Giving students the strongest possible baseline in medical terminology, along with the how and why it is used in documentation and basic coding, this is a vital text for all students taking courses in the area.
Giving students the strongest possible baseline in medical terminology, along with the how and why it is used in documentation and basic coding, this is a vital text for all students taking courses in the area.
This fully updated and revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession.
This fully updated and revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession.
The potential for health professionals to learn and practice the process of entrepreneurship to improve the quality of health care and services is enormous and untapped.
The potential for health professionals to learn and practice the process of entrepreneurship to improve the quality of health care and services is enormous and untapped.
While vast numbers of nurses across the globe contribute in all areas of healthcare delivery from primary care to acute and long-term care in community settings, there are significant differences in how they are educated, as well as the precise nature of their practice.
While vast numbers of nurses across the globe contribute in all areas of healthcare delivery from primary care to acute and long-term care in community settings, there are significant differences in how they are educated, as well as the precise nature of their practice.
As nurses become responsible for increasingly technical service delivery, has the profession lost its focus on the emotional and human aspects of the role?
This textbook provides a practice-focused case study based exploration of how the ideas of person-centeredness can be developed and incorporated in to everyday practice.
Professional Perspectives in Health Care covers a broad range of healthcare issues such as confidentiality, the patient as consumer and interprofessional working.
Exploring the story of user involvement in the NHS over the last 30 years, this fascinating new book provides an analysis of the conceptual terrain that underlies debates about public and patient involvement.
Doing Clinical Healthcare Research: A Survival Guide will help students, academics and healthcare staff identify and overcome organisational barriers to conducting research in busy clinical environments and show how research should be project managed in order to guarantee successful outcomes for all involved.
This collection originated from a conference at Templeton College, Oxford by leading practitioners and researchers and has been revised, updated and edited for publication.
This book provides all those concerned with the delivery of care and services to people with a learning difficulty with an up-to-date overview of recent development in the area.
Dramatic reforms in the NHS and the social services in the 1980s and 1990s have highlighted the need for close co-operation between professional groups.
This book represents a new development in the discussion of community care policies with its integrated approach addressed to both community nurses and social workers.
The delivery of modern nursing care is essentially a team effort, that is a team whose individuals co-operate with one another to achieve high standards.
Powerful Occupational Therapists examines the life and times of a small group of occupational therapy leaders and scholars in a post-1950s America, to market their profession as one of increasing importance.
Powerful Occupational Therapists examines the life and times of a small group of occupational therapy leaders and scholars in a post-1950s America, to market their profession as one of increasing importance.
This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society.
This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society.
Over the past decades, reflection has taken centre stage in nursing education but it is easy to get stuck in a superficial cycle of storytelling and self-examination, without getting any further insights into your own practice and abilities.
Over the past decades, reflection has taken centre stage in nursing education but it is easy to get stuck in a superficial cycle of storytelling and self-examination, without getting any further insights into your own practice and abilities.
Critical reflection helps professionals to learn directly from their practice experience, so that they can improve their own work in an ongoing and flexible way - something essential in today's complex and changing organisations.
Critical reflection helps professionals to learn directly from their practice experience, so that they can improve their own work in an ongoing and flexible way - something essential in today's complex and changing organisations.