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Contains articles that present the real-life history of how nurses worked and how they endured the ever-changing economic, social, educational, and technological milieu. Depicting their relationships with family, patients and their community, this collection follows the evolution of nursing from the role as family caregiver to public nursing work.
Turning Evidence-based Research into Health Policy
Describes key issues related to the dwindling nurse supply, most of the causes of which are well known, and outlines research and strategies to enhance the recruitment, education, and retention of the nursing workforce. This book emphasizes the role of doctoral prepared nurses in health care policy development.
Features a method that includes 5 easy steps, and 5 easy ways - Attitude: Enhancing Your Problem-Solving Capacity; Defining Your Problem and Setting Realistic Goals; Being Creative and Generating Alternative Solutions; Predicting the Consequences and Developing a Solution Plan; and Trying Out Your Solution and Determining if it Works.
Emphasises on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic pain among older adults. This book provides noninterventional, pharmacotherapeutic, and nonpharmacotherapeutic methods. It also offers pain management techniques, including physical therapy and nonpharmacotherapeutic treatments such as acupuncture.
Provides an examination of changes in technology that impact individuals as they age, with an emphasis upon cultural contexts and person-environment fit from human factors, psychological, and sociological perspectives. This book also discusses topics such as human factors and aging, the impact of the internet, and assistive technology.
Examines multiple aspects of partner stalking from the victim's perspective. This work presents the research as well as firsthand accounts of women who have survived partner stalking.
Teaches the basic principles of writing style, composition, grammar, word usage and misusage to health care professionals. This work includes the following rules and tools: style and substance; art of effective writing; tips and pitfalls; redundancies, euphemisms, and cliches; computers and the Internet; abbreviations and acronyms; and more.
Focuses on the issue of caregiving from various contextual frameworks - sociocultural, familial, and sociopolitical - as opposed to the more common disciplinary perspective. This book is suitable for preparing caregiving related programs and policies for the challenges of the aging baby boomer generation.
Suitable for trauma therapists, this guidebook discusses the mental, physical, social, interpersonal, and occupational impact of trauma and sleep disorder literature. It offers a practical, empirically-based approach to guide clinicians dealing with trauma victims. It also offers case examples to illustrate various aspects of the treatment.
