Addresses the foundations of Nursing Informatics competencies, streamlined for the unique experience of practicing nurses. The text features numerous case scenarios of real-life applications to engage the reader and reinforce content. Chapters cover informatics competencies, knowledge, and skills in a concise manner.
Foundations and Indications for Everyday Caregiving
Anthroposophic nursing care goes beyond the communicative approach of soft skills. Nurses form a bridge between treatment of the body and treatment of the patient’s soul and spirit by actively valuing the human body, paying attention to touch, using warmth, cold, air, and light to promote healing processes, and much more.
Draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing
Provides nurses, physicians, specialists, and providers with the information needed to provide capable care and treatment to individuals of diverse cultures. The book offers a look at classic contributions to the field, up-to-date research, and evaluates the impact of diverse cultures on issues that may affect nursing and health care.
Informing and Evaluating Policy with Nursing Science
Provides an introduction for nurses and other health professionals as they begin to study policy. The book includes chapters that consider policy triggers, policy development, policy implementation, and policy outcome evaluation.
Examines the full gamut of literature on key topics in nursing practice, including nursing theory, care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing. It has brought together internationally recognized experts in the fields of nursing, and continues to deliver the highest standards of content and authoritative reviews of ......
As tobacco use continues as the leading cause of preventable death in the US, the topic is a critical one for nursing science and for nursing scholarship. This book describes and synthesizes the nursing research in tobacco control (prevention, treatment of tobacco dependence, and reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke).
Provides the research and review to help decision makers develop new and much-needed standards and practices in nursing. This work focuses on key disciplines and topics that are critical to patient safety including: patient safety indicators; medication errors; falls and injury prevention; hospital-acquired infections; and more.
