As nursing practice necessarily becomes increasingly research-based, it is important that professionals keep up-to-date with current research initiatives and with their implications.
There is now considerable anxiety amongst nurses and allied health professionals as to how they should negotiate the potential minefield of legal niceties, professional dictates and diminishing resources in today's health service.
Written by a nurse, a social worker and a clinical psychologist, this book focuses on interprofessional working at the level of patient or client care.
This collection originated from a conference at Templeton College, Oxford by leading practitioners and researchers and has been revised, updated and edited for publication.
This latest volume in the immensely popular Midwifery Practice Series deals with a further set of important issues, this time drawn from all three stages of care during pregnancy.
This book provides all those concerned with the delivery of care and services to people with a learning difficulty with an up-to-date overview of recent development in the area.
Dramatic reforms in the NHS and the social services in the 1980s and 1990s have highlighted the need for close co-operation between professional groups.
This fifth volume in the immensely popular series introduces new topics of Midwifery Practice and revisits some topics already discussed in previous volumes.
The importance of epidemiology is being increasingly realised by healthcare practitioners who, traditionally, have focused their attention on the individual rather than populations.
This book represents a new development in the discussion of community care policies with its integrated approach addressed to both community nurses and social workers.
Applying sociological theories to midwifery practice, this clear and accessible book offers a broad review of relevant social policies and their philosophy and effects especially on child-bearing women, as well as exploring the social meaning of concepts such as motherhood, fatherhood, professionalisation and the role of the state.
This stimulating and original study is written for nurses, midwives, health visitors and others, such as teachers, social workers and managers engaged in 'caring'.
An outline of some of the most commonly used methods for assuring the quality of care and their advantages and disadvantages aimed at assisting the charge nurse or ward sister choose the most appropriate measuring tool for his or her clinical area.
The delivery of modern nursing care is essentially a team effort, that is a team whose individuals co-operate with one another to achieve high standards.
The second edition of this popular nursing text now includes a fuller description of nursing models and their application with special reference to care of the anxious patient.
In the second edition of this most successful nursing text, the authors have concentrated on developing the nursing model of care, especially in relation to a patient's specific needs.
The change in title of this the first book in the Series emphasises that this is the foundation forming the link with all the texts in the Series - including the new book Mental Handicap.
In line with the recommendations of Project 2000 and the 1982 RMN syllabus this is an important new book which takes a fresh look at the requirements of trainee psychiatric nurses and their teachers.
Providing a solid foundation, NUTRITION & DIET THERAPY, 12E delivers a completely up-to-date introduction to the essentials of nutrition concepts, good health, and client care.
Extremely student friendly, GRAMMAR & WRITING SKILLS FOR THE HEALTH PROFESSIONAL, 3e, focuses on the fundamentals of grammar and writing to help you develop the skills to communicate clearly and effectively in real-world practice.
