There have been major advances in practice nursing in recent years, and a rapid expansion in the role of the practice nurse. The Practice Nurse Handbook is an essential guide to all aspects of clinical practice, health promotion, and practice...
Pressure Area Care is an essential skill for nurses in every area of clinical practice. This beginner's guide assumes no prior knowledge and explores the causes of pressure ulcers, the practical skills needed to avoid them developing, and the...
This is a practical book for nurses on the management of patients with chronic cardiac disease. With the number of patients who have survived a heart attack but need continuous monitoring increasing, the role of nurse specialists is becoming...
Perioperative Pain Management is a practical, evidence-based guide to the effective management of perioperative pain even in the most challenging situations. It provides readers with an understanding of the physiology, pharmacology and...
Essential Midwifery Practice: Public Health highlights important developments in public health over recent years and relates the implications for midwifery practice in a clear and easily understood manner. This practical text will appeal to...
Evidence based practice is now widely accepted as a fundamental tenet of midwifery. The importance of evidence in defining midwifery policy and practice in the UK health system, and others, is acknowledged and enduring. While the development and...
Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care summarises the important developments in postnatal care in relation to recent policy and guidance and relates the recommendations to midwifery practice in a clear and easily understood manner. With...
The increasing number of individuals with co-existing substance misuse and psychiatric disorders presents a key challenge to mental health and addiction nurses. This practice-based text focuses on the management and intervention strategies to...
Learning disability nurses play a leading role in the care and support of people with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Nursing explores the theory and practice of learning disability nursing, with an emphasis on understanding the...
This book provides an up to date reference for healthcare professionals working in palliative care. It provides an overview of resuscitation in palliative care, and then looks at guidelines, decision making, including patient and family in the...
The often complex problems of the trauma patient present many challenges to front line emergency staff. Multiple injuries involving many systems of the body require careful and timely prioritisation and intervention in the emergency department....
There have been many changes in the arena of ophthalmic care since the last edition of this book was published. This fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to reflect these recent advances in care, and incorporates new information on...
Lymphoedema is managed most successfully when advice and treatment are provided at an early stage of its development. This book provides all the necessary knowledge and the skills required to identify risk factors for the development of the...
Stoma Care is a comprehensive and authoritative guide for all nurses and health care professionals with an interest in bowel conditions that may lead to stoma formation. It explores the anatomy and physiology of the urinary and gastrointestinal...
Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain and related undifferentiated symptoms. Specifically, it equips practitioners with the knowledge...
This third edition of Ophthalmic Nursing reflects recent advances in diagnosis and treatment and developments in the role of the ophthalmic nurse. It includes evidence-based procedures for care of ophthalmic patients on the ward, in outpatients,...
Many nurses work as specialist practitioners within several areas of gastrointestinal medicine, including inflammatory bowel disease, stoma care, nutrition, endoscopy and counselling. There has been a steady increase in nurse-led services and...
The benefit of having skilled nurses working in prisons has been noted in a recent report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons (Home Office 1998). This report recommended that the organisation of health care in prisons be made the responsibility...
Intravenous Therapy is a concise, accessible guide to the basic theory and practice of IV therapy. It focuses on elementary principles, avoiding more specialist practice, in order to enable students and newly qualified nurses to effectively...
Reflection is widely recognised as an invaluable tool in health care, providing fresh insights which enable practitioners to develop their own practice and improve the quality of their care. This book introduces the practitioner to the concept...
To the newly qualified or student nurse, wound management often appears a daunting prospect. Wound care is an introductory guide that addresses this vital area of practice and educates students and practitioners in the general principles of...
Nurses should have the most up-to-date knowledge to provide accurate information and competent nursing care to patients with colorectal cancer. Swan addresses those issues in a very thorough and comprehensive manner. Chapters on the role of the...
Dementia care: a practical photographic guide is a unique illustrated guide to caring for people with dementia in care homes. It presents practical prevention and management techniques for resistance to care in common activities of daily living,...
An important book by researchers from across disciplines introducing varying ideas on research, important in these days of inter-disciplinary and multi-centered investigation. The book introduces academics to new areas of endeavour and...
Palliative Nursing is an evidence-based practical guide for nurses working in areas of practice where general palliative care is provided. This may be in hospitals, nursing homes, dementia units, the community and any other clinical areas which...
Our perceptions of dementia and what dementia care should constitute have changed dramatically over the past 20 years. Research has uncovered a mass of information concerning all aspects of dementia. This wealth of information should be...
The theory behind the PDU model is outlined and the key principles underpinning it are identified. The PDU approach is clearly differentiated from the Nursing Development Unit model. Implementation of key principles is explored in depth, with...
The Emotionally Intelligent Nurse Leader offers nurse managers, health care leaders, and emerging leaders a useful guide for identifying, using, and regulating their emotions (emotional intelligence). As the author clearly demonstrates,...
Physical Examination of the Newborn at a Glance provides a comprehensive guide for all those involved with both the routine neonatal examination and the more specific full physical examination of a newborn. Covering the routine care and the...
Being an effective midwife requires a range of knowledge and skills, all of which are essential to provide competent and safe care to childbearing women and their infants. Midwifery Skills at a Glance offers an invaluable, straightforward guide...
В учебном пособии рассматривается этиология и патогенез сложных (комплексных) нарушений в развитии, своеобразие психофизического и функционального состояния, физической подготовленности, сенсорные проявления и поведенческие реакции лиц со...
Знание ультразвуковой анатомии и патофизиологии венозной системы нижних конечностей является краеугольным камнем врачебного мастерства хирургов, занимающихся лечением заболеваний вен. Учебное пособие предназначено для общих и сосудистых...
Альтернативная медицина – это различные системы исцеления, которые не относятся к классическим методам лечения и основы которых не преподаются в высших медицинских учреждениях. Польза их научно до сих пор не доказана, однако больные хроническими...
В книге рассмотрены современные методы и технические средства применения физиотерапии в практике стоматологии и челюстно-лицевой хирургии; приведены основные определения и терминология, используемые в лечебной практике; дана современная...
Учебное пособие составлено с учетом содержания программы подготовки студентов факультетов: лечебного, педиатрического, высшего сестринского образования на основании национальных стандартов Российской Федерации ГОСТ Р 52623.3—2015 «Технологии...
Книга, подготовленная коллективом авторов, является первым изданием подобного рода по оториноларингологии. Авторами приведены 25 наиболее часто встречающихся в оториноларингологической практике симптомов, каждому из которых посвящен раздел...
Метод речевой аудиометрии занимает существенное место в клинической практике специалистов разного профиля. В книге приводятся сведения о психофизиологии речевых процессов, рассказывается о подходах к формированию речевого материала для...
Методическое пособие по неотложным состояниям по оториноларингологии предназначено для студентов медицинских ВУЗов, врачей интернов и клинических ординаторов оториноларингологов, в котором представлены различные виды часто встречающейся острой...
В книге представлены современные способы местной и общей анестезии в оториноларингологии. Впервые обобщены современные подходы анестезиологического обеспечения в практике оториноларинголога. Освещены разделы местной инфильтрационной,...
Книга посвящена сложной в клиническом, хирургическом и прогногностическом отношении проблеме – лечении злокачественных заболеваний носа и околоносовых пазух. Известные клиницисты представили современные взгляды, авторские методики хирургического...
Несмотря на длительную историю научных изысканий и практической деятельности, проблема экссудативных средних отитов до настоящего времени в полной мере не решена. Широкая распространенность патологии, рост заболеваемости, наблюдающийся в...
Dopo la grande accoglienza dell'articolo intitolato ”Qual ? il ruolo dello psicologo di fronte al nuovo Coronavirus?” che ho pubblicato su C?tedra Abierta de Psicolog?a y Neurociencias lo scorso 12 febbraio 2020, e dato l'interesse suscitato tra...
Ap?s a ?tima recep??o do artigo intitulado ”Qual o papel do psic?logo diante do novo virus?”, que publiquei na C?tedra Aberta de Psicologia e Neuroci?ncia em 12 de fevereiro de 2020, e, tendo em vista o interesse despertado entre colegas...
Despu?s de la gran acogida del art?culo titulado “?Cu?l es el papel del psic?logo ante el nuevo Coronavirus (COVID-19)?” que publiqu? en la C?tedra Abierta de Psicolog?a y Neurociencias el pasado 12 de febrero del 2020, y en vistas al inter?s...
Бронхиальная астма – заболевание крайне неприятное и пугающее. Поэтому основной задачей данной книги является создание таких представлений в головах у людей, болеющих этим страданием, или их родителей, которые позволят им вести жизнь, не очень...
Эта книга написана для людей, которые так или иначе столкнулись с проблемами аллергических болезней, заболев сами или пытаясь помочь своим близким. Таких людей в популяции очень много, и профессор Н.П. Шабалов в своем учебнике «Детские болезни»...
В пособии представлены общие принципы диагностики болезней, которые в учебной литературе до сих пор подробно не разбирались. В книге даются алгоритмы выбора диагностических гипотез, разъясняются основные понятия, неоднозначно трактуемые в...
In this book, Dr. Dario Polisano will give you the answers that no one has ever given you regarding food and nutrition. He will explain how to achieve psycho-physical well-being, resetting and detoxifying your body, followed by a gradual...