Includes entries that address the changing world of nursing and healthcare services. This title focuses on the needs of nurses and healthcare practitioners. It is suitable for those involved in nursing and healthcare.

Suitable for pre-registration students, this title includes the essential procedures needed to meet the competencies of the Essential Skills Clusters (NMC2007). It presents evidence-based clinical skills, enabling student nurses to deliver clinically effective patient-focused care.

Presents clinical skills procedures related to the various aspects of a person's care. This title includes over 350 clinical procedures that nurses must know. It promotes the practice based on the research findings. It focuses on in patient-centred care. It is of interest to novices as well as expert nurses.

This handy pocket sized book equips the student with the essential information that they will need whilst on placement. It has a clinical/practical focus and is easily accessible. The book contains important and common terminology such as standard abbreviations, basic drug calculations and standard CPR procedures. The book also has wipe-down laminated pages making it ideal for use on a ward. ..

This handy pocket sized text provides the nursing student with the essential information that they will need on placement. This book will act as a super quick reference guide to drugs on the ward, it contains information on common abbreviations, sites of drug administration, and a quick re-cap on how drugs work. The book also contains details of the main drug families used for treating the most

The ability to calculate drug doses accurately and quickly is an essential skill. This book uses a diagnostic test to pinpoint any weaknesses in the arithmetic required and is followed by exercises to remedy them. Explanations and exercises cover the calculations required to administer tablets, mixtures, and injections.

This handy pocket-sized text provides students with the essential information that they will need on placement, acting as a super quick reference guide to assist nursing students with calculations and medication administration. The text contains basic mathematical concepts, standard formulas, and essential information on safe medication administration. The laminated wipe down paper will be very

Offers a comprehensive introduction to nursing research concepts and methods. This textbook includes guidelines for evaluating research and applying scientific evidence to practice. It provides coverage that includes qualitative and quantitative research, appraising and critiquing research, and clinical decision-making using research information.

Covers maternity nursing and pediatric nursing. This book includes illustrations, photos, boxes, and tables that clarify key content and help you quickly find essential information.

Features research-based blend of practice and theory related to the issues that impact nursing management and leadership. This work covers topics that include the nursing professional's role in law and ethics, staffing and scheduling, cultural considerations, care management, human resources, outcomes management, and time and stress management.

Offers comprehensive coverage of various major concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. This book highlights growth and development throughout the life span, emphasizing normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage.

Offering coverage of nursing in the community, this easy-to-read textbook provides the essential information you need to know for clinical practice - from nursing roles and care settings to vulnerable population groups. It features a practical, community-oriented approach, with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention.

A guide on how to get into and survive a pre-registration nursing course. Covering a wide range of topics it helps students to: make the most of clinical placements; make drug dosage calculations and administer medication; write assignments; avoid plagiarism; cope with stress; and, understand nursing models, theories and philosophies.

Offers a look at 49 theorists of historical, international, and significant importance. This book includes case studies and critical thinking activities that help bridge the gap between theory and application.

Offers a way to understand the subject of psychiatric nursing from a practical clinical perspective.

Tells the story of one little boy and his journey through childhood life up to his mid-teens. This title provides an insight into psychotherapy - how it works and what it can mean to people on a practical level.

Emphasises on health promotion through medication monitoring and patient education. This book includes introductory units that ground the reader in basic principles of pharmacology and medication administration.

This best-selling dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions in an authoritative and accessible way. A must-have for all nurses, students of nursing, medical practitioners and professionals including midwives and health visitors.

To promote safe practice, nursing schools test for basic arithmetic both at interview stage and during the 3 years of nurse training. This book aims to help you cope with these tests, offering a step-by-step approach, which will take you from base-level knowledge to competency both in drug calculations and the ability to read drug dosage charts.

Suitable for clinicians in their practice and students on core clinical placements - musculoskeletal, neurology, respiratory, this book is designed to be an aide memoir in assessment and treatment planning with an access to key facts and figures.