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"This Fifth Edition is a comprehensive text that seamlessly integrates ethics across the nursing curriculum. Going beyond the evolving laws and policies affecting nursing practice today, the Fifth Edition focuses on the complex and provocative ethical dilemmas that students and nurses may face throughout the lifespan of a patient while also offering complete coverage of everyday ethical matters. This new edition will also include an appendix focused...
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This third edition of "Introducing Pharmacology" provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the subject of pharmacology for nursing and healthcare students -- and anyone needing to refresh their knowledge of this important area. The third edition recognizes that many nursing and healthcare courses are now requiring students to engage with the subject at a higher level. Accordingly, this edition has been reinforced with more advanced pharmacology...
3) The locket
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A man unable to decide whether to marry is helped to reach a decision by a woman patient in an old people's home where he is a nurse. By the author of The Christmas Box.
4) The 36-hour day: a family guide to caring for people who have Alzheimer disease and other dementias
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"Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of problems. The 36-Hour Day will help family members and caregivers address these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs. Featuring useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research...
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"This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own native soil, that is a rich, fulsome and philosophically informed; grounded in the tradition, and practice of nursing. This systematic and comprehensive book is an essential contribution for students and scholars of nursing ethics"--
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"Can one nurse on a mission of mercy and rebellion turn the tide of WWI? November 1914--The Great War has come to Brussels, the Germans have occupied the city, and Edith Cavell, Head Nurse at Berkendael Medical Institute, faces an impossible situation. As matron of a designated Red Cross hospital, Edith has sworn an oath to help any who are wounded, under whatever flag they are found. But Governor von Lüttwitz, the ranking German officer, has additional...
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"AWHONN's Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 6th Edition, the definitive resource for nurses taking certification examinations, provides the most up-to-date, accurate information available on today's maternal-newborn nursing practice. Its concise outline format covers concepts of reproduction, fetal development, normal pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum periods, the normal newborn, complications in the mother and newborn, and ethical...
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Nursing has a not-so-secret problem. The profession is prone to--some would say thrives on--workplace conflict, incivility, bullying, and meanness. And while nurses observe and experience this conflict daily, too few have been trained in its resolution. Toxic Nursing aims to change that with strategies, tools, and techniques to help nurse leaders, managers, and administrators defuse conflict, turn around toxic situations, and create positive, healthy...
10) She's not sorry
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"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan mistakenly...
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"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island,...
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"Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice, Fifth Edition focuses on the progression of the professional nursing role. The major themes addressed throughout the text include: teamwork and collaboration, communication, leadership, quality improvement and safety, evidence-based practice and informatics. These competencies are essential for undergraduate nursing students, providing them with a solid foundation for a successful career. The Fifth...
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Do you dream of a future where you are rich, and you didn't have to worry about money?You cannot be rich, at least not with your job as a nurse. Everyone tells you this, and you have gradually come to believe that maybe getting wealthy has been preserved for people in other careers – with bigger paychecks.It doesn't help that there are no enough role models around you or even in the world to show you that it's possible.So, you have settled into...