Essential Nursing Skills

This new edition of Woodrow’s Intensive Care Nursing will be warmly welcomed. Especially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units, this comprehensive text has been developed to be as accessible as possible. Including new chapters on planning for pandemics and transferring patients, it has been revised throughout to ensure the evidence-base is completely up-to-date and the content reflects contemporary best practice.

Intensive Care Nursing is structured in user-friendly sections. Each chapter contains 'fundamental knowledge' needed to understand the chapter, an introduction, 'implications for practice', a chapter summary, completely updated further reading, 'time out' sections for revision and a clinical scenario with questions included. Reviewed throughout by experienced practitioners and teachers, it covers:

• patient-focused issues of bedside nursing
• the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients
• the more common and specialized disease processes and treatments encountered
• how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice.

Written by a practice development nurse with a strong clinical background in intensive care nursing and experience of teaching nursing, Intensive Care Nursing is essential reading for nurses and health professionals working with high dependency patients, particularly those undertaking further training in the area.

Nursing Medical Emergency Patients is a vital resource for all nurses working with medical emergency patients, and provides an essential companion to both Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient and Treating the Critically Ill Patient.

• Accessible and reader friendly
• Integrates theory with practice
• Adopts an evidence based approach
• Includes chapter objectives, 'best practice' boxes and case studies
• Refers to National guidelines and key initiatives e.g. outreach teams
• Includes legal and ethical issues

Includes the key evidence-based procedures students need to know

• Includes multiple-choice questions to help students test their knowledge
• Compact and portable –can be taken anywhere
• Clear, user friendly and easy to understand
• All procedures include the rationale for each action and rate the validity of the supporting evidence
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• Accompanying Lecturer companion site with Multiple choice questions & Powerpoint slides of all illustrations
• Accompanying Student companion site with Multiple choice questions

Many households all around the world have become enthusiastic about growing their own vegetables at home. That’s why vegetable gardening at home may not just be a rising trend but a permanent development in the future of farming.

Growing your own vegetables is not only practical, but also health-wise. Buying vegetables at farmer’s markets and supermarkets is expensive, mostly double the cost than when you harvest your own vegetables. With your own vegetable yield, you can really save practically hundreds of dollars on your monthly food budget. Most importantly, growing your own vegetables assures you that you get produce that is always safe from harmful pesticides and fertilizers which studies show can trigger cancers. Besides, nothing beats the nutritious freshness of vegetables that’s hand-picked straight out of your garden and into your table.

This book is the new home gardener’s handy guide for growing vegetables in any type of backyard. It will provide an easy-to-understand system for starting, growing, harvesting and preserving your own vegetables. Some essential gardening tips you will learn are:

•                    Growing vegetables from seeds or plants

•                    What to grow

•                    Proper planting

•                    Caring for growing plants

•                    How to harvest plants

•                    Preserving vegetables and fruits

This is a complete step-by-step vegetable gardening guide for beginners guaranteed to make vegetable gardening fun and easy to do! With all the gardening tips and secrets, you can be certain you can plant and grow all kinds of nutritious, garden-fresh vegetables successfully!

Find complete answers to questions such as which laboratory tests to order or what the results might mean. Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 6th Edition covers more tests than any other reference of its kind, with over 900 lab tests and diagnostic procedures in all. In Part I, you'll find an alphabetical list of hundreds of diseases, conditions, and symptoms, including the tests and procedures most commonly used to confirm or rule out a suspected diagnosis. In Part II, you’ll find descriptions of virtually every laboratory and diagnostic test available. This edition is updated with the latest research and over 20 NEW test entries. Written by educator Cynthia Chernecky and clinical nurse specialist Barbara Berger, this lab reference covers today’s lab tests with concise, easy-to-use information.

• More than 900 laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures are included - more than any other reference!
• Over 600 diseases, conditions, and symptoms are listed, along with the tests used to confirm them.
• Alphabetical organization and A-to-Z thumb tabs make it easy to find the information you’re looking for.
• Alternative test names and acronyms are cross-referenced to simplify lookup.
• Instructions for client and family teaching help you offer guidance concerning test preparation and follow-up care.
• Age and gender-specific norms are provided, giving you complete lifespan coverage.
• Risks and Contraindications are highlighted to help you safeguard your patients and provide effective care.
• Panic Level Symptoms and Treatment are provided for dangerously increased and decreased levels.
• Minimum volumes for blood samples are included, useful when a client’s blood preservation is essential, as well as information on whether blood specimens can be drawn during hemodialysis.
• Tests for toxic substances are included, making this a lab, diagnostic, and toxicology book all in one.
• Abbreviations, measurement prefixes, and symbols are listed on the front and back covers for convenience.
• Information on herbal supplements indicates when a client’s use of natural remedies might affect test results.

• Over 20 NEW test entries present the latest tests and procedures, with a strong focus on affordable, clinically relevant genetic tests.
• UPDATED content includes the latest research relating to accuracy of tests, diagnostic value of results, and associated cost-benefit ratios.