Use this convenient resource to formulate nursing diagnoses and create individualized care plans! Updated with the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 9th Edition shows you how to build customized care plans using a three-step process: assess, diagnose, and plan care.

It includes suggested nursing diagnoses for over 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states. Authors Elizabeth Ackley and Gail Ladwig use Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) information to guide you in creating care plans that include desired outcomes, interventions, patient teaching, and evidence-based rationales. Read the rest of this entry »

Part of the Nursing Secrets Series®, Critical Care Nursing Secrets is designed to be helpful for both new and experienced critical care nurses. New graduates, novice nurses, or those nurses returning to work in the field will find the book especially helpful in learning the “pearls” or “secrets” of practice. Written in a question-and-answer format, each of the 79 chapters has helpful features such as key points and Internet resources.

Book Features:

• Written by experts in the field.
• Question-and-answer format for concise reading.
• Designed for both the experienced and new nurse.

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Much more than just a calendar, Saunders Student Nurse Planner: A Guide to Success in Nursing School, Version 6 is a versatile organizational tool…a quick-reference nursing orientation handbook…and a telephone and address directory – all-in-one! This portable, affordable resource helps you to manage your time and perform to your fullest potential inside the classroom, during clinical sessions, and in practice.

Some features of this book

• A variety of calendar options let you access your daily, weekly, and monthly schedules at a glance.
• A lined Day Planner helps you organize and keep track of all the details of your busy schedule.
• A self-contained, alphabetical directory organizes names, addresses, phone numbers, and other important data on all your personal, academic, and clinical contacts.

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Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified features a full chapter for each system–cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, hematologic, nervous, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, genitourinary, and integumentary. You’ll find a description of how the system functions, signs and symptoms of diseases and conditions, diagnostic tests, and treatment options.

Perioperative preparation and pain management are also covered. Filled with key terms to help you to remember important concepts, and complete with end-of-chapter NCLEX-style quizzes to test your knowledge, this book will teach you the fundamentals of medical-surgical nursing in no time at all. Read the rest of this entry »

The verdict is in: having a satisfactory social life is not a luxury. This is important for mental health. You need to be surrounded by people celebrating the good times and to help during difficult times. Because of the constant demands of school work, it is possible that you feel do not have time for your social life.

college network

More your support network is vast and varied, the better. Try to connect with people at the very beginning of the semester when your energy is probably greater. So you have already established the college network when the stress of the school year will begin to be felt more. Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know that in the nursing field cna training you can serve in various health care service settings? Many people have confined themselves to the nursing career prospects that exist in the common mainstream health care domains in public and private hospitals and clinics. The nursing career field has a lot to offer especially to those who are prepared to take up the out of the box nursing job models and serve in various nursing environs. But to be able to think out of the box you must have the box in the first place. Before you can target the top Plan travel nursing jobs you will need to evaluate your self and establish if you really have what it takes.

Some Plan travel nursing jobs require that you be in possession of recognizable education and considerable number of years in working experience. You will need to look at the kind of Plan travel nursing jobs that may suit your penchant and skills. Read the rest of this entry »

Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, this pocket-sized looseleaf is one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents on the wards and candidates reviewing for internal medicine board exams.

In bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms, Pocket Medicine provides key clinical information about common problems in cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, rheumatology, and neurology. Read the rest of this entry »

Begin the task of studying for the NCLEX one of the most important tests you ll ever take with Sandra Smith s Review for NCLEX-PN. Sandra brings more than 25 years of teaching experience as a university professor and founder of the original nation-wide NCLEX review course to these popular and highly recommended review aids. This comprehensive PN/VN review is easy-to-read, clear and concise.

Questions are based on critical thinking principles, NCLEX procedures, study guidelines,and test-taking tips. A CD-ROM with more than 2300 Q & As are included in this all-in-one resource! Read the rest of this entry »

Kaplan Nursing and Kaplan University School of Nursing offer a wide variety of programs for pre-licensure and post-licensure nurses. Kaplan Nursing is the world’s largest provider of preparation courses for the NCLEX-RN® exam, and offers classroom and online courses to graduates of U.S. nursing schools and nurses educated abroad. Its partnership with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins also provides nursing schools with a program of Integrated Testing that evaluates students’ level of nursing knowledge and remediates knowledge deficits.

Kaplan University School of Nursing offers a dynamic educational experience through on-line learning, including a BSN Completion degree, a Master’s Degree in Nursing Science, a Master’s Degree in Nursing, and much more. Its faculty members are highly qualified nurse leaders who have a keen appreciation of the issues faced by working adults.

Kaplan’s strategy guide to the NCLEX-RN exam includes:
*2 practice tests—1 in the book and 1 on the CD-ROM
*Detailed answer explanations
*The latest information on exam content and structure
*Review of alternate questions
*Analysis of all question types
*Exclusive strategies for exam success
*Free preview of Kaplan’s online NCLEX-RN[r] Question Bank with more exam-style questions. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a reason the new edition of Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX–RN® Examination has been called “the best NCLEX review book ever.” Essentially, you’ll find everything you need to review for the NCLEX® exam under one cover – complete content review and over 4,200 NCLEX-style questions in the book and on the free companion CD. Don’t make the mistake of assuming that the quality of the questions is the same in all NCLEX review books, because only Silvestri’s Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX–RN® Examination includes the kind of questions that consistently test the critical thinking skills necessary to pass today’s NCLEX exam.

And, what’s even better is that ALL answers include detailed rationales to help you learn from your answer choices, along with test taking strategies that provide tips for how to best approach each question. It’s easy to see why Silvestri is THE book of choice for NCLEX review.

New to this edition:

• The review is based on the new NCLEX–RN test plan, effective April 2007.
• Now in full color – with over 100 illustrations to enhance important nursing content.
• 200 more questions have been added, for a total of 4,210.
• Includes the new chart/exhibit alternate item format, in addition to questions with audio components.
• Companion CD-ROM uses a pre-diagnostic exam to generate an individualized study plan. Read the rest of this entry »