Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing
Constance Dahlin, Patrick Coyne, and Betty Ferrell (eds)
Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of seriously ill and dying patients and their families. This comprehensive work ...
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Care of the Acutely Ill Adult (2 ed.)
Fiona Creed and Christine Spiers (eds)
The new edition of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult enables nursing staff to develop an in-depth understanding of the knowledge required to care for patients whose condition is deteriorating. ...
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Care of the Imminently Dying
Judith Paice (ed.)
Skillful nursing care during the final hours of life can bring comfort and quality, not only to the patient but also to the patient’s loved ones who are attending the death. Symptom burden ...
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Caring Matters Most: The Ethical Significance of Nursing
Mark Lazenby
Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness. Nurses can develop this goodness, or moral character, ...
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Challenging Concepts in Critical Care: Cases with Expert Commentary
Christopher Gough, Justine Barnett, Tim Cook, and Jerry Nolan (eds)
This book includes 18 challenging topics in critical care. Each chapter is centred on a clinically relevant case study and comprises a full case history, punctuated by evidence-based, ...
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Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing
Constance Dahlin, Patrick Coyne, and Betty Ferrell (eds)
The Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is a companion guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of ...
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Communicating Prognosis
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Prognostication of acute neurologic disease is a major task for neuro-hospitalists and neuro-intensivists. The family conference raises the delicate matter of how to decide that outcome is ...
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Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model (2 ed.)
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy V. Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
Communication in Palliative Nursing presents the COMFORT Model, a theoretically-grounded and empirically-based model of palliative care communication. Built on over a decade of ...
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Critical Care Nursing: Science and Practice (3 ed.)
Sheila Adam, Sue Osborne, and John Welch (eds)
This textbook encompasses the knowledge, skills, and expertise needed to deliver excellent nursing care to critically ill patients. Emphasis is placed on a holistic and compassionate ...
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Deconstructing the Interview
Duncan Harding
The professional interview is a charged psychological encounter and hurdle, necessary for all of us to traverse in order to move on in our lives and careers. The interviewer is the ...
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Diagnosis: A Guide for Medical Trainees
Ashley Graham Kennedy
The process of clinical diagnosis—from establishing the patient–physician relationship to gathering evidence, to performing, evaluating, interpreting, and allocating diagnostic tests, to ...
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The EACVI Echo Handbook
Patrizio Lancellotti and Bernard Cosyns (eds)
Echocardiography has become the most requested imaging modalities. It is the first line imaging in the diagnostic work-up and monitoring of most cardiac diseases. Echocardiography is ...
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Emergencies in Adult Nursing
Philip Downing (ed.)
This guide enables nurses to identify which clinical problems are true emergencies, which require urgent attention and those that can wait – differential diagnoses for each clinical ...
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Essential Revision Notes for the Cardiology KBA
Ali Khavandi
Aimed specifically at the Knowledge-Based Assessment, Revision Notes for Cardiology provides the first clear and accessible revision resource created specifically for this new and ...
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Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable
Jeremy Snyder
One often hears stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by individuals offering empty promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned ...
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Geriatric Medicine: an Evidence-based Approach
Frank Lally and Christine Roffe (eds)
Geriatric medicine: an evidence based approach is an online clinical reference for health care professionals who manage older patients, and summarizes up-to-date research literature in a ...
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Handbook of Surgical Consent
Rajesh Nair and David J. Holroyd (eds)
This valuable tool, written by experts, offers practical guidance in the principles of consent, alongside procedure-specific information on risks and benefits
The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook: Using Lean and the Theory of Constraints for Better Healthcare Delivery
Boaz Ronen, Joseph S. Pliskin, and Shimeon Pass
The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook is about doing more using existing resources. For example, achieving more throughput in the operating rooms, reducing waiting times ...
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Integrative Nursing (2 ed.)
Mary Jo Kreitzer and Mary Koithan (eds)
Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Integrative Nursing is a complete roadmap to holistic patient care, providing a step-by-step guide to assess and clinically treat conditions ...
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Landmark Papers in Rheumatology
Richard A. Watts and David G. I. Scott (eds)
Rheumatic disease is a major cause of morbidity and disability in the Western world. There have been major developments in our understanding of the causes of rheumatic disease and in their ...
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