Nursing specialties

This is a practical, accessible guide for nurses on the management and care of the dying and deceased patient.

"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

This text responds to the urgent need for health practitioners to take an innovative approach to the challenge of dementia.

Demographic trends confirm what clinicians already know - they are spending increasing amounts of time dealing with older people.

Advanced Practice in Critical Care provides experienced critical care nurses with a clear and distinct evidence base for contemporary critical care practice.

Even among mental health clinicians, the communications of individuals experiencing psychosis have historically been considered mysterious, bizarre, and invalid.

Structured clinical management (SCM) is a unified approach to the treatment of people with personality disorder, which is within reach of general mental health professionals without extensive additional training.

This book uniquely operationalizes "e;sustainable ageing"e; as a concept for reimagining ways by which: (1) social and health threats (i.

This new edition of From Birth to Sixteen outlines children's physical, social, emotional and cognitive development from infancy through to adolescence.

Even among mental health clinicians, the communications of individuals experiencing psychosis have historically been considered mysterious, bizarre, and invalid.

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.

Health Psychology in Clinical Practice provides a collection of first-hand accounts from several of the most established and experienced clinically working Health Psychologists in the UK, explaining what they do, how they do it and why their work is important.

Completely updated by vascular nurses for vascular nurses.

Traditionally, dementia has been defined primarily in terms of loss: loss of cognitive and communicative competencies, loss of identity, loss of personal relationships.

This book explores the diverse manner in which family dynamics shaped Jewish identities in ways that were unique and directly connected to their experiences within their families of origin.

This book explores sociology and psychology relevant to nursing and explains why it is so important to understand these disciplines in order to be a good nurse.

This new edition of a bestselling, evidence-based textbook provides a comprehensive overview of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

When do babies begin to learn and what exactly are they learning?

This text focuses on the under-recognized and undertreated problem of addiction in later life.

Focused on the practical issues of nursing care and nursing procedures, the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Nursing has been written by nurses, for nursesReflecting current best practice, this handbook is an easily accessible and evidence-based guide for all levels of nursing staff working in critical care environments.

The outcome for children with cancer has shown enormous improvement since the first edition of this book was published in 1975.

Mit dem Pflegeberufegesetz wurde die Ausbildung in der Pflege zum 1.

Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders summarizes the state of the field from a biopsychosocial perspective, addressing key domains of interest to clinicians, students, instructors, and researchers.

This book studies communication in institutional eldercare.

Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this is the first text to deal specifically with nursing difficult patients.

This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do.

Read a fascinating interview with editor Tener Goodwin Veenema!

Wie erleben junge Menschen die Begegnung mit sterbenden Menschen?

Taking a rights-based approach to the interdependence of play and health in childhood, this text argues that the child's right to health and development cannot be satisfied without also the fulfillment of their right to play.

This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.

Dieses Buch will auf die Situation der Pflegebedürftigen, insbesondere auf die dementen Senilen in den Familien, Heimen und Tagesstätten aufmerksam machen und einen Beitrag leisten zum besseren Verständnis dieser Menschen.

Perspectives on Cancer Care is a unique collection of insights from contributors, based on their specific expertise and experience.

Written by a multidisciplinary team of medical and nursing experts, this fully-updated second edition provides evidence-based coverage of all frequently seen neonatal conditions.

2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in both Gerontologic Nursing and Hospice and Palliative Care!

"e;The volume features extensive references throughout to document evidence-based practices.

Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society.

Kurznachschlagewerk für Demenzbegleitende, die Menschen mit Demenz im Alltag der häuslichen Pflege und stationären Altenhilfe in ihren Lebensaktivitäten aktivieren, begleiten und unterstützen.

In Collaboration with Consulting Editor, Dr.

Das Kurzlehrbuch zur End-of-Life Care spannt einen breiten Schirm über die letzte Lebensphase und beleuchtet ethische, philosophische, psychologische, spirituelle und rechtliche Aspekte des Sterbens.

The leading textbook on psychotherapy for advanced practice psychiatric nurses and studentsAward-winning and highly lauded, Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse is a how-to compendium of evidence-based approaches for both new and experienced advanced practice psychiatric nurses and students.

The only authoritative resource to prepare for your SANE-A or SANE-P; exams!

Enabling nurses to deliver safe and effective care and to achieve the best possible results for their patients, the Oxford Handbook of Children's and Young People's Nursing, 2nd edition is concise and practical guide to all aspects of the CYP nurse's role.

Over recent decades, tremendous advances in the prevention, medical treatment, and quality of life issues in children and adolescents surviving cancer have spawned a host of research on pediatric psychosocial oncology.

Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.

Understanding Learning Disability and Dementia covers all the essential issues in supporting a person with a learning disability when they develop dementia.

'Neues aus Pflegeland' bietet über 20 Anekdoten, Geschichten und Science-Fiction-Erzählungen aus der Kranken- und Altenpflege.

In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, the authors have written a touching book about the people and the relationships that are a part of nursing home care.

iThis guide and resource will give you all the direction and resources you need to perform in the role of a medical-surgical clinical instructorOInstructors will discover this book takes the work out of working in the clinical area.

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.