This is a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the ethical issues that arise in long-term care. The first two chapters set the stage by exploring the pre-nursing home experiences of families living with dementia and, in contrast, how residents and family members experience life in the nursing home. The following chapters contain detailed hypothetical cases that include questions, possible actions, and insightful commentary to illustrate practical approaches to understanding ethical everyd...
Study Guide for the Core Curriculum for Oncology Nursing
by Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), Claudette G. Varricchio, and Patricia F. Jassak
This companion to "ONS: Core Curriculum for Oncology Nursing" contains hundreds of practice questions that help nurses review for certification and evaluate their mastery of vital oncology nursing practices and skills!
Becky Jackson's family has been managing the hospital in far-flung Morgan's Reach for three generations. When Becky's husband is tragically lost at war, she and her young son Danny must leave the city and return to her birthplace to start over. But for all its charm, Morgan's Reach is a divided community, where blood is thicker than water and grudges run deep. So when a mysterious stranger appears outside the town and Danny begins to act strangely, it is not only Becky's newfound stability that'...
Swearingen's All-in-One Nursing Care Planning Resource
by Julie S Snyder and Christine Sump
The first and only combined text/workbook training program to provide comprehensive telephone triage as well as protocol development. Written in direct, "how-to" style, it sets forth guidelines for interview and documentation skills, as well as medico-legal aspects. All of the essentail guidlines and instructions are here for telephone triage that is confident, refined, and precise. ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Audiotape ISBN: 0-8273-5636-6
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house-a farmer's stone cottage-on "a small acre" of land. Mary assumed duties as the island's district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the enchanted years she and her fam...
Vital signs of hope and humanity They are the unsung heroes of health care, putting their own lives at risk to provide support and comfort to those who need it most. Registered nurse Michael Brown has interviewed over fifty practicing nurses, spanning forty-one states and most nursing specialties. In Nurses: The Human Touch, he takes you to the front lines of his profession, where split-second, life-and-death decisions are made every day. You’ll experience firsthand the combatlike tension of a...
When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse’s training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later – one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses. For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience. Against a backdrop of ongoing rationing and poverty, she saw for the first time the horrors of...
Mary Zaia's Thank You for Caring: A Celebration of Nurses, Doctors, and Other Health-Care Heroes helps you show your support and gratitude for those who give so much. We depend upon the dedication of health-care providers to care for us and our loved ones at some of our most vulnerable times. One of the best gifts we can give in return: recognition of the challenging conditions they face so gracefully each day and support for the special calling to service they have answered. With this collect...
This book has been written for those who must work with and give care to the dying. Our discussion is not simple narrative or description; it is a -rendition of reality, - informed by a rather densely woven and fairly abstract theoretical scheme. This scheme evolved gradually during the course of our research. The second audience for this volume is social scientists who are less interested in dying than they are in useful substantive theory. Our central concern is with the temporal aspects of wo...
FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds from sales go to NHS Charities Together"What shines through with all the stories is a deep affection for the NHS."Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm Founded on the concept of providing healthcare to rich and poor alike, the National Health Service (NHS) has been at the heart of our everyday experiences of life and death since 1948, and has been lived by millions.From Joan Meredith, who stood on street corners in the freezing...
Named a 2012 PROSE Award Honorable Mention in the Nursing & Allied Health Sciences Category! Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title! This is an excellent resource for nurses to learn about the various religious beliefs and practices and ways to use this information therapeutically to enhance patient care. The consistent format of each chapter also helps readers compare and contrast the various religions. This is a must-have for any bedside nurse.Score: 97, 5 Stars--Doody's Medical Reviews...