An accessible text which covers the essentials of anatomy and physiology required by a range of health professions. Anatomy & Physiology is the ideal introduction to the subject for student nurses, midwives,
Written by a world-renowned expert in perinatal pharmacology, this essential reference contains current, complete, and evidence-based information on the transmission of maternal drugs into human milk. This 2021 edition has been extensively revised, and now includes 49 completely new and 356 updated medications.
This is the first practical guide for nurses on how to incorporate the knowledge, skills, and tools of Strength-Based Nursing Care (SBC) into everyday practice. The text, based on a model developed by the prestigious McGill University Nursing Program, signifies a paradigm shift in nursing care from a model based on problems, deficits, and ......
With a focus on promoting sound clinical decision-making and a streamlined and highly accessible approach, this text delivers up-to-date primary care health assessment techniques for individuals throughout the lifespan. Each chapter offers a concise overview of anatomy and physiology and an in-depth review of normal and abnormal findings.
A Handbook for Student Nurses is widely recommended in institutions across the UK and is essential reading for new students. The book provides an introduction to the essential background knowledge that pre-registration nursing students need as a foundation for their training. This fourth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the new ......
Specifically designed for future health care providers who will diagnose, manage, and prescribe. Focusing on practical applications of physiology, this book facilitates in-depth understanding of pathophysiological concepts as they relate to disorders commonly seen in practice and includes comprehensive pediatric and geriatric considerations.
Best Practices for Health and Well-Being Assessment
Grounded in an empirical approach to history-taking and physical assessment techniques, this text for advanced health care providers and students focuses on patient well-being and health promotion. The book underscores the evidence, acceptability, and clinical relevance behind physical assessment techniques.
Effective record-keeping is essential to health care. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to keeping good health records that treats the process as an integral part of your everyday practice. Every healthcare practitioner is expected to record their interactions with a patient in the patient's health record, and this pocket guide is full of ......
A non-specialist introduction for nursing, health and social care
Learning Disabilities is an accessible introductory textbook that will help to improve the quality of care provided to people with learning disabilities. It is aimed primarily at non-specialist nursing and healthcare students.
Using a scenario-based approach, this book relates the essential clinical skills student nurses need to know to 'real' people and situations. The book is a friendly, interactive and visual approach to skills acquisition.
Study Skills is an accessible textbook for nursing, health and social care students seeking to improve their study skills, develop their resilience, enhance their employability and cultivate a love of lifelong learning.
Paramedic placements can be daunting - you'll be working in a range of settings and supporting individuals with a variety of conditions. There are new colleagues to work with, and newly learned theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is designed to make your placements much more enjoyable and less stressful. From ambulance placements to ......
A handy pocket guide to help demystify the subject of Consent for all those working in health and social care. Consent is a concept that can be complex and difficult to understand, but it does not have to be. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to the consent process that treats consent as an essential part of your everyday practice. From ......
The book is ideal for newly and recently qualified nurses and midwives and will also be suitable for students making the transition to NQN. Guidance, key tips and case examples are organised in seven steps that help provide the key to positive career development.
Numeracy and Clinical Calculations for Nurses is a user-friendly introduction for student nurses that guides you from the basics to the core calculations required in a healthcare setting. It is regularly the bestselling numeracy book for student nurses.
The second edition of Numeracy and Clinical Calculations
A handy pocket guide to help learning disability nursing students prepare for their practice placements. Placements can be daunting to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make learning disability placements more enjoyable and less stressful and to help student nurses get the most out of their practice learning experience.
Promoting Health and Wellbeing is an introductory textbook for nursing and healthcare students seeking to understand how to promote health and prevent ill health.
Communication Skills is an accessible textbook for nursing and healthcare students seeking to understand the concept of communication and to develop their communication skills. Through clear explanations, case studies and activities, the book will help you to understand the principles of communication and develop your own skills for your ......
Holistically addresses women's health, encompassing the needs of transgender and nonbinary individuals and considering ethnicity, social class, and disability/ablenessDelivering incisive and comprehensive information on the healthcare needs of women, transgender, and nonbinary persons, the third edition of this distinguished text incorporates a ......
Provides practical and accessible guidance for frontline nurses in the delivery of effective, compassionate care to patients with STIs. With a focus on these infections as a growing global-health problem, this book helps facilitate early identification, treatment, and prevention, including counseling and behavioural interventions.
Written by many of the world's leading lactation experts, the Textbook of Human Lactation incorporates evidence-based scientific knowledge to address key topics of importance in breastfeeding, such as Anatomy and Biochemistry, Immunobiology, Breastfeeding Management in Infant and Mother, Maternal and Infant Nutrition, and Medications and ......
Provides practical strategies for developing, integrating, and evaluating new and emerging technology, specifically game-based learning methods that are useful in nursing and clinical health sciences education. It is designed to bridge the gap between the real life experiences of seasoned professionals and the specific embodied experiences that ......
Explores the freestanding birth centre model from its conception by pioneering midwives and others in the early 1970s to the present day. It offers a comprehensive guide to the evolving role of birth centres, clinical and cost outcomes, regulatory and legal issues, provider and accreditation issues, and the future of the birth centre model.
Values and Ethics for Care Practice introduces readers to values and ethics and their importance in patient-centred care. Values and ethics are integral to the provision, practice and delivery of patient-centred health and social care. This book, which is an expanded and updated version of Values for Care Practice, introduces readers to these ......
Based on a philosophy of active learning, this innovative text uses unfolding case studies as a compelling vehicle for learning fundamental nursing content. Unlike traditional vignettes, these case studies evolve over time as real-life situations, better enabling students to develop the skills they need to problem solve, actively engage, and use ......
