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Nurse Practitioners

  • 2nd Edition
  • December 2, 2005
  • Mike Walsh
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 8 8 0 1 - 7
This title is directed primarily to health care professionals outside the United States. it is a comprehensive text for nurse practitioners that integrates the required clinical skills with professional and theoretical issues in one book. It uses a systems approach to cover the most frequently presenting problems that the nurse practitioner will encounter. The scope of the book then widens to include psychological and emotional problems as well as the special needs of children and those patients with chronic health problems. Using a practical approach the content is based on current best evidence. The book has been derived from the editors' experience as a course team running the RCN Institute BSc Nurse Practitioner course in Lancaster and Carlisle.

Palliative Care

  • 2nd Edition
  • December 1, 2005
  • Jean Lugton + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 7 4 5 8 - 5
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Palliative Care: The Nursing Role is an introductory text for nurses and other health care professionals who deliver palliative care across a range of settings. It lays a clear foundation of knowledge focusing on the needs and perspectives of patients and families who face the challenge of advanced, incurable illness. The style is highly accessible yet challenges readers to analyze key issues that present within palliative care. Covering the wide range of care provision in hospices, hospitals and patients' homes, the book draws widely from practice based examples to explain and expand upon theoretical issues. Research evidence underpins each of the chapters. Guided activities encourage readers to reflect, in a focused way, on their clinical experience and current practice. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect ongoing developments and shifting trends in palliative care education and practice. It will suit the needs of both pre and post-qualifying students seeking to develop their knowledge and is well suited to practitioners working within either generalist or specialist palliative care settings, or within acute or community settings as well as those studying a range of palliative care educational curricula. The authors have a wide range of experience in palliative care and all are actively engaged in practice and/or education.

The ECG in Emergency Decision Making

  • 2nd Edition
  • September 8, 2005
  • Hein J. J. Wellens + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 1 6 0 - 0 2 5 9 - 8
Offering step-by-step instructions, this text describes how to use 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) to make rapid and informed decisions in emergencies. It shows how to recognize the underlying mechanism of a cardiac emergency, its significance, and the best treatment. A brief outline of these steps is followed by complete, in-depth coverage.

A Textbook of Perioperative Care

  • 1st Edition
  • May 17, 2005
  • Kate Woodhead + 1 more
  • Kate Woodhead + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 7 2 8 5 - 7
Woodhead and Wicker's new text will be the foremost reference source for all perioperative practitioners. The content mirrors the dynamics of modern perioperative practice by focusing on surgical interventions in all the environments in which it is currently practised, including A&E departments, general practice clinics, intensive care units, and at the site of serious accidents. Theatre practice is becoming increasingly specialist; this book does not attempt to to reflect the needs of all specialties, but instead concentrates on the principles of practice, applicable to any setting and any specialty. It has a very practical focus - it aims to be the book that nurses and ODPs reach for in order to answer their practical questions - but is not be procedure-driven. Instead, it sets out the principles of perioperative practice, from which practitioners will be able to develop their own practice techniques.

Understanding Clinical Investigations

  • 2nd Edition
  • May 17, 2005
  • Susan Skinner
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 2 6 8 3 - 6
Understanding clinical investigations is an indispensable handbook providing easily accessible explanations of the common investigations carried out on all body systems. It addresses the relationship between normal physiology and disease processes and the place of clinical investigation within these events. The rationale for investigation is made clear and some guidance for further care is offered. Designed to give quickly referenced guidance on a broad spectrum of clinical investigation and monitoring, it will be helpful to all nursing staff and will assist in giving explaining tests to patients.Understanding Clinical Investigations provides: a unique combination of normal physiology, clinical investigations and pathophysiology an attractive, user-friendly design ensuring easy access to key information an appendix of normal values In this new edition each investigation has been updated in line in the light of recent guidelines and practice. New material has been added including chromosome studies and blood cholesterol values.

Gynaecological Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • June 6, 2001
  • Elizabeth A. Gangar + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 6 2 0 2 - 5
Gynaecological Nursingis a comprehensive practical guide to many women health issues, written by nurses for nurses. This is a concise, clinically focused text on disease and disorders, which are unique to or are more common, in women. Medical technology is moving forward with resulting changes in practice and new techniques. Nurses need to be aware of these changes and advances and maintain our knowledge base. We need to be able to provide sound, accurate and consistent information. To maintain the trust patients have in nurses we must maintain an up to date knowledge and feel confident in this knowledge. Therefore this book provides thorough coverage of the latest medical advances and new techniques but with a sensitive holistic approach based on the requirements of nurses.

Developing New Clinical Roles

  • 1st Edition
  • October 23, 2000
  • Debra Humphris + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 7 0 7 1 - 6
Throughout the health care system, the traditional boundaries between professional groups are becoming increasingly blurred in response to local service needs and national policy objectives. New clinical roles are developing and nurses and other health professionals are finding opportunities to review and reconfigure their roles in response to changing health care needs and national policy imperatives. This book grew out of the editors involvement in the UKCCs work on the regulation of specialist, advanced and higher level practice and Department of Health research on new role developments and the impact of the `New Dealreduction in junior doctors hours. It combines a comprehensive and thought provoking overview of the key issues and emerging challenges with practical suggestions for promoting appropriate and sustainable role development.

Toohey's Medicine

  • 15th Edition
  • December 27, 1994
  • Arnold Bloom + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 4 7 0 4 - 6
In spite of recent changes in nurse education, nurses still need to know about medicine to understand their work with patients. This is the latest edition of what has become a popular and enduring nursing textbook. It is a short textbook of medicine written by medical experts, but read by nurses. Nurses have consistently found this book invaluable because of the level at which the text is pitched. It has been written in consultation with nurses and covers exactly the medical knowledge that they require.These features make it still an ideal medical text for nurses: Includes the medical knowledge nurses need New team of contributors to widen input Written in consultation with nurses to ensure appropriateness of information New format and typeface - to increase readability