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Provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to practice nursing safely as LPN/LVNs. Fully updated to reflect current medical and nursing practice, this Eleventh Edition of Textbook of Basic Nursing covers all areas of the curriculum, including Anatomy & Physiology, Fundamentals, Skills, Adult Health, Growth and Development, Mental Health, Maternity and Pediatrics, and Geriatric Considerations. Based on the NCLEX-PN framework, this engaging and comprehensive text provides everything students need to succeed, including short chapters with easy-to-understand content, striking photos and illustrations that bring the content to life, and a wide range of practice-oriented, mastery-focused learning tools both in the book and online, and an available hands-on workbook. Key benefits include: *Concept Mastery Alerts use data from prepU quizzing to highlight common misconceptions and difficult-to-understand material.*Nursing Alerts ensure that students obtain the critical information they need to safely practice nursing as LPN/LVNs and succeed on the NCLEX-PN.*NCLEX Alerts highlight critical NCLEX-relevant content in each key area.* In Practice: Nursing Care Plans present a case study using NANDA terminology and the Nursing Process to illustrate how to develop a care plan.*Special Considerations highlight key culture, lifespan, homecare, or nutrition information.*In Practice: Nursing Procedures present step-by-step instructions with full-color illustrations and rationales.*In Practice: Nursing Care Guidelines contain summaries of important concepts, teaching, skills performance, or nursing considerations.*In Practice: Educating the Client boxes highlight important teaching concepts.*In Practice: Data Gathering in Nursing summarizes the key information needed in gathering data for nursing observations.*In Practice: Nursing Process boxes use the steps of the nursing process to guide the LPN/LVN in effective data collection.*In Practice: Important Medications boxes summarize common medications used in treating specific conditions, diseases, and disorders.

Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare is an invaluable resource for those who carry out qualitative research in the healthcare arena. It is intended to assist: * Professionals and academics in the healthcare field who undertake or teach research in clinical or educational settings; * Postgraduates who are undertaking qualitative research and want to revise qualitative research approaches and procedures before going on to more specialist texts; and * Undergraduates in their last year who wish to learn about qualitative perspectives or carry out a project using these approaches. Fully updated from the earlier editions by Holloway and Wheeler, it reflects recent developments in nursing research. This new edition provides clear explanations of abstract ideas in qualitative research as well as practical procedures. Structured into four sections, the book looks at the initial stages, methods of data collection, qualitative approaches and analysis of collected data. It also contains a chapter on writing up and publishing qualitative research. With applied and practical examples throughout, Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare is essential reading for those who are looking for a comprehensive introduction to qualitative research.

Approaching motor development as the study of change, Lifelong Motor Development, 7th Edition, offers the most up-to-date, comprehensive, research-based coverage of motor behavior across the life span available today. Rather than introducing a single theory, the book covers the most prominent theories and views that underscore our understanding of change in motor development to help students truly understand the multicausal and complex nature of motor development across the lifespan. Now in vibrant full color, the 7th Edition offers much that is new, including new content that reflects the latest research, new pedagogy, new illustrations, and an enhanced suite of resources that help students succeed and ensure easy integration into the classroom.

Exploring the full psychiatric nursing curriculum, from theoretical foundations to interventions for commonly encountered disorders, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, 7th Edition provides a practical focus on the skills and concepts students need for successful practice. Throughout the book, students have opportunities to learn specific nursing interventions, build therapeutic communication skills, and apply content within the framework of the nursing process. A study guide built into every chapter reinforces student learning and builds critical reasoning skills. The Seventh Edition is updated with features that aim to support students in their learning of important concepts. This edition incorporates "Concept Mastery Alerts" that use data from the adaptive quizzing software PrepU, to help students identify challenging and confusing concepts. This edition also integrates content from Lippincott Theory to Practice Video Series, helping students apply content and retain it more effectively. In addition, the Seventh Edition is supported by online tools that cultivate deeper understanding and increased competency, and is also available for purchase with PrepU's adaptive quizzing and DocuCare, educational electronic health record software.

This companion Study Guide for Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing reinforces key concepts covered in the textbook and includes a variety of question types and exercises that make it easy to remember essential information and build critical-thinking skills. Each chapter is broken down into three sections: * Section I: Assessing Your Understanding presents a variety of labeling, sequencing, matching, short-answer, true and false, and fill-in-the-blank questions to test comprehension of key concepts. * Section II: Applying Your Knowledge consists of case studies and exercises to enhance critical-thinking skills. * Section III: Practicing for NCLEX helps students prepare for the exam with a variety of NCLEX-style review questions.

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From the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series comes a wide-ranging and succinct overview of the key concepts of emergency care. Emergency Nursing at a Glance uses the unique and highly visual at a Glance format to convey vital information quickly and efficiently, ensuring that nursing students have access to all the important topics they need for an emergency care placement. This highly visual, easy-to-read guide is the ideal companion for anyone entering fields involving urgent or unscheduled care. Includes all aspects of emergency care, including trauma, minor injury, triage processes, patient assessment, common emergency presentations, as well as legal, ethical and professional issues. Covers care of adults, children, and those with learning disabilities and mental health conditions Presented in the bestselling at a Glance format, with superb illustrations and a concise approach Emergency Nursing at a Glance is an invaluable resource for nursing students, newly qualified nurses and other healthcare professionals working in emergency departments, urgent care centres, minor injury units and walk-in centres.

Now with a new design, the ever popular Skills for Midwifery Practice continues to provide the ideal level of instruction and guidance for a wide range of clinical skills, each one of which is presented in a unique, template format to help make learning easy. Step-by-step guidance is given on a range of topics including abdominal examination, taking of maternal and neonatal vital signs, infection control, mother and baby hygiene, elimination and drug administration. Childbearing and intrapartum skills are also extensively covered as are neonatal assessment and nutrition, principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy, moving and handling, wound management and CPR. Skills for Midwifery Practice is invaluable to midwives in training, qualified midwives returning to practice, as well as other members of the obstetric healthcare team.

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Medical-Surgical Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for nursing and healthcare students from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series. This easy-to-read, accessible guide brings together all the key principles of caring for patients with medical and surgical needs. Highly visual, each topic is covered in one two-page spread, making it easy to quickly read up on key information and grasp the essentials of the key aspects of caring for the adult patient. * A clear and accessible foundation of the need to know aspects of medicine and surgery for nurses * Takes a systems approach exploring nursing care of key medical and surgical conditions and disorders * Covers assessment, nutrition, pain, infection control * Supported by a companion website with over 300 interactive multiple choice questions * Provides need-to-know information in a quick-reference format * Written from a UK perspective, with application to clinical practice * A companion website is available at www.ataglanceseries.com/nursing/medsurg featuring interactive multiple choice questions Medical-Surgical Nursing at a Glance is ideal for nursing students looking for a clear and visual summary of care of the adult patient.

This innovative new textbook covers a range of clinical situations a nurse may encounter in their professional career, providing useful insights into challenging patient - and colleague - encounters. Written by a team of educators and clinicians with considerable expertise in their respective fields, the book focuses on the application of psychology in key areas of nursing (child, adult, older people, learning disabilities, mental health) providing practical approaches and techniques that nurses can use in their daily practice with patients. It includes several features to support teaching and learning: * Clearly defined learning outcomes for each chapter * Examples throughout to illustrate the application of psychology * Case studies following a student nurse through different placements and experiences during her nurse training * Structured activities and questions for discussion to encourage reflection on practice * Annotated suggestions for further reading With nurses increasingly being held to public and professional account, the importance of understanding a clinical encounter, in particular the psychological aspects of it together with developing a skillset to respond to patients, has never been greater. This accessible and entertaining book will be indispensable reading for nurses at undergraduate and graduate level, particularly those on the pre-registration nursing diploma and Bsc (Hons) in Nursing.