Community nursing

If you are facing the unique challenges of caring for a parent with dementia, you are not alone.

Imagine you are in an unfamiliar country or situation.

In Stop Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Before It Starts, Debra Savage speaks not only to caregivers and receivers, but also to the families, spouses, and children of nursing home patients.

Several chronic health problems facing modern populations can be easily treated through the use of natural substances.

This reflective and evidence-based book will equip students as well as professionals who work with people with learning disabilities in primary, secondary and specialist healthcare settings, with the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively with people with learning disabilities.

This reflective and evidence-based book will equip students as well as professionals who work with people with learning disabilities in primary, secondary and specialist healthcare settings, with the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively with people with learning disabilities.

Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention.

Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention.

The role of the community midwife differs dramatically from that of a hospital based practitioner but many midwifes entering this area of practice may not feel well equipped for this diverse experience.

Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for all health visiting students, school nursing students, and occupational health nursing students, that reflects the current key changes in community public health nursing.

Caring for the Child with Complex Needs in Community Settings provides a valuable overview of the key factors relating to caring for children with complex and continuing care needs.

When a person faces serious illness, having the support of one's partner can help protect against the full ravages of disease, and even hasten recovery.

When a person faces serious illness, having the support of one's partner can help protect against the full ravages of disease, and even hasten recovery.

Essential reference guide to acute and chronic wounds for use by home health care nurses, patients and their caregivers, designed for quick access and review with just the facts you need whether you are a trained nurse or a family member caring for a loved one.

This 3-panel (6-page) guide jam-packed with information provides a further look into the nursing profession and the different responsibilities it entails.

Public Health and Society links public health explicitly to sociological theory, in order to demonstrate the relationship between health care and the social structures that underpin the provision of health services.

At a time of great change, the moves towards a primary healthcare led NHS are challenging nurses to rethink their roles, organisation and strategy.

This easy-to-use guide provides an accessible workbook for reminiscence skills training.

This easy-to-use guide provides an accessible workbook for reminiscence skills training.

Health care professionals need to make rapid decisions under pressure to prevent and manage adverse outcomes during childbirth.

The issue of power is central in the analysis of the development and contemporary structures of nursing, the remedial therapies and social work.

Talking to patients is not always easy.

Talking to patients is not always easy.

This important new book describes the origins, developments, and current status of personal response systems, a new means for persons at risk who live alone to get help in case of emergency.

This important new book describes the origins, developments, and current status of personal response systems, a new means for persons at risk who live alone to get help in case of emergency.

This anthology responds to the recurring call for quality in home care service provision.

This anthology responds to the recurring call for quality in home care service provision.

This up-to-date book is a synthesis of current knowledge from published sources and expert consultants relating to three commonly occurring problems in home health care practice--self-administration of medications, family caregiving issues, and teaching the elderly.

This up-to-date book is a synthesis of current knowledge from published sources and expert consultants relating to three commonly occurring problems in home health care practice--self-administration of medications, family caregiving issues, and teaching the elderly.

Although demographic change has been a widely discussed topic for decades, its scope, social impact and related policy responses leave us with many unresolved social issues.

Although demographic change has been a widely discussed topic for decades, its scope, social impact and related policy responses leave us with many unresolved social issues.

This second edition presents a range of theoretical and practice-based perspectives adopted by experienced educators active in cultural safety education.

This second edition presents a range of theoretical and practice-based perspectives adopted by experienced educators active in cultural safety education.

Rural Nursing will equip nursing students with the confidence to provide high-quality health care in a range of practice settings.

Rural Nursing will equip nursing students with the confidence to provide high-quality health care in a range of practice settings.

Understanding the perspective of carers is an essential aspect of nursing.

Short Bowel Syndrome: Practical Approach to Management is the first reference exclusively about the issues experienced by patients with a short bowel.

This comprehensive book gives an up-to-date profile of all aspects of the care of older people in the community, with particular emphasis on the importance of maintaining function and independence as well as health.

Proud to be a nurse!

Make parish nursing an alternative to shrinking healthcare resources!

Make parish nursing an alternative to shrinking healthcare resources!

Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "e;how-to"e; approach to social work practice in home health care agencies.

Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "e;how-to"e; approach to social work practice in home health care agencies.

Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment?

Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment?

The role and scope of nursing in primary health care is continually evolving as a result of changes in society.

The role and scope of nursing in primary health care is continually evolving as a result of changes in society.

Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse's role - both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model.

Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse's role - both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model.

Child abuse and neglect are social and public health problems that need to be addressed by strong policies and dynamic initiatives that show quantifiable results.