Books in the The Clinics: Nursing series

Covers such topics as: Historical Perspective on Women's Health as a nursing Specialty; Integrative Health Care for Women - Acupuncture and Mindful Meditation and Yoga; Wellness in Women Across the Lifespan; Adolescent Health - HPV Vaccine as an Exemplar; Genetics - Breast Cancer as an Exemplar; and, Women's Global Health.

Features subject topics such as: Interventions for Anxiety in the Critically Ill: A Guide for Nurses and Families; Psychiatric Co-Morbidities Across the Lifespan; Prevention Approaches in Childhood Mental Health Disorders; Adolescent Substance Use Conditions; Traumatic Brain Injury; Screening and Treatment of Depression in Primary Care; and, more.

Perioperative nursing encompasses caring for the patient as a whole being, taking into account physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual issues. This title focuses on topics such as essential components for an effective patient safety strategy, medication error prevention in perioperative services, and fire prevention.

An issue on the topic of leadership that includes the following article subjects: Contemporary Nurse Executive Practice - One Framework, One Dozen Cautions; Transformational Leadership - Application of Magnet's New Empirical Outcomes; Creating Ownership with Evidence-Based Staffing; and, Executive Coaching for Frontline Leaders.

Offers information on global infant mortality/morbidity, the care of extremely low birth-weight infants, Hyperbilirubinemia, genetics, cardiac and respiratory care, and pharmacology.

Includes topics such as Behavioral Approaches to Pain Management; The Diagnostic Workup of Patients with Neuropathic Pain; Interventional Approaches to Pain Management; Myofascial Pain Trigger Points; Nonopioid Analgesics; Topical Analgesics; and, Documentation and Potential Tools in Long Term Opioid Therapy for Pain.

To provide a safe environment, perioperative nurses need to have the knowledge of surgical anatomy, physiological alterations and risk factors. This title focuses on education by covering topics that include: using simulation to teach undergraduate nursing students, educating novice perioperative nurses, and diversity in education.

Describes modern critical care techniques in a historical context. This book includes such topics as 'Shock and Organ failure', 'Battlefield trauma, traumatic shock and consequences: War-related advances in critical care', and Lessons from Modern Disasters and Wars: Bhopal, Chernobyl, Oklahoma City Bombing, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Tsunami, Iraq'.

Focuses on use of acute care Nurse Practitioners in neuroscience critical care; Post-graduate advances practice neurovascular fellowship education and training; NET SMART; management of Traumatic Brain Injury; management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; and management of Hyperacute Ischemic Stroke.

The idea of evidence-based practice for nursing has grown out of the evidence based medicine movement. Evidence-based practice requires nurses to learn new skills in order to use a different process for clinical decision making. Nursing is gradually building its base of knowledge. This title explores this movement and where it is leading nurses.