[PDF] Handbook For Focus On Adult Health eBook

Author : Linda Honan Pellico
Publisher : LWW
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781582558875

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"This comprehensive yet concise clinical reference presents need-to-know information on over 170 commonly encountered diseases and disorders. The easy-to-use, colorful, consistent, and alphabetized format enables readers to gain quick access to vital information on pathophysiology, risk factors, clinical manifestations and assessments, diagnostic methods, medical and nursing management, and complications. Special features include: nursing process sections that include all of the steps of the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, planning, nursing interventions, and evaluation. Nursing alerts that offer brief tips or highlight red-flag warnings for clinical practice. Gerontologic considerations that highlight information pertaining specifically to the care of older adults, who comprise the fastest-growing segment of our population."--Publisher.

Author : Linda Honan Pellico
Publisher : LWW
Page : 1577 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781582558776

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This book is uniquely designed to prepare today's students to succeed as practicing nurses by focusing on the most important medical disorders and key nursing responsibilities. The textbook prepares students for both the NCLEX exam and for daily nursing practice by focusing on the need-to-know content. Both the text and the supporting tools include features designed to reinforce student understanding.

Author : John W. Reich
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 146250647X

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What enables people to bounce back from stressful experiences? How do certain individuals maintain a sense of purpose and direction over the long term, even in the face of adversity? This is the first book to move beyond childhood and adolescence to explore resilience across the lifespan. Coverage ranges from genetic and physiological factors through personal, family, organizational, and community processes. Contributors examine how resilience contributes to health and well-being across the adult life cycle; why—and what happens when—resilience processes fail; ethnic and cultural dimensions of resilience; and ways to enhance adult resilience, including reviews of exemplary programs.

Author : Linda Honan Pellico
Publisher : LWW
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781582558868

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The Study Guide to accompanyFocus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing, 1eassists students in understanding the concepts, techniques, and disease processes detailed in the textbook. The Study Guide provides students multiple opportunities for review and self-assessment using a range of learning exercises designed to highlight student comprehension and strengths and to identify areas in need of further study.

Author : Okojie, Mabel C.P.O.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 179981307X

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In today’s globalized world, professional fields are continually transforming to keep pace with advancing methods of practice. The theory of adult learning, specifically, is a subject that has seen new innovations and insights with the advancement of online and blended learning. Examining new principles and characteristics in adult learning is imperative, as emerging technologies are rapidly shifting the standards of higher education. The Handbook of Research on Adult Learning in Higher Education is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of adult education in residential, online, and blended course delivery formats. This book will focus on the impact that culture, globalization, and emerging technology currently has on adult education. While highlighting topics including andragogical principles, professional development, and artificial intelligence, this book is ideally designed for teachers, program developers, instructional designers, technologists, educational practitioners, deans, researchers, higher education faculty, and students seeking current research on new methodologies in adult education.

Author : Linda Honan
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 3933 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 149638136X

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Focus on Adult Health: Medical-SurgicalNursing 2E separates the wheat from the chaff by drilling down to the essential content that students need to know. This book provides the foundation of medical-surgical nursing with core content, values, and skills. Focus on Adult Health: Medical-SurgicalNursing 2E is not designed to answer every question related to internal medical and surgical care. Instead the intentional design of the book is to give depth and breadth to the essentials. Written by nurses active in clinical practice, these expert clinicians know what qualifies as “need-to-know” content. This book includes rigorously researched current references and innovative technologies.

Author : Vari Drennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199653720

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This handbook serves as a reference guide for everyday clinical decision-making and provides the organisational knowledge necessary for those nurses who work on the interface of the statutory and voluntary sectors in health, education and social care.

Author : Nathan Hantke
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2020-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0128004932

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The Handbook of Mental Health and Aging, Third Edition provides a foundational background for practitioners and researchers to understand mental health care in older adults as presented by leading experts in the field. Wherever possible, chapters integrate research into clinical practice. The book opens with conceptual factors, such as the epidemiology of mental health disorders in aging and cultural factors that impact mental health. The book transitions into neurobiological-based topics such as biomarkers, age-related structural changes in the brain, and current models of accelerated aging in mental health. Clinical topics include dementia, neuropsychology, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, mood disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, sleep disorders, and substance abuse. The book closes with current and future trends in geriatric mental health, including the brain functional connectome, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), technology-based interventions, and treatment innovations. Identifies factors influencing mental health in older adults Includes biological, sociological, and psychological factors Reviews epidemiology of different mental health disorders Supplies separate chapters on grief, schizophrenia, mood, anxiety, and sleep disorders Discusses biomarkers and genetics of mental health and aging Provides assessment and treatment approaches

Author : M Cecil Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135597405

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The time is right for this comprehensive, state-of-the-art Handbook that analyzes, integrates, and summarizes theoretical advances and research findings on adult development and learning - a rapidly growing field reflecting demographic shifts toward an aging population in Western societies. Featuring contributions from prominent scholars across diverse disciplinary fields (education, developmental psychology, public policy, gerontology, neurology, public health, sociology, family studies, and adult education), the volume is organized around six themes: theoretical perspectives on adult development and learning research methods in adult development research on adult development research on adult learning aging and gerontological research policy perspectives on aging. The Handbook is an essential reference for researchers, faculty, graduate students and practitioners whose work pertains to adult and lifespan development and learning.

Author : Dolores Perin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1119261384

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Examines the widespread phenomenon of poor literacy skills in adults across the globe This handbook presents a wide range of research on adults who have low literacy skills. It looks at the cognitive, affective, and motivational factors underlying adult literacy; adult literacy in different countries; and the educational approaches being taken to help improve adults’ literacy skills. It includes not only adults enrolled in adult literacy programs, but postsecondary students with low literacy skills, some of whom have reading disabilities. The first section of The Wiley Handbook of Adult Literacy covers issues such as phonological abilities in adults who have not yet learned to read; gender differences in the reading motivation of adults with low literacy skills; literacy skills, academic self-efficacy, and participation in prison education; and more. Chapters on adult literacy, social change and sociocultural factors in South Asia and in Ghana; literacy, numeracy, and self-rated health among U.S. adults; adult literacy programs in Southeastern Europe and Turkey, and a review of family and workplace literacy programs are among the topics featured in the second section. The last part examines how to teach reading and writing to adults with low skills; adults’ transition from secondary to postsecondary education; implications for policy, research, and practice in the adult education field; educational technologies that support reading comprehension; and more. Looks at the cognitive processing challenges associated with low literacy in adults Features contributions from a global team of experts in the field Offers writing strategy instruction for low-skilled postsecondary students The Wiley Handbook of Adult Literacy is an excellent book for academic researchers, teacher educators, professional developers, program designers, and graduate students. It’s also beneficial to curriculum developers, adult basic education and developmental education instructors, and program administrators, as well as clinicians and counselors who provide services to adults with reading disabilities.