Product Description: Why is care planning important? How can you use care planning effectively in your own practice?Being able to plan the care of patients is one of most important aspects of a nurse’s role. Using an interactive approach, this book explores the reasons why care planning is so important and explains the theory behind the practice, providing a step-by-step guide to assessing patients, diagnosing problems, planning goals and interventions, and evaluating progress...read more

Product Description: Much more than just a calendar, Saunders Student Nurse Planner, 2012-2013 will quickly become your lifeline with its wealth of organizational tools, clinical information, and helpful nursing school guidance all within one compact and versatile resource...read more

Product Description: "Care Planning in Children and Young People's Nursing" addresses a selection of the most common concerns that arise when planning care for infants, children and young people within the hospital and community setting. Clear and detailed, this text reflects both the uniqueness and diversity of contemporary children's nursing and utilizes images and case studies to provide a holistic insight into the practice of care planning through the reporting of best available evidence and current research, policy and education...read more

Product Description: Care planning and delivery are essential parts of everyday practice for all mental health practitioners. This new edition of Care Planning in Mental Health: Promoting Recovery moves away from a professionally-oriented model of care planning towards the active promotion of the personal narrative as being central to planning effective mental health care...read more

Updated and expanded, the 2nd edition of this text presents clear-cut, "how-to" instructions on properly evaluating vital signs, treating patients who require special equipment or care, and much more. Well-illustrated techniques and procedures demonstrate positioning and draping the patient, patient transfer, and ambulation activities, with rationales and physiologic principles that explain why techniques are used. It emphasizes a basic approach and straightforward clinical applications related to patient care.APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice and a Normative Model of Physical Therapist Education, defines the terms "assessment" and "evaluation" to clarify how the terms are used throughout the book.An overview of the impairment/disability model found in the APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice is included.The discussion of inter-professional collaboration has been expanded to include the roles of the PT and PTA in the health care team.Suggestions are incorporated for an evaluation of the home and workplace of a person with a disability.Problem-solving strategies help the reader address real-world situations.Assessment of pain as a component of vital sign patterns is now included in the chapter on vital sign assessment (Chapter 3).Basic concepts related to cultural diversity and assessment of the environment for a person with a disability help readers develop a sense of cultural sensitivity and awareness in caring for patients with disabilities.A self-study/discussion section at the end of each chapter encourages readers to think about how they would handle real-life situations.New photographs have been added related to wheelchair, lifting, bed mobility, lymphedema, and functional activities. Content has been reorganized to follow the logical sequence of patient care in a clinical environment.New boxes, tables, and procedures in several chapters reinforce key information.A new chapter on infection control (Chapter 2) shows how diseases can be controlled by hand washing techniques, isolation precautions, and application and removal of protective garments.A new chapter on basic wound care and specialized interventions (Chapter 11) includes principles and techniques related to lymphedema management and cardiopulmonary physical therapy.

Product Description: Delmar's Medical-Surgical Nursing Care Plans will help you develop specific and effective nursing care plans for your adult patients with the most commonly presented disorders. Each care plan includes information to guide you in creating comprehensive individualized nursing care plans based on solid scientific understanding of the condition and how it affects each of the patient's body systems...read more

Product Description: This book provides essential knowledge for creating treatment plans for adult dental patients. Treatment planning strategies are presented to help with balancing the ideal with the practical, with emphasis placed on the central role of the patient - whose needs should drive the treatment planning process...read more

Product Description: The Speech-Language Pathology Treatment Planner provides allthe elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plansthat satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, and third-partypayors. This book helps both the novice and expert speech-language pathologistto identify functional and meaningful strategies for improving a client's communication skills...read more

Product Description: Utilizing the methodology of the bestselling PracticePlanners series, The Complete Depression Treatment and Homework Planner provides an all-in-one resource for treating clinical depression—savingtime and paperwork while allowing you the freedom to develop established andproven treatment plans for adults, children, adolescents, and other subgroupsand populations...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive text that illustrates how to effectively integrate all the components of the nursing process into an individualized care plan for each patient. Students are shown how to use the medical diagnosis to trace the pathophysiological sequencing of events, how to create a pathoflow diagram and how the diagram relates to the patient's health history and physical assessment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Every practice has operational strengths and weaknesses. The three bo oks will equip the reader with tools and techniques to assess practice operations, identify problems and develop action plans to make improv ements.

Product Description: This workbook was designed as a companion to the textbook Dysphagia Assessment and Treatment Planning, Third Edition by Rebecca Leonard and Katherine Kendall. Based on Dr. Barkmeier-Kraemer's 14 years of experience teaching and training graduate students and colleagues in the area of dysphagia, several different activities were formulated to facilitate understanding and engagement with each chapter in the associated textbook...read more

Product Description: One response to the current crisis in medicine -- indicated by large variations in practice and skyrocketing costs -- has been a call for the rationalizing of medical practice through decision-support techniques. These tools, which include protocols, decision analysis, and expert systems, have generated much debate...read more

Product Description: This text provides a comprehensive look at the dental hygiene process and encourages the use of critical thinking. Quality, individualized client care developed through assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation are emphasized. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text is based on an long introduction which the National Institute of Mental Health asked the author to contribute for "The Course of Life: Psychoanalytical Contributions Toward Understanding Personality Development". It places Erikson's famous theories - the identity crisis, the interdependence of history and life history, the life cycle, and the concept that maturity is not the end of psychological growth - in their historical and autobiographical contexts...read more

Product Description: Sponsored by the Picker/Commonwealth Program for Patient-Centered CareIn this comprehensive, research-based look at the experiences and needs of patients, the authors explore models of care that can make hospitalization more humane...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Psychiatric Case Formulations" is a practical, hands-on manual that presents the nuts and bolts of writing concise case formulations from four different practice orientations: psychodynamic, biological, behavioural and biopsychosocial...read more

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