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Develop the critical thinking skills you need for success in today's challenging healthcare setting with Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach to Outcome-Focused Thinking, 4th Edition! This book's insightful and motivational style makes the concept of critical thinking come alive. Learning difficult concepts is easy with the book's “how-to” approach that provides supporting rationales to help you understand why and how to make decisions.

• User-friendly and motivational style with vivid examples, anecdotes, and real case scenarios brings content to life.
• Helps you work smarter - not harder - by providing workplace strategies for managing time, dealing with conflict, and giving bad news.
• Incorporates practical strategies to promote critical thinking with evidence showing why and how the strategies apply to real life.
• Emphasizes the importance of ethics- and standards-based professional practice in a world of increasing accountability to keep both you and your patients safe.
• Incorporates cultural, spiritual, and lifespan content throughout and addresses nurses' roles in hospitals, communities, and long-term care settings for a balanced, comprehensive look at critical thinking.
• Pre-Chapter Self-Tests help you focus on learning outcomes by identifying your learning needs.
• Independent learning is easy with user-friendly features such as Key Points, Critical Thinking Exercises, unique HMO (“Help Me Out”) cartoons, and much more.

• New illustrations clarify key concepts and reflect the latest developments in critical thinking.
• UNIQUE! Applies brain-based learning principles through the use of strategies that challenge the mind to help you gain a better understanding of the content.
• A wealth of new content, including problem-focused versus outcome-focused thinking, prioritization, novice and expert thinking, evidence-based practice, and more, provides you with the latest information in the field.
• UNIQUE! Other Perspectives and Critical Moments vignettes with giraffe and elephant icons make learning this important information fun and engaging.
• Covers the Institute of Medicine's competencies and delegation strategies based on the ANA's Principles for Delegation.
• NCLEX® examination-style review section includes multiple-choice questions to helps you prepare for board exams.

Well-known for its authoritative and comprehensive coverage, complete treatment of pediatric pathophysiology, and the most extensive illustration program in its field, the 5th edition of this classic book has been extensively revised and updated. Part One presents the general principles of pathophysiology and discusses the influence of the environment and the role of genetics in the development of disease. Part Two, organized by body system, examines normal anatomy and physiology, alterations of function in adults, and alterations of function in children.

• Comprehensive coverage provides unparalleled discussion of disease processes.
• Extensive full-color art program illustrates disease processes and clinical manifestations of diseases.
• Life span content includes ten separate chapters for the pediatric content and special headings for aging content within the structures and functions chapters.
• "What's New?" boxes highlight the most current research and findings.
• "Nutrition and Disease" boxes show evidenced-based links between concepts of health promotion and disease.
• Algorithms throughout the text illustrate the sequential progression of disease processes.
• Detailed chapter outlines with page numbers provide easy access to content and overview of topics.
• Chapter introductions provide a rationale for learning the content about to be presented.
• Consistent presentation of each disease includes epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and evaluation and treatment.
• Key terms are highlighted in each chapter and listed with page numbers for easy reference and chapter review.
• Chapter summaries provide concise synopses of key points and serve as a built-in content review.
• An "Introduction to Pathophysiology" provides an entrance to the study of disease and defines basic terms.

• More than 90 "What's New?" boxes present the most current research available.
• Includes approximately 310 new full-color illustrations.
• A new companion CD-ROM with over 750 review questions and answers and 20 animations.
• Now includes a comprehensive glossary of approximately 1,200 terms to help students with the often difficult terminology related to pathophysiology.
• Infection content is presented in a separate chapter to better organize content on mechanisms of self-defense.
• Extensive revisions and updates of every chapter, particularly: inflammation and immunity, stress, cancer, pain, the reproductive system, and urinary and renal systems alterations.

KEY BENEFIT: With each edition of her top-selling "Human Anatomy & Physiology" text, Elaine N. Marieb draws on her own, unique experience as a full-time A&P professor and part-time nursing student to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way. With the "Seventh Edition," Dr. Marieb has teamed up with co-author Katja Hoehn to produce the most exciting edition yet, with beautifully-enhanced muscle illustrations, updated coverage of factual material and topic boxes, new coverage of high-interest topics such as Botox, designer drugs, and cancer treatment, and a comprehensive instructor and student media package. The Human Body: An Orientation, Chemistry Comes Alive, Cells: The Living Units, Tissue: The Living Fabric, The Integumentary System, Bones and Skeletal Tissues, The Skeleton, Joints, Muscles and Muscle Tissue, The Muscular System, Fundamentals of the Nervous System and Nervous Tissue, The Central Nervous System, The Peripheral Nervous System and Reflex Activity, The Autonomic Nervous System, The Special Senses, The Endocrine System, Blood, The Cardiovascular System: The Heart, The Cardiovascular System: Blood Vessels, The Lymphatic System, The Immune System: Innate and Adaptive Body Defensives, The Respiratory System, The Digestive System, Nutrition, Metabolism, and Body Temperature Regulation, The Urinary System, Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance, The Reproductive System, Pregnancy and Human Development, Heredity For all readers interested in human anatomy & physiology.

Gerontological Nursing 6TH EDITION by Charlotte Eliopoulos. Lippincott-Raven Publishers,2005

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Journey Across the Life Span: Human Development and Health Promotion 2nd EDITION by Daphne R. Taylor. F.A. Davis Co,2002

Diane Whitehead takes the role as the lead author with the newest edition of "Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management". The biggest change past users will find over the previous edition is the use of four color throughout the entire text. The new design provides a fresh look to accompany the new and revised content from cover to cover. New content includes coverage of contemporary workplace issues, including agency nurses and staff shortages. With the easy-to-read style, instructor focus, comprehensive content, emphasis on current issues and trends, and the new full-color design - the fourth edition will appeal to novice faculty looking for teaching strategies applicable to today's students.

American Psychological Association publication manual

Book by Carolyn Jarvis, Marian Luctkar-Flude

Ideal for quick reference in the clinical setting, this guide summarizes essential assessment skills with color pathology photos and illustrations, examination steps for each body system, normal versus abnormal findings, lifespan and cross-cultural considerations, nursing diagnoses, and summary checklists.

Key Message: Elaine Marieb's clear and friendly writing style emphasizes the relevance of anatomy and physiology to students' lives and careers. It clarifies concepts, defines key terms, and offers just the right balance of anatomy, physiology, and clinical coverage to make the content complete without being overwhelming. Key Topics: The Human Body: An Orientation, Basic Chemistry, Cells and Tissues, Skin and Body Membranes, The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Nervous System, Special Senses, The Endocrine System, Blood, The Cardiovascular System, The Lymphatic System and Body Defenses, The Respiratory System, The Digestive System and Body Metabolism, The Urinary System, The Reproductive System. Market: For those interested in learning the essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology

Anatomy and Physiology Coloring Workbook is an excellent tool for anyone who is learning basic human anatomy and physiology. The author's straightforward approach promotes and reinforces learning on many levels through a wide variety of visual and written exercises. Along with its review of the human body from microscopic to macroscopic levels the workbook also includes practical, clinically oriented activities. The Human Body: An Orientation, Basic Chemistry, Cells and Tissues, Skin and Body Membranes, The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Nervous System, Special Senses, The Endocrine System, Blood, The Cardiovascular System, The Lymphatic System and Body Defenses, The Respiratory System, The Digestive System and Body Metabolism, The Urinary System, The Reproductive System. For all readers interested in learning the basics of anatomy and physiology.

A DAVIS'S NOTES BOOK!

The 3rd Edition of this popular resource continues to provide practical, clinically oriented content for the delivery of safe and effective health care in hospital and home settings. Its handy pocket size and waterproof pages are great on the go, while NCLEX tips make it perfect for preparing for the NCLEX^®-PN exam.

Thoroughly revised and updated, you'll have access to even more of the commonly-used by rarely memorized clinical information that nurses and students need.

This guide will help you prepare to write the Canadian Practical Nurse Registration Exam (PN Exam). It contains a complete practice exam and answers and explanations for each exam question.