This book offers leadership lessons for aspiring nurse leaders from luminaries in business, medicine, philanthropy, government, academia, research, and health care. It offers practical advice, lessons learned, and testimonials as to how nurses can prepare themselves for leadership, which in turn, will help them to provide exceptional patient care. As per the report of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the heightened roles of the professional nurse allow nurses of all practices to more fully develop their leadership skills. Nurse leaders are moving the interprofessional collaboration agenda forward by serving in key leadership positions. A nurse leader who led public research in the Kent State University and Bowling Green State University challenged the common perception that successful leaders are born, complete with the requisite temperament and talents. Nurses who play leadership roles can fill in research on health care policy formulation and implementation that will change the course of health care payment, delivery, and quality. The book discusses nurse research leadership from an economist’s perspective, hiring leaders to understand leadership, and nursing leadership lessons from an association executive’s perspective, from a physician’s chief executive officer’s perspective, from a nursing friend’s perspective and from a collaborative team’s perspective. The book also highlights nursing leadership’s contributions to safety and quality, how leadership can usher in health reforms and achieve better health for all people, and advancing the cause of transformational nurse leadership.

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.

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.

Workplace mental illness, the absence of basic human caring, and stress are all growing realities in our culture and our time. Nurses are subjected to assault, harassment, addictions, violence, and bullying, which unnecessarily add stressors to the day’s regular workload of managing complex patient care. In several of these situations, a lack of work-life balance contributes to these unwarranted attacks. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the contributing factors to workplace stress and how to revisit our work life and our own mental health. The book is divided into four parts. The first part establishes the importance of creating a healthy work environment. The second part describes the roles and responsibilities of health care institutions, workplace managers, and individual employees in creating, fostering, and continuing healthy workplace attitudes and respectful behaviors. The third part of the book investigates the variety of situations within a workplace environment that can erode mental health among coworkers, including the effects on coworkers of bullying, violence, addictions, and unethical behavior. The fourth part explores various approaches at the personal, professional, and organizational levels that can influence change from an unhealthy to a healthy workplace environment.

A major challenge for nurses including faculty, clinicians and students has been, and continues to be, to engage in more scholarly writing. This book defines scholarly writing as writing that involves the transfer of new knowledge. The types of scholarly writing explored in the book are not limited to publications in research and practice journals but also proposals, abstracts, letters, articles in popular press including newspapers, magazines, blogs, and more. Knowledge moves through the discipline of nursing in many ways. The results of rigorous research which document effective and efficient strategies to improve patient outcomes are only widely available when the findings are published. The outcomes of evidence based practice projects, quality improvement projects, or other scholarly projects are commonly reported only within the local organization where the project is conducted. Widely accessible publication of information about best practices is vital for those practices to be extensively distributed to improve the care for a larger number of patients. Publication is a much more than a nice hobby when time is available, it is essential to improve patient outcomes. If you have knowledge that is not widely known, it is your professional responsibility to publish that knowledge. The value of this book is that it explains how to disseminate new knowledge to improve patient care. This book is an excellent resource for authors who want to publish their scholarly products. It is especially insightful with strategies to avoid common pitfalls in the authorship trajectory. Scholarly writing skills matter. The good news is that scholarly writing skills can be learned. The book wisely starts with an in-depth examination of strategies to overcome typical barriers to starting the writing process by acknowledging authorship ambivalence. It also addresses the challenge of revising papers as well as coauthorship issues.

Nurses in clinical settings and nonclinical support roles face pressing clinical and operational issues in practice. With the face of health also changing rapidly, the unforeseen problem rears its head every day. To meet new and unexpected challenges requires explicit knowledge about emerging technologies—innovative, smart technologies developed to function intelligently, with more efficiency and accuracy. For this reason, the finer points of these technologies need understanding by practicing nurses, nursing leaders, and nurses teaching health information technology (IT), and informatics courses. This book serves to do that. It provides information about exciting areas of technology that has great potential to improve patient care. Subjects include Big Data, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented realities, Internet of Things, precision health, and the future of emerging technologies in nursing practice. There is also discussion of the shift of healthcare delivery into the community, with an outlook on improving outcomes and enhancing practice. What makes this book unique is the examination of healthcare as a technology industry, critical divergent collaborations, and the impetus of healthcare innovation. Also, Big Data is thoughtfully utilized to provide nurse value and act as the source of all emerging technologies. The book includes details about how each emerging technology drives decision making in tandem with the nursing process and critical thinking and how the novel technologies will move care delivery into the community and become a catalyst in health consumerism and the sharing economy. The book is a blueprint for a new direction for nurses in health IT, and what it will become in the next decade and the 21st century.

This is a book designed for realED nurses by a realED nurse. It is a book for quick reference intended to aid your day-to-day ED orientation process with your preceptor and to guide you through the most common illnesses seen in the ED. This book does not cover basic anatomy and physiology, advanced practice emergency medicine, advanced cardiovascular life support, pediatric advanced life support, or the trauma nurse core course. The information in this book has been compiled from basic ED knowledge, and the references used are considered reliable.

Each chapter includes a brief introduction; an outline of materials, equipment, and drugs with which you should become familiar; a list of diagnoses that includes definitions, causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions; a feature titled Fast Facts that provides quick summaries of important points; and question-and-answer boxes for your review. The appendices at the end of the book include abbreviations, skills checklists, IV drips, common lab values, EKG rhythms, and frequently used ED medications—information that should become second nature to all ED personnel.

After reading this book, you will become the “Jack of all illnesses.” Therefore, put on your running shoes, keep a stash of dark chocolates, and, when all else fails, practice unreasonable happiness. One thing is for sure: Just when you think you have seen it all, your next patient will come in!

This edition of the Handbook of EEG Interpretation promises to be the best iteration yet. Each chapter is written by a professor of neurology subspecializing in the field of epilepsy. As in any field of medicine, the best quality of care evolves and is reflected by new knowledge borne by the practitioner. In the case of electroencephalography (EEG), this knowledge is a function of exposure and of experience. Hence, the book hopes to fill a void that exists by providing quick and easy access to topics in EEG in the hopes of ultimately providing better patient care. The book reviews abnormal nonepileptiform EEG. In addition to the chapter on abnormal epileptiform EEG, these are foundational chapters necessary to provide an accurate clinical correlation and facilitate appropriate patient management of patients with seizures and neurological illnesses that may have management decisions predicated upon interpretation of EEG. The book summarizes pediatric seizures and the role of ambulatory EEG, in addition to video-EEG and adult seizures, new chapters to emphasize the increasing role of event recording with EEG. The chapter on sleep provides a focus on and correlation of patients with sleep disorders and epilepsy. The chapter on neurointensive intraoperative monitoring, adds very instructive information to performing a variety of monitoring techniques in the operating room, in addition to a chapter on electrocorticography, to expand on examples that involve patients with epilepsy, brain tumor, vascular malformations, and other diseases of the cerebrum. The excellent final chapter, magnetoencephalography, includes examples to illustrate the powerful source localizing capability of this technique. With completion of the third edition of the handbook, it is the authors hope that it will continue to serve clinicians young and old, experienced and novice, physician and technologist alike.

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 for NPs who are changing positions or moving to a new organization. This book presents critical information at the NP’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 the AG-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.

Toolkit to Accompany Fast Facts for the ER Nurse, Fourth Edition, provides the ER nurse educator with all the foundational tools necessary to teach and onboard new graduate nurses. Complete with updated classroom lectures that correspond with each chapter of Fast Facts for the ER Nurse, these lectures are designed to address all sorts of learning styles with games, PowerPoints, hands-on activities, and group assignments. Completely customizable, they allow instructors to tailor education to meet department-specific needs and can be used in traditional classroom settings or on a virtual platform.