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McGraw-Hill Healthcare

Nurse to Nurse ECG Interpretation
Authors: Jenkins, Peggy
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-159283-3
ISBN-10: 0071592830
©2010 | 1st Edition | 400 pages , Softcover with access card
Status: September 2009
Price: US$ 29.95

A compact, easy to use, quick reference specially created to help nurses and other practitioners understand and perform ECG interpretation at the bedside.

Nurse’s Pocket Drug Guide 2010
Authors: Barberio, Judith
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-162743-6
ISBN-10: 007162743X
©2010 | 6th Edition | 409 pages , Softcover
Status: September 2009
Price: US$ 12.95

  
Everything nurses need to know about 1000 common medications — in one pocket-sized guide!

Specifically geared towards patient care and safety, this instant-access pocket guide provides registered nurses with essential, up-to-the-minute information on the selection and administration of 1000 commonly used medications.This nursing classic is revised annually to reflect approval of new drugs, changes in usage of current drugs, and withdrawal of older ones.

Features:

• Organized alphabetically by generic drug name
• Mechanisms of action
• Common usage and dosage
• Side effects
• Drug interactions
• Nursing implications
• New drugs
• Patient education
• Expanded coverage of natural and herbal agents

Slack Incorporated

Comprehensive Wound Management
Author: Gleen Irion
ISBN-13: 978-155642-833-3
ISBN-10: 1-55642-833-2
©2009 | 2nd Edition | 384 pages , Hardcover
Status: October 2009
Price: US$ 74.95

Take your wound management and treatment skills to the next level with Comprehensive Wound Management, Second Edition. Both physical therapy students and practicing clinicians of varying wound experience will be well prepared to identify and treat a variety of wounds beyond those covered in traditional textbooks such as pressure, neuropathic, venous, and arterial ulcers.

Comprehensive Wound Management, Second Edition by Dr. Glenn Irion is a unique text that covers the spectrum of acute and chronic wounds. This encompassing text includes full color images, as well as chapter discussions on each type of intervention, prevention strategies and administrative concerns that impact the delivery of wound management services.

Features: 

• Full-color images of wound types and interventions
• Photographic descriptions of wound management
• Line drawings illustrate and reinforce key concepts
• Follows the principles of the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice
• Follows the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health.
• Based on the Guide for Integumentary/Wound Management Content in Professional Physical Therapist Education developed by American Physical Therapy Association’s Section on Clinical Electrophysiology and Wound Management.

Along with providing key information on all aspects of wound management, this updated second edition, references the need to not only examine the wound but the patient as well, so that successful clinical judgments and developing effective treatment plans can be made.

Everything you wanted to know about wound management:

• Normal skin anatomy and physiology
• Causes of wounds
• Normal and abnormal healing
• Clinical decision making
• Interventions
• Administrative issues that impact wound management practice

Comprehensive Wound Management, Second Edition is an invaluable text that should be in the hands of all physical therapy students and clinicians, certified wound specialists, rehabilitation professionals, and any health care provider who is managing the treatment of wounds.