pathology, pathophysiology, nursing, management, patient-centered care, clinics, disease 

Clinic Review Articles 

Nursing is an evolving profession that requires continued knowledge updates in formulating a foundation for practice. In order to promote patient safety and satisfaction, it is imperative that nurses monitor publications and increase their knowledge base. Each patient is different; each care management situation requires an individualized plan of care. These require the nurse to develop a personal framework for practice that continually develops from this information. This mandates an evolving knowledge base which this edition will supply for nurses who work to deliver care that is research based and protocol driven. This issue of Nursing Clinics will be both timely and relevant as it will combine two clearly important topics for nurses in care management, pathophysiological updates as well as research based protocols that are important to continuity of validated evidence based care delivery. This will give nurses across organizations the opportunity to see care from a perspective of patient wholeness and not truncate care in order to address total components. With care reimbursement dependent on outcomes, it is important for the nurse to see care as a continuum and not finite. This issue will give nurses this perspective.- From Amazon 

ix, 807 p. ; 24 cm 

Includes index.

Foreword: Patient-Centered Care and Lifelong Learning -- Preface: Clinical Updates in Pathophysiology and Care Protocols for Nursing -- Transitioning Care Across Various Health Care Organizations -- Orthopedic Injuries: Protocols to Prevent and Manage Patient Falls -- Technological Advances in Nursing Care Delivery -- Validation of the National Institutes of Health Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Survey as a Quality-of-Life Instrument for Patients with Malignant Brain Tumors and Their Caregivers -- Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders -- Diabetes Mellitus Standards of Care -- Innovations in Cardiovascular Patient Care: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement -- Addressing Tobacco Dependence Through a Nurse-driven Tobacco Intervention Protocol -- Bedside Reporting: Protocols for Improving Patient Care -- Management of Travel-Related Illness Acquired in Haiti -- Pharmacology Update on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Major Depression -- Implementing a Program for Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Venous Access: Training, Policy and Procedure Development, Protocol Use, Competency, and Skill Tracking -- Heart Failure: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Medical Treatment Guidelines, and Nursing Management -- index