A Nurse's Survival Guide to the Ward - Updated Edition E-Book


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Further to the success of the previous editions, A Nurse's Survival Guide to the Ward continues to be the indispensable guide to all the procedures and problems faced by nurses and healthcare professionals every day. Whether you are a clinical practicing student or a qualified nurse, this book is the perfect straightforward reference for every doubt you might have about emergency situations, as well as assessments, clinical procedures and much more. What will you find in this updated edition: Completely updated and revised content written by well-known authors with extensive experience in the field; Up-to-date legal issues, health and safety, professional practice issues and ethics in nursing; Expansions of areas such as oxygen administration, fluid and electrolyte balance and nutrition Completely updated and revised content written by well-known authors with extensive experience in the field; Up-to-date legal issues, health and safety, professional practice issues and ethics in nursing; Expansions of areas such as oxygen administration, fluid and electrolyte balance and nutrition




The Newly Qualified Nurse's Survival Guide


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Even after years of training and hard work, finding yourself on the threshold of your nursing career is often a daunting prospect. In this revised and updated second edition, Jackie Hole provides clear, practical advice on both managing the transition from student to qualified nurse - including getting the most from your final placement and making applications - and practical advice on key areas encountered in the first weeks and months after qualification. Drug safety, dealing with common clinical problems, and how and when to seek expert advice are all covered, while a newly written chapter addresses the key area of infection control. Management aspects such as delegation, objective setting, budgeting, prioritisation of care and time management are outlined clearly and engagingly, along with questions of professional development and career futures. This book will be invaluable to newly-qualified nurses, as well as to student nurses, nurse tutors, and experienced nurses wishing to gain an insight into their own practice and changes in the profession.




The New Nurse Survival Guide


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Survive and Thrive as a New NurseBeing a new nurse is hard. Now you have a preceptor in your pocket with the top 50 tips for succeeding as a new nurse.Survive and Thrive as a New Nurse, experienced nurse Jon Haws RN, provides you with 50 tips to not just survive as a new nurse but to thrive and excel. Nursing is hard. Being a new nurse is torture. With these 50 tips taken directly from Jon's experience as a new nurse preceptor and charge nurse you will have the tools you need to make it! Learn how to handle difficult situations, difficult doctors, difficult patients, and difficult nurses. This book provides the key to unlocking success as a nurse. The transition from school to the real world can be very hard for many nurses. 1 in 5 new nurses leave their first job before reaching the 1 year mark. With these tips you will make it! The Preceptor You Need to Succeed. After working with thousands of nursing students and new nurses, Jon has seen what habits and skills lead to success on the hospital floor. Those tips are now compiled into one resource. It's like having a preceptor in your pocket. This book makes the perfect gift for new nurses and nursing students preparing for graduation. After Reading This Book You Will: 1. Learn how to handle the stress of real world nursing 2. Know how to communicate with physicians 3. Learn what information from school is most important 4. Discover what is really important on the floor 5. Find the motivation to succeed - . . . so much more! Jump Start Your Career Today!Don't waste another second . . .Now you have the tools. Scroll up to buy! Enjoy the eBook for free with the purchase of The New Nurse Survival Guide physical copy.




The Newly Qualified Nurse's Handbook E-Book


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This book has been prepared by professionals working in the UK. It is not a primer on clinical skills but an indispensable handbook and resource for the new nurses who are about to embark on their first job and need to develop nursing judgment and the ability to organise and deliver care. It is about learning how to think like a nurse - developing the judgment and behaviour that is essential in competent practice. With an immensely readable style this book uses a friendly, conversational manner, with realistic hints, tips, and examples from real life, to encourage nurses in the early days of their careers. Issues such as assertiveness, delegation, CVs and interviews, leadership, developing “nursing intuition , are covered as well as discussion about evidence based and reflective practice, direct entry into the community, and developing confidence in practice. This book will help nurses and students develop into competent and confident practitioners. • Written for newly qualified nurses by a nurse, therefore authentic• Case studies and quotes from nurses show readers that their thoughts and feelings are shared by others - this validation will reduce stress and uncertainty and give credibility• Humour and cartoons will make the text readable and fun to use• Hints, tips and practical advice will encourage the anxious graduate• Attractive 2-colour design will make the text more easily accessible




Night Shift


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Stop Suffering Through The Night and Start Dominating! * Have You Been Struggling to Sleep During the Day? * Have You Ever Wished You Could Take a Long 8 Hour Nap in the Middle of Your Shift? * You Crash On Your Days Off and Now You& Stuck in a Vicious Sleep Cycle? Luckily I can relate to you and I know exactly how it feels. Your eyes feel heavy and you can barely stay awake. I had considered myself a night owl in the past but there is nothing like being awake the WHOLE NIGHT and into the morning. It really was much tougher than I expected. This 10 Step Guide for Rebalancing Your Life Covers.. How to successfully make the CHANGE to night shift Learn to THRIVE on routine How to BE MORE ALERT and work safely How to get a good SLEEP after you get off from work Exercises to ELIMINATE STRESSORS How to manage your nutrition and energy levels throughout THE ENTIRE NIGHT Natural ways to put you to SLEEP as well as the not so natural way & How to IMPROVE YOUR TIME MANAGEMENT to maximum results What is Stopping You? Scroll up, Take Action, and 'buy now' to DISCOVER How You Can Be HAPPY In A Job That Keeps YOU Up ALL NIGHT!




The Student Nurse Handbook


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Bec Shepherd is a malaria researcher struggling to lead a good life. Ritchie, her reprobate brother, is a rock star turned TV producer. When Bec refuses an offer of marriage from a powerful newspaper editor and Ritchie's indiscretions catch up with him, brother and sister are forced to choose between loyalty and betrayal.The Heart Broke In is an old-fashioned story of modern times, a rich, ambitious family drama of love, death and money in the era of gene therapy and Internet exposes. From the author of the 'spellbinding' (Guardian), 'quite extraordinary' (Philip Pullman), 'startlingly original' (Mail on Sunday) novel, The People's Act of Love




School Nurse Survival Guide


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The book gives guidance and practical advice about working in the community and the specialist role of school nursing. It includes contributions from newly qualified school nurses to provide reflections on their experiences, challenges and successes.




Critical Resilience for Nurses


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The nursing profession is under pressure. Financial demands, student debt, the target culture, political scrutiny in the wake of major care scandals and increasing workloads are all taking their toll on professional morale and performance. This timely book considers the meaning of resilience in this adverse context and explains why measures to preserve individual nurses’ and students’ well-being are flawed if they don’t take into account wider political and organizational perspectives. Arguing that healthcare can be thought about and experienced differently, this book: provides a summary of the latest research on resilience, explaining its relevance and also limitations for nurses; considers debates about compassion and highlights the effects of policy agendas on nurse education and nursing work; re-evaluates nursing’s professional identity, including where nursing has come from and the effects of class, gender and race on its powerbase; assesses the role of politics and social media, both in driving change and feeding resistance; and introduces the idea of critical resilience as a complete framework for resisting bullying and fostering survival and change in the nursing workforce. Direct, upbeat, at times provocative and witty, this agenda-setting book enables nurses to understand why they feel the way they do. It also lists what opportunities are available to them to change, resist and survive in what has become a complex, challenging – if still deeply rewarding – line of work.




A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies Updated Edition


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Are you a nurse, a physician's associate or a medical student in an acute or emergency unit? This is your indispensable primer of acute medical care – a pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions. This book will help you to - care for patients in the first critical 24 hours of admission - manage patients using the most up-to-date evidence based approach - understand the most common emergency medical conditions and their underlying disease mechanisms - handle the patient's assessment , understand the observations and manage their disease - easily obtain clear practical advice - know what to tell the patient and relatives using jargon-free language - access information on SARS, avian influenza and bio-terrorism This updated edition - contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis, - introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart - has revised its case histories in line with current practice This updated edition: contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis, introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart has revised its case histories in line with current practice




Dental Nurse Survival Guide


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This highly practical text aims to provide the newly qualified dental nurse with with a basic guide to dental nursing issues. The Dental Nurse Survival Guide adopts the same Q&A format that has proven so successful with the best selling Staff Nurse Survival Guide. Each guide is a collection of all the common situations that a newly qualified practitioner might face. The aim is to produce an answer for each question that could be read in 5 minutes - a pocket-sized handbook containing ideas, principles and guidelines for a number of common and sometimes unexpected situations encountered in the first year of practice. Written by experienced author who wrote The Dental Nurses' Guide to Infection Control and Decontamination.