Cynthia Connolly

Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970

In this book, Cynthia Connolly provides a provocative analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This unique facility was intended to prevent TB in indigent children from families labeled irresponsible or at risk for developing the disease. Yet, it also held deeply rooted assumptions about class, race, and ethnicity. Connolly goes further to explain how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.

Julie Fairman

 Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care

In Making Room in the Clinic, Julie Fairman examines the context in which the nurse practitioner movement emerged, how large political and social movements influenced it, and how it contributed to the changing definition of medical care. Drawing on a wealth of primary source material, including interviews with key figures in the movement, Fairman describes how this evolution helped create an influential foundation for health policies that emerged at the end of the twentieth century, including health maintenance organizations, a renewed interest in health awareness and disease prevention, and consumer-based services.

Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice

This fourth edition provides a comprehensive, highly accessible, and in-depth analysis of health behavior theories that are most relevant to health education. This essential resource includes the most current information on theory, research, and practice at individual, interpersonal, and community and group levels. This edition includes substantial new content on current and emerging theories of health communication, e-health, culturally diverse communities, health promotion, the impact of stress, the importance of networks and community, social marketing, and evaluation.

Diane Spatz

Breastfeeding the Healthy Newborn

This second edition nursing module for the March of Dimes discusses the benefits of breastfeeding for infants, children, mothers, families and society. The module also describes techniques for supporting the breastfeeding dyad in the preconception, ante partum, intrapartum and postpartum periods. It addresses special conditions including hyperbilirubinemia, dehydration, weight gain, insufficient mild supply, engorgement and fatigue. It also provides information on maternal nutrition, maternal and infant separation and breastfeeding support technology.

Leadership and Management Skills for Long-Term Care

This book was developed to fill a widely-recognized gap in the management and leadership skills of RNs needed to improve the quality of long-term care. The book is based around learning modules in leadership and management competencies that were site-tested in three types of long-term care settings and revised based on the resulting feedback. Several of the nurse experts involved in the project contribute to this book.

Falls Handbook: Clinical and Medical-legal Perspectives Across the Lifespan

Falls Handbook is a current and comprehensive text on one of the most difficult aspects of medical care: fall prevention. The authors define falls, identify those at risk, and explain the consequences of falls. The text defines the hazards of falls in public places, homes and healthcare facilities. Readers learn what the caregiver should assess after a fall, how the plan of care should be changed, as well as what can and should be done to prevent falls. The text concludes with an analysis of the liability and damages associated with a fall. Common allegations by plaintiff’s experts are listed, along with 9 defense strategies.

Synergy: The Unique Relationship Between Nurses and Patients

This book offers a practical and intuitive framework that resonates with nurses from varying subspecialties, levels of expertise, and roles—from staff nurse to chief nurse executive. Large and small health care systems, schools of nursing, and professional organizations are working to develop and implement this new way of looking at nursing practice that is driven by the fundamental assumption that patient characteristics stimulate nurse competencies to ensure optimal patient outcomes. Synergy reveals this model of care through the knowledge and experience of staff nurses, nurse leaders, educators, scientists, peer reviewers, and certification experts.

Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual

This third edition reference allows nurses and students to quickly find and understand information on disorders so they can effectively plan nursing care. Offering a clear but comprehensive discussion of pathophysiology, and providing rationales in the medications and laboratory sections, Diseases and Disorders will help students understand the scientific basis for the nursing care that patients need. It is an excellent reference for students transitioning from classroom to clinical settings and for nurses working in community and clinical settings.