Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Nursing Home Care

This landmark annual review has provided nearly three decades of knowledge, insight, and research on topics critical to nurses everywhere.

The purpose of this annual review is to critically examine the full gamut of literature on key topics in nursing practice, including nursing theory, care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.

Past volumes of Annual Review of Nursing Research have addressed critical issues such as:

• Chronic illness
• Geriatrics
• Alcohol abuse
• Patient safety
• Rural...

This innovative case study review for community health nursing students features a unique format that facilitates active learning through the use of unfolding case studies. Unlike other content review books, it builds content right into vivid case studies to foster greater retention of the material. Additionally, because these case studies evolve over time, they mimic real-life situations and help students to develop critical thinking and organizational skills.

The Review features, in great depth, the spectrum of requisite community health nursing information with the inclusion of...

"If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renee Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the sources of the profound sense of unease she found at the place she calls "The Franklin Nursing Home."

For fourteen months Shield participated in life at a nursing home in the northeastern United States. She got to know many of the people associated with the home doctors, nurses, custodians, kitchen workers, administrators,...

Everyday caregiving is indeed uncharted territory and happens to be one of the toughest jobs that there can and will ever be. Care giving can suddenly become the responsibility for any one at any age without notice. In order to be an effective person and not burn out, one must take the necessary steps to keep life balanced in terms of what one as a human being can and cannot do, but yet still pursue individual self -worth. After several years as a full time caregiver, I have used these tips to fixate my life in becoming both a doctoral candidate as well as maintaining a successful ministry...