Nursing specialties

First Edition an AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!

Why waste time guessing at what you need to know for the CCRN exam?

Sinnvolle Berührungen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil echter person-zentrierter Pflege von Menschen mit einer Demenz, dennoch gelten sie angesichts der wahrgenommenen Risiken als zweitrangig.

Although demographic change has been a widely discussed topic for decades, its scope, social impact and related policy responses leave us with many unresolved social issues.

Durch die demografische Entwicklung steigt die Anzahl älterer und kognitiv beeinträchtigter Menschen, die in einem Akutkrankenhaus behandelt werden.

Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families: A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals provides a guide for addressing the challenges of providing optimal general and routine care for the special needs population.

A practical guide on the essential principles for the effective care of patients during anaesthesia, surgery, and the recovery period.

Neonatal nurses face an ever-changing practice landscape that requires swift decisions and actions.

"e;This textbook provides the busy clinician with a 'one stop' comprehensive guide to women's health that includes essential components of the history, diagnostic workup, treatment, and management guidelines for most common health issues and problems specific to providing gynecologic care to women.

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.

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

Psychology: An Introduction for Health Professionals will appeal to the undergraduate nursing and health science student seeking to understand patient responses and behaviours to various diagnoses, interventions and health outcomes.

Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management is a high-yield, clinically-relevant resource for understanding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of a wide variety of perioperative emergencies.

Developing Holistic Care for Long-term Conditions focuses on how to help people with long-term health conditions cope more effectively.

Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experience post-natal depression, yet there is little help available to sufferers.

Students and newly qualified staff make up much of the workforce delivering end-of-life care but, because end-of-life care can be both technically challenging and emotionally demanding, it is an aspect of nursing that can cause considerable anxiety.

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Every year thousands of children and young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm.

Exploring how practitioners make use of play's developmental benefits and therapeutic healing properties to aid the child's healthcare journey, this reflective book expands and enhances the knowledge base underlying the practice of play in hospitals.

Menschen reagieren auf Vorfälle sexualisierter Gewalt oft mit Rat- und Hilflosigkeit.

Development in Infancy reflects many new discoveries that have transformed our understanding of infants and their place in human development, with an emphasis on 21st century research.

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.

Written by two of the professionis most prominent midwifery leaders, this authoritative history of midwifery in the United States, from the 1600s to the present, is distinguished by its vast breadth and depth.

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK, Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments.

This book offers an accessible and sympathetic introduction for relatives, carers and professionals looking after or training to work with people with dementia.

This practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world while also looking at the impact of the changing planet on health care that people will encounter.

Written for neonatal and pediatric nurse practitioner students, Fetal and Neonatal Physiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse explores the developmental physiology of premature and term infants and presents common diseases that affect this specialized population.

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

This book highlights the importance of endothelial cells as key players in the functioning of the nervous system under both normal and pathological conditions.

Umfassend, übersichtlich und leicht verständlich begleitet dieses Buch Pflegehelfer und Pflegeassistenten durch Ausbildung, Prüfungsvorbereitung und Berufsleben.

This practical, science-based book focuses on helping partners, family, and friends understand breast cancer.

Autism is now considered to be one of the most common developmental disorders today, yet 100 years ago the term did not exist.

Based on Francesca Happe's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism.

This guide provides healthcare students and professionals with a foundational background on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - traumatic early life experiences, which can have a profound impact on health in later life.

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Environmental gerontology - the research on aging and environment - evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people.

This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mimi Mahon, features subject topics such as: Understanding Children's Involvment in Medical Decision Making; Symptom Management at End of Life; Assessing respiratory distress when the patient can't self-report; Barriers to Palliative Care, Legislative Issues; End Stage Liver Disease: Symptoms & Practice Implications; Dying children: Creating opportunities out of a "e;Last Chance?

Care planning and delivery are essential parts of everyday practice for all mental health practitioners.

Understanding Tourette Syndrome provides accessible, concise, evidence-based guidelines on this neurodevelopmental disorder, offering parents and professionals a deeper scientific understanding of the condition and its consequences.

Vademecum für die Hämatologie und Onkologie – Von der Therapie bis zur PflegeDas bewährte Standardwerk für medizinische und pflegerische Fachpersonen in der Hämatologie und Onkologie vermittelt einen umfassenden, multiprofessionellen Überblick bezüglichBehandlungsverfahren Medikamentöser Tumortherapie, WechselwirkungenWirkungs- und Resistenzmechanismen von TumortherapeutikaDurchführung der ChemotherapieKomplikationen, Diagnostik und Behandlung von NebenwirkungenSchmerzassessment und -therapieErnährungstherapie und -beratungGesprächsführung, Psychoonkologie und Palliative Care.

This concise guide provides nurses with the tools to help older adults with arthritis achieve the highest possible quality of life.

Clowns und Kinder – eine ideale Kombination, etwas fürs Herz.

Are you involved in caring for people at the end of their life?

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.

This updated edition of the core curriculum for nursing practice with multiple sclerosis (MS) patients presents the most current diagnostic tools and strategies for managing the disease process.

The Royal Marsden is the world s first hospital dedicated to cancer diagnosis, treatment, research and education a centre of excellence with an international reputation for ground-breaking research and pioneering the very latest in cancer treatments and technologies, as well as specialising in cancer diagnosis and education.

Rapid Emergency and Unscheduled Care outlines the fundamental skills and knowledge necessary to work in the emergency and unscheduled care setting, including pre-hospital care.