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Part of a series that presents the trends in nursing education. Focusing on the practice of teaching across settings, this review is written for nurse educators in associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, staff development, and education. It presents an overview of the status of nursing education.
Suitable for those teaching nursing, at various levels, in various programs or institutions. This book covers trends and strategies to help you develop a curriculum and be more effective in using it. Each chapter contains common-sense approaches to the educator's questions.
Offers social workers with research-based information necessary to develop successful teen pregnancy prevention programs. This title draws upon multi-disciplinary literature from psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, medicine, and public health to provide 'best practice' applications for effective social work intervention.
Presents a variety of end-of life experiences and each case is analyzed from many disciplinary perspectives. The analyses illustrate how specific end-of-life narratives can be viewed from different dimensions. This book helps students, researchers and practitioners see the meanings that end-of-life experiences have at the level of the family.
Offers the educator and the practitioner training methods, exercises, and intervention techniques applicable to the experiences that we encounter. This book also introduces readers to different concepts and their applications such as role play, spirituality, the role of animals in healing, and the concept of forgiveness.
The field of rehabilitation psychology has begun to address central concerns in health care delivery and health policy. This book focuses on rehabilitation psychology research, and provides recommendations for research programs, policy changes, and clinical interventions from various perspectives within rehabilitation psychology practice.
Provides an orientation to men's (with an emphasis on middle and old age) experiences in a variety of interpersonal relationships as viewed from the dynamic perspectives of historical, social, and personal change over time. Contributors apply life-course or life-span concepts.
Synthesizes nursing research on child health and illness, including family issues. Ages range from pre-term babies to adolescents, with a focus on chronic illness.
Provides the research and review to help decision makers develop new and much-needed standards and practices in nursing. This work focuses on key disciplines and topics that are critical to patient safety including: patient safety indicators; medication errors; falls and injury prevention; hospital-acquired infections; and more.
