Janice Rider Ellis, Celia Love Hartley, Tomm Scalera

"Nursing in Today's World: Trends, Issues, and Management, 10 edition"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1605477079 | 624 pages

This popular, readable text presents the basic concepts underlying professional nursing and seeks to prepare students for the realities of contemporary issues affecting the profession and overall delivery of health care. Fully updated to cover today s evolving topics, this edition has a completely revised table of contents to help students better understand the nurse s role in health care. The text addresses key needs of today s instructors, particularly with the addition of a new chapter on safety concerns as well as new information related to evidence-based practice, coverage of health care reform, and more!

Margaret Eckman, Karen Comerford (ed.),

"Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, Third edition"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1609136489 | 960 pages

Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! Third Edition provides nurses and nursing students with the information they need to confidently provide optimal patient care. Written in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, which makes complex medical-surgical nursing concepts easy to understand, it is perfect for those entering or needing a refresher in medical-surgical nursing.

Sharon Jensen

"Pocket Guide for Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1582558469 | 552 pages

Full-color spiral-bound pocket guide provides quick access to all aspects of the nursing health history and physical examination. It includes key topics and questions for health promotion, common symptoms, and sentinel symptoms requiring immediate medical intervention. This clinical guide is a perfect companion to Jensen's Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach.

Fiona Timmins, Anita Duffy

"Writing Your Nursing Portfolio: A Step-by-Step Guide"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0335242847 | 168 pages

"I am delighted to endorse this practical and accessible guide to writing and developing a portfolio for nurses. Unlike many 'how-to-do' approaches to portfolio compilation, this book acknowledges the complexity involved in learning from practice, and recording that learning in a meaningful way. The book respectfully guides the reader through essential elements to be considered if a portfolio is to be more than a depository of paper, yet avoids prescription in acknowledging the individual nature of the portfolio and its necessity to reflect the nurse's own journey through their career." (Professor Melanie Jasper, Head of College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University, UK).

Susan A. Newfield

"Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis: Adult, Child, Women's, Psychiatric, Gerontic, and Home Health Considerations"
English | (2007-05-15) | ISBN: 0803616554 | 873 Pages

This edition carries on the great features of the previous while updating and improving the content. The Gordon's Functional Health Patterns organizes the framework, helping students learn and apply a holistic approach in planning care.

Mary Digiulio, James Keogh
Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional | 2008-01-14 | ISBN: 0071494502 | 604 pages

The painless way to master medical-surgical nursing
Need to learn the complexities of medical-surgical nursing but find yourself looking for some anesthesia after perusing thick textbooks? HereAnd#39;s your remedy! This easy-to-follow guide delivers the material with surgical precision.
Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified features a full chapter for each system--cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, hematologic, nervous, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, genitourinary, and integumentary. YouAnd#39;ll find a description of how the system functions, signs and symptoms of diseases and conditions, diagnostic tests, and treatment options. Perioperative preparation and pain management are also covered. Filled with key terms to help you to remember important concepts, and complete with end-of-chapter NCLEX-style quizzes to test your knowledge, this book will teach you the fundamentals of medical-surgical nursing in no time at all.
This fast and easy guide offers:
Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter
An NCLEX-style quiz at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses
Coverage of diagnostic tests and treatment options
A final exam at the end of the book
A time-saving approach to performing better on an exam or at work
Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified is your shortcut to mastering this essential nursing topic.

Kristine M. Krapp
The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (5 Volume Set)
Published: 2001-12-15 | ISBN: 0787649341 | 2762 pages

Designed for students of nursing and the allied health professions, caregivers, and the educated lay reader, this five-volume set includes over 850 signed articles on various aspects of nursing. Covered here are nursing and allied healthcare education and training, current health issues (viewpoints, professional implications), tests and procedures (descriptions, precautions, aftercare), and equipment/tools (descriptions, operation, healthcare team roles), as well as diseases (causes, diagnosis, treatment) and human biology/body systems (func tions, role in human health). Although there is some overlap, particularly in the last two categories with The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (LJ 2/15/99; 2d ed. 2001), this text focuses primarily on the interests of nurses and allied health professionals. According to the preface, the essays were contributed by physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, but Krapp (The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine) has not always indicated their credentials. Over 400 black-and-white illustrations or photos and 50 tables enhance the material, as does an extensive list of print and nonprint resources, which includes up-to-date web addresses. The alphabetical arrangement, the shaded boxes defining key terms, and the ample cross references will be familiar to users of other Gale reference products. This work will make an excellent, albeit expensive, addition to large public libraries and graduate institutions offering appropriate programs.

April Hazard Vallerand, Cynthia A. Sanoski
"Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, 13th edition"
2012 | ISBN-10: 080362834X | 1528 pages

"Davis' Drug Guide for Nurses[registered], Thirteenth Edition" delivers all of the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan - well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs. Life-Saving Guidance...At A Glance: Red tab for high alert medications, plus in-depth high alert and patient safety coverage; Red, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects; Drug-drug, drug-food, drug-natural product interactions; Pedi, Geri, OB, and Lactation cautions; IV Administration subheads; New! REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon; Pharmacogenomic content; Canadian-specific; and, Much more!

Carol Cox, "Professional Issues in Primary Care Nursing"
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 1405187557 | 2010 | 337 pages

As both [practice and walk-in centre] nurses continue to adapt to the constant on-going change demanded by both the public and the government paymasters they will face ever-growing self questioning about their role responsibilities and their need to remain competent, knowledgeable and safe practitioners.
From the foreword by Professor Dame Betty Kershaw, DBE, FRCN, Education Advisor, The Royal College of Nursing, President of the Scholarship Society for Nurses and Midwives

This book will enable you to get to grips with the professional issues that affect your practice in primary care. It is structured around the RCN domains of practice and considers a wide variety of issues such as health promotion, reflective practice and leadership.

The book is divided into two sections. Part one sets the scene for the domains of practice which follow and considers the unique aspects of practice and walk-in centre nursing. Part two considers practical aspects of each of the RCN domains of practice in turn and centres around nurse–patient relationships.

Provides greater understanding of issues that affect the nature of practice
Addresses the considerable changes in practice nursing and walk-in centres
Evidence-based but also contains personal experiences
Suitable for nurses undertaking community specialist practitioner degree courses, qualified practice nurses and walk-in centre staff