What can nurses do to support those receiving palliative care?How do you ensure clear communication and maintain patients’ and families’ preferences?Palliative Care Nursing is essential reading for nursing students, professional nurses and other health and social care professionals providing su…
Nurses! Test Yourself in Non-medical Prescribing is the essential self-test resource for nurses studying a prescribing qualification and preparing for exams.The book includes over 450 questions including full answers and explanations. The book includes: True or false questions Multiple choice questi…
“This textbook is much needed in the current context of increased patient acuity and bed occupancy, shorter hospital stays, and the new work being done in the area of early recognition of the deteriorating patient.”Barbara O’Donnell, Chief ODP, Guy’s Hospital, London"Nursing the Acutely ill …
“This book is an engaging and enlightening read. I highly recommend it to all personal tutors, academic advisors and anyone in higher education who guides students to learn more about themselves.”Dr David Grey, UK Advising and Tutoring Association CEO“This book provides a unique, engaging, per…
“This book claims to be ‘like no other’ and that is so true. The editors and authors each add quality guidance around distributed leadership to readers, providing evidence-based examples, useful websites and key reading material to support and supplement the ideas being presented.”Bridie Ken…
Out with the old and in with the new! Looking back on my nurse training I can vividly recall clinical placements where I was mentored by inspirational, dynamic, enthusiastic, and nurturing mentors. However, I can equally recall the toxic mentors that ruined clinical placements and made me question w…
This case book is the ideal text for Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs), as well as student ODPs and nurses preparing to work in perioperative care. Delivering individualised, holistic and evidence-based care can be challenging in the perioperative setting, requiring the practitioner to apply…
Nursing children and young people is increasingly complex requiring nurses to apply their knowledge and skills to a wide scope of illnesses and situations. The challenges to nurses to analyse, reflect on different perspectives and then adapt practices to the benefit of service users are reflected in…
How do we learn from service user perspectives? What practical skills and approaches are needed to make care truly person-centred?Written by practitioners, academics and, more importantly, the people who use health services, this unique text examines the application of person-centred principles acro…
Quality patient care relies on the demonstration of competencies by nurses at all stages of their education and developing career. This exciting textbook is designed to help student nurses better understand the competencies set out by the NMC and equip them to achieve and demonstrate competency as t…
