Nursing

Primary Care Nursing Series.

This fourth edition of How Drugs Work equips readers with a set of clear concepts for matching the pharmacology to the diagnosis, and has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest knowledge and terminology.

The NHS and independent healthcare sectors increasingly depend on the contributions of the migrant workforce to make up for serious shortfalls in staff numbers.

This is a remarkable book.

This no-nonsense guide promotes a multidisciplinary approach to pain management in adolescent patients, acknowledging persistent pain is a complex biopsychosocial problem.

This work includes a Foreword by Jonathan Silverman, Associate Clinical Dean and Director of Communication Studies, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

This work includes a foreword by Carl Thompson, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York.

In this extraordinary book, Iona Heath draws on her experience as a general practitioner to select and comment on a collection of passages concerning death and dying, and to consider the essential nature of general practice.

This indispensable toolkit is full of practical hints and tips to enhance and develop the role of nursing in general practice.

'The study of disease and its treatment is a life-long intellectual journey which has engaged some of humankind's finest minds and kindest hearts.

Understanding practical pharmaceutical calculations is essential for healthcare professionals.

Many healthcare professionals that I've encountered refer to a patient's cancer journey; indeed I had an article published describing a patient's journey through biological therapy.

This is a unique resource to improve this difficult and highly sensitive area of communication, ideal for both individual use and by groups or in teaching.

Veronica Burton's first experience of depression came as a teenager.

Five percent of all accident and emergency admissions are caused by prescribed medicines.

Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by professionals who work across disciplines to meet the needs of parents and children experiencing complex difficulties.

'This book effectively bridges the gap between dietitian, doctor, nurse and pharmacist and there is much in it to educate even the more experienced practitioner.

This is an updated guide to the range of drugs commonly unused in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

This text consists of eleven chapters concisely summarizing general adult psychiatry in the form of notes.

This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people.

This comprehensive resource book, the key text for the Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Programme, supports and enables all primary health professionals, and all those involved in palliative care, to make improvements in care provided for their patients, as recommended in the NICE guidance on Supportive and Palliative Care.

Complexity theory is a collection of concepts ideas and perspectives developed largely in fields outside medicine.

This book is intended for all those who not only have to give bad news but who are also keen to give as much help and support as possible to partners and families - both immediately and during remission relapse terminal illness dying or grieving.

This book offers an extensive range of ideas and practical developing service users' creativity including songmaking, drama, dance, creative writing, music, video and visual arts.

The second edition of this highly successful text has been greatly expanded and updated, and is now available in two companion volumes.

Beyond Self-Care for Helping Professionals is an innovative guide to professional self-care focused not just on avoiding the consequences of failing to take care of oneself, but on optimal health and positive psychology.

Beyond Self-Care for Helping Professionals is an innovative guide to professional self-care focused not just on avoiding the consequences of failing to take care of oneself, but on optimal health and positive psychology.

Whether you are looking to interpret and evaluate existing health research, or conduct your own, this book discusses every step of the research process, from theory and ethics to data collection, analysis and dissemination.

The highly respected DIVERSIFIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is now DHO HEALTH SCIENCE UPDATED.

Designed for tomorrow's health care and nursing professionals, MICROBIOLOGY: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS AND INFECTION PREVENTION, 1st Edition provides you with an overview of medical microbiology while emphasizing practical applications in clinical and care settings.

HOMEMAKER HOME HEALTH AIDE, 7th Edition helps you prepare for a meaningful career in the growing field of home health.

This contemporary, comprehensive, and practical text helps you discover and determine your own guidelines for helping within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions.

For courses in thefundamentals of nursing.

For over 30 years, International Trauma Life Support forEmergency Care Providers has been at the forefront of traumaeducation for all levels of prehospital emergency care worldwide.

For courses on high-acuity nursing intended to serve undergraduate nursing students, novice nurses, novice critical-care nurses, and home-health nurses.

The second edition of Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing, uses a conversational style to teach students how to use statistical methods and procedures to analyse research findings.

Tons of HESI A2 practice in an easy-to-use format-now featuring a 20-question Diagnostic QuizPractice makes perfect, and with 500 HESI A2 Questions to Know by Test Day, Second Edition, you ll get a ton of practice with hundreds of questions, a comprehensive answer key, and a 20-question Diagnostic Quiz to help you track your progress.