Nursing specialties

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

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

Collaborative Practice in Palliative Care explores how different professions work collaboratively across professional, institutional, social, and cultural boundaries to enhance palliative care.

Collaborative Practice in Palliative Care explores how different professions work collaboratively across professional, institutional, social, and cultural boundaries to enhance palliative care.

Organisms need to be able to maintain nearly constant internal environments in order to survive, grow and function effectively and efficiently.

Organisms need to be able to maintain nearly constant internal environments in order to survive, grow and function effectively and efficiently.

Mental health care for people experiencing schizophrenia has changed dramatically over the last twenty years.

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

"e;David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness.

Presenting a model for interdisciplinary working, this book offers an overview of practice and policy across a range of mental health settings.

Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives.

In this thought-provoking text, a collection of respected authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience come together to challenge some of the prevailing ideas serving as the foundation for the current child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) structure.

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

This innovative textbook uses a problem-based learning (PBL) approach to cover content that is most common to child branch nursing courses.

Suicide and self-harm are world-wide public health issues that can have devastating effects on families, friends and communities.

A full and challenging examination of the practice and contextual issues relating to nursing in secure units - whether within special hospitals, the prison service or more general hospitals.

As the population of all European countries ages rapidly, understanding the phenomenon of ageing and social responses to old age has become a vital contemporary issue.

This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect recent changes in how the family and society care for children.

Develop 21st century skills with ADMINISTRATIVE MEDICAL ASSISTING, 8e!

A unique volume reflecting the state of the art in hospice nursing, Nursing in Hospice and Terminal Care addresses the special concerns of nurses--the primary professional caregivers in a hospice--in caring for terminally ill patients and in comforting their families.

A unique volume reflecting the state of the art in hospice nursing, Nursing in Hospice and Terminal Care addresses the special concerns of nurses--the primary professional caregivers in a hospice--in caring for terminally ill patients and in comforting their families.

Do you need guidance and information on CPR?

Do you need guidance and information on CPR?

This easy-to-use guide provides a quick reference to the principles of palliative and end-of-life care for adults, to help you enable your patients to not only die peacefully but also live until they die.

This easy-to-use guide provides a quick reference to the principles of palliative and end-of-life care for adults, to help you enable your patients to not only die peacefully but also live until they die.

Early and accurate recognition of an acutely ill child is essential.

Early and accurate recognition of an acutely ill child is essential.

As the world population ages and people live longer, nurses and healthcare workers, no matter what area they work in, will encounter older people.

As the world population ages and people live longer, nurses and healthcare workers, no matter what area they work in, will encounter older people.

Understanding cancer is essential to providing effective nursing care to patients and families affected.

Understanding cancer is essential to providing effective nursing care to patients and families affected.

Are you wondering if a career in Mental Health Nursing is right for you?

Are you wondering if a career in Mental Health Nursing is right for you?

Delays in recognising deterioration or inappropriate management of people in acute care settings can result in late treatment, avoidable admissions to intensive care units and in some instances unnecessary deaths.

Delays in recognising deterioration or inappropriate management of people in acute care settings can result in late treatment, avoidable admissions to intensive care units and in some instances unnecessary deaths.

Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge.

Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge.

Das Manchester-Triage-System ist ein weltweit verbreitetes System, um Notfallpatient*innen in ihrer Behandlungsdringlichkeit einzuschätzen, einzustufen und klinisch zu priorisieren.

This definitive handbook assembles the most recent advances in knowledge about dementia, Alzheimer Disease, and related disorders as they affect persons with intellectual disabilities.

This definitive handbook assembles the most recent advances in knowledge about dementia, Alzheimer Disease, and related disorders as they affect persons with intellectual disabilities.

This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients'and families'concerns about nutrition and hydration.

This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients'and families'concerns about nutrition and hydration.

Create programs that make good use of the leisure time of the elderly, and of those who care for them!

Create programs that make good use of the leisure time of the elderly, and of those who care for them!

Essential Nursing Care for Children and Young People is the definitive guide for all nursing and healthcare students and professionals caring for children and young people.

Essential Nursing Care for Children and Young People is the definitive guide for all nursing and healthcare students and professionals caring for children and young people.

Many practitioners within health and social care come into contact with people with intellectual disabilities and want to work in ways that are beneficial to them by making reasonable adjustments in order to meet clients' needs and expectations.

Many practitioners within health and social care come into contact with people with intellectual disabilities and want to work in ways that are beneficial to them by making reasonable adjustments in order to meet clients' needs and expectations.

From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way.

From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way.