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Provides practitioners with the references and resources they need to provide quality care to women and their fetuses. This title serves as a resource for a practice-based discipline, with details and references. The protocols and procedures found in the appendix are applicable to clinical practices that include fetal monitors.
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.
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.
Nurse Retention and Patient Safety Improvement Strategies
The Smart Nursing 'model,' based on General Systems Theory, promotes the wholeness of the health care system. This book presents a model of nursing excellence that enables nurses to use their professional capacity to deliver safe patient care in a variety of clinical settings. It offers easy-to-read strategies to improve management effectiveness.
Intends to re-envision the practice of nursing by configuring caring in terms of the person the nurse cares for. This title stresses the importance of knowing the patient, and differentiating the person from the disease. It provides an insight on how to care for the patient on a personal level, professionally administering clinical treatment.
Talks about the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This book helps in understanding female leaders and gives insight into the lives of such imminent women as: Isadora Duncan; Georgia O'Keefe; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Alice Paul; Ella Fitzgerald; and others.
Presents major issues in health literacy from the standpoint of the patient, and the challenges that the problem places on health care providers. This book looks at some specific methodologies that have been demonstratively effective in communicating with low-literate patients. It describes alternatives to written forms of patient communication.
Professionals Who Care for the Dying and the Bereaved
Describes and analyzes the impact that the caregiving process has upon health care professionals, teams, and institutions which provide services to people who are dying and bereaved. This book uses case examples from clinical practice as well as verbatim accounts of nurses and physicians to illustrate the concepts presented.
Emphasizing on nurse-managed centers, this book provides a step-by-step guide to starting and sustaining a community health center. It includes information on developing a mission statement, pulling together an advisory board, writing a business plan, and getting funding. The Appendix includes sample bylaws and a full policy and procedure manual.
