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Sparks and Taylor’s Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual

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This comprehensive resource examines how nursing theory and patterns of knowing affect nursing practice. In addition to the concepts of ethical knowledge, aesthetic knowledge, and empiric knowledge development, you’ll learn about the newest pattern of knowing – emancipatory knowing. This pattern centers on the human capacity to create change by envisioning desired outcomes, particularly in situations that involve injustice or social wrongs. Throughout the book, helpful activities encourage you to reflect on important concepts and explore how evidence-based nursing theory can be used to improve the quality of care.

• A full-color insert visually demonstrates the fundamentals of knowing and includes the new concept of emancipatory knowing.
• Comprehensive discussions of nursing theory help you understand how theory development and nursing research apply to actual practice.
• Interpretive Summaries of selected conceptual frameworks highlight the essential features you need to know.

• A new chapter – Emancipatory Knowing: Knowing for Practice – emphasizes the importance of discovering what lies beneath issues and problems, redefining these issues and problems to reveal connections between complex social and political contexts, and then acting to address the underlying issues.
• Reflection and Discussion sections at the end of each chapter reinforce key concepts and encourage further discussion and reflective writing.
• The concept of using evidence-based practice to improve the quality of care is incorporated throughout, as well as how evidence-based practice contributes to theory development.
• Updated information on theory development incorporates the influence of emancipatory knowing and helps you connect theory and knowledge to your own experiences and everyday nursing practice.

Integrated Theory and Knowledge Development in Nursing

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Covering all advanced practice competencies and roles, this book offers strategies for enhancing patient care and legitimizing your role within today’s health care system. It covers the history of advanced practice nursing, the theory behind the practice, and emerging issues. Offering a comprehensive exploration of advanced practice nursing, this edition also adds a focus on topics including the APN scope of practice, certification, and the ethical and legal issues that occur in clinical practice.

• The development of all major competencies of advanced practice nursing is discussed: direct clinical practice, consultation, coaching/guidance, research, leadership, collaboration, and ethical decision-making.
• Advanced practice competencies are discussed in relation to all advanced practice nursing and blended CNS-NP roles (case manager, acute care nurse practitioner), highlighting the shared aims and distinctions of each role.
• In-depth discussions on educational strategies explain how competencies develop as the nurses’ practice progresses.
• A chapter on research competencies demonstrates how to use evidence-based research in practice, and how to promote these research competencies to other APNs.
• A conceptual framework shows the clear relationship between the competencies, roles, and challenges in today’s health care environment.
• Practical strategies are provided for business management, contracting, and marketing.

• Comprehensive information covers the essential competencies of the new Doctor of Nursing Practice degree.
• More exemplars (case studies) provide real-life scenarios showing APN competencies in action.
• A new chapter shows how to provide reliable and valid data to substantiate your impact and justify equitable reimbursement for APN services, also enhancing your skills in quality improvement strategies, informatics, and systems thinking.
• Information on telehealth considerations covers the new sources of electronic healthcare information available to patients and describes how to counsel them on using reliable resources.

Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach

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Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach

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Corresponding to chapters in the textbook, Study Guide for Maternity Nursing, 8th Edition provides in-depth study and review of important facts and concepts. Review activities help you reinforce your understanding, and critical thinking exercises help you apply your knowledge to real-world scenarios.

• Chapter review activities include matching, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short answer, and multiple-choice questions to reinforce student understanding of the material.
• Critical thinking exercises include case-based activities applying the concepts found in the chapters to solve problems, make decisions concerning care management, and provide responses to patient questions and concerns.
• An answer key at the back of the book includes answers to all exercises and helpful references to their source in the textbook.

Study Guide for Maternity Nursing

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Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 5th Edition prepares you for the rapidly evolving world of health care. It provides a comprehensive, yet focused overview of nursing topics affecting practice and issues facing today’s nurse managers and tomorrow’s nurse leaders. Written by well-known educators Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob, this edition is fully revised and updated, giving you the most practical, balanced preparation for the issues, trends, and management topics you’ll encounter in practice.

• A full-color design helps illustrate concepts and enhances readability.
• Colorful, humorous cartoons introduce the chapter themes.
• Real-life Vignettes at the beginning of each chapter put nursing history and practice into perspective.
• Questions to Consider While Reading This Chapter reflect on the Vignettes and prepare you for the material to follow.
• Key Terms, Learning Outcomes, and Chapter Overviews help you study more efficiently.
• Coverage of leadership and management in nursing prepares you to function effectively in management roles.
• Coverage of career management provides strategies on how to make the transition from student to practitioner and tips on how to pass the NCLEX-RN^® Examination.

• Safe and effective decision making is emphasized with a new Quality and Safety in Nursing Education (QSEN) chapter that highlights the six core quality competencies for working in a quality-focused system, plus new information on clinical practice guidelines and innovations in health care delivery. 
• A focus on the nursing role includes new content on the jurisprudence examinations now required in many states, and additional content on contemporary ethical issues such as stem cell research, surrogate parenting, abortion, and gene typing.
• Coverage of teamwork and cultural sensitivity prepares you to work and communicate as team members across gender and cultural divides.
• Communication skills are promoted with new examples of effective and ineffective e-mail communication and a stronger focus on conflict management among coworkers.
• Coverage of nursing leadership includes the history, pros, and cons of collective bargaining in a new chapter, and relationships of cost, quality, and value in healthcare including issues such as “never events” and pay-for-performance.
• Nursing opportunities now include coverage of palliative care.
• Resources on the companion Evolve website include new Case Studies, interactive Student Learning Activities, and a Resume Builder.

Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management

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Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice

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With a concise, straightforward approach, this trusted text puts difficult concepts and essential drug calculation skills into a practical nursing context and prepares you for real-world responsibilities. Completely revised and updated with the most current information in nursing practice, a variety of strong learning tools, and new NCLEX”Â¥ examination study questions, this latest edition makes pharmacology more accessible than ever.

• UNIQUE! Prototype Drug Charts provide you with quick reference to key drug information, including dosages, contraindications, drug-lab-food interactions, pharmacokinetics, and more.
• UNIQUE! An extensive Dosage Calculations unit strengthens your mathematical skills and eliminates the need for a separate calculations book.
• Nursing Process summaries guide you through client care and drug therapy within the step-by-step framework of the nursing process.
• Critical Thinking Case Studies challenge you to apply your knowledge and analytical skills to realistic patient scenarios.
• A Principles of Drug Administration chapter guides you through drug administration procedures, addressing all routes of administration and various settings.
• Client Teaching sections prepare you for client interaction, with teaching tips for general drug administration, self-administration, diet, side effects, and cultural considerations.
• A companion CD reinforces your knowledge and enhances your review with approximately 450 NCLEX examination-style review questions, including alternate-item format questions; 30 pharmacology animations; IV therapy and medication error checklists; drug calculation problems; and electronic dosage calculators.
• UNIQUE! Illustrated overviews of normal anatomy and physiology in all drug therapy chapters help you understand how drugs work in various body systems.
• An appendix on bioterrorism agents helps you recognize the clinical manifestations of bioterrorism weapons and respond with appropriate drug treatments.
• UNIQUE! Herbal Alerts provide quick reference to side effects, drug interactions, and additional information for popular herbs you may encounter in practice.

• NCLEX Examination-style Study Questions prepare you for the growing pharmacology coverage on the NCLEX-RN exam.
• Updated and expanded Preventing Medication Errors boxes help you ensure safe drug administration.
• Targeted Therapies to Treat Cancer chapter familiarizes you with cutting-edge cancer treatments such as multikinase inhibitors, angiogenesis inhibitors, and monoclonal antibodies.
• A new unit helps you easily locate appropriate drug therapy for managing pain and inflammation.
• Additional photos and illustrations visually reinforce your understanding of drug actions and relevant anatomy and physiology.
• Separate units on antibacterial and antiinfective agents clearly differentiate these commonly used agents.
• Page numbers accompany key terms for easier reference.

Pharmacology: A Nursing Process Approach

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Assure that your students receive the psychiatric mental health knowledge they need with the text that’s still the most clearly written and student friendly. They’ll master an evidence-based, holistic approach to nursing practice that focuses on both biological and behavioral components. And, they’ll find all of the latest research studies, biological theories, and pharmacological data, as well as features designed to make complex concepts easier to grasp.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice

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Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis