Nursing

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.

Combining a theoretical approach with practical activities, this book is invaluable for nursing and midwifery students and will help them to master the basics of writing at university.

Supervision has been a major component of initial training and an important element for professional development in the very wide field of mental healthcare.

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

Care giving has become a high-profile issue in policy and practice, yet much of the literature conceives it as burdensome or even oppressive.

If you are looking for an accessible introduction to the essential concepts that define the field of professional ethics, then this is the book for you.

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

Forces such as political conflict, globalisation and the growth of the internet, offering news of life elsewhere, mean levels of migration are higher now than at any other time in history.

This new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health.

This is timely new book examines the generally accepted understanding of the theory and practice of mental health.

In recent years there have been major developments in how long term conditions are managed and so it is important nurses understand the rationale behind policy initiatives and their implications for practice.

Are you thinking about studying nursing?

As nurses become responsible for increasingly technical service delivery, has the profession lost its focus on the emotional and human aspects of the role?

How can we make health care processes safer and more consistent?

Want a sophisticated, witty and engaging introduction to the nursing profession?

Pre-registration nursing students are required to spend 50% of their course time on placement.

Gaining a first job as a nurse or midwife is becoming not only highly competitive but an increasingly more complex process.

This text will demystify interprofessional education, showing readers how theory can be turned into practice.

This is the key text for introductory level nursing, covering all the core areas.

This innovative text uses a 'common sense' approach to introduce students to real-life medication problems.

To meet the care needs of today's diverse patient community, healthcare professionals must learn to care in environments comprising different worldviews, communication styles and expectations.

Nurses need highly developed skills in order to communicate sensitively and collaboratively, across a wide range of media, with patients, clients, and colleagues from a variety of backgrounds.

Maths can be an unnecessary source of anxiety for both students and professionals involved in nursing and healthcare.

Advanced Nursing Practice is a topical and emergent area of developing health practice, but as an area that is still developing it can also be seen as one of uncertainty.

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.

There will always be a need for professionals to work collaboratively if they are to provide the highest standard of care.

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.

A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health.

The study of psychology is a key part of nursing training.

In recent years, philosophical issues in nursing and health care have become more evident in the academic literature.

This impressive book brings together two major tenets of modern healthcare: person-centred care and interprofessional working, in order to utilise different perspectives on practice to identify the best treatment for the individual.

As changes in technology, policy and management put an increasing emphasis on processes and procedures in nursing and health care, how do we continue to make room for compassion, the ancient human value that calls most nurses to the profession?

Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed.

Now in its third edition, this core textbook offers a comprehensive framework for creating a culturally safe environment and enhancing health outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

Written specifically for students and practitioners in health and social care taking foundation degrees or further professional qualifications, this textbook offers a wealth of material on contexts, knowledge bases, skills and practices, as well as dealing with work carried out by those involved in treatment, therapy, advocacy and management.

This textbook provides a practice-focused case study based exploration of how the ideas of person-centeredness can be developed and incorporated in to everyday practice.

The foundation between midwife and mother is the foundation upon which maternity care depends.

Health care professionals need to make rapid decisions under pressure to prevent and manage adverse outcomes during childbirth.

With contributions from a range of leading international authors, this 'stop and make you think' book explores the many contemporary issues surrounding emotion work in reproductive healthcare.

This book introduces students and professionals, family and friends of people with eating disorders to the key concepts and skills that underpin a holistic and recovery orientated approach to the care of eating disorders.

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

This practice-based textbook explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that characterise the field of healthcare.

This indispensable textbook explores the ethics of issues from the interpersonal to the political.

This multi-disciplinary textbook provides a comprehensive guide for anyone working with people with learning disabilities.

Change happens constantly in healthcare contexts and professionals, whether newly qualified or managing staff, need to be ready to understand, adapt to, manage and implement change as necessary whilst continuing to work effectively in busy environments.

Professional Perspectives in Health Care covers a broad range of healthcare issues such as confidentiality, the patient as consumer and interprofessional working.

Leadership is liberating, and the development of leadership in health care organisations is vital.

Winner of the first prize in the Health and Social Care category at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2016.