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Women's Sexual Health

  • 3rd Edition
  • March 22, 2005
  • Gilly Andrews
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 2 7 6 2 - 8
Sexual health encompasses a broad range of interlinked mental, physical and emotional issues, reflecting how well-being, illness or a particular problem can influence a woman's sexuality and affect not only her but also her family, relationships, work and her own hopes and fears. Women's Sexual Health is a comprehensive reference and text book that holistically covers the full range of women's health issues from the young adolescent woman through to the post-menopausal woman. This book gives a holistic and balanced view of women's sexual well-being and of the inseparability of physical and mental health. The third edition of this successful book draws on a wealth of research and contributors' professional experience to provide a fully up-to-date and comprehensive textbook of women's sexual health.

Home Health Nursing

  • 4th Edition
  • October 22, 2002
  • Karen E. Monks
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 0 1 8 6 5 - 4
This unique, spiral-bound handbook is compact, portable, and written with busy home health nurses in mind! Organized by body system, it offers instant advice on assessment and care planning for the disorders home health nurses are likely to encounter. Providing assessment guides for all body systems, the home environment, and the client’s psychological status, it includes full care plans for over 50 illnesses and conditions most commonly encountered in the home. Each plan lists nursing diagnoses, short- and long-term expected outcomes, nursing interventions, and client caregiver interventions.

Solving Children's Soiling Problems

  • 1st Edition
  • May 23, 2002
  • Jackie Bracey
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 7 1 4 4 - 7
This excellent new title is set to become the first point of reference for all practitioners dealing with children's soiling problems. The author produced this book with the intention of helping the inexperienced practitioner to become more confident in dealing with these clients. The book is aimed at School nurses, health visitors, child branch nursing students, paediatricians and GP's and is designed to be a book can be read front to back, but can also be 'dipped into' when help on a particular aspect of management is required.

Integrating Complementary Therapies in Primary Care

  • 1st Edition
  • December 13, 2001
  • David Peters + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 6 3 4 5 - 9
This book is a practical and readable guide to the integration of complementary therapies into mainstream primary care. Based on the successful experiences of the authors' clinical setting, it offers clinicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals a realistic routemap of the key issues, as well as practical ways in which to ensure close working, appropriate referrals, advice and treatment decisions. Patient information sheets and clinical guidance sheets for key conditions are included in full.The text covers:Practical steps to how complementary therapies may be integrated into mainstream caremodels and issues of research in complementary therapieshow to design an integrated service, with clear examplesfunding, resource and legal issuesissues related to economic evaluationadaptation of the service through a reflective approachclinical treatment option sheetspatient self-help and diet information sheets Of interest and practical help to a wide range of healthcare professionals, this book will be especially valuable to those currently working in primary care, family practice, and any complementary therapy field.

Nursing for Public Health

  • 1st Edition
  • October 25, 2000
  • Pauline M. Craig + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 5 9 4 2 - 1
WHO and UK government initiatives have been pushing primary care practitioners to closely consider the wider health needs of populations. This book directly addresses issues of everyday importance to practitioners, and covers core elements of specialist courses for post-graduate students. The book has 14 chapters, split into three sections :Core elements of Public HealthNursing Elements of Public HealthPolicy Issues in Public HealthEach chapter has a coherent structure of theory, application and role in practice. Practical or case examples are used and further reading offered. Subject specialists have written specific chapters such as health economics and informatics.

Managing Risk in Community Practice

  • 1st Edition
  • October 23, 2000
  • Andy Alaszewski
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 2 6 0 3 - 4
This book will providean accessible account of the key issues involved in risk assessment and management. It will focus on how nurses make decisions about clients and risk, which are essential to quality, safe nursing care. It will draw extensively on case study material gained through research in this area which the authors have undertaken and was commissioned by the English National Board, and will be likely to form the basis for educational requirements in this area in the future.

Men's Health

  • 1st Edition
  • June 29, 1999
  • Tony Harrison + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 5 9 1 9 - 3
Mens health covers a variety of physical, psychological, social, lifestyle and political factors, all of which will be covered in the book. As the whole concept is still emerging, the text will not attempt to be either comprehensive or definitive, but will be seen to add to the pool of knowledge and help set the agenda for future work.

A Nurse's Survival Guide to Primary Care

  • 1st Edition
  • April 15, 1999
  • Rosemary Cook
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 6 1 1 5 - 8
This book fills the need in this growing market for a lucid and comprehensive description of the complex and exciting world of primary care. It is a readable "ready reference," positive in its approach, straightforward and factual in its style. This text also includes extensive references for further information and relevant clinical content that provides general information on subjects relevant to nurses in primary care, avoiding protocols which may vary from one area to another. Key facts relating to specific areas are presented in boxes throughout the text.

Evaluating Change in Community Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • February 17, 1999
  • Karl Atkin + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 2 3 2 4 - 8
Health care is undergoing its most fundamental restructuring since the establishment of the welfare state. Community nursing is at the forefront of these changes and is undergoing huge shifts in priorities, funding and roles. As post-registration education in this area also changes to meet these changing needs, research and evidence-based care become key issues in understanding and demonstrating the need for community nursing. Understanding how national policy translates to local practice issues is a key priority for nurses working in all areas of community practice. Using empirical case studies, this book explores a range of key practice issues, and aims to evaluate the contribution which nursing makes in the community. The text emphasises, explores and evaluates three themes:The shift from secondary to primary careEstablishing needs and priority careThe role of evaluation in evidence-based practice.Written by leading commentator s in nursing, policy and research, each chapter isbased on substantial research and case studies in practice, and focuses on the importance of evaluation. The book is organised into three sections, exploring how evaluation is needed at the organisational level, in the practice arena and in education andtraining. Clearly written and authoritative, this book will provide an evidence-based resource for all community nurses.

Quality Clinical Supervision in Health Care

  • 1st Edition
  • December 19, 1996
  • Della Fish + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 2 6 1 5 - 6
This book explores different approaches to clinical supervision, rooting them firmly in practice, but offering relevant theoretical underpinning. It aims to help supervisors to develop both competence in and a reflective approach to supervision and to practice. It is addressed to members of health care professions across both western and alternative medicine, and specifically those professionals who work with students or colleagues to enable them to learn or refine the practice of their profession.