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With a focus on promoting sound clinical decision-making and a streamlined and highly accessible approach, this text delivers up-to-date primary care health assessment techniques for individuals throughout the lifespan. Each chapter offers a concise overview of anatomy and physiology and an in-depth review of normal and abnormal findings.
Examines the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growth and development. The book provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability that encompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and social arenas.
Immerses students in the competencies required for social work practice at the micro, mezzo and macro levels. Designed for use in upper level BSW and foundation level MSW social work practice courses, the book is uniquely structured to deliver the knowledge and skills students need to develop mastery of the professional social work competencies.
A practical text is distinguished by its in-depth coverage of populations, ranging from opioid-addicted veterans to young children suffering from obesity. Focused on the educational needs of students in undergraduate and bridge programs, this book is grounded in evidence-based practice, in-depth content, and clinical case studies.
Guides the novice and experienced psychiatric APRN on the process of truly becoming a psychotherapist. The book is grounded in the concept of self-reflection as a foundation for successful psychotherapeutic practice and addresses a variety of strategies and styles that foster positive outcomes.
Provides a one-stop guide to the essential basic and clinical science of all the effective, life-prolonging drug therapies in oncology. From traditional cytotoxic agents to targeted genomic, epigenomic, hormonal, and immunotherapeutic agents, this book covers the staggering advances in cancer pharmacology.
Introduces professional moral courage as an essential competency in nurse executive leadership. The book provides a foundation and understanding of the role of professional moral courage in nursing practice, places it in the context of health care challenges, and identifies the characteristics and qualities required to lead in such situations.
Authored by world-class innovators and leaders in evidence-based health care practice, this book provides proven strategies to incorporate innovative and evidence-based leadership strategies into daily use, to build creative, high functioning and sustainable organisations.
Focuses on current, ICU-specific information needed daily by busy ICU nurses. This updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions.
