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  • Mental Health Care for Nurses
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    Mental Health Care for Nurses

    Mental health is a significant factor in providing effective nursing care for patients in hospital and residential settings. Non-mental health nursing staff often lack the confidence, knowledge and skills to effectively meet the mental health needs of...
    $134.00

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  • Participatory Action Research in Health Care
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    Participatory Action Research in Health Care

    Participatory Action Research in Healthcare provides a guide to participatory action research in the community health setting. It draws upon the authors? experiences working, researching and engaging with people utilising collaborative, participatory...
    $127.00

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  • Vital Notes for Nurses: Accountability
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    Vital Notes for Nurses: Accountability

    Vital Notes on Accountability is a concise, accessible guide which provides students and newly qualified staff with an understanding of key issues in professional practice. Nurses are accountable for their own practice and require a thorough...
    $92.00

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  • Effective Healthcare Leadership
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    Effective Healthcare Leadership

    Effective Healthcare Leadership integrates theory and practice to distil the reality of healthcare leadership today. It addresses the context and explores strategies for leadership and examines the leadership skills required to implement and sustain...
    $139.00

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  • Health Assessment
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    Health Assessment

    Health assessment is central to effective planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. All nurses are accountable for the care they provide and need to be able to accurately determine patient needs in order to plan and deliver evidence-based...
    $78.00

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  • Transforming Nursing Through Reflective Practice
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    Transforming Nursing Through Reflective Practice

    Reflective practice has been widely adopted as a successful method for developing nursing. The second edition of Transforming Nursing through Reflective Practice provides a wealth of new insights from practitioners actively involved in reflective...
    $120.00

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  • Narrative Research in Nursing
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    Narrative Research in Nursing

    Narrative research is an increasingly popular way of carrying out qualitative research by analysing the stories or experience. The findings of this type of qualitative research can be used to improve nursing education, nursing practice and patient care...
    $115.00

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  • Effective Health Care Management
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    Effective Health Care Management

    Effective Health Care Management presents the principles and criteria necessary to evaluate and enhance the quality of health care services in the NHS today. It provides an overview of health care management and health care policy, explores evidence...
    $139.00

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  • The Law and the Midwife
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    The Law and the Midwife

    The second edition of this successful text is an essential and accessible guide to legal aspects of midwifery for all midwife supervisors, midwives, and midwifery students. Midwives will find this book provides them with the knowledge and understanding...
    $128.00

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  • Exercise Therapy
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    Exercise Therapy

    Though exercise has been the mainstay of musculoskeletal physiotherapy for decades, its value in other systems of the body, such as cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological has emerged in recent years. This trend is being increasingly reflected in...
    $145.00

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  • Contexts of Nursing
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    Contexts of Nursing

    Contexts of Nursing: An Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamental ideas and perspectives underpinning the practice of contemporary nursing. The book is an essential resource for any program that addresses professional nursing,...
    $115.00

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  • Comprehensive Tracheostomy Care
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    Comprehensive Tracheostomy Care

    Comprehensive Tracheostomy Care is a resource developed by the UK National Tracheostomy Safety Project (NTSP) to help promote and facilitate the safe management of tracheostomies and laryngectomies. The scope includes hospital in-patient specialist areas...
    $131.00

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  • Communication Skills for Nurses
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    Communication Skills for Nurses

    Survive placements and practice with this essential guide for all student nurses.   Providing words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses, Communication Skills for Nurses is a handy, portable, and fun introduction to the key...
    $40.00

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  • Global New Drug Development
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    Global New Drug Development

    The development of new drugs is very complex, costly and risky. Its success is highly dependent on an intense collaboration and interaction between many departments within the drug development organization, external investigators and service providers,...
    $157.00

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  • Community and Public Health Nursing
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    Community and Public Health Nursing

    "An extremely popular and valuable resource to students, practitioners and managers in community health care nursing" - Journal of Advanced Nursing The fifth edition of Community and Public Health Nursing is an essential source of information for all...
    $118.00

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  • Anatomy for Anaesthetists
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    Anatomy for Anaesthetists

    Jubilee edition of the classic text first published in 1963 Anaesthetists require a particularly specialized knowledge of anatomy The anaesthetist must know intimately the respiratory passages, the major veins and the peripheral nerves to deliver safe...
    $248.00

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  • Haematology in Critical Care
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    Haematology in Critical Care

    Issues of thrombosis, bleeding, and transfusion are extremely common, and often complex, in critically ill patients. Haematology in Critical Care: A Practical Handbookprovidesa dependable source of expert guidance on how to handle common haematological...
    $204.00

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  • Pediatric Critical Care
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    Pediatric Critical Care

    While critical care pharmacology and technology have become widely available, paediatricians and primary care physicians must frequently deal with critically ill children in understaffed hospitals. Those who represent the first line of care know that the...
    $292.00

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  • Critical Thinking to Achieve Positive Health Outcomes
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    Critical Thinking to Achieve Positive Health Outcomes

    This book uses the latest research findings to apply critical thinking processes for the development of diagnostic reasoning and the selection of patient outcomes and nursing interventions.Four chapters describe the meaning of intelligence, critical...
    $184.00

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  • Cultural Competence in Health Care
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    Cultural Competence in Health Care

    A manual written for health care professionals who care for patients from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. First developed by doctors and nurses at Children's Hospital in Boston, it contains detailed, practical information for working with...
    $196.00

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  • The Emotionally Intelligent Nurse Leader
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    The Emotionally Intelligent Nurse Leader

    The Emotionally Intelligent Nurse Leader offers nursemanagers, health care leaders, and emerging leaders a useful guidefor identifying, using, and regulating their emotions (emotionalintelligence). As the author clearly demonstrates, harnessing thepower...
    $180.00

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  • Negotiating at an Uneven Table
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    Negotiating at an Uneven Table

    In the second edition of her landmark book Negotiating at an Uneven Table, Phyllis Beck Kritek explores the process of resolving conflicts in situations where unacknowledged inequity influences disputes and their outcomes. Substantially revised and...
    $196.00

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  • Evidence-Based Resource in Anaesthesia and Analgesia
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    Evidence-Based Resource in Anaesthesia and Analgesia

    This work discusses the methodology and available evidence from systematic reviews on the current best practice in anaesthesia and analgesia. The first edition is built upon in this thoroughly revised and updated text. Contributions are from acknowledged...
    $145.00

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  • Pulse Oximetry
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    Pulse Oximetry

    This invaluable guide to one of the fundamental monitoring techniques in anaesthesia has been updated throughout, and a new chapter has been added on high altitude and flying. Written by a leading recognised expert in the field, this is an authoritative...
    $117.00

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  • Evidence-Based Obstetric Anesthesia
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    Evidence-Based Obstetric Anesthesia

    This is the first text to systematically review the evidence for obstetric anesthesia and analgesia. Evidence-based practice is now being embraced worldwide as a requirement for all clinicians; in the everyday use of anesthesia and analgesia for...
    $281.00

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  • Local & Regional Anaesthesia
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    Local & Regional Anaesthesia

    This book presents the most important aspects of modern clinical use of local anaesthetic drugs and of local and regional anaesthetic techniques. Special attention is paid to safety, i.e., toxicity features which are covered in sufficient detail for the...
    $173.00

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  • Total Intravenous Anaesthesia
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    Total Intravenous Anaesthesia

    The availability of the intravenous anaesthetic proposal has opened the doors to the widespread use of total intravenous anaesthesia, one of the newest departures in anaesthesia. This is a straightforward, accessible introduction to the basic concepts...
    $145.00

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  • Quality & Safety In Anaesthesia
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    Quality & Safety In Anaesthesia

    Audit was a buzz word of the late '80s and early '90s, but in anaesthetic practice the important issues are quality of service and safety of the patient and audit is used to monitor and agree standards for these two. With contributions from leading...
    $117.00

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  • Capnography
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    Capnography

    David O'Flaherty describes the physiology and techniques of carbon dioxide measurement and the clinical significance of the capnogram.
    $152.00

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  • Management for Nurses and Health Professionals
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    Management for Nurses and Health Professionals

    Management for Nurses and Health Professionals examines management theory and its applications in healthcare, with an emphasis on relating theory to the organisation of patient care and effective management in everyday practice. This essential guide to...
    $105.00

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  • Professional Learning In Nursing
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    Professional Learning In Nursing

    The way nurses are taught is constantly evolving and changing. Workplace learning is seen as key to developing practitioners. In this book Jenny Spouse discusses how students learn in a range of different clinical settings and how best to facilitate this...
    $120.00

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  • Advanced Qualitative Research for Nursing
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    Advanced Qualitative Research for Nursing

    This collection presents up-to-the-minute qualitative research methodologies creatively developed by and within nursing. The book is written by authors at the forefront of their fields. It is aimed at enabling people to research critical issues for...
    $157.00

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  • Mentorship in Community Nursing
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    Mentorship in Community Nursing

    The importance of the community practice teacher is increasing with the expansion in primary care. Universities around the country have developed courses for practice educators to provide definitive training for that role - there are currently few texts...
    $152.00

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  • Supportive Care and Midwifery
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    Supportive Care and Midwifery

    This book considers the broad range of support given to mothers including social, psychological and clinical. It also looks at the provision of this service and how different models have been set up internationally to fulfill this important function. It...
    $165.00

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  • Nursing in Care Homes
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    Nursing in Care Homes

    Nursing in Care Homes is a practical guide for nurses of all levels working in care homes. It is directly relevant to everyday practice and covers clinical issues such as continence care, wound care, infection control, and nutrition, as well as...
    $124.00

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  • Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care
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    Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care

    Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care enables research students to take control of the various processes involved in postgraduate research study. It is an authoritative account of the key issues and challenges faced by postgraduate researchers in...
    $149.00

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  • Advocacy in Health Care
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    Advocacy in Health Care

    Advocacy in Health Care presents a research-based framework for advocacy that can be used as a guide to everyday clinical practice. It discusses how to speak out on behalf of patients and clients as well as how to empower them to speak out for themselves...
    $122.00

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  • Mentoring, Preceptorship and Clinical Supervision
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    Mentoring, Preceptorship and Clinical Supervision

    Newly qualified nurses often experience difficulties moving from the role of student to qualified nurse. It has been formally recognized that these nurses require a support network to enable them to make this transition smoothly. Preceptorship is an...
    $147.00

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  • The Challenge of Sexuality in Health Care
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    The Challenge of Sexuality in Health Care

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of issues and concerns related to sexuality and health care. It describes the normal processes and issues which arise at different stages in a person's life connected with sexuality, and goes on...
    $101.00

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  • The Changing Nature of Nursing in a Managerial Age
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    The Changing Nature of Nursing in a Managerial Age

    As an occupation, nursing is perceived by some as an emergent profession and by others as a managed service. For the former group, the key to quality improvement in nursing is to develop and promote that professionalism. For the latter group, the success...
    $115.00

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  • A Practical Handbook for Community Health Nurses
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    A Practical Handbook for Community Health Nurses

    This practical handbook focuses on promoting the health of children in the community by considering the health needs of the healthy child in the context of a family unit. Containing up-to-date, research-based material, the book reflects the developing...
    $117.00

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  • Action Research in Health Care
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    Action Research in Health Care

    Action research has grown in stature in the fields of education and industry because it centres on people and their problems. Thus it necessarily shares aspects of their human frailty and apparent fickleness: it refuses to be bound by the conventional...
    $159.00

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  • Pathways of Care
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    Pathways of Care

    Pathways of Care programmes are used in all areas of healthcare to improve clinical effectiveness and the quality of patient care. This book is an essential reference source for all those involved in coordinating healthcare delivery. It is also a...
    $127.00

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  • Nutrition in Primary Care
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    Nutrition in Primary Care

    As a result of recent changes in health care, nurses, GPs and health visitors find that they are required to take a major role in nutrition education and dietary advice. Health promotion is now an important aspect of general practice and community care...
    $73.00

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  • Children's Nursing in Practice
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    Children's Nursing in Practice

    The Nottingham model of care, working with children and their parents, evolved in response to the needs of children and families and out of a shared commitment to change. The Children's Unit in Nottingham has a high profile nationally and internationally...
    $105.00

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  • Models, Theories and Concepts
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    Models, Theories and Concepts

    Specially selected articles from the Journal of Advanced Nursing have been updated where appropriate by the original author. Models, Theories and Concepts brings together international authorities in their specialist fields to consider the gaps occurring...
    $115.00

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  • Rationing
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    Rationing

    This volume contributes to the ongoing debate about healthcare rationing by bringing together case studies of resource allocation at different levels of the healthcare system. Drawing on research from the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, it...
    $50.00

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