Nursing

'This book is a tribute to expert nursing.

This book explores the Care Trust concept promoted by central government for improving partnership working between health and social care.

Health resources are becoming increasingly constrained.

This book provides the best information available on the ways priorities are currently set for health care around the world.

This work includes a foreword by Elizabeth Rogerson.

Short Bowel Syndrome: Practical Approach to Management is the first reference exclusively about the issues experienced by patients with a short bowel.

Even after years of training and hard work, finding yourself on the threshold of your nursing career is often a daunting prospect.

'Compassion, in its many manifestations, is the key to rediscovering what lies at the heart of nursing practice all over the world.

The death of a child - whether during or following birth, through illness, through accident, or through suicide - is one of the greatest challenges families, carers, friends, and the health and social care professionals who support them can face.

The burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is enormous and is increasing, but early, accurate diagnosis in a primary care setting can have a crucial impact on managing the condition.

Practical Management of Dementia, Second Edition remains a comprehensive guide to identifying the challenges faced in caring for patients with dementia.

Succinct and highly illustrated, the third edition of this handy pocket guide enables practitioners to successfully manage common minor injuries in children at the point of care.

This text examines the potential of nurses to provide a first-point-of-contact consultation service as an alternative to going to see the doctor.

Education of healthcare professionals is the cornerstone of specialist palliative services.

Primary Care Nursing Series.

Gynaecological cancers represent the second most common group of cancers and the most common cause of cancer death in woman, but the needs of women with gynaecological cancer are frequently unrecognised and often neglected.

Interpreting the fluid requirements of a patient and working out what to do next can seem like a daunting task for the non-specialist, yet it is a skill that any doctor, nurse or paramedic needs to be fully appraised of and comfortable with.

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 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.

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

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.

Doctors, midwives and other professionals entering the field of postnatal care frequently feel ill-prepared for the task, and a lack of accessible and relevant learning resources can leave learning on the job as the only realistic option.

'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.

The growth in chemotherapy has led to a great need for all those involved to be familiar with safe procedures based on best evidence-based practice.

The quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives.

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 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 unique, concise ready reference for daily use collates for the first time the most useful, practical and simple assessment scales used in geriatric settings.

Feeding problems in children are relatively common, and often resolve themselves with little need for intervention.

This comprehensive book gives an up-to-date profile of all aspects of the care of older people in the community, with particular emphasis on the importance of maintaining function and independence as well as health.

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.

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.

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 in Computer Programming with Python.

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