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Effective Writing for Health Professionals: A Practical Guide to Getting Published

Health professionals are increasingly expected to conduct and publish their research, apply for grants, write newsletters, liaise with the media, present conference papers and contribute articles to professional journals.

The Age of the Inquiry: Learning and Blaming in Health and Social Care

The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries?

The Politics of Nursing Knowledge

The Politics of Nursing Knowledge puts into context the historical factors which have shaped and sometimes limited the development of nurse education.

Psychology for Nurses

This text aims to be useful and relevant for student nurses from all backgrounds with a range of professional aspirations. It demonstrates the importance of psychology in both the nursing role and in health care in general.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Drugs in Use

Understanding how drugs work is made simple in this easy to use pocket-sized guide. Drugs in common use are described under each body system and will form an aid to your confident administration of drugs to fit your patients' needs.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Clinical Assessment

Every contact with your patient is an opportunity for clinical assessment. Ideal for quick reference, this pocket-sized guide puts all the crucial information at your fingertips.

Clinical Leadership: from A to Z

The definitive guide to clinical leadership, by Dickon Weir-Hughes, the Chief Executive of the NMC. Dickon takes a unique slant on the teaching of Leadership and Management through an A-Z format, making this subject very accessible.

Introducing Medicines Management

Medicine administration is a fundamental aspect of the nursing role, carrying with it great risk, and requiring a high level of skill and background knowledge.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Portfolios and Reflective Practice

Reflective practice is a requirement for all healthcare professionals. This essential guide will help you develop the skills to be effective as a reflective practitioner within any clinical environment.

Health Economics For Nurses: Intro Guide

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introducing Psychology for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals

What makes someone feel healthy? Why do some people respond differently under stress to others?

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Dental Nursing

The dental workplace is always busy, whether in a dental surgery or a dental department in a hospital. This pocket-size reference book puts all the vital facts and information at your fingertips.

Nursing Perspectives on Quality of Life

One of the fundamental aims of nursing is to safeguard or promote patients' 'quality of life'.

Design and Analysis of Clinical Nursing Research Studies

This invaluable text on the design and analysis of clinical research studies explains the basis of experimental design and statistics in a way that is sensitive to the clinical context in which nurses work.

Caring for People in Pain

An excellent introduction for nurses to all aspects of pain and its management.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Mentorship

Mentoring and practice assessment is an increasingly important aspect of your ongoing professional development, but can be challenging.

Compassion, Caring and Communication: Skills for Nursing Practice

Compassion and caring are at the very heart of nursing - possibly that's why you were attracted to the nursing profession in the first place. But what does compassionate caring really mean in nursing practice?

Social Work Practice with African American Families: An Intergenerational Perspective

Acute Nursing Care: Recognising and Responding to Medical Emergencies

Delays in recognising deterioration or inappropriate management of people in acute care settings can result in late treatment, avoidable admissions to intensive care units and in some instances unnecessary deaths.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Evidence Based Practice

Taking an evidence-based approach is fundamental to ensuring good clinical practice, but it's not always easy.

Care of the Difficult Patient: A Nurse's Guide

Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this is the first text to deal specifically with nursing difficult patients.

How to Pass Your OSCE: A Guide to Success in Nursing and Midwifery

Fundamental Themes in Clinical Supervision

Clinical supervision has been available to nurses for over a decade.

Promoting Healthy Behaviour: A Practical Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Professionals

Lifestyle diseases are the scourge of the modern Western world. Smoking, eating badly, not exercising, excessive drinking: these are but a few of the major challenges facing the NHS.

Managerialism and Nursing: Beyond Oppression and Profession

Managerialism and Nursing examines the effect of new management strategies on nurses, their morale and the profession as a whole.

Science in Nursing and Health Care

The basic scientific principles underlying health care become clear with this straightforward, engaging and applied book.

Nursing Theories and Models

Nursing theory is a major part of all nursing courses and nurses are encouraged to use theories in practice, but it is not always easy for the student to make a real connection between the two.

Mother-Daughter Incest: A Guide for Helping Professionals

Provide more effective services for the victims of this underreported, rarely investigated form of sexual abuse! Until recently, mother-child incest was considered to be virtually nonexistent.

Mental Health Nursing: carving a path to practice

Are you wondering if a career in Mental Health Nursing is right for you?

Mindfulness-Related Treatments and Addiction Recovery

While mindfulness meditation has been used in clinical settings as an adjunctive treatment for substance use disorders for some time, there has been limited empirical evidence to support this practice.

Nursing in Primary Health Care: Policy into Practice

The role and scope of nursing in primary health care is continually evolving as a result of changes in society. This book explores current issues from the perspective of nursing, showing how policy informs practice.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Diabetes

On the increase worldwide, diabetes is well recognized as a complex and challenging condition.

Textbook of Social Administration: The Consumer-Centered Approach

Textbook of Social Administration equips social programs managers with the skills they need to produce mutually desired outcomes for their consumers/clients and for their staff.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Recognising the Acutely Ill Child: Early Recognition

Early and accurate recognition of an acutely ill child is essential. Ideal for quick reference, this pocket-sized guide puts all the crucial information at your fingertips.

Explorations in Family Nursing

Explorations in Family Nursing examines a systemic approach to care which can be applied both in hospital and community settings.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Palliative Care

This easy-to-use guide provides a quick reference to the principles of palliative and end-of-life care for adults, to help you enable your patients to not only die peacefully but also live until they die.

A Companion to the Overseas Nurses Programme

This book covers everything that the overseas student will need before and during their studies on the Overseas Nursing Programme (ONP).

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Infection Control

Ensuring the prevention and management of infection is a critical aspect of nursing. With this pocket-sized reference book you have instant access to all the most important policies and procedures.

Get into Nursing & Midwifery: A Guide to Application and Career Success

This book is a helpful companion for those hoping to become nurses or midwives. Applications to nursing and midwifery courses are on the rise, and with limited university places available, competition is high.

Nursing and Health Care Research

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.