicrobial Therapy
Chapter e1 Anti-infective Chemotherapeutic & Antibiotic Agents
Chapter 31 HIV Infection & AIDS
Chapter 32 Viral & Rickettsial Infections
Chapter 33 Bacterial & Chlamydial Infections
Chapter 34 Spirochetal Infections
Chapter 35 Protozoal & Helminthic Infections
Chapter 36 Mycotic Infections
Chapter 37 Disorders Due to Physical Agents
Chapter 38 Poisoning
Chapter 39 Cancer
Chapter e2 Basic Genetics
Chapter 40 Clinical Genetic Disorders
Chapter 41 Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Chapter e3 Diagnostic Testing & Medical Decision Making
Chapter e4 Information Technology in Patient Care: The Internet, Telemedicine, and Clinical Decision Support
Appendix: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring & Laboratory Reference Intervals

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Kaplan NCLEX-RN Exam 2008-2009 with CD-ROM: Strategies for the Registered Nursing Licensing Exam

2009-02-18T06:11:00.000-08:00

Kaplan NCLEX-RN Exam 2008-2009 with CD-ROM: Strategies for the Registered Nursing Licensing Exam

Author by:
Barbara Irwin
Judith A. Burckhardt

Product Details
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing (February 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419551817
ISBN-13: 978-1419551819

Features:
Two practice tests, one in the book and one on the CD-ROM
Detailed answer explanations
In-depth analysis of NCLEX-RN, exam, question types
Online question bank

Inside This Book
Most up-to-date info on based on 2007 test change It really gives you a good background in diseases and understanding the basics. I would also recommend lippincot and kaplan to pass the boards. It is true what they say you really cannot study per say for the boards, if you understand what CHF is and all the other disease processes you will pass. One thing they do not stress enough in school is in order to pass the boards you need to do a lot of studing on your own aside from what you get in class. Class is just that enough to pass the class, but may not be enough to pass the boards. Best advise I ever got was do 60 questions in any nclex review book 5 days per wk. take 60 min. then on the other two days of the wk. go back and do a through review of those questions, don't just read what the correct answer is, lots of review books like lippincot will also tell you why the other 3 answers were wrong therefore you get 4 questions and answers from 1 question. book to help you prepare for applying AND studying for the NCLEX-RN exam

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Nursing 2009 Drug Handbook with Web Toolkit (Nursing Drug Handbook)

2009-02-18T05:49:00.000-08:00

Nursing 2009 Drug Handbook with Web Toolkit (Nursing Drug Handbook)

Editor by:
Springhouse

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Paperback: 1536 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Twenty-ninth Edition edition (June 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 078179286X
ISBN-13: 978-0781792868

Books Description

The 29th edition of the best-selling, original drug handbook for nurses has been revamped expressly to appeal to the education market as well as the practice market. This comprehensive reference provides complete monographs for more than 900 generic and 3,000 trade drugs. The monographs are consistently formatted for ease of use, and they focus on the practical information that practicing nurses need. Each monograph consists of generic and trade names, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (if applicable), available forms, indications and dosages (including dosage adjustments) administration for all routes (plus I.V. drug incompatibilities (for I.V. drugs), drug action (including tables showing route, onset, peak, and duration), adverse reactions, interactions, effects on lab test results, contraindications, nursing considerations, and patient teaching. A new chapter on drug classes is being added to the front of the book. The back-of-book CD is being ported to a Web toolkit with videos about medication administration, a color-photo pill guide, dosage calculators, interactions algorithms, and much more. NDHnow.com keeps the book up to date with partial monographs for new drugs.

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Respiratory Nursing: A Core Curriculum

2009-02-18T03:01:00.000-08:00

Respiratory Nursing: A Core Curriculum
Author:
Michele J. Geiger-Bronsky MSN, APNP, BC

Product Details
Hardcover: 680 pages
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (June 16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0826144446
ISBN-13: 978-082614444

Book Description

By the 1990s, it became clear to many in the nursing community that certification for respiratory nursing practice was desirable, even necessary, but that this could not take place without a carefully designed CORE Curriculum. This book, nearly a decade in the making, sets out such a curriculum. Put together by an expert team of respiratory nurse practitioners, the book includes 42 chapters, each blindly peer reviewed by at least 3 people for clinical content and timeliness. The book will therefore be essential for all nurses seeking the expertise needed to care for persons with respiratory disease or compromised function. Respiratory Nursing should be read by all respiratory and intensive care specialists, related health care professionals, and teachers and students in graduate and undergraduate nursing programs.

When we began the CORE for Respiratory Nursing, its intent was to:

Provide the basis and direction for clinicians who provide direct clinical care across all settings
Create a foundation for development of staff education and curricula at the undergraduate and graduate level
Serve as a resource by which respiratory nursing practice could be evaluated and
Provide the basis for the development of a certifi cation process for Respiratory Nursing

I believe that this CORE has met those objectives that RNS envisioned a decade ago

Contents:
SECTION I THE SPECIALTY OF RESPIRATORY NURSING
SECTION II BASIC KNOWLEDGE
SECTION III NURSING CONCEPTS: HUMAN RESPONSE TO RESPIRATORY DYSFUNCTION
SECTION IV COMMON RESPIRATORY DISEASES AND DISORDERS
SECTION V PEDIATRIC SPECIFIC DISORDERS
SECTION VI THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES
SECTION VII LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES

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Nurse’s Pocket Drug Guide 2009

2009-02-18T01:55:00.000-08:00

Nurse’s Pocket Drug Guide 2009

Author:
Judith Barberio. Clinical Assistant Professor. Rutgers University.

Product Details
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 5 edition (August 18, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071549706
ISBN-13: 978-0071549707

The style of drug presentation includes key “must know” facts of commonly used medications and herbs, essential information for the student, practicing nurse, and health care provider. The inclusion of common uses of medications rather than just the official FDA-labeled indications are based on the uses of the medication and herbs supported by publications and community standards of care. All uses have been reviewed by our editorial board

It is essential that students, registered nurses, and advanced-practice nurses learn more than the name and dose of the medications they administer and prescribe. Certain common side effects and significant contraindications are associated with most prescription medications. Although nurses and other health care practitioners should ideally be completely familiar with the entire package insert of any medication prescribed, such a requirement is unreasonable. References such as the Physicians’ Desk Reference and the drug manufacturer’s Web site make package inserts readily available for many medications, but may not highlight clinically significant facts or key data for generic drugs and those available over the counter.

The limitations of difficult-to-read package inserts were acknowledged by the Food and Drug Administration in early 2001, when it noted that health care providers do not have time to read the many pages of small print in the typical package insert. Newer drugs are producing more user-friendly package insert summaries that will highlight important drug information for easier nursing reference. Although useful, these summaries do not commingle with similarly approved generic or “competing” similar products.

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European Heart Journal: Volume 30 Number 4 February 2009

2009-02-18T01:42:00.000-08:00

European Heart Journal: Volume 30 Number 4 February 2009
Journal of the European Society of Cardiology

Pharmacotherapy of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Intra-aortic balloon pump in STEMI
Aldosterone and left ventricular dysfunction
Atrial fibrillation after surgery
Euro Heart Failure Survey II

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