Springer Publishing Co.
Assisted living administration and management; effective practices and model programs in elder care.
Yee-Melichar (gerontology, San Francisco State U.) et al. offer a resource to graduate students and professionals in assisted living administration and management that has guidelines for operating facilities. It is based on the core competencies required for operation and covers the context and history of the field; policy, licensing, and regulations; organizational models; hiring, training, retaining, and educating staff; business and financial management, including legal issues; accessibility, fire safety, and disaster preparedness; models of care; universal design and aging-in-place; diversity issues; physical and psychological aspects of aging; and resident's rights. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Compact clinical guide to acute pain management; an evidence-based approach.
D'Arcy, a palliative care nurse practitioner who specializes in pain management, offers an evidence-based guide for nurses in primary care, internal medicine, and acute and long-term care settings that presents the core concepts on acute pain management. It covers assessment, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment options, and national guidelines, with discussion of regional anesthesia techniques, patient-controlled analgesia, epidural pain management, and complementary and integrative therapies. The final section addresses difficult-to-treat populations like those with sickle disease, patients with substance abuse, abdominal pain, and emergency room, trauma, critical care, and chronic pain patients with acute pain. Short case studies end each chapter. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Compact clinical guide to infant and children's pain management; an evidence-based approach.
Oakes, a pain clinical nurse specialist, provides nurses and physicians with a guide to the assessment and management of pain in infants, children, and adolescents. She covers assessment, common medications, regional anesthesia, continuous peripheral nerve block infusions, nonpharmacological interventions such as cognitive-behavioral techniques and physical approaches, multidisciplinary approaches, the role of parents, special treatment considerations for needle-related procedures and critical and terminal illness and the impact on family, and painful conditions related to surgery, trauma, cancer, sickle cell disease, and chronic pain. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Comprehensive nursing care in multiple sclerosis, 3d ed.
Halper, an adult nurse practitioner who specializes in multiple sclerosis, and Holland, a nurse formerly associated with clinical programs at the National MS Society, assemble 14 chapters on the role of the multiple sclerosis nurse. After an overview of the disease, US and Canadian nurses and others discuss educating the patient and family; providing advocacy; managing the disease and its symptoms and promoting healthy coping, including psychosocial issues and sexuality; collaborating with the rehabilitation team; and maximizing the effectiveness of pharmacotherapeutics. Along with new chapters on pediatric patients and integrating complementary and alternative medicine, this edition has been reorganized and updated to incorporate the Morgante Conceptual Framework of Hope and a stronger focus on instilling hope and helping patients regain independence. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The counseling practicum and internship manual; a resource for graduate counseling students.
Hodges (clinical mental health counseling, Antioch U.) offers a guide for graduates preparing for, or already engaged in, a practicum or internship in any counseling setting, including rehabilitation, school, mental health, addictions, and marriage and family counseling. She gives advice on selecting and applying for an internship or practicum, writing cover letters and developing a resume, requesting reference letters, and interviewing. Once on the job, students will appreciate tips on writing clinical case notes and developing treatment plans, setting boundaries with clients, dealing with difficult coworkers, and maintaining ethical standards related to informed consent, confidentiality, and liability insurance. Classroom and site supervision, multicultural issues, and dealing with aggressive behaviors from clients are some other areas examined. Appendices offer a list of professional counseling organizations, codes of ethics, a list of state licensure boards and requirements, and a sample internship or practicum contract. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Depressed older adults; education and screening.
Berman (director of research, New York City Department for Aging) and Furst (director of public education, Mental Health Association of New York City) present guidelines that will help aging and social service programs establish a mental health education and screening program focused on later-life depression and implement it in the community. The model, Education About Screening Elders for Depression (EASE-D), offers a practical and culturally sensitive approach. The screening program helps professionals expand their knowledge about clinical depression in older adults, develop skills to identify signs of clinical depression and suicidal ideation, and create collaborative relationships across professional disciplines of aging, social services, medical, and mental health services. Each chapter includes implementation checklists. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Eating behavior and obesity; behavioral economics strategies for health professionals.
Behavioral economics studies why some people have difficulty making good choices, willpower issues and lack of self-control. Focusing on food, this book delivers insight on factors associated with poor eating habits leading to obesity and other health problems, and offers strategies for changing the behaviors that cause them. Intended primarily for health professionals, academics and students in the nutrition industry, as well as policymakers, this book serves to give a better understanding of the barriers that cause unhealthy eating habits and change those behaviors that lead to them. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Essential procedures for practitioners in office, urgent, and emergency care settings.
This first-edition quick reference offers up-to-date, concise information in a consistent format covering 72 commonly performed procedures. The format includes background, patient presentation, treatment options, contraindications, special considerations, procedure preparation and steps, post procedure considerations, educational points, complications, author pearls, and resources. B&w photos and drawings support the text. Editor Theresa M. Campo has a doctorate in nursing practice and many affiliations including Case Western Reserve U. and The Richard Stockton College on New Jersey. Co-editor Keith A. Lafferty is a physician with practices in Philadelphia and Florida. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Gerontology nursing case studies; 100 narratives for learning.
Bowles (nursing, Indiana U. Southeast, New Albany) presents 100 case studies contributed by nurses working with older adults in various settings in the US to help undergraduate nursing students develop interventions to help older adults with political, ethical, and legal issues; loss and end-of-life issues; elder abuse; depression, addiction, and suicide; self-esteem and family relationships; sexuality; health issues in various body systems; nutrition; cancer; cognitive impairment; cultural diversity; pain management; sleep disturbances; gambling addiction; hoarding behavior; emergency preparedness; driving; and long-distance caregiving. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Gerontological nurse practitioner certification review.
Kazer and Grossman (nursing, Fairfield U.) present a review guide for gerontological nurse practitioners preparing for the American Nurses Credentialing Center and American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Gerontological Nurse Practitioner (GNP) certification exams. They provide information on taking the exam and applying for the GNP certification and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse license; how to read a question, review answers, and identify the best answer; and GNP competencies in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention, acute and chronic illness assessment, clinical management of older adults, the nurse's role and relationship with patients, health care systems and policy, and research utilization, with end-of-chapter questions and 165 practice questions drawn from the American Nurses Credentialing Center test. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Healing presence; the essence of nursing, 2d ed.
Koerner is the author of Mother, Heal My Self: An Intergenerational Healing Journey Between Two Worlds, which recounted the power of Lakota spiritual healing in her daughter's recovery from a series of medical errors. In this new work for nurse educators, students, and practitioners, Koerner explores the intersection of allopathic, alternative, and spiritual approaches rooted in native healing practices. The first part of the book reviews some of the principles explained in her previous book. The next sections offer new models for transpersonal caring through the lens of philosophy and spirituality, and provide a framework for personal and professional development and self-empowered leadership. Section 4 describes the five levels of the bioenergetic body within the context of discoveries in quantum physics. The book includes summary tables and checklists, plus a glossary of spiritual and energetic healing terms. Koerner holds RN, PhD, and FAAN degrees. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Integrating gerontological content into advanced practice nursing education.
This resource presents nursing faculty with user-friendly guidelines for incorporating gerontological content into existing non-gerontological Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) programs without requiring major curriculum changes. It will be useful for APN faculty across a number of non-gerontological specialty areas, including family, adult, acute, holistic, palliative, and pediatric medicine. The book begins with a discussion of rationales, strategies, and challenges of integrating gerontological content into the APN curriculum, and describes the gerontological content that needs to be included. Section 2 presents full descriptions of relevant print media and Internet resources, and section 3 provides a competency-based framework for integrating gerontological content into non-gerontological APN nursing programs, graduate nursing core curricula, advanced specialty nursing core curricula, and specialty curricula. Appendices list competencies. Auerhahn is affiliated with New York University's College of Nursing. Kennedy-Malone directs the Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Program at The University of North Carolina. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Jonas & Kovner's health care delivery in the United States, 10th ed.
This descriptive textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students reviews the US health care delivery system, drawing on contributions from those in health policy and management, public health, sociology, healthcare research, and behavioral science. This 10th edition of the text offers new coverage of health care reform, population health, catastrophic events, and the health care workforce. The text's opening section on health policy treats subjects such as health care reform and financing. Later sections examine issues in medical care delivery and the future of health care in the US. An appendix sets out major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Other learning features include a glossary, key words, discussion questions, and case studies. An instructor's website offers background material to guide class discussions, plus class projects. Kovner is professor of health care management at New York University. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Marriage and family therapy; a practice-oriented approach.
Marriage and family therapist Metcalf (education, Texas Wesleyan U.) compiles 14 contemporary models of marriage and family therapy and how they work, to help students and beginning practitioners decide which to use in practice. A group of therapists mainly from Texas detail each model's history; assumptions; views of change, the family, and the role of the therapist; and methods of assessing family dynamics and goal setting, facilitating change, and knowing when to terminate; along with case studies showing how the model addresses common issues and interviews with therapists about their techniques. Concluding chapters address issues of supervision, research, ethics, and diversity. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Medical aspects of disability; a handbook for the rehabilitation professional, 4th ed.
This fourth edition updates the third (2005) with substantial rewrites and some added topics, including a history of rehabilitation, geriatric rehabilitation, limb deficiency, organ transplantation, musculoskeletal disorders, and future directions for research. Of the 37 chapters, 26 are devoted to coverage of particular disabling conditions and disorders such as traumatic brain injury, burns, cancer patients, diabetes mellitus, epilepsy — and the particular issues that pertain to rehabilitation. The "special topics" section treats complementary and alternative medicine, assistive technology, service delivery and payment systems, and telerehabilitation, among other topics. The three editors are Steven R. Flanagan, Herb Zaretsky, and Alex Moroz — all affiliated with New York U. School of Medicine. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The nature of theoretical thinking in nursing, 3d ed.
The goal of this book is to show how empirical elements in the world of nursing are translated into theoretical terms, and in turn, how epistemological and philosophical concepts are articulated in the real world of nursing. Kim (nursing, U. of Rhode Island) reviews theoretical terms, explores issues of nursing epistemology, and presents a framework of four domains: the client, the client-nurse domain, the domain of practice, and the domain of the environment. Chapters on each domain follow, plus a chapter on theory development in nursing. This third edition provides a new chapter on nursing epistemology. The book is designed as a text for graduate-level nurses and as a reference for professionals. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Nursing home administration, 6th ed.
Allen (health policy and administration, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) offers a textbook for prospective nursing home administrators that explores aspects of administration such as management, forecasting, planning, organizing, staffing, directing, comparing and controlling quality, innovating, and marketing the facility; the functions of each department and managing human resources; managing finances; understanding the continuum of long-term care regulations; building care skills like understanding the aging process, body functions, and medical and related terms; and policies, procedures, care plans, and other aspects. This edition has been revised and updated to reflect new legislation and regulations and has a new section on the integration of the Federal Requirements and Guidelines to Surveyors, Quality Indicators, and the Resident Assessment Instrument. Each chapter has added learning objectives and other features, with case studies throughout the text. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Nursing knowledge and theory innovation; advancing the science of practice.
Reed, a metatheoretician and professor of nursing at the U. of Arizona, and Shearer (geriatric nursing, Arizona State U.) assemble 12 chapters and reflective essays by nurses from the US and UK who discuss nursing knowledge and theory development in practice for masters and doctoral-level students and practitioners who are expected to use and develop theory for practice. They aim to inspire and support theoretical thinking and expand the repertoire of strategies for theory development, showing how nursing knowledge is created, rather than how to apply it in practice. They discuss the geography of nursing and how theory evolves, the roles of PhD and doctor of nursing practice (DNP) nurses in knowledge development; approaches to development like practicing mindfulness, community-based praxis, and creating a mandala to clarify a nursing philosophy; philosophical and practical dimensions; and historical perspectives. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Nursing leadership for patient-centered care; authenticity, presence, intuition, expertise.
Forman, a nurse leader and educator who specializes in patient-centered care and team building, describes the essential factors in nursing care. Drawing from the experiences of many health care professionals and organizations, she shares stories of nurses, managers, and leaders who have experienced problems with the system. She discusses empathy; patient-centered care; collaboration, cooperation, and communication; effective labor relations; bridging cultural and religious differences; the connection of responsibilities, tasks, and positions to personality traits; critical thinking, ethical decision making, morality, and power; spirituality; handling of grief; and the need for a clearer definition of nursing. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Nurses on the front line; when disaster strikes, 1878-2010.
Wall, a nurse historian at the U. of Pennsylvania, and Keeling (nursing, U. of Virginia) compile 13 essays that illustrate how nurses have responded to natural and man-made disasters in the US, Canada, and other countries from 1878 to 2010, and how their experiences can inform disaster preparedness today. Contributors, a group of nurses and historians from the US and Turkey, focus on 12 disasters, including the 1900 Galveston hurricane, the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the 1878 Mississippi yellow fever epidemic, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, the 1917 Halifax disaster, and the 1921 Tulsa race riot, ending with a chapter on international disasters. They examine and analyze within historical context, the nurses' role in responding to disasters and as part of a community response, noting the roles of race, class, and gender in any model for disaster response. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
