Nursing specialties

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

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

Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere draws together and critically appraises a raft of emerging research around mindfulness in healthcare, looking especially at its relevance to pregnancy and childbirth.

Winner of the 2020 Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research, National Council on Family Relations.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support In the event of an adult cardiac arrest, it is essential to be able to respond rapidly, providing safe and effective care.

Written for labor and delivery nurses, nurse midwives, and maternal-child and family birth nurses, Essentials of Fetal and Uterine Monitoring, Fifth Edition, expertly presents how to identify fetal well-being and the signs of potential fetal and uterine compromise.

Nursing children and young people is increasingly complex requiring nurses to apply their knowledge and skills to a wide scope of illnesses and situations.

How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection offers actionable steps for improving communication between health professionals and patients based on visual, auditory, and emotional understanding from the principles of cognitive psychology.

A complete guide to an innovative, research-based brief treatment specifically developed for service members and veterans, this book combines clinical wisdom and in-depth knowledge of military culture.

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The third edition of this incisive practitioner resource and course text--updated for the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)--takes the reader step by step through diagnostic decision making in mental health.

Originally published in 2001, the Textbook of Palliative Nursing has become the standard text for the field of hospice and palliative care nursing.

The most thorough and up-to-date review available for the Certified Emergency Nurse ExamEmergency Nursing Certification is a complete step-by-step guide that thoroughly covers everything you need to know to pass the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN ) examination.

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.

"e;Provide[s] the foundation needed for new graduates as well as seasoned acute care nurse practitioners to practice at the highest level.

The classic edition of Rhythms of Recovery sheds light on rhythm, one of the most important components of our survival and well-being.

Challenging Practice in Mental Health Nursing questions theories and practices which have become central in mental health care today.

The definitive guide to trauma surgery-now in full color!

Institutional Abuse brings together a number of different research studies and accounts of institutional abuse from leading academics and researchers.

A leading professional resource and course text, this book provides practical guidance for treating clients with substance use disorders in a variety of contexts.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Practical Guide to Helping People Take Control explores the premise that negative beliefs play an important role in the development and continuation of mental health problems.

New Directions in the Sociology of Health links a number of contemporary issues to a broader sociological framework.

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.

A unique "e;mentor in a pocket"e; handbook covering one of the most emotionally-trying experiences nurses faceFrom the co-director of Johns Hopkins University's neuropsychiatry clinic and senior faculty member at the Copper Ridge Institute comes the first pocket-sized reference for generalist nurses on care for patients with dementia, one of the most emotionally-trying disorders they will face in clinical practice.

Care Planning in Children and Young People's Nursing addresses a selection of the most common concerns that arise when planning care for infants, children and young people within the hospital and community setting.

Our understanding of how pain in early life differs to that in maturity is continuing to increase and develop, using a combination of approaches from basic science, clinical science, and implementation science.

Developing Nursing Practice with Children and Young People explores the context of children s nursing in light of recent policy changes, and looks at contemporary issues and emerging roles within the field.

Revised and updated in light of the reissued Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance and the Children's Act (2004), this concise guide will help health and allied professionals negotiate the complexities of child protection practice, with the aim of preventing abuse and neglect and protecting children from further harm once it has occurred.

*; Outlines 10 steps for dying gracefully with the help of psychedelics, including how to navigate the complex legal landscape and find the right guide and therapy*; Looks at clinical studies of psychedelics from UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and NYU School of Medicine that show dramatic lessening of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill patients*; Shares wisdom from experts on psychedelic research and palliative care, including Roland Griffiths, Katherine MacLean, Ira Byock, and Anthony BossisExamining the evolving landscape that is found around end-of-life psychedelic care, Dr.

From the publishers of the market leading at a Glance series, and in collaboration with the Association of Respiratory Nurses (ARNS), comes this easy-to-read, highly visual guide bringing together key principles of Respiratory Nursing.

Acutely ill adults present in a variety of settings and caring for them is a key part of the nursing associate role.

This new edition offers a fun and flexible learning package that will build confidence when considering the complex pathophysiology field.

This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

This is a necessary addition to the library of any healthcare provider performing common procedures in the emergency room, urgent care, or primary care setting.

Surgical patients are increasingly undergoing operative procedures that require complex post-operative care followed by prolonged rehabilitation in the community, and few leave surgery without a wound, tube, line or drain.

Advancing Practice in Cancer and Palliative Care critically explores and analyses the themes and pragmatics of advancing nursing practice in relation to cancer and palliative care.

This evidence-based text explores children's health and wellbeing from birth to adolescence, taking into account the familial, cultural, social, economic, environmental and global contexts of their lives.

As the fastest growing population sector worldwide, older adults are seen in almost every care setting in which clinicians practice.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing is a comprehensive, evidence-based text for nurses and allied health professionals caring for sick newborn infants.

The best review available for the Critical Care Nursing Certification Exam!

iThe authors have crafted a very user-friendly set of guidelines, identifying the steps in assessment of patients for risks, outlining the objectives for care from preconception through postpartum, and addressing care for pregnant HIV positive womenO[the book] includes avenues to electronic resources to assist them in accessing the newest information in ever-evolving and changing practice environments.

A fully-revised new edition of Australia and New Zealand's most highly esteemed medical-surgical nursing text.

"e;This book is an excellent resource for nurses working in either a hospital or primary care"e; Breast Cancer Care News "e;This book would be really helpful to other breast cancer nurses and students about to embark on work in this field"e; Journal of Community Nursing This comprehensive handbook is for nurses and other healthcare professionals involved in the care of people with breast cancer.

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today.

Dietary Fibers: Chemistry and Nutrition contains the proceedings of a symposium on Dietary Fibers: Chemistry and Nutrition held during the American Chemical Society meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, on September 11-15, 1978.

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.

This unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women and their babies in domestic violence.

This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.