By Simon Bricker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10 0-521-68248-7
Book Description
The clinical science viva voce examination is an important component of the Final FRCA examination, covering applied pharmacology, anatomy, physiology and physics. Written by the author of the best-selling Short Answer Questions in Anaesthesia, 2nd Edition, this new book is the definitive guide to this part of the FRCA exam and is also the perfect companion volume to The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book by Mills et al...
Friday, August 31, 2007
The Anaesthesia Science Viva Book (2006)
Handbook of Gynaecology Management
Wound Care A Handbook for Community Nurses
Book Publisher: Wiley
Book author: Joy Rainey
ISBN: 1861562896
Book Description:
The day-to-day responsibility for wound management is a role usually undertaken by nurses. It includes assessing the wound, selecting an appropriate treatment, and evaluating the patients’ progress. In order to do this effectively the nurse needs to understand the healing process, recognize the factors which may delay wound healing, understand how wound healing can be optimized, know how to recognize complications if they arise and know how to treat them...
Vascular Disease A Handbook for Nurses (2005)
Book Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book author: Haytham Al-Khaffaf, Sharon Dorgan
ISBN: 0521674514
Book Description:
Caring for Patients with Vascular Disease: A Practical Approach for Medical and Nursing Staff offers a step-by-step guide to caring for patients in a variety of clinical settings. It follows a patient’s path of care from management in the outpatient clinic, through to the hospital ward, theatre, recovery room and back to the follow-up outpatient clinic. A clear, concise format is used throughout the book, with reference to evidence-based interventions and the physiology underpinning them, and the use of simple line diagrams and treatment flow charts to illustrate the essential aspects of care...
The Human Heart (2007)
Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (01 January, 2007)
Book author: Brendan Phibbs
ISBN: 0781767776
Book Description:
This basic text on the heart and heart diseases is geared to everyone on the cardiovascular care team, including emergency personnel, interns, residents, nurses, patients, and families. The thoroughly updated Second Edition describes current technologies for noninvasive diagnosis and treatment of coronary and vascular disease. Coverage includes a complete description of echocardiographic stress testing and new information on implanted defibrillators, indications for coronary arteriography, new drugs for heart failure, new cardiac resuscitation procedures, and use of ventricular synchronizing pacemakers...
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Handbook of Critical Care Drug Therapy (2006)
Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Book author: Gregory M Susla, Anthony F Suffredini, Dorothea McAreavey, Michael A Solomon, William D Hoffman
ISBN: 0781797632
Book Description:
Prepared by noted critical care experts at the National Institutes of Health and leading medical centers, this handbook is a quick-reference guide to the choice and administration of drugs in critical care. It contains 126 easy-to-scan tables listing drugs of choice for specific clinical situations; dosages, dilutions, and infusion rates; and indications and adverse effects of drugs. Emphasis is on toxicities, compatibilities, and clinical considerations that would guide the choice of drug...
Manual of Obstetrics (2007)
Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 0781796962
Book author: Arthur T Evans
Book Description:
Now in its thoroughly revised, updated Seventh Edition, this Spiral(R) Manual provides practical, easily accessible information on management of the pregnant patient. Major sections cover obstetric care, obstetric complications, maternal complications, fetal assessment, fetal complications, and neonatal care. This edition’s chapters have a new consistent outline structure, more tables, and more figures. Coverage includes a new chapter on obstetric anesthesia and new information on drugs for cardiovascular, neurologic, and endocrine conditions, including oral agents for gestational diabetes...
Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy (2007)
By Roland T Skeel
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number of Pages: 832
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
ISBN / ASIN: 0781765315
Book Description:
The Seventh Edition of this pocket reference is a practical, disease-focused guide to the best current medical practice in cancer chemotherapy. In easy-to-follow outline format, the book provides complete coverage of the principles of rational chemotherapy, the chemotherapeutic and biotherapeutic agents available, the treatment of specific cancers, and selected aspects of supportive care. Emphasis is on the indications, dosage/schedule, potential toxicities, and safe administration of the drugs and their use in treating specific malignancies.
The ICU Book 3rd - edition
by Paul L Marino and Kenneth M Sutin
Paperback: 1088 pages
ISBN-10: 078174802X
Book Description
Rheumatology Nursing (2006)
by Jaqueline Hill
Paperback: 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0470019611
Book Description
A new edition of an established research–based text on one of the fastest growing topics in nursing: nurses dealing with this complex subject need to be kept up to date and this book written by a team of expert rheumatology nurses fills that role...
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Paediatrics - A Clinical Guide for Nurse Practitioners
by Katie Barnes
Paperback: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0750649577
Book Description
Paediatrics: A Clinical Guide for Nurse Practitioners is a concise, pragmatic and clinically focused text that outlines important components to be considered when assessing and managing health problems among infants, children and adolescents. It provides nurse practitioners with information that has immediate relevance to their practice in paediatrics, and brings together the expertise of advanced paediatric nurse practitioners, paediatric specialist nurses, and other paediatric professionals.
Oncology Nursing in Practice
A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Infectious Disease
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 250
ISBN / ASIN: 0781755840
Book Description:
The ideal time-saver for busy clinicians, this handy guide delivers a practical "how-to" perspective on diagnosis and treatment for a range of commonly encountered childhood infections—from otitis media, sinusitis, and urinary tract infection... to hepatitis, cervical adenitis, pediatric tuberculosis, pneumonia, catheter infection, and more...
Clinical Use of Pediatric Diagnostic Tests
Number Of Pages: 989
ISBN / ASIN: 0781736056
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Book Description:
This book has been designed to help the practicing clinician to appropriately select and interpret diagnostic tests without the burden of information useful only to the pathologist or laboratory. In outline format with tables and charts, the book presents a large volume of information that can be quickly reviewed. The focus is on diagnosing diseases and the table of contents is organized by system or disease rather than tests performed...
Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology
Book author: Valerie C. Scanlon, Tina Sanders
ISBN: 0803615469
Paperback: 603 pages
Book Description:
This is the perfect text for those with a need for a beginner's course in Anatomy and Physiology. It's brief, very readable, and filled with great graphics and highlighted tables of important information...
Handbook of Pathophysiology
Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 0781763118
Book author: Elizabeth J Corwin
Book Description:
This nursing-focused pathophysiology handbook is ideally suited for easy reference in the classroom or clinical environment. The book presents a summary of physiology concepts for each body system, followed by an overview of important pathophysiology concepts related to ‘alterations’ in that body system...
Nursing practice in multiple sclerosis - a core curriculum (2006)
By June Halper, Kathleen Costello, and Colleen Harris
ISBN-10: 188879996X
Spiral-bound: 192 pages
Product Description:
Nursing is a critical element in meeting the needs of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and their families. Over the years, the role of MS nurses have developed from strictly providing care and education, to also providing case management services, counseling, and rehabilitation. As well-educated professionals they have become knowledgeable of the disease process and available treatments...
Nursing Theories & Nursing Practice
ISBN-10: 080361196X
by Marilyn E. Parker
Book Description:
This book offers the perspective that nursing theory
is essentially connected with nursing practice, research,
education, and development. Nursing theories,
regardless of complexity or abstraction, reflect
nursing and are used by nurses to frame their thinking,
action, and being in the world...
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Nurses Fast Facts - Your Quick Source for Core Clinical Content
Author: Brenda Walters Holloway
Book Description:
Nurse's Fast Facts is a compilation of all of those hard-to-remember procedures, calculations, lab values, and interactions in a lightweight, easy-to-carry package. This essential handbook offers the most important but difficult to remember clinical information for nine nursing content areas as well as age-specific guidelines for assessing health problems and interpreting lab values...
Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice (2006)
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 8 edition
ISBN-10: 1582553424
Hardcover: 1888 pages
Book Description
Completely updated for its Eighth Edition, this full-color classic reference is the one source every nurse needs for essential patient assessment and treatment guidelines. In an easy-to-read outline format, this clinically focused guide covers all disorders and patient problems in Medical-Surgical, Maternal-Neonatal, Pediatric, and Psychiatric nursing, and includes over 150 step-by-step procedures.
Clinical Anatomy 11th ed (2006)
Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 1405138041
Number of Pages: 476 pages
Book Description:
Clinical Anatomy has remained the word of the same author for nearly half a century. Initially written for clinical medical students on the wards, clinics and revising for Finals, since then it has sold all over the world in hundreds of thousands and in several languages. Its success has been its constant revision to ensure it covers the student's...
Basic Concepts of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (2006)
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 6 edition
Paperback: 672 pages
ISBN-10: 0781745179
Book Description:
Now with an exciting 4-color design, this core text continues to present succinct coverage of psychiatric-mental health nursing, emphasizing critical concepts in the continuum of care settings, client and family education and student self-awareness. This edition features two new chapters: “Student Issues and Concerns” and “Loss, Grief and End of Life Care.”
Avoiding Common ICU Errors (2006)
Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & WilkinsISBN: 0781767393
Book Description:
This pocket book succinctly describes 318 errors commonly made by attending, residents, interns, nurses, and nurse-anesthetists in the intensive care unit, and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors...
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Oxford Handbook of Practical Drug Therapy (2006)
By Duncan Richards, Jeffrey Aronson
Number Of Pages: 720
ISBN / ASIN: 0198530072
Book Description:
Safe and effective prescribing is a cornerstone of proper patient care. There has recently been a significant increase in the numbers of health care professionals able to prescribe; however, sources of drug information tend to focus on only one area of prescribing...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Delmars Pediatric Nursing Care Plans (2005)
by Karla L. Luxner
Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning; 3 edition
ISBN-10: 0766859940
Book Description
Delmar's Pediatric Nursing Care Plans, Third Edition, provides detailed information on developing care plans for children with health alterations. Each care plan presents information to guide users in developing comprehensive, individualized nursing care plans based on solid, scientific knowledge. Care plans solicit specific client data and prompt the user to individualize the interventions and evaluate the child's individual responses. Interventions and outcomes are suggested to keep parents informed of and involved in their child's care.
Williams Obsterics - 22nd Ed (2005)
The premier reference on obstetrics practice for nearly a century, the new Twenty-Second Edition is the ideal text for anyone who provides maternal and fetal health care.Now offering state-of-the- art diagnostic ultrasound images throughout, Williams Obstetrics maintains its strong, evidence-based approach...
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