This is the first practical guide for nurses on how to incorporate the knowledge, skills, and tools of Strength-Based Nursing Care (SBC) into everyday practice. The text, based on a model developed by the prestigious McGill University Nursing Program, signifies a paradigm shift in nursing care from a model based on problems, deficits, and ......
Delivers a wealth of practical information for fulfilling the spiritual needs of all patients and their families Written as a practical resource to teach nurses and nursing students, this text explores how to best address spiritual assessment and care. Spirituality, the search for meaning in life and connection to others, remains relevant to all ......
Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows overburdened faculty members to prepare student nurses for clinical practice prior to working with patients. This book provides a step-by-step process by which to develop, incorporate, and integrate simulated scenarios into the nursing curriculum.
Provides practical strategies for developing, integrating, and evaluating new and emerging technology, specifically game-based learning methods that are useful in nursing and clinical health sciences education. It is designed to bridge the gap between the real life experiences of seasoned professionals and the specific embodied experiences that ......
Effective record-keeping is essential to health care. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to keeping good health records that treats the process as an integral part of your everyday practice. Every healthcare practitioner is expected to record their interactions with a patient in the patient's health record, and this pocket guide is full of ......
Implications for Clinicians, Educators, and Leaders
Freshly updated, this acclaimed text demonstrates how nurses can promote caring relationships with individuals, groups, and communities in various health care settings to ensure better patient outcomes, lower costs, and greater clinician well-being. The book is grounded in the author's Quality Caring Model (c), a middle range theory that analyzes ......
Promoting Health and Wellbeing is an introductory textbook for nursing and healthcare students seeking to understand how to promote health and prevent ill health.
Describes various applications of the Dreyfus Health Foundation's Problem-Solving for Better Health Program, and related programs, featuring problem solving models used in communities, hospitals, and academic settings, including institutional policy changes to accommodate such programs officially.
Paramedic placements can be daunting - you'll be working in a range of settings and supporting individuals with a variety of conditions. There are new colleagues to work with, and newly learned theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is designed to make your placements much more enjoyable and less stressful. From ambulance placements to ......