Category: Nursing Books

Ethical Competence in Nursing Practice: Competencies, Skills, Decision-Making 1st Edition

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This is a unique, innovative professional nursing ethics textbook designed specifically for all practicing nurses and to meet the educational needs of all nursing students, including RN to BSN and RN to MSN students. Written by experts in the field, it discusses ethical concepts relevant to the registered nurse who has practiced for several years but is learning higher level concepts and applications. This text addresses different areas of professional practice and is rich with case studies illustrating the need for ethical competence and decision making. The book fulfills the necessary criteria for the AACN Essentials for Baccalaureate Education and the QSEN and IOM competencies. It also integrates relevant provisions and statements from the revised Code for Nurses (ANA, 2015).

Clear and concise, the text relates content to the nurse’s current practice and introduces a framework for the development of ethical competence, from recognition of an ethical situation to implementation of a justifiable action. A decision-making model that includes elements of care and virtue ethics is also included. Essential communication and conflict skills are addressed, in addition to the role of the ethics committee and ethics consultation. The book discusses common ethical issues likely to be encountered, how to recognize and address moral distress, and ethical practice as it relates to research, quality, and safety. Case studies that incorporate evidence-informed research provide the opportunity to develop ethical skills and apply decisionmaking principles. Relevant QSEN competencies and provisions and statements from the ANA’s revised Code for Nurses (2015) are featured in each chapter. Interactive exercises and questions and PowerPoints provide further opportunity for critical thinking.

KEY FEATURES:

    • Addresses the specific needs of practicing nurses and students in the RN to BSN and RN to MSN courses
    • Fulfills AACN Essentials, IOM competencies, and QSEN KSAs

 

  • Integrates relevant provisions and statements from the revised Code for Nurses (ANA, 2015)
  • Builds upon previous practice experience
  • Discusses ethical competence in a variety of practice environments
  • Includes case studies to apply ethical competencies

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Elder Abuse and Nursing: What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do 1st Edition

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The only text about elder abuse specifically for nurses in clinical settings.

Nurses are required by law to report elder abuse even when it is suspected but not verified. This is the only research-based and clinically oriented text that applies what is known about different forms of elder abuse in domestic and long-term care settings to the everyday experiences of practicing nurses. Content addresses not only legal and ethical concerns, but also serves as an essential guide to caring for older adults, delineating the role of nurses in detecting, suspecting, reporting, assessing, providing interventions for, and preventing elder abuse in all clinical settings. Detailed and unfolding case studies throughout the text illustrate nurses in action as they address elder abuse in commonly encountered nurse client or nurse patient situations.

Chapters show nurses in various health care settings how to address elder abuse issues relating to older adults, caregivers, and perpetrators. Each section provides nurses with crucial information about how to access essential resources for addressing specific aspects of elder abuse, including self-neglect, domestic abuse, abuse in long-term care settings, financial abuse, and sexual abuse. In-depth guides help nurses apply their usual nursing assessment and intervention skills to unusual situations when caring for older adults who are in actual or potentially abusive situations. In an easy-to-use and clinically applicable format, concise tools and guides throughout the book highlight core facets of elder abuse and the role of nurses. Each chapter concludes with Key Points: What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do highlighting the content that is most applicable to nursing care of older adults.

KEY FEATURES:

  • Presents essential facts about different forms of elder abuse and applies the information to nursing care of older adults in various clinical settings
  • Describes key criteria for nurses to use for recognizing, assessing, providing interventions for, and reporting elder abuse
  • Addresses legal, ethical, cultural, and interprofessional care considerations
  • Provides numerous guides to nursing assessment and interventions that address elder abuse
  • Case examples illustrate nurses in action addressing many types of elder abuse situations
  • Includes the words of older adults describing their experiences and perceptions of elder abuse
  • Includes the words and thoughts of nurses describing their reflections on and perceptions of elder abuse situations
  • Each chapter concludes with Key Points: What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do

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Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education, Fifth Edition 5th Edition

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Considered the “gold standard” for evaluation and testing in nursing education, this fifth edition of the classic text helps educators to assess the level of learning achieved in the classroom, in clinical settings, and online with expanded coverage of essential concepts in assessment, evaluation, and testing in a wider variety of learning environments. It presents new content on evaluation in online programs and testing and features a new chapter on using simulation for assessment and high-stakes evaluations. Also included is updated information on clinical evaluation and program evaluation along with current research featuring new examples and tools. The fifth edition expands content on standardized tests, including how to write test items for licensure and certification exam prep, and provides new information on developing rubrics for assessing written assignments.

The fifth edition is distinguished from other texts by its focus on developing a framework that integrates all types of evaluation in a nursing program. It addresses how to develop a test blueprint and assemble, administer, write, and analyze tests. It provides rubrics for scoring tests and written assignments along with examples. Its guidelines for preventing cheating and conducting productive post-test discussions are especially helpful to educators. Additionally, the book explores important social, ethical, and legal issues associated with testing and evaluation. It meets National League for Nursing’s Certification Competency #3: Use Assessment and Evaluation Strategies.

NEW TO THE FIFTH EDITION:

  • Expanded coverage of essential concepts in assessment, evaluation, and testing in classroom and clinical education
  • A new chapter on using simulation for assessment and high-stakes evaluation
  • New information on evaluation in online courses, programs, and testing
  • Expanded content on clinical evaluation and program evaluation
  • Current research and new examples and tools
  • How to write test items that prepare students for licensure and certification exams
  • Expanded coverage on developing rubrics for assessing written assignments

KEY FEATURES:

  • Describes how to develop a test blueprint and assemble, administer, write, and analyze tests
  • Provides sample grading rubrics
  • Demonstrates strategies for evaluating higher levels of learning
  • Explains how to evaluate written assignments with sample scoring rubrics
  • Includes an Instructor Manual with sample syllabus, PowerPoint slides, and an online course with 17 modules, each with student learning activities, discussion questions, and online resources

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Davis’s Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications 6th Edition

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Nursing-focused and easy-to-read, this handbook delivers all of the information you need to understand how tests work, interpret their results, and provide quality patient care—pre-test, intra-test, and post-test.
Tests and procedures are listed in alphabetical order by their complete name for quick reference. The integrated index allows fast searches by abbreviation, synonym, disease/disorder, specimen type, or test classification. Plus, a Body Systems Appendix includes a list of common laboratory and diagnostic tests for each body system as well as nutrition-related lab tests.
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Encyclopedia of Nursing Research 4th Edition

This award-winning nursing reference, meticulously researched by luminaries in the field, represents the state of the art in nursing science. Comprehensive and concise, entries provide the most relevant and current research perspectives and demonstrate the depth and breadth of nursing research today. This one-stop reference presents key terms and concepts and clarifies their application to practice.

The fourth edition has been substantially updated to contain the latest research for nurse scientists, educators, and students in all clinical specialties. With new information from the National Institute of Nursing Research, this reference is an essential compendium of nursing research for nursing students at any level and researchers in all clinical specialities.

New to the Fourth Edition:

  • Extensively revised and updated
  • Provides new information emphasized by the National Institute of Nursing Research on wellness, end-of-life and palliative care, and health technology
  • New entries, including Symptom Management Theory and Self-Management

Key Features:

  • Provides the most relevant and current research perspectives
  • Written by over 200 experts in the field
  • Clarifies research applications in practice

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Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing, Fifth Edition 5th Edition

This highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive framework for planning, guiding, and evaluating learning activities for undergraduate and graduate nursing students in a wide variety of clinical settings. The fifth edition updates this unequalled source of essential information for all faculty members―full time, part time, adjunct, and preceptors―responsible for clinical teaching. It encompasses current trends in health care and nursing education with expanded content on ways to maximize the clinical learning experiences of nursing students, use new technologies in clinical teaching, teach and evaluate student performance, and address ethical and legal issues in clinical teaching.

 

New content covers topics such as establishing and using dedicated education units, integrating simulation with clinical education, using new technologies for clinical learning, teaching and evaluating performance in distance education, promoting interprofessional education in clinical settings, integrating Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) in clinical courses, using standardized patients, and developing partnerships with clinical sites. Special features include guidelines for developing clinical sites, planning learning activities and assignments, observing and evaluating students in clinical practice, and using preceptors. With an arsenal of practical and creative tools to help both experienced and novice nurse educators, the text is also a valuable resource for individuals preparing to take the Certified Nurse Educator exam.

NEW TO THE FIFTH EDITION:

  • Updated with current trends in health care and nursing education
  • New chapter on interprofessional education and clinical teaching from a noted expert
  • Expanded content on maximizing the clinical learning experiences of nursing students
  • Clinical teaching and evaluating students at a distance
  • Use of social media and new technologies for clinical teaching
  • Ethical and legal issues in clinical teaching
  • New content on using dedicated education units
  • Developing partnerships with clinical staff and sites
  • Challenges of student access to electronic health records and electronic documentation of care
  • Strategies to promote student learning about QSEN
  • Use of simulations and integration of simulation with clinical education
  • Latest revisions of the CNE test plan
  • Recommendations for service learning and international clinical learning sites

KEY FEATURES:

  • Delivers a scholarly, in-depth examination of current trends and issues in clinical education
  • Provides evidence-based methods for clinical teaching in nursing education
  • Includes practical exhibits illustrating best practices in clinical teaching and evaluation
  • Highlights content in each chapter related to CNE exam blueprint
  • Offers a vast toolkit for teaching and learning including Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint presentations

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Juta’s Manual Of Nursing

Completely updated to include the latest developments in the field of Nursing Science, this second edition covers the topics required for both Fundamental and General Nursing Science; this makes it suitable for the categories of Nursing Auxiliary, Staff Nurse and for the fundamentals of nursing for Professional Nurses. The manual has a strong community-based focus. It introduces the nurse to the fundamentals of nursing and is extremely practical, encouraging problem solving both in the clinic and in the community. Each chapter has tutorial-type questions to stimulate discussion and personal research. This updated edition includes a chapter on the important topic of Informatics. The text is outcomes-based so that students understand the focus of each chapter. It includes numerous line drawings that expand on difficult concepts. It covers the new curriculum, therefore lecturers can be assured the book will meet their needs. Its summaries of key ethical and legal considerations in each chapter highlight these important aspects. The content encourages the development of problem-solving skills so that the nurse can deal with problems as they arise in the community/clinic environment. It features self-assessment and discussion topics throughout the text that test what has been learnt.

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Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review, Third Edition: Fast Facts and Practice Questions

The third edition of this highly acclaimed review continues to promote efficient, time-saving study by synthesizing the complex knowledge needed to pass the exam into a concise, well-organized format. It is updated with key information about the new ANCC and AANPCB certification exams, including new test format questions featuring photos of skin and eye conditions and EKGs, and more challenging drag and-drop and multiple-choice questions. Also new to the third edition is more detailed information about nonclinical topics on the exam, including research, ethics, medico-legal issues, advanced practice law, health practices of major cultures, and reimbursement guidelines. One hundred new review questions throughout the book and on the practice exam―including answer key and rationale―increase the total number of questions to more than 700.

Designed to help FNP students boost their confidence through intensive review and high-quality questions, the third edition features succinct, precisely targeted “need-to-know” details of diseases commonly seen in primary care. It covers the entire life span from pediatrics through geriatrics, and offers extensive test-taking techniques and question dissection and analysis sections that provide strategies for identifying the best clues during the problem-solving process. Organized by body system, sections are consistently formatted and encompass Danger Signals, Normal Findings, Lab Findings, Benign Variants, and individual Disease Review topics for each system. Additional outstanding features include Exam Tips and Clinical Pearls that help to focus system study on key information.

NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION

  • Updated information reflecting the new FNP certification exam
  • New test format questions used by the AANC, including photos of skin and eye conditions, EKGs, and more complex drag-and-drop and multiple-choice questions
  • 100 new in-depth review questions for a total of more than 700
  • Differential Diagnosis in table format
  • Additional information about nonclinical topics including culture, spirituality, and health practices; evidence-based medicine; and more

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Math for Nurses: A Pocket Guide to Dosage Calculation and Drug Preparation Eighth Edition

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Compact and easy-to-use, Math for Nurses is a pocket-sized guide/reference to dosage calculation and drug administration. It includes a review of basic math skills, measurement systems, and drug calculations/preparations. Math for Nurses helps students to calculate dosages accurately and improve the accuracy of drug delivery. The author uses a step-by-step approach with frequent examples to illustrate problem-solving and practical applications. Readers will find it great for use in the clinical setting or as a study aid. Practice problems throughout the text and end-of-chapter and end-of-unit review questions will aid students’ application and recall of material. A handy pull-out card contains basic equivalents, conversion factors, and math formulas.

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NCLEX-RN Content Review Guide (Kaplan Test Prep) 5th Edition

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Kaplan’s NCLEX-RN Content Review Guide provides comprehensive review of the essential content for the NCLEX-RN to help you face the exam with confidence.

The Best Review

  • Covers all the must-know nursing content required to pass the NCLEX-RN
  • Content is organized in outline format and easy-access tables for efficient review
  • Chapters follow the NCLEX’s Client Need Categories so you know you have complete content coverage
  • Kaplan’s acclaimed Decision Tree and expert strategies help you master critical reasoning
  • Used by thousands of students each year to succeed on the NCLEX-RN

Expert Guidance

  • Kaplan’s expert nursing faculty reviews and updates content annually.
  • We invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for almost 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams.

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