1. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care (Nursing Diagnosis Handbook)

Book Description
This bestselling reference helps users make nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. It helps nurses correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. This extensively revised and updated edition presents the most up-to-date information on all 2005-2006 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses. You’ll also appreciate the handbook’s integration of both the NIC and NOC taxonomies; evidence-based nursing interventions; home care; client/family teaching; and multicultural, geriatric, and pediatric considerations. Instructor resources are available; contact your sales representative for details.

2. Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention (Nursing Care Plans)

Book Description
This compilation of care plans for the most commonly encountered clinical problems reflects the most current practice and professional standards in nursing. Written by practicing nurses for students and/or clinicians, it includes 195 nursing care plans making it the most comprehensive care plan book available! This new fifth edition focuses on evidence-based practice and covers adult lifespan and healthcare issues.

3. Pocket Companion for Physical Examination & Health Assessment (Pocket Companion)

Book Description
Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 4th edition, is a convenient and portable clinical tool for carrying out a holistic, head-to-toe assessment. This handbook is useful either as an adjunct to the Jarvis text, or as an independent primer of basic assessment skills. The Pocket Companion features all the essentials: health history points, exam steps for each body system, normal versus abnormal findings; integrated life span and transcultural considerations; and over 100 meticulously prepared color illustrations. All of this is presented in an attractive and user-friendly format that mirrors the core text. Revised and updated to match the text, the Pocket Companion is cross-referenced to the text by page number for those times when the reader needs more detailed information.

4. Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice

Book Description
Completely updated for its Eighth Edition, this full-color classic reference is the one source every nurse needs for essential patient assessment and treatment guidelines. In an easy-to-read outline format, this clinically focused guide covers all disorders and patient problems in Medical-Surgical, Maternal-Neonatal, Pediatric, and Psychiatric nursing, and includes over 150 step-by-step procedures. Each Eighth Edition chapter incorporates and identifies official guidelines that shape clinical practice. New and expanded material includes several new orthopaedic, connective tissue, infectious, and dermatologic conditions, patient safety, personal safety, culturally sensitive care, HIPAA, palliative care, advocacy for the disabled, chest physical therapy, interventional cardiology, hyperbaric therapy, neurologic findings, intracranial monitoring systems, vertebral compression fracture, immunization information, emerging infections, biological weapons preparedness, pediatric asthma guidelines, substance-related disorders, and adolescent problems. Endorsed by the Canadian Student Nurses Association. A small portion from the sale of this title is provided to the CNSA.

5. Rnotes: Nurse’s Clinical Pocket Guide

Book Info
Pocket guide provides quick reference to information needed daily by nurses. Topics include basic nursing, cultural diversity, assessment, ICU and critical care, lab values, abbreviations, terminology, ECG interpretation, and much more. Pages are waterproof, color-coded, and thumb-indexed. Flip-chart format. Wire-spiral binding.

6. Davis’s Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests–With Nursing Implications

Book Description
This practical handbook should be used by nursing students in clinical courses and by nurses in clinical settings as a quick reference. It guides the nurse in planning what needs to be assessed, monitored, treated, and taught at every stage of care, including pretest requirements, intratest procedures, and post-test care. This updated edition also will be helpful to all other healthcare professionals who need to know what nurses will do with their patients undergoing laboratory or diagnostic testing. All tests and procedures are listed in alphabetical order by their complete name for ease of location, plus the comprehensive, integrated index allows fast searches by abbreviation, synonym, disease state or condition, organ system, specimen type, or test classification.

7. Prentice Hall Nurse’s Drug Guide 2008-Retail Edition (Nursing Drug Guide)

Book Description
A standard resource for nurses, this drug guide provides safe, effective, current, and accurate drug information in a quickly accessible format. This retail edition includes the suggested list price printed on the back cover. Includes new added dosage requirements for Obese patients and those undergoing dialysis. Comprehensive and complete, all drugs are listed alphabetically by generic names for quick referral, with an index that includes both generic and trade names. Provides users withaccess to a free PDA Download of the drug guide, along with a premium website with the entire drug database online. Nursing professionals and students.

8. Medical-Surgical Nursing (Single Volume): Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems (MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING (LEWIS))

Book Description
The bestselling Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition provides a well-rounded and comprehensive approach to nursing care. It covers patient care in various clinical settings by employing a unique levels of care approach, discussing nursing implementation at multiple levels. Special features highlight the content that is most relevant and challenging for today’s nursing students, including patient teaching, nutrition, drug therapy, cultural and ethnic disparities, and more.

9. Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing, 8th Edition

Book Description
Fundamentals of Nursing, 8/E presents the fundamentals of nursing care within the framework of the nursing process. Hallmark features are a clear and accessible writing style, a focus on practical application with real-world examples and case studies, and an appropriate level of detail for beginners. The book is supported by a state-of-the art technology package to enhance the learning process. Provides the fundamentals of the nature of nursing, contemporary health care, health beliefs and practices, the nursing process, lifespan development issues, integral aspects of nursing, assessing health, and promoting psychosocial health and physiologic health. For Nurses and Health Care Professionals.

10. Prentice Hall Real Nursing Skills: Intermediate to Advanced Nursing Skills (Prentice Hall Real Nursing Skills Series)

Book Description
Prentice Hall’s Real Nursing Skills series offers users the complete foundation for competency in performing clinical nursing skills. This is the only skills series designed to help users visualize how to perform clinical nursing skills and understanding the concepts and rationales for each skill. This series is also endorsed by INACSL - The Board of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulations and Learning has been involved in focus groups and reviewing the videos of these skills throughout the development of this series. The volumes in this series consist of interactive CD-ROMs with comprehensive procedures and rationales demonstrated in hundreds of realistic video clips, animations, illustrations, and photographs. For each skill, users will review: Purpose * Equipment * Preparation * Procedure * Post-Procedure * Expected Outcomes * Documentation * and Variation (if applicable). Throughout the videos, users will experience the real-life aspects of: therapeutic communication between the nurse and the client, the client’s reaction to invasive skills, and cultural, gender, and age diversity among nurses and clients. Covers 89 intermediate and advanced nursing skills-Skills sets include Elimination Management, Drug Management, Tissue Perfusion Management, Nutrition Support, and Respiratory Management. Each skills set is on a separate interactive CD-ROM (total 5 CD-ROMs). Nursing Students and Nursing Professionals.