Pharmacology for Nurses

Pharmacology for Nurses links a unique approach to teaching pharmacology with Canadian content to deliver an outstanding manual for nursing students. A holistic, pathophysiological approach runs throughout the text, which places drugs in context with their therapeutic use, and organizes them by body systems and diseases. This gives students a clear picture of the importance of pharmacology to disease and ultimately to patient care. Detailed information on the drug classifications used to treat diseases is included.

The practice of pharmacology in Canada is reflected comprehensively throughout Pharmacology for Nurses. This coverage includes statistics, legal and ethical issues, generic drugs, and cultural considerations that are all particular to Canada. As well, material on Canadian legislation and regulatory bodies, including coverage of natural health product regulations, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines, and the Canadian Nurses Association’s standards of practice, is incorporated throughout.

Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing – 2 Volume Set, 14th Edition

Prepare for medical-surgical nursing practice and success on the NCLEX withBrunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13th. A favorite resource for students and practicing nurses for almost a half-century, this book provides comprehensive yet accessible coverage of a broad range of medical conditions while focusing on the nursing process and the nurse’s role in caring for and educating patients and families within today’s complex health care delivery system. 

Up-to-date coverage of the health care needs of people with disabilities, nursing research findings, ethical considerations, and evidence-based practice gives you opportunities to refine your clinical decision-making skills. Fully updated and enhanced, this new edition provides a fully integrated solution that promotes clinical judgment, performance, and success on the NCLEX examination and in nursing practice.

Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing – 2 Volume Set, 14th Edition 2018 – 283 MB

English for Nurses

English for Nursing Intermediate Plus is designed to improve the communication skills and specialist English language knowledge of healthcare professionals, enabling them to work more confidently and effectively. With an emphasis on listening and speaking, the course covers the core areas of nursing with authentic tasks and activities based on everyday scenarios, making the course relevant and motivating.

Medical-Surgical Nursing 10th edition – Brunner & Suddarth

Numerous updates and a state-of-the-art ancillary package make the Tenth Edition of this best-selling textbook the most up-to-date book of its kind. New chapters include: End-of-Life Care, Genetics Perspectives in Nursing Practice, and Management of Patients Affected by Terrorism, Mass Casualty, and Disaster. New features include: Concept Maps relating NANDA diagnoses with NIC and NOC classification systems; boxed charts alerting nurses to genetics perspectives in practice; and new, specialized content on elderly patients and those with disabilities.

A free CD-ROM in the text includes over 3,500 general student-study questions, 500 unit review questions, 3-dimensional animations that illustrate disease processes, and interactive clinical simulations covering asthma and congestive heart failure.

Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing

Here’s the 20th Anniversary Edition of the most complete and easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients.

It’s really 2 books in 1! The first half provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan; the second half covers the safe administration of psychotropic medications. And, the concepts can be applied to a variety of healthcare settings…from in-patient hospitalization through the outpatient clinic…to home health and private practice.

Completely revised and updated throughout, the 8th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge and new medications in the field, including an expanded section on psychotropic medications that encompasses all of today’s new drugs and the 2009-2011 content in the NANDA Nursing Diagnoses: Taxonomy II.

You CAN Teach Med-Surg Nursing

This is the first comprehensive resource for clinical medical-surgical nursing instructors responsible for guiding students through their entire clinical rotation. Filling a huge gap in resources for instructors required to teach this course, it contains everything the new or adjunct instructor needs to teach expertly and confidently. The guide describes the role of medical-surgical instructor and provides an introduction to the clinical site. It features a week-by-week instructional plan for the clinical rotation and includes all materials necessary to effectively perform administrative leadership and supervision, assess students' knowledge and learning styles, maximize the learning process, simplify evaluation, and help ensure a smooth transition to clinical practice.

Key Features:

• Comprises the first complete resource for successfully guiding students through their clinical rotations from start to finish
• Helps to allay the "fear factor" for new and adjunct clinical nursing instructors
• Provides a week-by-week instructional guide that includes organizational teaching templates, teaching and learning resources, and evaluation aids
• Includes numerous forms and templates to facilitate administrative responsibilities, student assessment, and student evaluation
• Organizes key clinical information by body system and includes multiple interactive teaching tools

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society Core Curriculum: Ostomy Management

This volume in the new Core Curriculum series from the WOCN® Society covers Ostomy Management, and is the crucial text for nurses practicing or studying ostomy patient care. It offers pathology and physiology basics in easy-to-grasp terms, while providing expert guidance on patient management. The perfect study guide for the wound, ostomy and continence (WOC) certification exams, it also provides step-by-step direction on essential nursing procedures.

 

The evidence-based, easy-to-follow format of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™ Core Curriculum: Wound Management facilitates your comprehension of:  
o    Anatomy and physiology of the GI and urinary tracts
o    The disease states that lead to a fecal/urinary stoma
o    Fecal or urinary stoma construction
o    Fecal or urinary diversion.
 
Step-by-step instruction leads you through care planning and delivery, including management of stoma and peristomal complications. And, end-of-chapter Q&A helps you remember all vital points.
 
Practical directions cover:
o    Preoperative care for patients undergoing fecal or urinary diversion
o    Postoperative nursing assessment and management
o    New surgical procedures and pouching techniques
o    Patient education
o    Rehabilitation issues
o    Ostomy patient needs, including assessment and management of pediatric patients.
 
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™ Core Curriculum: Ostomy Management is essential for nursing students in ostomy care programs; nurses caring for patients with an ostomy; nurses in gastroenterology, urology, and surgical nursing; graduate nursing students; those seeking WOC certification or recertification; and nursing faculty.

Study Guide for Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice

Get a better understanding of the research process and learn how to appraise and apply your findings to the clinical setting with the Study Guide for Understanding Nursing Research, 6th Edition. This new edition incorporates an expanded focus on evidence-based practice, Web-Based Activities and three published research studies referenced throughout the book. This study guide walks you through each chapter in the textbook to reinforce your understanding of important concepts.

• Hands-on practice with three published studies includes three full-text published studies that are referenced throughout the Study Guide. 
• Time-tested and innovative exercises include brief Introductions, Key Terms exercises, Key Ideasexercises, Making Connections exercises, Exercises in Critical Appraisal, and Going Beyond exercises to promote in-depth learning for a variety of learning styles. 
• Learning activities for each textbook chapter reinforce key concepts and guide you in application to evidence-based clinical practice.
• Answer key allows you to check your understanding and learn from mistakes (formative assessment).

• NEW! Increased emphasis on evidence-based practice corresponding to the EBP emphasis in the text to help students who are new to nursing research understand the research process and apply it to evidence-based nursing practice.
• NEW! Increased high-value learning activities have been incorporated throughout the study guide.
• NEW! Web-Based Activities are now included in each chapter to reinforce using the Internet appropriately for scholarly research and evidence-based practice.
• NEW! Updated full-text articles ensure that the examples provided reflect the most current, high-quality studies that are meaningful today.
• NEW! Quick-reference printed tabs have been added to differentiate the answer key and each of the book's three published studies appendices (four tabs total) for improved navigation and usability.

Understanding Medical-Surgical Nursing

Here’s everything you need to know to care for adult medical-surgical patients and pass the NCLEX-PN®. Easy-to-understand guidance helps you confidently grasp the principles, concepts, and skills essential for practice. 

Rely on the Study Guide for Understanding Medical-Surgical Nursing for even more practice! Each chapter corresponds to a chapter in the text. You’ll find critical-thinking exercises • matching and true/false tests • word scrambles • crosswords puzzles • vocabulary review exercises • and NCLEX-PN® style questions that will prepare you for classroom and professional success.

Advanced Practice Nursing Procedures

Here is an illustrated, easy to reference handbook with step-by-step instructions for the procedures most commonly performed by primary care clinicians in office, hospital, and other outpatient settings. Organized by major body systems, each section reviews the diagnostic procedures for that system, followed by all of the information you need to perform the procedure.

Begin with a procedure overview and a list of methods for performing the procedure, followed by rationales, indications and contraindications. The procedure section lists the required equipment and provides step-by-step instructions for performing the procedure. You’ll also have CPT coding guidelines and health promotion and safety prevention tips for client teaching as well as post-procedure care.

Transformational Leadership in Nursing

This award-winning text guides nursing graduate students in developing the key skills they need to fulfill emerging leadership roles as our health care system experiences profound change and increasing complexity. The book provides a wealth of critical information, practical tools, creative vision, and inspiration that will help to facilitate leadership at the highest level of clinical practice. This second edition is expanded and updated to incorporate leadership challenges resulting from health care reform, changes in the current vision of health care, and innovations that foster leadership development. Two completely new chapters address transformational leadership regarding changing health care perspectives and emerging contexts for health care. In this blog post, you will be able to download free PDF e-book copy of Transformational Leadership in Nursing PDF.

The text helps graduate students to master the skills they need to work effectively with interdisciplinary colleagues, address challenges within the confines of budget constraints, and resolve health care disparities and improve outcomes in all settings. With contributions from expert scholars and clinicians in the humanities, natural and social sciences, organizational studies, business, nursing, and other health care sciences, this inspirational text fulfills the DNP core competencies as described in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials of DNP Education.

Theoretical Basis for Nursing

Designed for one of the core courses taught in all graduate nursing programs, this text is the most contemporary, comprehensive, and readable nursing theory textbook on the market. 

It presents historical perspectives on the development of nursing theory, assessments of concept and theory development and theory evaluation, middle-range theories, and shared theories from other disciplines in the sociologic, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. 

Case studies and exemplars demonstrate how to apply theory to real-world nursing practice. Learning activities encourage independent and collaborative research and promote critical thinking. Illustrations and end-of-chapter summaries reinforce essential concepts.

The Care of Wounds: A Guide for Nurses

Care of Wounds addresses all aspects of holistic wound management. The fourth edition of this successful clinical text continues to reflect current research and evidence based practice, while incorporating the considerable developments which have occurred in wound care practice since the publication of the previous edition. 

This book includes chapters on the physiology of wound healing, general principals of wound management, wound management products, and the management of patients with both acute and chronic wounds. Superbly illustrated with full colour illustrations throughout, Care of Wounds is of value to all nurses and healthcare professionals working in the field of tissue viability and wound healing.

• Comprehensive and clinically oriented
• Examines best practice in wound management
• Incorporates national and international clinical guidelines where applicable
• Superbly illustrated with full colour throughout

Essentials of Clinical Reasoning for Nurses

In today's healthcare environment of scarce resources and challenges related to safety and quality, nurses must make decision after decision to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient provision of care. Solid decision-making, or lack thereof, can significantly affect patient care and outcomes.

Clinical reasoning - how a nurse processes information and chooses what action to take - is a skill vital to nursing practice and split-second decisions. And yet, developing the clinical reasoning to make good decisions takes time, education, experience, patience, and reflection. Along the way, nurses can benefit from a successful, practical model that demystifies and advances clinical reasoning skills.

The Essentials of Clinical Reasoning for Nurses, authors RuthAnne Kuiper, Sandra O'Donnell, Daniel Pesut, and Stephanie Turrise provide a model that supports learning and teaching clinical reasoning, development of reflective and complex thinking, clinical supervision, and care planning through scenarios, diagnostic cues, case webs, and more.

Textbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing: Practical Application of Nursing Process at the Bedside

The team that brings you the popular Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications now brings you the only text that explains the who, what, when, how, and why of laboratory and diagnostic testing and connects them to clinical presentations, nursing interventions, and nursing outcomes. Using both printed and interactive case studies, you’ll see exactly how those connections work in the real-world of clinical practice.

“As a nursing instructor, the Textbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing: Practical Application of Nursing Process at the Bedside is one book that I would highly recommend be a required textbook for any nursing student. I appreciate that the textbook is distinctly formatted to present diagnostic and laboratory studies while also including case studies. The textbook walks students through understanding why a study is being performed, how it is done, and explains the clinical significance in relation to a given patient situation all while using the nursing process. Absolutely love it!”

Study Guide to Accompany Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing Twelfth Edition

The perfect companion to Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, this exemplary study tool helps you better understand the concepts, techniques, and disease processes detailed in the textbook.

This concise clinical companion to the twelfth edition of Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing presents nearly 200 diseases and disorders in alphabetical format, allowing rapid access to need-to-know information on the most commonly clinical problems nurses are likely to encounter. The content is completely cross-referenced to the main text. Pages are tabbed alphabetically for speedy reference.

This standard-setting book for med-surg was designed with the student in mind. It has also been carefully reviewed by your colleagues at a variety of schools to ensure readability and accessibility. Just ask your sales rep for a list of these reviewers. The book also has the following features to help facilitate student learning:

• A nursing process framework along with student help features, such as Nursing Alerts
• Critical thinking questions to ensure students get the “why”, and not just the what, when and how
• Access to 72 professional nursing journal articles to help students gain a better understanding of the research cited in the book
• An unparalleled and consistent art program that presents critical information illustratively to help the visual learner

Study Guide for Pharmacology: A Patient-Centered Nursing Process Approach 8th Edition

Corresponding to the chapters in Kee’s Pharmacology: A Patient-Centered Nursing Process Approach, 8th Edition, this study guide offers practical activities to help you review and remember essential nursing pharmacology. Hands-on exercises include study questions, case studies, and NCLEX^® review questions, making it easier to apply your knowledge to clinical practice and develop clinical reasoning skills.

• NCLEX^® review questions in each chapter include application-level questions and alternate-item format questions.
• Case studies enhance your understanding of nursing responsibilities in therapeutic pharmacology.
• Medications and Calculations chapter offers additional opportunities to test your knowledge and skill in drug dosage calculation.
• 75 sample drug labels familiarize you with the real labels you will see in clinical practice.
• Answers for all exercises are provided at the back of the book to make studying easier.
• Study questions are provided in formats including matching, completion, and crossword puzzles.

• NEW! Updated content reflects the changes to Kee’s Pharmacology textbook.
• NEW! Case study questions focus on developing your clinical reasoning skills.
• NEW! Rationales are added to the answer key for selected application-level questions and case study questions.
• NEW safety icons emphasize the nurse‘s role in patient safety.
• NEW! Case studies now feature open-ended questions to promote development of clinical reasoning skills.

Study Guide for Health & Nursing to Accompany Neil J. Salkind′s Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

This Study Guide for introductory statistics courses in health and nursing departments is designed to accompany Neil J. Salkind’s Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, Sixth Edition. Extra exercises; activities; and true/false, multiple choice, and essay questions (with answers to all questions) feature health-specific content to help further student mastery of text concepts.

Also included on the open-access study site at edge.sagepub.com/salkind6e are SPSS datafiles containing survey data from health students, which are used for the exercises in the Study Guide.

Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook 2019

With essential information on more than 1,000 generic and 4,000 trade name drugs, Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook 2019 is the go-to guide for students and nurses alike. The 2019 edition is organized alphabetically by generic drug name for quick and easy access and includes over 270 updates to Black Box Alerts. This user-friendly format also includes comprehensive coverage of IV drug administration, nursing considerations, and fixed combinations. 

To promote better patient care, it uniquely guides you through clinical priorities in the practice setting and is organized alphabetically by generic drug name for quick reference. Plus, new drug monographs cover approximately 33 newly approved drugs by the FDA; and thoroughly updated monographs include new interactions, precautions, and alerts.

RNnetwork Study Guide

General Objective 

The objective of this study guide is to provide the RNnetwork Nurse with:

1. An overview of common disease processes with associated medications and treatments seen in the current patient population.

2. A review of the physiological evolution of common disease processes and classes of drugs or procedures used in their treatment.

3. A review of critical clinical issues requiring immediate intervention.

Specific Objectives

These are the objectives that the RNnetwork Nurse would like to achieve.

• Neurological: Headaches (Migraines), Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, Stroke (CVA - Cerebral Vascular Accident), Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy/Seizure Disorder, Increased Intracranial Pressure, and Subdural Hematoma.

• Respiratory: Asthma, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), and Pneumonia.

• Cardiac: ACS (Acute Coronary Syndrome), Hypertension, Medical Devices, Mitral Valve Disease, and Peripheral Artery Disease.