Theresa M. Valiga

Sheila C. Grossman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oklahoma

Creating the Future of Nursing

"Provides the characteristics of a leader and a follower, and how and when to use each of these roles to achieve personal and professional success. Everyone has leadership abilities and The New Leadership Challenge, 2nd Edition helps nurses explore their personal characteristics and identify areas for improvement. The New Leadership Challenge, 2nd Edition is an important text that provides nurses with the tools necessary to advance their careers. Grossman and Valiga's book will inspire and motivate nurses to become leaders in a challenging, demanding, and changing health care system."--Publisher description.

The New Leadership Challenge

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Carroll A. Quinn

Michael D. Smith

Issues and Ethics in Nursing

This thought-provoking text explores the ethical dimensions of the professional nursing practice. The authors discuss important topics such as inter-professional relationships, collective action, nursing research, and educational requirements within the context of professional commitment. Providing a balance between an empirical and a philsophical framework, the book stimulates the reader to ponder, analyze and evaluate the professional and ethical aspects of these issues.

The Professional Commitment

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Springhouse Publishing Company Staff

The newly revised Fifth Edition of this handbook is an up-to-the-minute, authoritative guide to the legal and ethical issues faced daily by nurses. Replete with real-life examples and information from hundreds of court cases, the book covers the full range of contemporary concerns, including computer documentation, cloning, stem cell research, pain management, euthanasia, prescribing, privacy, and confidentiality as well as the nursing shortage. New topics include workplace violence and harassment, needlesticks, telephone triage, and quality assurance. A new Legal Tip logo highlights proactive, protective actions nurses can take, and an entire chapter explains step-by-step what to expect in a malpractice lawsuit.

Nurse's Legal Handbook

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Anne M. Barker

A Vision for the Future

Nursing leadership is in crisis! Nurses are dissatisfied with their pr actice settings; with the attitudes and behaviors of nurse managers; w ith limited professional growth, advancement and achievement; with opp ressive organizational hierarchies that hinder autonomy in practice; a nd with the lack of job status and power.

Transformational Nursing Leadership

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Carole Lium Edelman

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A pocketbook of clinical medicine based on Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine (and cross-referenced to it by page number). In addition to being a portable version of Kumar for everyday on the job reference, this book offers added extras including exam questions, practical procedures, a dictionary of terms, abbreviations and normal values (on inside front and back covers) and space for notes after each section. It also features: medical emergency boxes (listed at the beginning of the book); a practical procedures chapter; final exam questions and answers; differential diagnosis tables for all major diseases and symptoms; coverage of social and psychological issues; and On the Net boxes - referring the reader to major relevant Web sites for specific diseases.

Health Promotion Throughout the Lifespan

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Mary Ellen Grohar-Murray

Helen R. DiCroce

Presenting concepts that will enable undergraduate students to function effectively in a leadership role, this text puts emphasis on communication and group process skills including decision making and conflict management. Motivation, delegation and performance appraisal are also discussed.

Leadership and Management in Nursing

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Joanne McCloskey Dochterman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Harmonization of NANDA, NIC, and NOC

This work presents the process, content, and outcomes of a project funded by a national Library of Medicine grant. Material originated at a conference that brought together leaders in nursing language development to create a common unifying structure across three classification schemes: NANDA for nursing diagnoses, NIC for nursing interventions, and NOC for nursing outcomes. Dochterman directs the Center for Nursing at the University of Iowa. Jones is immediate past president of NANDA.--Booknews.com.

Unifying Nursing Languages

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Sandra R. Byers

Leadership for New Health Care Transitions

This well-organized book focuses on understanding and implementing the complex position of the executive nurse and the expertise required of this critical position in the current health care system. By using case studies to present the legal and ethical challenges of the future, this book enables new and experienced nurse leaders to become better prepared for their future. Many chapters will also provide other non-nurse heath care leaders with an understanding of the value executive nurses bring to the entire system. The executive nurse's leadership role is discussed relating to internal and external challenges as well as total quality management, legal and ethical issues and continuing education. (organization, management, administration, OB, organization behavior, nursing administration, leadership, delegation, business, professional executive)

The Executive Nurse

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Sigma Theta Tau International Staff

NurseAdvance Collection on Resources for Implementing Evidence-Based Nursing

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S. Johnson

Pathways of Care are used in all areas of healthcare to improve clinical effectiveness and the quality of patient care. This book is an essential reference source for all those involved in co-ordinating healthcare delivery. It is a valuable tool both for those piloting the use of Pathways and for those who have implemented Pathway programmes, and will be a useful guide for anyone interested in investigating or using Pathways. The book provides detailed information on the concepts of Pathways with many examples of how Pathways of care have been implemented and used in different clinical settings. The text considers key topics including clinical guidelines, legal issues, risk management and analysis of variation. With contributions from experts in a wide range of settings including community and mental health as well as cardiology, urology, orthopaedics and paediatrics, this well-referenced text draws on practical experience of identifying, evaluating and modifying the process of health care delivery.

Pathways of Care

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Sheree R. Comer

Real-world nursing care for your critically ill patients, right at your fingertips! Delmar's Critical Care Nursing Care Plans, Second Edition, provides detailed information for nurses who care for patients in the critical care unit. All the information needed to develop specific and effective nursing care plans for the most commonly seen disorders is included. Each care plan presents information to guide users in developing comprehensive, individualized nursing care plans based on solid, scientific understanding of the condition and how it affects each of the patient's body systems. Care plans solicit specific patient data and prompt the user to individualize the interventions, consider cultural relevance, and evaluate the patient's individual responses.

Delmar's Critical Care Nursing Care Plans

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William J. Ryan

Carolyn Joneson

The Nurse and the Communicatively Impaired Adult

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Evans

Neurologic-Neurosurgical Nursing

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Philip A. Kalisch

Beatrice J. Kalisch

The Kalisches profile the nurse as careerist and suggest approaches for cultivating the development of this new image. Illustrated with examples from advertising, film and television.

The Changing Image of the Nurse

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Sally J. Redfern

Nursing Elderly People

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Adaptation to the Aging Process

Essentials of Gerontological Nursing

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Madalon O'Rawe Amenta

Nancy L. Bohnet

Nursing Care of the Terminally Ill

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Barbara Klug Redman

This one-of-a-kind text offers complete information on the learning theories and concepts of patient teaching, plus tools, instructional handouts, and unique advice that helps students apply what they've learned to patients with specific disease entities and for special populations. Today's fast-paced, community-based health care demands that patients become active, informed participants. THE PRACTICE OF PATIENT EDUCATION, ninth edition prepares students to meet their patients needs like no other text!

The Practice of Patient Education

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Patricia S. Sparacino

Diane Cooper

Pamela A. Minarik

Implementation and Impact

The Clinical Nurse Specialist

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#paperback #geriatrics #nursing #aged #elderly ex libris - book has library markings 

Wholistic Care of the Older Adult

This new edition of GERONTOLOGIC NURSING turns its focus to the care of all older adults, not just those who are ill. It identifies the diverse needs of the geriatric population and addresses the care of common conditions as well as illness prevention. Throughout, Health Promotion boxes and Healthy People 2000 objectives reinforce a commitment to wellness. New chapters discuss psychosocial aspects of aging, drug therapy, cancer, and ethical issues.

Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-308-9

Gerontologic Nursing

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Completely rewritten, revised and updated, Legal Issues in Nursing is a sourcebook for basic legal knowledge. Based on American Law, this reference provides nurses and students with the fundamentals of US healthcare law, malpractice, negligence, and liability issues. The use of numerous case studies and recent court findings clearly illustrates key points including personal liability and insurance issues, the role of the court system, and case law in determining standards of nursing care.

Legal Issues in Nursing

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Three Nurses on the Front Lines

An examination of the changing role of the nurse captures the day-to-day drama of three nurses' lives and demonstrates their crucial role in and outside of the hospitals

Life Support

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From Nursing and Patient Perspectives

This Comprehensive Reference Provides A Unique Perspective On Quality Of Life Issues For Oncology Nurses In Education, Research, And Clinical Practice, And Presents Quality Of Life Issues Related To Specific Diseases, Treatments, And Populations.

Quality of Life

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Adult, Child, Women's, Psychiatric, Gerontic, and Home Health Considerations

Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis

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