New Books Received – April 09

• 2009 Nurse’s Drug Handbook
• Clinical supervision for nurses
• Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness
• Food and health in the new millennium : a concise guide to the role of nutrition in health and disease
• Management and leadership for nurse administrators
• Math for nurses : a pocket guide to dosage calculation and drug preparation
• New leadership challenge : creating the future of nursing
• Nurse to nurse.
• Speaking of dying : a practical guide to using counselling skills in palliative care
• Advanced practice nursing : an integrative approach
• Building your nursing career : a guide for students
• Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy
• Care managers : working with the aging family
• Caring for patients from different cultures
• Classroom skills for nurse educators
• Clinical delegation skills : a handbook for professional practice
• Clinical dietitian’s essential pocket guide
• Clinical health psychology in medical settings : a practitioner’s guidebook
• Dietary supplements
• Emotional labour in health care : the unmanaged heart of nursing
• Essential nursing skills
• Evaluating research for evidence-based nursing practice
• Fast facts for the clinical nursing instructor : clinical teaching in a nutshell
• Future of the nursing workforce in the United States : data, trends, and implications
• Getting the most from nursing school : a guide to becoming a nurse
• Grant writing handbook for nurses
• Handbook of informatics for nurses & healthcare professionals
• Health promotion strategies through the life span
• Hospice companion : best practices for interdisciplinary assessment and care of common problems during the last phase of life
• Human centered nursing : the foundation of quality care
• Intravenous medications : a handbook for nurses and other allied health personnel
• Introduction to theory and reasoning in nursing
• Lippincott’s nursing drug guide
• Manual of school health : a handbook for school nurses, educators, and health professionals
• Mastering the teaching role : a guide for nurse educators
• Merck manual of patient symptoms : a concise, practical guide to etiology, evaluation, and treatment
• Mosby’s drug guide for nurses
• Muslim medical ethics : from theory to practice
• Nurse’s drug handbook
• Nurse’s handbook of I.V. drugs
• Nurse’s handbook of behavioral and mental health drugs
• Nurse’s quick check
• Nurse’s rapid reference
• Nurse’s survival guide to the ward
• Nursing Education Challenges in the 21st Century
• Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge
• Nursing now! : today’s issues, tomorrow’s trends
• Nursing research : designs and methods
• Nursing spectrum drug handbook 2009
• Pediatric nursing care plans for the hospitalized child
• Perspectives on nursing theory
• Pocket guide to nutritional assessment and care
• Psychosocial issues in palliative care
• Real stories of nursing research : the quest for Magnet recognition
• Reflective practice in nursing
• Roy adaptation model
• Royal Marsden Hospital manual of clinical nursing procedures
• Teaching in nursing : a guide for faculty
• Trauma nursing : from resuscitation through rehabilitation
• Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine
• Watson’s clinical nursing pocket book
• What is special about the human brain?

Nursing Books Received – Oct 08

Pediatric nursing : scope and standards of practice

5-minute obstetrics and gynecology consult

Advancing your career : concepts of professional nursing

Assisted suicide and euthanasia : a natural law ethics approach

Clinical assessment and monitoring in children

Clinical dietitian’s essential pocket guide

Communication and education skills for dietetics professionals

Davis’s drug guide for nurses

Easeful death : is there a case for assisted dying?

Guide to nursing management and leadership

Inherited metabolic diseases : a guide to 100 conditions

Medical-surgical nursing : clinical management for positive outcomes

Nurse’s drug handbook.

Nurse’s rapid reference.

Nursing : the philosophy and science of caring

Nursing know-how.

Nursing models, theories and practice

Public health nursing : leadership, policy, & practice

SMART way : an introduction to writing for nurses

Vaccine : the controversial story of medicine’s greatest lifesaver

Reproduction, childbearing and motherhood : a cross-cultural perspective

Clinical calculations : with applications to general and specialty areas

Communication as comfort : multiple voices in palliative care

Middle range theories : application to nursing research

Nurse executive : the four principles of management

Nurse’s quick check.

Pediatric nursing : scope and standards of practice

Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care

Values in medicine : what are we really doing to patients?

How to write a guideline from start to finish : a handbook for healthcare professionals

International practice development in nursing and healthcare

Just the facts : a pocket guide to basic nursing

Key concepts in nursing

Lippincott’s nursing procedures.

Making room in the clinic : nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care

New Books for Nursing in May 08

• Advancing health literacy : a framework for understanding and action 
• Birth : the surprising history of how we are born 
• Creative nursing leadership & management 
• Decision making in medicine and health care 
• Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles 
• Ethical choices in contemporary medicine : integrative bioethics 
• Ethical decision making in nursing and health care : the symphonological approach 
• Evidence-based nursing : the research-practice connection 
• Fundamentals of brain development : integrating nature and nurture 
• Practical guide to the care of the gynecologicobstetric patient 
• Psychological Dieter It’s Not All About the Calories
• Sacred covenant : the spiritual ministry of nursing 
• Sanctity of human life 
• Vegetables and fruits : nutritional and therapeutic values 
• Vulnerable older adults : health care needs and interventions 
• When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine 
• Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body 

New Books for Nursing in March 08

These books are now available on shelf in the Library.

• Encyclopedia of nursing research 
• Magill’s medical guide
• Nurse’s 3-minute clinical reference
• Resumes for nursing careers 
• Teaching strategies for nurse educators
• Client teaching guides for home health care 
• Concept mapping : a critical-thinking approach to care planning 
• Emergency nursing core curriculum 
• Evidence-based Nursing Care Guidelines Medical-surgical Interventions.
• Evidence-based practice for nurses : appraisal and application of research 
• Guidelines for nurse practitioners in gynecologic settings 
• Integrated theory and knowledge development in nursing 
• Nurse’s toolbook for promoting wellness 
• Nursing diagnosis reference manual 
• Nursing ethics : across the curriculum and into practice 
• Nursing interventions classification (NIC) 
• Nursing outcomes classification (NOC) 
• Practice guidelines for acute care nurse practitioners 
• Priorities in critical care nursing 
• Public health nursing : population-centered health care in the community 
• Qualitative research proposals and reports : a guide 
• Transcultural nursing : assessment and intervention 
• Visual nursing : a guide to diseases, skills, and treatments.
• Wong’s clinical manual of pediatric nursing.
• Acute and critical care clinical nurse specialists : synergy for best practices 
• Applied mathematics for database professionals 
• Basic concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing 
• Body of work : meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab 
• Clinical skills manual for pediatric nursing : caring for children 
• Davis’s guide to clinical nursing skills 
• Deciphering diagnostic tests.
• Interpreting signs & symptoms.
• Lippincott’s nursing drug guide 
• Nurse’s drug handbook 2007 
• Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000 
• Nursing research : generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice 
• Nursing spectrum drug handbook.
• Perfecting clinical procedures.
• Treatments : language, politics, and the culture of illness 
• UCL Hospitals injectable medicines administration guide 
• Advancing practice in rehabilitation nursing