Throughout this book we have attemped to explain logically the reasons for observations and clinical actions. Advanced nursing activities are discussed in detail. Health maintenance activities, preventive care and clinical care (including rehabilitation and follow-up care, of course) of patients and their significant others is heavily emphasized.
The role of the professional nurse in drug therapy is complex and requires expert knowledge and skills. The role is one of increasing responsibility and acountability. Nurses today require increased knowledge regarding pharmacology and related nursing care so that individual drug theraphy regiments can be planned in collaboration with patients and other health team members so that patients can …
Health is a concept central to the discipline of nursing, as well as to other disciplines involved in rendering care. An understanding of health gives direction to nrsing practice, assists with formulating a clear understanding of the definition of nursing, and gives structure to the ongoing development of the scholarly base for nursing science.
Our main goal in writing this book was to produce a concise text on current radiologic imaging for senior medical students and all residents interested in radiology. After the introductory chapters, the book follows an organ-system approach. Applicable imaging techniques and their use and indication are included in each organ-related chapter. Also present are question-oriented exercises that co…
The overall purpose of this edition of Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice, as with the previous editions, is to promote rational, safe, and effective drug therapy. The auther strongly believes that the study of drugs is improtant to nurses primarily in relation to drug effects on people. Thus, safe and effective drug therapy requies knowledge abaut both the drug and the pers…
This manual is a joint effort between the editorial staff of Facts and Comparisons an the editor/nursing auther. Its aim is to assemble and present the comprehensive, up-to-date drug information --both clinical pharmacology and nursing implications-- required by today's nurses. The manual contains three main divisions: the product identification guide, the drug monographs, and the appendixes.
Podiatric public health can be broadly defined as that specialty and specialarea of podiatric practice in the profession of podiatric medicine that is concerned with the science and art of preventing and controlling disorders, diseases, and malfunctions of the human foot and promoting podiatric public health through organized community efforts. It is that element of podiatric practice which ser…
This text, dramatically revised in its 2nd edition, is recognized for its comprehensiveness, its broad coverage of nursing practice concepts, and the strength of its clinical applications. It provides the reader with a current, clear perspective on the importance of a distributive approach to health care. It focuses on the "hows", "whys", and "wherefores", of the systems approach, considered by…
Nursing in the community can be summarized briefly as a comprehensive text for all nurses who work in the community and all nurses who work in the community nursing roles. But the text does more, since it recognizes that the trading.
This concise, systematic survey of comparative neuroanatomy reconstructs the probable evalutionary sequence by identifying neuroanatomical features common to all vertebrate species, as well as divergent patterns of cerebral organization. Applications to human problems are made as often as possible, and while analysis is based on structure, the chapters are organized by functional units.