Nursing in today's world : trends, issues, & management Call No. 610.73 E47n 2008 The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, Nursing in Today's World, is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Ninth Edition. This vibrant full-color text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession, including educational preparation, health care finance, legal responsibilities, and ethics/bioethics. Critical thinking exercises are embedded throughout the chapters. Key terms and concepts are highlighted in bold. This edition has more critical thinking exercises, plus a new Communication feature that teaches students how to communicate effectively in difficult situations.
	Nursing research : reading, using, and creating evidence Call No. 610.73072 H842n 2008 Intended to help the undergraduate student learn to read and use research as a basis for nursing practice, this new nursing research textbook puts research into the context of evidence-based practice, helping students gain knowledge of research concepts while learning to apply them. The conversational style of the text minimizes the intimidating aspects of research to maximize understanding.
	Evidence-based nursing : an introduction Call No. 610.73 E93 2008 What is evidence-based nursing? Simply, it is the application of valid, relevant, and research-based information in nurse decision-making. Used effectively, evidence-based nursing methods can be used to dramatically enhance patient care and improve outcomes. Evidence-based Nursing is a practical guide to evidence-based nursing for students and practitioners. Proceeding step-by-step, it enables nurses to understand and evaluate the different types of evidence that are available, and to critically appraise the studies that lay behind them. It also considers the ways in which these findings can be implemented in clinical practice, and how research can be practically applied to clinical-decision making.
	Decision-making in nursing : thoughtful approaches for practice Call No. 610.73 D294 2008 Decision-Making in Nursing explores the contributions of a variety of decision-making approaches that add to the ways of knowing and the evidence that enables nursing students and professionals to be reflective, critical, flexible, and comfortable with the many daily decisions they make. In today's complex health care arena, nurses looking at patient, family, or community needs to adjust their decision-making to a multi-dimensional care environment. This book helps guide students and professionals through this process and shows them how current evidence, along with historical, legal, spiritual, and political factors affect their decision-making.
	Nursing ethics : across the curriculum and into practice Call No. 174.2 B989n 2008 Newly revised and updated, the Second Edition of this leading ethics textbook integrates nursing ethics content throughout the nursing curriculum, preparing students and professionals for moral issues encountered in daily practice. Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice derives its theoretical foundations from clinical evidence and case studies. Emphasizing the collaborative nurse-patient relationship in care, this text includes decision-making approaches and models, rationale for decisions, and management of care for various situations.