Best Medical Nutrition

The Thirteenth Edition of this text dispels common misconceptions about nutrition, and equips you with a thorough understanding of important nutrition concepts and tools that empower you to make informed decisions about your own nutrition choices. She is also a founding member and vice president of Nutrition and Health Associates, a Florida-based information and resource center that maintains an online bibliographic database tracking system that conducts research in more than 1,000 topic areas of nutrition.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I used this book for an online college credit course in Nutrition."
"It arrived on time and the book looks as described."
"Written for use in nutrition courses yet easy enough to read without previous knowledge, this book presents the basic concepts of nutrition in an informative way with an interesting style of writing and a pleasing overall appearance. A textbook's primary purpose is to inform the reader of its chosen topic and Nutrition: Concepts & Controversies is no different. The knowledge is also presented in a way that helps readers apply the nutritional information to their own diet making it practical as well. This helps the reader to understand things right from the very beginning of carbohydrate synthesis and lays the foundation for further information on the topic."
"It was worn down and seemed as if something had been spilt on it."
"Great book for my college nutrition classes."
"I found this to be a good book on the subject of nutrition in terms of increasing my general understanding (I didn't come w/ a great deal of scientific info on the topic)."
"Just what I needed for class."
"This book was very boring."

This book presents the proven counseling approach known as motivational interviewing (MI) and shows exactly how to use it in day-to-day interactions with clients. --Ellen Glovsky, PhD, RD, LDN, Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University; member, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. "This book fills a void in the education of nutrition and exercise professionals. Bar none, it is the most practical applied book I have encountered on how to use MI in nutrition and physical fitness counseling. This book will appeal not only to practitioners and teachers, but also to students at all levels who want to gain practical knowledge about the use of MI in a clinical context." In their engaging flow from theory to practice, Clifford and Curtis guide readers toward an integrated awareness of the MI process as applied to issues of nutrition and fitness. "Clifford and Curtis have created a great resource for training future consultants on applying the principles of MI to nutrition and fitness. A broad audience of health professionals, students, and interns will find this book a thorough resource and guide to the strategies essential to MI….This publication is generous with helpful practitioner–client scenarios and an appendix of counseling and MI resources. Motivational Interviewing in Nutrition and Fitness is a practical, user-friendly resource for practitioners and students interested in developing MI techniques using a weight-neutral approach.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As a fitness professional we not only know fitness but need to know how to connect with our clients."
"This is a wonderful read as I am studying Motivational coaching and interviewing at the Wellness Center I work for."
"A necessary for anyone that worked in this field."
"Comprehensive and straight forward."
"Very readable; also provided practical information to apply immediately to your counselling/education."
"still in process of reading, but exactly what i expected.. useful scenarios, which are directly applicable to my profession."

This awesome Food and Exercise Journal has two pages per day with plenty of room for you to record everything you eat and drink at Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (along with all of those cheeky snacks in between!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great book, great size, exactly what I needed."
"It gives you are starting point for weight & measurements and each end of the week there is a "week summary" where you can reflect on your week which I REALLY love!!!"
"I found that I was using MFP to toy around and manipulate my food choices thoughout the day, instead of internalizing what meals felt healthy. I searched around a variety of different formats, but this one seemed to cover everything: Calories, food types and amounts, exercises, ways to track and monitor feelings about what you ate and how hungry you felt, and a weekly progress report which allows you to weigh-in, and put into words how you think you did that week and how you would like to improve. THIS IS A BULLETPROOF TRACKING TOOL FOR FOOD AND FITNESS. I think the most important aspect of developing better nutrition and exercise habits is by checking in with what works best for us."
"Serves its purpose."
"The price is also fantastic. And for the price and speed of shipping, I do not see a problem just ordering another when this is full."
"There's no long prologue about how healthy eating should be or what you'r doing wrong."
"This is an awesome journal, love the fact that it asks you how you feel before eating, and how hungry you are before eating."
"Bought one for me and one for my sister."
Best Nursing Nutrition

Swap out the top inflammatory ingredients and still eat what you love Detox from the foods that have been causing chronic inflammation Experience health-based fat loss (no calorie counting or points system here) Stop cravings in their tracks Melt away inflammation Learn how to follow an anti-inflammatory diet while on the road or in the air PLUS master over 40 anti-inflammatory food swap recipes free of processed sugar, wheat, cow dairy, inflammatory oils, alcohol, and GMOs. She makes breaking free from a bad diet super easy.” - Vani Hari, Creator of FoodBabe.com and New York Times Bestselling Author of The Food Babe Way.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I love this book! I loved the chapter on the water."
"This book is clearly written, and the steps to changing to an anti-inflammatory way of eating are straight forward and easy to initiate."
"Jenny makes implementing and sticking to an anti-inflammatory diet seem approachable, and dare I say possible for a busy new mom like myself."
"Jenny breaks it down so that it is easy to follow an anti-inflammatory diet."
"My family has been following the AIP diet as my daughter has been diagnosed with Graves Disease and after reading your book it has made grocery shopping so much easier."
"I personally appreciate books like this one - books that definitions for words I might not know are right there beside the word in the book - so it doesn't distract from the flow."
"We need satisfying healthy suggestions for people with food sensitivities!"
"It teaches you how to develop healthy life long eating habits to live without refined sugars, as well as several other types of food."
Best Medical & Surgical Nursing

Known for its clear explanations of drug prototypes and how they work, Lehne's Pharmacology for Nursing Care, 9th Edition provides a solid understanding of key drugs and their implications for nursing care. A drug prototype approach focuses on one representative drug within each drug family that characterizes all members of its group, so that you can apply your understanding to related drugs currently on the market as well as drugs that will be released in the future. Nursing implications of drug therapy are integrated throughout the text and summarized at the end of chapters, demonstrating the vital relationship between drug therapy and nursing care. Reader-friendly features make learning easier with concise drug summary tables, chapter outlines, key points, and a visual guide to the prototype drugs in each class. "The material laid out in the book’s chapters is organized to facilitate learning, understanding, and retention of the meaning of important concepts, key terms, and properties of drugs.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Excellent pharmacology textbook."
"Great book."
"The material is well-organized and interesting to read."
"The pages do not coincide with the book."
"Too huge, too heavy."
"This book is very unorganized."
Best Nurse-Patient Relations

The bestselling nursing care planning book on the market , Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 8th Edition covers the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems seen in adults. Written by expert nursing educators Meg Gulanick and Judith Myers, this reference functions as two books in one, with 147 disorder-specific and health management nursing care plans and 70 nursing diagnosis care plans to use as starting points in creating individualized care plans . 70 nursing diagnosis care plans include the most common/important NANDA-I nursing diagnoses, providing the building blocks for you to create your own individualized care plans for your own patients. Student resources on the Evolve companion website include 36 of the book’s care plans ― 5 nursing diagnosis care plans and 31 disorders care plans.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"But this book makes student nurse life a little more easier with eye friendly pages and easy to understand tips and tricks."
"Best care plan book that I have found to date."
"It cut down the amount of time needed finding nursing diagnoses and interventions by A LOT."
"I love this care plan book."
"This book has and continues to help me with every care plan that I'm writing, giving me not only ideas but the precious rationales needed to support them."
"I loved it and once I showed it to classmates who purchased different ones, they switch to this one because of the easiness of it."
"After pulling my hair out trying to use Ackley, our required nursing school book to write POC's, I decided to take a chance and buy Gulanick's book."
"Got for my daughter and she says it is great and just like it was described."
Best Nursing Diagnosis

Written by Carolyn Jarvis, an experienced educator and clinician, this gold standard in physical examination reflects what is going on in nursing today with coverage of emerging trends and the latest on evidence-based practice. A clear, logical, and streamlined approach simplifies content and helps you learn to perform the complete health assessment: The conversational, easy-to-understand writing style. 150 NEW normal and abnormal examination photos for the nose, mouth, throat, thorax, and pediatric assessment show findings that are unexpected or that require referral for follow-up care, with cultural diversity and developmental variations. A holistic approach to assessment accommodates the diverse types of patients that you will encounter in the real world: Documentation and Critical Thinking sections. Developmental Competence sections provide age-specific assessment techniques for infants, children, adolescents, pregnant women, and older adults.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As expected."
"I loved this book and it was exactly what I needed for my class!"
"Excellent Lab Manual."
"Excellent book and condition."
"Great assessment book I needed for my adult assessment class."
"Some pictures were kind of disturbing though."
"Required for class but never useful to me."
"The book I bought is actually a copy which was not stated in the description because of this the images are not clear."
Best Nursing Anesthesia

Here’s why Clinical Anesthesiology is the best anesthesiology resource: David C. Mackey, MD is Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Highly recommended for anyone who wants to become an anesthesiologist."
"My favorite anesthesia text, I use this classic as my first go to reference!"
"I have relied on this text for years and will continue to do so."
"If I only have time to do one assigned text reading, this is the one I do."
"Did not arrive brand knew, some damage to the cover and the first 20 pages."
"Text is superb."
"Replaced an old text with a newer one, Always has been a great reference."
Best Nursing Gerontology

• NEW full-color design with hundreds of color photographs. • NEW chapters: Quality of Care in Older Adults, Common Non-Pain Symptoms in Older Adults, Strategies of Effective Communication Around Advanced Illness, Palliative Medicine in the Continuum of Care Including Hospice, Coagulation Disorders, and Plasma Cell Disorders. • MORE chapters on Palliative Medicine. • NEW Learning Objectives and Key Points added to each chapter. • MORE tables, drawings, and clinical algorithms. • EVIDENCE-BASED through the use of the latest clinical practice guidelines , references to systemic reviews, and critically appraised topics. • UPDATED to reflect the most current clinical breakthroughs and advances for managing older adults in various settings. Jeffrey B. Halter, MD is Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine, and Director, Geriatrics Center and Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Recommended."
"The last word in geriatrics."
"Great book!"
Best Nursing Oncology
Best Nursing Pharmacology

Known for its clear explanations of drug prototypes and how they work, Lehne's Pharmacology for Nursing Care, 9th Edition provides a solid understanding of key drugs and their implications for nursing care. A drug prototype approach focuses on one representative drug within each drug family that characterizes all members of its group, so that you can apply your understanding to related drugs currently on the market as well as drugs that will be released in the future. Nursing implications of drug therapy are integrated throughout the text and summarized at the end of chapters, demonstrating the vital relationship between drug therapy and nursing care. Reader-friendly features make learning easier with concise drug summary tables, chapter outlines, key points, and a visual guide to the prototype drugs in each class. "The material laid out in the book’s chapters is organized to facilitate learning, understanding, and retention of the meaning of important concepts, key terms, and properties of drugs.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Excellent pharmacology textbook."
"Great book."
"The material is well-organized and interesting to read."
"The pages do not coincide with the book."
"Too huge, too heavy."
"This book is very unorganized."
Best Nursing Home Care

A life-changing story. Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat is the story of a doctor who, at first, doesn't always listen; of the patients he serves; of their caregivers; and, most importantly, of a cat who teaches by example, embracing moments of life that so many of us shy away from. "This touching and engaging book is a must-read for more than just cat lovers; anyone who enjoys a well-written and compelling story will find much to admire in its unlikely hero." Dosa starts to pay more attention to the cat's decidedly odd behavior, noticing that Oscar seeks out the dying, snuggles with the patient and family members until the patient passes; with others, he smells the patient's feet, sits outside a closed door until admitted, or refuses to leave a dying patient's bed.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As a scientist and researcher he maintains a kind of healthy skepticism about Oscar's "abilities", but I am certain that after hearing so many people describe the same events (they sound quite repetitive after a while) about the cat's behaviour in the face of a human's death, he would have experienced some kind of conversion of heart."
"The most important lesson was that no amount of memory loss should be considered normal; that all memory loss should be worked up so that steps can be taken if necessary to intervene in a case of true Alzheimer's."
"My wife's mother was actually one of the patients at this facility."
"For me the book was not really about Oscar but an attempt to demystify the relentless process of progressive decline in the dementia sufferer and the challenges encountered by those who are closest to them. I am not sure that an early diagnosis dementia sufferer should read it."
"I enjoyed this book so much, first of all because I love cats and second because mu husband has dementia and is in a long term care facility."
"Making Rounds With Oscar is more about Dr. Dosa and his patients and not really so much about Oscar."
"Bought this for my Mother."
"Great little book."
Best Nursing LPN & LVN

With over 4,500 high-quality review questions, this unique, bestselling review and preparation guide offers the perfect combination of core content review, comprehensive rationales, and detailed test-taking strategies from the NCLEX expert herself: Linda Silvestri. Question codes categorize each question by cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, clinical content area, and priority concepts to allow you multiple study and exam selections on the companion Evolve site. Pyramid to Success sections supply an overview of the chapter, guidance and direction regarding the focus of review in the content area, and its relative importance to the most recent NCLEX-PN text plan. Special text highlights specific test-taking strategies, and specific content areas in the practice questions provide you with guidance on what topics to review for further remediation in Saunders Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX® Exam and Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Exam. Comprehensive exam consists of 85 questions related to all content areas in the book to represent the percentages identified in the NCLEX-PN test plan. Testlet questions familiarize you with a new alternative item format question type expected to appear on future NCLEX test plans.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I did not read the whole book and I did a couple of the online practice test through the book."
"Helps break down what I need to know."
"It's a good reviewer."
"I purchased this book for my sister who is taking a LPN coarse."
"really nice."
"Easy to understand and best book I've ever purchase for my review."
Best Nursing Assistants & Aides

With step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition makes it easy to master the skills you need to succeed as a nursing assistant. Known for its visual approach and comprehensive, easy-to-read coverage, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of teamwork and communication -- two elements critical to being an effective nursing assistant. Written by respected educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants makes nurse assisting easy to learn. Complete coverage includes the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistant. Over 100 procedures are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning. Video icons indicate skills included in the Mosby’s Nursing Assistant Video Skills 3.0 DVDs (sold separately).
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"If youre going for your CNA this has everything!"
"With over 800 pages, a glossary section and a CD-ROM, The MOSBY'S TEXTBOOK FOR NURSING ASSISTANTS is indeed an excellent guidance system for the CNA and the regular person taking care of another."
"Ten classes, three hours each, with eight other students to learn all the 22. skills was just not enough time to get the practice necessary and while my test is still more. than 3 weeks away I feel shaky on the Skills."
"Content is very clear and not confusing."
"So when you go to turn in a chapter for instance chapter 1..the first page of chapter two will be in the back of chapter 1s last page."
"This book covers all aspects of nursing assistants duties."
"Very good condition!"
"This package doesn't come with the skills DVD."
Best Nursing Research & Theory

Take your learning beyond the book with a wide range of online resources, including the American Journal of Nursing EBP Step-by-Step Series, which provides a real-world example of the EBP process, plus learning objectives, journal articles, and checklists, templates, and evaluation tables.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Melnik & Fineout-Overholt are the leaders in EBP nursing and healthcare."
"Purchased this textbook on Kindle for a masters level nursing class."
"I bought the book used but it look like a new book."
"I did not like this book."
Best Nursing Assessment & Diagnosis

Written by Carolyn Jarvis, an experienced educator and clinician, this gold standard in physical examination reflects what is going on in nursing today with coverage of emerging trends and the latest on evidence-based practice. A clear, logical, and streamlined approach simplifies content and helps you learn to perform the complete health assessment: The conversational, easy-to-understand writing style. 150 NEW normal and abnormal examination photos for the nose, mouth, throat, thorax, and pediatric assessment show findings that are unexpected or that require referral for follow-up care, with cultural diversity and developmental variations. A holistic approach to assessment accommodates the diverse types of patients that you will encounter in the real world: Documentation and Critical Thinking sections. Developmental Competence sections provide age-specific assessment techniques for infants, children, adolescents, pregnant women, and older adults.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Great packaging and brand new condition."
"The paper is pretty cheap, almost like thin construction paper."
"Required for school- seems basic enough."
"Needed for a college class."
"I guess it is okay."
"exactly what the class required."
"Excellent book for NP students."
"The book is amazing very informative."
Best Nursing Home & Community Health

Develop the critical thinking skills and complex reasoning abilities you need to make connections between data and community and public health practice decisions with Community and Public Health Nursing, 2nd Edition. Principles of epidemiology and basic biostatistics are integrated with core principles of community and public health nursing to provide both the methods and the knowledge you need to gather, analyze, and evaluate data as evidence for community health practice decisions. Chapter-ending Key Concepts summarize the chapter’s important concepts and are ideal for review Evidence-for-Practice Briefs provide examples of objective evidence obtained from research studies that provide direction for practice.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I was extremely happy with prices that Amazon offers for book purchases and rentals."
"Perfect condition!"
"Item as described."
"Required textbook for class."
"This book is probably one of the best that I have encountered in my nursing education."
"Easy read, material put together without repetition."
"It's just so... dry."
Best Nursing Issues, Trends & Roles

What's more, it addresses emerging health law issues with analysis of key cases, including: * Examples regarding trouble over NPs and kickbacks. * Stark Law compliance issues and related criminal cases involving nurse practitioners who are employed by hospitals. * Nurse practitioners who have encountered issues with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). * An attempted work around for the Medicare requirement that a physician order home care resulting in an NP using a physician's name to order home care and then being prosecuted for identity theft. * An NP and physician who did not follow Medicare's incident-to rules and both the NP and MD were charged with health care fraud. * Criminal cases against NPs who prescribed opioids or steroids either without authorization or without appropriate evaluation and monitoring.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you are a nurse practitioner you should not be practicing without this helpful book."
"Great book in perfect condition."
"Well organized, and has information that includes different states."
"exactly what i was looking for."
"Everything professed to be, and more."
"Indispensable guide; no NP should practice without it."
"Could be a little more comprehensive and detailed."

