This book attempts to correct the dearth of nursing-relevant information about religions. The information in the book can help nurses to avoid being negligent to patients whose religiosity overtly and covertly influences their responses to health-related challenges and transitions. The book redresses the damage done by the prevailing discourse in the nursing literature that disparages religion in favor of a generic spirituality. It is divided into two parts. Part I discusses religion and nursing care, and explores the need for nurses to offer religious “interventions” at the bedside, provides information about how to talk with patients about religion and information about how to assess religiosity, addresses how nurses can support overt rituals, and offers legal and ethical perspectives in integrating this information in clinical care. The last chapter in this section reflects on the impact of a nurse’s religiosity on nursing practice. Several federal laws and most states have “conscience clauses”, which allow a nurse to refuse to participate for religious reasons in an abortion, sterilization, and often other procedures. Section II is the focal point of the book since it features contributions from 22 religionists who are not only experts about a faith tradition but also adherents of it. The religious groups covered in this section include Anabaptist-descended groups, Anglicans and Episcopalians, Baptists, Christian scientists, Latter-Day Saints, Lutherans and Methodists, Orthodox Christians, Pentecostals, Roman Catholics, Jehovah’s witnesses, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and atheists.
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This book is a must-buy book, particularly for creating and integrating clinical simulations in nursing program. It presents step-by-step guidelines for nursing faculty to design, develop, and implement clinical simulation scenarios in diverse settings, with diverse patients, and for different levels of students, from the novice in a fundamentals course to the student in a senior-level critical care or capstone course, to a nurse practitioner in a graduate program. The book is organized into four parts: (a) setting the foundation, (b) innovative nursing scenarios in diverse settings for diverse students, (c) interdisciplinary and inter-professional scenarios, and (d) simulation journey containing fifty-six chapters. Part I provides an introduction to simulation-focused pedagogy with an explanation and updates on the Framework for Simulation Learning in Nursing Education©. Part II presents a collection of 27 exemplars divided into five key areas of specialty undergraduate nursing: (a) medical-surgical; (b) obstetric and pediatric; (c) older adult; (d) thematic scenarios on cultural humility, Quality and Safety Education in Nursing, and mental health; and (e) advanced practice nurses. Part III focuses on 16 scenarios that capture many of the key themes in nursing, including ethics, spirituality, palliative care, communication, and cultural humility. Part IV explores the continuing simulation journey in nursing education. The role of certification in simulation for nursing education has been updated to incorporate the changing landscape. It also presents a model for “writing across the curriculum” that focuses on how to write like a nurse in clinical simulation environments, support for publishing simulation work, and evolution of simulation and its integration in nursing curriculum and practice. The book provides concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including static and live actors, and low-, medium-, and high-fidelity human patient simulators.
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Preparing nurses and other health professionals to provide quality health care in the increasingly multicultural and global society of the 21st century requires a comprehensive approach that emphasizes cultural competence education throughout professional education and professional life. The ideas and suggestions presented in this book are offered to stimulate new ideas and invite health professionals to explore new paths on the journey to developing cultural competence in themselves and in others. The book is divided into five parts. Part I is composed of three chapters filled with resources to help educators begin teaching cultural competence. Essential background information about the multidimensional process of teaching cultural competence offers a valuable guide for educators at all levels who are planning, implementing, and evaluating cultural competence education. Educators and researchers are continually challenged to measure outcomes following educational interventions. Part II addresses this challenge by introducing several quantitative questionnaires and assessment tools and discussing implementation and data interpretation strategies in a detailed, user-friendly approach that can be easily adapted by novice and advanced researchers. The tools include Transcultural Self-Efficacy Tool (TSET) and Clinical Setting Assessment Tool-Diversity and Disparity (CSAT-DD). Parts III, IV, and V offer a wide selection of educational activities that can easily be applied by educators everywhere. Three chapters provide a general overview and a menu of activities for use in three areas: the academic setting, the health care institution, and professional associations. Five chapters creatively link strategies via detailed case exemplars that spotlight various populations and settings. The book’s final chapter presents important implications for educators everywhere.
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This book provides an overview of nursing professional practice models; their potential value to patients, nurses, and health systems; an orderly process of ensuring their translation into daily workflow; and the requisites for demonstrating their impact. It highlights the contribution that exemplary professional nursing practice can make to patients, families, professional nurses, and the health care system, given a systematic and thorough approach to its integration. The book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the definition, value, and disciplinary need for professional practice models (PPMs), and includes practical steps required in preparation for model integration. The emphasis of Part II is eventual enculturation and it fulfills this purpose through repeated examples and exemplars, concentrating on the nurse–nurse leader relationship and associated strategies. Chapters deal with the importance of the chief nursing executive during the implementation of PPMs, usage of unit-level formative data, adoption of Quality-Caring Model and learning how PPM became a Magnet exemplar. Part III centers on sustaining the "transformed culture" and spreading PPMs through specific communication mechanisms, and special relationships and practices. This part of the book concludes with a chapter on creating impact— influencing change beyond the doors of a single organization—adding value, and building an impressive future. Examples and other resources are presented in the appendices.
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This book on leadership and management includes all of the basic content that registered nurse (RN) -to- bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) students need. It is organized into 5 parts comprising 17 chapters. Part I provides introductory information such as leadership attributes, leadership and management roles in professional nursing, and foundational aspects of leadership. Part II discusses leadership skills that are essential to the practice of nursing. Those skills include handling stress, setting priorities, managing time, communication, accountability, delegation, teams, problem solving, decision-making, and confliict resolution. Given the need for nurses to lead us to a preferred healthcare future, Part III focuses on leading change. The book introduces the readers to the factors that influence organizational culture, innovation, change, power, politics, and managing quality and safety. Part IV concentrates on the business aspect of healthcare by reviewing how to manage human and fiscal resources. Finally, Part V of the book helps the reader to contemplate his or her evolution as a professional by discussing how to integrate leadership and management competencies into his or her nursing practice. Although one book cannot cover all aspects of leadership and management, our goal is to provide a core framework and useful skills and strategies to successfully lead nursing and healthcare forward. Each chapter of the book contains essential information that acknowledges the prior learning experience of the practicing nurse who is now an RN-to-BSN or RN-to-master of science in nursing student. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of specific leadership and management topics. The book presents case scenarios throughout the chapters to help readers apply the information to practical situations. It provides concise and application-based examples that help promote selfgrowth as a professional.
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The goal of any nursing program is to graduate competent nurses who are prepared to provide safe care and participate fully within a complex health care system. The need for assessment and evaluation of achievement of student-learning objectives is vital. Undoubtedly, the primary method of student evaluation is through the administration of examinations. This book provides an overview of how evaluation and rubrics fit within the larger nursing education teaching-learning process as more than just a final destination or afterthought. Rubrics should be created with intent, taking into account the student-learning objectives and the teaching-learning process. The book offers practical support for the design of meaningful assignments and provides a process for effective and objective assessment, evaluation, and grading. The first part of the book provides a quick overview of the teaching-learning processes that drive and impact student assessment and evaluation. The second part provides descriptions, uses, and supporting evidence for commonly used assignments. The assignments discussed are: paper assignments, presentation assignments, students’ participation programs, discussion board assignments, reflective journals, case studies, concept maps, poster presentations, and student portfolios. The second part also includes detailed modifiable grading rubric templates for each assignment presented.
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This book highlights the enormity of the problems of child maltreatment and their relationship to poverty and other social ills. The first chapter introduces the reader to the issues that impact children, such as poverty, lack of education, and myriad other problems of child maltreatment including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse; physical and emotional neglect; as well as parental substance abuse and mental health problems. This is followed by a chapter that presents the private efforts to provide services to abused and neglected children that have transitioned through the years into significantly greater governmental roles. Chapter 3 addresses the fact that the majority of families known to the child welfare system live in poverty, and examines the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect, and the increased risk of coming into contact with child protection agencies. While the fourth chapter discusses relationship between the educational system and the child welfare system, the fifth and sixth examine the health issues of families known to child protection agencies, and children in the child welfare system and the juvenile justice system referred to as “crossover” or “dual status” youth. The court system plays a critical role in foster care. Adoption from child welfare agencies typically occurs after foster care placement when it becomes apparent that birth parents will be unable to reunite with their children. It can be extremely traumatic for birth parents to lose their children to the foster care system, and then to adoption.
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This book is devoted to a discussion of the native American Indian health system and nursing. It is divided into three parts. Part I first provides a national and historical look at the peoples of what is now the United States. This is followed by a view of pre- and postcontact indigenous America and the effects on health resulting from policies by the new dominant culture. Next to be introduced is the idea that “nursing” has been occurring in indigenous America long before icons, such as Florence Nightingale, put a face to the profession. An introduction to nursing and the Indian Health Service (IHS) is then followed by health modalities outside of the IHS that is, indigenous knowledge and traditional healing. Part II shows how these experiences are/were played out in the various cultural regions of the United States: Northeastern Woodlands; Southeastern Woodlands; Southwest tribal regions; Great Basin; Indians-habitated California; Pacific Northwest; Alaska; and Northern Great Plains. Urban has been added to the regional groups found in the 48 contiguous states and Alaska. In Part III, the reader explores funding as a major component of increasing care options and access in Indian country. Two chapters discuss the issues of Indian health funding and American Indian nursing education.
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This book can serve as a guided learning text for any student, practitioner, educator, or administrator needing a graceful and inviting guide to translate and integrate the complexities of the abstract, philosophical-ethical worldview underlying the Human Caring Theory; finding ways to live out into concrete daily self-caring practices. It is organized into two sections containing 15 chapters. The book is arranged to provide a simple and direct method for learning about and working with Watson’s Theory of Human Caring. The first chapter describes the use of mindfulness to cultivate understanding of Watson’s Theory of Caring. Chapters two to four presents overview of Watson’s theory, Nhat Hanh’s mindfulness practices and perspectives, and Layers of Caring and Mindful Influence. Chapters five to fourteen describe each of Watson’s 10 Caritas Processes along with project abstracts that illustrate integration of the theory into professional practice in a variety of areas. The 10 Caritas Processes are as follows: embrace altruistic values and practice loving kindness with self and others; enable faith and hope, and honor others; be sensitive to self and others by nurturing individual beliefs and practices; develop helping-trusting-caring relationships; promote and accept positive and negative feelings as you authentically listen to another’s story; use creative scientific problem-solving methods for caring decision making and creative solution-seeking; share teaching and learning that addresses individual needs and comprehension styles; create a healing environment for the physical and spiritual self that respects human dignity; assist with basic physical, emotional, and spiritual human needs; and open to mystery and allow miracles to enter. The concluding chapter provides caring touchstones to support caring consciousness in day-to-day settings.
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This book is a response to the need for nursing students to have resources about core Evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge and competencies for each level of nursing practice degrees. It addresses critical essentials that nursing students must master as they move from one nursing degree level to the next. The book takes an inclusive view of EBP from the perspectives of direct care nurses, advanced registered nurse practitioners, healthcare systems leaders, researchers, and faculty. It aligns EBP content with specific Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) essentials outlined by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and addresses leveling EBP process and content across curricula. The book is organized into four major parts containing 20 chapters. Part I: Conceptual Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice contains five chapters and provides readers with necessary foundational knowledge on which to build clinical decision-making skills based on the best available evidence. Part II: Designing And Implementing Evidence-Based Practice Projects contains six chapters that systematically explore the critical elements of conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating EBP projects. PART III: Science-Based Decisions and Evidence-Based Practice contains three chapters that emphasize the importance of translational research and quality improvement for the implementation and evaluation of EBP. The final part, Evidence-Based Practice: Empowering Nurses contains six chapters that address the importance of an EBP culture and structural empowerment strategies required to achieve and sustain a culture that fosters EBP.
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This book is designed to introduce the historical, global, societal, and scientific events that have patterned and influenced today's health care system. It helps us to understand the significance of the transformation in nursing and the profound influences these changes have had on our approach to nursing practice today. The book showcases the role of nursing and its key place within the development of medicine from ancient and medieval times to the present. It delves into the unique role of the nurse in the care of the injured during wartime; traces the impact of key events, such as Florence Nightingale's effect on the care of soldiers during the Crimean War and nursing's role in subsequent wars, on today's practice of nursing; and describes the future of health care and its direct influence on the nursing profession. The history of the nursing profession is closely intertwined with that of health care, medicine, society, and public policy. This book helps nurses understand the important events and influential nurses that shaped nursing as a professional practice discipline. It provides key information in an easy-to-read format, with "Fast Facts in a Nutshell" identifying key points throughout every chapter. The book includes an interview with a nurse historian, Dr. Jean Whelan. It provides a brief historical overview of the origins of nursing and the profession. The book next focuses on Florence Nightingale and her significant contributions to nursing, nursing in early 1900s and new developments in nursing, such as public health nursing, and the impact of both world wars. It provides a more in-depth account that focuses on the tremendous growth and professional development over the past 100 years. Finally, the book looks closely at nursing theorists and leaders, nursing education, nursing research, professional organizations, and the future of nursing.
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The doctor of nursing practice (DNP) capstone project is a scholarly method to directly impact quality of care and health care outcomes. Translating knowledge into practice and disseminating outcomes for care and policy are consistent with the call for action in the Institute of Medicine report. This book adds to the dialogue by presenting exemplary capstone projects that have provided leadership for change in clinical practice, enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration, promoted advocacy and policy changes, or contributed to quality improvement in health care systems. Each exemplar presented is linked to one or more of the DNP essentials. After a presentation on the impact of DNP degree on clinical practice, the book addresses issues related to the development of the bachelor’s in science of nursing to doctor of nursing (BSN-DNP) capstone curriculum. DNP education is heavily focused on innovative and evidence-based practices (EBPs), and the capstone exemplar describes how a DNP student was guided to design and implement an EBP capstone project. Subsequently, the book discusses burnout as a barrier to practice among nurse-midwives, describes a systems-level change in implementing diabetic group visits in a primary care clinic, and explains the development of a training program for emergency nurses to prevent compassion fatigue and strengthen resiliency skills. One of the chapters is devoted to the development of a data collection tool for microcosting provision of care within the freestanding birth center (FBC) model of maternity care.
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Encompassing the wisdom of both established and emerging nurse leaders, this book demonstrates proof of theory in action and the influence of our great nursing legacy on today’s luminaries as they carve out new terrain to benefit current and future health care needs. Readers are handed both a guidebook and compass for personal-professional growth through the intimate narratives of nursing’s most adventurous pioneers, boldest activists, and emerging voices. The book includes chapters from renowned leaders who discuss aspects of their professional contributions in detail and guide the reader to unleash his or her future potential through the lens of nursing. These deeply connect the reader to one of the main intentions of the book: to assert and validate that nurses and a nursing sensibility are vital for the continued evolution of humanity and to ensure that dignity, humane caring, and compassionate, courageous leadership continue to pave the path for the profession and beyond. The book also encapsulates the experiences, messages, work to date, and future directions of accomplished and inspiring nurses who are continuing the conversations started by those who have laid the groundwork or claiming a new domain with which readers can coidentify. It further provides alternate views of nursing as a discipline, promoting leadership capacity for the reader and encouraging individuality and authenticity in nursing praxis.
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Qualitative research has gained wide acceptance in nursing research. This book examines ethnography as a research design of particular relevance to nursing and provides specific information to guide graduate students or experienced nurses who are novices in the designs in conducting studies from the point of view of patients and their families. It reviews the philosophical basis for choosing ethnography as a research tool and describes in depth its key features and development level. The book provides directives on how to solve practical problems related to ethnography research, nursing examples, and discussion of the current state of the art. This includes a comprehensive plan for conducting studies and a discussion of appropriate measures, ethical considerations, and potential problems. It describes the meaning of health and well-being from the emic viewpoint of rural Nicaraguan men and talks about a study which explored health care providers’ perspectives regarding guideline compliance for rapid malaria testing in peripheral health facilities in Ghana. The book reviews the culture of the indigenous Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, and the application of Leininger’s transcultural nursing theory and describes a study, which examined childbirth in Fiji, compared the culturally specific methods used during childbirth to control pain and to reduce the risk of injury to the mother and the infant. It also deals with the needle exchange program to reduce the incidence rate of hepatitis and presents an ethnographic study done with a small group of poor and working-class Black American women who are sustained by their storefront church. The book also discusses other issues such as recovery of women from alcohol abuse, and personal privacy and interactional patterns in a nursing home.
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This book is the ultimate, all-in-one study guide to the core information nursing students need for success in all of their foundational courses. Fundamentals of nursing introduces readers to the thorough assessment of patients, the nursing process, communication between nurse and patient, cultural differences, functional health patterns, and the overall framework of nursing practice. The book summarizes the points to focus on when studying nursing history. The most frequently tested information was on Florence Nightingale and her influence. The book also focuses on patient care and assessments. Along with communication techniques, nurses rely on the nursing process when caring for patients. The nursing process is a five-step systematic approach to problem solving. It allows the nurse to obtain both subjective and objective information to determine the health care problem. The five steps are: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation, which can be remembered using the mnemonic “ADPIE (A Delicious PIE)”. Based on these steps a care plan is conducted for each patient. The book includes information on health assessment, medical-surgical nursing, emergency nursing, pharmacology, pediatric nursing, women’s health, psychiatric nursing, what to expect in nursing school, and ways to decrease anxiety while test taking.
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This book focuses on basic principles and concepts of the philosophy of science in regard to the education of both Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and PhD nursing students. It focuses on how philosophy of science content is essential to understand evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence. The book first focuses on the nature of practice and practice disciplines, particularly nursing. The nature of practice and its practice boundaries are discussed, along with a discussion of how a discipline is different from a “field”, how disciplinary membership is bestowed, and how its knowledge producers are legitimized. The book promotes the idea that it is the nature of the interpersonal and the ethical that gives rise to the status of the professional discipline. Then, the book concentrates on philosophy, science, and the philosophy of science and explains specific classic and contemporary questions and problems that have been raised by philosophers regarding the nature, function, and practice of science. The rise of nursing science is traced through a 100-year journey of nursing: its maturing scholarship and educational advancement. History, sociology, and cultural commentary are used to examine how nursing rose through a century of world events and evolved to the present state of doctoral nursing education. The book also describes a proposed practice epistemology for the practice doctorate: practice knowledge development.
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This book discusses CenteringPregnancy and CenteringParenting®, their facilitation and implementation, and focuses on prenatal/postpartum/well-baby care. The book has three main sections. The first focuses on the Centering model by describing its basic tenets; delineating the basic assumptions, practices, and outcomes of the first group prenatal care model, CenteringPregnancy®; exploring the three CenteringPregnancy® group care components of health care, interactive learning and community building; and illustrating how a Circle/Centering model may improve the quality of life for new parents. Specific guidelines on the importance of screening women for depression during the prenatal and postpartum periods are presented. Facilitation is presented as the key part of the model design, allowing for group discussion and problem solving that may lead to behavioral change. The second section has three chapters, one on implementation of the model and the other two on expansion of the model: the need for interprofessional education and the development of chronic group care. The third section explores the role of policy and advocacy in the scale, spread, and sustainability of Centering, documents research-funded studies including the integration of Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) into CenteringPregnancy and CenteringPregnancy and Oral Health. Latter chapters deal with how CenteringPregnancy® can address quality of antenatal care (ANC) globally.
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Inpatient Psychiatric Nursing: Clinical Strategies, Medical Considerations, and Practical Interventions serves as a resource for nurses working in inpatient psychiatry, nursing students, and nursing faculty who teach undergraduate psychiatric nursing. Psychiatric nursing practice has changed dramatically to accommodate vast changes in our healthcare system. The patients who now meet the level of care standards for an acute care setting must be very ill and typically exhibit considerable behavioral impairments and multiple safety issues. This handbook for psychiatric nurses and nursing students reflects these changes and focuses on four particularly challenging aspects of acute psychiatric nursing practice: keeping the patient safe, stabilizing symptoms, promoting engagement in treatment, and discharge planning. In a systematic, easy-to-access format, the book offers proven, clinically useful interventions designed to modify and manage disruptive patient behavior. It also includes a chapter on overcoming one’s own barriers to effective nursing in the difficult psychiatric environment. This book is organized according to patient behaviors (Part I) and interventions that nurses can employ to manage behaviors (Part II). In Part I, there is a consistent chapter format so that specific content is easy to access, and each chapter concludes with a comprehensive table covering goals, areas of assessment, and interventions of the chapter’s covered behavior. Part II covers specific types of interventions such as family interventions, medication administration, relaxation techniques, sensory interventions, therapeutic one to one, and managing violence. It is the vision of the editors that this approach will provide a translational model to improve outcomes for psychiatric patients with medical symptoms and for medical patients with psychiatric symptoms. It is for this reason the second edition includes information connecting a variety of medical conditions that may be complicated by psychiatric illness or present with symptoms that may be attributed to mental illness in error. It is intended for any nurse working with patients having behavioral disturbances regardless of the cause.
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This book is a history of nursing in the United States from 1607. It is intended as an introduction to nursing history for undergraduate and graduate nursing students and to others who might be interested in how the profession developed in the United States. The book uses examples of nursing education, nursing leadership, and changes in nursing practice throughout the narrative. The first chapter examines nursing care in the early Colonial period, Revolutionary War and post-Revolutionary period. The second chapter argues that nursing work changed to an organized system of “care by strangers” during the American Civil War. The third chapter describes creation of nurse training schools. Chapter 4 discusses formation of National Organization for Public Health Nursing, Children’s Bureau, and Rural Nursing Service of the American Red Cross. Fifth chapter focuses on the founding and development of first nursing organizations. Sixth chapter emphasizes the importance of innovation in nursing during the Progressive Era. Chapter 7 describes transition towards hospitals as the preferred place for treatment of illness. Eighth chapter describes the role of nursing during World War I and pandemic influenza of 1918. Ninth chapter explores the role of nurses to promote health of mothers and babies. Tenth chapter describes nursing during the Great Depression. Chapter 11 explores the opportunities and challenges of nursing during World War II. Chapter 12 discusses nursing shortage, and the impact of Hill-Burton funding on the rise of the modern hospital. Chapter 13 talks about the rise of coronary care nursing and its impact on nurses’ scope of practice, and military nurses’ work in the Vietnam War. The penultimate chapter describes the response of nurses to a number of national and international health crises such as HIV/AIDS emergency, nursing shortage, and the Persian Gulf War. The final chapter discusses nursing in the 21st century.
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This book is for nurse leaders of the future. It speaks to clinicians who are experts in patient care and are now on a path toward leadership. Several clinician leaders offer their insights in their chapters, while other scenarios and examples drawn from practice appear throughout the book. This book is offered as a resource to those embarking on a journey toward transformational leadership. This work is neither a comprehensive encyclopedia for healthcare leadership nor a traditional text in nursing management. Rather, its purpose is to identify some key issues related to leadership development and contexts for transformational leaders in healthcare. The book is meant to introduce the clinical expert to important issues in their own aspirations toward becoming a leader. It provides a guide to focused current literature and experts on a variety of issues that healthcare leaders face. In this third edition, the authors have made changes to update the messages for present-day and future readers. This new edition expands the scope of leadership to encompass emerging healthcare contexts, transformation of vision, and practice innovations; presents a new chapter describing emerging contexts for healthcare and how to build a respectful culture in which emerging leaders can thrive; and includes a new chapter addressing transformative leadership vis-à-vis changing health care perspectives. It also presents cases and reflective questions that help students apply the theoretical content to their own situations and generate discussion across cohorts of students.
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Understanding the undergraduate college financial aid application process is daunting enough, but entering the unknown nuances of graduate nursing financial aid, which encompasses need- and merit-based grants, scholarships, stipends, “tuition free” work requirements, loan options, loan repayments, and loan forgiveness, can be overwhelming. The good news is that this book offers constructive guidance, substantive information on financial strategies, and how to let Uncle Sam not only support your grad college costs with free money but also assist with using tax initiatives for help with mortgages and retirement. The authors tried to take into account that there are many profiles of a graduate nursing student: a single student in his or her twenties going from undergrad to a master’s in nursing education (
MSN ) program, a nurse who decides to return to grad school after working for several years, or a nurse who has a family with kids in college or who are about to enter college. Regardless of the student’s profile, the authors have provided case studies that the reader can identify with and consider real-life funding solutions. The book offers advice on how, when, and why to appeal a grad nursing financial aid offer—and how to interact and develop a “partnership” with the financial aid office. This comprehensive guide gives nursing students a road map to paying for their advanced nursing degrees. It offers much-needed direction for navigating the complex problem of paying for an advanced nursing degree. The book is meant to be the reader’s financial aid advocate. It provides insight into three key areas: how to overcome unintentional college financial aid barriers and how to manage change; new financial planning strategies to ensure future financial success; and the latest tax planning innovations for your greatest financial return. - Book
This book serves as a guide for students as well as Doctors of nursing practice (DNP) engaged in advance practice in the following specialty areas: leadership, policy, and information technology. The book is organized into five sections comprising 18 chapters. The first section retraces the rich history of advanced nursing practice. It further addresses the evolution of the DNP in the context of contemporary healthcare challenges and culminates in a discussion of how the DNP can influence the essential changes identified in The Future of Nursing reports. Section II takes the reader through the process of clinical scholarship, beginning with the definition of clinical scholarship and the evolution of students into scholars. Section III explores the application of the DNP essential, the role and continual evolution of the nursing profession. It gives concrete guidance on how to gain valuable leadership experience in the clinical setting and discusses the unique skill set needed for the advanced practice registered nurse and executive nurse leader. Section IV highlights three important essentials of the DNP curriculum: evidence-based practice, health information technology, and outcomes measurement. The final section addresses policy, politics, and the DNP. With the advent of the degree, national organizations and nursing leaders were engaged in discussion and the objectives for the practice doctorate defined. The book discusses the importance of developing a community for DNPs as a place to connect within the discipline. Healthcare economics and health reform unquestioningly represent both obstacles and opportunities for nurses engaged in advanced practice. Finally, the book culminates in a discussion around the need for global nursing leadership and the DNP.
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This enlightening book takes the reader on a journey from understanding the multiple components of a faculty role to searching for one’s first appointment, and, finally, to advancing in one’s career and making significant and sustained contributions to nursing education. It was written primarily for novice educators and graduate students preparing for a career in nursing education. The book is divided into ten chapters. Chapter 1 sets the stage for faculty role development and provides an overview of issues, trends, challenges, and opportunities affecting the nursing profession, the U.S. health care system, higher education, and nursing education. Chapter 2 discusses what is involved in assuming nursing faculty role. Chapter 3 describes the job interview process and presents examples of interview questions that prospective employers might ask, as well as questions that we might ask employers. Chapter 4 presents a discussion of the traditional tripartite mission for nursing faculty and about policies and procedures common to all academic institutions. Chapter 5 focuses on one of the most important aspects of teaching role-how to establish meaningful, effective student-faculty relationships. Chapter 6 discusses the teaching role in detail. It presents the more operational facets related to teaching, including what factors influence how institutions define the teaching role, types of faculty appointment, and how faculty workload and teaching assignments are determined. Chapter 7 presents a discussion about developing as a scholar in faculty role. All components of the Boyer model of scholarship are presented. Chapter 8 provides descriptions of academic, professional, and community service. Service at the local, regional, state, and national levels is discussed. Chapter 9 presents strategies for short- and long-term career planning. In the final chapter, the Afterword, the authors share their personal stories as nurse educators. Each chapter includes exhibits that summarize important information and case studies.
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This book is part of the Critical Topics in an Aging Society series. It serves as a catalyst in the technological transformation of aging services through organized presentation and evaluation of tools for a broad health care audience. Geriatrics interprofessional care is a fundamental part of older adult clinical practice modeled on a team approach inclusive of various fields, among them social work, pharmacy, nursing, rehabilitation, administration, and medicine. All clinicians who treat older adults, from the independent to the frail, are engaged in geriatrics team care which is continually adapting and evolving for individuals based on functional status changes, new treatment paradigms, and different settings of care. The need for advanced technology is clearly evident as one enters a hospital, nursing home, or geriatric care setting, including the patient’s home. Older adults have limited abilities to adapt to changes across these care locations, and thoughtfully implemented technology may eliminate these obstacles while providing safer, more enjoyable, and cost-effective care. The book presents some of the latest medical technological innovations and discusses options to help improve not only transitions of care, but also independence and quality of life for older adults. It is organized into four sections. The first section discusses current major challenges in aging and targets for technology, and promoting technology adoption and engagement in aging. The second section focuses on transitions of care and technology integration, home telehealth, and telemedicine and its effects on elder care in rural areas. Section three explores technology design for frailty, technology and cognitive impairment, advances in medication adherence technology, and technological advancements in pain management in elderly population. The final section describes personalized medicine and wearable devices, social robots and other relational agents to improve patient care, artificial intelligence and its potential to improve health, and advances in health education technology.
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Education of the advanced practice registered nurse (
APRN ), especially as clinical application becomes more complex and clinical sites become more challenging to locate, requires additional expertise on the part of the educator. This book provides some insight into the additional methodologies that are available to the educator to address some of these challenges. Unlike other simulation books, this book is dedicated to advanced practice nursing students, their faculty, and the simulation staff that support their training. One third of the content is dedicated to narrative entries written forAPRN students, faculty, and simulation staff, each with timely topics surroundingAPRN training as well as sound advice from recent graduates, faculty experts, and leaders in the simulation field. The remaining two thirds of the book is dedicated to detailed clinical simulation cases arranged byAPRN specialty. These simulation scenarios are designed to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning in advanced practice nursing students, newAPRN graduates preparing for boards, noviceAPRNs enrolled in onboarding or internship programs, experienced nurse practitioners looking to transition to a new clinical practice area, and advanced practice nurses seeking a review. The prepared simulation cases in this book will aid in alleviating the faculty/staff workload for design and allow the focus to primarily rest on support and implementation to enhance and measure outcomes. The book provides a method and firm foundation for transforming graduate nursing education to competency-based clinical evaluation, empowering programs with standardized templates and interprofessional education options for each case to advance graduate simulation education and research. This comprehensive guide includes all of the most commonly seen and most clinically prevalent clinical scenarios for allAPRN specialties. It also includes a broad range of scenarios not commonly found in other simulation books. - Book
With the move towards assuring the public that nursing students are graduating with the needed competencies to step into their very important careers, competency-based education (
CBE ) has become increasingly important. This book describes how competence is the outcome and how nursing students can rise to meet the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills needed to become professional nurses that make a positive impact on the health of individuals, families, and communities. The Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) crisis has underscored the importance ofCBE . Nurse educators throughout the country have analyzed standards, criteria, regulations, and student learning outcomes to define the competencies needed during this disruptive time in nursing education. Nurse educators have creatively and innovatively assisted nursing students to meet the needed competencies in alternative formats, thereby ensuring graduates will have the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills needed to become excellent professional nurses. The book is arranged to assist nurse educators to understand and reflect on the concepts and components ofCBE , as well as the pragmatic implementation ofCBE . It is a clear, succinct tool needed by nurse educators to move from a traditional nursing curriculum to one that ensures that nursing students are ready for today’s healthcare challenges. This book format uses examples and evidence to assist nurse educators to take the first steps in moving a nursing program towards aCBE and ensuring nursing graduates are ready to face evolving healthcare needs and future events. - Book
In this important book, the authors and contributors provide a clear roadmap for nursing educators, leading to what the author believes is essential if nurses of the future are to be equipped to make a real difference in healthcare in the future. The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the transformative teaching of caring science, this book reflects the paramount scholarship of caring science educators. The volume intertwines visionary thinking with blueprints, living exemplars, and dynamic directions for the application of fundamental principles. It features emancipatory teaching/learning scholarship, and student/teacher, relation/evaluation models for adoption into education and practice regimens. Divided into five units, the book addresses the history of the caring curriculum revolution and its reemergence as a powerful presence within nursing. Unit II introduces intellectual and strategic blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented approaches for faculty-student relations, teaching/learning skills, emancipatory pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creative approaches to evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. The third unit addresses curriculum structure and design, the evolution of a caring-based college of nursing, the philosophy of caring-human science, caring in advanced practice education, caring as a pedagogical approach to nursing education, and teaching-learning professional caring based on Watson's theory of human caring. Unit IV explores an alternative approach to evaluation. The final unit explores the future of the caring science curriculum as a way of emancipating the human spirit, with caritas nursing as a transformative model. The Unit overview introduces the chapters that are within it and the concepts covered in each chapter. Each chapter is structured to maximize student engagement by providing reflective exercises, called “Time Out for Reflection”, and “structured learning activities” that encourage the integration of theory and practice into the learning process.
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Healthcare delivery system reforms initiated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act emphasized the health of populations and social determinants of health. These areas are central to public and community health nursing practice. The core processes of community assessment, program planning, implementation, and evaluation remain relevant to advanced public and community health nursing practice. This book assists graduate students in public and community health nursing and other nursing specialties who focus on population health to become competent advanced practice nurses. The book is organized into six sections containing 21 chapters. Section one comprising two chapters provides the learner with an introduction to public and community health nursing specialty practice and foundations for this advanced level of practice. Section two provides the depth of knowledge needed by the advanced practice nurse to competently conduct community assessments. Section three takes the learner through the steps needed to develop coherent and high-quality program plans. Section four provides the learner with the necessary information to implement program plans at the individual, group, or community level. The section five addresses program evaluation in-depth, providing detailed content on how to develop an evaluation plan and revise programs. The final section directs the learner’s attention to graduate preparation in public and community health nursing as well as to the leadership role in creating a professional practice environment. The book suggests clinical or practicum activities that assist the learner to apply the content in a variety of ways and settings. It also presents examples of actual programs or projects conducted by advanced public and community health nurses.
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This book on nursing care of adoption and kinship families begins with a chapter, which focuses on the historical, cultural, and legal landscape that has shaped adoption and kinship care in the United States and describes the types of adoption, trends in adoption, and processes involved in adopting a child. This is followed by a discussion highlighting the common health care needs of both adoptive and kinship children. Some birth parents do not voluntarily release parental rights of their children and experience grief and postpartum depression after relinquishing a baby. Parental postadoption depression (PAD) should be screened for by advanced practice nurses (APNs) to optimize parental functioning and avoid negative outcomes. The book discusses the broader issues like maltreatment of children, educational and social issues, and transracial adoption, and the outcomes of children adopted by same-sex individuals. It explores the role and needs of kinship parents, a unique, vulnerable, diverse population with health risk factors compounded by the responsibilities of raising children as older adults. Complex and diverse relationships exist among birth parents, their children, and the kinship caregivers who have stepped in as surrogate parents. Children under the care of kin experience maltreatment and traumatic events. The book also provides an overview of systems and practices that surround adoption and kinship triads.
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This book provides specific and practical information and guidelines for clinical nursing professors/instructors. It addresses key fundamental elements of clinical teaching. This book is organized into seven major parts containing 21 chapters. The first chapter presents the basic facts of clinical teaching and includes the expectations for many experienced and novice instructors. The second chapter helps to assess basic knowledge of standard rules and policies in nursing education. The third chapter differentiates the opportunities and challenges posed by various types of clinical sites and the variety of requirements dictated by the site and course specialty. Chapter 4 reviews the priority tasks for the clinical instructor. Chapter 5 highlights the orientation day and provides a sample template for that day. Chapters 7 and 8 review characteristics of “high fliers” and “not-so-high fliers”. Chapters 9 and 10 discuss the importance of student self-evaluation and provide evidence to support a mid-term and final evaluation even if the clinical rotation is as brief as 4 days. Chapter 11 describes warning signs for students who are in danger of failing. Chapter 12 presents the most common grading systems used in nursing programs. Chapters 13 and 14 address preconference and postconference time. Chapter 15 provides insights that will prepare the clinical instructor for certain unplanned events such as lateness in student arrival. Chapter 16 highlights alternative assignments. Chapter 17 provides several examples of unsafe practice events. Chapter 18 contains a survey taken from senior nursing students within 1 month of graduating from a baccalaureate nursing program. Chapter 19 stresses the importance of self-care and the role it plays in modeling the same for your students. Chapter 20 discusses the responsibility of clinical instructors regarding writing letters of reference. The final chapter updates the current thinking about the utilization of the simulation lab in nursing curricula.
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This book is unique in its contribution to the theory textbook literature with its goal of expanding nursing’s knowledge-generating capacity by engaging nurses in theory and knowledge development through their practice lenses. It presents philosophical, historical, practical, and theoretical perspectives regarding practice-centered knowledge development. The book is divided into fifteen chapters. The first chapter discusses nursing knowledge. In the second chapter, intermodernism is featured as a philosophy of nursing science and practice that synthesizes important tenets of other philosophical views. The third chapter discusses doctoral nursing roles in knowledge generation. Chapter four describes practitioner-centered research. Chapters five, seven, nine, twelve, and fourteen are presented as interludes where readers can pause and explore specific aspects of knowledge development in reference to their own nursing practice and research. The sixth chapter discusses knowledge translation in terms relevant to the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) project, and presents models along with specific guidelines for the DNP project process. Chapter eight talks about creating a nursing intervention out of a passion for theory and practice. The tenth chapter presents history and future possibilities of clinical scholarship. The goal of chapter eleven is to guide and encourage nurses to be knowledge generators by engaging in practice-based evidence research in settings where they may practice or teach, from point-of-care with patients to system level health care. Chapter thirteen presents a paradigm for the production of practice-based knowledge. The final chapter addresses ethical and epistemic considerations as rationales for the move to practice-based evidence research beyond traditional evidence-based practice procedures. The book is intended for graduate-level nursing students, particularly students enrolled in DNP and PhD programs, nurse practitioner students, and master’s level nursing students.
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Incivility, bullying, and workplace violence in nursing is a significant problem–so much so that the American Nurses Association (ANA) developed a position statement in 2015 addressing the issue (ANA, 2015). ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements notes that nurses are required to “create an ethical environment and culture of civility and kindness, treating colleagues, coworkers, employees, students, and others with dignity and respect”. This book explores the topic and gives the reader practical hands-on skills on how to identify and deal with this phenomenon. It provides detailed information, emphasizing why it is not okay to put new nurses “through the ringer” because we were once in that position. The book is intended to be a “field guide” to bullying and incivility: how to define, recognize, and deal with the behavior. It helps in understanding workplace violence in health care and the cost of nurse bullying on the health care system. The book explores the effects of bullying on the nurse and how to resolve and heal these effects, and the movement for formal workplace bullying legislation. It describes the responsibilities of nursing leadership and the employer and explains how to resist nurse bullying. Finally the book presents four case studies on bullying and the student nurse, bullying and the novice nurse, bullying in nursing education, and bullying in nursing administration.
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Choosing the journey to pursue a doctoral degree is an exciting time but can also be an arduous experience. The authors believed that it would be extremely helpful to have a practical guidebook that clearly identified the options available to a nurse with a
DNP degree. This book provides a current overview of the roles that can be held byDNP -prepared nurses and how to successfully use the degree to enhance an individual’s practice choices. It emphasizes the different role options available to nurses pursuing theDNP degree, including those who remain at the bedside or the clinic and those who assume leadership and faculty positions. This engaging handbook delivers practical guidance on the burgeoning roles and career opportunities afforded by theDNP degree, as well as the knowledge and skills required for career advancement. It provides students and professionals with a fundamental understanding of the value of theDNP degree and how it supports opportunities for nurses to shape the future of health care at academic, policy, organizational, site, and patient-care levels. Following an overview of theDNP degree along with a discussion of key competencies required for success in anyDNP arena, the guide examines the various roles aDNP graduate can hold. The chapters highlight potential career paths, education and certification requirements, opportunities and challenges, and the integration of relevant American Association of Colleges of NursingDNP Essentials. The book delivers practical guidance on theDNP degree, potential roles, and career opportunities, describes how to integrateDNP Essentials into practice, and discusses key competencies required for success in anyDNP role. It illustrates potential career paths with education and certification requirements, promotes self-reflection with thought-provoking questions, and includes resources for further exploration. - Book
It is the professional obligation of nurse preceptors to ensure that a preceptorship of the highest standard is provided. A high-quality preceptorship will help to ensure that the nurse or student (preceptee), will deliver quality, patient-centered care that is safe and has its foundation in evidence-based practice. This book presents a foundation for preceptorship of newly graduated registered professional nurses from traditional and accelerated programs. It briefly reviews students from nurse practitioner (
NP ) programs as well. Quality and safety are paramount issues in nursing practice. It is because of this that they should be emphasized throughout nursing education and preceptorship. The book is full of practical how-to guidance, evidence-based resources, and references for further reading, and it is a must-read for any nurse who has been a preceptor or may become a preceptor. It unlocks what every new nurse preceptor needs to know to be successful with a preceptee, whether the preceptee is a nursing student in their final semester or a new nurse on orientation. The book covers everything necessary in a fast, factual, easy-to-read format. It is a great resource for seasoned nurses as well, with its comprehensive review of basics like shift organization, prioritization, communication, delegation, and conflict resolution. It also covers the dreaded reality shock that new nurses will face after the honeymoon phase, how to recognize those who are struggling, how to encourage critical thinking, and how to prepare for the future when the preceptorship is over. Throughout the book, the author gives great examples of problem-solving dos and don’ts, checklists, and forms. The book is also an excellent resource for educators looking to implement nurse preceptor programs in their workplaces, and a great textbook for preceptor students. - Book
Healthcare needs for our military and veterans is something that has a long history and will continue into the foreseeable future. The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have answered the call in many ways to enhance services and programs to meet the needs of service members, a large growing group of Post-9/11 veterans, and their families. The care of military service members, veterans, and their families is a national public health concern and as nurses we have a duty to provide care to this population in a culturally sensitive manner. Military service members, veterans, and their families deserve culturally sensitive patient-centered care. This book undertakes to honor the sacrifices of our military and veteran populations and to provide all nurse educators one comprehensive resource they can turn for ideas and suggestions incorporating care of these individuals into the courses they teach and the clinical experiences of students and practicing nurses. It not only addresses what every nurse should know about military culture and the unique healthcare needs of this population, but also what and how to teach the content and engage student veterans in the classroom. The book is divided into three sections. Section I provides a context for understanding the importance of military and veteran healthcare in nursing education. Section II describes major health issues and disabilities that are unique to the military and veteran population. It covers occupational and environmental exposures specific to military training and deployments as well as common physical injuries. Lastly, Section III discusses on teaching nursing students about the healthcare needs of this population by focusing on what should be taught and suggestions on how to do to it. It includes competencies for students, faculty, and practicing nurses, along with examples of assignments in both classroom and clinical settings.
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A comment in the preface of the last edition was that some things are the same and some things are different. In this edition, the conclusion is that some things are the same, and they are the basics of teaching and learning online. The very different things include technology and new structures for teaching and learning. What is on the horizon? In addition to traditional education, massive online open courses, certificates, badges, and stackable degrees will provide education for the purpose of training and retraining. This edition is still about using the web and all its richness to teach students and professional nurses how to use technology and to maintain competency and embrace lifelong learning as a nursing professional. This book describes definitions, history, and best practices for teaching online, and they form a foundational knowledge base for teaching. It identifies the impacts of demographics, finance, technology, and career development on teaching and learning using alternative teaching structures. Pedagogy and the study of learning provides the theory to develop effective educational programs. The book introduces theories and frameworks that guide the development and use of flexible learning environments. Guiding structures of online learning are applicable when developing traditional and alternative learning environments. The book also deals with reconceptualizing course content from face-to-face to an online environment; creating blended-learning environments; developing, teaching, and evaluating professional education; and establishing the pedagogical foundations of teaching continuing medical education. The technology courseware and software necessary to teach in online environments, manage online learning, and assess and evaluate learning in online environments are pertinent topics for teaching online. The book finally introduces the characteristics that the nurse educator needs in developing and teaching in flexible and creative environments and explains how nurse educators are supporting the direction of the future trends for nursing.
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This book begins by exploring how the role of the nurse practitioner has evolved and will continue to play an essential role in shaping healthcare–both today and in the future. Nursing has long been referred to as both an art and a science. It is a practice discipline. Advanced practice registered nurses (
APRNs ) typically maintain competency by obtaining certifications, attending conferences, reading journals, and completing continuing education activities. The book describes what was learned and provides the reader with the current standards of practice in the evaluation and management of conditions typically presented in primary care settings. It stimulates both critical thinking and clinical reasoning. The book serves as a resource to advanced practice nursing students as well as practicing nurse practitioners. Each chapter presents a different clinical specialty area. Common primary care conditions are described with corresponding management plans. Although scientific and evidence-based, the format presents information to the reader as part of a journey, making the book more accessible than the traditional textbook. Global, complex health challenges must be solved in interdisciplinary, collaborative ways, andAPRNs must work alongside all members of the healthcare team meaningfully and effectively. The goal of this book is for a seasoned nurse practitioner to share practical guidance, which supports the reader to be better prepared in the provision of high-quality primary care to their clients and families. - Book
This book is a tremendous resource for researchers and clinicians alike and serves as a core text for students in doctoral nursing and other health sciences programs. Its detailed, step-by-step approach to designing, implementing, analyzing, and scaling interventions into real world settings will assist novice and skilled researchers alike. The inclusion of comparative effectiveness research is notable as health systems, clinicians, and patients want and need to make choices between available alternatives—understanding which intervention "works" for which patients in which settings. The book is organized into six parts comprising 29 chapters. It begins at the pilot study phase for intervention research and highlights every step of the way through to full-scale randomized controlled trials. Written in user-friendly format, the content covers designing, conducting, analyzing, and funding intervention studies that improve healthcare quality and people's health outcomes. Chapters cover writing grant applications and show examples of actual applications that have been funded by NIH and other organizations. The book provides additional content on how to move research-based interventions more quickly into real-world settings. It describes evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) and specific steps in conducting EBQI projects, which are essential for enhancing healthcare quality, safety and costs along with enhancing population health outcomes. The book also highlights real-world examples of evidence-based quality improvement projects that have improved outcomes. It emphasizes the importance of interprofessional teams and focuses on using research-based interventions in real-world settings.
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In order to assist both Doctor of Nursing Practice project (
DNP ) students and faculty members who teach inDNP programs, the author has developed a book that provides the steps as to how to develop aDNP project. The book provides a practical and logical sequence as to how to complete theDNP project. Each chapter has been written from the perspective of a new graduateDNP student or new faculty member who is beginning to teach in aDNP program. Specific content for each chapter has been provided with rationales and evidence-based content so that both theDNP student and a new faculty member can use the text to understand each content area. The book begins (Part I) with an introduction to the clinical project, stages for implementation of the project, and the basics involved for submission to an institutional review board. Part II provides information about how to collect, analyze, and interpret the data consistent with the project. Part III includes how to work with the clinical staff, interprofessional collaboration, team building, and examples of debriefing all participants in the project. Finally, Part IV involves specific content related to the interpretation and dissemination of findings and how to contribute as a clinical scholar. The book provides the basis for understanding how to successfully implement and complete theDNP project. The tools provided within each section of the book assist theDNP student or new faculty member with lifelong learning skills that can assist in the transition fromDNP student to future faculty member or clinical scholar. The uniqueness of the book lies in its practical approach to completing theDNP project. Finally, the book may assistDNP faculty with the development of their own clinical scholarship. - Book
This book is designed to be a high-speed review a last-minute gut check before the exam day. It provides a quick summary of the key topics one will encounter on the exam, to supplement to certification preparation studies. It can be used in conjunction with other study aids to ensure that one is as prepared as possible for the exam. The book follows the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board’s (
AANPCB ) and American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC ) most recent exam content outlines and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what you need to know. It helps solidify the retention of information in the month or so leading up to the exams. It is written by certified nurse practitioners who are familiar with the exam and the content one needs to know. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information, including: complications, pearls, alerts, pop quizzes, list of abbreviations and images. It reviews the examination information for certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP )/Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner through theAANPCB and theANCC . While the blueprints for both exams differ significantly, the book has been organized by organ system, as mostFNP and Adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioners (AGACNP ) students study using this methodology. Being able to prepare for the exam efficiently and effectively is paramount, which is why this Express Review is created. - Book
This book is addressed to nurses, administrators, nursing academics, nursing students, as well as other health care professionals, and to the interested general reader. Nightingale was far ahead of her time in setting out the core principles of the new nursing profession, with demanding ethical standards and continuing education to keep up with best practice. The book is organized into two parts containing twelve chapters. Part I, Nightingale’s Nursing: Then and Now, presents what she wrote and did in key areas of nursing and health care: patient care, health promotion, ethics, infection control, pediatric nursing, long-term and palliative care, administration, and research and policy development. Part II, In Nightingale’s Own Words, takes the reader into Nightingale’s best writing itself. It provides selections of Nightingale’s most important writing from 1858 to 1893, thus facilitating the tracing of her ideas as they evolved. Nightingale’s writings are categorized into Nightingale’s early writing on hospitals and nursing, Nightingale’s writing on nursing for the poorest, and Nightingale’s late writing on nursing, hospitals, and disease prevention. The book shows how Nightingale interacted with leading physicians and other health science experts. The prime purpose of this book is to bring Nightingale’s ideas and work to the attention of nurses today, not as a historical figure but as a source of principles, vision, and sound practice in the here and now.
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This book provides innovative ways to incorporate aging content into courses, trainings, and workshops for students or professionals. It presents activities which offer hands-on approaches to engage students of all backgrounds–from social workers to family caregivers, medical students to demographers, nurses to community planners, personal care attendants to students in introduction to gerontology courses. These faculty-tested, peer-reviewed educational activities cover topics ranging from physical aging, media, and demographic portrayals of older adults to disaster planning, public policy, and diversity among older adults. The book includes 32 unique and interesting activities. Each activity comes with detailed instructions, basic back-ground information, a materials list, and an explanation of how the specific content aligns with one or more of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) competencies for undergraduate and graduate education in gerontology. The book is divide into eleven chapters. The first chapter explores teaching courses on aging, and the potential of experiential learning activities to engage students. The second chapter discusses ageism and aging in the media. The next four chapters talk about dementia, demography, health care, and housing for older adults. The seventh chapter describes physical aging. Chapter 8 analyzes public policy and aging. Chapter 9 describes positive interactions with older adults. Chapter 10 explains research projects and papers, and the final chapter discusses spirituality.
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The first edition of Fast Facts for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner book is created specifically for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (
AG-ACNP ) students and new hires as well as forNPs who are changing positions or moving to a new organization. This book presents critical information at theNP’s fingertips for quick reference in clinical settings. It is designed to be kept in the pocket of a lab coat or handy on a computer on wheels and to be used during clinical rotations and in everyday practice.AG-ACNPs can use the book as review material for exams, a reference in clinical or simulation settings, writing case studies, and applying to patient care while in practice. It is unique in that it provides many tables and charts to provide large amounts of data in a condensed format. The book is designed to be a quick reference with helpful information in an easy-to-access format. It has quick tips on medication dosing, ordering diagnostic tests, documentation, and billing. Most importantly, many fine nuances and quick tips for each body system are included. While theAG-ACNP program provides a solid foundation, many important details cannot be memorized and take time and repetition to engrain into daily practice. To apply the concepts in the book, one requires a broader and deeper understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnoses, and treatments of diverse acute, acute on chronic, and critical care conditions. - Book
Global health policy should be of interest to nurses and other providers involved in all aspects of the healthcare, including practice, education, and administration. This book disseminates policy analysis of key health issues that have a global impact from the perspective of nurses. It is a compilation of case studies that highlight global initiatives to eradicate disease and promote health. The contributors are nurses who possess expertise in the global implications of the health issues and related policies of selected topics. Some of the topics included are transgender health, immigrant healthcare, chronic disease, human trafficking, pandemics, and infection control. These topics, as well as the others covered, are timely and of global significance. The case study approach provides the reader with an in-depth treatment of each topic’s health issue and the global policy implications. The goal of the book is to provide the unique perspective of nurses who live and work with these implications as they strive to provide care and educate future nursing professionals. Because the case studies presented provide an overview of a variety of significant global health issues and the policies that impact them, the book is appropriate for students of public health and medical anthropology/sociology as well as graduate nursing students. The book is organized into three parts. Part I discusses policy implications for global health, some of the policy-related research around major disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics of recent years, and policies related to healthcare funding for immigrants and refugees. It also documents the case study of two foreign-born physicians experiencing transition from foreign medical doctor in the country where the medical degree was obtained to nurse practitioner in the United States. Part II discusses exemplars of health policy in specific countries and Part III discusses exemplars of health policy related to specific conditions.
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This timely book was inspired because of the need for a clinical book which addresses the needs of acute care nurse practitioners. It builds upon the work of acute care nurse practitioners over the last 20 years. The book is designed to prepare the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner student for those complicated and complex clinical situations one may not have yet explored fully in the didactic part of the program. Chapters cover complex care problem in the acute care setting with the most current evidence-based information. Using an interprofessional approach, the book focuses on clinical decision making and collaboration. It is organized by first by body systems then by disease process. Each disease process is then broken down into causes, assessment findings, diagnostic testing, and treatment and management sections. This will allow one to correlate assessment findings, order appropriate diagnostic testing, and identify appropriate management and treatments. The final chapter includes billing, assessments, and documentation. Templates for documentation and billing are also included. The easy to read and follow book includes clinical tips and tricks, normal lab values, causes, assessment findings, treatment and management, and critical level treatment. The key feature is the clinical tips & tricks boxes. These are clinical tips that help as quick tips or bits of information on certain disease processes. These are important facts are knowledge bits that are used frequently in practice. Areas that are commonly found in practice are also often found on tests as well, so it is helpful to know this material. The book provides the foundation needed for new graduates as well as seasoned acute care nurse practitioner’s information to practice at the highest level of nurse practitioner practice.
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The integration of technology with nursing curricula is a dynamic and increasingly necessary step in the evolution of nursing education. Schools of medicine have been using some form of virtual patient for over 40 years. The National League for Nursing has endorsed simulation as a teaching methodology to prepare nurses for practice across the healthcare continuum. This book offers nursing educators and administrators thoughtful and well-planned simulation integration strategies, and illustrates how students may use technologies to maximize learning and support practice. The book presents, explores, reflects, and expands on a new model for technology integration with nursing curricula. The Faculty Administrators Students Technology Simulation Integration Model© (FAST SIM) provides a framework for guiding and evaluating the technology integration. The book is organized into four section comprising 19 chapters. Section one describes the evolving virtual learning landscape. It assess the virtual learning landscape, and describes the application of FAST SIM as the basis for integrating virtual educational technologies. Section two presents faculty perspective on pedagogical applications and specific integration strategies. It discusses the opportunities, challenges, advantages, and disadvantages of virtual technology integration. The section also explores the role of faculty in integrating virtual simulations and describes the design and creation of virtual gaming simulations in nursing education. It presents nursing student simulation scenarios within a virtual learning environment and discusses enhancing the rigor of virtual simulation. Section three describes a student’s journey encountering a virtual learning environment. It discusses mentor role in virtual simulation–mediated learning, and creating interprofessional simulation scenarios in virtual learning environments. The section also explores advancing nursing informatics knowledge and skills using a virtual learning environment. The final section presents an administrative perspective in navigating the chasm when a profound difference exists among stakeholders, viewpoints, and feelings regarding virtual simulation.
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This book provides both health professional students and experienced practitioners with the cognitive strategies for clinical leadership and opportunities for applying these strategies to the realities of advanced clinical practice. It offers advanced practice providers (APPs) a clear focus on clinical leadership while providing an important differentiation between true leadership skills and behaviors and mere task-oriented management skills. The book reports on various leadership theories/models and uses meaningful leadership research evidence that relates well to real-world clinical settings while cautioning the reader to understand that research findings may not always produce predictable leadership outcomes. It is an excellent resource for the next generation of leaders in health care. The book is organized into four parts. The first part discusses clinical leadership traits and behaviors. Part two presents administrative leadership strategies for physician assistants and nurse practitioners, vis-à-vis the financial principles of clinical leadership and change strategies used by clinical leaders to achieve desired, planned change in complex health care environments. Part three describes the human aspects of clinical leadership such as the importance of clinical leaders being ethical and culturally informed in their advanced practice; the potential for and qualities of being a spiritual leader in a clinical setting; teaching others and leading other leaders in a clinical setting; and resiliency of the clinical leader in preventing burnout. The final part invites readers to look ahead to the future and ponder the possibilities of a desired future for health care.
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Transitioning to a leadership role in evidence-based practice (EBP) means acquiring the necessary research appraisal knowledge and skills. This book includes a broad range of research examples from both qualitative and quantitative paradigms in different practice settings to gain that appraisal expertise. Practice evidence needs to be evaluated and critiqued to make the evidence actionable. The book provides exemplar critiques that are accessible to those students and nurses who are enhancing their research skill set, engaging in scholarly inquiry, and developing as professionals and leaders in health care reform. This book is organized into two parts containing 16 chapters. Each chapter includes a research study, published in a nursing or health care journal, and a research critique conducted by an experienced nurse researcher. The first part provides critiques of 11 quantitative research studies utilizing various methodologies, such as a randomized controlled trial, and correlational and cross-sectional descriptive studies. The second part includes three qualitative studies. Quantitative research seems to be especially challenging for students to critique while at the same time easier to understand implications for practice. The research problems and phenomena of interest addressed in the studies reflect concerns of nurses in contemporary practice, such as compassion fatigue, use of opioids for pain management, and geriatric nursing home falls. In addition, two of the studies address global health issues childhood immunization in the Philippines and betel nut chewing among Palauans. Nursing students as well as their faculty will find this book a useful adjunct to course content. Students are provided with 14 exemplars of critical analysis of research literature, reinforcing critique as an essential skill for acquiring knowledge for evidence-based practice.
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This book reflects the ongoing efforts and leadership of nurses to provide guidance and inform pediatric and child health nurses with standards of excellence as it pertains to the commonalities of practice that intersect with all areas of pediatric nursing. The guidelines provide a road map along the continuum to address health and the determinants of health for nurses in all roles providing care to children, teens, and their families. The book is organized around the identified guidelines of nursing excellence. It presents these seventeen guidelines as chapter titles. Each chapter concludes with a case study illustrating use of the guideline. The book will be an invaluable resource for nursing colleagues in clinical practice, education, research, and policy making. The following are some of the guidelines of nursing excellence addressed in the book: 1) Children and youth have an identified health care home (medical home). 2) Children, youth, and families receive care that supports growth and development. 3) Children, youth, families, and health care providers are partners in decisions, planning, and delivery of care, including appropriate community services. 4) Cultural values, beliefs, and preferences are integral to family-centered care. 5) Family concerns are recognized as a priority, and family strengths are respected and supported in the care of children and youth. 6) Children, youth, and families have high-quality, affordable, and accessible health care. 7) The child’s, youth’s, and family’s needs are identified, prioritized, and services are offered. 8) Children, youth, and families receive care that optimizes wellness, promotes and maintains physical and mental health, and prevents disease and injury. 9) Pregnant adolescents and women, children, youth, and families have access to genetic and genomic testing and genomic-appropriate counseling. 10) Children and youth receive care that is delivered in a physically and emotionally safe environment.
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This book provides a high-quality resource on evaluation for nurses. It addresses the special needs of Doctorate of Nursing Practice nurses to understand the principles of conducting large scale evaluations, and translating those principles into developing smaller projects, such as unit-based projects or projects required in
DNP degree programs. Along with the higher expectations forDNP nurses come greater opportunities to lead evaluation teams and influence high-level decision making in all areas of health care. The book recognizes that the reader does not necessarily read a book from first chapter through the last. The intended audiences for this book are students enrolled in master and doctoral level programs, including advanced practice registered nurses (APRN ) andDNP programs;DNP graduates and practicingAPRNs ; nurse administrators; directors of quality improvement; faculty teaching evaluation; and others interested in evaluation of health care from a practice and clinical perspective. The book provides an overview of the state of the science and knowledge of evaluation, and its application to common practice issues in whichDNP ,APRN , and master's prepared nurses lead and participate. Students, graduates, and colleagues provided information about their particular needs which was greatly appreciated. The intent of this book is to lay a foundation in evaluation forDNPs /APRNs to assume their important role in the process. Evaluation principles (concepts) as applied to health care continue to be underdeveloped and evolving. Evaluation is a nonlinear and messy process. While there is no one right way to conduct an evaluation, it is driven by the intended purpose and use of the evaluation findings.