Books in the The Clinics: Nursing series

With collaboration of Dr. Steve Krau, Consulting Editor, Drs. Leming-Lee and Watters have created an issue that provides state-of-the-art content on quality improvement. Top authors have contributed clinical reviews on the following topics: Quality improvement: Application of evidence-based practice; The application of the Virginia Mason production system to improve large scale quality outcomes in an acute care hospital; The application of the Toyota production system Lean 5S methodology in the operating room setting; Chart it to stop it: A quality improvement project to increase the reporting of workplace aggression; Reducing pressure injuries in the pediatric intensive care unit; Improving stress-induced hyperglycemic management in the ICU setting; Evaluation of telemetry utilization on medical-surgical floors; Implementation of a nurse-driven CAUTI prevention protocol; A quality improvement project to test the effectiveness of a patient-centered pathway and discharge tool on heart failure patient engagement; Diabetes self-management education provision by an interprofessional collaborative team: A quality improvement project; Increasing effective patient-triage nurse communication using a targeted history question; and Barriers to the implementation of pediatric overweight and obesity guidelines in a school-based health center. Nurses will come away with the current information they need to improve patient outcomes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.