Nurses are faced with questions related to professional practice and what they may or may not do on a daily basis. Nurses also need to deal with the many conflicting demands made by patients, colleagues and hospital management. The ‘new approach’ adopted in this book offers insight into the dilemmas faced by the 21st century nurse. The professional practice issues are addressed in the form of case studies, using real-life examples that put the problems into context. This approach also offers a broad view of the nursing profession, taking into account macro-environmental influences, as well as the new technologies impacting on the profession.

A New Approach to Professional Practice explains the legal, professional and ethical framework within which the nurse must practise. The text also touches on the professional heritage and explains the rights of the patient and the rights and responsibilities of the nurse. Subjects such as modern-day challenges, legal and ethical questions, accountability, duty to care, responsibility, and maintenance of standards are also addressed.

Key Features:

• Explains legal, ethical and professional frameworks within which nurses practise
• Written in clear, accessible language
• Includes rights and responsibilities of nurses
• Offers insight into dilemmas faced by 21st century nurse

Learning Strategies for Allied Health Students equips you for success with separate sections filled with strategies for making reading, writing, mathematics, and studying easier; a vocabulary chapter that introduces the medical and non-medical terms you need to know...with a glossary that summarizes these terms for you, at a glance; 15 reading selections - one for each chapter - that let you practice using the skills you've learned; exercises from current allied health textbooks to give you hands-on practice with the kinds of assignments you'll encounter at school. An answer key allows you to check your work; and much, much more! Learning Strategies for Allied Health Students is the only book that's written specifically with your needs in mind. Clear and easy to read, it's your best way to prepare for the challenges you'll face in school...and in the workplace!

When catastrophic illness strikes, someone close to the patient—a spouse, child, grandchild, or close friend—inevitably joins that patient on the arduous journey through treatment and recovery. Surprisingly, health-care professionals largely acknowledge that personal caregivers have more influence over the patient’s experience in the short and long term than any medical professional. That means that if you find yourself in the role of caregiver, you are—or can be—one of the greatest weapons in your loved one’s fight against cancer.

Now Dr. Michael S. Barry shows you how to create moments filled with positive energy, hope, abundant love, occasional laughter, and people (including you) who sparkle with a life-giving, joyful attitude, even amidst grave illness.

Designed to support the trusted content in Kinn's The Medical Assistant, 15th Edition, this study guide is an essential review and practice companion to reinforce key concepts, encourage critical thinking, and ensure you can apply medical assisting content. This robust companion guide offers a wide range of activities to strengthen your understanding of common administrative and clinical skills - including certification preparation questions, a review of medical terminology and anatomy, and application exercises. Trusted for more than 60 years as a key part of the journey from classroom to career, it also features competency checklists to accurately measure your progress and performance from day one until you land your first job as a medical assistant. Comprehensive coverage of all administrative and clinical procedures complies with accreditation requirements. Approximately 190 step-by-step procedure checklists enable you to assess and track your performance for every procedure included in the textbook. Chapter-by-chapter correlation with the textbook allows you to easily follow core textbook competencies. Matching and acronym activities reinforce your understanding of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and chapter vocabulary. Short-answer and fill-in-the-blank exercises strengthen your comprehension of key concepts. Multiple-choice questions help you prepare for classroom and board exams. Workplace application exercises promote critical thinking and job readiness before you enter practice. Internet exercises offer ideas for expanded and project-based learning. NEW! Content aligns to 2022 Medical Assisting educational competencies. NEW! Advanced Clinical Skills unit features three new chapters on IV therapy, radiology basics, and radiology positioning to support expanded medical assisting functions. NEW! Coverage of telemedicine, enhanced infection control related to COVID-19, and catheterization. NEW! Procedures address IV therapy, limited-scope radiography, applying a sling, and coaching for stool collection. UPDATED! Coverage of administrative functions includes insurance, coding, privacy, security, and more. EXPANDED! Information on physical medicine and rehabilitation. EXPANDED! Content on specimen collection, including wound swab, nasal, and nasopharyngeal specimen collections.

This handbook is designed to help supervisees understand the process of clinical supervision sessions. The text ensures that supervisees are as prepared for and informed about supervision as their supervisors, and stresses the importance of a partnership approach. Making the Most of Supervision presents ideas and information from a different perspective to most other titles on supervision, is an ideal complement to Pavilion's bestselling Staff Supervision in Social Care and is to be used in conjunction with Strength to Strength.

Simulation and gaming are emerging as useful tools in the field of education. Health professional schools around the world have been expanding their use of simulation; however, there are few resources for health educators that highlight the advances in the field. Additionally, the use of simulation in low-resource settings is an area of growing interest globally, as is the sustainability of simulation-based education. Further study is required to fully understand this dynamic technology. Simulation and Game-Based Learning for the Health Professions focuses on simulation-based education for the health professions and the role of school-business-community collaboration to promote the translation of simulation skills to clinical and public health practice. The book also provides guidance for educators organizing simulations for interprofessional learners in high and low resource settings as well as tools for in-person and remote evaluation of simulation performance using telesimulation. Covering topics such as gaming, augmented reality, and clinical practice, this reference work is ideal for medical professionals, nurses, health educators, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Designed to support the trusted content in Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant, 15th Edition, this study guide is an essential review and practice companion to reinforce key concepts, encourage critical thinking, and ensure you can apply medical assisting content. This robust companion guide offers a wide range of activities to strengthen your understanding of common administrative skills - including certification preparation questions, a review of medical terminology and anatomy, and application exercises. Trusted for more than 60 years as a key part of the journey from classroom to career, it also features competency checklists to accurately measure your progress and performance from day one until you land your first job as a medical assistant. Approximately 70 step-by-step procedure checklists enable you to assess and track your performance for every procedure included in the textbook. Chapter-by-chapter correlation with the textbook allows you to easily follow core textbook competencies. Matching and acronym activities reinforce your understanding of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and chapter vocabulary. Short-answer and fill-in-the-blank exercises strengthen your comprehension of key concepts. Multiple-choice questions help you prepare for classroom and board exams. Workplace application exercises promote critical thinking and job readiness before you enter practice. Internet exercises offer ideas for expanded and project-based learning. NEW! Content aligns to 2022 medical assisting educational competencies. NEW and UPDATED! Comprehensive coverage of all administrative functions complies with accreditation requirements and includes insurance, coding, privacy and security, telehealth logistics, and more.

In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editor and Certified Professional Cultural Intelligence I&II and Unconscious Bias Facilitator & Coach Dr. Angela Richard-Eaglin brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Vulnerable Populations. Conditions that compound and further compromise health outcomes for vulnerable, marginalized, and stigmatized populations have existed historically and continue to exist. Clinicians may not be aware of the additional circumstances that must be considered when caring for individuals from vulnerable populations. In this issue, top experts focus on information, strategies, and interventions that health care providers can apply in academic and clinical settings. Contains 14 practice-oriented topics including health equity: integrating determinants of health in nursing curricula; vaccine stigma in the Black community; impact of structural racism on health equity and health outcomes; lived experiences of Black and Hispanic senior women: changes in social support needs and sources of social support during the COVID-19 pandemic; opioid overuse among marginalized populations; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on vulnerable populations, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

How to Promote Wellbeing is a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own and their patients' wellbeing and mental health. Focusing on practical strategies and guidance, this much-needed book explores approaches for reducing burnout, managing stress, coping with pressure in healthcare settings, recognising signs of impaired decision-making, and much more. Written specifically for busy healthcare practitioners, the book offers focused and succinct chapters on topics ranging from behaviours to improve resilience and mindfulness, to approaches for maintaining work-life balance when confronted with excessive workloads and organisational pressures. Throughout the text, evidence-based tools and techniques are provided to improve the practitioner's health and facilitate the delivery of high-quality care. Covering a wide range of clinical situations and important issues, this book: Examines global, organisational, and individual problem factors affecting mental health and wellbeing Discusses the impacts of chronic stress, burnout, technological and environmental factors, work-associated trauma, and sources of wellbeing strain Identifies factors that negatively affect patients' wellbeing in hospital, clinic, and outpatient settings Offers guidance for emergencies and available resources for those in personal crisis Includes a mental health and wellbeing toolkit, including assessments and strategies How to Promote Wellbeing is indispensable reading for doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists, counsellors, and other clinicians and health professionals.

In this issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest editor Stephanie L. Neary brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Preventative Medicine. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on the latest updates in Preventative Medicine, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

Master medical terms on your terms! A combination text/workbook, Exploring Medical Language, 11th Edition provides exercises that make it easy to build an understanding of medical terminology. Organized by body system, medical terms are divided into two categories: 1) Words built from word parts, and 2) Words NOT built from word parts. Fun and engaging exercises help you first learn word parts and then learn how to combine the parts into full medical terms that make sense. For more practice, you can visit an Evolve website with games, activities, flashcards, and practice exams. From well-known educators Danielle LaFleur Brooks, Myrna LaFleur Brooks, and Dale Levinsky, this learning package helps you gain fluency in medical language and communicate clearly in the health care setting. Comprehensive coverage of medical terminology creates a distinction between terms built from word parts, which are usually based on Greek or Latin, and those terms NOT built from word parts, which are based on eponyms, acronyms, or terms from modern language. Systematic presentation provides a foundation of word parts (prefix, suffix, word root, and combining vowel), then builds words by combining the parts. Case studies ask you to interpret medical terms used in medical records and to translate everyday language into medical language. Full-color illustrations encourage you to apply the meaning of word parts by labeling anatomical figures. Abbreviations tables introduce abbreviated medical terms related to chapter content, and are supplemented with exercises, flashcards, and practice quizzes. Reviews of word parts and terms provide the practice you absolutely need to define, pronounce, and spell medical terminology. More than 400 flashcards allow you to review word parts whenever and wherever you want. Interactive exercises and games on the Evolve website provide endless opportunities to practice building, hearing, and spelling terms. Medical Terminology Online (MTO) provides accessible, interactive exercises and supplementary content in a course companion to help you master the medical terminology presented in the text. With Elsevier Adaptive Learning accessible within the modules, MTO allows you to learn faster by delivering content precisely when it's needed, and it constantly tracks your performance! Available separately. NEW! Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing (EAQ) is now available for separate purchase-Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing is a highly effective, formative evaluation tool that strengthens your knowledge and confidence with high-quality practice questions. Through personalized quizzing, you and your instructors can identify weak topic areas and develop simple strategies to improve your results. NEW! Organization of word part tables in each chapter allows you to learn body systems in any order. NEW! Clinical note-taking exercises provide practice with how to convert common symptoms into correct medical terminology.