Nursing

This book is a practical guide, with rationale to supporting people with epilepsy.

This book provides basic knowledge and skills for non-dental healthcare practitioners, helping them recognize the importance of oral health, perform initial oral health assessments, consult dentists when necessary, and offer preventive advice and counseling.

This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia.

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.

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 volume is a practical resource for all those responsible for caring for older people across health and social care.

This book provides a holistic and multi professional approach to maximising the chances of a successful recovery for the ICU patient surviving a period of critical illness.

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

This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive guide to the dermatologic disorders that may be encountered in refugees and other migrants.

Addiction is increasingly being recognized as a major global public health issue, and an ever-growing number of medical specialties, psychological and social science training programs, and professional associations are including addiction as part of their training and continuing education curricula.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of our current understanding of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

This book aims to clarify the potential association between frailty and cardiovascular disease in older people.

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 textbook details the nursing care of babies with life limiting conditions and sets the context within the philosophy of internationally collaborative neonatal palliative care emphasising emotional and practical support for their families.

Endorsed by the Association of Radiologic and Imaging Nursing (ARIN), this first of a kind comprehensive radiology nursing textbook fills a gap by addressing important subjects for patient care and professional issues, as well as, future possibilities affecting nursing practice.

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 provides a practical, multidisciplinary approach to support a broad range of health professionals, social workers, public health workers and others tasked with providing health and care to young adults.

This book provides principles on content analysis and its application into development of nursing theory.

This book explores the meaning of quality of life in care for older persons and introduces the reader to their main concerns when receiving care.

Care for older adults in Emergency Departments (EDs) has historically been focused on acute medical conditions with little emphasis on geriatric-specific issues.

This book aims to fill knowledge gap among healthcare workers about Clostridium difficile (also known as C.

This book is taking a broad health focused approach towards Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA).

This book is the first ever to offer a contemporary collection of different perspectives on person-centredness in international doctoral nursing research.

This manual enables individuals working in children's palliative care (CPC) globally to learn through engaging real-world cases.

This book presents the latest approaches to cholangioscopy and covers recent innovations in single-operator cholangioscopy platforms, which have evolved from fibre-optic technology to digital endoscopes and have significantly advanced the management of biliary disease.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to non-invasive mechanical ventilation in palliative medicine, focusing on why and when it may be necessary.

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

This book presents the current state of the nursing science in topics relevant to the care of pediatric oncology patients and their families across the treatment trajectory and is framed within a precision health framework.

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

This book provides an up-to-date description of cross-cultural aspects of end-of-life decision-making.

As the population of older adults in the U.

This book offers essential information on interventions and actions that enable and promote transition experiences for adolescents and young adults.

This concise, easy-to-read book tackles the potentially awkward subject of culture in a direct, non-intimidating style.

This book covers several areas, such as immunology, infectious diseases, physiology, general nursing, and medicine as well as measurement accuracy and the history of our understanding of fever.

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 informs and enlighten health professionals on how the recognition of fearing women can change their episode of care during childbearing.

This book is distinctive in its focus on Advanced Practice Nursing leadership globally.

This new updated edition challenges the perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of professionals working in dementia care settings by drawing on the theory of person-centred care.

This book provides a historical analysis of the Frontier Nursing Services in the Eastern Appalachians of the United States, as well as a review of the oral history tradition of former frontier and non-frontier nurses.

This book analyzes schizophrenia management in the context of recent clinical therapeutic advances that have transformed the measurements and outcomes landscape.

This book serves as a comprehensive reference for the basic principles of caring for older adults, directly corresponding to the key competencies for medical student and residents.

This book provides an unique resource for registered nurses working in hospice palliative care at home and for the community, outside of acute care settings and also incorporates literature related to palliative care in acute health care settings, as part of the overall services and supports required.

This book is a resource that offers guidance to nurses who are experienced or novice aesthetic practitioners and would like to improve their aesthetic practice and enhance patient safety and satisfaction.

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

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

This volume is a practical resource for all those responsible for caring for older people across health and social care.

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.

This book considers how Nuclear Medicine treatments have been further developed in the past several years and are now widely applied in clinical practice, especially in oncological patients, in addition to radioiodine therapy for various thyroid diseases.

This book aims to educate nurses and advanced practice providers (APP's) about known mutations, availability of targeted therapy and the management of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).