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Books in Nursing and midwifery

The Nursing & Midwifery subject area provides evidence-based content to support nurses and interprofessional teams in preparation, development, and everyday clinical care. Providing content for nursing students, nurse educators, NPs, LPNs/LVNs, RNs, APRNs, and more, the nursing portfolio covers all areas of nursing including NCLEX & Certification titles, Community Nursing, Nursing Pharmacology, Oncology, Nutrition, Home Health, Case Management, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Gerontology, Critical Care, Pediatric Nursing, Care Planning, Midwifery, Leadership & Management, Nurse Anesthesia, Psychiatric Mental Health, and more.

  • Chronic Illness and Disability

    Principles for Nursing Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • Esther Chang + 1 more
    • English
    This text provides evidence-based principles for practice for chronic illness and disability. It provides a solid theoretical and practical foundation for students in their 2nd and 3rd years. The book will included a holistic framework for major and common chronic illness and disability.
  • Tabbner's Nursing Care

    Theory and Practice
    • 5th Edition
    • Gabby Koutoukidis + 3 more
    • Gabrielle Koutoukidis + 1 more
    • English
    A vital member of the health care team, the contemporary enrolled nurse faces increasing challenges and an increasing level of responsibility. Written specifically for Australian and New Zealand enrolled nurse students, this long awaited new edition reflects the changes and challenges in contemporary enrolled nurse practice as well as the additions and modifications that are occurring in nursing curricula. Tabbner’s Nursing Care: Theory and Practice 5th edition has been written, reviewed and edited by the people who educate the enrolled nurse and continues to provide enrolled nurse students with the most comprehensive resource available.
  • Introduction to Public Health

    • 1st Edition
    • Elizabeth Parker
    • Mary Louise Fleming
    • English
    This text introduces students to the core concepts and principles of public health: the nature and scope of public health; its history; an introduction to health determinants and epidemiology; evidence-based practice in public health and understanding public health data plus more.
  • Midwifery: Best Practice Volume 5

    • 1st Edition
    • Sara Wickham
    • English
    This is Volume 5 in the Midwifery: Best Practice series. Each of the volumes in this Series is built around the familiar core of four main topic areas relevant to midwifery: pregnancy, labour / birth, postnatal and stories / reflection - and also includes a number of ‘focus on…’ sections. These are different in each volume and reflect a wide range of key and topical issues within midwifery. Each volume builds upon the others to provide a comprehensive library of articles that shows the development of thought in key midwifery areas. Volume 5 offers a range of wholly new topic areas within the ‘focus on…’ sections covering: ‘the birthing environment’, ‘women, midwives and risk’, ‘holistic health’ and ‘working/internation... stories’.
  • Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing

    • 2nd Edition
    • Ruth Elder + 2 more
    • English
    The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client’s experience of mental illness.
  • Bioethics - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource

    A Nursing Perspective
    • 5th Edition
    • Megan-Jane Johnstone
    • English
    The 5th edition of Bioethics provides nursing students with the necessary knowledge and understanding of the ethical issues effecting nursing practice. Groundbreaking in its first edition, Bioethics continues its role as a vital component of nursing education and provides a framework for students to understand the obligations, responsibilities and ethical challenges they will be presented with throughout their careers. This latest edition responds to new and emerging developments in the field and marks a significant turning point in nursing ethics in that it serves not only to inform but also to revitalise and progress debate on the issues presented.
  • Understanding the Australian Health Care System - E-Book

    • 1st Edition
    • Helen Keleher
    • Louise Reynolds
    • English
    The text provides an overview of the Australian Health Care System at a level suitable for 1st year undergraduate students. It describes the ‘architecture’ of the system and its key components (public hospital sector, private hospital and health insurance, GPs and primary care, community health, public health), some of the things that shape the system and introduces key concepts that underpin it such as the idea of the welfare state or a universal health system.
  • Perioperative Nursing

    An Introductory Text
    • 1st Edition
    • Brigid M. Gillespie + 3 more
    • English
    This is an introductory level text designed to appeal to a broad-based market from Division 2 ‘Enrolled Nurse’ students through to UG students doing an ‘operating room’ clinical placement, to PG students in specific Perioperative grad cert/diploma courses. It is also designed to be of use to Registered Nurses already working in or preparing to work in this area, and other Operating Room staff such as anaesthetic technicians. It is a standalone text that discusses the roles and responsibilities involved in perioperative nursing, some technical aspects such as wound care, the changing face of perioperative nursing with a greater emphasis on day surgery, anaesthesia, medico-legal aspects and professional development. It is not intended to address surgical procedures which is covered in-depth in existing resources, but rather it is designed to contextualize essential information in the hospital setting.
  • Kinésithérapie respiratoire

    • 2nd Edition
    • Gregory Reychler + 2 more
    • French
    Destiné aux étudiants – futurs kinésithérapeutes, mais aussi aux praticiens confirmés, cet ouvrage est le premier à traiter de façon intégrale l'ensemble des pratiques de kinésithérapie respiratoire. Conçu dans une approche pragmatique à partir des symptômes, l'ouvrage allie rigueur scientifique et « sagesse clinique » car, si les gestes sont rarement complexes, en revanche le choix des techniques à mettre en œuvre et leurs adaptations aux situations vécues par le patient réclament des connaissances, un savoir-faire et un savoir-être extrêmement larges et précis. Rédigé avec la collaboration de soixante auteurs, kinésithérapeutes et médecins, cet ouvrage didactique offre de façon synthétique les bases théoriques indispensables et privilégie la formation de compétences spécifiques aux différents contextes cliniques. Enfin, cette nouvelle édition, revue et complétée, comporte quatre nouveaux chapitres : la flore naturelle et pathologique des voies respiratoires (chapitre 5), la physiopathologie du système cardiaque et à sa rééducation (chapitres 9 et 24) et les troubles de la déglutition (chapitre 26). Cet ouvrage sera pour l'étudiant comme pour le praticien kinésithérapeute un outil de référence pour une prise en charge judicieuse et efficace des pathologies respiratoires. Sa lecture sera également profitable aux médecins pneumologues, réanimateurs et aux autres professionnels de santé autour du patient respiratoire.
  • Mental Health Nursing

    An Evidence Based Approach
    • 2nd Edition
    • Rob Newell + 1 more
    • English
    This new edition of Mental Health Nursing: an evidence-based approach has been fully updated to include the latest research-based guidance. A wide variety of client problems is covered with , so that students are assured that what they learn is underpinned by a sound evidence base for treatment, and qualified mental health nurses can be confident that their practice is informed by the most up-to-date research. Skills acquisition is emphasised and experiential exercises encourage connections between theory and practice.