This guide provides all the patient education information front-line nurses and students need at their fingertips when on the hospital floor.  It contains conversion charts, instructions, and other basic information nurses can refer to quickly and share with patients and their families.

This text is a straightforward guide to reading, evaluating, and using research in clinical settings. It arms the clinician with the information they need to engage in the research process, and includes real-life research to illustrate the most essential concepts of practice-based research.

This text offers direct, effective techniques that are delivered in a concise, use-friendly format that enables readers to develop a professional communication style. Topics include nursing, communication, and developmental theories; issues of cultural diversity and patient rights; concepts and interviewing techniques; and communicating with specific groups, including patients of different ages, patients with physical impairments, and patients in crisis.

This handbook is the most practical, up-to-date, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference with accurate facts on hundreds of drugs. It is organized alphabetically and written using everyday language.

This text offers quick access to a variety of information on all aspects of pediatric general surgery from a nursing perspective. It is an excellent reference for anyone in pediatric nursing or as a companion to the larger text Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient.

This text provides clinical nurses with the theoretical background and practical tools necessary to succeed as a clinical nursing instructor. It offers approaches to structuring clinical experiences for students, evaluating student performance, and solving problems encountered in clinical settings.

This text is a quick reference for emergency and critical care nurses and other healthcare professionals, containing all of the key clinical information they need at their fingertips. It covers emergency and critical care related to cardiology, neurology, and pediatrics.

This text provides support for each procedure in the cardiac surgery environment to include standards of practice, risk management, staffing competencies, and quality indicators to optimize care of the cardiovascular surgery patient. It is based upon AORN standards and meets JCAHO standards for the operating room environment.

This handbook offers clinicians’ quick access to the latest treatment guidelines for the specific diseases and conditions most commonly found in the ER or ICU. It includes such topics as pathophysiology, treatment guidelines, rationales to help clinicians quickly identify an illness and treat a patient, IV infusion rates for the most common IV push medications, and a list of brand and generic names for over 1,600 prescription and over-the-counter medications.

This text gives any new perioperative nurse a head start on achieving perioperative competency, as well as serving as an excellent refresher for the experienced nurse to test his or her knowledge of fundamental OR practice. It is a perfect resource for operating room nurses, nurses studying to become operating room nurses, current operating room nurses needing to refresh and test their knowledge, as well as colleges offering courses in perioperative nursing.

This text provides comprehensive, concise, evidence-based information on diagnosing and treating illness and injury in the emergency setting. It is a convenient resource that offers quick access to vital information for solving pressing problems on the ward or in the clinic.

This text prepares medical professionals to function as competent members of a critical care team by covering the materials that everyone—paramedics, nurses, physicians, and specialty crew—needs to know to operate effectively in the pre-hospital critical care environment. It meets the curricula of major critical care training programs and the objectives of critical care transport certification exams.

This guide includes basic phrases and vocabulary relating to parts of the body and symptoms, as well as questions and answers related to hospital facilities and caring for clients in the hospital setting. It is designed for all nurses to use in the hospital or classroom setting.

This text contains all the information clinical nurses need at their fingertips on the hospital floor—instructions, basic conversion charts, assessment checklists, scales, tables, anatomies, lab tests, charting, medication indications and administration, and other basic information for quick reference.

This text contains all of the key clinical information pediatric nurses and other healthcare professionals need at their fingertips, including medications, instant doses, cardiology, neurology, pediatrics, drug compatibility, laboratory values, vision screener, and useful appendices.