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Healthcare ethics help guide and influence the way physicians, nurses, and other members of the healthcare team care for patients and make decisions. Ethics address the moral dilemmas that arise out of conflicts with duties or obligations as well as the consequences of decision-making. As healthcare has continued to grow and evolve, so has the way healthcare ethics are handled.
Nurses are uniquely positioned to serve as leaders in healthcare ethics...
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El texto tiene como propósito respaldar los procesos de aprendizaje y la apropiación de conocimientos y habilidades relacionados con la semiología clínica tanto para enfermeros(as) como para profesionales en formación. Los autores incorporan experiencias académicas, pedagógicas y vivencias clínicas, para facilitar un abordaje de la valoración semiológica, como un proceso organizado y estructurado que permite visualizar al ser humano integral...
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REA's TEAS Crash Course Book + Online Practice Test Fully Revised Second Edition Everything you need for the exam - in a fast review format! REA's TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills) Crash Course is the first book of its kind for the last-minute studier or anyone who wants to get a high score on this nursing school entry exam. Targeted, Focused Review - Study Only What You Need to Know Based on the Test of Essential Academic Skills exam and actual...
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The quest for cost savings in hospitals and health systems too often prompts leaders to rush to make major cuts in the largest budget line item: staffing and labor costs. Evidence shows, though, that cutting labor expenses, especially in nursing, negatively impacts both quality of care and overall profitability.
Faced with cutting costs while continuing to provide extraordinary patient care, nurses at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) decided...
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Empowering, engaging, and retaining qualified nurses are critical healthcare priorities. Why? Nurse retention is directly correlated to healthcare outcomes, and nurse turnover has a negative, multidimensional effect on healthcare organizations. Turnover affects job satisfaction among clinical nurses, which leads to burnout, making it harder for them to provide safe patient care and achieve overall organizational initiatives. Further, the high costs...
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Este libro recopila una serie de aspectos esenciales para proporcionar cuidado a personas en estado crítico de salud en la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI). Se basa en una investigación exhaustiva relacionada con la construcción del Modelo de Cuidado de Enfermería HANC, así como en el desarrollo académico de las autoras en el ámbito de la atención crítica.
La obra consta de 7 capítulos que abordan aspectos clave para comprender el significado...
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Features such as Tip and Communication Coach boxes supplement the question and answer format of the book and provide "real world" stories. • Each chapter includes FAQs and ends with a "Take-Away Tips" summary. Topics include building relationships; speaking skills; writing reports, memos, and articles; how to run effective meetings, how to and how not to use social media, and cross-cultural communication. Nurse examples will resonate with readers....
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This book will help nurses to strategically get through the job search process, so they can come out on top. This book addresses nurses: whether brand-new, mid-career, or approaching retirement. This is a reference guide to develop the employment prospects of any nurse who is struggling to find his or her professional direction. Landing Your Perfect Nursing Job is full of tips, tricks, worksheets, checklists, sample cover letters and resumes, scripts...
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Esta obra, resultado de la experiencia académica de más de 20 años del Programa de Enfermería de la Universidad del Norte, contiene valiosa información que permitirá a estudiantes de Enfermería, así como a enfermeros en ejercicio y administradores de instituciones prestadoras de servicios de salud, unificar criterios respecto al proceso de atención y el cuidado de los pacientes en forma lógica, racional y humanística. Cada capítulo contiene...
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Dimensional Analysis for Nursing Students will help you understand why and how dimensional analysis is applied to medication calculations. This book has the "What You Need To Know" and more. There are explanations, examples, and practice problems for PO(By Mouth), Injections, and Flow Rates. It's colorful, informative, and fun!
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Nurse staffing is the foundation for excellent patient care and outcomes. Decades of research on hospital staffing and patient outcomes has given a clear message: Safe Staffing Saves Lives. However, there is no magic bullet for solving staffing issues. Nurse managers and leaders have struggled to find a method to staffing over the years, causing turnover and a lack in patient and staff satisfaction. The Nurse Manager's Guide to Innovative Staffing,...
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This book discusses the importance of nurse-led care at the bedside and how to achieve a professional practice model that allows for such leadership growth, in connection with the recommendations from the Future of Nursing Report. It will provide key background and how-to information about the important leadership roles that nurses can assume at the bedside while caring or patients and families and perhaps most importantly, how to create an environment...
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What is it like to be a student nurse washing the feet of a dying patient? To be a newly graduated nurse, in charge of the Intensive Care Unit for the first time, who wonders if her mistake might have cost a life? Or to be an experienced nurse who, by her presence and care, holds a patient to this world? Poet and nurse practitioner Cortney Davis answers these questions by examining her own experiences and through them reveals a glimpse into the minds...
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This highly anticipated, fully revised second edition revisits and augments the award-winning Creating & Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education. In this comprehensive new edition, author Cynthia Clark explores the problem of incivility within nursing academe and provides practical solutions that range from ready-to-use teaching tools to principles for broad-based institutional change. She further explores the costs and consequences of incivility,...
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The healthcare workforce and landscape continues to evolve with the ongoing education systems forming in foreign countries and immigration and foreign employment continuing to grow in the United States. Every heath care provider and patient is challenged with cultural competency and acceptance on a daily basis. Often times our own prejudices and beliefs have great potential to interfere with effective health care interactions when what is truly important...
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IF WE FIND OURSELVES WITH A DESIRE THAT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD CAN SATISFY, THE MOST PROBABLE EXPLANATION IS THAT WE WERE MADE FOR ANOTHER WORLD.
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As a real estate mogul, Stevie Price has always filled her life with expensive cars, boats, and trips around the world. Despite the wealth and prestige this has brought her, it has also left a void in her heart. Now in the twilight of her life, the key to true happiness seemed forever...
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Focusing on mental – as well as physical – aspects of patient healing and employee care, this book helps health care leaders and organizations recognize not only the symptoms of illness but the root causes, providing an integrative approach and holistic model to help hospitals and other health care organizations transform.
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School nurses serve on the front lines of the everyday struggle for our childrens health, yet they are often perceived as little more than glorified dispensers of bandages. This false perception, held by many parents, officials, and administrators, does a serious disservice to this dedicated group of health professionals.Angels in Disguise tells the oral history of school nursing through the eyes, ears, and hearts of school nurses serving throughout...
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Nurses work long hours, deal with difficult patients, and their job gets messy. So why do so many men and women enter the profession? That question is answered in Nursing Is Caring, which highlights the experiences of Beverly Wheelers former students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas School of Nursing. The students were asked to write a short paper about a patient they had taken care of since entering nursing school...
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Critical Conversations in Healthcare, Second Edition, provides scripts and scenarios to facilitate better, more effective communication in healthcare settings. Chapters feature do's and don'ts, reflective questions, and practical tools to help you improve your on-the-job interactions. Whether you are a new nurse at the bedside or the CEO of a major healthcare facility, this fully revised second edition will show you how to:
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