Nursing

The book includes plenty of exercises to hone your skills along with a self-assessment exercise!

A unique guide to coping and thriving in the NHS today. The book is wholly practice-focused, speaking to current standards of care for patients, and current working conditions for staff in the NHS. Written by academics specialising in mental health, nursing and well-being, each chapter provides guidance and support to pre and post-registration nurses to manage and persevere as a nurse today.

This guide to assertiveness skills for nurses is designed to meet the needs of individual nurses, and for classroom and workshop use. Nurses can also use the many exercises in the book with their patients to help them find more assertive and empowered ways to react and be proactive. The author's premise is that assertiveness is a skill, like giving an injection or taking a nursing history, which requires adequate and systematic practice. It also should be viewed within the context of one's own health and well-being.

This nursing guide leads you expertly through the care plan process. Master the concepts and process of care planning with updated guidance on following the evidence-based standards.

This book will be extremely useful for students in the early stages of their training. By integrating clinical skills information with core basic scientific knowledge, it allows students to apply theory to practice as they develop essential clinical skills and basic problem solving skills."

Clinical Skills for Student Nurses is a comprehensive learning resource for student nurses. The book maps the development of the student nurse in relation to clinical skill acquisition, focusing not only on the dexterity aspects, but also on the underpinning theory and the attitudinal aspects of skill delivery.

Holloway provides a pocket reference (4.5x8) with answers to questions she has frequently heard from students and practicing nurses, some relating to specialties and others to general topics such as assessment, anatomy and pathology.

This resource is designed this text for both the practicing nurse and nursing student as a reference tool to use in acute care, community and home care settings.

Pioneering Theories in Nursing traces the origins of nursing theories through their founders. Unlike other nursing theory texts, this book provides the personal story on some of the greatest nursing leaders, clinicians and theorists to date so the reader can understand the context within which the nursing pioneer developed their theory

For health-care providers who wish to learn Spanish in order to communicate effectively with patients, this text offers a first course in the language. It is a classroom text that uses readings, exercises and interactive activities to integrate the Spanish medical vocabulary, grammar and colloquial terms that nurses, doctors, dentists and medical technicians most need.

This widely used textbook is designed for students or professionals in medical fields who have little or no formal background in Spanish. In addition, rich cultural notes explain Latino customs and communication styles.