Surviving Domestic Abuse examines how formal and informal supports and services can mitigate the damaging, and sometimes fatal, social cost of domestic violence.
Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research.
A manual to providing nursing care during the functional decline of Alzheimer's patients, emphasizing how to evaluate the patients' competence at each stage and allow them to take as much care of themselves as possible.
Now in its second decade of publication, this landmark series draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.
Psychiatric and Mental Health Essentials in Primary Care addresses key mental health concepts and strategies for time-pressured practitioners in various healthcare settings serving diverse populations.
This book focuses on young people (12-25 years old) growing up with a chronic somatic condition and/or physical disability, facing different challenges during their transition to adulthood and to adult healthcare services.
Responding to both the increase of mixed methods research (MMR) and the lack of dialogue about its philosophical and methodological practices in comparative and international education (CIE) Reflexive Mixed Methods Research in Comparative and International Education: Context, Complexity, and Transdisciplinarity offers readers an overview of different philosophical approaches to mixed methods, as well as the practical processes to engage in MMR with reflexivity.
The new edition of Study Skills for Nurses will help you develop the skills and techniques you need for stress-free studying throughout your nursing training.
This book shines a light on the way in which risk - in and beyond childbirth - is highly contextual, and the way in which risk-management strategies can be understood as socially and materially constructed.
"e;[This book] will change how you practice, how you think about health care and your contributions as a nurse, and it will better prepare you to thrive and advance in the future"e;-Peter I.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) have emerged as a major phenomenon within the education, health, criminal justice and social care systems of many countries, with current prevalence figures suggesting that one in a hundred children and young people have FASDs.
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.
Transformative Learning Theory offers a uniquely inclusive methodology across all levels of nursing education for educators and students focused on common nursing arenas and situations.
Describes a highly effective alternative health care paradigm Two distinguished leaders in (nurse-)midwifery provide a comprehensive examination of an effective, well-known model of perinatal care associated with improved health outcomes and reduced costs.
*Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*The simple sensation of touching someone's hand can have a powerful therapeutic effect.
This innovative workbook enables students and those working in health and social care to deepen their understanding of the values that underpin their practice.
**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Perinatal**Ensure you're referencing the most accurate information surrounding nursing practice in today's neonatal intensive care unit with AWHONN's Core Curriculum for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, 6th Edition.
"e;Nurse Educators can no longer be just experts in their specific fields; they need to be able to teach a variety of students in a variety of settings.
Presenting the most up-to-date information available about dementia and intellectual disabilities, this book brings together the latest international research and evidence-based practice, and describes clearly the relevance and implications for support and services Internationally renowned experts from the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands discuss good practice and the way forward in relation to assessment, diagnosis, interventions, staff knowledge and training, care pathways, service design, measuring outcomes and the experiences of individuals, families and carers.
This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber's thought on 'the iron cage' to understand how these cases of patient-neglect in NHS hospitals and failures by police and social workers to address the organised sexual exploitation of young girls occurred.
Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle Erzieher, Pädagogen, Ergotherapeuten, Logopäden, Physiotherapeuten und Pflegende, die mit Kindern und Jugendlichen mit psychischen Störungen arbeiten.
Mit erfolgreichem Qualifikationsmix (Skill-Grade-Mix) zu einer neuen Teamkultur und modernisierten Arbeitsmodellen Qualifizierte und gute besetzte Pflegeteams verbessern die Qualität der Gesundheitsversorgung und sorgen für die Sicherheit der Patient_innen.
Based on information gathered from the internationally used Spiritual Needs Questionnaire, this book offers analyses of the spiritual and existential needs among different groups of people such as the chronically ill, elderly, adolescents, mothers of sick children, refugees, patients' relatives, and others.
This book supports and develops the communication and interviewing skills of professional practitioners and student practitioners in social work, counselling, and the health professions.
Awarded second place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Palliative Care and Hospice category"e;This book provides many options for pain management in cancer patients, including pharmacological and nonpharmacological options,.
The aim of this book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) textbook series and designed by the NEXT Committee of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, is to provide the readers with a unique review of the main syndromes in Intensive Care Medicine by means of a collection of clinical cases.
In diesem Lehrbuch erhalten Studierende von gesundheitsbezogenen Studiengängen einen umfassenden Überblick über die verschiedenen Forschungsmethoden in den Gesundheitswissenschaften.
Children and Young People s Nursing at a Glance, is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration children s nursing students from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series.
