Nursing Resources

Dr. Nurse probes their history to examine major changes that have taken place in American health care in the second half of the twentieth century. The book examines the major changes in nursing education and the place of nursing in the post-war research university, revealing how federal and state health and higher education policies shaped education within health professions after World War II.

Understanding, critiquing and using research is a key requirement of students studying nursing and healthcare. This book will equip you with the skills you need to understand research and use it in your practice and academic assignments.

This guide shares best practice for delivering mental health support and treatment digitally. Part One considers aspects relevant to all digital mental health interventions, such as therapeutic alliance, risk, safeguarding, working with complexity, and what people are looking for from digital support. Part Two focuses on specific therapies and models, including CBT, ACT, DBT, CFT, CAT, EMDR, systemic practitioners as well as mindfulness and VR, and how they can be adapted for digital delivery.

This pivotal resource—the first written specifically for nurses—focuses on the unique health needs and inequities affecting LGBTQ+ patients and discusses how to provide them with safe, respectful, and holistic care.

This book develops your ability to manage the care of critically and acutely ill patients, and recognize and deal with the early signs of deterioration. Taking a practical real-life approach to care, each chapter focuses on a patient with a particular issue, from chest pain to sepsis, considering the primary symptoms before working through the knowledge and skills needed to care for that patient.

Self-Care for New and Student Nurses presents self-care practices that must be learned and used consistently and in multiple settings to prepare new nurses for the clinical stressors to come. Filled with methods, tips, and exercises, this will book will guide new and student nurses to prioritize their own health needs in order to avoid burnout and premature exit from the nursing profession.

The Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 4th Edition, is an essential document for every nurse practicing in the United States. The scope of practice statement answers the who, what, when, where, how, and why questions of nursing. The standards provide authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all registered nurses are expected to competently perform, regardless of role, population, specialty, and setting. Each standard is accompanied by detailed competencies for the three practice levels.

This book, which follows the traditions of implementation science and participatory health research, provides step-by-step instructions to practitioners for conducting research in their professional practice in social work, nursing, or other health profession. With the aid of practical examples and techniques, the authors apply the principles of practitioner research to various professional settings.

The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician's impassioned call for a more expansive, nuanced view of one of society's most intractable challenges.

Dr. John Rhodes, an immunologist with firsthand experience developing vaccines, unravels the mystery of how vaccines re designed, tested, and produced at scale for global deployment. ...describes in everyday language how the immune system evolved to combat infection, how mutated viruses evade our defenses, and how vaccines do their work...[and] how discoveries in the fight against COVID-19, such as the recent breakthrough in the development of nucleic acid vaccines, never before used in humans, are also empowering scientists to combat future threats to global health.