Jean Foret Giddens

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Science

Looking for a conversational and easy-to-follow book that walks you through the most important nursing concepts and helps you apply them in practice? Then look no further than Concepts for Nursing Practice, 2nd Edition! Written by conceptual learning expert Jean Giddens, this innovative interactive text explains 58 of the most common nursing concepts - including six all new concepts - that span the areas of patient physiology, patient behavior, and the professional nursing environment. Featured exemplars for each concept are also discussed to help you more easily understand the concepts and apply them to the clinical setting. In addition to more concepts and featured exemplar sections, this new second edition also boasts a more intuitive organization and review questions for both RN and LPN/LVN programs. In a nutshell, Concepts for Nursing Practice, 2nd Edition is not only the key to understanding nursing concepts, it's also the way to hone your clinical reasoning skills and be confidently prepared for almost any workplace situation.

 * Authoritative content written by expert Jean Giddens sets the standard for the rapidly growing concept-based curriculum movement.
 * Exemplar lists for each concept, covering the lifespan and all clinical settings aid readers in assimilating concepts into practice.
 * Case studies in each chapter allow readers to apply knowledge of concepts to real world examples.
 * Logical organization of concepts into units and themes helps readers form immediate connections among related concepts - a key to conceptual learning.
 * Original concept illustrations give readers visual cues to understanding and making connections across concepts.

 * NEW! Six all-new concepts - spirituality, self-management, sleep, hormonal regulation, fatigue, and health disparities - cover a broader spectrum of nursing practice and provide added flexibility across a variety of nursing programs.
 * NEW! Featured exemplar sections highlight selected exemplars related to each concept and provide a brief synopsis of the exemplar.
 * NEW! Expanded resources for LPN/LVN programs include unique student review questions to offer additional study assistance.
 * NEW! Revised format for Health and Illness concepts includes concise and consistent explanations of conditions across the lifespan along with the rationale for care.
 * NEW! Revised format for Health Care Recipient and Professional Nursing/Health Care concepts provides streamlined explanations of conceptual material in a more logical order.
 * NEW! Renamed theme on Resilience (formerly Coping and Stress Tolerance) emphasizes this increasingly important aspect of personal responsibility in health and illness.

Concepts for Nursing Practice (with EBook Access on VitalSource)

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Assessment Technologies Institute

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

RN Maternal Newborn Nursing Edition 11. 0

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Betty L. Gahart

Adrienne R. Nazareno

Meghan Ortega,

A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals

The essential information you need to safely administer more than 400 intravenous drugs! For over 45 years, Gahart's 2021 Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals has been a trusted resource for comprehensive drug coverage, unparalleled accuracy, and an intuitive quick-access format. In addition to updated drug interactions, precautions, alerts, and patient teaching instructions for all existing IV drugs, this new 37th edition includes more than a dozen new monographs of the most recent IV drugs to be approved by the FDA. Administering intravenous drugs is a critical task - inaccurate or out-of-date information is not an option. Known as the #1 IV drug handbook on the market, Gahart's annual publication, with its history of impeccable accuracy, gives you the extra confidence and guidance you need to safely and effectively treat patients. Monographs on more than 400 IV drugs offers an impressive breadth of coverage that goes well beyond any comparable drug reference. Updated annual publication prevents you from referencing outdated information. Additional drug monographs are housed on the companion Evolve website. A 45-year history of impeccable accuracy reinforces the importance of safe IV drug administration. The perfect depth of information equips you with everything that is needed by today's clinicians for safe administration of IV drugs - nothing more, nothing less. Proven, clinically optimized format keeps all dosage information for each drug on either a single page or a two-page spread to prevent hand contamination by having to turn a page. Highlighted Black Box Warnings and relevant content make locating critical information fast and easy. Special circumstances in blue-screened text call attention to important circumstances that may not warrant Black Box Warnings. Life stage dosage variances are highlighted for geriatric, pediatric, infant, and neonatal patients. Dilution and dosage charts within monographs provide quick access to essential clinical information. Convenient, alphabetical format organizes all drug monographs by generic name, allowing you to find any drug in seconds. NEW! Drug monographs for 19 newly approved drugs by the FDA provides you with the most current drug information. Updates on drug interactions, precautions, alerts, and more have been made throughout the guide to reflect all changes to existing medications.

Gahart's 2021 Intravenous Medications

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Pamela McHugh Schuster

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Critical-Thinking Approach to Care Planning

Provides the tools needed to construct care plans for any patient, in any setting, based on accepted standards of care. Introduces critical thinking early in the curriculum. Works with or without nursing diagnoses. Saves time and improves clinical performance. Emphasizes reasoning, improvising, and individualizing patient care. Teaches how to identify patient needs, then organize, prioritize, and implement care quickly. Establishes the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, physical assessment data, treatments, medications, laboratory data, and history data. Includes access to Davis's Care Planning & Nursing Diagnosis Resource Center. (Click on the Preview tab to view.) Makes concept mapping easy to understand and implement with... A podcast that explains concept mapping. "Test Your Knowledge" quiz" that ensures you understand the theory behind creating a care map. Case studies that let you practice creating a care map. Templates for creating a concept care map. A care map generator online at DavisPlus with clear, concise instructions.

Concept Mapping

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

RN Pharmacology for Nursing Edition 8. 0

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Patricia M. Dillon

The Foundation of Clinical Practice

Quick, easy-to-reference resource Consistent organization in every body system chapter that addresses... Primary function of every system Developmental and cultural considerations Key history questions with specific symptoms Integration with other systems The physical assessment, which includes anatomical landmarks - approach - position for exam - tools needed for exam - assessment procedure - and normal and abnormal findings Helpful hints and alerts that are identified by special icons Subjective and objective data schematics for each system Drug tables for each system

Nursing Health Assessment

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Linda A. LaCharity

Candice K. Kumagai

Barbara Bartz

Practice Exercises for the NCLEX Examination

Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX® Examination, 4th Edition is the original and most popular NCLEX review book on the market focused exclusively on building prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills! Using a unique simple-to-complex approach, this best-selling text establishes your foundational knowledge of management of care, then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you transition to practice in today's fast-paced healthcare environment. This new edition features over 60 pages of additional questions, a completely new pharmacology chapter and questions, a content re-alignment to match the latest National League for Nursing guidelines for delegation and patient assignemtn, increased inclusion of LGBTQ-related scenarios, updated infection control coverage, and much more!

 * Answer keys offer a detailed rationale and an indication of the focus of the question to encourage formative assessment.
 * Interactive practice quizzing on Evolve allows you to create a virtually unlimited number of practice sessions in Study Mode or Exam Mode.
 * Emphasis on the NCLEX Examination's management-of-care focus addresses the heavy emphasis on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment in the current NCLEX-RN® Examination.
 * Updated content throughout matches the latest evidence-based guidelines and treatment protocols.
 * Improved navigation and usability with color tabs on the edges of the book's pages and with answers directly following each chapter.
 * UNIQUE! Three-part organization establishes foundational knowledge and then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills.

 * NEW! More than 60 pages of new questions provide additional practice prepare you for the prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment questions on the NCLEX-RN® Exam.
 * NEW! Pharmacology chapter and expanded pharmacology questions throughout prepare you for the strong pharmacology focus of the latest NCLEX-RN® Exam.
 * NEW! Re-alignment of delegation and assignment content and answer key coding to reflect the latest National League for Nursing (NLN) guidelines on what constitutes delegation and what constitutes patient assignment.
 * NEW! Increased emphasis on infection control addresses the growing problems of antibiotic resistance and the rapid spread of infectious disease resulting from our globally mobile society and from growing resistance to vaccination.
 * NEW! Increased inclusion of LGBTQ scenarios and healthcare concerns prepares you for patient-centered care with LGBTQ clients.

Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment

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Marilynn E. Doenges

Mary Frances Moorhouse

Alice C. Murr

Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales

Nursing school = buy this book."This is a MUST buy if it's not required for your nursing program. It makes care plans 100x easier, and makes you sound smarter. BUY BUY BUY."--J.S., Amazon Reviewer

You won't regret buying this book!!!"This book has been so helpful to me throughout my time in nursing school. I don't know how I would have made it through without this book. It is so helpful when you are writing nursing diagnosis. I have never been very good at writing them but this book helps me tremendously."--Ashley R., Amazon Reviewer

The perfect pocket guide

This quick-reference tool has what you need to select the appropriate diagnosis to plan your patients' care effectively. The 15th Edition features all the latest nursing diagnoses and updated interventions. A laminated "pocket minder" bookmark makes diagnosis even easier.

Nurse's Pocket Guide

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Karyn I. Morgan

Mary C. Townsend

Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice

Davis Advantage for Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing combines a student-focused textbook with an innovative online program to create an immersive, multimedia learning experience for students and comprehensive teaching materials for instructors.



An access code inside new, printed textbooks unlocks an eBook, as well as access to Davis Advantage. Or choose the all-digital Instant Access option, which includes the eBook and immediate access to Davis Advantage.



THE TEXTBOOK

The 8th edition text provides the foundational knowledge students need to master psych content. Whether it's an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this text is concise, engaging and informative. It offers a holistic approach to mental health nursing that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders.



ONLINE (DAVIS ADVANTAGE)

Using a unique and proven approach across a Learn-Apply-Assess continuum, Davis Advantage engages students and helps them make the connections to key topics. Whether teaching in-person or online, this complete, integrated solution aligns seamlessly with the textbook and equips instructors with actionable analytics to track students' progress, remediate where needed, and facilitate an active learning environment.



LEARN - Personalized Learning

The foundation of the Davis Advantage platform, Personalized Learning, immerses students in an online learning experience tailored to their needs. Students are assessed on their comprehension of key topics from the text, and then are guided through animated mini-lecture videos and dynamic activities to reinforce learning and bring concepts to life.



APPLY - Clinical Judgment

Clinical Judgment is now included in the Davis Advantage platform to elevate students' critical thinking and clinical reasoning, helping them to build the clinical judgment skills they need to practice safe and effective nursing care and to prepare for the Next Generation NCLEX® with confidence. Progressive case studies featuring real-life, complex clinical situations challenge students to apply knowledge, make informed decisions, and evaluate outcomes.



ASSESS - Quizzing

Quizzing uses NCLEX®-style questions for assessment and remediation. Its adaptive, question-based format provides the additional practice students need to test their knowledge, master course content, and perform well on course and board exams.

 

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

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RN Adult Medical Surgical Nursing Edition 11. 0

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Shannon E. Perry

Marilyn J. Hockenberry

Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk

David Wilson

Kathryn Rhodes Alden

Kitty Cashion

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Get the accurate, practical information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the NCLEX-RN� examination. Written by the foremost experts in maternity and pediatric nursing, the user-friendly Maternal Child Nursing Care, 6th Edition provides both instructors and students with just the right amount of maternity and pediatric content. This new edition includes updated case studies within Nursing Care Plans, as well as a new chapter on pediatric cancer. Focus on the family throughout emphasizes the influence of the entire family in health and illness. Focus on the family throughout emphasizes the influence of the entire family in health and illness. Expert authors of the market-leading maternity and pediatric nursing textbooks combine to ensure delivery of the most accurate, up-to-date content. Critical thinking case studies offer you opportunities to test and develop your analytical skills and apply knowledge in various settings. Nursing Care Plans include rationales for interventions and provide you with an overview and specific guidelines for delivering effective nursing care. Nursing Alerts highlight critical information that you need to know when treating patients. Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow format. Emergency boxes in the maternity unit guide you through step-by-step emergency procedures. Home Care boxes detail important information that you need to deliver care to patients and families in the home setting. Atraumatic Care boxes in the pediatric unit teach you how to provide competent and effective care to pediatric patients with the least amount of physical or psychological stress. Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, provide resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings. Patient Teaching boxes in the maternity unit highlight important information nurses need to communicate to patients and families. Cultural Competence boxes equip you with the knowledge you need to deliver culturally competent care.\ Family-Centered Care boxes draw attention to the needs or concerns of families that you should consider to provide family-centered care. Medication Guides serve as an important reference of drugs and their interactions. NEW! New chapter on pediatric cancer gives you the most up-to-date information on the latest topics. EXPANDED! Additional information on sexuality in the maternity section. EXPANDED! More content on spirituality in the family, culture, and spiritual chapters. EXPANDED and UPDATED! New content about LBGTQ+ included in the Transition to Parenthood chapter. NEW! Information on victims of sexual abuse as parents and human trafficking helps prepare you to handle these delicate issues. NEW and UPDATED! Case studies emphasize interprofessional care, demonstrating how nursing must collaborate with other health care disciplines to provide the most comprehensive care possible to women and children. UPDATED! Nursing Care Plans now incorporate case studies to personalize interventions and promote critical thinking.

Maternal Child Nursing Care

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Leslie S. Treas

Judith M. Wilkinson

Karen L. Barnett

Mable H. Smith

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Thinking, Doing, and Caring

LEARN-APPLY-ASSESS

Davis Advantage for Basic Nursing takes an all-new approach to RN Fundamentals education by offering a unique focus on the Learn-Apply-Assess continuum. This complete solution integrates an innovative textbook with online adaptive technology to make learning personal. Together, they create a seamless experience that tracks each student's progress and assesses their knowledge until they have mastered the concepts and are ready to apply them in class, clinical, and practice.

A special code in the front of the book unlocks online Personalized Learning Plans and Quizzing for students and an interactive ebook version of the text.

LEARN

The Textbook Basic Nursing: Thinking, Doing, and Caring, Second Edition

This student-focused text teaches students to "Think Like a Nurse" from the very first day, connecting the concepts students are learning in class to the real world in which they will practice.

A consistent and concise organization along with a wealth of pedagogical features promote critical thinking and clinical decision making by emphasizing the Thinking, Doing, and Caring at the heart of professional practice they will do as nurses.

In every chapter, they'll first explore the theoretical knowledge behind the concepts, principles, and rationales. Then, they'll study the practical knowledge involved in the processes; and finally, learn the skills and procedures.

APPLY

Online Personalized Learning Plans

Personalized learning plans offer multiple paths to learning success. Students are assessed on their comprehension of key topics and then are given a plan to work through based on their strengths and weaknesses. Interactive case studies, video animations and dynamic activities engage students and bring the concepts to life to help drive mastery.

ASSESS

Online Personalized Quizzing

Davis Edge's online quizzing platform uses NCLEX®-style questions for assessment and remediation. Its interactive, question-based format provides the practice students need to master course content and improve their scores on classroom exams through a series of personalized quizzes based on each student's performance.

Davis Advantage for Basic Nursing

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Jean Foret Giddens

Concepts for Nursing Practice (with EBook Access on VitalSource)

Assessment Technologies Institute

RN Maternal Newborn Nursing Edition 11. 0

Betty L. Gahart; Adrienne R. Nazareno; Meghan Ortega,

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Pamela McHugh Schuster

Concept Mapping

Assessment Technologies Institute

RN Pharmacology for Nursing Edition 8. 0

Patricia M. Dillon

Nursing Health Assessment

Linda A. LaCharity; Candice K. Kumagai; Barbara Bartz

Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment

Marilynn E. Doenges; Mary Frances Moorhouse; Alice C. Murr

Nurse's Pocket Guide

Karyn I. Morgan; Mary C. Townsend

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Assessment Technologies Institute

RN Adult Medical Surgical Nursing Edition 11. 0

Shannon E. Perry; Marilyn J. Hockenberry; Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk; David Wilson; Kathryn Rhodes Alden; Kitty Cashion

Maternal Child Nursing Care

Leslie S. Treas; Judith M. Wilkinson; Karen L. Barnett; Mable H. Smith

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Jean Foret Giddens

Concepts for Nursing Practice (with EBook Access on VitalSource)

Assessment Technologies Institute

RN Maternal Newborn Nursing Edition 11. 0

Betty L. Gahart; Adrienne R. Nazareno; Meghan Ortega,

Gahart's 2021 Intravenous Medications

Pamela McHugh Schuster

Concept Mapping

Assessment Technologies Institute

RN Pharmacology for Nursing Edition 8. 0

Patricia M. Dillon

Nursing Health Assessment

Linda A. LaCharity; Candice K. Kumagai; Barbara Bartz

Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment

Marilynn E. Doenges; Mary Frances Moorhouse; Alice C. Murr

Nurse's Pocket Guide

Karyn I. Morgan; Mary C. Townsend

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Assessment Technologies Institute

RN Adult Medical Surgical Nursing Edition 11. 0

Shannon E. Perry; Marilyn J. Hockenberry; Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk; David Wilson; Kathryn Rhodes Alden; Kitty Cashion

Maternal Child Nursing Care

Leslie S. Treas; Judith M. Wilkinson; Karen L. Barnett; Mable H. Smith

Davis Advantage for Basic Nursing

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