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Presents a wide range of outdoor play therapy approaches for
children and families presented by some of the most revered experts
in the field of play therapy. This book provides a unique
collection of practical and innovative ways to help clinicians know
how to bring nature into play therapy sessions both in the playroom
and outdoors. Child and family therapists will revel in the
richness of resources and practical therapeutic applications of
nature play that they can utilize with children and families. This
book will also provide practical worksheet guidelines for
practitioners to easily implement some of the interventions
presented into practice. Presents diverse clinical approaches and
applicable strategies from experienced play therapists. Chapters
also give the theoretical basis for each practical intervention.
Juta's nursing psychology is aimed at nursing professionals to
enable them to apply psychological concepts to nursing practice and
so assist them in their day-to-day contact with patients. It
examines human behaviour in a holistic way, and this means
considering the whole person: brain, nervous system, personality,
stage of life, social relationships and so on. The selection of
topics in Juta's nursing psychology makes this holistic view a
reality and includes: the biological basis of human behaviour;
human development across the lifespan, including the social
context; psychological approaches to health and ill-health; an
introduction to counselling.
The preferred nursing fundamentals resources for generations of
nursing students and educators, Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art
and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care, 10th Edition, equips
beginning nursing students with a holistic, case-based perspective
on nursing practice and emphasizes the clinical reasoning and
decision-making essential to their success in today's competitive
healthcare environment. Promoting nursing as an evolving art and
science directed to human health and well-being, this bestselling
text is designed to instill in students the highest level of
scientific knowledge and technical skill while cultivating the
blended competencies crucial to responsible patient-centered care
in a wide variety of care settings. Updates throughout this 10th
Edition reflect a growing emphasis on clinical judgment and NCLEX
(R) readiness, training students to think like nurses and respond
confidently and effectively to clinical challenges. Ample clinical
examples, pedagogy, illustrations, and online learning tools and
assessments engage students and distill need-to-know information,
complemented by a suite of integrated teaching and learning
resources that create a seamless, superior learning experience for
every student. New to this Edition NEW! Clinical Judgment chapter
conditions students think like nurses, incorporating the nursing
process and the latest evidence-based practices to prioritize
responsibilities and make confident clinical decisions. NEW!
Integrated NCSBN concepts and terms keep students on the front
lines of today's evolving nursing practice and ready them for
success on the NextGen NCLEX (R). NEW! Evolving Case Studies
familiarize students with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Evaluation
Model and reflect the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN). NEW! Diversity,
inclusion, and equity content equips students with a diverse
perspective on patient care essential to today's nursing practice.
NEW! Timely coverage throughout the text reflects the impact of
climate change and COVID-19 on patient care. NEW! 2021 AACN
Essentials and ANA Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice
incorporated throughout the text help you meet the latest
curriculum standards in competency-based nursing education. NEW!
Thoughtful Person-Centered Practice: Challenging Topics leverage
Unfolding Patient Stories to reinforce clinical reasoning and
judgment competencies in a real-world context. UPDATED! NCLEX
(R)-style Chapter Review Questions in every chapter strengthen
students' exam readiness.
Research and Evidence-Based Practice is an accessible textbook for
nursing, health and social care students seeking to understand what
research is and how it can provide evidence for practice. Through
clear explanations, key case studies, questions and activities, the
book will help you to understand the principles of research and
develop your own evidence-based practice. You will learn: Why
research is carried out, what the aims are, and why it matters. How
to search and review the literature and evaluate the quality of
research How research projects are designed, how participants are
recruited, how data is collected and analysed, and how research
findings are communicated About the costs of research and how it is
funded About the ethics of research in health and social care How
to review evidence and how evidence is used to improve the quality
of care This book will help you to demonstrate your understanding
of research and evidence and to develop and promote best practice
in health and social care. From reviews: "I would definitely
recommend this book to any student starting a research module or
even to refresh your memories ready for your
dissertations/literature reviews. The content included is
everything I would want to know as a student starting a research
module. The glossary at the back is great for understanding the
research terminology, which can often feel like a brand new
language when you first start reading research papers. There are
also handy references which you can use to do further reading and
enhance your critical discussion within your assignments. The book
lives up to its intention to act as a lead-in to the research topic
and has a clear and concise style throughout, whilst explaining
things in the amount of detail needed to fully understand them. A
must read for any nursing or health and social care student!"
Review on studentnurseandbeyond.co.uk, March 2019 Essentials is a
series of accessible, introductory textbooks for students in
nursing, health and social care. New and forthcoming titles in the
series: The Care Process Communication Skills Leadership Mental
Health Promoting Health and Wellbeing Study Skills
The perfect all-in-one guide for future nurse educators! The
award-winning Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty, 6th Edition
prepares you for the day-to-day challenges of teaching future
nurses for practice in today's rapidly evolving healthcare system.
Recommended by NLN for comprehensive CNE (R) Exam prep, this
insightful text is the only one of its kind to cover all three
components of teaching: instruction, curriculum, and evaluation.
You'll benefit from the expert guidance on such key issues as
curriculum and test development, diverse learning styles, the
redesign of healthcare systems, and advances in technology and
information. Plus, the 6th edition includes a unique new chapter on
Global Health and Curricular Experiences along with updated
information on technology-empowered learning, the flipped
classroom, interprofessional education, interprofessional
collaborative practice, and much more. Comprehensively addresses
all four components of nursing education including teaching and
learning, curriculum, evaluation, and technology-empowered
learning. Coverage of concept-based curricula includes strategies
on how to approach and implement concept-based instruction.
Pedagogical aids include Evidence-Based Teaching boxes, covering
such issues as how to do evidence-based teaching; applications of
evidence-based teaching; implications for faculty development,
administration, and the institution; and how to use the open-ended
application questions at the end of each chapter for faculty-guided
discussion. Strategies to promote critical thinking and active
learning are incorporated throughout the text, highlighting various
evaluation techniques, lesson planning insights, and tips for
developing examinations. Guidance on teaching in diverse settings
addresses such topics as the models of clinical teaching, teaching
in interdisciplinary settings, how to evaluate students in the
clinical setting, and how to adapt teaching for community-based
practice. Strong emphasis on teaching clinical judgment, new models
of clinical education, and responding to needs for creating
inclusive multicultural teaching-learning environments. NEW!
Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-based
guidelines for best practices in teaching and learning. NEW! UNIQUE
chapter on Global Health and Curricular Experiences focuses on
internationalization of the nursing curriculum with an emphasis on
leading international learning experiences; policies, procedures,
and guidelines for overseas study and global and health
competencies for health professions programs. NEW! Enhanced
pedagogy includes additional illustrations, tables, and boxes. NEW!
Expanded interprofessional education chapter, provides you with
strategies for effective teaching in an interprofessional
healthcare environment.
Mindfulness Skills Workbook: 121 Activities, Worksheets, Techniques
& Tools is specifically designed to meet the needs of mental
health practitioners, teachers, and other helping professionals who
want to add mindfulness skills to their work. It provides over 100
tools to be used with clients to help them incorporate mindfulness
into their lives and reap the proven benefits. Providing concise
theory behind each tool, step-bystep processes for implementation,
and guidance on processing the result, it provides everything you
need to add mindfulness into your practice with a hands-on,
practical, and highly-effective approach.
To enhance student engagement and collaboration, educators need to
enable learning. The sixth edition of Teaching and Learning the
Practice of Nursing provides educators with solutions on how to
address 21st century challenges. It has been written with global
and local contexts in mind. In their approach, the team of experts
draws from traditional and contemporary learning theories to direct
educators on how best to monitor and support student progress in a
nurturing way. A new feature in this edition is the introduction of
activities to enhance the rich content. This feature will further
encourage educators to reflect seriously on their practice. Also
included are three new chapters: Inter-professional
education;Ethics in teaching and learning; and quality assurance in
health education. This essential resource is suitable for all
educators working in the field of nursing and healthcare education;
it will expand their thinking and skills in mentoring and
supporting future nurse leaders.
This handbook provides a useful guide for the day-to-day management
of people with breast cancer. It covers the journey from diagnosis
to post-treatment comprehensive care. It explains when and why
different treatment modalities are used, what the complications of
both the disease and treatments are and how to manage them.
Although this book has been written for students and health
personnel working in a general hospital, it will be useful for
those in specialist breast units as well. Dr Jenny Edge is a
surgeon and head of Breast and Endocrine Surgery at the University
of Stellenbosch. Dr Ines Buccimazza is head of the Breast Unit,
member of the Multidisciplinary Breast Team and a senior specialist
in the Department of Surgery at the Nelson R. Mandela School of
Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.
Organized by cognitive processes, Cognition and Acquired Language
Disorders: An Information Processing Approach focuses on the
assessment, diagnosis, and management of cognitive-communication
disorders. Current, evidence-based information describes normal
cognitive processing for communication and the way in which
cognition breaks down to produce communication disorders in a
variety of acquired neurologic conditions. Its process-oriented
approach includes not only the neurological conditions caused by
stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury, but those related to
tumor, infection, degenerative diseases, and multiple strokes.
While other speech-language pathology texts limit their coverage of
disorders to aphasia, expert authors Richard Peach and Lewis
Shapiro go beyond that with detailed discussions of many other
cognitive-communication disorders. Unique process-oriented approach
organizes content by cognitive processes instead of by syndromes so
you can apply the information and treatment approaches to any one
of many neurologic groups with the same cognitive deficit.
Cognitive domains are described as they relate to communication
rather than separated as they are in many other publications where
they are treated as independent behaviors. A separate section on
normal processing includes five chapters providing a strong
foundation for understanding the factors that contribute to
disordered communication and its management. The evidence-based
approach promotes best practices for the most effective management
of patients with cognitive-communication disorders. Coverage of the
cognitive aspects of communication helps you meet the standards for
certification in speech-language pathology. A strong author team
includes two lead authors who are well known and highly respected
in the academic community, along with expert contributors, ensuring
a comprehensive, advanced clinical text/reference.
Numeracy and Clinical Calculations for Nurses is a user-friendly
introduction for student nurses that guides you from the basics to
the core calculations required in a healthcare setting. To qualify
as a registered nurse you will need to demonstrate proficiency and
accuracy when calculating dosages of prescribed medicines. The
second edition of Numeracy and Clinical Calculations for Nurses
features even more worked examples and practice tests, all designed
to increase your confidence and competence in calculating drug
dosages and performing other important clinical calculations - a
critical issue in improving patient safety. Key benefits:
Diagnostic test to assess your existing skills and knowledge. Back
to basics chapter uses a step-by-step approach to ensure
understanding - tested by nursing lecturers and their students.
Self-assessment tests throughout each chapter enable you to monitor
your progress. Extensive worked examples use authentic scenarios to
set learning in context. Summary tests provide practice for
numeracy exams. Covers drug dosages and other clinical calculations
such as pressure ulcer risk assessment tools, National Early
Warning Score, hydration and fluid balance, Malnutrition Universal
Screening Tool, BMI and ideal body weight. Answers provided for all
tests. The book also features: Error alerts pointing out common
errors and why they are sometimes made. Sense checks to help you
avoid fundamental errors. Tips to help with calculations and relate
them to clinical practice. Appendices covering safe administration
of medicine, routes of administration, medication administration
records, drug glossary, a handy multiplication grid and simple
conversion tables. Numeracy and Clinical Calculations for Nurses is
required reading: Before the numeracy test at your student nurse
interview. During your university course as you prepare for further
numeracy exams. In practice as you get to grips with drug doses,
BMI, drip rates, fluid balance, etc.
Nurse educators and managers of nursing schools function within the
dynamics of a kaleidoscope of environments - in their schools,
within the parameters of professional and higher education policies
and legislation, and, in South Africa, in an extremely diverse
society. Since they are part of the global nursing community, the
realities of international standards compound their
responsibilities. Nurse educators' guide to management acknowledges
these challenges and aims to empower nurse educators and managers
of nursing schools by creating awareness of areas that need to be
explored and embraced to function effectively. Nurse educators'
guide to management has been thoroughly revised to ensure relevance
and currency. Two new chapters have been included - one on the
essential technological environment and its management in the
education of nurses, and the other on the management environment
and its dynamics in a nursing school today. Nurse educators' guide
to management also addresses the philosophical and sociocultural,
professional and ethical, leadership and quality challenges that a
nursing school has to face as well as the healthcare, regulatory
and educational environments in which a nursing school in South
Africa functions. The mission of a nursing school in society and
how it empowers through alliances and networking are extensively
explored. This book is aimed at educators, managers of nursing
schools and students preparing themselves for a career in nursing
education. The authors of the book are experienced nursing
professionals with a special interest in the education of nurses
and advancement of the structures, processes and outcomes of
nursing education at institutional and national levels.
An indispensable guide to reducing the suffering of patients and
caregivers alike and to improving healthcare delivery for all In
our efforts to treat patients, cure illness, and manage
institutions, healthcare professionals too often overlook the
fundamental purpose everyone in the industry shares: to alleviate
suffering. Press Ganey's Chief Nursing Officer, Christina Dempsey,
has worked everywhere in healthcare, from the ward floor to the
hospital boardroom. She has also experienced the system as a
patient and as a family member of a critically ill patient. In The
Antidote to Suffering, this 30-year healthcare veteran and
patient-experience thought leader argues that the key to improving
healthcare is to reduce the suffering--physical, psychological, and
emotional--of patients and caregivers alike through Compassionate
Connected CareTM. Drawing on her 360-degree perspective, Dempsey
offers a comprehensive, detailed, evidence-based plan that
addresses the clinical, operational, cultural, and behavioral
dimensions of care that every patient and caregiver experiences, in
every setting. When suffering decreases, Dempsey argues, outcomes
improve for patients and those who care for them. A virtuous cycle
takes hold, leading to increases in morale, loyalty, and
productivity and results in a culture that drives quality, safety,
and value. It paves the path for creating a new national healthcare
culture--one that values compassion, fosters efficiency, and drives
innovation The Antidote to Suffering is the first book to explore
the pervasiveness of suffering in our healthcare system, and to
provide the strategies and tools to: * Identify and measure
suffering throughout your organization * Create a system in which
every clinical response is informed by compassion * Operationalize
staff behavior to promote meaning and purpose * Increase
productivity by building a culture of collaboration Reducing human
suffering isn't just a moral imperative for healthcare providers.
It's a practical way to improve organizations and fix our broken
system--without sacrificing the respect, dignity, and compassion we
all deserve.
The education system in South Africa is struggling to help learners
to develop their full potential, particularly those from poor and
rural communities. Research has shown that a lack of communication
skills has become a major challenge and a barrier to learning for
many learners. The current situation in this country requires us to
consider not only children who have specific communication
impairments, but also those battling to develop communication
skills when their situation places them at a severe disadvantage.
Speech-language therapy in a school context is a much-needed
academic text for training students in speech-language therapy and
audiology to work effectively in an educational environment.
Speech-language therapy in a school context promotes collaborative
practices among professionals, including occupational therapists,
physiotherapists, learning support therapists and teachers, while
reinforcing the ethical principles and practices required by the
Health Professions Council of South Africa. It provides theory and
practical guidelines in line with the Revised National Curriculum
Statement and is supported by interactive learning activities.
Chapters include the following: Speech-language therapy in a
multicultural context; Inclusive education in South Africa;
Communication as a critical resource for everyday living, learning
and earning; Institutional language policies: the South African
Schools Act; Multilingualism and primary language impairment;
Ensuring culture-fair assessment and intervention; Integrated
classroom-based speech-language services; Augmentative and
alternative communication (AAC) systems; Educational psychology in
South Africa. Speech-language therapy in a school context is aimed
at students in speech-language therapy and audiology and is also a
valuable foundational text for practicing therapists.
The second edition of Nursing Care of Children and Young People
with Long Term Conditions remains the only nursing-specific text on
the care of paediatric patients with chronic illness. Written to
meet the needs of nursing students and professionals alike, this
comprehensive volume provides authoritative and up-to-date
information on the context, theory, and practice of delivering
holistic care to children and families in a range of health and
social care settings. Contributions from a team of experienced
academics, educators, and practitioners offer valuable insight into
the impact of chronic illness on children and parents, the
practical implications of meeting their physical, psychological,
and social needs, empowering them to be 'experts' in their care,
and many more vital aspects of long-term paediatric care. This
edition features new and revised content reflecting contemporary
guidelines and evidence-based practice, including updated clinical
case studies and a new chapter examining the impact of having a
sibling with a long-term condition. Emphasising a
multi-disciplinary approach to managing chronic illness, this
important resource: Provides numerous case studies and activities
illustrating the application of theoretical principles and current
evidence in nursing practice Investigates the genetic basis of
chronic illness and the differing onsets of long-term conditions
Discusses current political, economic, and social policies that are
influencing healthcare for children and bringing challenges to
managers and practitioners Examines both classic and contemporary
theories of grief, loss, coping, and adaptation Explores ethical,
legal, and professional aspects of nursing children and young
people with chronic illness Addresses evolving nursing roles, the
importance of acute emergency care, and the planning and delivery
of effective transition from child to adult services Nursing Care
of Children and Young People with Long Term Conditions is required
reading for student and registered children's nurses, as well as
for practitioners in related health and social care disciplines.
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