Nursing

This comprehensive book organizes the components of quality and safety outcomes, within a framework developed by expert nurses.

The ability to prioritise long-term goals above short-term gratifications is crucial to living a healthy and happy life.

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.

Helping People Overcome Suicidal Thoughts, Urges and Behaviour draws together practical and effective approaches to help individuals at risk of suicide.

This new edition of the classic textbook on health informatics provides readers in healthcare practice and educational settings with an unparalleled depth of information on using informatics methods and tools.

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Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a comprehensive text for all practitioners who treat mental disorders with medication.

Motor Neurone Disease is one of the most difficult conditions to manage medically and socially.

An essential physiology and anatomy text, this book guides readers through the basic structure and functions of the body systems to more complex issues of clinical disorders and healthcare practice.

Praise for the Fifth Edition:"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is now a recognized major and international medical concern.

The leading figure in qualitative health research (QHR), Janice M.

Completely updated by vascular nurses for vascular nurses.

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

Aimed at students and practitioners involved in supporting such children, and designed to give them an insight into what it means to raise a child with such multiple needs.

Ambulatory care, the provision of health services on a day service basis, is a growth area.

This boundary-spanning textbook explores diverse ways that visual display can advance understanding of complex social phenomenon in applied fields in the social and human sciences.

The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing.

As the number of patients receiving home care nutrition support increases, proper assessment and management of this therapy is crucial, and clinicians need to practice at an advanced level.

If you or someone close to you is devoted to their church but still struggles to find meaning and passion in their faith; who loves their family, works hard, contributes to their community, but still feels life is somehow incomplete and hollow at the core; who is restless in spirit, with a nagging sense that there must be something more .

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.

Das Arbeitsbuch vermittelt die praktische Umsetzung der Basalen Stimulation anhand vieler eindrucksvoller Beispiele, Bilder und theoretischer Grundlagen.

This review manual prepares students to successfully pass the ANCC Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner board certification examination.

Effective Healthcare Leadership integrates theory and practice to distil the reality of healthcare leadership today.

This ground-breaking book combines research and practice in the rapidly growing field of Positive Psychology with the fastest-growing medical speciality of Lifestyle Medicine.

Praise for the Previous Edition:"e;This is a valuable resource for readers seeking basic to advanced information on measurement.

This straightforward guide to evidence-based practice helps you to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to challenge practice that is not underpinned by research and to increase your understanding of the processes involved in accessing, appraising, and synthesizing good quality research.

Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury: Dreamtalk tells the survival story of Sheena McDonald, who in 1999 was hit by a police van and suffered a very severe brain injury.

The importance of the community practice teacher is increasing with the expansion in primary care.

As more critically ill patients are cared for on acute general wards rather than in ICUs, many nurses are having to cope with the particular problems of very sick patients without the specialist knowledge of an ICU trained nurse.

Dave Evans makes a convincing case that practice learning occupies a central role in the education and training of the caring professions.

- New chapter: Assessing Risk- Loss and Grief chapter has a stronger focus on Trauma- Consistent structuring across disorders and medications- Increased content on ice, the therapeutic relationship, pain, the links between physical health and mental, childhood, additional/new cultural groups- Significantly more content on self-care and inter-professional practice highlighting the different roles involved.

In How to Run Reflective Practice Groups: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals, Arabella Kurtz explores the use of reflective practice in the modern healthcare context.

First published in 1995.

Cases and Stories of Transformative Action Research builds on its companion book, Principles and Methods of Transformative Action Research, by describing and analyzing dozens of examples of successful action research efforts pursued in the past five decades by students and faculty of the Western Institute for Social Research.

L'opera offre una panoramica multidisciplinare sulla voce.

For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little.

Depression in Girls and Women Across the Lifespan takes a broad biopsychosocial approach to understanding the onset and experience of depression in women.

This book explores how, why and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as a methodology in health and social research.

What emotional, physical, and psychological effects might there be on those who have experienced traumatic events?

A clear analysis of the design, potential uses and limitations of questionnaires in measuring health from the perspective of the patient.

International Encyclopaedia of Medicinal Plants is an amazing compendium consisting of a series of eighteen volumes, covering A to Z of medicinal plants.

Quality Caring in Nursing and Health Systems, Third Edition delivers a detailed framework of the Quality Caring Model(c), a theory that analyzes the relationships among the self, the community served, patients and families, and the health care team.

Now in its eighth edition, this highly acclaimed, newly revised and expanded text continues to deliver innovative practice guidelines for evidence-based complementary and alternative therapies that can easily be incorporated into curriculum and applied directly to practice.

Nga Kuaha: Voices and Visions in Maori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Maori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush.

This book presents a patient centric, holistic view and management strategy for registered nurses, advanced practice nurses and midwives to care for the pregnant female, including considerations in pregnancy planning.

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a recognised and validated means of providing expert communication and personal effectiveness in both life and work contexts.