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	Strategies to help nurses talk with patients and families about their needs, hopes, and wishes as they face their own death or that of a loved one.
Being Present: A Nurse's Resource for End-of-Life Communication
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	Nurses are aging and the workforce is shrinking. Whether you’re a nurse or a nurse manager, you’re looking for answers.
Why Retire? Career Strategies for Third-Age Nurses
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	Every professional wants balance between life at work and at home, but how do you find that in todays overworked, overscheduled world?
B Is for Balance: A Nurse's Guide for Enjoying Life at Work and at Home
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	This book prepares nurses to care for dying patients and their families by providing a primer that is both practical and insightful.
To Comfort Always: A Nurse's Guide to End-of-Life Care
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	This transformative handbook will help aspiring and experienced health care leaders alike as they embark—and continue—on their leadership journeys.
Ready, Set, Go Lead!
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	Words of Wisdom is a companion piece to the acclaimed series Pivotal Moments in Nursing, Volume I and Volume II.
Words of Wisdom from Nursing Pivotal Leaders
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	International Textbook of Reflective Practice in Nursing provides a definitive synthesis of the current international literature and activity surrounding reflective practice within nursing.
International Textbook of Reflective Practice in Nursing

	“I think courage isn‘t about looking like Grace Kelly as we walk into the lion‘s den. It‘s about being stinking afraid and walking in anyway.”
Tales From the Pager Chronicles
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	Learn from the experience of others through faux pas, good ideas, frequently asked questions, and take-away tips.
NEW! The Nurse’s Etiquette Advantage: How Professional Etiquette Can Advance Your Nursing Career
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2008 AJN "Book of the Year Award Winner" The many faces and voices of nurses are captured in compelling detail by photographer Karen Kasmauski and writer Peter Jaret. Published by Emory University

NURSE: A World of Care

This book is for all the nurses who have crossed their own borders, or might like to. It provides both visionary lessons and practical advice.

Nursing Without Borders: Values, Wisdom, Success Markers

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	The goal of evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing is to promote improved interventions, care, and patient outcomes.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model and Guidelines
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	The premise of the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care is simple, elegant, and historically embedded in the practice of nursing.
Synergy: The Unique Relationship Between Nurses and Patients
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Conversations begin with a simple desire to bring leadership principles and lessons to a small gathering of community health professionals.

Conversations With Leaders: Frank Talk From Nurses (and Others) on the Front Lines of Leadership

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The authors of Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession bring you the stories behind some of nursing's living legends.

Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession, Volume II

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	Through thought-provoking essays and follow-up questions, this book will challenge the old thinking that leaders are born with a path and a vision laid out for them.
Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession, Volume I
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	A Daybook for Nurse Leaders and Mentors offers 365 daily pearls of wisdom, inspiration, and challenges to leaders and leaders-to-be.
A Daybook for Nurse Leaders and Mentors
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	The author of the honor society's award-winning Making a Difference: Stories from the Point of Care now provides daily inspiration for nurses in this softcover daybook.
A Daybook for Nurses: Making a Difference Each Day
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Pediatric healthcare professionals are sometimes faced with an ethical, emotionally charged dilemma when treatment goes against the beliefs of a pediatric patient's family.

When Parents Say No: Religious and Cultural Influences on Pediatric Healthcare Treatment

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	Designed to provide nurses the tactics and tools to help approach public health nursing through the tapestry of culture and community instead of the individual.
Healthy Places, Healthy People: A Handbook for Culturally Competent Community Nursing Practice
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	2007 AJN "Book of the Year Award Winner" and "2007 President’s Pick" by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Daily Miracles: Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excellence in Health Care
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	Nurses use and encounter technology in nearly every aspect of their profession. What does it mean to be technologically competent and caring as a nurse?
Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing
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	A revised and updated version of the immensely successful Making a Difference book that was first published in 2000.
Making a Difference: Stories from the Point of Care, Volume I
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	Powerful stories of how the art of nursing makes a difference in the lives of the patients they care for, the families they encourage and the communities they serve.
Making a Difference: Stories from the Point of Care, Volume II
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	This new interdisciplinary book explores the experiences of men and women who provide long-term, life-sustaining care to family members.
Stories of Family Caregiving: Reconsiderations of Theory, Literature, and Life
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	Stories about nurses are scarce, but stories about nurses who have accomplished extraordinary feats are almost non-existent.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: The Stories of Nurses
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	This peer-reviewed monograph assists students, clinicians, researchers, educators and administrators in understanding the diverse language of formal nursing knowledge.
The Language of Nursing Theory and Metatheory
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	Read about nursing from a Jewish perspective, including excerpts of "real-life" stories of more than 100 Jewish nurses.
As We See Ourselves: Jewish Women in Nursing
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	For more than 75 years, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has worked with nurses and nursing to improve health care.
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Nursing Profession: Shared Values, Shared Legacy

	More then 50 years after World War II, cadet nurses tell their stories about how they helped win the war on the home front by serving in hospitals during the worst nurse shortage in history.
Cadet Nurse Stories: The Call for and Response of Women During World War II
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	This retrospective chronicles the history and evolution of the honor society and the ways it has impacted professional nursing at national and international levels over the past 30 years.
Reflecting on 30 Years of Nursing Leadership: 1975-2005
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	This series includes collections of the most recent and relevant articles on the topic previously published in the periodicals of the honor society over the past five years.
nurseAdvance Collection on Leadership and Mentoring in Nursing (2008)
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	This beautifully produced full-color book honors nurses who honor the art that is inside themthe HeART of Nursing.
The HeART of Nursing: Expressions of Creative Art in Nursing, Second Edition
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	This series includes collections of the most recent and relevant articles on the topic previously published in the periodicals of the honor society over the past five years.
nurseAdvance Collection on Gerontological Nursing (2008)
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	This unique book offers a comprehensive exploration of career management for nurses.
Building and Managing a Career in Nursing
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Attention Authors!
The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International offer authors the advantages of a small but talented and professional publishing program in an organization that is 100% focused on nurses. We welcome proposals for books that further the mission of the honor society. View the book submission guidelines.

The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, founded in 1922 at Indiana University, has inducted more than 360,000 nurse scholars worldwide. With 125,000 active members, it is the second largest nursing organization in the world. The mission of the Honor Society of Nursing is to support the learning, knowledge and professional development of nurses committed to making a difference in health worldwide.

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