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…
This popular and groundbreaking book was the first of its kind to focus on providing mental health nurses with the core knowledge of the physical health issues that they need for their work. Considering the risk factors and assessment priorities amongst different mental health client groups, the boo…
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…
"Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective provides a comprehensive, yet a practical resource on sexual health for public health professionals. The book elaborates sexual health from a variety of angles including biomedical, behavioural, social and contextual as well as giving a clear articulation…
“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 detailed, practical guide to reflective practice has relevance to all healthcare practitioners. Taylor offers readers her REFLECT model to guide them through the process of reflection... Throughout she uses a wide variety of techniques to explain and illustrate what to expect and how to adapt …
“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…
“It is my belief that this book should be included on the reading list of all ODP programmes and Perioperative HEI Programmes.”John Dade RODP, PGCMedEd, Immediate Past President – The Association for Perioperative Practice“This book is suitable for both pre-registration learners and post r…
“This new edition offers a fun and flexible learning package that will build confidence when considering the complex pathophysiology field.”Dr Terry J Ferns (EdD) MA BSc (Hons) RN SFHEA, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK“I have real…
“This exciting and unique book provides a significant collection of the research base and theory surrounding leisure and dementia.”Dr Mary O’Malley, BSc, PhD, CPsychol, Senior Research Fellow, Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester, UK“This is the most important edited col…