Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology, Global Edition 12th Edition
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Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management – Seventh Edition
$16.92Transition from student to professional with confidence. Stepping out of the classroom and into professional nursing practice can be stressful. This handy guide will build your confidence and prepare you to meet the challenges you’ll face as a new staff nurse in today’s dynamic health-care environment. You’ll explore your future responsibilities as a leader and a manager and the workplace issues and trends that you’ll encounter in practice.See what students are saying online…Easy nursing book to read unlike others that I have …“come across. It gives great situations and examples throughout the book. Short and straight to the point.”—WendyFive stars “Actually one of my favorite leadership books from nursing school.”—Amy H.Five stars “Great book, very easy to understand, and clear on the points.”—Nevets
Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice – 10th Edition
$16.92Updated to reflect the latest innovations in research methods, this worldwide bestseller helps students learn how to read and critically appearaise research reports, speak the language of nursing research, and develop an appreciation of research to enhance nursing practice. AJN award-winning authors Denise Polit and Cheryl Beck clearly and concisely present research essentials, dig into the research steps, and explore quantitative and qualitative research to ignite student curiosity and encourage students to pursue a professional pathway that incorporates thoughtful and effective appraisals of evidence.
Essentials of Pediatric Nursing – 4th Edition
$16.92Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, 4th Edition, helps students develop the clinical reasoning capability to confidently meet the unique challenges of caring for children and their families in a wide variety of healthcare settings. Utilizing the nursing process, a concise, concept-based approach makes relevant information accessible and builds students’ understanding progressively from concept to application. Rather than repeating medical-surgical content previously mastered, the text builds upon students’ prior knowledge, establishing an understanding of broad concepts before cultivating students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Covering a wide scope of relevant topics with an emphasis on common issues and pediatric-specific content, Essentials of Pediatric Nursing focuses on conceptual learning to help you make the most of your class time and ensure that your students are equipped for a successful career in pediatric nursing care. This updated edition introduces new Unfolding Case Studies and Clinical Reasoning Alerts that encourage discussion and clinical decision-making, as well as new Practice and Learn Growth and Development Case Studies and Skill-based Pediatric Videos on thePoint that guide students through commonly encountered scenarios and applications to equip them for the rigors of pediatric practice.
Essentials of Pediatric Nursing – Fifth, North American Edition
$16.92Awarded second place in the 2025 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Maternal-Child/Neonatal Nursing category.Explore the intricate world of pediatric nursing with Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, 5th Edition. With a focus on directing students toward a profound comprehension of critical concepts, this edition surpasses mere repetition of medical-surgical content by expanding upon the foundation of students’ prior knowledge. Recognizing the unique intricacies of caring for children, this comprehensive text underscores simpler, fundamental concepts that pave the way toward mastering more complex problem-solving scenarios. By emphasizing conceptual learning, Essentials of Pediatric Nursing not only offers a time-effective instructional method for nursing educators but also nurtures the development of critical thinking skills among students. From Case Studies to Unfolding Patient Stories and Clinical Reasoning Alerts, each element throughout the book serves to deepen comprehension and foster analytical thinking. Notable additions in the 5th edition include phonetic spelling of difficult-to-pronounce key terms, updated growth and development guidelines, expanded diversity and inclusion content, and COVID-related insights to ensure that students receive the most relevant and up-to-date information in the field of pediatric nursing.
Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education, Sixth Edition
$16.92The only text to comprehensively address the assessment of student learning in a wide variety of settings.Long considered the gold standard for evaluation and testing in nursing education
Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement – 1st Edition
$16.92**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with “Essential Purchase” designation in Quality Improvement**2019 AJN Book of the Year Award Recipient in the Advanced Practice Nursing category. Equip yourself to expertly conduct EBP or quality improvement projects. Written by renowned EBP experts LoBiondo-Wood, Haber, & Titler, Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement provides a straightforward yet comprehensive guide to planning and conducting EBP and quality improvement projects This brand-new, full-color, richly illustrated textbook begins with foundational content and then works through the processes of developing and exploring clinical questions, implementing results, and disseminating information. The book’s content and approach have been developed specifically with the adult learner in mind, with multiple full-text appendix articles referenced throughout as examples, along with unique pedagogical aids including EBP Tips and EBP Key Points to ground concepts in a “real-life” context.NEW! Written by renowned EBP experts LoBiondo-Wood, Haber, & Titler to provide a straightforward yet comprehensive guide to planning and conducting EBP and QI projects.NEW! A straightforward, practical approach begins with foundational content and then works through the processes of developing and exploring clinical questions, implementing results, and disseminating information.NEW! Developed specifically with the adult learner in mind, with multiple full-text appendix articles referenced throughout as examples, along with unique pedagogical aids including EBP Tips and EBP Key Points to ground concepts in a “real-life” context. Read less
ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis – 3rd Edition
$16.92Helps you reach accurate, clinically useful differential diagnoses in your everyday practice. It presents the most useful differential diagnoses for each region of the abdomen and pelvis, grouped according to anatomic location
Fascia – What It Is, and Why It Matters, Second Edition
$16.92Fascia: What It Is and Why It Matters is the “must-have” book for everyone wanting to learn more about fascia as a tissue and a system. This second edition maintains the high standard of the first book while expanding on everything that made it so popular.By focusing first on the fundamentals of fascia as a tissue that surrounds, supports, and permeates all the muscle, bones, nerves, and organs, Lesondak takes the reader on a journey throughout their entire body from the perspective of the fascial system, making many stops along the way to ensure the reader understands what’s important and why it matters to the body. From the new rules of biomechanics, biotensegrity, cellular processes, musculoskeletal issues, proprioception, neuroscience and cognition, somatic dysfunction, and restoration – Lesondak deftly weaves all these concepts together with a deep appreciation for the history of science, fine storytelling sensibilities, and a sense of humor as well as a sense of wonder.
Fast Facts for Psychopharmacology for Nurse Practitioners – First Edition
$16.92This timely resource is the first handbook to give nurse practitioners guidance to prescribe, monitor, assess, educate, and advocate for patients taking psychiatric medications and promote safe practice outcomes. Written in a concise, bulleted style for quick access to critical information, this practical resource covers the key aspects of psychotropic medications used in general psychiatry, offers strategies to simplify medication decision-making, and provides evidence-based best practice recommendations to select and manage psychotropic medications.This resource begins with an overview of general pharmacological principles, a brief discussion of neurotransmitters, and covers rationale for medication use and the risks and benefits of the major classes of psychotropic medications. This is followed by information about common drugs across drug classes divided by age population. Each drug includes initial dosing and adjustments, simplified diagnostic criteria, practice management, rationale for use, black box warnings, drug interactions, identification of side effects and adverse reactions, basic lab test recommendations, treatment options, and self-management strategies. The book ends with important concepts for patient and/or caregiver education and advocacy. Tables and “Fast Facts” boxes throughout highlight key information. Chapters begin with learning objectives and include references, website resources, and recommendations for additional reading.Key Features:Follows a lifespan approach to psychiatric mental health pharmacologyProvides population-specific treatment approaches for optimal medical decision-makingHighlights critical information with “Fast Facts” boxesDelivers essential knowledge included in board certification examsContains critical-thinking questions in each chapter to reinforce content
Focus on Nursing Pharmacology – 8th Edition
$16.92Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2022!Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, 8th EditionAmy M. Karch, MS, RN Master the Principles of Effective Drug Therapy Current, concise, and optimized for today’s nursing practice, Focus on Nursing Pharmacology makes challenging concepts more approachable to establish a foundation for effective drug therapy throughout your nursing career. This updated 8th edition builds on your knowledge of physiology, chemistry and nursing fundamentals to help you conceptualize need-to-know information about each group of drugs, while engaging learning features cultivate your clinical application, critical thinking and patient education capabilities. NEW! Concept Mastery Alerts alert you to commonly misunderstood concepts.NEW! Unfolding case-based vignettes written by the National League for Nursing bring concepts to life through realistic clinical scenarios.Concise, streamlined approach emphasizes need-to-know information for efficient learning. Nursing Processes clarify the process for planning patient-centered care.Critical Thinking Scenarios guide you through the collection and application of data for commonly encountered clinical interactions.Nursing Considerations sections detail the rationale behind each nursing intervention to enhance your clinical decision-making capabilities.Drug Lists at the beginning of each chapter enable fast identification of prototype drugs for each class. Drugs in Focus tables provide at-a-glance reference for generic and trade names, usual dosage and indications for each drug within a class.Focus on Safe Medication Administration boxes help you ensure patient safety and increase the therapeutic effectiveness of drugs.Focus on the Evidence boxes identify the best nursing practices associated with specific drugs based on available evidence.Focus on Herbal and Alternative Therapies alert you to known interactions with specific herbs or alternative therapies that could affect drug actions.Focus on Calculations refine your calculation and measurement skills.Focus on Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan boxes provide quick access to drug class considerations for use with children, adults and the elderly.Focus on Gender Considerations and Focus on Cultural Considerations help you ensure effective, culturally sensitive drug therapy across diverse populations.Check Your Understanding sections equip you for your exams with NCLEX®-style review questions, including alternate-format questions.Watch and Learn videos available on thePoint® help you avoid medication errors in practice.
Foundations and Adult Health Nursing – 9th Edition
$16.92Build the nursing knowledge and skills you need to care for patients of all ages!Combining two leading LPN/LVN textbooks into one volume, Foundations and Adult Health Nursing, 9th Edition covers the fundamental skills and medical-surgical content essential to providing quality care for patients across the lifespan, including pediatric, maternity, adult, and older adult patients. Case studies provide practice with critical thinking and clinical judgment, and new Next Generation NCLEX®-format questions help you apply theory to practice. Written by nursing educators Kim Cooper and Kelly Gosnell, this text also helps you prepare for success on the NCLEX-PN® examination.Step-by-step instructions for more than 100 skills show clearly defined nursing actions along with the rationales for eachClear, easy-to-understand coverage of skills across the lifespan includes maternity, pediatrics, adults, and older adultsThe nursing process is applied to the discussion of disorders, and is summarized at the end of each chapterNursing care plans use a case-study format to emphasize patient goals and outcomes, and include critical thinking questions at the end of each care planOverview of Anatomy and Physiology begins each body systems chapter, and the Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology chapter provides a clear, basic understanding of the A&P that LPN/LVNs need to knowComplete mathematics review covers basic arithmetic skills and dosage calculation, followed by a discussion of medication administration including IV therapyEvidence-Based Practice boxes provide synopses of research articles that apply to nursing, along with nursing implications for the LPN/LVNSafety Alert! boxes cover issues related to safe patient care in a variety of settingsCoordinated Care boxes promote comprehensive patient care with other members of the health care team, focusing on prioritization, assignment, supervision, collaboration, delegation, and leadership topicsLifespan Considerations boxes provide age-specific information for the care of the patientOlder Adult Considerations boxes provide information on the care of the aging population, which is often the primary focus of the LPN/LVN nurseCommunication boxes illustrate communication strategies through real-life examples of nurse-patient dialoguePatient Teaching boxes focus on three-way communication among the nurse, patient, and family members, and include topics such as hospital discharge instructionsHealth Promotion Considerations boxes highlight information on wellness and disease prevention, including infection control, diet, and pregnancyHome Health Considerations boxes discuss issues facing patients and their caregivers in the home settingMedication tables provide quick access to action, dosage, precautions, and nursing considerations for commonly used drugsGet Ready for the NCLEX® Examination sections provide key points, review questions, and critical thinking activities to reinforce learningNEW! Next Generation NCLEX® case studies and new format questions help you prepare for success on the NCLEX-PN® examinationNEW! Discussion of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model helps you develop the skills needed to plan effective nursing interventionsNEW! Updated Asepsis and Infection Control chapter prepares you for today’s healthcare environmentNEW! Updated Immune Disorder and HIV/AIDS chapters highlight the newest medical and drug therapiesNEW! Updated photos and illustrations show nursing techniques, procedures, and patient care
Foundations of Nursing Research – 7th Edition
$16.92To illustrate specific aspects of the research process, extensive research study excerpts are interspersed throughout the book, including research performed outside the U.S. User-friendly learning features include chapter objectives
Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology 11th Edition
$16.92The Eleventh Edition of Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology is a comprehensive textbook that fulfills the needs of today’s students while addressing the concerns of their teachers.
We focused our attention on the question “How can we make this information meaningful, manageable, and comprehensible?” During the revision process, we drew upon our content knowledge, research skills, artistic talents, and years of classroom experience to make this edition the best yet.
Fundamentals of Nursing – 11th Edition
$16.92Essential Purchase” designation in Fundamentals**Learn the concepts and skills and develop the clinical judgment you need to provide excellent nursing care!
Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Care – 10th Edition
$16.92Trusted for its holistic, case-based approach, Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care, 10th Edition, helps you confidently prepare the next generation of nursing professionals for practice. This bestselling text presents nursing as an evolving art and science, blending essential competencies—cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal—and instilling the clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, and decision-making capabilities crucial to effective patient-centered care in any setting. The extensively updated 10th Edition is part of a fully integrated learning and teaching solution that combines traditional text, video, and interactive resources to tailor content to diverse learning styles and deliver a seamless learning experience to every student.
Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Care – 9th Edition
$16.92Proven, approachable, and part of a complete nursing fundamentals solution, Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Patient-Centered Care, 9th Edition, instills an exceptional foundation for clinical confidence and effective patient-centered care.This bestselling fundamentals solution is easy to read and rich with student-friendly features that help students develop the knowledge and clinical skills to succeed in their nursing education. Trusted content not only details the basics of nursing—health promotion, the use of scientific rationales, and the approved nursing process—but also builds essential patient safety, communication, and critical thinking capabilities.This edition adds New features that encourage reflection, highlight QSEN-related content, and familiarize students with emerging technology they will likely encounter in practice. A New informatics chapter prepares students for their important role working with emerging health information technology and managing patient data. Case-based clinical scenarios put chapter concepts in a realistic context, and content throughout integrates seamlessly with a suite of teaching and learning tools to bring the entire nursing continuum to life and equip students to excel throughout their nursing careers. Features New Reflective Practice Leading to Personal Learning callouts cultivate a person-centered approach to nursing care.New Clinical vignettes personalize the clinical application of concepts and integrate with vSim for Nursing for patient-specific reinforcement of commonly encountered scenarios and conditions.New Technology Alerts familiarize students with emerging devices and software they’ll likely encounter in the clinical setting.New Informatics chapter reflects the increasingly important role of data and information technology in patient care.New QSEN boxes in every chapter help students ensure compliance with Quality and Safety Education for Nurses competencies.New Legal Alerts help students ensure compliance with important laws and considerations related to clinical practice. New Watch & Learn Videos clarify key concepts and procedures in engaging detail.Revised Illustrated Concept Maps engage visual learners, simplify complex topics, and strengthen students’ clinical reasoning skills.Case scenarios in each chapter encourage holistic patient care and reflection on critical thinking questions.PICO (patient/problem, intervention, comparison, outcome) displays guide students through a structured, evidence-based approach to answering clinical questions.Concept Mastery Alerts improve students’ understanding of potentially confusing topics.Apply Your Critical Thinking features challenge students to think deeply on key concepts.Patient Care Plans and Skills sections outline streamline students’ transition from the classroom to clinical practice.NCLEX-style Review Questions ready students for the NCLEX exam experience..
Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Care – Tenth, North American Edition
$16.92Awarded third place in the 2023 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Medical-Surgical Nursing category! The preferred nursing fundamentals resource for generations of nursing students and educators, Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care, 10th Edition, equips beginning nursing students with a holistic, case-based perspective on nursing practice and emphasizes the clinical reasoning and decision-making essential to their success in today’s competitive healthcare environment. Promoting nursing as an evolving art and science directed to human health and well-being, this bestselling text is designed to instill in students the highest level of evidence-based practice, scientific knowledge, and technical skill while cultivating the blended competencies crucial to responsible patient-centered care in a wide variety of care settings. Updates throughout this 10th Edition reflect a growing emphasis on clinical judgment and NCLEX® readiness, training students to think like nurses and respond confidently and effectively to clinical challenges. Ample clinical examples, pedagogy, illustrations, and online learning tools and assessments engage students and distill need-to-know information, complemented by a suite of integrated teaching and learning resources that create a seamless, superior learning experience for every student. New to this EditionNEW! Clinical Judgment chapter conditions students think like nurses, incorporating the nursing process and the latest evidence-based practices to prioritize responsibilities and make confident clinical decisions. NEW! Integrated NCSBN concepts and terms keep students on the front lines of today’s evolving nursing practice and ready them for success on the NextGen NCLEX®. NEW! Evolving Case Studies familiarize students with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Evaluation Model and reflect the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN). NEW! Diversity, inclusion, and equity content equips students with a diverse perspective on patient care essential to today’s nursing practice. NEW! Timely coverage throughout the text reflects the impact of climate change and COVID-19 on patient care. NEW! 2021 AACN Essentials and ANA Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice incorporated throughout the text help you meet the latest curriculum standards in competency-based nursing education. NEW! Thoughtful Person-Centered Practice: Challenging Topics leverage Unfolding Patient Stories to reinforce clinical reasoning and judgment competencies in a real-world context. UPDATED! NCLEX®-style Chapter Review Questions in every chapter strengthen students’ exam readiness.
Genetics and Genomics in Nursing and Health Care – Second Edition
$16.92Awarded second place in the 2018 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Advanced Practice Nursing categoryAwarded third place in the 2018 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Maternal-Child Health/Prenatal Nursing/Childbirth categoryComplex concepts made manageable! Build the foundation you need to understand the science of genetics and its growing role in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders.Confidently tackle the basics of genetic inheritance, the influence of somatic and germline mutations, the multifactorial relationship of gene-environment interactions, and the foundation of ethical behavior. Everyday language makes these often-intimidating topics easy to understand, while clearly defined principles, logical explanations, illustrations, tables, and clinical examples ensure you master the material.See what students are saying online about the previous edition….Genetics simplified and easy to understand.“Genetics simplified and easy to understand. Wish I had this when learning DNA replication in Microbiology. Lot of good charts. I plan to keep even after the class because it’s interesting and easy to understand.”—Katalina CadeGreat resource! “This is a complex subject and this book makes it so much easier to learn and understand! I love the “memory hints” it gives you throughout the book.”—Kira Short
Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses: With Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application – Second Edition
$16.92The Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application, 2nd Editionis an essential resource for nursing classrooms, in-service training, workshops and conferences, self-study, and wherever nursing professionals use ANAs Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements in their daily practice. Each chapter of this comprehensively revised text is devoted to a single Code provision, including: Key ethical concepts. Theories and models of ethical decision-making. Historical, professional and societal issues, trends and other influences. Each interpretive statements contribution to interpreting and applying the provision examples and illustrative cases, based on real situations, to facilitate study and discussion. Bibliographic Web links to key national and international documents. For convenience of reference, the text of ANAs Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statementsis included as an appendix. This book will challenge each nurse to achieve deeper professional and personal understanding, and will provide a foundation for professional pride. From the classroom to professional practice, nurses in all roles or settings will find Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses to be a powerful tool for learning how to examine and apply the values, duties, ideals and commitments of their living ethical tradition to their practice. Please read our Terms and Conditions regarding rental books prior to checkout.
Hamric & Hanson’s Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach – 7th Edition
$16.92**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles 2024 with “Essential Purchase” designation in Advanced Practice**Edited and written by a “Who’s Who” of internationally known thought leaders in advanced practice nursing
Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals – 6th Edition
$16.92For courses in nursing informatics.A practical guide to applying healthcare IT and nursing informaticsHandbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals is a complete, up-¿to-¿date overview of key issues related to adopting and applying healthcare IT and nursing informatics. It provides nurses and other healthcare professionals with a much-needed practical guide to using computer applications and healthcare information systems. The authors cover the concepts, skills, and tasks needed to achieve national IT goals to help transform healthcare delivery. The 6th edition reflects rapid changes in healthcare IT and informatics, and builds upon the expertise of contributors involved in day-to-day informatics practice, education, and research.
Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine – Seventh Edition
$16.92Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2025! Clinically focused and evidence-based,Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Seventh Edition, is a comprehensive, easy-to-use reference for practitioners and residents in today’s Emergency Department (ED).
Health Assessment for Nursing Practice – 6th Edition
$16.92Health Assessment for Nursing Practice, 6th Edition focuses on the information needed to master core assessment skills in clinical practice. It features straightforward language, vivid photos, clean page layouts, and current information on electronic documentation, QSEN competencies, and cultural considerations.