Doing Clinical Healthcare Research: A Survival Guide will help students, academics and healthcare staff identify and overcome organisational barriers to conducting research in busy clinical environments and show how research should be project managed in order to guarantee successful outcomes for all involved.
In Reducing Stress-Related Behaviours in people with Dementia, Chris Bonner has written a thoroughly entertaining, yet highly instructive, manual for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
Dispelling the myths about how personalisation works for people with dementia living in care homes, this book demonstrates how to introduce Individual Service Funds (ISFs), what works and what doesn't, and how to deal with difficulties and setbacks.
People with dementia need increasingly specialised support as they approach the end of life, and so too do their families and the professionals working with them.
Focusing on theoretical, policy and practice issues which are predicted to become fundamental priorities in the near future, the contributors to this important book examine how dementia care works around the globe.
Personalisation builds on person-centred care to focus on how people with dementia can have more choice and control over decisions affecting them, and be supported to be part of their communities.
Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements.
The experiences and needs of residents and patients in nursing and care homes are very different at night, and this is particularly true for those with dementia.
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.
People with learning disabilities are at greater risk of physical and psychiatric illness than the population at large, but their health needs are often not adequately supported.
In recent years, the human values at the heart of the nursing profession seem to have become side-lined by an increased focus on managerialist approaches to health care provision.
As the momentum for personalisation and recovery approaches grows, service users are increasingly participating as partners in all aspects of health and social care delivery, policy-making and professional training.
Group homes are the dominant form of residential accommodation for people with severe learning or intellectual disabilities, and yet there are significant problems within these living environments.
Living with a chronic illness can have a significant psychological impact on a child and his or her family, and it is essential that this aspect of their care is not overlooked.
*Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*A near-death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon whereby powerful physical and emotional sensations and visions are experienced by someone who is either close to death or has been declared clinically dead.
Children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems who are referred to mental health services for assessment often have undiagnosed mild learning disabilities, and this guide is written for clinicians involved in making such assessments.
Neglect is the most common form of child abuse, but recognizing the signs, assessing the family's and the child's needs, and undertaking intervention can be difficult and complicated.
Focusing on theoretical, policy and practice issues which are predicted to become fundamental priorities in the near future, the contributors to this important book examine how dementia care works around the globe.
People with dementia need increasingly specialised support as they approach the end of life, and so too do their families and the professionals working with them.
Written by highly experienced researchers and authors, this practical workbook demystifies the research process for nursing students and practitioners.
As nurses become responsible for increasingly technical service delivery, has the profession lost its focus on the emotional and human aspects of the role?
Written specifically for students and practitioners in health and social care taking foundation degrees or further professional qualifications, this textbook offers a wealth of material on contexts, knowledge bases, skills and practices, as well as dealing with work carried out by those involved in treatment, therapy, advocacy and management.
The experiences and needs of residents and patients in nursing and care homes are very different at night, and this is particularly true for those with dementia.
Die Pflegeplanung gehört zu den zentralen Aufgaben von Pflegefachkräften und ist gesetzlich im Pflegeberufegesetz sowie in der Ausbildungs- und Prüfungsverordnung für die Pflegeberufe verankert.
Mitarbeiterbindung in der Pflege: Wege, die das "Bleiben" fördernWas hält Menschen in der Pflege – einem Berufsfeld zwischen Fürsorge, Fachlichkeit und hoher Belastung?
Mitarbeiterbindung in der Pflege: Wege, die das "Bleiben" fördernWas hält Menschen in der Pflege – einem Berufsfeld zwischen Fürsorge, Fachlichkeit und hoher Belastung?
