Anatomy of Medical Errors: The Patient in Room 2, 1e

By: Donna Helen Crisp, JD
ISBN: 978-1-940446-84-4
Pub Date: June 2016
Price: $29.95

A surgeon unknowingly damages the intestines of a nurse expecting only an overnight hospital stay after surgery, beginning a chain of more tragic and preventable mistakes. The consequences result in the nurse spending a month on an ICU ventilator in a drug-induced coma, four additional surgeries, and a pump to drain the raging sepsis in her open abdomen. As she awakens and tries to come to terms with what happened to her, she realizes the hospital and doctors will never tell her the whole truth; she has to find out what went wrong on her own in order to heal and teach others how to avoid such mistakes. More than a narrative, Anatomy of Medical Errors: The Patient in Room 2 shines a light on the dysfunction that underpins many hospital organizations, especially teaching hospitals, including silencing of the patient, provider arrogance, flawed coordination and communication, and lack of ownership for outcomes.

Healthy Places, Healthy People: A Handbook for Culturally Informed Nursing Practice, 3e

By: M. Dreher
ISBN: 978-1-940446-66-0
Pub Date: May 2016
Price: $49.95

At the clinic, in the classroom, and across the globe, nurses are at the forefront of leading change and promoting social justice in healthcare. But this doesn't just happen. To provide the best possible patient care and effectively improve a community's future health, nurses need practical advice, realistic strategies, and the core public health leadership competencies[md]community relationship-building, inquiry, assessment, analysis, planning, action, evaluation, and persuasion--that transcend categorical public health concerns. Healthy Places, Healthy People provides everything that current and future nurses need to prepare, gather, organize, and analyze basic community information to create a public health strategy. A well-crafted strategy enables public health workers to effectively mobilize citizen action, working with groups and individuals to build capacity for health equity and, ultimately, a healthier future.

Nurse's Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your Own Dissertation or Capstone, 1e

By: Karen Roush, PhD
ISBN: 978-1-940446-08-0
Pub Date: April 2015
Price: $34.95

Earning your advanced degree is an extraordinary accomplishment, but completing those final stages can feel like a daunting task to candidates. A Nurse's Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Your Dissertation or Capstone is a straightforward how-to guide. This book is intentionally concise because, let's be honest, the last thing a busy candidate needs is another unwieldy, doorstop-sized book. Packed with practical steps and tools, this book will help you plan, document, organize, and write your dissertation or capstone. Don't go it alone; let author and fellow dissertation survivor Dr. Karen Roush help you get from square one to DONE.

Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice Competencies in Healthcare: A Practical Guide for Improving Quality, Safety, and Outcomes, 1e

By: Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN
ISBN: 978-1-940446-42-4
Pub Date: June 2016
Price: $59.95

Hospitals and healthcare systems around the world have attempted to build and sustain evidence-based practice (EBP) cultures and environments, yet they have struggled to clearly understand what EBP competency means. Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare clears up that confusion and serves as a guide for clinicians, leaders, faculty, EBP mentors, and students in achieving EBP competency, facilitating evidence-based decision making in daily practice, and accelerating the speed at which research knowledge is translated into real-world settings to improve health outcomes and decrease healthcare costs.