This book addresses the practical management of mental health scenarios in the emergency setting and offers first-hand reflections on how emergency nurses, practitioners and allied mental health professionals handle these situations.
Dieses Buch fasst die Erfahrungen jahrelanger praktisch-klinischer Zusammenarbeit von Kolleginnen und Kollegen aller Fachbereiche rund um das Thema Tracheotomie und Tracheostomaversorgung zusammen.
Offering a comprehensive guide to contraception and sexual health, the new edition of this practical handbook has been fully updated with the latest clinical guidance, research and methods, including new technologies.
In "e;A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying"e; Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, a physician and a clinical psychologist with many years of experience, offer insights to help medical students, residents, physicians, nurses, and others become more aware of the different stages in the dying process and learn how to communicate more effectively with patients and their families.
This book provides the theoretical and practical basis of technical nursing in congenital heart disease; it is intended for nurses and nursing students, and for anyone involved in the treatment of these patients.
Copublished with the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) and International Society of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses (ISPN)This newly published second edition is the definitive book covering the essentials of psychiatric mental health (PMH) nursing applicable at all practice levels and settings.
Covering all the key aspects of anatomy and physiology that nursing students need to know, this book condenses vast amounts of scientific information into short, concise, and easily accessible chapters.
Exploring concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature and ethics of palliative care, this book will help those in the caring professions to understand and engage with the thoughts and arguments underpinning the experience of dementia and dementia care.
Die Pflegebranche in Deutschland ist im Umbruch – sie muss dem zunehmenden Fachkräftemangel etwas entgegensetzen und zugleich als eine der Zukunftsbranchen die Potenziale der Technisierung und Digitalisierung heben.
This book describes What Matters for Healthy Ageing largely from the point of view of the individual, considering not only the length of their life but also the quality of their life, their roles and identity and the things that make life worth living.
iThe authors have crafted a very user-friendly set of guidelines, identifying the steps in assessment of patients for risks, outlining the objectives for care from preconception through postpartum, and addressing care for pregnant HIV positive womenO[the book] includes avenues to electronic resources to assist them in accessing the newest information in ever-evolving and changing practice environments.
This sixth edition of the best-selling The Minor Illness Manual has been completely revised and updated to include the latest clinical guidance and prescribing information, with a reworked introductory chapter reflecting the changing demands of primary care and a new chapter added on COVID-19 and pandemics.
Thought as a primary reference on cutaneous ulcer management, written in a clear style by multidisciplinary experts and carefully edited and crafted, this volume covers of the complex topic of Wound Care, highlighting Pearls and Pitfalls in Skin Ulcer Management: from anatomy, epidemiology, pathogenesis and prevention, to diagnosis and selection of the best treatment options.
For more than 85 years health care professionals have ';referred to the Red Book' for trustworthy guidance on pediatric infectious disease prevention, management, and control.
This addition to the Fast Facts series provides a succinct guide for nurses in adult-health clinical settings and fills the need for an easy-to-use clinical reference that delivers a quick-access reference on ways to incorporate wellness into their work, helping to improve patient outcomes, and throughout their daily lives, helping to reduce personal and professional stress and improve their overall wellness.
First published in 1998, this unique, timely book applies sociological concepts and analysis to the study of organ transplantation and related medical phenomena.
A single-source reference on the most important and best-investigated Ayurvedic herbs This book examines the clinical information available on more than 60 Ayurvedic herbs to determine how their use in traditional Indian medicine is supported by modern scientific study.
Pflegepädagogen und Dozenten an Hochschulen und Ausbildungsstätten für Pflegeberufe finden hier konkrete Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten für die Umsetzung von Prüfungen nach der OSCE-Methode.
In recent years there has been a huge growth in nurse-led clinics within hospital outpatient departments, general practitioner surgeries and health centres.
This is an essential text for students at all levels studying social work, nursing and allied health and social care, focusing on the need for professional curiosity and partnership work in safeguarding adults.
Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle Erzieher, Pädagogen, Ergotherapeuten, Logopäden, Physiotherapeuten und Pflegende, die mit Kindern und Jugendlichen mit psychischen Störungen arbeiten.
Designed to help readers develop the practical skills needed to become effective public health practitioners, this concise text gives a highly accessible overview of the theory and practice of public health and health promotion.
From the founder of empowerment evaluation (EE), a framework uniquely suited to advancing social justice causes, this book explains the theories, principles, and steps of conducting EE from scratch or within a preexisting evaluation or work plan.
Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating medical, social and economic consequences.
