New Ways of Thinking about Nursing
The research-based, technical approach to nursing is failing our patients, students, and profession. This book challenges the assumptions of modern evidence-based practice, proposing a person-centred philosophy of nursing that addresses the needs of each individual patient.
Nurses’ Extraordinary Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In their own words, nurses share the joys, sorrows, and grief of caring for dying COVID-19 patients. Often the only ones in the room, they went above and beyond their role, all while fearing they would bring the deadly virus home to their families.
Solution Focused Interactions in Nursing
This book shows how Solution Focused Interactions can help nurses promote growth and change. Based on 25 years of experience and PhD research, this practical guide uses case studies to help you and your patients grow, while restoring your own enthusiasm for practice.
Reflecting on Presence in Nursing
Presence is essential in nursing: connecting with another person for healing. This book explores its importance through personal accounts from research and practice, allowing readers to reflect on finding meaning, joy, and delivering care in a truly relational way.
Creative Teaching Strategies for Pre-Licensure Nursing Curricula offers teaching strategies that engage students beyond lectures. Incorporating the sciences, arts, and humanities provides a holistic approach to enhance student learning, improve outcomes, and boost satisfaction.
How Nurses Can Facilitate Meaning-making and Dialogue
Nurses hear patients’ stories daily. This book describes how to use narrative to realize therapeutic aims. With practical case studies, it explains how narrative achieves person-centred care, enabling a switch from care delivery to a dialogic, recovery-oriented approach.
Our world needs nurses now more than ever. Facing a significant shortage, the nursing profession offers complex, challenging, and rewarding roles. This book provides an overview of these vast opportunities and may persuade you to choose this rewarding profession.
This simple, practical guide explains how diabetic patients can use self-management activities to control their condition and reduce the risk of serious complications. It is an essential resource for patients, their families, and the healthcare professionals who educate them.
This book explores the emotional care midwives give women to reduce distress and provide comfort. Based on research and written in accessible language, it is a useful source for students, voluntary groups, and women on their journey to motherhood.
A must-read for students, researchers, and professionals in health sciences. Prepared by experts, this book covers essential topics from child development, nutrition, and nursing to modern concerns like AI in healthcare and health management.
Practical Theories for Nursing Practice
Nurses are expected to lead quality improvement, but traditional theories are not enough. This book offers a concise overview of practical education, communication, and quality improvement theories to support evidence-based practice. Beneficial for any healthcare professional.
Imogene King’s Conceptual Framework and Theory of Goal Attainment
Imogene King was a major 20th-century nursing thought leader whose Theory of Goal Attainment was formative in professionalizing nursing. This book makes King’s framework relevant for today’s practitioners and displays its value to improve clinical practice worldwide.
A guide to biophysiological measures in nursing, from blood pressure to advanced imaging. This resource emphasizes ethical, evidence-based practice to improve diagnosis and patient care, covering innovative technologies like wearable devices and artificial intelligence.
Extraordinary Nursing Practice
This book highlights nurses’ extraordinary work through stories of caring for patients, families, and communities. It introduces the intricacies of patient and nurse relationships and reveals the scientific, artistic, and ethical knowledge nurses rely on.
This book provides essential information on the most important issues in nursing and midwifery, from palliative care to quality of life. Offering suggestions for future research, it will appeal to professional nurses, students, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.