Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Nursing - Home & Community Care

This is an excellent resource for those caring for patients with MS. In addition to nurses, I could easily recommend this book to other physicians and, perhaps, even to patients." Score: 91, 4 stars

--Doody's

This book represents the most current information on the care of the MS patient√n.This will be an unparalleled resource for all nurses caring for MS patients and families.

Among the many responsibilities of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) nurse, perhaps the most important is to help patients...

In "Stop Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Before It Starts," Debra Savage speaks not only to caregivers and receivers, but also to the families, spouses, and children of nursing home patients. She addresses the growing phenomenon of abuse and neglect in nursing homes across the United States-and what families can do to prevent it.

Savage's mission is to help others become informed family advocates-to help prevent our loved ones and family members from becoming victims of abuse or neglect, while others turn their backs and do or say nothing. She aims to help other families who have loved...

In "Stop Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Before It Starts," Debra Savage speaks not only to caregivers and receivers, but also to the families, spouses, and children of nursing home patients. She addresses the growing phenomenon of abuse and neglect in nursing homes across the United States-and what families can do to prevent it.

Savage's mission is to help others become informed family advocates-to help prevent our loved ones and family members from becoming victims of abuse or neglect, while others turn their backs and do or say nothing. She aims to help other families who have loved...

Accelerate your transition to nursing success

• Excel in your senior nursing practicum
• Pass the NCLEX-RN^(R)
• Flourish in your new nursing career

Rely on this portable reference to quickly find the crucial information you need to make an easy transition to a rewarding nursing career.

A streamlined, outline format, case studies, clinical alerts, and quick-reference tables ensure you easily master the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to succeed as an RN.

Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse's role - both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the nurse's role and promoting evidence-based practice.

Drawing on empirical research and discussing existing theories of health promotion and of nursing, Stewart Piper identifies three principal approaches:

• The Nurse as Behaviour Change Agent
• The Nurse as...