Nursing Book Review

Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab Manual

2009-11-02T12:05:00.000-08:00

Students and instructors rely on superior quality from Elaine Marieb. This laboratory manual continues to present content that is comprehensive, clear, and compelling. A student-friendly design guides students as they work through the exercises. Includes full-color anatomy and histology atlases, and major dissection exercises. The material is appropriate for one- or two-semester courses. This updated version of the lab manual includes the new PhysioEx V. 2.0 CD-ROM (A(c)2000) at no additional charge. PhysioEx provides a safe electronic environment to conduct experiments that demonstrate complex physiological principles. PhysioEx V. 2.0 includes two additional experiments on respiratory system mechanics and renal physiology, plus a histology tutorial with hundreds of images at four different levels of magnification with a labeling feature.

Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab Manual

Pharmacology for Nursing Care

2009-11-01T11:59:00.000-08:00

This text emphasizes understanding over memorization to effectively present the "big picture" through the use of drug prototypes, large and small print, and special foundational chapters that cover principles related to each body system. At the end of each chapter, a summary of major nursing implications also helps you apply the material to real-world situations. The accompanying companion CD-ROM features audio and printable key points that you can download to a CD or MP3 player. The CD-ROM also features 700 NCLEXÂ® examination-style multiple-choice review questions, animations depicting drug mechanisms and effects, flash cards, and numerous electronic calculators.

UNIQUE! Summaries of Major Nursing Implications at the end of each chapter help you understand how to apply concepts to clinical practice in an easy-to-understand format.
A prototype drug approach uses one drug within each drug family that characterizes all members of its group to give you the knowledge you need to learn not only about related drugs currently on the market, but also about those drugs that will be released once the student begins practice.
Uses large print to identify essential "need-to-know" information and small print to identify "nice-to-know" information
Concise drug summary tables present quick reference to detailed information on individual drugs, including class, generic and trade names, dosages, routes, and indications.
End-of-chapter Key Points are summarized in a bulleted format to facilitate your review of the most important concepts in each chapter.
Patient and family teaching content is highlighted to emphasize this key content and provide you with critical information to include in teaching patients about drugs and effects and stresses points for educating family members when they will be helping to care for the patient.
Provides Anatomy and Physiology and Pathophysiology reviews at the beginning of chapters to help you understand the relationships pharmacology and the biologic systems that drugs influence.
A comprehensive collection of appendixes includes a concise overview of Canadian drug information, gender-related drugs, drug administration techniques, normal laboratory values, and much more.
Companion CD-ROM features 700 NCLEX examination-style multiple-choice review questions, animations depicting drug mechanisms and effects, flash cards, key points, and numerous electronic calculators.

Pharmacology for Nursing Care

Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach

2009-10-30T11:54:00.000-07:00

Covering all advanced practice competencies and roles, this book offers strategies for enhancing patient care and legitimizing your role within today's health care system. It covers the history of advanced practice nursing, the theory behind the practice, and emerging issues. Offering a comprehensive exploration of advanced practice nursing, this edition also adds a focus on topics including the APN scope of practice, certification, and the ethical and legal issues that occur in clinical practice.

The development of all major competencies of advanced practice nursing is discussed: direct clinical practice, consultation, coaching/guidance, research, leadership, collaboration, and ethical decision-making.
Advanced practice competencies are discussed in relation to all advanced practice nursing and blended CNS-NP roles (case manager, acute care nurse practitioner), highlighting the shared aims and distinctions of each role.
In-depth discussions on educational strategies explain how competencies develop as the nurses' practice progresses.
A chapter on research competencies demonstrates how to use evidence-based research in practice, and how to promote these research competencies to other APNs.
A conceptual framework shows the clear relationship between the competencies, roles, and challenges in today's health care environment.
Practical strategies are provided for business management, contracting, and marketing

Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

2009-10-29T11:48:00.000-07:00

The bestselling Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition provides a well-rounded and comprehensive approach to nursing care. It covers patient care in various clinical settings by employing a unique levels of care approach, discussing nursing implementation at multiple levels. Special features highlight the content that is most relevant and challenging for today's nursing students, including patient teaching, nutrition, drug therapy, cultural and ethnic disparities, and more.

Identifies and discusses all levels of nursing management, including Health Promotion, Acute Intervention, and Ambulatory and Home Care, to prepare the nurse to effectively intervene at various stages of illness.
Online podcasts feature audio key points summaries for each chapter highlighting important information.
Extensive gerontologic content discusses age-related changes for each body system and alerts the nurse to differences often encountered in older patients.
Attractive four-color design and over 1,400 full-color illustrations enhance learning by presenting disease processes and related anatomy and physiology more clearly.
About 55 thoroughly updated, comprehensive nursing care plans incorporate current NANDA diagnoses, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, interventions with rationales, evaluation criteria, and more.

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior

2009-10-28T11:39:00.000-07:00

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions.

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior

Student Laboratory Manual for Physical Examination & Health Assessment

2009-10-27T11:32:00.000-07:00

With exercises and questions in varying formats, key terms, learning objectives, and regional write-up forms, this workbook may be used as a study guide to reinforce understanding or as a clinical tool in the laboratory setting.

Each chapter is divided into two parts, cognitive and clinical, and contains:
Purpose - a brief chapter summary
Reading Assignment - the corresponding chapter and page numbers from the Jarvis text
Audio-Visual Assignment - the corresponding video assignment from the Saunders Video Physical Examination and Health Assessment Series
Glossary - terms from the textbook chapter with accompanying definitions
Study Guide - specific short-answer and fill-in questions. Anatomy illustrations are reproduced from the textbook with labeling exercises
Review Questions - multiple-choice questions, matching, and short-answer questions
Clinical Objectives
Regional Write-up Sheets - physical examination forms to use in the skills lab or clinical setting
Narrative Summary Forms - SOAP format to chart narrative accounts of the history and physical exam findings

Student Laboratory Manual for Physical Examination & Health Assessment

Mosby's 2010 Nursing Drug Reference

2009-10-26T11:24:00.000-07:00

The bestselling drug reference for nurses from Mosby - the most trusted name in nursing. If you are going to buy one drug handbook - this should be the one. No other drug handbook enables you to access reliable drug information quicker. With an A-Z organization, each drug is easy to find. But what's even better is the fact that Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference gives you the most complete drug information for each drug, including uses, side effects, and interactions. Key nursing considerations are identified to help you assess, administer, evaluate, and teach your patients. Instructions for giving drugs by various routes (e.g., PO, IM, IV) are also included. You will ALWAYS find the latest and most trustworthy drug information in Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference. There is a difference in drug handbooks - put your trust in Mosby, the leading name in nursing publishing.

Mosby's 2010 Nursing Drug Reference

Ethnicity and Family Therapy

2009-10-25T11:19:00.000-07:00

This widely used clinical reference and text has now been fully revised and expanded, providing the latest knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter demonstrates how ethnocultural factors may influence the assumptions of both clients and therapists, the issues people bring to the clinical context, and their resources for coping and problem solving. Updated throughout with essential new material, the third edition includes chapters on several additional groups. An indispensable new appendix offers a concise guide to weaving cultural information into assessment and intervention planning.

Ethnicity and Family Therapy

Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention

2009-10-24T11:12:00.000-07:00

Nursing Care Plans, 6th Edition is the most comprehensive nursing care planning book on the market, with 183 care plans covering the most common nursing diagnoses and clinical problems in medical-surgical nursing. It reflects the most current clinical practice and professional standards in nursing and presents the content in an easy-to-use, reader-friendly format. The book functions as two books in one, with one section including a collection of nursing diagnosis care plans and the other providing a library of disease/disorder care plans that serve as models of care planning for the most common medical diagnoses, medical procedures, and psychosocial conditions seen in nursing practice.

Includes the most extensive array of care plans found in any nursing care planning book, with 62 nursing diagnosis care plans and 121 disease/disorder/procedure care plans, for a total of 183.
The nursing diagnosis care plan format includes a NANDA definition, a brief explanation of the diagnosis, related NOC outcomes and NIC interventions, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions.
The disorders care plan format includes synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a clear and succinct definition of the disorder, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, NIC interventions and NOC outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant nursing diagnosis.
Eye-catching icons distinguish collaborative from independent interventions.
Covers adult lifespan issues and issues related to various healthcare settings to equip nurses for a broad range of practice settings, from hospital to home.
Provides an alphabetical list of NANDA diagnoses inside the front cover.

Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention

Test Success: Test-Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students

2009-10-23T11:00:00.000-07:00

The New Edition of this popular, easy-to-use guide continues to provide invaluable test-taking tips for beginning nursing students. It teaches critical thinking, time management, and effective study habits through proven techniques that enhance classroom performance and guide students through the examination process. 800 practice questions introduce your students to all of the different testing formats. By mastering these formats, your students will improve their grades; increase their confidence; and reduce the anxiety and stress that comes with exams...throughout their nursing school studies. What's New: BONUS! Includes a CD-ROM with two 75 question final exams. Offers a 100-question final exam in the text (including alternate format questions) in each of the fundamentals areas, with answers as well as rationales for both correct and incorrect. Features completely revised chapters, Test-Taking Formats Other Than Multiple-Choice Questions and Analyze Your Test Performance.

Updates all of the content to reflect current medical technology and standards of nursing practice, as well as CDC, American Heart Association, and other relevant guidelines.

Test Success: Test-Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students

Med-surg Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking

2009-10-22T10:53:00.000-07:00

Clearly separating the overwhelming array of medical-surgical nursing content into manageable sections as they are taught and tested, "Med-Surg Success" provides core medical-surgical concepts with related NCLEX-style questions. Like the NCLEX itself, the questions are presented at the application and analysis level, and address the nursing process, management, prioritizing, and medications: critical thinking and how it relates to test taking is emphasized throughout. Organized by body system and specific diseases, "Med-Surg Success" builds on the successful skills and strategies that have already helped thousands of students in Fundamentals Success and Test Success. The disorders chapters provide practice questions focused on the disease process and a comprehensive exam that includes the processes covered in the practice questions along with other topics involving the system addressed. Other chapters similarly cover emergency, perioperative, and cultural nursing; alternative health care and end-of-life issues; and the last chapter before the comprehensive final exam includes questions and test-taking hints specific to pharmacology and the administration of medications.

Med-surg Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking

Understanding Health Policy

2009-10-21T11:04:00.000-07:00

The leading text in the field, Understanding Health Policy covers fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. The authors bring to life important policy issues by providing extensive case histories that pinpoint individual encounters within the health care system.

Features:
* Updated throughout to reflect recent changes in insurance coverage, health care expenditures, and health care organization
* Expanded to include discussion of the defined contribution approach to cost control, medical errors, and new approaches to quality improvement and the uncertain future facing managed care
* Extensive case histories
* Brand new chapter on the Health Care Work Force, including sections on physicians, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, and pharmacists and on women and minorities in the health professions
* Includes "Questions and Discussion Topics" for classroom or individual study

Understanding Health Policy

Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination And Practice Preparation

2009-10-20T10:48:00.000-07:00

This review book will help your students hone their diagnostic and treatment-reasoning skills, and enable them to thoroughly prepare for the certification exam and clinical practice.

Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination And Practice Preparation

Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice

2009-10-19T10:41:00.000-07:00

This fourth edition of the classic book, Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice provides a comprehensive, highly accessible, and in-depth analysis of health behavior theories that are most relevant to health education. This essential resource includes the most current information on theory, research, and practice at individual, interpersonal, and community and group levels. This edition includes substantial new content on current and emerging theories of health communication, e-health, culturally diverse communities, health promotion, the impact of stress, the importance of networks and community, social marketing, and evaluation.

Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice

Physical Examination & Health Assessment

2009-10-18T10:34:00.000-07:00

With a clear, student-friendly approach, this text provides a solid understanding of how to perform a health assessment. Head-to-toe presentations show the steps of a physical examination in a logical sequence. Detailed illustrations, summary checklists, and new learning resources ensure that you learn all the skills you need to know. It's easy to see why this text is, far and away, #1 in this market! Clear, approachable style of writing. Over 1,000 full-color illustrations present anatomy and physiology plus examination techniques.
A two-column format distinguishes normal findings from abnormal findings, using color, step-by-step photos.
Summary checklists in each body system chapter provide a quick review of exam steps.
Documentation examples show the charting of normal findings.
Extensive coverage of culture reflects the importance of diversity and cultural awareness.
Nursing Diagnoses reflecting the most recent NANDA Taxonomy II terminology.
Lifespan content is integrated throughout the text to show common variations for all age groups.
Developmental Care sections cover age-specific content for pediatric, pregnant, and older adult patients.
Clinical case studies cover focused assessment techniques for patients of different ages in different clinical situations.
Spanish language translation chart includes key phrases for better communication during a physical examination.

Physical Examination & Health Assessment

Kaplan NCLEX-RN: Medications You Need to Know for the Exam

2009-10-17T10:24:00.000-07:00

This targeted guide provides nursing students with 280 frequently tested NCLEX-RN exam terms, including medications plus their common names, drug family, and side effects, as well as an appendix of medical abbreviations. Kaplan NCLEX-RN: Medications You Need to Know for the Exam is the perfect companion guide for students on-the-go who are already preparing for the NCLEX-RN exam.

The new format features two terms on one side of each page, with the explanations on the other. The book is grouped by medicine category.

Kaplan NCLEX-RN: Medications You Need to Know for the Exam

Kaplan NCLEX-RN Exam 2010 with CD-ROM: Strategies for the Registered Nursing Licensing Exam

2009-10-16T10:16:00.000-07:00

Kaplan Nursing and Kaplan University School of Nursing offer a wide variety of programs for pre-licensure and post-licensure nurses. Kaplan Nursing is the world’s largest provider of preparation courses for the NCLEX-RN® exam, and offers classroom and online courses to graduates of U.S. nursing schools and nurses educated abroad. Its partnership with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins also provides nursing schools with a program of Integrated Testing that evaluates students’ level of nursing knowledge and remediates knowledge deficits. Kaplan University School of Nursing offers a dynamic educational experience through on-line learning, including a BSN Completion degree, a Master’s Degree in Nursing Science, a Master’s Degree in Nursing, and much more. Its faculty members are highly qualified nurse leaders who have a keen appreciation of the issues faced by working adults.

Kaplan NCLEX-RN Exam 2010 with CD-ROM: Strategies for the Registered Nursing Licensing Exam

Fundamentals Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking

2009-10-15T10:06:00.000-07:00

Fundamentals Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking, Second edition (Davis's Success)

Here are the techniques nursing students need to develop, apply, and refine their reasoning skills and gain the confidence needed to pass exams. With more than 1,475 classroom-tested, NCLEX-style questions that cover an entire nursing fundamentals course, this book provides a blueprint for applying critical thinking skills to answering the test questions that students will encounter throughout their nursing education. Extensive field testing with students and faculty ensures that all of the questions provide the information and test-taking experience students need to succeed. BONUS! New CD-ROM with two 75-question final exams.
100-question final exam, with answers and comprehensive rationales.
Completely revised and up-to-date to reflect the latest medical technology, practice guidelines, and standards of nursing practice.
100 new format questions in a single chapter multiple response, fill-in-the blank, hot spot drag and drop/ordered response items, and exhibit items that require a response to picture, chart, graph or table.
100 additional new format questions spread across 24 content areas.

Fundamentals Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

2009-10-14T09:52:00.000-07:00

This innovative resource teaches you the critical thinking and assessment skills you need to build customized care plans based on each patient's unique needs. Its step-by-step approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidence-based rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.

Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.
Includes examples of and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes for each care plan.
A convenient A-to-Z organization in Sections I and II helps you quickly locate key information.
Evidence-based practice information is incorporated throughout.
Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.
A Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website helps you create customized plans of care.

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

Nursing 2010 Drug Handbook with Web Toolkit

2009-10-13T09:19:00.000-07:00

The 30th edition of the best-selling, original drug handbook for nurses has been revised and updated to appeal to the education market as well as the practice market! This comprehensive reference provides complete monographs for more than 900 generic and 3,000 trade drugs. The monographs are consistently formatted for ease of use, and they focus on the practical information that practicing nurses need. Each monograph consists of generic and trade names, pronunciation key, pregnancy risk category, pharmacologic class, controlled substance schedule (if applicable), available forms, indications and dosages, administration (with drug incompatibilities for I.V. drugs), action (including tables showing route, onset, peak, duration, and half-life), adverse reactions, interactions, effects on lab test results, contraindications, nursing considerations, and patient teaching.

Nursing 2010 Drug Handbook with Web Toolkit

Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking

2009-10-12T08:41:00.000-07:00

Univ. of Rochester, NY. Textbook, for medical and nursing students, to the physical exam and history taking. Previous edition, c1995, was on the Brandon/Hill Medical List and entitled: A Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. Chapters are thumb-tabbed. DNLM: Physical Examination--methods.

Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination

2009-10-11T08:20:00.000-07:00

There is a reason the new edition of Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination has been called "the best NCLEX review book ever." Essentially, you'll find everything you need to review for the NCLEX exam under one cover - complete content review and over 4,200 NCLEX-style questions in the book and on the free companion CD! Don't make the mistake of assuming that the quality of the questions is the same in all NCLEX review books, because only Silvestri's Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination includes the kind of questions that consistently test the critical thinking skills necessary to pass today's NCLEX exam. And, what's even better is that ALL answers include detailed rationales to help you learn from your answer choices, along with test taking strategies that provide tips for how to best approach each question. It's easy to see why Silvestri is THE book of choice for NCLEX review. But don't just take our word for it -- read any customer review or ask your fellow classmates to see why Silvestri users believe that there's nothing else like it!

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination

The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease

2009-10-10T08:32:00.000-07:00

The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
It has been estimated that five percent of older people suffer from severe intellectual impairment. So these two eloquent and readable guides will be much in demand as the number of families facing the challenge of caring for a relative with some form of dementing illness continues to grow. First published in 1981, The 36-Hour Day follows the format of the previous two editions but has been thoroughly updated to incorporate new information on the latest research, several drugs that hold promise, and genetic aspects of Alzheimer's. The heart of the guide remains unchanged, focusing on helping families cope with this progressive and irreversible disease. Besides tips on how to care for the demented during the various stages of the disease (for example, place a picture of a toilet on the bathroom door), the text discusses the different kinds of help available and how to seek it. Financial and legal issues are well covered, while sections on nursing homes and other alternative living arrangements provide advice and practical suggestions. Appendixes list recent books, videos, web sites, and U.S. and international organizations. The thrust of GentlecareR is a well-argued plea for a radical change in the way we care for Alzheimer's patients. In outlining her program, Jones states that this rethinking involves people, physical space, and individualized programs. Everyone in the physical plant, from maintenance worker to director, belongs to the care-giving team, as do family members and volunteers. Only when impaired persons can no longer perform for themselves a task like feeding themselves or dressing should it be done for them. Care should concentrate on what can be done, not what cannot. Because her emphasis is on the need for a comprehensive program of care and concentrates more on the institutional setting, Jones does not provide as many practical suggestions or the depth of advice for home care that Mace and Rabins do. Rather, her book describes how facilities can be designed and staffs trained to optimize the quality of life for patients. Both titles are highly recommended: Rabins and Mace for the practical help and advice, Jones for her eloquent presentation of a comprehensive program that treats patients with dignity.AJodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn.

The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

2009-10-09T08:15:00.000-07:00

Founding member and former president of the Midwives Alliance of North America and author of Spiritual Midwivery, Gaskin offers encouragement and practical advice in her upbeat and informative book on natural childbirth. Since the mid-1970s, Gaskin and the midwives in her practice on a Summertown, Tenn., commune known as "The Farm," have attended over 2,200 natural births. Gaskin, who learned the rudiments of her gentle birthing technique from the Mayans in Guatemala, has helped bring attention to the method's remarkably low rate of morbidity and medical intervention. Couples considering natural childbirth will get inspirational coaxing from more than a dozen first-person narratives shared by the author's clients. Gaskin decries what she sees as Western medicine's focus on pain during birth, arguing that natural birthing can not only be euphoric and blissful but also orgasmic (a survey of 150 natural birthing women "found thirty-two who reported experiencing at least one orgasmic birth"). The second half of Gaskin's book deals with the practical side of natural birthing, including how to avoid standard medical interventions such as epidurals, episiotomies and even prenatal amniocentesis that may be unnecessary, even dangerous, to mother or child. While this may not be the definitive guide to natural childbirth, it is a comfortable and supportive read for women who want to trust their bodies to do what comes naturall.

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Anatomy Coloring Book

2009-10-08T05:32:00.000-07:00

For over 23 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the leading human anatomy coloring book, offering concisely written text and precise, extraordinary hand-drawn figures. Organized according to body systems, each of the 170 plates featured in this book includes an ingenious color-key system anatomical terminology is linked to detail illustration of the structures of the body.

Wynn Kapit is the designer of the The Anatomy Coloring Book, The Physiology Coloring Book, and The Geography Coloring Book. Mr. Kapit received a B.B.A. and an L.L.B. from the University of Miami and an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lawrence M. Elson, Ph.D. is a clinical and forensic human anatomist who taught at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the University of California Medical School at San Francisco, and the City College of San Francisco. Dr. Elson is the founder and president of Coloring Concepts, Inc., and the director of graphic and textual content of its several publications.

Anatomy Coloring Book

Rapid Interpretation of EKG's

2009-10-07T08:04:00.000-07:00

YES! You have the right book!! For thirty (30!) years the world's best seller (printed in 28 languages), RAPID INTERPRETATION OF EKG's is the most popular and most referenced of all EKG (ECG) texts. But beware... success breeds imitations.

Competitors, aware of its longstanding success, imitate this classic by using synonyms for RAPID or INTERPRETATION or by substituting "ECG's" for EKG's. Don't be deceived by the numerous look-alikes with enticing titles. There is only one RAPID INTERPRETATION OF EKG's.
Now it is the most current text of its kind, since it is updated yearly. Extensively illustrated and simplified to assure rapid comprehension, an entire chapter is easily consumed and mastered in a sitting. In the process of learning EKG interpretation, the reader gains a deeper understanding of cardiac physiology. Emphasis is on UNDERSTANDING rather than memorizing, so readers quickly acquire a lifetime of practical knowledge.

Rapid Interpretation of EKG's

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses

2009-10-07T05:17:00.000-07:00

Count on Davis s Drug Guide for Nurses, Eleventh Edition to deliver easy-to-read, well-organized monographs on hundreds of generic and thousands of trade name drugs. With a focus on nursing practice and usability, it s the onedrug guide that provides comprehensive coverage of all populations across the entire lifespan, and all of the guidance needed to administer medications competently and safely. MORE clinical and learning tools on the Resource Kit CD-ROM!
* NEW! FREE PDA download powered by Unbound Medicine 400 complete monographs for commonly administered drugs.
* Updated Drug Search Program nearly 700 searchable drug monographs that can be copied, pasted, and printed.
* NEW! Audio Pronunciations for drugs included in the Drug Search Program.
* NEW! Unique Psychotropic Drugs Tutorial, depicting the safe administration of psychotropic medications. Includes monograph content for select psychotropic drugs, plus a multiple-choice self test.
* Unique preventing Medication Errors Tutorial a medication safety review, 60-question self test with real-life scenarios, physician orders, and rationales for correct and incorrect answers.
* Updated Wound Care Tutorial a photographic overview of the different types of wounds and wound care products as well as a 20-question self-test, with answers and rationales.
* NEW! Interactive Case Studies brief real-life scenarios followed by a series of questions. Results can be printed or e-mailed.
* Drug Dosage Calculators for metric conversions, IV drip rates, and dosage/kg, and Fahrenheit/Celsius.
* Wound Care Clinical Sheets a quick review of pressure ulcer prevention strategies, wound assessment, pressure ulcer stages and treatment, and wound care products. Pocket sized and printable.
* And more!

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary - 21st Edition

2009-10-07T05:10:00.000-07:00

EXPERIENCE TABER S 21! To thrive in the ever-changing world of health care, you need a respected, trusted, and cutting-edge, cyclopedic resource. In hand, online, or on a mobile device, turn to Taber s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 21st Edition...anytime, anywhere!

Taber s 21 is today s most comprehensive health science dictionary. Under the editorial direction of Donald Venes, MD, MSJ, a team of expert consulting editors and consultants representing every branch of health care, work with the Taber s in-house editorial staff to ensure that the content reflects the state of the art.
* Cyclopedic entries offer more than just definitions.
* More than 60,000 reader-friendly definitions, including 3,000 brand-new terms and 7,000 revised terms.
* Over 1,000 full-color illustrations in the book and DVD combined.
* More than 600 Patient Care Statements
* Caution Statements with new easy-to-find icon
* Dozens of Allied Health and Nursing Appendices
* The MAC & PC compatible FREE Taber sPlus DVD
* So much more!

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary - 21st Edition

Professional Guide to Signs and Symptoms

2008-10-14T17:29:00.001-07:00

Thoroughly reviewed and updated for the Fourth Edition, this comprehensive manual covers more than 550 signs and symptoms. More than 300 of the most important signs and symptoms are organized alphabetically; each entry includes an introduction with the definition, description, incidence, significance, and summary of causes; emergency interventions (where appropriate); history and physical examination; medical causes; other causes, such as drugs, herbal medicines, procedures and treatments; special considerations, including complications, comfort measures, and tests; pediatric pointers; geriatric pointers; and patient counseling. This manual includes more than 500 illustrations, tables, and flowcharts for quick access to information. An appendix of 250 less familiar, accessory, or nonspecific signs and symptoms is included, along with English/Spanish translations of common signs and symptoms. New to this edition: signs and symptoms of important emerging diseases, coverage of biologic weapons of mass infection, and gender differences in the appearance of signs and symptoms.

# Hardcover: 896 pages
# Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth Edition edition (August 1, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1582552894
# ISBN-13: 978-1582552897

Pocket Guide to the Operating Room

2008-10-14T17:19:00.001-07:00

Be prepared with this handy, pocket guide to more than 400 surgical procedures. For each procedure, you'll find a definition and description preparation of the patient skin preparation draping technique equipment needed instrumentation supplies and special notes. Among the topics covered are charting as a legal document patient teaching anesthesia laser application robotics endoscopic (including laparoscopic) procedures microsurgery use of the harmonic scalpel and the argon beam coagulator and care of the pediatric patient, including anesthesia considerations and surgical procedures. All aspects of patient care are addressed, including psychological care of the patient in surgery safety measures for the patient and the operative team the written record of intra-, pre- and postoperative care and the application of JCAHO Universal Protocols for correct identification of the patient including correct site and laterality.
# Paperback: 1252 pages
# Publisher: F. A. Davis Company; 3 edition (November 30, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0803612265
# ISBN-13: 978-0803612266