Reviewing Research Evidence for Nursing Practice Edited by Christine Webb, and Brenda Roe Softcover - 240 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# JW-NUR4 $ 66.30 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9781405144230

• uses examples of systematic reviews in specialist nursing practice
• includes qualitative, quantitative and integrative reviews
• addresses systematic reviews, meta-analysis, metasynthesis, and metastudy
• explores the use of systematic reviews in practice development.

Lymphoedema Care by Mary Woods Softcover - 288 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# JW-NUR5 $ 70.85 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9781405146289

• highlights the importance of identifying risk factors for lymphoedema
• promotes care of the ‘at risk’ limb in order to minimise problematic swelling
• includes a framework for assessment
• promotes effective care
• enables nurses to identify complications and recognise the need for referral
• includes case studies

Older People and Mental Health Nursing, A Handbook of Care Edited by Rebecca Neno, Barry Aveyard, and Hazel Heath Softcover - 304 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# JW-NUR6 $ 62.70 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9781405151696

• offers a practical evidence-based guide to the care of older people with mental health conditions
• includes thought provoking practice examples throughout
• contains guidelines for nursing practice and therapeutic interventions
• includes case studies and reflective scenarios
• written by experts in the field.

Nurse's Drug Handbook 2008 Softcover - 1,178 pages Shipped in 10 days Cat.# BL-1B $ 95.00 BUY Sample Page (pdf)

Practical, easy-to-use, up-to-date, and more cost-effective than any other nursing drug book, Nurse’s Drug Handbook 2008 is organized alphabetically by generic drug name to speed you to the information you need. Its concise drug entries are organized and written for fast and easy use, featuring a no-nonsense writing style that speaks your language and uses familiar terms. Further, you’ll find all the vital information you need to know before, during, and after drug administration, including patient teaching.

Mechanism of action illustrations show how drugs work at the cellular, tissue, and organ levels, and dosage adjustments help you individualize care for elderly patients, patients with renal impairment, and others with special needs. Warnings in the text highlight important facts you need to know during your care, and a comprehensive index of common trade, generic, and alternative names will speed you to any page that you need.

Every drug entry includes:

• chemical and therapeutic classes
• FDA pregnancy risk category
• controlled substance schedule, when applicable
• indications and dosages
• route, onset, peak, duration information shown as a chart
• mechanism of action (many with illustrations)
• incompatibilities
• contraindications
• interactions with drugs, foods, and activities
• adverse reactions
• nursing considerations

"Nurse's Drug Handbook 2008 will help you provide safe, effective drug therapy because of its practical, easy-to-understand, accurate, and reliable information on virtually all the drugs you're likely to administer."
Kathleen Dracup, RN, FNP, DNSc, FAAN Dean and Professor, School of Nursing University Of California, San Francisco

Nurse’s Drug Handbook 2008 also includes overviews of:

• Pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacodynamics
• Pharmacotherapeutics
• Principles of drug administration
• Drug therapy and the nursing process.
• In addition, you’ll find the following valuable appendices:
• Oral antidiabetic combinations
• Insulin preparations
• Ophthalmic drugs
• Antihistamines
• Topical drugs
• Selected antivirals
• Vitamins
• Interferons
• Formulas for calculating drug dosages and I.V. flow rates
• Equianalgesic doses for opioid agonists
• Compatibility table of drugs combined in a syringe
• Weights and equivalents
• Commonly used abbreviations

Nurse's Handbook of I.V Drugs Softcover - 840 pages Shipped in 10 days Cat.# BL-2B $ 95.00 BUY Sample Page (pdf)

Up-to-date and easy-to-use, this reference for today’s nurses gives facts on hundreds of I.V. drugs from abciximab to zoledronic acid, organized alphabetically by generic drug name. The concise drug entries are organized consistently for quick reference and familiarity, and give the vital information you need to know about each drug before, during, and after its administration.

You’ll find:

• chemical and therapeutic classes
• FDA pregnancy risk category
• controlled substance schedule
• indications and dosages (including pediatric dosages when applicable)
• route, onset, peak, and duration information, set up as a chart
• mechanism of action (many with illustrations)
• incompatibilities
• contraindications
• interactions with drugs, food, and activities (such as smoking and alcohol use)
• adverse reactions
• nursing considerations, including steps for drug reconstitution, dilution, and administration; and
• key patient-teaching points.

Drug entries also include dosage adjustment alerts for elderly patients, for patients with renal impairment, and for others with special needs.

Nurse’s Handbook of I.V. Drugs also includes the following handy reference information:

• I.V. drug therapy and the nursing process
• Overview of pharmacology
• Principles of I.V. drug administration
• Teaching your patient about I.V. drug therapy
• Key entries from the National Cancer Institute’s Common Toxicity Criteria to help you evaluate the severity of drug-related adverse reactions
• Compatibility table of drugs combined in a syringe
• Formulas for calculating parenteral drug dosages and I.V. flow rates

Nurse's Handbook of Behavioural and Mental Health Drugs Softcover - 608 pages Shipped in 10 days Cat.# BL-3B $ 95.00 BUY Sample Page (pdf)

This handbook provides accurate, timely, and reliable facts on hundreds of drugs from acetazolamide to zonisamide, organized alphabetically. Concise drug entries include:

• chemical and therapeutic classes
• FDA pregnancy risk category
• controlled substance schedule
• indications and dosages
• route, onset, steady state peak, half-life, and duration information shown as a chart
• mechanism of action (many with illustrations)
• incompatibilities
• contraindications
• interactions with drugs, food, and activities (such as smoking)
• adverse reactions
• overdose signs and symptoms and nursing interventions
• nursing considerations, including key patient-teaching points

The Nurse’s Handbook of Behavioral and Mental Health Drugs also provides:

• dosage adjustments for elderly patients, patients with renal impairment, and others with special needs;
• mechanism-of-action illustrations that enhance the detailed explanations of how drugs work at the cellular, tissue, or organ levels;
• and warnings that highlight important facts you need to know before, during, or after drug administration

Nurse's Handbook of Combination Drugs Softcover Shipped in 10 days Cat.# BL-4B $ 95.00 BUY Sample Page (pdf)

The only reference that covers two or more drugs administered simultaneously.

Using one formulation to administer two or more medications simultaneously can simplify a patient's drug regimen and even improve compliance. For the nurse, however, the convenience of combination drugs is linked with the added responsibility to provide safe, effective drug therapy and complete patient teaching about the medications.

Blanchard & Loeb Publishers Nurse's Handbook of Combination Drugs meets your nursing need for accurate, up-to-date, and easy-to- use drug information, preparing you to administer these drugs, teach your patients about them, and provide safe and effective care.

Here's what you'll find in the handbook:

• An organization that groups drugs into body system chapters and alphabetizes the entries for quick finding. In each chapter, you'll find all the combination drugs to treat that system's disorders.
• Concise drug entries that use a consistent format. Use one entry and you'll know how all the others are formatted.
• Comprehensive index listing each generic in the combination and all trade names. 

Advanced Clinical Skills for GU Nurses by Matthew Grundy-Bowers, and Jonathan Davies Softcover - 224 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# JW-NUR1 $ 59.95 BUY Published:  2006   ISBN:  9780470019603

This book has been developed to help nurses who are in nurse practitioner roles by supporting them to develop their ‘advanced practice skills’. This book is intended to build on skills and knowledge that nurses will have acquired at staff nurse level. It is intended that this book will develop skills and knowledge which until recently have been more in the medical domain, such sexual history taking and physical assessment.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements.
Dedication.
List of Contributors.
Foreword.

Chapter 1: Defining Advanced Practice
Chapter 2: Taking a Sexual History
Chapter 3: Male Genital Examination
Chapter 4: Female Genital Examination
Chapter 5: The Skin & Lymphatic System
Chapter 6: Examination of the Anus and Oral Cavity
Chapter 7: Legal Issues in Sexual Health
Chapter 8: HIV Pre- and Post- Test Discussion
Chapter 9: Health Promotion and Sexual Health
Chapter 10: Women’s Sexual Health
Chapter 11: Drugs & Pharmacology
Chapter 12: Patient Group Directions and Nurse Prescribing

Index.

Nursing Care of the Pediatrics Neurosurgery Patient by Cathy Cartwright, and Donna Wallace Hardcover - 450 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-NUR1 $153.60 BUY Published:  2007    ISBN:  9783540297031

Nursing Care of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Patient serves as a detailed reference for all nurses caring for children with neurosurgical problems. Staff nurses (and student nurses) working in clinics, PICU, pediatrics, operating rooms, post-anesthesia care unit, emergency department and radiology) will benefit from the information presented in this book. The explanations of pathophysiology, anatomy, radiodiagnostic testing and treatment options for each neurosurgical diagnosis will help them to understand the rationale behind the nursing care. Presenting symptoms and findings on neurological examination and history will enable nurses to identify normal signs.

Each chapter includes information on patient and family education and will give helpful guidelines. There is no reference available that provides this type of specific information and there has been a need within the pediatric neurosurgery community for this type of information for
years.

Contents:
Introduction. Neurological Assessment of the Neonate, Infant, Child, and Adolescent. Hydrocephalus.
Traumatic Brain Injury. Neoplasms of the Central Nervous System. Neurocutaneous Disorder (Phakomatoses). Craniosynostosis. Positional Plagiocephaly. Chiari Malformation. Spina Bifida.
Vascular Malformations (Brain and Spine). Spine. Infections. Intracranial and Intraspinal Cysts.
Intracranial Hemorrhage in the Newborn. Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy. Surgical Management of
Spasticity.

Core Review for Critical Care Nursing 6e by AACN (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses) Softcover - 192 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# EL-NUR1 $ 69.95 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9781416035923

The new edition of Core Review for Critical Care Nursing helps readers to assess and build their knowledge of the information covered in Core Curriculum for Critical Care Nursing, 6th ed. The book’s content consists of three 200-question sample examinations for certification in critical care nursing. An in-depth rationale, complete with references, is included for each question. Written under the authority of the American Association for Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), this book is an ideal study tool to facilitate preparation for critical care nursing certification.

Key Features:
1. Based on Core Curriculum for Critical Care Nursing, 6th ed.
2. Three separate sample examinations each address the complete range of important areas in critical care nursing and challenge readers’ mastery of the essential knowledge base in the specialty.
3. Answers are provided for each question, accompanied by rationales and references, to assist readers in building their knowledge.
4. Each examination mirrors the certification examination content, multiple-choice question format, and content distribution, giving readers realistic practice for the examination.

What’s New:
1. Three additional online sample examinations give users additional practice.
2. Contains a review of the synergy model, including Professional Care and Ethical Practice.
3. Contains a review of the AHRQ and JCAHO evidence-based practice guidelines that are incorporated in Core Curriculum for Critical Care Nursing, 6th ed.