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This book serves as an authoritative reference designed for nurse practitioners (NPs), masters and doctoral level students, and administrators interested in developing and managing high-quality, cost-effective, and patient-accessible healthcare in NP settings.
Guides professional nurses in pursuing a travel nursing career. This book includes tips on how to enter the field of travel nursing, negotiate assignment contracts, increase pay, improve benefits and enhance travel assignments. It offers information on state boards of nursing and travel staffing companies. NOTE: This title is not for sale in the ......
Addresses the pressing need for practical information about transitioning from an urban-based nursing education or practice to a rural health care environment. It provides successful strategies that nurses in rural settings can use to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative programmes that will meet the needs of individual rural communities.
Focuses on the historical roles and contributions men have made to nursing over the centuries as well as the challenges that men face in nursing today. This work discusses how gender serves as a foundation for many of the obstacles, discrimination, and barriers experienced by men in nursing.
Presents the ""state of the science"" based on King's conceptual system and Theory of Goal Attainment. This work provides an understanding of practicing nurses as to how King's conceptual system and middle range theories can be applied to clinical practice questions. It is useful for students and graduates of nursing education courses.
Distinguishing Psychological from Organic Disorders
A clinical guide for practitioners who are likely to come into contact with psychological masquerade among their clients. It includes chapters on violent behavior, amnesia and dementia, sex obsession, and Munchausen-by-Proxy. It also contains case studies that help clarify diagnostic criteria.
A sequel to ""Stress, Appraisal and Coping"", this volume explores the trends in research and theory, focusing on the rationale for a cognitive-meditation approach to stress and emotions. It makes distinctions between social stress, physiological stress, and psychological stress.
Clinical Guideline for Prevention, Diagnosis and Management
A clinical guide for nursing and other health care professionals, particularly advanced practice nurses. It describes the extent of the problem of osteoporosis, the pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnostic testing, treatments, and current and emerging prevention strategies.
Where does nursing knowledge come from and how does it develop? How do we incorporate nursing knowledge into the practice of nursing? Is it possible for nursing theory to meet the needs of clinical practice? This book answers these key questions in the field of nursing theory.
