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Achieving Consistent Quality Care, 2nd Ed. $0.00

Achieving Consistent Quality Care: Using Research to Guide Clinical Practice, Second Edition
2010
Shannon D. Scott, RN, PhD

AWHONN members may download one free copy; nonmembers may purchase the download. Once you log-in, you can get your free copy under "Member Only Downloads."

Achieving Consistent Quality Care provides a roadmap to develop an evidence-based framework for nursing practice. It breaks down the process of finding, understanding and applying evidence to daily practice into easily understandable segments.

There is little argument that evidence-based nursing care improves outcomes. However, many nurses and facilities are challenged when it comes to translating evidence into daily practice. This resource guides staff nurses, nurse leaders and other health care professionals in translating evidence and research into bedside practice.

This resource guides you through:

Finding the appropriate research
Translating evidence into guidelines
Assessing the quality of existing guidelines
Reviewing and updating an existing guideline

This product is available for immediate use when you download it from www.awhonn.org/store.

AWHONN members may download one free copy; nonmembers may purchase the download.

Body The Complete Human $40.00

Body, The Complete Human
2008
By Richard Restak

New from National Geographic this book is ideal for families, students, and anyone who's interested in maintaining good health, Body engagingly reveals the complex and fascinating systems of the human machine; from head to toe, cells to skin, inner workings to outward appearance.

Organized by body system, the chapters offer a balanced combination of basic anatomical and physiological information. Noted science writers Lisa Stein, Trisha Gura, and Patricia Daniels provide descriptions that are clear, accurate, and accessible to readers on every level. Colorful diagrams, amazing photographs, and miraculous 3- and 4-dimensional imagery; generated by cutting-edge tools; complement the text. The drawings of visionaries such as Leonardo Da Vinci illustrate historic advances in medical science.

Special-topic sidebars address today's most relevant concerns: Keeping Healthy, What Can Go Wrong, Medical Breakthroughs, and more. Fact boxes feature eye-catching items that appeal to readers' curiosity: how Botox works, what "blue blood" means, why Joe Namath's knees are famous.

For easy reference, each chapter includes its own glossary of terms. Valuable cross-referencing tools guide readers to related information throughout. An appendix offers a full glossary, timeline of medical discoveries, and biographies of key pioneers in the field.

Enhancing this book's authority are a foreword by acclaimed neurologist Richard Restak, bestselling author of 18 books on the brain; and the guidance of advisers from prestigious medical establishments.

Comprehensive, reliable, impeccably researched, and a pleasure to read, Body is the essential health resource for every home and library. Item - BCH-1

Challenges Management of Infertility Including Reproductive $30.00

Challenges and Management of Infertility including Assisted Reproductive Technologies
2008
Kit S. Devine, MSN, ARNP

The Challenges and Management of Infertility, Including Assisted Reproductive Technologies module, focuses on the life crisis of infertility and the unique problems it brings to women and their partners. The module describes factors that render couples unable to conceive naturally and treatment strategies intended to overcome them. The module describes assisted reproduction methods in detail. It also emphasizes the special contribution that nurses make to the care of infertile women and their families.

Published by the March of Dimes.
4.8 contact hours available through March of Dimes. Please check marchofdimes.com/nursing for up-to-date CNE information.

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation Provider Unit is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, which is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

HPV Counseling: A Clinician Resource, Updated 2010 $24.95

HPV Counseling: A Clinician Resource Practice Monograph, Updated 2010

(CNE available through 4/30/2012; ACNM CEU's available through 3/21/2010)

This is a downloadable resource. Print copies are not available.

Updated with the FDA and CDC vaccination recommendations released in October 2009, this guide answers the need for factual age appropriate info about HPV and cervical cancer prevention for teens, parents of teens and young women.

The news is full of contradictory information about HPV. Be a source of accurate, research-based information to your patients. This resource offers invaluable insights about the best ways to address these issues thoughtfully but directly in order to positively impact women's lives. As a downloadable resource you can being using it in your practice as soon as you purchase.

HPV Counseling also details the critical information clinicians need about the diagnosis, management and prevention of HPV in order to effectively care for and counsel teens, young women and their parents. Included are counseling strategies for clinicians and downloadable patient handouts that are age-focused -- one for young teens, one for older teens and one for parents -- and straightforward in order to facilitate an age-appropriate discussion and education.

1.25 contact hours/0.15 ACNM CEU's (inclusive of 0.1 pharmacology hours) are available for a nominal additional fee.

AWHONN also has a position statement on HPV: HPV Vaccination for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer. Members may access and download this statement at no charge.

Development and dissemination of this educational resource was supported through an educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline.

Download a copy of HPV Counseling: A Clinician Resource and start using it immediately in your practice.

Item: HPVU-09

This product is downloadable resource. No print copies are available. Upon purchase of this monograph, a copy will appear under the "Purchases" tab on your "My Profile" page at www.awhonn.org. Click on the title of the document and you will be prompted to download it to your computer. To access your "My Profile" page, log in with your user name and password.

Maternity & Women's Health Care, 9th Edition $26.95

Maternity & Women's Health Care, 9th Edition
2007
Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC, PhD, FAAN and Shannon E. Perry, RN, CNS, PhD, FAAN

This portable quick reference arms you with on-the-go access to the information you need to provide competent, sensitive maternal and newborn nursing care. Key topics include women's health, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and care of the newborn.