Measuring patient outcomes has never been more complex or more essential. This is the first publication of its kind to present expert guidance and advice for use in all home health settings. Topics include: importance of appropriate data collection, how to analyze patient outcomes, a comparison of various outcome measures used in home health, monitoring patient satisfaction and quality care, and much more.

In celebrating the history of the black nursing experience, the author (a RN and EdD) relates the role model-worthy biographies of three Nursing Hall of Fame women: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Martha Minerva Franklin, and Adah Belle Samuels Thoms. Includes substantial appendices on the National Association

Analyzes current educational research in subjects including the basics of evidence-based teaching, mentorship in nursing education, the teaching of psychomotor nursing skills in simulated learning labs, academic dishonesty, and prediction of success on the registered nurse licensure examination. Ann

Explores the efficacy of primary care concepts in real world situations. Written collaboratively by academics and community leaders, it details partnerships forged between health professionals, institutions, local governments, and organizations to provide accessible, acceptable, and affordable health services to underserved populations. The contributors document the lessons learned from working with community advocates in a variety of settings in order to form bridges across the boundaries of the disparate worlds in which we live. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Writer's Workbook, Second Edition gives you the skills you need to succeed in today's health care pubishing marketplace. In nine easy le ssons, the author addresses how to get started, what types of manuscri pts publishers look for, and reasons that manuscripts get rejected. If you are a dean or director, nurse educator, graduate student, or prac titioner, you will be better prepared to write and get published after using this workbook.

The lessons in this valuable workbook provide a foundation for understanding the computer world & reflect the changes essential to being literate in computers & information use. Employing healthcare models, this book is as easily adaptable to introductory computer courses for health professionals as to classes in nursing fundamentals or administration. Computers in Small Bytes explains hardware, popular software programs, operating systems, research applications, & computer assisted communication, including sections on information access, evaluation and use, & the Worldwide Web.

The authors seek to uncover the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the teaching-learning experience and the dynamics of curricular responses to changes within our society. They recognize the central role of faculty in delivering instruction in ways that are most understandable to culturally, gender-, and age-mixed groups of students. Faculty members must strive to understand and implement teaching styles and techniques that will best provide their students with a rich and challenging education.

The goal of this book is to provide the reader with the research findings from international qualitative human science studies on hope conducted in nine countries including Australia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, The United Kingdom, And The United States. The findings from these qualitative research studies enhance the knowledge base on the phenomenon of hope, shed new light on its meaning, and expand understanding of human becoming theory.

Nursing DataSource 1997 offers a comprehensive analysis of nursing education based on NLN's Annual Survey of Nursing Education Programs. The three volumes are devoted to contemporary nursing education, graduate education, and practical/vocational nursing, respectively.