Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Nursing Practice

Janie B. Butts, DSN, RN, The University of Southern Mississippi
Karen L. Rich, PhD, RN, The University of Southern Mississippi

ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-7986-3
Paperback • 650 Pages • © 2011 

Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Nursing Practice is designed for the advanced practice nursing student and is an essential resource for graduate and DNP programs. This comprehensive text covers all of the major nursing theories and includes a section on interdisciplinary theories in addition to chapters on the philosophy of science, foundations of knowledge development, and integrating and disseminating knowledge in advanced practice nursing.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

Project Planning and Management: A Guide for CNLs, DNPs and Nurse Executives

James L. Harris, DSN, APRN-BC, MBA, CNL, FAAN
Linda Roussel, RN, DSN, CNAA, BC
Sandra Walters, DNP, RN
Catherine Dearman, RN, PhD

ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-8586-4
Paperback • 328 Pages • © 2011

Project Planning and Management: A Guide for CNLs, DNPs and Nurse Executives provides a step-by-step approach to developing, implementing and evaluating a project plan. It serves as a guide to refining the idea or question, reviewing relevant evidence to support a best practice intervention, and outlining process dynamics, outcomes management and evaluation strategies. Features throughout include chapter objectives, key terms, summaries, evidence-based examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, as well as power point presentations and exam questions. This is the perfect resource for capstone courses and field studies as well as an ideal reference for professionals.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

The Making of Nurse Professionals
A Transformational, Ethical Approach
Nancy Crigger, PhD, MA, ARNP, BC, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, William Jewell College
Nelda Godfrey, PhD, ACNS-BC, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Clinical Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Nursing

ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-8056-2
Paperback • 150 Pages • © 2011

The Making of Nurse Professionals: A Transformational, Ethical Approach is a philosophical inquiry into the current state of educating nurses in ethics and professional identity formation. The authors propose a visionary, grounded framework for the transformation of students into nurse professionals that is inclusive of virtue ethics and character development.

The Making of Nurse Professionals: A Transformational, Ethical Approach is a clarion call to shift from a narrow student-consumerist paradigm to one of civic mindedness and recognition of duties to society and the discipline. Through this new vision, the professional life moves beyond just following rules and becomes one of flourishing and professional growth.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

Case Studies in Nursing Ethics, Fourth Edition
Sara T. Fry, PhD, RN, Boston College
Robert M. Veatch, PhD, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
Carol R. Taylor, PhD, RN, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University

ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-8031-9
Paperback • 506 Pages • © 2011 

As the healthcare professional in closest contact with both the patient and the physician, nurses face biomedical ethical problems in unique ways. Accordingly, Case Studies in Nursing Ethics, Fourth Edition presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice, through analysis of more than 150 actual case study conflicts. Each case study allows you to develop your own approaches to the resolution of ethical conflict and to reflect on how the traditions of ethical thought and professional guidelines apply to the particular situation.

The Fourth Edition has been completely revised and updated. It includes two new chapters, one on Moral Integrity and Moral Distress that contains an AACN model of moral distress and work and one on Respect that addresses several aspects of the general problem of showing respect for patients and others. Case Studies in Nursing Ethics, Fourth Edition has also been updated with new case studies, new "Critical Thinking Questions" and "Research Briefs" boxes throughout, as well as citations, glossary, and web resources in health care ethics.

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Did you know that last week was the 20^th anniversary of World Breastfeeding Week? Celebrated internationally each year from August 1-7, World Breastfeeding Week advocates the importance of mothers, educators, advocates, and supporters to the health and welfare of babies, their mothers, and the community at large.

This year, the theme of World Breastfeeding Week was Breastfeeding: Just 10 Steps – The Baby-Friendly Way. According to Jones & Bartlett Learning author Cindy Turner-Maffei, MA, IBCLC, this year’s theme celebrates:

the more than 20,000 birth facilities worldwide that have implemented the World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. The BFHI recognizes birth facilities that have implemented birthing practices and policies to optimize infant feeding outcomes. As of this date, 96 US birth facilities have been recognized as “Baby-Friendly” facilities. (For more information, visit www.babyfriendlyusa.org.)

Jones & Bartlett Learning is proud to provide tools and resources to help achieve these important goals, including:

Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding: An 18-Hour Interdisciplinary Breastfeeding Management Course for the United States

Editors: Karin Cadwell, PhD, RN, IBCLC & Cynthia Turner-Maffei, MA, IBCLC

Designed to support the implementation of the UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative™ in the United States, this curriculum can be used to educate nursing staff in the promotion of successful breastfeeding. Training health care staff in the implementation of breastfeeding is one of the necessary steps in attaining the Baby-Friendly Hospital™ designation. It is also a convenient way for nurses, physicians, and lactation consultants to earn continuing education units or CMEs.

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Continuity of Care in Breastfeeding: Best Practices in the Maternity Setting

Karin Cadwell, PhD, RN, FAAN, IBCLC, RLC
Cynthia Turner-Maffei, MA, IBCLC, RLC

ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-5184-5
Paperback • 168 Pages • © 2009

Continuity of Care in Breastfeeding: Best Practices in the Maternity Setting emphasizes quality and continuity of care; management issues; and policies and procedures that support breastfeeding in the hospital setting whether in the inpatient maternity, NICU, or ambulatory care.  This book offers key strategies to improve patient-centered care and showcases research that supports change.

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Further, Turner-Maffei writes that:

Breastfeeding has long been recognized as the safest and healthiest feeding option for babies. A recent review of the research sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research identified that not being breastfed is linked to increased risk of developing acute otitis media, non-specific gastroenteritis, severe lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, asthma (young children), obesity, type 1 and 2 diabetes, childhood leukemia, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and necrotizing enterocolitis (Ip, Chung, Raman, Chew, Magula, DeVine et al., 2007)[1]. This same review identifies a link between not breastfeeding is linked to increased maternal illness, including type 2 diabetes, breast, and ovarian cancer. Furthermore, “early cessation of breastfeeding or not breastfeeding was associated with an increased risk of maternal postpartum depression”.[2] Researchers suggest that lactation may actually have a reset effect on maternal metabolism[3]; there is evidence that women who have breastfed have a significantly lower risk for later developing metabolic syndrome, a risk factor for future insulin resistance, diabetes, cardiac disease, etc.[4]

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[1] Ip S, Chung M, Raman G, Chew P, Magula N, DeVine D, Trikalinos T, Lau J. Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 153 (Prepared by Tufts-New England Medical Center Evidence-based Practice Center, under Contract No. 290-02-0022). AHRQ Publication No. 07-E007. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. April 2007.

[2] Ip S, Chung M, Raman G, et al, p. v.

[3] Stuebe AM, Rich-Edwards JW. (2009) The reset hypothesis: lactation and maternal metabolism. Am J Perinatol 26(1):81-8.

[4] Ram KT, Bobby P, Hailpern SM, Lo JC, Schocken M, Skurnick J, Santoro N. (2008) Duration of lactation is associated with lower prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in midlife--SWAN, the study of women's health across the nation. Am J Obstet Gynecol 198(3):268.e1-6.