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  • Anaesthesia at a Glance
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    Anaesthesia at a Glance

    Anaesthesia at a Glance is a brand new title that provides a concise and visually-orientated summary of a comprehensive lecture course in anaesthesia. Ideal for clinical undergraduate medical students and Foundation Programme doctors undertaking...
    $104.00

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  • Occupational Therapy and Ergonomics
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    Occupational Therapy and Ergonomics

    This practical book describes how the principles of ergonomics should be applied by occupational therapists. It clearly demonstrates how to create functional environments to prevent injuries and enabling people with disabilities to engage in everyday...
    $191.00

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  • Occupational Therapy in Housing
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    Occupational Therapy in Housing

    This book provides practitioners with the foundations onto which they can build their own understanding and practice within housing. It is based on two fundamental principles: the importance of homes becoming enabling environments, and promoting...
    $149.00

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  • Primary Care Trust Workforce
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    Primary Care Trust Workforce

    Even though primary and community care managers face the same challenges as their hospital counterparts they?ve never had an equivalent range of methods for evaluating workforce size and mix. So this book aims to set the record straight by explaining...
    $105.00

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  • Focus on Solutions
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    Focus on Solutions

    Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) promotes collaborative work and positive outcomes. It is an approach that can be used in acute hospitals as well as with clients who are seen as outpatients or in the community. Written in an accessible style with...
    $109.00

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  • Promoting Health Through Creativity
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    Promoting Health Through Creativity

    This book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. The successful use of creativity generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that...
    $139.00

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  • Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery
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    Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery

    The book is the first of its kind to specifically outline the psycho-educational nursing interventions required by the anxious, adult patient undergoing elective, ambulatory surgery. Anxiety management is a considerable issue for the majority of surgical...
    $115.00

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  • Bowel Cancer
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    Bowel Cancer

    Colorectal cancer is one of the most common killers of the 21st century. Bowel Cancer will develop the reader's knowledge and skills in both theory and practice and will enable nurses to demonstrate a good understanding of the problems posed by bowel...
    $128.00

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  • Excessive Crying in Infancy
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    Excessive Crying in Infancy

    Using findings from one study in particular, but including evidence from a wide range of studies over the past 10 years, Excessive Crying in Infancy addresses potential causes, suggested solutions, and parental response to this common, debilitating...
    $105.00

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  • Diverticular Disease
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    Diverticular Disease

    Diverticular disease first became recognised at the beginning of the 20th century and although the incidence of the disease is not known, it is considered to be a disease of the older person. This book looks at a disease that is known as a Western world...
    $105.00

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  • Qualitative Research in Health Care
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    Qualitative Research in Health Care

    This is a comprehensive book with theoretical and practical input for health care researchers exploring the humanistic and individual aspects of health and illness. It covers the main qualitative research methods and provides clear, concise and...
    $105.00

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  • Nursing Care
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    Nursing Care

    The relationship between nursing theory and practice has been an area of intense professional debate for many years. With new governmental directives relating to how nurses care for patients, the debate continues about how and why nurses' care has never...
    $105.00

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  • Transformation Through Occupation
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    Transformation Through Occupation

    This book is based on learning grounded in actual experience and introduces the perspective of practice orientated to developing, rather than developed, contexts. The focus remains on the ordinary things that people do on a daily basis and how this...
    $149.00

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  • The Practice-Based Educator
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    The Practice-Based Educator

    Designed for all those involved in education within the practice-based setting, this book encourages the reader to become involved in their own personal development as a practice-based educator through reflection on their own practice. The reader is...
    $139.00

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  • Pulmonary Rehabilitation
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    Pulmonary Rehabilitation

    This addition to the field of pulmonary rehabilitation will be used as a practical resource which demonstrates academic insight into new and emerging aspects of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) rehabilitation. This book provides a European...
    $128.00

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  • Fundamental Nursing Skills
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    Fundamental Nursing Skills

    Providing forward-thinking approaches and ideas for nurses of all categories, this reference has been written primarily in response to increasing concerns regarding the perceived lack of ability in both students and newly qualified nurses to perform...
    $128.00

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  • Occupational Therapy Activities
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    Occupational Therapy Activities

    At last, a book about the little pieces of occupation which make up life' s real situations and experiences and form a basis for therapy. Offered in the form of stories about practice previously published in the popular US publication Advance for...
    $104.00

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  • Occupational Therapy with Older People
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    Occupational Therapy with Older People

    This book is about older people, and the contribution occupational therapy can make towards the maintenance of their health and the appropriate provision of rehabilitation and care. The aim is to help occupational therapists and those involved in the...
    $139.00

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  • Forensic Occupational Therapy
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    Forensic Occupational Therapy

    The link between occupational performance, mental health and offending behaviour is increasingly being recognized. Consequently the number of occupational therapists working with mentally disordered offenders is rising. This text has been written by...
    $149.00

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  • Pelvic Floor Exercises for Erectile Dysfunction
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    Pelvic Floor Exercises for Erectile Dysfunction

    This text reaches beyond the boundaries of mainstream physiotherapy into a novel area for physiotherapists and nurses. It provides information on the prevalence and risk factors for erectile dysfunction, the anatomy and physiology of normal erectile...
    $128.00

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  • Intermediate Care of Older People
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    Intermediate Care of Older People

    Intermediate care has become a buzzword within health and social care over the last few years. Seen as the panacea for a number of woes, particularly for older people, intermediate care has been held up as a way forward within contemporary health and...
    $159.00

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  • Assisted Human Reproduction
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    Assisted Human Reproduction

    With contributions from: Eric Blyth, Ken Daniels, Julia Feast, Robert Lee, Nina Martin, Alexina McWhinnie, Derek Morgan, Clare Murray, Sharon Pettle, Claire Potter, Jim Richards and Francoise Shenfield The separation of procreation from conception has...
    $139.00

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  • Occupational Therapy and Mulitple Sclerosis
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    Occupational Therapy and Mulitple Sclerosis

    This book describes and discusses the assessment and treatment techniques applied by Occupational Therapists (OTs) to sufferers from Multiple Sclerosis (MS).The text begins with basic information about MS and follows this with suggestions for assessment...
    $128.00

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  • Hospital-Acquired Infection
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    Hospital-Acquired Infection

    Hospital acquired infections (HAI) are complications of health care which affect on average 10 percent of patients admitted to hospital world wide. They have serious public health implications by changing the quality of life of patients and sometimes...
    $128.00

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  • Nurse Led Change and Development in Clinical Practice
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    Nurse Led Change and Development in Clinical Practice

    How may nurses be enabled to contribute to, develop and advance their practice when working in bureaucratic and hierarchical health care settings? Corporate recognition and support for nurse-led change and development is gradually increasing. However,...
    $128.00

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  • Medical Assessment Units
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    Medical Assessment Units

    Increasing demands on acute hospital resources, together with a reduction in the number of available beds, has placed a greater emphasis on the need for rapid and effective assessment of patients in order to determine their need for hospital adsmission...
    $139.00

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  • Key Nursing Skills
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    Key Nursing Skills

    Written by authors have a wide experience in teaching and practicing adult nursing, Key Nursing Skills will be invaluable to nurses who really want to get to grips with the more common procedures. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of care and...
    $128.00

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  • Complementary Therapies in the Care of Older People
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    Complementary Therapies in the Care of Older People

    The need to address the many health care needs of an ageing population increases daily. This text should give nurses an insight into using complementary therapies safely with older people. It is divided into four parts. Part 1 considers the implications...
    $128.00

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  • Diabetes for Nurses
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    Diabetes for Nurses

    This is the second edition of the comprehensive guide to diabetes for nurses and is updated to take account of changes in dietary advice, legislation and terminology. The text addresses diabetes as both a biochemical disease and a psychosocial problem...
    $147.00

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  • Perspectives in Paediatric Oncology Nursing
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    Perspectives in Paediatric Oncology Nursing

    Originally emanating from presentations at an international conference, this text brings together research and practice development from three perspectives: practice, management and education. Within these three sections the book presents a series of...
    $147.00

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  • Physical Assessment of Patients
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    Physical Assessment of Patients

    Assessment is arguably the most important stage of nursing. It forms the basis for any planned nursing intervention and a baseline against which subsequent events in the hospital stay can be compared. Assessment is an ongoing activity where the patient...
    $128.00

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  • Wound Care
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    Wound Care

    The day-to-day responsibility for wound management is a role usually undertaken by nurses. It includes assessing the wound, selecting an appropriate treatment, and evaluating the patients' progress. In order to do this effectively the nurse needs to...
    $115.00

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  • Implementing Research in the Clinical Setting
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    Implementing Research in the Clinical Setting

    This practical handbook aims to give the practising nurse and health-care professional the tools to implement research in the clinical setting. There is no intention here of revisiting the deep theoretical issues related to research; rather the book...
    $105.00

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  • Core Skills for Nurse Practitioners
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    Core Skills for Nurse Practitioners

    In addition to clinical knowledge every senior nurse should be comfortable with the professional issues that are part of the senior nurse' s role. This handbook addresses these issues in a clear and concise manner. It discusses leadership, change...
    $115.00

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  • Nursing Support for Families of Dying Patients
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    Nursing Support for Families of Dying Patients

    When a patient has an advanced disease, considerable demands are placed on the whole family. Whilst coping with their own profound emotions, close relatives commonly have to support their loved ones through a range of treatments as the disease progresses...
    $139.00

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  • Conscious Sedation
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    Conscious Sedation

    In retrospect, the dosage of IV sedatives used in the early days of endoscopy both in the USA and Great Britain was frequently too high. Today we are much more careful in the way we sedate patients being acutely aware of the fact that if the patient...
    $128.00

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  • Occupational Therapy in Childhood
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    Occupational Therapy in Childhood

    The practice of OT continues to be influenced by greater awareness of the needs of children with disabilities, expansion of the theory and practice of psychology, medical science and occupational therapy, and the impact of twentieth century technology on...
    $139.00

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  • IT for Health Professionals
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    IT for Health Professionals

    The pressure of working in the resource limited health service along with the requirement to maintain and develop a professional knowledge base leaves little time for staff to get seriously involved in related studies. Even students undertaking diploma...
    $105.00

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  • Manual of Neonatal and Paediatric Congenital Heart Disease
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    Manual of Neonatal and Paediatric Congenital Heart Disease

    A number of books have been written relating to congenital heart disease, but generally, they reflect individualised medical management of local practice and philosophies. Although this book assumes a prior working knowledge of congenital heart disease,...
    $251.00

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  • Adult Cardiac Surgery
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    Adult Cardiac Surgery

    This book will answer the questions frequently asked by newly qualified nurses or nurses entering the specialty of cardiac surgery. It identifies the needs of the adult patient recovering from cardiac surgery, and focuses on the more common procedures of...
    $157.00

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  • The Human Rights Act
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    The Human Rights Act

    The Human Rights Act came into effect on 2nd October 2000, giving every citizen a clear statement of their rights and responsibilities. For public authorities - such as the NHS - the Act makes it a legal duty to respect and foster the rights of citizens...
    $128.00

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  • Accident and Emergency Nursing
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    Accident and Emergency Nursing

    This comprehensive text, written by practising A&E nurses, seeks to provide the nurse with a professional overview of current A&E good practice. Divided into two sections the book covers all the common situations that may occur in an A&E...
    $159.00

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  • Acute Mental Health Care in the Community
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    Acute Mental Health Care in the Community

    This innovative text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - Intensive Home Treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of home treatment to individuals as an alternative to psychiatric admission. Divided into...
    $128.00

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  • Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing Practice
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    Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing Practice

    This book examines the concepts of clinical effectiveness, evidence based practise and clinical governance and discusses how these impact on everyday nursing practice.  It considers what the term clinical effectiveness means and examines how it fits...
    $98.00

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