Nursing

Maria Anderson trained as an NHS nurse and went on to become a midwife, a job she has adored for over twenty years.

Joan Woodcock always dreamed of becoming a nurse.

Joan Woodcock always dreamed of becoming a nurse.

Sterben gehört zum Leben.

Menschen mit komplexen, vielschichtigen Gesundheits-bedürfnissen zu versorgen ist alltägliche pflegerische Aufgabe und Praxis.

At some time, most families will need to provide home care for an aging family member who is ill or disabled.

The NMC have produced standards of proficiency for pre registration midwifery education and those standards have been written in an academic language, for higher education institutions.

The first reference of its kind, An Evidence Base for Ophthalmic Nursing Practice alleviates the need for every ophthalmic practice area to develop diverse, often contradictory, guidelines.

Coeliac Disease: Nursing Care and Management provides nurses with the knowledge and evidence base to understand the impact of the diagnosis of Coeliac disease, and examine the long term treatment and management of the condition.

This is a comprehensive guide to cervical cancer for nurses.

Insulin pump therapy is now a well-established option for treating diabetes.

Understanding Children and Young People's Mental Health has been designed to help the student and newly qualified health care professional to familiarise themselves with the key theoretical frameworks underpinning the field of children and young people's mental health.

A new era of opportunity is emerging for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to increasingly address gaps in access to quality healthcare.

A new era of opportunity is emerging for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to increasingly address gaps in access to quality healthcare.

Pediatric respiratory disorders are responsible for a number of acute and chronic health conditions and are a leading cause of pediatric emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

Pediatric respiratory disorders are responsible for a number of acute and chronic health conditions and are a leading cause of pediatric emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

Cardiac Arrhythmia Management: A Practical Guide for Nurses and Allied Professionals provides a much-needed resource for nurses and other professionals who work directly with patients being treated for cardiac arrhythmias.

Cardiac Arrhythmia Management: A Practical Guide for Nurses and Allied Professionals provides a much-needed resource for nurses and other professionals who work directly with patients being treated for cardiac arrhythmias.

Nurse-led intervention research is a core component of the global initiative to improve quality of care.

Nurse-led intervention research is a core component of the global initiative to improve quality of care.

Winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year 2011 (Category: Maternal And Child Health) Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood.

Winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year 2011 (Category: Maternal And Child Health) Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood.

This is a scholarly exploration of the subject of spirituality and health and is relevant to all health care practitioners and those who support them.

Learning disabilities and mental health: a nursing perspective provides an evidence-based perspective on care of individuals with learning disabilities and mental health problems.

There have been major advances in practice nursing in recent years, and a rapid expansion in the role of the practice nurse.

Dementia care: a practical photographic guide is a unique illustrated guide to caring for people with dementia in care homes.

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

Intermediate care comprises strategies which allow early discharge from acute care, prevent admission or re-admission to acute care and avoid bed-blocking in both acute and long-term residential care.

Dual Diagnosis Nursing The increasing number of individuals with co-existing substance misuse and psychiatric disorders presents a key challenge to mental health and addiction nurses.

Accountability is a key concern for nurses and midwives in the NHS today.

Cardiothoracic nursing has undergone great change over the last decade.

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Field of Knowledge provides an analytical and critical introduction to the current state of knowledge in psychiatric and mental health nursing in the UK.

This very basic textbook aims to provide nursing students with the essential bioscience they will need to complete their Common Foundation Programme.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of issues and concerns related to sexuality and health care.

As the extent of mental illness in the population becomes clear, so the provision of care becomes one of the major tasks facing healthcare teams.

Providing Support at Home for Children and Young People who have Complex Health Needs discusses elements of providing support in the home, which influence the quality of provision.

Over 99% of the world's population is infected with at least one potentially cancer-causing organism.

Heart failure is a condition that often results in chronic tiredness and shortness of breath.

The evolution of day surgery has heralded a new era of medical, anaesthetic and nursing knowledge, skills and practice.

Perinatal Mental Health is an invaluable reference for nurses, midwives and other health professionals working with this client group, covering current thinking on the causes of mothers mood disorders and the consequences for her infant, the family, society and most importantly the mother herself.

Caring for older people encompasses complex physical, social and psychological needs, and poses many diverse challenges for nurses.

This practical and timely book gives all the information required to implement care pathways for continence so that patients at all levels can have access to evidence based support and advice.

Depression Care across the Lifespan is a comprehensive, practical text that aims to increase knowledge and understanding of depression enabling professionals to enhance the care delivered to patients with depression.

This resource offers an overview of the rare genetic disease SCID, and how families affected by it cope.

This book is written to give healthcare professionals a comprehensive, understandable and practical text on which to base their care to patients with diabetes whilst in hospital.

This level of nurse works largely independently and their work is managed rather than supervised.

Nurses are increasingly being asked to provide information when a genetic diagnosis is made, whether to the individual patient or to members of his or her family.

This book provides the reader with all of the background information necessary to enhance their understanding of the rationale behind the basic principles of infection control and how to apply them in every day situations; how specific bacteria interact with the host and cause infection; the background to each of the bacteria/infections described within the text, and, evidence based recommendations on the infection control management of these.

Stoma Care is a comprehensive and authoritative guide for all nurses and health care professionals with an interest in bowel conditions that may lead to stoma formation.

"e;It s not every day that one picks up a textbook that can claim to occupy a unique niche, given the multitude of scientific textbooks that are vying for a medical readership.