Designed as a last-minute gut check for the certification exam, this guide, written by medical-surgical nurses, provides quick, digestible nuggets of the most pertinent topics they encounter on the Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board (MSNCB) and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) exams. It can be used in conjunction with other study aids to ensure nurses are as prepared as possible for the exam. The certification helps to ensure quality patient care, indicates expert knowledge in the area of practice, and builds trust on the part of the patient and facility. It also establishes a high level of standards within healthcare, strengthens the nurse’s resume and job qualifications, and increases the potential for earning power. The book follows the most recent exam content outlines from the Certified Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (CMSRN®) Certification Examination and the Medical-Surgical Nursing Board Certification Examination blueprints and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what nurses need to know. It helps nurses solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information including complications, nursing pearls, alerts, pop quizzes, and a list of abbreviations. The nursing pearls cover additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention. The alerts include need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations or when to transfer care. The pop quizzes cover critical-thinking questions to test nurses’ ability to synthesize what they have learned. Nurses encounter ethical dilemmas in caring for patients, including issues concerning access to care, informed consent, and treatment goals. Legal issues for nurses include both professional-centered and patient-centered concerns. The book deals with these professional and legal issues and the ways to address them. It serves as a quick refresher for registered nurses preparing for their certification examination.

This book serves as a clinical guide to assist clinicians in prescribing psychotropic medications to address mental health conditions. It is used to assist clinicians to understand the key aspects of psychopharmacology. This is the first practical guide for novice and experienced nurse practitioners for explaining and choosing appropriate psychiatric medications. This clinical reference is ideal for students and all clinically oriented healthcare professionals since it provides concise, bulleted-style text for easy access to pertinent information. The book offers readers a broad understanding of the key aspects of psychotropic medications used in general psychiatry and primary-care settings and includes strategies to ease medication decision-making and evidence-based best practices to select and manage psychotropic medications. It is organized into two parts. Part I begins with an overview of general pharmacological principles and a brief overview of neurotransmitters, and covers the rationale for medication use and the risks and benefits of the major classes of psychotropic medications. Part II includes medications across drug classes that are divided by age population and includes practice management strategies, safety considerations, drug interactions, identification of side effects and adverse reactions, basic laboratory test recommendations, treatment options, and self-management strategies. The book ends with important concepts for patient and/or caregiver education and advocacy. It is intended for clinical healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, APRNs, and other healthcare clinicians who need a practice guide, test review, or clinical resource guide that is easy to access and use.

Nursing Home Administration, Eighth Edition, includes over 50 years of the authors’ collective experience, research, and knowledge in the nursing facility industry. This newest edition is fully updated in all areas and is organized into six parts. Part 1, “Learning How to Manage the Healthcare Organization,” introduces the reader to the concept of the nursing facility administrator being the leader of the facility. Part 2, “Understanding the Departments and Managing Human Resources,” introduces the many departments of the nursing facility and their functions, as well as how each department is dependent on the others. Part 3, “Learning to Manage the Organization’s Finances,” examines the financial role of the administrator. The nursing facility administrator must be an expert in finance, billing, budgeting, financial documents, and accounting. Part 4, “Learning the Continuum of Long-Term Care,” discusses the framework of federal, state, and local laws. The administrator must be aware of Medicare, Medicaid, and other laws to be successful. Part 5, “Building Your Resident Care Skills,” provides fundamental clinical aspects within the facility. Part 6, “Putting the Systems Together,” provides a cursory set of developed policies and procedures upon which a facility can operate. The nursing facility administrator and the director of nursing are uniquely responsible for the quality of care and quality of life of the residents/patients and staff in their facility. Successfully administering a nursing facility is one of the most complex and challenging tasks one can undertake, and one of the most rewarding professional commitments available in the healthcare field.

At no time in recent memory has the practice of public health leadership been more challenging. This book, and its accompanying set of diverse and accessible learning experiences (interviews with notable leaders, case studies, self-assessments, reflection exercises, and the like), provides a solid foundation for the practice of leadership in organizations focusing on such leadership topics as strategic leadership, systems thinking, team leadership, change leadership, and the development of others. Further, the book exposes readers to the challenges, actions, and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health and healthcare crises—from after-action reviews to interviews and insights from those on the front lines—culminating in the development of a leadership framework to inform leadership practice. The intended audience for this textbook includes candidates for MHA, DrPH, and MPH degrees, as well as leaders in healthcare, health administration, and public health seeking to further develop their leadership practice. Although key leadership theories will be explored and integrated, the primary focus of this book is on the practice of leadership. The key differentiating feature of the book is that it gives voice to those who practice leadership and have the credibility to discuss the popular as well as the academic literature on a topic—building on a solid foundation of theory, skills, behaviors, and lessons about the challenges leaders face and the contexts in which they must succeed. The book also provides a wide and rich array of learning experiences that incorporate lessons and insights from public health and healthcare leaders. It is organized into four parts. Part I details leadership basics. Part II focuses on key leadership theories and their application. Part III discusses the context and challenges of leadership practice. The final part focuses more specifically on the practice of leadership.

This book was designed to be a high-speed review – a last-minute gut check before the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB) and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) exam day. The authors created this review, which is a quick summary of the key topics one'll encounter on the exam, to supplement their certification preparation studies. They encourages the reader to use it in conjunction with other study aids to ensure the readers are as prepared as possible for the exam. This book follows the most recent exam content outlines from the PNCB and ANCC, and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what one need to know. The aim of this book is to help the readers solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. It is written by certified pediatric nurses who are familiar with the exam and the content one need to know. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information, including: Complications: Problems that can arise with certain disease states or procedures; Nursing Pearls: Additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention; Alerts: Need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations or when to transfer care; Pop Quizzes: Critical-thinking questions to test one’s ability to synthesize what one learned; and List of Abbreviations: A useful appendix to help guide you through the alphabet soup of clinical terms.

This book has been designed to be a high-speed review—a last-minute gut check before the C-EFM^® exam day. The authors created this review, which is a quick summary of the key topics one”ll encounter on the exam, to supplement their certification preparation studies. They encourage the readers to use it in conjunction with other study aids to ensure they are as prepared as possible for the exam. This book follows the National Certification Corporation’s (NCC) most recent exam content outline. It uses a succinct, bulleted format with sample electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) tracings to highlight essential knowledge. The aim of the book is to help the readers solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. It is written by certified nurse practitioners who are familiar with the exam and the content one need to know. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information, including the following: Complications: Problems that can arise with certain patient conditions or procedures; Nursing Pearls: Additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention; Alerts: Need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations or when to transfer care; Pop Quizzes: Critical thinking questions to test ones’ ability to synthesize what they learned; and List of Abbreviations: A useful appendix to help guide us through the alphabet soup of clinical terms. Chapters cover maternal and fetal physiology, internal and external fetal monitoring equipment, fetal assessment methods, EFM pattern recognition, fetal and maternal complications, ethical and legal issues, and more.

This book is about how to manage healthcare operations. It combines clinicians’ and administrators’ viewpoints to provide a common platform and framework for building competitive advantage through superior operations. A strategic perspective is taken by achieving excellence in the four competitive priorities of an operations strategy: quality, cost, on-time and fast delivery, and flexibility. The competitive priorities should not be pursued in isolation. They are indeed interrelated, with excellent quality laying the foundation for performance in the other competitive priorities, and with targeted improvement initiatives having synergistic effects. The book is organized in six parts, with a special emphasis on the competitive priorities. Part one covers a brief history of healthcare, the challenges it faces today, the role of operations in overcoming these challenges, and describes the process of strategy development, and addresses the concepts and techniques of project management. Part two covers methodologies, tools, and techniques central to quality improvement. Patients’ perceptions of quality (the “voice of the customer”) are translated into objective process metrics using a framework called the “house of quality”. Total quality management, Lean, and Six Sigma principles are described along with tools and statistical process control techniques to uncover problems and direct improvements. Part three deals with process analysis and design principles, and presents techniques to determine optimal capacity levels and formulate patient-centric schedules. Part four covers quantitative forecasting techniques and qualitative techniques such as the Delphi method, emphasizes the importance of selecting the right suppliers and managing relationships with them, and explores the concepts related to the costs of healthcare services. Part five explores the multiple facets of flexibility and its drivers and highlights the role of technology in facilitating the flow of consistent information, part six mentions the merits of accreditation and urges organizations to go beyond meeting the standards.

This book was designed to be a high-speed review—a last-minute gut check before the exam day. The authors created this review, which is a quick summary of the key topics one’ll encounter on the exam, to supplement to their certification preparation studies. They encourages the readers to use it in conjunction with other study aids to ensure they are as prepared as possible for the exam. This book, written by certified critical care nurses, follows the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ (AACN®) most recent exam content outline, and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what one need to know. It will help the readers solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information, including: complications: Problems that can arise with certain disease states or procedures; pearls: Additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention; Alerts: Need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations; pop quizzes: Critical-thinking questions to test your ability to synthesize what you learned; medication tables: Handy tables at the end of each body system chapter highlighting the indications, mechanisms of action, contraindications, and adverse effects of commonly administered medications; and list of abbreviations: A useful appendix to help guide you through the alphabet soup of clinical terms. We know life is busy. Being able to prepare for our exam efficiently and effectively is paramount, which is why the authors created this book. One have come to the right place as they continue on their path of professional growth and development. The stakes are high, and the authors want to help us succeed.

This book was designed to be a high-speed review —a last-minute gut check before the exam day. The authors created this review, which is a quick summary of the key topics one’ll encounter on the exam, to supplement to their certification preparation studies. They encourages the readers to use it in conjunction with other study aids to ensure they are as prepared as possible for the exam. This book follows Competency & Credentialing Institute’s (CCI®) most recent exam content outlines, and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what one need to know. The aim of this book is to help one solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. It is written by certified perioperative nurses who are familiar with the exam and the content one need to know. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information, including: complications: problems that can arise with certain disease states or procedures; pearls: additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention; alerts: need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations or when to transfer care; pop quizzes: critical-thinking questions to test our ability to synthesize what we learned; unfolding scenarios: case studies that develop over the course of the chapter to challenge our critical -thinking skills; and list of abbreviations: a useful appendix to help guide us through the alphabet soup of clinical terms. We know life is busy. Being able xto prepare for our exam efficiently and effectively is paramount, which is why the authors created this book. One have come to the right place as they continue on their path of professional growth and development. The stakes are high, and the authors want to help us succeed.

This book was designed to be a high-speed review—a last-minute gut check before the exam day. The authors created this review, which is a quick summary of the key topics one’ll encounter on the exam, to supplement to their certification preparation studies. They encourages the readers to use it in conjunction with other study aids to ensure they are as prepared as possible for the exam. This book, written by certified critical care nurses, follows the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ (AACN®) most recent exam content outline, and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what one need to know. It will help the readers solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information, including: complications: Problems that can arise with certain disease states or procedures; pearls: Additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention; Alerts: Need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations; pop quizzes: Critical-thinking questions to test your ability to synthesize what you learned; medication tables: Handy tables at the end of each body system chapter highlighting the indications, mechanisms of action, contraindications, and adverse effects of commonly administered medications; and list of abbreviations: A useful appendix to help guide us through the alphabet soup of clinical terms. We know life is busy. Being able to prepare for our exam efficiently and effectively is paramount, which is why the authors created this book. One have come to the right place as they continue on their path of professional growth and development. The stakes are high, and the authors want to help us succeed.