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practice, and outcomes manage- download that contains assess- ment. Additionally, payment ment tools for special popula- codes, patient-teaching tips, and tions and special considera- CME/CE credits are now in- tions. Also included are the new cluded. NANDA Nursing Diagnoses, up- dated teaching tips, and full- color photos and tables.

Wound Care (4th Ed.) K. Hess. Springhouse, PA: Lippin- cott Williams & Wilkins. (2002). $35.95, 487 pp., (800) 638-3030; www.lww.com.

This is the fourth edition of the Nurses’ Handbook of portable guide to wound care, Health Assessment healing strategies, and wound (5th Ed.) Drugs for Bugs 2003: care products. The text has il- J. R. Weber. Philadelphia, PA: The Saint-Frances lustrated profiles of more than Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Guide to Outpatient 250 products listed by trade (2004). $32.00, 560 pp., (800) Antimicrobial name, product category, forms, 638-3030; www.lww.com Therapy–Book, PDA action, indications, contraindi- Online cations, application, and re- Now in full color, this handbook P. D. Baker, C. T. Hoey, & B. A. moval. Treatment guidelines provides quick access to all Lipsky. Philadelphia, PA: Lippin- and algorithms for selecting and parts of the nursing health his- cott Williams & Wilkins. (2003). using the most appropriate tory and physical examination. (800) 638-3030; www.lww.com product for any wound are also A holistic nursing focus is given covered. A strength of this new in addition to a step-by-step ex- Drugs for Bugs 2003 is a guide to edition is the expanded cover- planation for performing each outpatient antimicrobial therapy age of pressure, vascular, and part of the examination. In addi- that can be purchased as a book diabetic ulcers; wound-healing tion it guides the nurse to ana- or in a PDA format. It is to be fundamentals; importance of nu- lyze the data collected to for- used by physicians, physician trition; documentation, legal is- mulate nursing diagnoses and assistants, nurse practitioners, sues, reimbursement guidelines, collaborative problems. This and all students. It allows the evidenced-based standards of new edition features a free PDA clinician to quickly look up ap-

vol. 22 • no. 5 • May 2004 Home Healthcare Nurse 347 propriate antibiotic therapy for is a skill, like giving an injec- service/education partnership the most common diseases that tion or taking a nursing his- models. occur in the outpatient setting. tory, which requires adequate Drugs for Bugs gives readers the and systematic practice. ability to search for drugs by It also should be viewed body system or to search alpha- within the context of one’s own betically by drug or disease. The health and well-being. The goal is to provide the clinician workshop format encourages with a quick reference guide to readers to assess and build help treat common outpatient their skills through self-study infections. Icons can be used to and role playing. quickly locate drugs by name, formulations, dosage informa- tion, interactions, and adverse reactions and contraindications.

Pocket Guide to Low Sodium Foods B. Mostyn. Olympia, WA: InData Group, Inc. (2003). 224 pp., The Nursing Shortage: $7.95. (800) 897-8440; www.in- Strategies for datapublishing.com Holistic Assertiveness Recruitment and Skills for Nurses: Retention in Clinical Using previous experience as a Empower Yourself (and Practice and Education technical writer and medical Others) H. R. Feldmen (Ed.). New York, company researcher, the au- C. Chambers Clark (Ed.). New NY: Springer Publishing Com- thor was determined to make York, NY: Springer Publishing pany. (2003). 198 pp., $39.95. the process of watching her salt Company. (2003). 248 pp., $35.95. (877) 687-7476; www.Springer intake easier for herself and (877) 687-7476; www.Springer Pub.com other health-conscious individ- Pub.com uals. The result is her Pocket This book presents an overview Guide to Low Sodium Foods, a This guide to assertiveness of innovative initiatives to com- patient-friendly handbook and skills for nurses is designed to bat the nursing shortage being pi- CD for persons who are moni- meet the needs of individual oneered in several states, toring their sodium intake. It clinicians, and for classroom schools of nursing, and health- contains everything needed to and workshop use. Nurses can care institutions. Among the make wise food choices aisle by also use the many exercises in strategies described are precep- aisle at the grocery store and the book with their patients to tor and mentoring arrangements, when dining out. Clinicians can help them find more assertive scholarship/work payback agree- encourage patients and their and empowered ways to react ments, private and public fund- families to purchase this book and be proactive. The author’s ing initiatives to support the edu- at commercial book stores or premise is that assertiveness cation of future nurses, and by calling (800) 897-8440.

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