Published June, 2009
By Jane C. Rothrock
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Nursing
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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.

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Published June, 2009
By Linda G. Dumas
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Nursing
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Explores the field of long-term care. This title covers such topics as: Clinical Issues in Long Term Care, Settings at End of Life, and Leadership for the Future.

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Published June, 2009
By M. Terese Verklan
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Nursing
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Covers topics that include Retinopathy of Prematurity, the Near-Term Infant, endocrine issues including congenital adrenal hyperplasia and ambiguous genitalia, nutrition in the 1000g neonate, safety issues and issues of informed consent in the NICU, substance abuse, pain, and grieving and removal of life support from the parent's perspective.

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Published May, 2009
By Lena M. Napolitano
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Nursing
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Presents an evolving alternative to blood transfusion. This issue explores its potential with topics such as 'HBOCs from Human or Bovine Hemoglobin', 'Comparison of HBOCs to Stored Human Red Blood Cells', 'HBOCs and Tissue Oxygenation', and, 'HBOCs: Role in surgery, resuscitation or hemorrhagic shock?'

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Published March, 2009
By M. Terese Verklan
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Nursing
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Offers information on global infant mortality/morbidity, the care of extremely low birth-weight infants, Hyperbilirubinemia, genetics, cardiac and respiratory care, and pharmacology.

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Published March, 2009
By Nancy Girard
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Nursing
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Perioperative Nursing is a challenging specialty, which involves a comprehensive support process to the individual undergoing surgical intervention. This title explores this topic and features articles that include: transitioning from military to civilian leadership, nursing leadership and politics, and leading a clinical research team.

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Published March, 2009
By Alyce A. Schultz
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Nursing
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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.

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Published January, 2006
By Patricia A. Moloney-Harmon
Publisher: Elsevier (Saunders)
Series: The Clinics: Nursing
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Presents articles, contributed by nurses from domestic and international children's hospitals, on issues that cover a range of material on pediatric critical care nursing. This book addresses different patterns of injury such as drowning and toxic ingestions. It covers pediatric cardiac surgery, injury prevention, and end of life decision making.

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