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Although the prevalence of uncontrolled cancer pain remains unnecessarily high, research has indicated that 90% of cancer patients with pain can be successfully treated with standard therapies. This concise yet extremely comprehensive guide to managing cancer pain will enable nurses on the front lines of pain assessment and management to ......
Official Journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the ......
Discusses headaches in terms of risk symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and risk factors. It covers headache basics, includes information on how to build your healthcare team, discusses over a dozen headache types based on the American Headache Society classification, and examines headache care, including coping measures, support.
More than an exercise programme, this is a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical activity and is a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility and to address the spinal curvature of scoliosis without surgery. It demonstrates how the practice of Iyengar yoga leads to a lessening of the degree curvature of the spine in ......
The Demos Surgical Pathology Guides series presents in summary and visual form the basic knowledge base that every practising pathologist needs every working day. Series volumes cover the major speciality areas of surgical pathology, and coverage emphasises the key entities and diagnoses that pathologists will see in practice, and that they must ......
This clinical reference offers an advanced discussion of the neuropsychological impact and features of the various forms of psychopathology. Focus is on the neuropathological and pathophysiological bases of these disorders, although psychosocial and environmental contributions will also be highlighted. In addition, this text discusses the ......
This is the first practical guide for nurses on how to incorporate the knowledge, skills, and tools of Strength-Based Nursing Care (SBC) into everyday practice. The text, based on a model developed by the prestigious McGill University Nursing Program, signifies a paradigm shift in nursing care from a model based on problems, deficits, and ......
The only book of its kind, this text describes recent innovations in defining and assessing family violence that are included in the upcoming International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). It provides a set of practical tools for defining, screening, and assessing family violence in accordance with these new definitions, and reviews the impact ......
Comprehensively addresses the nursing care of the inmate-patient population. It is based on the requirements of the newly developed certification in correctional nursing, and will serve as a thorough study guide for this exam. It will also be useful as a quick reference for novice and experienced correctional nurses.
