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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.
Eliminating Health Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the United States
Examines the research base on health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities in order to inform and advance nursing science in this area. The major groups discussed include: African-American, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Asian/Pacific.
Alcohol plays a major role in health care problems, which affects nursing practice from obstetrics to geriatrics. This book brings together the research on alcohol use that is relevant to nursing practice. It reviews the research on both detrimental and beneficial effects, throughout the lifespan.
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.
Advancing Nursing Science in Tobacco Addiction Control
As tobacco use continues as the leading cause of preventable death in the US, the topic is a critical one for nursing science and for nursing scholarship. This book describes and synthesizes the nursing research in tobacco control (prevention, treatment of tobacco dependence, and reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke).
Examines the full gamut of literature on key topics in nursing practice, including nursing theory, care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing. It has brought together internationally recognized experts in the fields of nursing, and continues to deliver the highest standards of content and authoritative reviews of ......
Provides a compilation of the most significant nursing research in genetics and genomics. Articles have been carefully selected by the editors, highly respected scholars and researchers in the field of genetics, to bring together current research that has particular relevance for translation into a clinical setting or expansion into other research ......
This early volume in the long-running series focuses primarily on community issues. As in all volumes in the series, leading nurse practitioners provide students, researchers, and clinicians with the foundations for evidence-based practice and further research.
This landmark annual review has provided nearly three decades of knowledge, insight, and research on topics critical to nurses everywhere. The purpose of this annual review is to critically examine the full gamut of literature on key topics in nursing practice, including nursing theory, care delivery, nursing education, and the professional ......
