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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 8.83 MB
    Pages | 732
    Language | English
    Category | Haematology
    Description:  The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Haematology provides the core knowledge needed in clinical practice for the diagnosis and management of patients with possible disorders of the blood. Major advances in the specialty have been reflected in this thoroughly revised new edition.

    Essential knowledge is covered with the main differential diagnoses along with relevant investigations that will help the junior doctor to arrive at a definitive diagnosis. As with the first edition, this new edition will have wide appeal and leadership amongst senior medical undergraduates, junior doctors and trainees in haematology, residents, interns and follows, family doctors, intensive care staff, and specialist nurses.
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    File Size | 9.86 MB
    Pages | 958
    Language | English
    Category | Pharmacology
    Description:  This popular core nursing pharmacology textbook provides unique coverage of nursing interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. Highly praised for its organized and readable presentation, the text explains the "why" behind each nursing action, and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients.  The 10th edition has a new fresh design and approach with an added focus on patient safety integrated into the text.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 2.91 MB
    Pages | 219
    Language | English
    Category | Rehabilitation
    Description:  This handy pocket guide gives you the essential orthopedic information you need in class, clinical, and practice.

    - Tabs organized by lifespan, and within each tab, by body system.
    - Coverage of the most common signs and symptoms of pathology.
    - “Red flags” compartmentalize pathologies that would be most probable in various stages of the lifespan.
    - Abundant tools, including standardized screening tools, questionnaires, lists and charts of signs and symptoms, and diagrams of methods of palpation, pediatric growth charts, and pictures of the most 25 common skin diseases.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.0 MB
    Pages | 130
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  This updated edition of the core curriculum for nursing practice with multiple sclerosis (MS) patients presents the most current diagnostic tools and strategies for managing the disease process. It addresses both the physical and psychosocial changes with which MS patients must cope, and focuses on the role of nursing in helping patients to devise, learn, and implement self-care strategies. The book discusses the application of change theory to MS nursing and examines current theories regarding the immunologic bases of MS, its epidemiology, and genetics. Information is presented in an easy-to-read outline format along with case studies that further clarify the material. Each chapter begins with a list of objectives to facilitate learning.

    Nursing Practice in Multiple Sclerosis offers a vast reservoir of information for MS nurse specialists and students, providing an excellent day-to-day reference as well as a comprehensive review for nurses who intend to take the MS nursing certification exam. It is a companion volume to Comprehensive Nursing Care in Multiple Sclerosis and Advanced Concepts in Multiple Sclerosis Nursing Care.

    This updated edition includes:
    New diagnostic tests and pharmacologic strategies, including the treatment of acute attacks, immuno-modulating and symptomatic therapies, and nonpharmacologic interventions
    Updated guidelines for managing symptoms, such as impaired mobility and bladder/ bowel dysfunction
    A stronger focus on the role of nursing in helping patients to achieve independence, empowerment, and improved quality of life
    New content in ethics, professionalism, and delivering culturally competent care
    Updated references, thought-provoking certification questions, and new case studies
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 9.71 MB
    Pages | 688
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  Covering 25 categories of tests, this guide presents information to enhance patient care planning and implementation. For each type of test, information is provided on anatomic, physiological, and pathophysiological understandings of procedures; reference values, including variations related to age.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 26.4 MB
    Pages | 416
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  This text builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. Recognizing that the students using this text have already completed their basic nursing assisting training and may have already been working in the profession, this text does not repeat information that is part of the basic nursing assistant training. Rather, this textbook is meant to be used in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to, a "basic" nursing assistant textbook, such as Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 4.59 MB
    Pages | 465
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  Walk into your new role with confidence. The 3rd Edition of this AJN Book-of-the-Year Award winner prepares graduate nurses to meet the challenges of practice today and to take leadership roles in the future. From its historical roots to contemporary concerns and trends, the author traces the development of the advanced practice nursing role and articulates the major issues facing practitioners today.

    Joan M. Stanley, PhD, RN, CRNP, currently Director of Education Policy at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and a who's who of practitioners and educators consider the unique combination of advanced nursing knowledge, science, and practice that differentiates each of the advanced practice registered nursing roles from one another and from other health professional roles and practice.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.43 MB
    Pages | 242
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  This thoroughly updated edition provides comprehensive content to prepare students for all advanced practice roles. It includes content needed for graduate courses on the role of the advanced practice nurse and transition to professional practice. It also encompasses the essential information on the multifaceted role of the advanced practice nurse, placing the clinical content within the reality of the practice arena.

    The text will be used by all graduate students enrolled in core courses on the role of the advanced practice nurse and transition to professional practice. It encompasses the four major advanced practice roles: nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, nurse midwife, and nurse anesthetists. The text reflects competencies identified by the key organizations for advanced practice nursing, including the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, American College of Nurse Midwives, and American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
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    File Size | 4.21 MB
    Pages | 248
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  Advanced Nursing Practice addresses the key issues in practice, education, regulation, research and role/practice development, which are central to defining the distinctive nature of advanced nursing practice (ANP) and explores international developments in the field of ANP.

    Advanced Nursing Practice has been developed in recognition of the key role nurses with advanced knowledge and skills play in developing health care services worldwide. The book tracks the evolution of new advanced practice nursing roles and innovative practice models, and examines the need for international guidelines. In exploring strategies for implementing ANP in the context of countries' health care needs, Advanced Nursing Practice addresses legal and ethical challenges and commonalities and differences in advanced nursing practice, while examining the implications, obstacles, and facilitative strategies in maintaining, implementing and supporting the development of ANP.

    This book provides guidance in decision-making, examines the implications for liaising with other health care professionals and encourages nurses to shape their role to the needs of their patients and practice.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.19 MB
    Pages | 256
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  Advanced nursing practice involves increased accountability and role development in research, education and clinical practice. This second edition of Advanced Nursing Practice focuses on key issues in advanced practice including supervision, leadership, benchmarking and evaluation of competencies, assessment and health promotion, law and ethics, practice development, research and education.

    Examines the nature of advanced nursing practice
    Explores key issues in advanced practice
    Reviews criteria for evaluating advanced practice
    Considers the development of advanced practice within the UK and proposes a vision for the future
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.19 MB
    Pages | 227
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  This book has been developed to help nurses who are in nurse practitioner roles by supporting them to develop their ‘advanced practice skills’. This book is intended to build on skills and knowledge that nurses will have acquired at staff nurse level. It is intended that this book will develop skills and knowledge which until recently have been more in the medical domain, such sexual history taking and physical assessment.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.17 MB
    Pages | 336
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  Advanced Practice Nursing focuses not only on the care and management of patients, but also on how to meet the many challenges of the rapidly changing health care arena. Obtaining certification, navigating reimbursement, and translating research into practice are just a few of the challenges discussed.

    Key Features:
    Essential information on educational requirements and certification
    Advice on how to make the transition into professional practice
    Guidelines for ethical and clinical decision making
    Discussions on the DNP and CNL roles in AP nursing
    Updated and revised content on leadership development, regulation, informatics, health care organization, and health care policy
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.35 MB
    Pages | 234
    Language | English
    Category | Nursing
    Description:  Nurses are acknowledged as key agents in addressing alcohol and drug misuse at individual, family, and community levels. Addiction nursing is central to the assessment, management, and care of people with problematic use of psychoactive substances (both legal and illegal). Work takes place in a wide range of settings, from traditional hospital clinics and wards to community locations such as police custody suites and needle exchange facilities.

    Addiction for Nurses is a comprehensive textbook for students, explaining the role of the nurse at each stage of intervention. Early chapters approach the subject from sociological, historical, and cultural perspectives, covering significant topics such as the nature of addiction, its social context, and addiction theory. The book then presents vital information about each of the main areas of addiction (nicotine, alcohol, opiates, cannabis, psychostimulants, and hallucinogens) with clinical and practical guidance on recognition, assessment, and treatment intervention strategies. Further chapters consider dealing with emergencies, blood-borne viruses, harm reduction, and work with specific client groups (for instance, black and ethnic minority communities, or those with special needs).
    This book is an essential resource for all those who come into contact with alcohol and drug misusers and for specialist addiction nurses preparing for practice in this complex and rewarding field.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 18.5 MB
    Pages | 577
    Language | English
    Category | Cardiology
    Description:  Straight from the ACCP Critical Care Medicine Board Review 2009 course, this text covers every topic in a concise, easy-to-use format. Use as a self-study resource to prepare for the critical care medicine subspecialty board examination.
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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 1.34 MB
    Pages | 288
    Language | English
    Category | Abortion
    Description:  The majority of women who have had abortions report feeling happy, satisfied, and relieved following their abortion. Some few women who have had an abortion may experience some feelings of guilt and sadness; however, this rarely lasts longer than a few days. Those very few women who present with prolonged feelings of sadness and mental health problems are women who have either had these problems prior to their abortion, had other risk factors, or were influenced by frightening demonstrations and inaccurate biased information provided prior to the abortion. Through this book the authors hope to train general therapists and counselors in pre- and post-abortion counseling techniques--to avoid women experiencing unnecessary psychological problems created by those who insist that the non-existent "post-abortion syndrome" exists.

    Abortion counseling has a critical role to play in ensuring women's mental health is the priority and not the goals of a political agenda. Thus, Needle and Walker have taken on a complex, profound and essential task -- equipping therapists and abortion counselors with the knowledge and skills needed to help their clients -- and they have done it well . Readers of this book should [gain] an increased understanding of how women's diverse life circumstances affect their ability to cope with the difficult decisions and circumstances surrounding abortion. They will also be better able to build women's resilience and coping skills by having considered them both in the context of women's lives (e.g., coping resources, social support, partner violence, incidence of depression), and in the context of socio-political agendas that seek to manipulate women's mental health in order to undermine women's reproductive rights....In the final analysis, it is important to remember that abortion counseling is not about abortion - it is about women confronting the decision to bear a child - with all of the profound and life changing commitments and responsibilities that entails.
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