Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Nursing - Fundamentals & Skills

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title

The trend toward patient self-management (PSM) of chronic disease is accelerating at a rapid pace along with the evolution of home-based or mobile technologies to support this care. Yet the development of self-management practice standards and advanced practice nursing support has been haphazard. This book fills a glaring void by addressing, against a backdrop of current best practices in PSM, such questions as: What are appropriate standards of safety in PSM? How can we be assured those standards are met? How does one reach a good prognosis...

Master care planning with concept maps

A concept map is an easy-to-construct, visual tool that helps you organize your assessment data, identify patient problems, determine the appropriate nursing diagnoses and interventions, and assess the outcomes.

Nursing Concept Care Maps for Providing Safe Patient Care presents 200 sample care maps covering the diseases and disorders you'll encounter most often in clinical practice. They'll also help you develop the critical-thinking skills you need to plan...

One of the most complete nursing education learning systems available, Virtual Clinical Excursions is an online program that guides you through a virtual hospital where the patients are real and their conditions are constantly changing. By immersing students in a realistic, yet safe, nursing environment, VCE simulates the average clinical rotation by allowing users to conduct a complete assessment of a patient and set priorities for care, collect information, analyze and interpret data, prepare and administer medications, and reach conclusions about complex problems. Each lesson has a...