Nursing specialties

This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia.

This volume is a practical resource for all those responsible for caring for older people across health and social care.

This book aims to clarify the potential association between frailty and cardiovascular disease in older people.

This book explores the meaning of quality of life in care for older persons and introduces the reader to their main concerns when receiving care.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to non-invasive mechanical ventilation in palliative medicine, focusing on why and when it may be necessary.

This book provides an insight into advances in elder abuse in the areas of research, policy, practice and legislation.

This new updated edition challenges the perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of professionals working in dementia care settings by drawing on the theory of person-centred care.

The increase in average life expectancy observed over recent decades has brought new challenges to nephrology practice.

This volume is a practical resource for all those responsible for caring for older people across health and social care.

This book aims to clarify the potential association between frailty and cardiovascular disease in older people.

This is an "e;All in One"e; BLS and ACLS study guide.

"e;This excellent text will help nurses develop an awareness of a range of communication frameworks and how they might be utilised in contemporary child health nursing to communicate with children, their families, fellow healthcare professionals and each other in their day to day working lives.

The Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) Standards were published in 2013 to fulfill a need for national guidelines to reduce the risks of injuries and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of healthcare workers.

The Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) Standards were published in 2013 to fulfill a need for national guidelines to reduce the risks of injuries and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of healthcare workers.

The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition, is an essential document for every psychiatric-mental health nurse practicing in the United States.

The Neonatal Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition, is an essential document for every neonatal nurse practicing in the United States.

The Neonatal Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition, is an essential document for every neonatal nurse practicing in the United States.

Travel health nursing has evolved as a distinct and increasingly complex specialty, drawing upon the knowledge of nursing, pharmacology, epidemiology, tropical medicine, primary care, and behavioral psychology.

The International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses (ISPAN) and ANA have collaborated to produce this foundational document for contemporary plastic and aesthetic nursing practice.

The International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses (ISPAN) and ANA have collaborated to produce this foundational document for contemporary plastic and aesthetic nursing practice.

Neuroscience nursing is the practice specialty that addresses the needs and care of those with biological, psychological, social, and spiritual alterations as a result of nervous system dysfunction.

Neuroscience nursing is the practice specialty that addresses the needs and care of those with biological, psychological, social, and spiritual alterations as a result of nervous system dysfunction.

628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributors

Violence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence.

The Must-Have Guide for Navigating the ICUThe House Officer's Guide to ICU Care is an eminently practical handbook for junior house officers, medical students, PAs, and nurses that offers nuts-and-bolts guidelines for optimal management of medical and surgical patients in the ICU setting.

Podrid's Real-World ECGs combines traditional case-based workbooks with a versatile Web-based program to offer students, health care professionals, and physicians an indispensable resource for developing and honing the technical skills and systematic approach needed to interpret ECGs with confidence.

Beyond Nurses Notes - A Journey to Choose Life by Mary M.

In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her.

This extraordinary compendium of religious traditions is invaluable to all healthcare providers.

Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application.

Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand mental health and become rounded practitioners.

A pocket-sized guide to help nursing students prepare for their critical care placement.

Study Skills for Master's Level Students will help students to develop the skills they need to make the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate thinking, researching and writing.

A handy pocket guide to help mental health student nurses prepare for their practice placements.

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful for children's nursing students.

Palliative Care: Learning in Practice is an interactive textbook based on models of open learning, action learning, work-based learning, critical companionship and reflective practice.

The Care and Wellbeing of Older People is aimed at all those training and taking courses relating to the healthcare of older people.

This book tells the story of John, who has an intellectual disability.

All aspects of safe, effective, holistic care for birthing mothers, newborns, and their families are included in this easy-access guide for new antepartum and postpartum nurses and their preceptors during the orientation period.

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.

The first book to explore the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears.

Out with the old and in with the new!

Detailed knowledge and specific awareness of delirium is crucial in elderly care, due in part to the overlap with delirium and dementia.

The book outlines a range of non-pharmacological therapies clinicians can adopt in their daily practice and sets out information and advice on each therapy and how to implement them in practice, illustrated with case studies and practical examples and drawing on the author's own clinical work.

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia.

Care home workers increasingly work with people nearing the end of their lives, including people with medically complex conditions.

This book aims to provide an easily accessible quick reference guide for advanced nursing students preparing to undertake practical examinations to assess advanced clinical practice competence, and students preparing for practical examinations in non-medical prescribing assessment.

To provide high quality dementia care, professionals need to be both knowledgeable about dementia and skilled in the provision of care.

The way in which dementia is understood and treated is changing, with a growing focus on the individual's experience and person-centred approaches to care.

Research shows that non-responsive patients benefit significantly from spiritual and pastoral care.