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Contributors address aspects of presidential leadership in essays on how presidential values are determined or constructed, how they are condoned and criticized, how they are packaged and conveyed, and how they are interpreted and acted upon.

The author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side.

The author of this book believes passionately in the National Health Service and through his work offers the government recommendations for how its reform process can be saved from failure.

This book provides unique and powerful insights into what it takes to succeed as a chairman leading a modern organization.

This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse.

The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine.

Situating public health within its social, environmental and political context, this book looks to the future through a realistic analysis of policy frameworks, effective interventions and robust measurement and evaluation.

This book looks at the role nurses play when working with people who have dementia and their relatives.

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

Introduces up and coming leaders to the skills and techniques needed to succeed in todays, and tomorrows, organizations.

Despite the familiarity of hope in human experience, it is a phenomenon infrequently considered from a philosophical point of view.

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

This book brings together a variety of the best papers from an international research symposium on organisational behaviour in 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.

Die Entwickler von MH-Kinaesthetics, Lenny Maietta und Frank Hatch, beschreiben anschaulich, wie kindliche Bewegungsfähigkeiten entstehen, was ihre Entwicklung beeinflusst, wie Gesundheit, Entwicklung und Lernen zusammenhängen und wie ein Kinaesthetics-Infant-Handling-Programm praktisch umgesetzt werden kann.

This book uses the case of the National Health Service to examine the management of ambiguity and change.

This textbook takes a unique approach by linking the elements of anatomy and physiology (A&P) with everyday activities we all do without thinking, the 'Activities of Daily Living' such as breathing or eating, in order to explain biological systems and making complex ideas and biological processes easier to understand and relate to practice.

A comprehensive introduction that provides essential information and advice on study skills, research and careers for students of Health Studies.

A practical introduction to the use of the arts in dementia care.

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users.

This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary cultures of consumption.

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s.

In diesem sehr persönlich gehaltenen E-Book nimmt die GenerationenBeraterin, Psychologische Beraterin und Heilpraktikerin Kirsten Schade Euch mit auf ihre Reise mit einem Lymphödem.

This book provides a collection of original essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics research.

This book is about the "e;leadership illusion"e;; the habit of writers, researchers and leaders, when considering causes of success or failure, to focus mainly on the individual and often the context but rarely both.

This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.

Many business leaders do not take care of their health.

Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the internet, and reveals concerns that sexually transmitted infections and HIV are associated with such technologies.

Globalization is reshaping the field of health promotion practice.

This text offers a contemporary insight into non-medical prescribing initiatives in everyday situations, covering the latest phase in this ever-evolving field of professional practice.

This practice-focused new edition of Clinical Supervision has been brought into the Essentials of Nursing Management series.

This is a unique exploration of the nature of health, and the various ways in which it can be understood and interpreted.

This book proposes a 'strong' (action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making within contemporary nursing practice.

This comprehensive text provides a systematic explanation of major conditions such as cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke and hypertension.

How do we know we are ill?

Successful Statistics For Nursing and Healthcare helps students to gain an understanding of statistical methods within the evidence-based health care context.

Risk and Nursing Practice introduces the reader to a range of sociological theory that has arisen about the 'risk society'.

Principles of Professional Studies in Nursing supports readers as they work towards becoming professional nurses.

An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II.

Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient.

A practical guide to the management of various clinical issues seen in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD), this text emphasizes the need for coordinated care between the various professionals, as well as between professionals and caregivers.

This revised and updated Atlas provides a comprehensive guide to modern contraceptive practice.

Problems in early pregnancy are among the most common conditions in gynecology and - with management becoming less invasive and depending more on accurate ultrasound and a good understanding of serum biochemistry - many countries now recommend that all maternity units have an early pregnancy section dedicated to managing these conditions.

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally.

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally.

A Practical Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology focuses on the skills required in testing and treating the older adult population.

A Practical Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology focuses on the skills required in testing and treating the older adult population.

Pre- and post-operative care of transplant patients is an aspect of Critical Care Medicine in which most ICU physicians and nurses have received little or no formal training and are left to cope with this complex population with only incomplete "e;on the job experience"e; as a guide.

Critical care happens where it is needed, not just in the ICU.

The chapters in Patient Care and Professionalism are ordered so that the main character in this book, the patient, has the first voice, followed by the ancient history of professionalism, the recent resurrection of professionalism in the United Kingdom (UK), and finally professionalism in the United States (US).