Nursing

Second edition of a popular book that helps students to develop their communication and interpersonal skills.

A handy pocket guide to help mental health student nurses prepare for their practice placements.

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to help student nurses make the most of their community nursing placements.

An accessible textbook to help students develop their study skills.

How to Prepare for Interviews and Develop Your Career is packed with practical advice and guidance to help nurses and midwives fulfil their career aspirations.

Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application.

A handy pocket guide to help learning disability student nurses prepare for their practice placements.

A Handbook for Student Nurses is widely recommended in institutions across the UK and is essential reading for new student nurses.

Study Skills for Master's Level Students will help students to develop the skills they need to make the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate thinking, researching and writing.

Emerging and experienced health services managers can hone their skills with these challenges and in-depth case studies.

Communication Skills is an accessible textbook for nursing and healthcare students seeking to understand the concept of communication and to develop their communication skills.

628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributors

Violence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence.

This is the only handbook for hospice and palliative care professionals looking to enhance their care delivery or their programs with LGBTQ-inclusive care.

"e;With a technique that is easy for anybody to learn and with the potential to achieve amazing outcomes, this is one of the most powerful books ever written to help people living with dementia to do so with dignity, respect, and independence.

A pocket-sized guide to help nursing students prepare for their critical care placement.

This book focuses on hot issues faced by clinicians in everyday clinical practice, and provides in-depth analyses of both met and unmet needs in the management of psychiatric disorders.

This book provides an overview of the field of pain genomics and the genomics of related, or co-occuring, symptoms, the current state-of-the-science, and challenges that remain.

This book considers the practical management of sudden death and offers first-hand reflections of how emergency physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals cope.

This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia.

This textbook provides a structured, informed approach to the understanding and appreciation of drug action and effect providing a detailed description and discussion of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics for nurses.

This book focuses on those nursing skills that are truly valued and needed by children and young people with mental health problems.

This book provides valuable insight into emerging trends in healthcare delivery; patient, family and caregiver engagement and the intersection of the two.

This book provides an insight into advances in elder abuse in the areas of research, policy, practice and legislation.

Literature and Medicine: A Practical and Pedagogical Guide is designed to introduce narrative medicine in medical humanities courses aimed at pre-medicine undergraduates and medical and healthcare students.

The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics.

This book provides a comprehensive and practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with arthritis and other rheumatological conditions.

Providing core information on pediatric surgery, this book serves as a supplement to standard pediatric surgical textbooks.

This book provides an evidence-based, practical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the most frequent fungal infections in a general hospital.

This textbook describes what nurses need to know about pediatric disaster nursing, including public policy, and addresses preparedness for all types of disasters (natural and man-made) and strategies for hospital, school and community preparedness.

This book offers a guide to better understanding models of workplace mental health, as well as best practices for mental health professionals, employee assistance groups, employers and employees alike.

The book presents five significant areas of learning within professional programmes of preparation most applicable to student nurses and midwives in their pre-registration education but also with relevance to other learners on healthcare related disciplines.

This book provides guidance to readers for how to conduct an integrative review.

This textbook is the new edition of Purnell's famous Transcultural Health Care, based on the Purnell twelve-step model and theory of cultural competence.

The increase in average life expectancy observed over recent decades has brought new challenges to nephrology practice.

This contributed book is the first to focus on the Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision (CLES) framework.

This book explores the unique aspects involved in the management of ECMO patients such as physiopathology and indications, setting up the device, monitoring ECMO and the patient, troubleshooting, ethical aspects and rehabilitation.

The entire world is in crisis with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other lifetime trauma at an all-time high.

This book is concerned with the complexities of achieving quality in care transitions.

This book offers a pragmatic approach to day-to-day metabolic and nutritional care based on physiological considerations.

This book, written by experts on gastroenterology and digestive surgery, provides comprehensive and detailed descriptions of all established and newly developed interventional endoscopic procedures.

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 develops on substance use disorder in healthcare workers, a topic not often discussed.

This book describes theory and techniques of empathic communication, normalization and de-escalation procedures for the management of aggressive or violent patients in clinical critical settings'.

This book represents a simple, practical resource for all healthcare professionals working with dermatological patients with psychological aspects to their disease.

This volume serves as a practical guide for the primary care provider to better understand the clinical history, clinical examination, and accurate management of ENT disease.

This textbook provides a one-stop reference resource and guide for nurses interested in advancing their careers.

This short practical text uses a coaching approach to develop the reader's interview skills.

This book addresses the current understanding of the diagnosis and management of biliary disease across all ages, with emphasis on how the latest advances in clinical science may be integrated into current and future therapies.

This textbook aims to provide the reader with knowledge and skills on rare sexual medicine conditions.

This textbook is a practical, user-friendly and essential guide for doctoral students, their supervisors and advisors and administrators of doctoral programs in nursing and health sciences.