The brilliantly irreverent newspaperman and dedicated debunker sketches his own life in a work drawn from three previously released autobiographical tomes

This classic work on the construction of nursing theory reflects the tremendous growth in nursing theory in the past 15 years. As in its first edition, the book provides conceptual tools for understanding the world of nursing in theoretical terms. It grapples with the question: Why is nursing concerned with theroy? The purpose of the book is to understand how conceptualizations and theoretical statements are developed and refined in nursing. Coverage includes basic terminology in theoretical thinking, principles of conceptual analysis, presentation of conceptual domains in nursing, and a systematic framework for theoretical analysis. Graduate students will find this a core resource.

Product Description: A comprehensive, authoritative, and practical approach to this important nursing responsibility. Presents a clear discussion of the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient education programs. Emphasis throughout the text is on a family and community perspective...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1952 by a towering figure in nursing history, this book stresses the then novel theory of interpersonal relations as it was relevant to the work of nurses. Her framework suggested that interaction phenomena that occur during patient-nurse relationships have qualitative impact on patient outcomes...read more

Product Description: Here's a practical guide for nurses in helping patients make a transition from one care setting to another. Focuses on DRGs and the critical need for planning and teamwork resulting from early discharge. Provides checklist to help ensure continuity of care, as it relates to health promotion, recuperation, short- and long-term rehabilitation, chronic disease, institutional care, and terminal illness...read more

Product Description: A practical guide to the many simple things that can be done to help children with cerebral palsy grow and develop in the best possible way. Addressed to the mid-level rehabilitation worker, the manual describes training activities, to be performed with the assistance of family members, that promote the child's mobility, self-care, and independence...read more

Many have the capacity to care but lack the knowledge and skills to do so. Knowledge to Care provides the knowledge base from which the necessary skills and awareness can be developed, enabling carers to gain confidence and understanding. It is written for health care assistants and those involved in caring in hospitals, residential homes, the community or even looking after relatives.

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Product Description: This invaluable book is renowned for its fully worked examples and numerous applications. Concepts are presented either graphically, analytically, or numerically (sometimes using more than one approach) depending on which seems the most appropriate to make the material clear and easy to understand...read more

Product Description: Contains 43 articles on the teaching of writing, a critical thinking section, an appendix of articles on writing with a computer, and a bibliography for further reading.

Product Description: Translation of Tucker: Patient Care Standards, 6e

Product Description: This is a book nurse managers and all managers throughout the hospital should be reading! It provides an overview of how to create the inter disciplinary team management and shared values essential to effective restructuring. It also contains valuable advice on staffing plans, man agement challenges and solutions, quality control issues, lessons lear ned and pitfalls to avoid, and a host of other special considerations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Timeless Face is a revolutionary approach to facial toning, one that enhances your face's appearance while it contributes to your inner tranquility and well-being.Incorporating the time-honored techniques of Chinese face reading to identify what causes facial features to develop as we age, Ellae Elinwood demonstrates that it is simply not a fact of life that a forehead has to wrinkle, a mouth has to sag, and they eyes have to become baggy...read more