Nursing

Combining a theoretical approach with practical activities, this book is invaluable for nursing and midwifery students and will help them to master the basics of writing at university.

Today's world is complex and getting more so each day.

Suicide and self-harm are world-wide public health issues that can have devastating effects on families, friends and communities.

If you are looking for an incisive overview of current thinking and practice in the field of learning disabilities, then this is the book for you.

How do we learn from service user perspectives?

In health and social care settings, it's important to remember that not everyone uses words to communicate.

Nurses in all areas of clinical practice must be able to recognise, assess and manage changes to a patient's condition.

Compassion has become a prominent issue in health policy and practice and the recommendations of the Francis Report and the Berwick Review emphasised the need for compassion in care.

This practical guide focuses on the reduced expression and activity often described as constituting negative symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia.

This textbook provides a practice-focused case study based exploration of how the ideas of person-centeredness can be developed and incorporated in to everyday practice.

This ground-breaking text book introduces the theoretical underpinnings and practical considerations of the growing area reablement.

This book constitutes an excellent source of information for gaining a better understanding of information technologies in healthcare; for reviewing how healthcare will change as a consequence; and how to manage these changes in order to realise eHealth's full potential in creating value for patients, professionals and the system as a whole.

Forces such as political conflict, globalisation and the growth of the internet, offering news of life elsewhere, mean levels of migration are higher now than at any other time in history.

Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and clinically the use of terminal sedation as efficacious treatment.

The findings of key reports highlight the need to raise awareness of the failures in health and social care systems to safeguard vulnerable older people.

To meet the care needs of today's diverse patient community, healthcare professionals must learn to care in environments comprising different worldviews, communication styles and expectations.

Gaining a first job as a nurse or midwife is becoming not only highly competitive but an increasingly more complex process.

This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer.

Want a sophisticated, witty and engaging introduction to the nursing profession?

In the UK it is estimated that a third of patients in mental health services have a substance abuse problem, and that half of patients in drug and alcohol services have a mental health problem.

This new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health.

How can we make health care processes safer and more consistent?

This book extends the critical scope of the previous volume, De-Medicalizing Misery, into a wider social and political context, developing the critique of the psychiatrization of Western society.

Highlighting examples of positive, evidence based practice throughout, this book explores working with people with learning disabilities at all life stages.

This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide.

This is the first manifesto for Health Humanities worldwide.

A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health.

This authoritative collection is the first wide-ranging overview dedicated to traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) and its scientific study.

How do you juggle the many responsibilities of the mentoring role with your own workload?

Supported by a companion skills volume and website, Foundation Studies for Caring is a comprehensive introductory text for all health professionals, which maps directly on to the key skills framework.

As a trainee healthcare professional, you need a reliable skills manual which will help you understand and apply the procedures covered on your course.

Broadened to include coverage of community settings, and updated to address changes in practice, Pain 2/e is a solid introduction to the subject.

At a time when service users' perspectives are increasingly recognized in healthcare, this seminal book highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness.

This accessible and clearly structured book, written by experienced researchers and practitioners, provides a one-stop introduction to the most common qualitative, quantitative and desk-based research designs and methods in health and social care.

Care giving has become a high-profile issue in policy and practice, yet much of the literature conceives it as burdensome or even oppressive.

Read this book to gain an understanding of the knowledge, values and skills required for effective practice in the field of intellectual disability and the opportunities which this work offers for multidisciplinary collaboration for social change.

Being self-aware is particularly important for healthcare professionals who need to manage their cognitive, affective and behavioural self in order to engage effectively in therapeutic relationships.

This is the updated version of the hugely popular Applied Microbiology for Nurses, providing essential information about how infection occurs, methods to prevent it and the precautions required to contain it.

The definitive book on family centred care for health professionals, this popular text has been thoroughly revised in line with contemporary health policy.

Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing.

This ground-breaking and accessible book is the ideal resource for trainee and qualified mental health nurses looking for a guide to the main psychological therapies and interventions available in practice.

"e;A really positive and timely text, which contributes to the evidence base and prepares and supports the health and social care student for the challenges of the modern workplace.

The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global 'state of the art' overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice.

Basics der Hämatologie und Onkologie für medizinische Fachangestellte und PflegeberufeDas Praxisbuch bietet medizinisch-pflegerischen Fachper-sonen in Onkologie und Hämatologie eine fundierte Einführung in den Arbeitsalltag.

Kommunikation und Interaktion gehören zu den zentralen Kompetenzen, die es in der Pflegeausbildung zu erwerben und in der Praxis anzuwenden gilt.

A nursing diagnosis is defined as a clinical judgment about individual, family or community responses to actual or potential health problems or life processes which provide the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse has accountability (NANDA-I, 2009).

Anne s contribution to our understanding of the needs of young people with cancer has been unparalleled and without her extraordinary insights our services would be that much poorer.

Anne s contribution to our understanding of the needs of young people with cancer has been unparalleled and without her extraordinary insights our services would be that much poorer.

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

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.