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Plan effective patient care using standardized interprofessional clinical problems and a concept-based approach! Conceptual Nursing Care Planning, 2nd Edition, shows you how to identify clinical problems, determine expected outcomes, and choose interventions - all grounded in a logical, concept-based framework. The focus on concepts gives you the big picture, helping you recognize similarities in nursing care based on physiologic concepts, as well as differences based on the needs of individuals. Written by noted nursing educators Mariann Harding and Debra Hagler, this unique book demonstrates how the use of a concept-based approach and standardized clinical problems language makes it easier to plan effective care and communicate with other members of the interprofessional team. NEW! Graphic representation of key conceptual relationships in each chapter enhances your understanding of the relationships among patient care concepts. NEW! Additional assessment and screening tools for key concepts such as mobility. UPDATED! Content reflects current Giddens concepts, updated with the latest evidence to support high-quality care. Prioritized care planning guidance organizes interventions in an assess-intervene-teach format to help identify the most important priority interventions for patients. Conceptual nursing care plan format includes a definition of the conceptual clinical problem, associated clinical problems, common causes, manifestations, assessment, outcomes, interventions, referrals, patient and caregiver teaching, documentation, related concepts, and related clinical problems. 69 conceptual nursing care plans are based on Giddens concepts. Unique approach covers concepts not addressed in other books, such as health disparities, risk for perinatal problems, impaired immunity, substance use, sensory deficits, continuity of care, and the dying process. Use of standardized nursing language throughout conveys concepts and clinical problems in easily understandable language that is commonly used in clinical settings. Exemplars section in the back of the book lists conditions with clinical problems that might be applicable in a particular patient population (Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, Psychiatric). Introduction explains the components of a conceptual nursing care plan and how to use the book to create patient-centered nursing care plans. Conceptual care map creator on the Evolve companion website helps document care planning projects and clinical assignments.

In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest editor Dr. Boel A. Fransson brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Small Animal Endoscopy. Top experts discuss minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedures which have come of age within the past several years, including surgical technique, case selection, outcome, and complications. Articles also cover the available technology to augment MIS, developments on skills training opportunities, and the future of veterinary robotic surgery. Contains 11 relevant, practice-oriented topics including new training options for small animal minimally invasive surgeons; laparoscopic treatment of sliding hiatal hernia; advances in minimally invasive procedures of the thoracic cavity; advances in treatment of canine chylothorax; new technology augmenting veterinary minimally invasive surgery; 3D technology, cannulas, and surgical instruments; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on small animal endoscopy, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Sleep and Health, Second Edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the relationship between sleep and health at the individual, community, and population levels, along with a discussion of the implications for public health, public policy, and interventions. Based on a firm foundation in many areas of sleep health research, this text further provides introductions to each sub-area of the field and a summary of the current research for each area. This book serves as a resource for those interested in learning about the growing field of sleep health research, including sections on social determinants, cardiovascular disease, cognitive functioning, health behavior theory, smoking, and more.

In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. David N. Hager, Kyle Gunnerson, and Stephen Macdonald bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Critical Illness Outside the ICU. Top experts cover key topics such as flight transport of the critically ill; models of critical care in the emergency department; in-hospital triage; rapid response teams; early warning systems; ICU without walls; and more.Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics the role of intermediate care; PACU care; critical care in rural settings; critical care in austere settings; tele-ICU support; alternate care pathways for the patient with multimorbidity; and more.Provides in-depth clinical reviews on critical illness outside the ICU, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

In this issue of Dermatologic Clinics, guest editor Dr. Jeffrey M. Cohen brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Psoriasis: Contemporary and Future Therapies. Top experts in the field discuss oral therapies for psoriasis; phototherapy for psoriasis in the era of biologics; the psoriasis treatment pipeline; psoriasis comorbidities and their impact on treatment; underdiagnosis and undertreatment of traditional cardiovascular risk factors in psoriasis; and much more.Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including biologics for psoriasis; psoriasis genetics and the impact of genetics on comorbidities and treatment; psoriasis therapies in the pediatric population; disparities in psoriasis treatment; immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced psoriasis; and more.Provides in-depth clinical reviews on psoriasis: contemporary and future therapies, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

In this issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics, guest editors Drs. Smita Sihag and Robert E. Merritt bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Contemporary Management of Esophageal and Gastric Cancer. Top experts in the field discuss the rapidly evolving areas of systemic therapy and biomarker testing, as well as minimally invasive techniques for gastrectomy, management of major complications after esophagectomy, and much more. Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including minimally invasive transhiatal esophagectomy; minimally invasive modified McKeown esophagectomy; robotic-assisted Ivor Lewis esophagectomy; minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy; the impact of racial disparities and the social determinants of health on esophageal and gastric cancer outcomes; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on contemporary management of esophageal and gastric cancer, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Covering all anesthesia topics from basic to advanced, Miller's Anesthesia Review, 4th Edition, is an ideal resource for self-assessment and deepening your understanding of this ever-expanding and challenging field. Edited by Drs. Lorraine M. Sdrales and Manuel C. Pardo, Jr., this authoritative guide provides high-yield study points in an easy-to-read, bulleted format, along with hundreds of questions, answers, and rationales to help you test your knowledge and identify knowledge gaps for further study. Conveniently cross-referenced to the latest edition of Miller’s Basics of Anesthesia, it covers everything from physiologic and pharmacologic principles through anesthetic machine systems, anesthetic delivery in a variety of settings, and anesthesia administration for a full range of disease states.Uses an efficient, bulleted outline format for each chapter, summarizing core content and providing self-test questions and workbook tasks that test your conceptual knowledge and rationale.Brings you fully up to date with revised questions throughout, progressing logically from basic to advanced topics.Includes selected figures, tables, and clinical pearls boxes to emphasize key concepts.Features new chapters that reflect the breadth and scope of the practice of anesthesiology, including Clinician Well-Being, Perioperative Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Environmental Impact of Anesthesia, and Perioperative Medicine.Provides up-to-date coverage of hot topics such as anesthesia neurotoxicity, sleep medicine, and more.Corresponds to Miller’s Basics of Anesthesia to help you make the most of your study time, learn more efficiently, and pursue further information if needed.Ideal for anesthesia providers of all levels, from new learners to more experienced practitioners.An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook includes interactive multiple-choice questions, and allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

In this issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, guest editors Drs. Frank F. Ing and Howaida El-Said bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Interventions for Congenital Heart Disease. Top experts in the field PDA occlusion in premature infants; the use of 3D imaging for pre-procedural planning for CHD interventions; PDA stents for pulmonary/systemic flow; venous rehabilitation in CHD; the use of flow restrictors in CHD; and much more.Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including hybrid procedures in CHD; ACHD innovations; fetal Interventions; occlusion of the sinus venosus ASD; pulmonary artery stenting; lymphatic interventions in CHD; and more.Provides in-depth clinical reviews on interventions for congenital heart disease, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

In this issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest editor Diane Bruessow of Yale School of Medicine brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Gender Minority Medicine. Filling a knowledge gap in transgender health in primary care, this issue features articles by top experts that focus on up-to-date standards regarding clinical care, hormone therapy, inclusion, hormone therapy and surgery, and more.Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including interpreting gendered lab results; deferring puberty in transgender adolescents and associated clinical care; administrative considerations (or creating a welcoming environment) for transgender inclusion; navigating transgender health in the uniformed services; and more.Provides in-depth clinical reviews on gender minority medicine, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Flexible devices based on metal oxides: Achievements and prospects focuses on the integration of flexibility in electronic circuitry, sensing applications, energy conversion and storage, and environmental remediation. Flexibility in these applications offers great potential, especially in the areas of wearable sensors, solar cells, transistors, electronic skin, and human body monitoring. The book investigates flexible and wearable devices based on metal oxide nanostructures or thin films that are capable of bending, rolling, compression, and folding, all while maintaining their performance. Metal oxide nanomaterials display exceptional properties that include mechanical stress tolerance, high optical transparency, high carrier mobilities, wide band gap, high dielectric constant, and superconductivity, amongst others. In some cases, they are also earth abundant, environmentally benign, cost-effective, chemically stable, and compatible with low-cost wet-chemical synthesis routes. The focus of the book is on wearables manufactured using sustainable manufacturing methods and integrated into substrates that are flexible, inexpensive, recyclable, abundant, and lightweight, including polymer, textile, cellulose and cork substrates.

Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies presents the principles, methods, and algorithms of ISAC, an overview of the essential enabling technologies, as well as the latest research and future directions. Suitable for academic researchers and post graduate students as well as industry R&D engineers, this book is the definitive reference in this interdisciplinary field that is being seen as a technology to enable emerging applications such as vehicular networks, environmental monitoring, remote sensing, IoT, smart cities. Importantly, ISAC has been identified as an enabling technology for B5G/6G, and the next-generation Wi-Fi system. ISAC brings together a range of technologies: radar sensing, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, holographic surfaces through to high frequency terahertz, PHY security, channel signaling, multiple access, and machine learning.

Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including theragnostics trials; neuroendocrine tumors: diagnostics; prostate-specific membrane antigen: diagnostics; theragnostics: post-therapy imaging; fibroblast-activation-protein inhibitors (FAPI) theragnostics; and more.Provides in-depth clinical reviews on theragnostics, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.In this issue of PET Clinics, guest editors Drs. Andrei Iagaru and Heather A. Jacene bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Theragnostics. Top experts in the field discuss neuroendocrine tumors: beta-labeled peptides; prostate-specific membrane antigen: interpretation criteria, standardized reporting and the use of artificial intelligence; prostate cancer (gastrin-releasing peptide receptor); selective internal radiation therapy; future directions in theragnostics; and more.

Diabetes Digital Health, Telehealth, and Artificial Intelligence explains how to develop and use the emerging technologies of digital health, telehealth, and artificial intelligence to address this important public health problem to deliver new hardware, software, and processes. The book explores trends in developing and deploying the three most important emerging technologies for diabetes: digital health, telehealth, and artificial intelligence. This book is essential to clinicians, scientists, engineers, industry professionals, regulators, and investors, offering the tools that will be used to create the next generation products to support a precision medicine approach to manage diabetes. According to the CDC, in the US there are 37 million people with diabetes and 96 million people with prediabetes. Diabetes triples the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke and is the leading cause of blindness, end stage renal failure, and amputations. The management of diabetes is becoming increasingly dominated by digital health tools consisting of wearable sensors, mobile applications providing decision support software, and wireless communication tools. Digital health provides new data streams that can be combined to create unique approaches for diabetes based on a precision medicine paradigm.

In this issue of Heart Failure Clinics, guest editors Drs. Giuseppe Limongelli, Michele Emdin, Marco Merlo, and Claudio Rapezzi bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Amyloid Cardiomyopathies: Clinical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects. Top experts in the field discuss the role of clinical use of biomarkers in cardiac amyloidosis; cardiac magnetic resonance in the management of cardiac amyloidosis; bone scintigraphy: strength points and pitfalls in the diagnosis of ATTR-cardiac amyloidosis; PET and cardiac amyloidosis; endomyocardial biopsy in the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis; and much more.Contains 17 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the changing epidemiology of cardiac amyloidosis; arrhythmic stratification of cardiac amyloidosis: state of the art; specific therapy in ATTR-related cardiomyopathy: future perspectives beyond tafamidis; and more.Provides in-depth clinical reviews on amyloid cardiomyopathies, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

In this issue of Dental Clinics, guest editor Dr. Leopoldo P. Correa brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Dental Sleep Medicine. Top experts in the field discuss the use of oral appliance therapy to treat sleep-disordered breathing, including snoring and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This issue covers new appliances for OSA, as well as the latest updates in sleep medicine, including surgical management, legal issues, chronobiology, and insomnia. Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including temporomandibular disorders and dental sleep medicine; dental sleep medicine and orofacial pain; pediatric dental sleep medicine; combination therapies with an oral appliance in the management of OSA; oral appliances for OSA; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on dental sleep medicine, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Melatonin: A Ubiquitous Pleiotropic Molecule equips researchers with an understanding of the molecular biology of melatonin in plants. The book explores the occurrence of melatonin in several plant species, covering key aspects, including its biosynthesis, physiological function in plant growth and development, and signaling pathways. It then discusses the benefits melatonin has for plant and agricultural development, as well as how it can be utilized as a therapeutic in the treatment of human diseases. The role it can play in the oxidative stress response and circadian rhythm modulation are covered, as well as its nutraceutical potential for human health. The book also covers the importance of melatonin in a range of fields, including drug discovery and disease resistance, agriculture, botany, and biotechnology, and is an ideal reference for researchers across these disciplines.

Role of Environmental Microbiology in Industrial Wastewater Research focuses on environmental bioremediation concepts providing a comprehensive view of recent trends and emerging technologies in environmental bioremediation, addressing the current limitations and challenges pertaining to generally accepted and applied bioremediation strategies, and discussing corrective strategies for the removal of pollutants from the environment. Describing the broader role of environmental microbiology specifically in the treatment of industrial wastewater research Includes the recovery of resources from wastewater this book will be of interest to environmental microbiologists, biotechnologists, environmental engineers, chemical engineers and those working in the bioremediation field.

Techniques for Biochemical Analysis provides researchers with a practical guide for investigating a variety of different biomolecules. It includes a range of tried and tested protocols, outlining the principles upon which each technique is founded, as well as providing instructions on equipment setup and use, buffer preparation, reagents required, safety considerations and analysis of findings. Beginning with an introduction to biochemistry and laboratory procedures, the book moves on to specific methods focused on investigation of carbohydrates, proteins, enzymes, plant hormones, minerals, amino acids, and more. The large range of protocols covered in this foundational, how-to reference are interdisciplinary and adaptable to a variety of areas, making this an ideal resource for researchers across various fields, including biochemistry, molecular biology, medical sciences, plant physiology, agriculture, and related subjects.

Ideal for use at the bedside or in outpatient clinics, Braddom’s Rehabilitation Care by Drs. David X. Cifu and Henry L. Lew provides dependable, up-to-date content in a portable, concise handbook format. The fully updated 2nd Edition covers the everyday topics you need - pain management, pediatric, adult, and geriatric care, spasticity, assistive devices, orthoses, outcome measures, and much more - all derived from the most trusted name in the field of PM&R.Presents authoritative content derived from the #1 comprehensive reference in the field: Braddom’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, in a concise, and portable format.Highlights key concepts spanning the full spectrum of rehabilitation medicine to help optimize outcomes for individuals with a range of chronic diseases, impairments, and disabilities.Features a reader-friendly design with succinct, templated chapters for ease of use.Offers insights from an international panel of PM&R experts.Reflects updates to the latest advances and technologies, including new information on stroke evaluation, rehabilitation, and therapies; interventional pain management options; gait and prosthetics; ultrasound, fluoroscopy; electrodiagnosis; occupational medicine and vocational rehabilitation; the neurogenic bladder; upper limb amputation; medical frailty; and more.Provides a quick reference or study resource for the entire rehabilitation team: PM&R professionals and trainees, NPs, PAs, PTs, STs, and OTs; and residents in neurology, neurosurgery, rheumatology, geriatrics, pediatrics, and orthopedics.Features online videos that provide guidance on essential techniques, and eSlides that summarize key teaching points and clinical pearls using robust images and diagrams in a presentation format.An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

In this issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, guest editors Drs. J. Randolph Clements and Mark H. Hofbauer bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Current Concepts in Foot and Ankle Trauma. Top experts in the field cover modern concepts in foot and ankle trauma to help guide proper diagnosis and treatment in injuries that occur during sports, exercise, or other physical activity. Topics include navicalar and cuboid fractures; osteochondral injuries of the talus; rearfoot/ankle dislocations; pediatric trauma; open fractures; and more.Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including metatarsal fractures; Lisfranc injuries; ankle fractures; Achilles tendon ruptures; and more.Provides in-depth clinical reviews on foot and ankle trauma, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Recent years have brought major shifts in the way endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is used in everyday practice, including the incorporation of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) techniques with ERCP. The 4th Edition of this practical reference helps you make the most of today’s ERCP in your practice, with authoritative, highly illustrated guidance on every aspect of this complex tool, including coverage of the latest techniques both in print and on video.Provides detailed, full-color illustrations and in-depth instructions for performing all procedures.Depicts each procedure in dozens of step-by-step videos that clearly show ERCP techniques and imaging interpretation, including many new or recently improved procedures.Covers recent advancements in balloon assisted endoscopy, and provides guidance on performing ERCP on patients with surgically altered anatomy.Includes new chapters on endoscopic disinfection to address antibiotic resistant bacterial infections traced back to duodenoscopes; the environmental implications of ERCP; and magnetic biliary anastomosis.Contains clear therapeutic guidelines that help you determine when and when not to perform ERCP.An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

In this issue of Cardiology Clinics, guest editor Dr. Ran Lee brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Cardiac Emergencies. Top experts discuss common acute cardiac conditions frequently encountered in ER and ICU settings, their pathophysiology and epidemiology, as well as diagnosis and management considerations. As the overall patient population becomes more complex with competing comorbidities, management of the acute cardiac care patient is also becoming equally sophisticated, and this issue reviews up-to-date strategies for optimal care.Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including acute coronary syndrome in the 21st century CICU; cardiac tamponade; acute heart failure from ED to the ICU; cardiogenic shock and mechanical circulatory support devices; incessant electrical storm; cardiac trauma; pulmonary hypertension emergencies; and more.Provides in-depth clinical reviews on cardiac emergencies, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Earth Surface Processes in the Anthropocene outlines our current understanding of the effects of ongoing and accelerated environmental changes on Earth surface processes and details the systematic and quantitative methodology on the actual drivers of these processes. This book covers various geomorphological process domains and a wide range of terrestrial surface environments on Earth. It provides a broad spectrum of advanced techniques and methods of data collection and generation, together with various approaches and methods of data analysis and geomorphologic modelling. This book is a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and academics studying Earth surface processes, as well as researchers and professionals in needing a comprehensive overview of Earth surface process change and influence during the Anthropocene

Cognitive Assistant Supported Human-Robot Collaboration covers the design and development of cognitive assistants in the smart factory era, its application domains, challenges, and current state-of-the-art in assistance systems with collaborative robotics and IoT technologies, standards, platforms, and solutions. This book also provides a sociotechnical view of collaborative work in human-robot teams, investigating specific methods and techniques to analyze assistance systems. This provides readers with a comprehensive overview of how cognitive assistants function and work in human-robot teams.

Pictorial Atlas of Neuroradiological Signs examines various brain scans in order to create a useful guide for clinicians and students. Using images of diseases and other conditions, this atlas is designed to identify various signs as well as explain what the underlying reason for the presentation of such anomalies on brain scans and images. This book will be most useful to clinicians in neurology and students who are studying neuroradiology. Those with an interest in various branches of neuroscience or radiology might also find this book a useful tool.

MicroRNA Advances and Application in Plant Biology presents a broad range of tools and techniques used for microRNA identification and utilization for diversity analysis in plants, crop improvement, and gene regulation. With expert insights, this book addresses those concepts through curated chapters that are well-illustrated with informative data, tables, figures, and photographs. While biological microRNA database resources have been created for the better understanding of structural and functional properties of primary-microRNAs (pri-microRNAs) to mature microRNAs, there remains a need for foundation understanding of how microRNAs may play a very crucial role in a plant lifecycle as an regulatory and stress tolerance molecule. There are still many unanswered questions about the structural and functional properties of the microRNAs, like the role of microRNA in crop improvement, gene regulation, stress tolerance, disease resistance plant, plant communication, and environmental interaction.

Sequences and the de Bruijn Graph: Properties, Constructions, and Applications explores the foundations of theoretical mathematical concepts and their important applications to computer science, electrical engineering, and bioinformatics. The book introduces the various concepts, ideas, and techniques associated with the use of the de Bruijn Graph, providing comprehensive coverage of sequence classification, one-dimensional and two-dimensional properties, constructions, and interconnection networks. This book is suitable for researchers, graduate students, professors, and professionals working in the fields of applied mathematics, electrical engineering, computer science, and bioinformatics. The de Bruijn graph was defined in 1946 to enumerate the number of closed sequences where each n-tuple appears exactly once as a window in a sequence. Through the years, the graph and its sequences have found numerous applications - in space technology, wireless communication, cryptography, parallel computation, genome assembly, DNA storage, and microbiome research, among others.

A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions. By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. The second edition includes new chapters on diversity affirmation and cultural adaptations of interventions, quality of life, self-determination, guided decision-making, and ethics as foundational skills for identifying effective, socially valid interventions that are delivered with compassion and assent/consent.

Choose the drug handbook trusted by nurses for over 35 years! Mosby's 2025 Nursing Drug Reference makes it easy to find the most vital information on the drugs you administer most frequently. More than 5,000 drugs are profiled - including more than 25 new entries for drugs recently approved by the FDA. And no other drug guide places a higher emphasis on patient safety, with Black Box Warnings for dangerous adverse reactions, High Alerts for drugs with the greatest risk, and a focus on both common and life-threatening side effects. From nursing pharmacology expert Linda Skidmore-Roth, this perennial bestseller proves there is a difference in drug guides.NEW! Drug monographs for more than 25 newly released, FDA-approved medications equip you with the latest drug information including generic names, trade names, pronunciations, do-not-confuse drugs, action, uses, contraindications, precautions, dosages and routes, side effects, pharmacokinetics, interactions (including drug/herb, drug/food and drug/lab test), nursing considerations, treatment of overdose, patient/family teaching, and more.NEW! Several online-only drug monographs are added to the companion Evolve website, creating an overall total of more than 100 Evolve-only drug monographs for lesser-used medications.NEW! Combinations heading for selected monographs highlight common combinations.More than 5,000 generic and trade-name drugs are profiled, covering almost every drug you will administer in practice or in clinicals.Alphabetical organization by generic name provides quick and easy access to specific drugs, with both trade and generic names listed in the index.Bolded coverage of IV drug administration highlights dosage and IV administration instructions, including safety considerations and Y-site, syringe, and additive compatibilities.Nursing Process steps are used as the framework for organizing all nursing care information.Complete pharmacokinetic information is summarized in a table and includes the mechanism and absorption of the drug as well as its action, duration, and excretion.Side effects information is organized by body system and identified as common or life threatening, showing signs to watch for during assessments.High Alert headers highlight drugs that pose the greatest risk if administered improperly.Black Box Warnings provide alerts to FDA warnings of dangerous or life-threatening drug reactions.Overview of drug categories explains the safe administration of common classes of drugs, as well as their common side effects and interactions.Flexible, water-resistant cover provides durability in the clinical setting.

Insect Ecomorphology: Linking Functional Insect Morphology to Ecology and Evolution offers up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the morphology of insects and the functional basis of their diversity. This book covers the form and function of insect body structures in relation to their physiological performance capabilities, biological roles, and evolutionary histories. Written by international experts, the book explores the ecomorphology of functional systems such as insect feeding, locomotion, sensing, and egg laying. The combination of conceptual and review chapters, methodological approaches, and case studies enables readers to delve into active research fields and to gain an understanding of the form-function-performance paradigm. This book uncovers key structures of the various regions of the insect body, elucidates their function, and investigates their ecological and evolutionary implications. Insect Ecomorphology is thus a vital resource for entomologists, biologists, and zoologists, especially those seeking to understand more fully the morphology and physiological impacts of insects in correlation to their environments and to evolution.