• Evidence-Informed Health Policy, Second Edition

    The second edition of Evidence-Informed Health Policy demystifies health policymaking and equips nurses and healthcare professionals with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to navigate the first of many steps into health policy.

    Price: US $54.95 | ISBN: 9781-646481-13-2 | Release Date: 2023

  • Visionary Leadership in Healthcare: Excellence in Practice, Policy, and Ethics

    Visionary Leadership in Healthcare equips leaders to transform the current healthcare system to achieve a global, life-sustaining perspective by calling for a move away from hierarchical leadership to more engaged, inclusive, and caring leadership styles.

    Price: US $59.95 | ISBN: 9781-646480-21-0 | Release Date: 2022

  • The Nurse Manager's Guide to Budgeting & Finance, 3rd edition

    Nurses focus on the art and science of caregiving, but nurse managers are faced with the economic reality of patient-staffing ratios, budgets, reports, and accounting. Acronyms such as FTEs and ADCs can feel like a foreign language, but thankfully, help is available. Updated to include details about key legislation that affects budgeting, The Nurse Manager’s Guide to Budgeting and Finance, 3rd edition, provides practical tools, tips, and strategies for running a unit that were not taught in nursing school.

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781-646480-15-9 | Release Date: 2021

  • High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety and Quality, Second Edition

    This fully revised edition of High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety & Quality presents practical examples of HRO principles in order to establish a system that detects and prevents errors from happening, even in the most difficult, high-risk conditions. Authors Cynthia Oster and Jane Braaten provide healthcare professionals with tools and best practices that will improve and enhance patient safety and quality outcomes. In this book, you will find an overview of HRO science as an organizing framework for quality and patient safety, practical applications of HRO science, and tools that can be applied to current quality and safety practices.

    Download a free sample chapter, instructor's guide, and student workbook from the Sigma Repository.

    Price: US $64.95 | ISBN: 9781948057776 | Release Date: 2020

  • Toxic Nursing: Managing Bullying, Bad Attitudes, and Total Turmoil, Second Edition

    Nursing has a not-so-secret problem.

    The profession is prone to—some would say thrives on—workplace conflict, incivility, bullying, and meanness. And while nurses observe and experience this conflict daily, too few have been trained in its resolution. Toxic Nursing aims to change that with strategies, tools, and techniques to help nurse leaders, managers, and administrators defuse conflict, turn around toxic situations, and create positive, healthy work environments. 

    Download a free sample chapter from the Sigma Repository.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781948057592 | Release Date: 2020

  • Mastering Simulation: A Handbook for Success, Second Edition

    Simulation is an essential link between healthcare professionals and improved patient outcomes, and between academic and clinical settings. Understanding simulation scenarios and environments is essential when designing and implementing effective programs for interdisciplinary learners.

    In this fully revised second edition of Mastering Simulation, nationally known experts Janice Palaganas, Beth Ulrich, and Beth Mancini guide students and practitioners in developing clinical competencies and provide a solid foundation for improving patient outcomes. 

    Download a free sample chapter from the Sigma Repository.

    Price: US $59.95 | ISBN: 9781948057332 | Release Date: 2020

  • The Road to Positive Work Cultures

    Workplace culture is an important and complex part of every organization, representing an organization’s values, belief systems, language, traditions, and customs. Current evidence suggests that many nursing work cultures are at best unsupportive and at worst toxic. One of the biggest challenges faced by organizations today is how to develop a collaborative, productive, and positive work culture that boosts performance and employee morale.

    In Sigma’s newest release, The Road to Positive Work Cultures, award-winning author and international nurse leader Carol Huston provides strategies for creating and sustaining healthy work environments.

    Price: US $24.95 | ISBN: 9781948057417 | Release Date: 2019

  • De-Escalating Violence in Healthcare

    Violent incidents are more than four times as likely to occur in healthcare settings than in other professional workplaces, taking a toll on healthcare workers and spurring providers and policymakers to solve the increasing impact of violence. The most beneficial method of preventing healthcare violence is de-escalation—using therapeutic communication and interventions to defuse emotional tension. In De-Escalating Violence in Healthcare, author S. E. McKnight provides tools and techniques to help nurses and other healthcare professionals manage aggressive behavior and foster a safer workplace.

    Price: US $59.95 | ISBN: 9781948057493 | Release Date: 2019

  • Nursing-Led Savings

    The quest for cost savings in hospitals and health systems too often prompts leaders to rush to make major cuts in the largest budget line item: staffing and labor costs. Nursing-Led Savings shows organizational leaders at all levels how to develop and implement a robust, sustainable plan that eliminates waste and streamlines processes in everyday clinical work without cutting staffing.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781948057165 | Release Date: 2019

  • The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing

    As nurses know firsthand, the impact of psychological trauma is not limited to those who experience it. Others—including nurses and caregivers—are indirectly affected. In healthcare, patients’ psychological trauma may manifest in odd, uncomfortable, or confusing behaviors. Nurses and healthcare workers must recognize that patients may be feeling unsafe or struggling with low self–esteem, anxiety, grief, loneliness, or depression born from trauma. As nurses listen to, empathize with, and sometimes grieve with the people they care for, they need to comprehend the “why” behind these feelings and actions.

    The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing helps nurses gain awareness and knowledge about trauma and recovery so they can heal and bring holistic healing to others. Authors Karen J. Foli and John R. Thompson provide a primer on psychological trauma, helping readers identify and understand the common forms of trauma in society. Filled with examples, tools, assessments, and learning objectives, this book helps nurses move forward as trauma–informed caregivers.

    Price: US $44.95 | ISBN: 9781945157981 | Release Date: 2019

  • Rethinking Your Unit Council Structure

    Rapid change is constant in the healthcare industry, leaving hospitals—and the units within—to react and adapt. Unfortunately, the typical shared (professional) governance structure fails to address the challenges of modern healthcare systems, both in efficiency and ability to maintain long-term change. As a result, change in healthcare is often met with roadblocks and resistance.

    Rethinking Your Unit Council Structure applies the innovative FLIGHT Model of risk and change to:

    • Determine your unit’s immediate needs
    • Empower team members to identify problems and initiate solutions
    • Transcend elements of traditional unit council structures that hinder progress
    • Improve staff engagement and satisfaction

    This book provides a solutions-based approach to determining and addressing the unique needs of your unit, hospital, or system so that your change initiatives can succeed.

    Price: US $44.95 | ISBN: 9781945157943 | Release Date: 2019

  • INSPIREd Healthcare

    In today’s environment where healthcare costs are outpacing the economy, healthcare systems are shifting from fee-for-service to value-based payment to deliver high-quality care while reducing costs. This shift presents nurses with the opportunity to take the lead in transforming care delivery and achieve the Triple Aim goals: improving patient experience of care, improving health of populations, and reducing per capita healthcare costs.

    INSPIREd Healthcare follows author Billie Lynn Allard and her team of nurses as they successfully implement an accountable community of health in pursuit of the Triple Aim. The INSPIRE Model they follow provides an evidence-based blueprint for other healthcare systems hoping to solve the complicated problems surrounding care transitions and health promotion.

    Price: US $59.95 | ISBN: 9781948057295 | Release Date: 2019

  • What to Do When Nurses Hurt Nurses, Second Edition

    Bullies frequent hospital units, ambulatory care centers, clinics, and even emergency departments. Their targets? Their own colleagues and peers. In this fully updated new edition, topics ranging from social media and crucial communications to resiliency and stress management are discussed. Author Cheryl Dellasega provides tools to help nurses create safer, more respectful workplaces and combat the cycle of bullying.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781945157714 | Release Date: 2019

  • Critical Conversations in Healthcare, Second Edition

    Whether you are a new nurse or a healthcare facility CEO, you'll benefit from this fully revised second edition's practical approach to handling sensitive subjects such as gossip, harassment, and other tough topics. Chapters feature do's and don'ts, useful tools, scripts, and scenarios to facilitate better, more effective communication in healthcare settings.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781945157905 | Release Date: 2018

  • The Healthcare Executive's Guide to Navigating the Surgical Suite

    Surgical services carry some of the highest risks and rewards of all healthcare specialties. Authors Biala and Fitzpatick provide experienced and novice healthcare leaders with the information, leadership structures, and practical strategies needed to successfully oversee both patient outcomes and balance sheets.

    Price: US $44.95 | ISBN: 9781945157820 | Release Date: 2018

  • The Nurse's Healthcare Ethics Committee Handbook: Structure and Development of a Nurse-Led Ethics Committee

    Today’s nurses are uniquely positioned to serve as leaders in healthcare ethics because they are involved in all aspects of patient care. This first-of-its-kind book provides the tools that nursing students, professionals, administrators, and others need to develop infrastructure and process that support nurses in an ethics committee leadership role. Filled with real-life scenarios, this book outlines a step-by-step process for nurses to evaluate ethical cases and the risks involved.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781945157554 | Release Date: 2018

  • Redefining Retirement for Nurses: Finding Meaning in Retirement

    Through the shared stories of 26 retired nurses from around the world, you'll discover that the skills and achievements you have gained in nursing can form the foundation for a meaningful transition into retired life. Whether you are considering a second career, volunteer opportunities, travel, or spending time with family and friends, this book provides the advice and tools you'll need to create the retired life you envision.

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781945157332 | Release Date: 2017

  • Business Basics for Nurses

    Written by successful nurse entrepreneur Suzanne Waddill-Goad, this practical guide establishes that the behind-the-scenes business of healthcare is just as important as clinical care. It's filled with tips, exercises, and real-world case studies that will give nurses a shortcut to understanding business processes. Start building your business acumen!

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781940446189 | Release Date: 2017

  • Developing a Residency in Post-Acute Care

    In this new book, Rutgers School of Nursing authors offer practical curricula based on an innovative and successful nurse residency model that positions staff educators and preceptors to support new nurses as they enter post-acute settings. Includes lesson plans and outlines! 

    Price: US $64.95 | ISBN: 9781945157011 | Release Date: 2017

  • Johns Hopkins Nursing Professional Practice Model: Strategies to Advance Nursing Excellence

    Whether you’re a bedside nurse or an executive, this new book provides a road map to building and using the Johns Hopkins Nursing Professional Practice Model in your workplace! Packed with exemplars, self-assessment guides, planning tools, and lessons learned, you too can create an environment where professional nursing practice flourishes in your hospital, clinic, or practice.

    Price: US $49.95 | ISBN: 9781938835308 | Release Date: 2017

  • Creating & Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education, Second Edition

    In this comprehensive new guide, author Cynthia Clark explores the problem of incivility and provides practical solutions that range from ready-to-use teaching tools to principles for broad-based institutional change. While written primarily for nurse educators and students, practicing nurses will find helpful perspectives on managing incivility in a clinical setting.

    Price: US $44.95 | ISBN: 9781-945157059 | Release Date: 2017

  • The Nurse Manager's Guide to Innovative Staffing, Second Edition

    In nursing school, you likely envisioned a career focusing exclusively on patient care, until you were thrust into the reality of numerous additional responsibilities. Whether staffing and productivity are part of your current role or next career move, The Nurse Manager's Guide to Innovative Staffing, Second Edition, is for you.
    In this new edition, you'll find detailed examples of staffing plans, policies, and delivery models for different care settings, real-world staffing experiences, calculation formulas and worksheets, and so much more.

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781945157257 | Release Date: 2017

  • Nursing Beyond the Bedside

    Today’s nurses have more career options than ever, many of which are outside of the traditional hospital setting. This new book focuses exclusively on 60 non-hospital nursing careers in areas where job growth is expected to remain strong. Each position includes a basic description, the required education or skills, typical work hours and settings, availability of specialty certifications, related professional organizations, and additional online resources for that specialty. 

    Price: US $29.95 | ISBN: 9781940446806 | Release Date: 2017

  • The Power of Ten, 2nd Edition

    In this all-new edition, authors Susan B. Hassmiller and Jennifer S. Mensik connected with more than 50 national and international nurse leaders to survey the most pressing issues in the profession focusing on the obstacles nurses face while challenging long-held beliefs that have stymied progress in moving the profession forward. From that feedback, the authors compiled a new list of top 10 priorities: educational reform, academic progression, diversity, interprofessional collaboration, systems thinking, voice of nursing, global stewardship, practice authority, delivery of care, and professional handoff.

    Through essays, actions items, discussion points, and data, The Power of Ten, Second Edition, will help nurses take a bold step toward not only continuing the conversation but leading the way into the future of nursing.

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781940446752 | Release Date: 2016

  • Anatomy of Medical Errors: The Patient in Room 2

    Medical errors now rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to a recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine. 

    Anatomy of Medical Errors: The Patient in Room 2 is one nurse's personal story of survival and fact-finding as a victim of preventable medical errors. As this mesmerizing story recounts the author's struggles, it teaches nurses and other healthcare providers how to avoid potentially dangerous situations, recognize warning signs, and work collaboratively to provide transparent patient care. 

    Price: US $29.95 | ISBN: 9781940446844 | Release Date: 2016

  • Healthy Places, Healthy People, Third Edition

    Today's nurses are at the forefront of leading change and promoting social justice in healthcare. The newest edition of this popular book provides everything current and future nurses need to create a public health strategy in the communities where they practice. 

    This third edition includes practical material to help nurses assess Joint Commission preparedness and apply concepts that lead to health equity and a healthier future for their communities

    Price: US $49.95 | ISBN: 9781-94044666-0 | Release Date: 2016

  • The Career Handoff: A Healthcare Leader's Guide to Knowledge & Wisdom Transfer Across Generations

    Authors Malloch and Porter-O'Grady share their own experiences to help present and future healthcare and nurse leaders with proactively preserving and sharing their valuable knowledge and experience across generations. Using an approach that emphasizes mentoring and sustainability of expertise, this book aims to facilitate smooth transitions and sustain the continued viability of healthcare organizations.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781-940446509 | Release Date: 2015

  • The Staff Educator's Guide to Professional Development: Assessing and Enhancing Nurse Competency

    Higher acuity and more chronic patients, increasingly complex technology, and the rapid generation of knowledge all mean nurses must grow and adapt to continue providing high quality care for patients. This book provides nurse educators with the training tools they need to create a successful professional development program for nurses.

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781-940446264 | Release Date: 2015

  • Fostering a Research-Intensive Organization: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Nurses from Massachusetts General Hospital

    Fostering a Research Intensive Organization details the ways a strong nursing research agenda can positively impact patient care and influence the redesign of services necessary to nimbly respond in an ever-changing healthcare environment. Authors, and Massachusetts General Hospital nurse leaders, Jeanette Ives Erickson, Marianne Ditomassi, and Dorothy A. Jones provide a comprehensive review to support the practice environment as an important place to advance nursing science through research.

    Price: US $49.95 | ISBN: 9781-940446004 | Release Date: 2015

  • Reflective Organizations: On the Front Lines of QSEN and Reflective Practice Implementation

    The evolving world of healthcare requires educators and practitioners to be nimble, flexible, and responsive to change. Gwen Sherwood and Sara Horton-Deutsch focus on reflective learning as a catalyst for transforming traditional organizations and environments, promoting changes that support nurses and educators in learning from past experiences to craft future change.

    Price: US $49.95 | ISBN: 9781-938835582 | Release Date: 2015

  • Fostering Clinical Success: Using Clinical Narratives for Interprofessional Team Partnerships from Massachusetts General

    In Fostering Clinical Success, Massachusetts General Hospital nurse leaders share their model for creating, embedding, and fostering a narrative culture. Massachusetts General Hospital uses storytelling to significantly improve patient care and increase patient, family, and staff satisfaction while reducing costs.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781-938835803 | Release Date: 2015

  • The Nurse's Reality Shift: Using History to Transform the Future

    Despite scientific and technological advances, today’s modern nurses face many of the same challenges as the earliest nurses. This book sheds light on why nurses are where they are and, more importantly, how nurses can approach the future in a different way. It asks the hard questions the nursing profession must answer in order to move past its recurring challenges and progress into the future.

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781-938835629 | Release Date: 2014

  • To Comfort Always, Second Edition

    This award-winning handbook for nurses details how to care for patients at the end of life. Fully revised and updated, this is a practical guide to understanding the needs of both patients and families and the important roles nurses play in addressing those needs.

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781-938835506 | Release Date: 2014

  • Nurse's Law: Questions and Answers for the Practicing Nurse

    Nurse’s Law guides professional nurses and nursing students in examining legal issues related to scope of practice, informed consent, negligence,
    confidentiality, and other important topics. Using a case-based, controversial format, authors Mathes and Reifsnyder present and illustrate the legal context for nursing practice and provide answers for dealing with legal issues as they arise.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781-935476009 | Release Date: 2014

  • Person and Family Centered Care

    Written by the top thought leaders in nursing today, Person and Family Centered Care offers a new approach that begins with the person, embraces the family, and encompasses all care delivery locations. At the forefront of this movement are the authors who present a clinical reference covering a vast array of patient care scenarios.

    Price: US $69.95 | ISBN: 9781-938835070 | Release Date: 2014

  • Mentoring Today's Nurses: A Global Perspective for Success

    Mentoring and coaching are critical components of professional success for nursing students. Today’s student populations are more globally diverse than ever before, adding new challenges for faculty. This book provides a framework for rethinking mentoring in a new and modern world.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781-937554910 | Release Date: 2013

  • Leading Valiantly in Healthcare: Four Steps to Sustainable Success

    In Leading Valiantly in Healthcare, leadership expert Catherine Robinson-Walker provides a successful approach to leadership that can be sustained for the long haul. Through the use of concrete vignettes and real-life experience, this book helps the reader avoid leadership missteps and ascertain ways to mold himself or herself into someone who is not merely in a leadership position but who can lead with valor.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781-937554835 | Release Date: 2013

  • Whole Person Caring: An Interprofessional Model for Healing and Wellness

    While holistic and alternative therapies and medicines have been around for centuries and proven to be useful tools for healing, there is still resistance when it comes to implementing them into hospitals and healthcare settings. Whole Person Caring provides a practical guide that will improve the health and well-being of employees which ultimately will improve patient care. Author Lucia Thornton supplies an interdisciplinary approach for hospitals and other healthcare organizations to transform their workplace into healing and healthy environments.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781-937554996 | Release Date: 2013

  • The Nurse's Reality Gap: Overcoming Barriers Between Academic Achievement and Clinical Success

    This book focuses on challenges new nurses face in the clinical setting and the hard questions educators have to tackle to help students succeed in school and in practice. It also provides practical strategies for nurse educators to help students navigate the transitional period from classroom to bedside. Through firsthand accounts from new graduates, nurse educators will find insight and solutions to help their scholars succeed in their nursing careers.

    Price: US $34.95 | ISBN: 9781-937554460 | Release Date: 2013

  • Claiming the Corner Office: Executive Leadership Lessons for Nurses

    Claiming the Corner Office is a practical guide for the nurse who aspires to have success beyond the bedside. Drawn from the authors’ personal experiences and those of many other successful nurse leaders, entrepreneurs, and governance experts, this book provides readers with the tools they need to achieve success in senior executive roles. Do you have what it takes to claim the corner office?

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781-937554354 | Release Date: 2013

  • Nurse Manager's Guide to an Intergenerational Workforce

    This how-to book provides strategies and tools for the nurse manager when it comes to coaching staff in order to reduce conflict among each generational cohort of nurses.

    Price: US $29.95 | ISBN: 9781-937554750 | Release Date: 2012

  • Fostering Nurse-Led Care: Professional Practice for the Bedside Leader from Massachusetts General Hospital

    This book details how to create a professional practice model and an environment in which initiatives can flourish and advance quality healthcare. It also delivers a nurse-patient relationship model based on mutual trust, respect, hope, and sensitivity to others while incorporating recommendations from “The Future of Nursing” report.

    Price: US $44.95 | ISBN: 9781-935476-306 | Release Date: 2012

  • Nursing Ethics in Everyday Practice

    From politicians to school teachers, ethics is a sensitive issue affecting all walks of life. Nurses are no exception. In fact, nursing carries the automatic assumption that nurses know exactly what to do, what is right ethically, and what they are being told to do.

    Nursing Ethics In Everyday Practice provides a framework that staff nurses can implement to resolve the ethical dilemmas they frequently encounter in everyday practice. The nursing ethics book is a guide to communication and ethics consultation. It will provide guidelines on current ethical challenges, and how to have moral courage.

    Price: US $39.95 | ISBN: 9781-935476-504 | Release Date: 2012

  • The Nurse Executive's Coaching Manual

    In the face of a projected nurse-leader shortage, nurse executives need a resource for training and retaining the next generation of directors and supervisors. The Nurse Executive’s Coaching Manual is the only book on coaching for nurse executives. Written by expert executive coaches-both of whom are nurses-this book provides the nurse executive with an overview of the coaching approach, competencies, models, tools, and resources that will be applicable to coaching other leaders in a health care organization. This concept differs from mentoring in that mentoring is simply the transfer of knowledge from a more experienced person to another who is less experienced. Coaching is a learning and development strategy that provides the leader with the tools necessary to enhance individual and organizational performance, support succession planning, and help future leaders make successful transitions. It is a learning path that allows for self-discovery and innovation along the way.

    Price: US $19.95 | ISBN: 9781-930538-95-5 | Release Date: 2010

  • The Nurse Manager's Guide to Hiring, Firing and Inspiring

    Nurse managers will be empowered to be successful in all aspects of their positions with tools and tips for hiring the right person for the right job, making key personnel and budgetary decisions, and improving employee morale.

    Price: US $29.95 | ISBN: 9781-930538-92-4 | Release Date: 2010

  • 101 Global Leadership Lessons for Nurses

    101 Global Leadership Lessons for Nurses covers the daily challenges facing health care leaders—communications, negotiations, resource management, and work-life balance, to name a few—with the unique feature of a mentor-mentee team authoring each chapter. These established and emerging mentors and mentees come from every corner of the globe and share their lessons learned, providing a rich legacy for nurses everywhere.

    Price: US $19.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538795 | Release Date: 2009

  • Being Present: A Nurse's Resource for End-of-Life Communication

    In Being Present: A Nurse’s Resource for End-of-Life Communication, authors Marjorie Schaffer and Linda Norlander offer strategies to help nurses talk with patients and families about their needs, hopes, and wishes as they face their own death or that of a loved one. The strategies are based on research by nurses in the United States and Norway.

     

    Price: US $14.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538825 | Release Date: 2009

  • Ready, Set, Go Lead!

    This transformative handbook will help aspiring and experienced health care leaders alike as they embark-and continue-on their leadership journeys. In Ready, Set, Go Lead! Nancy Dickenson-Hazard combines her extensive international leadership experience with real-world examples to assist early-and mid-career health care leaders alike on their own leadership journeys. Fun and thoughtful exercises at the end of each chapter provide further opportunities for personal leadership growth that even experienced leaders should find beneficial.

    Price: US $14.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538740 | Release Date: 2008

  • Tales from the Pager Chronicles

    “I think courage isn't about looking like Grace Kelly as we walk into the lion‘s den. It's about being stinking afraid and walking in anyway.” So says Patrice Rancour, a strikingly humane, honest, funny, and poetic new voice, as she ushers readers through the 32 encounters in this day-in-the-life at a modern-day cancer hospital, her pager serving as her link from one human in need to the next, while she tends and ministers to both the living and the dead.

    Price: US $7.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538726 | Release Date: 2008

  • Nursing Without Borders: Values, Wisdom, Success Markers

    This book is for all the nurses who have crossed their own borders, or might like to. It provides both visionary lessons and practical advice. It is part history, part business textbook, part travelogue, part how-to, and part inspiration.

    Divided into three sections—“Values,” “Wisdom,” and “Success Markers”- Nursing Without Borders reflects the international nursing experiences of a host of nurse leaders representing diverse cultures. These leaders, pioneers in global nursing, paved a path of international partnerships and documented their stories for those considering international work.

    Price: US $24.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538702 | Release Date: 2007

  • Synergy: The Unique Relationship Between Nurses and Patients

    It is within nurse-patient relationships that nurses most meaningful contributions are experienced. Author Martha Curley, RN, PhD, FAAN, one of the originators and the foremost expert on the Synergy Model, believes fully realizing and expressing those contributions may be the best way to keep nursing strong at the bedside and in the boardroom.

    Price: US $19.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538511 | Release Date: 2007

  • Conversations with Leaders: Frank Talk From Nurses (and Others) on the Front Lines of Leadership

    The conversations inside began with a simple desire to bring leadership principles and lessons to a small gathering of community health professionals. Over the years, local and international leaders added their voices, and so the gatherings grew in size and might.

    This book presents 22 conversations with leaders who generously shared their personal and professional experiences. In clear and frank fashion, each of these leaders offers the unique wisdom earned by the sweat equity that is behind all achievement.

    Join us on a journey through leadership—one conversation at a time.

    Price: US $14.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538696 | Release Date: 2007

  • When Parents Say No: Religious and Cultural Influences on Pediatric Healthcare Treatment

    Pediatric healthcare professionals are sometimes faced with an ethical, emotionally charged dilemma when treatment, even life-saving treatment, goes against the religious or cultural beliefs of a pediatric patient's family. The impact of these situations is quite profound. Healthcare professionals want to treat the child using all known technology and interventions, yet the child's parents may refuse to consent to all or part of the needed care.

    This book offers healthcare and social services professionals the information they need to create favorable outcomes when faced with parental refusal situations, including how to anticipate religious or cultural healthcare conflicts, how to work with the family and clergy to favorably resolve the conflict, and when and how to initiate legal action to save the child's life. Included are useful tools and checklists that should be posted in every emergency room and pediatric care unit.

    Price: US $7.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538306 | Release Date: 2006

  • Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice

    Nurses use and encounter technology in nearly every aspect of their profession. What does it mean to be technologically competent and caring as a nurse? How does technology support nursing work? How does it hinder nursing work? How can nurses care for their patients as technological advancements are introduced nearly every day? Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice provides insight and answers into how nurses can and must be both technologically competent and caring as they provide meaningful and essential nursing care.

    Price: US $7.99 | ISBN: 9781-930538122 | Release Date: 2005

  • Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession, Volume I

    Designed to inspire nursing professionals worldwide to step into leadership roles, this book traces the paths of 12 legendary yet contemporary nurse leaders through the pivotal times in their lives that helped transform them into leaders, and thereby change the face of nursing.

    Through thought-provoking essays and follow-up questions, this book will challenge the old thinking that leaders are born with a path and a vision laid out for them.

    Price: US $29.95 | ISBN: 9781-930538115 | Release Date: 2004