Offers a succinct yet comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding specialty of forensics nursing. This up-to-date, evidence-based resource addresses all facets of forensics nursing, including legal and ethical issues, conducting interviews, trauma-informed care, delivering expert testimony, and documenting injuries.
Written in a clear and concise manner, this text provides a core framework and useful skills and strategies to successfully lead nursing and healthcare forward. Chapters delve into discussions of leadership skills and personal attributes of leaders with minimal repetition of material covered in associate degree program.
This accessible, hands-on text, for new grant writers and seasoned health researchers, educators, and clinicians alike, illuminates the process of writing a persuasive request for funding from start to finish. Packed with practical tips for dealing with common pitfalls besieging grant seekers, the text progresses step by step from establishing the need for the grant through disseminating grant findings. This third edition is distinguished by key information about newer grant mechanisms and a fresh focus for foundation and corporate grants. It also includes updates on electronic submissions and web resources.Useful supporting features include examples and underlying principles for each guideline, examples of grants and specific elements that lend themselves to the development of PowerPoint slides for traditional or online classroom use, real-life examples from actual grant applications, and links to online resources to support searches for grant funders and websites supporting grant applications. Armed with savvy tips and advice from the authors-an experienced grant writer, grant reviewer, and grant consultant-readers will be able to write a persuasive grant with ease.NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION:Top-notch grant writing guidance for all health professionalsInformation about newer grant mechanisms emphasizing community-based and patient-centered outcomes research grantsFoundation and corporate grants focusing on population health, personalized health, and interprofessional team grants that include community collaborations and corporate partnershipsImportant information on the Patient-Centered Research InstituteGuidance on how to involve stakeholders and communities in study design and implementationUpdates on electronic submissions and web resourcesNew coauthor who is a successful PCORI awardeeInstructor's PowerPoint slidesKEY FEATURES:Describes the process of writing a persuasive request for funding from start to finishDelivers practical tips from experienced authors for dealing with common pitfalls and difficultiesIncludes examples and underlying principles for each guidelineProvides real-life examples from actual grant applicationsHelps readers to apply principles for selling and justifying the grant to their own proposals
Illuminates the essential information about health and social work critical to understanding today's complex health care systems and policies. Chapters highlight current practice, policy, and research in different settings and with special populations. Readers learn how to advocate for the individuals, families, and communities they serve to help improve health and well-being for all.
Tests and reinforces your knowledge of key concepts, critical studies, and major clinical guidelines, with the most important radiation oncology citations included. Detailed questions cover natural history, epidemiology, diagnosis, staging, treatment options, and treatment-related side effects all in a newly configured format.
Filled with key insights and field-tested knowledge, this is a concise, hands-on guide to how interdisciplinary team strategies can advance the care of older homeless adults. The book encompasses research evidence, education-based initiatives, and systems thinking, and describes how to implement promising health care outlooks for diverse elderly populations in a variety of localities.
"?This guide by Stabler-Haas sets itself apart in its direct, kind, and professional tone...Notably, it concludes with chapters about success beyond graduation...Recommended.?--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Written with candor and good humor, this "Fast Facts "guide for students in diploma, AD, BSN, and RN-BSN level programs features the information that nursing students really need to know in order to achieve excellence up to and beyond the NCLEX. Incorporating many real-life examples (drawn from more than 1,000 students taught by the author), "Fast Facts for the Student Nurse" clarifies common issues such as choosing a major, work/study arrangements, and difficulties associated with living at home. It discusses the NCLEX, licensure, continuing education, and graduate education, and helps readers identify what type of learner they are and how to capitalize on their strengths. Checklists to facilitate important decision making and charts and tables with ""hot topics"" are also included. Key Features: Provides, in "Fast Facts" format, all of the information new and experienced nursing students need to know for classroom and clinical success Helps readers identify their learning style and capitalize on strengths Covers the NCLEX, licensure, continuing education routes, graduate education, and how to survive the first year of practice "
Provides a clear, comprehensive review of ethical standards and guidelines by the ACA and APA and distils the essence of both to find common ground for counsellors and psychologists to understand and engage in ethical decision-making. The text also facilitates critical thinking regarding the complex intersections of legal requirements and ethics codes in a way that is easily understandable.
This practical, evidence-based resource is the first available guide for health care providers and mental health professionals on advising and counselling couples and individuals who are experiencing sexual issues directly related to conception efforts, pregnancy, and the post-partum period.
Written by and for NPs and PAs in the primary care setting, this is the first clinical reference to focus solely on managing health concerns that are specific to men. Filling a gap in knowledge about this patient group, this reference delivers evidence-based guidelines for the day-to-day management of male patients.
A monumental compendium of Caring Science past, present, and future. This groundbreaking work is an encyclopaedic reference on the full spectrum of Human Caring Science. With contributions from highly accomplished scholars and practitioners from six continents, it spans the evolution of Caring Science from its origins 40 years ago through its ongoing innovation and development and into the future.
This is a comprehensive guide to the basics of Mindful Hypnotherapy (MH), a new modality that delivers a mindfulness-based intervention within a hypnotic context. The book encompasses everything a clinician needs to know to fully understand and apply the approach in clinical practice. The result of a collaboration between a leader in the field of hypnosis and a mindfulness meditation expert, the book elucidates step-by-step clinical strategies and provides verbatim transcripts that professionals can put to use immediately.The resource first introduces the foundations of mindful hypnotherapy, supported by research evidence. Using a session-by-session approach, it describes how to structure sessions, evaluate a patient's hypnotic ability, deal with resistance, and create individualized clinical applications.Key Features:Embodies an innovation collaboration between a leader in hypnosis and a mindfulness expertDelivers verbatim transcripts of mindful hypnotherapy for immediate useProvides guidance on structuring sessions, setting goals, assessing hypnotic ability, dealing with resistance, and creating individualized treatmentGuides the clinician in addressing specific psychological issues such as stress, anxiety, and well-beingA Mindful Self-Hypnosis Daily Practice Log enables therapists to track progressAbundant case examples illuminate the process of mindful hypnotherapy and present real-life treatment interventions for a range of problemsIncludes guidelines for formulation of hypnotic suggestions and therapeutic metaphors related to mindfulnessProvides an overview of training and personal growth as a mindful hypnotherapist
"As the twin demographic shifts of population aging and diversity speed forward in America, it is hard to imagine a timelier or more needed work."- Paul Irving, Chairman, Milken Institute Center for the Future of AgingThis timely and critical book takes on a new phenomenon facing the United States and poses the stark question: Will the United States be prepared by 2050, when its older population doubles and we become a majority-minority society? In the authors' response, scholars, policy leaders and the public are provided with the background and information that connects these two trends to contemporary public policy debates. Written with clarity and expertise, this book illuminates the changes and challenges that face the nation by concisely addressing a wide range of topics, including immigration reform, the politics of aging, and health and retirement security, and provides a glimpse of how the "next America" might look.The authors draw on current data about longevity, diversity and the growing Hispanic population in particular, to unfold the social, cultural, policy and political implications for an aging and diversifying population. With case studies and real-world examples, the book outlines and analyzes the possible impact of this phenomenon on issues like governance, public benefits, the long term care work force and national security, and builds a broader framework with which to understand them. With combined experience in academia, government and policy advocacy, the authors tackle the dramatic changes occurring across the United States and offer a road map to not only understanding but addressing these challenges and opportunities with reason and responsibility.Key Features:Presents the most current statistics and data on demographicsWritten by an interdisciplinary team with combined experience in academia, government and policy advocacyIncludes case studies and real-world examples to build a broader framework of understandingAddresses social, policy, cultural and political challenges facing a rapidly changing population and offers rational and respectful responses
Unpacks key global health issues and analyses the surrounding health care policies and their impact through case studies. Designed specifically for graduate nursing students, this text explores the implications of global initiatives designed to eradicate disease and promote physical and mental health.
Delivers a proven treatment model for clinicians in all orientations. This unique, hands-on clinical guide examines the significant relationship between trauma, dissociation and eating disorders and delivers a trauma-informed phase model that facilitates effective treatment of individuals with all forms of eating disorders.
Now in its second edition, this practical, pocket-sized reference has been updated to include the groundbreaking changes to stroke care protocols. This resource fills in the gaps left in neuroscience content in nursing school and streamlines an often intimidating, but critically important, area of care.
Featuring current, valid, and reliable evidence-based content, this is an unparalleled resource for disaster and emergency preparedness. While natural and man-made disasters are not new, the global nature, rate, type and totality their impact has increased. This fourth edition addresses the rapid changes in these crises and analyses attempts to provide timely, multidisciplinary health care.
A concise guide for the multidisciplinary management of cancer survivors. Each chapter is authored by a team consisting of a seasoned oncologist and an experienced practitioner. Chapters reflect the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and cover the high-yield pearls and clinical applications that lead to quality patient care outcomes.
Written for new and aspiring nursing faculty, this unique book delivers broad teaching principles alongside strategies for selecting the best technology. It has been substantially revised to reflect changes within the health care system and includes two completely new chapters.
Written for practicing Paediatric and Family Nurse Practitioners, and PNP and FNP students, this paediatric primary care text expands upon the crucial role of the health care provider to assess, identify, and intercept potential behavioural health problems. The content in this book is built upon strategic, evidence-based measures to evaluate and treat behavioural health.
Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative guide to provide a comprehensive overview of professional coaching. Grounded in current research, it addresses the historical, ethical, theoretical, and practice foundations of professional coaching, and examines key therapeutic approaches.
A practical guide to the theory of strategic planning and the principles of strategic management that apply to all organisational settings. This text provides a solid theoretical framework, supplemented with examples and a common case, which is reinforced by hands-on practical student exercises and chapter-specific worksheets.
Focuses specifically on orienting and guiding trainees in the field of behaviour analysis through the practicum and supervised experience. Clear and succinct, this book provides comprehensive information on the competencies as required by the fifth edition the BACB (R) Task List.
Provides an analysis of Florence Nightingale's legacy that goes beyond established scholarship to examine her lesser known-and arguably even more important-writings beyond Notes on Nursing. The book demonstrates afresh her unparalleled and ongoing influence on professional nursing, on the core concepts of health, disease, and access to care as we understand them today.
Based on candid interviews with 35 nurses who were deployed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the first book to reveal the stresses and moral dilemmas they experienced as they transitioned back into everyday life. The nurses share their difficulties with family separation, clinical reassignments, PTSD, the perceived stigma of seeking mental health counselling, and compassion fatigue.
Offers practical information on every aspect of teaching an online course. Foundational educational theories and concepts including new insights from cognitive psychology are explained and linked. The core sections of the text focus on online course design that includes drafting course objectives and a syllabus and crafting discussion questions or cases.
Designed for both new registered nurses and nurses transitioning to a new clinical area, this extensive clinical reference is the only resource to provide essential information on more than 300 topics from 11 specialty areas. Concise and practical entries provide fundamental coverage of the most common clinical problems and issues encountered in nursing practice today.
"This book builds upon my early work and the work and others by offering a comprehensive guide to practitioners interested in facing and helping to heal trauma and manage the drama systemically with a special focus on children and adolescents. The FST Model is a contribution to the fields of trauma, family sciences, and human development practice." --Charles R. Figley, PhD; Kurzweg Chair in Disaster Mental Health at Tulane University in New OrleansThis is the first book that addresses trauma treatment for child and adolescents using a Family Systems Trauma (FST) model which goes beyond individual therapy to include the child and their entire family.Co-written by a renowned family therapist who created the Parenting with Love and Limits® model, it delivers a research-based , step-by-step approach that incorporates the child's immediate family along with their extended family to treat the traumatized child or adolescent.Using a "stress chart," the child or adolescent's trauma symptoms are quickly identified. This strategy guides therapists in accurately diagnosing root causes of the child's trauma and culminates in the creation of co-created "wound playbooks" to heal trauma in both the child as well as other family members.Additional helpful features include extensive case examples, a menu of trauma techniques, wound playbook examples, evaluation forms, client handouts, and other practical tools to provide the therapist with a complete guide to implementing this approach. Child and family therapists, social workers, mental health counselors, and psychologists working in a variety of settings will find this book a valuable resource.Key Features:Provides a step-by-step, practice focused, time-limited modelUses a family systems approach for addressing child and adolescent trauma--the only book of its kindIncludes useful tools such as checklists, client handouts, and evaluation forms
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