Tag: Canadian Nursing Books

This Book Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses is written by Nola A. Schmidt and Janet M. Brown. We are very pleased to offer the Fourth Edition of this text. For this review, we extensively modified the "Apply what you've learned" feature. The new topic is adherence to hand hygiene, which changed from medication errors in the last edition. We selected this clinical issue because it involves all healthcare providers in all settings and has a significant impact on patient outcomes. Additionally, nursing educators are well positioned to help students appreciate hand hygiene guidelines and develop good hand hygiene habits. This feature continues to be developed in a way that integrates the chapter content with each step of the EBP process. Concrete strategies, in the form of examples and checkl...

This book Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Nursing Practice is written by Janie B. Butts, Karen L. Rich. Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Practice Nursing is designed for advanced practice nursing students and is an essential resource for graduate and DNP programs. This comprehensive text covers all major nursing theories and includes a section on interdisciplinary theories as well as chapters on the philosophy of science, foundations of knowledge development, and knowledge integration and dissemination in advanced practice nursing. According to the Author: The philosophy of science is a perspective, a lens, a way of seeing the world and, in the case of advanced practice nurses, the point of view that the nurse uses in each encounter with a patient, a family or a group. . A pe...

 This Guide CDT 2020: Dental Procedure Codes (Practical Guide) written by ADA.  According to the author: Used by a general dentist and/or a specialist when evaluating a patient comprehensively. This applies to new patients; established patients who have had a significant change in health conditions or other unusual circumstances, per the report, or established patients who have been absent from active treatment for three years or more. It is a comprehensive evaluation and recording of extraoral and intraoral hard and soft tissues. May require interpretation of information acquired through additional diagnostic procedures. Additional diagnostic procedures must be reported separately. This includes an oral cancer screening where indicated, evaluation and recording of the patient's medical a...