Nursing specialties

This innovative text for Neonatal Nurses and NICU clinicians introduces new, evidence-based care protocols proven to mitigate or reduce the profound morbidities and subsequent developmental challenges that afflict newborns in the NICU.

Children's nurses are faced with unique challenges when undertaking clinical skills, adapting their knowledge and practice for the physical and developmental age of their patients.

Die Zentrale Notaufnahme ist ein Ort der Grenzerfahrung.

This book considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment planning.

People with dementia need increasingly specialised support as they approach the end of life, and so too do their families and the professionals working with them.

A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of acute symptoms and conditions, the ABC of Emergency Differential Diagnosis provides a step-by-step guide to emergency differential diagnosis for non-specialists in a hospital or primary care setting.

This is a concise, user-friendly orientation guide and reference for new and seasoned nurses, paramedics, preceptors, educators, management teams, and anyone else working in the triage environment.

Der Mensch, ganzheitlich betrachtet, ist ein körperliches und geistig-spirituelles Wesen - Körper und Seele benötigen stärkende Nahrung.

Newborn babies are examined at around 6 to 72 hours after their birth to rule out major congenital abnormalities and reassure the parents that their baby is healthy.

Dementia is a devastating disorder which may dramatically interfere with decision-making abilities.

The first book to provide an insider view of the latest advances and trends in the full range of clinical subspecialty areas.

Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) have emerged as a major phenomenon within the education and health care systems.

Understand and assess the sensory needs of people with dementia, and learn how to implement sensory modulation-based approaches for enriched care.

Medical Generalism, Now!

"e;What a wonderful resource!

Pre-registration nurse training across the UK is now competency based and this is the first mental health nursing text devoted to this approach.

Christine Bryden was 46 years old when she was diagnosed with dementia, and in this book she describes her remarkable emotional, physical and spiritual journey in the three years immediately following.

Thoroughly updated to correlate with DSM-5 diagnostic descriptions and QSEN guidelines, the second edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate psychiatric nursing text features concrete strategies for establishing interpersonal relationships as the basis not only for working with the psychiatric patient population, but as a timeless foundation for all nursing practice.

Serving Military and Veteran Families introduces readers to the unique culture of military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life.

'Kunst und Kreativität in der Palliative Care' beschreibt erfolgreiche künstlerische Programme, die von Künstlern, Autoren, Pflegenden, Musikern, Therapeuten, Sozialarbeitern und Seelsorgern in der Palliative Care initiiert wurden.

In this classic text Jarlath Benson presents the basic and essential knowledge required to set up and work with a group.

The Living Well with Dementia Course: A Workbook for Facilitators will be an indispensable guide to providing support to people after they have received a dementia diagnosis.

Death studies have, over the last twenty years, witnessed a flourishing of research and scholarship particularly in areas such as dying and bereavement, cultural practices and fear of dying.

Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience.

A Doody's Core Title for 2024!

This evidence-based text puts a human face on mental disorders, illuminating the lived experience of people with mental health difficulties and their caregivers.

This book broadens the visioning on new care environments that are designed to be inclusive, progressive, and convergent with the needs of an aging population.

Praise for the first edition:"e;[A] welcome addition to the reference materials necessary for the study of nurse anesthesia.

Für eine professionelle Pflege und Betreuung alter Menschen sind gründliche Kenntnisse der Gerontologie unerlässlich.

The Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care is an easily-navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care.

This book offers an extensive review of the most recent data on the pathophysiological role of structural and functional alterations in the microcirculation, particularly focusing on hypertension and diabetes.

This book proposes a way of understanding human movement and its forms of deterioration and preservation in older people.

This practical guide focuses on the reduced expression and activity often described as constituting negative symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia.

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

Are you anxious about your mental health placement?

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward.

Integrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation provides a detailed, thoughtful, and experience-based guide to the complex and potentially overwhelming process of implementing an integrated care program.

Describes how nursing professionals can mitigate the maternal health crisis through advocacy and improved practice.

Praise for the Second Edition:"e;This is an excellent workbook for students or healthcare professionals who are just beginning to interpret 12-lead EKGs.

Critical testing information and key clinical protocols in the palm of your handMcGraw-Hill's Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests focuses specifically on what you need to know to understand the test, educate the patient, and provide safe, effective care before, during, and after the test.

Der freiwillige Verzicht auf Nahrung und Flüssigkeit – Sterbefasten genannt – ist eine natürliche Form des Sterbens.

A practical guide to state-of-the-art treatments and health care knowledge about gender diverse persons, this second edition of Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery presents the foremost international specialists offering their knowledge on the wide spectrum of issues encountered by gender diverse individuals.

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Dieses Buch entstand anhand von Forschungsergebnissen aus der Pflegepraxis und erläutert durch verschiedene Fälle, welche biografischen Hintergründe dem Phänomen des herausfordernden Verhaltens bei Menschen mit demenziellen Veränderungen zugrunde liegen.

An accessible illustrated compendium of over 1000 topics in intensive care and acute medicine, arranged alphabetically for easy reference.