Routledge - Nursing in primary health care: policy into 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.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Compassion, Caring and Communication

Compassion, caring and communication are all fundamental parts of patient care and something all health and social care workers encounter on a daily basis.

An Introduction to Evidence-based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare

The beginner s guide to Evidence-based Practice for Nursing, Health and Social Care.

Fundamentals of Pharmacology: An Applied Approach for Nursing and Health

Your comprehensive and current introduction to the fascinating field of Pharmacology, applied to Nursing and Health! Now fully updated in line with changes in clinical practice, new drugs and research developments.

Psychosocial Impact of Lupus: Social Work's Role and Function

With Lupus affecting more than 1.5 million Americans, predominantly women of childbearing age, there are many complex psychosocial challenges for the health care provider, the patient and the family.

Nursing & Health Survival Guide

A pocket-sized reference tool for quick access to crucial information in any community or antenatal setting.

Implementing Inquiry-Based Learning in Nursing

If you want to introduce Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) into your curriculum but are not sure how to go about it, this book will set you on the right track.

The Sociology and Politics of Health: A Reader

Health care systems, the role of health professionals and the experience of health and illness are all undergoing change and development as we enter the twenty-first century.

Specialist Mental Healthcare for Children and Adolescents: Hospital, Intensive Community and Home Based Services

A need for comprehensive services for young people requiring more intensive mental health services has been identified and this book explores what works in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) at this level.

Health, Illness and Culture: Broken Narratives

This collection of essays examines the interrelations between illness, disability, health, society, and culture.

The Health Project Book: A Handbook for New Researchers in the Field

The Health Project Book is a practical and detailed guide to all aspects of conducting a research project in health.

Curriculum Development in Nursing: Process and Innovation

Education for nurses and allied health professionals is being radically overhauled both in the UK and overseas.

Law and Ethics for Midwifery

Legal and ethical competence is a cornerstone of professional midwifery practice and an essential part of midwifery training. Law and Ethics for Midwifery is a unique and practical resource for student midwives.

Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy: Redrawing the Patient as Consumer

Governing the New NHS: Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management

The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago.

Practice-based Evidence for Healthcare: Clinical Mindlines

This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions. Firmly rooted in real practice while drawing lucidly on a great breadth of theoretical frameworks, it examines afresh how clinicians use knowledge.

Families Living with Chronic Illness and Disability: Interventions, Challenges, and Opportunities

To help families manage an intense medical-related event, Power and Dell Orto propose that a family-oriented life and living perspective should be combined with a family intervention philosophy.

The NHS Experience: The 'Snakes and Ladders' Guide for Patients and Professionals

The NHS Experience is an accessible and engaging guide for all those journeying through the NHS, whether as patients, carers or professionals.

Evidence-Based Protocols for Managing Wandering Behaviors

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award! Designated a Doody's Core Title!

Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World: Cases and Commentaries

Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice.

Equalising Opportunities, Minimising Oppression: A Critical Review of Anti-Discriminatory Policies in Health and Social Welfare

Anti-Racist Practice (ARP), Anti-Discriminatory Practice (ADP) and Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP) form a trinity of concepts, nested into one another, which have evolved in welfare services over the last fifteen years.

Is Anyone Listening?: Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence

Domestic violence is in the public eye as never before, but how often are abused women consulted or involved in the new services and policies?

A Handbook for Interprofessional Practice in the Human Services: Learning to Work Together

Introducing Social Policy

Mixed Economies Welfare

This book explains the changes that have occurred in welfare states since the early 1970s and considers some of the policy dilemmas that have arisen.

From Immigration Controls to Welfare Controls

This edited collection addresses theoretical, political and practical aspects of the connection between external immigration controls and internal welfare controls.

Consuming Health: The Commodification of Health Care

In our post-welfare society, health is increasingly viewed as a commodity and individuals are defined as 'health care consumers'.

Responding to Men in Crisis

Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health.

An Introduction to Psycho-Oncology

Cancer is extremely common and in many situations a truly frightening disease, but for too long the psychological aspects and effects have been ignored.

European Union Public Health Policy: Regional and global trends

Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights

The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world.

Regulating Medicines in Europe: Competition, Expertise and Public Health

This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU.