Product Description: FACILITATES WRITING SUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS OF SUBSTANCE, CLARITY, AND CONVICTION With an in-depth focus on writing with substance, clarity, and conviction, this comprehensive resource takes the reader step by step through the entire process of writing and submitting a successful proposal...read more

Product Description: Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Support for this project was provided in part by a conference grant from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and by the Center for Research on Preventing and Managing Chronic Illness in Vulnerable People at the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on the authors experience in working with nursing faculty and students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in teaching seminars and workshops throughout the United States, this guide can help nurses communicate their research to colleagues in education, research, and practice...read more

Product Description: This book is a guide to understanding, preventing and redirecting difficult behaviors associated with dementia. It presents a framework for assessing behaviors and creating successful individualized approaches, which are designed to reduce or eliminate the use of physical restraints and inappropriate psychoactive medications...read more

Product Description: The "Key Aspects" books, each of which has won a Book-of-the-Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing, are designed to move the ideas and findings of nursing research into the practice setting. Each volume distills dozens of studies into a readable, jargon-free format with immediate relevance to nursing practice, and includes suggestions for implementation...read more

Product Description: This book assesses the importance of autonomy to quality of life in long-term care facilities. What is autonomy and what does it mean in the context of physically and/or cognitively impaired elders? What is the effect of nursing home financing and federal regulations? How does the traditional medical model, which casts residents as "patients" affect autonomy? How does the physical environment make a difference? The first half of the book addresses these conceptual issues; the second half describes six successful models of long-term care that provide a more meaningful quality of life through promoting autonomy...read more

Product Description: The "Key Aspects" books, each of which has won a Book-of-the-Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing, are designed to move the ideas and findings of nursing research into the practice setting. Each volume distills dozens of studies into a readable, jargon-free format with immediate relevance to nursing practice, and includes suggestions for implementation...read more

Product Description: The Key Aspects books, each of which has won a Book-of-the-Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing, are designed to move the ideas and findings of nursing research into the practice setting. Each volume distills dozens of studies into a readable, jargon-free format with immediate relevance to nursing practice, and includes suggestions for implementation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The "Key Aspects" books, each of which has won a Book-of-the-Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing, are designed to move the ideas and findings of nursing research into the practice setting. Each volume distills dozens of studies into a readable, jargon-free format with immediate relevance to nursing practice, and includes suggestions for implementation...read more

Product Description: The Key Aspects books, each of which has won a Book-of-the-Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing, are designed to move the ideas and findings of nursing research into the practice setting. Each volume distills dozens of studies into a readable, jargon-free format with immediate relevance to nursing practice, and includes suggestions for implementation...read more