Guides the decision-making process using a system of assessment that identifies those patients who need immediate life saving treatment and those who need hospital care. This book connects emergency care with the community and secondary care and places it in the context of patient care pathways.

Focuses on the issues, responsibilities, and roles important for providing contemporary community health nursing care. The upstream thinking approach emphasizes health promotion efforts within a community to address the precursors of poor health. Detailed case studies provide a community component for each step of the nursing process.

A guide to the differential diagnosis of symptoms commonly seen by community pharmacists. Organised by body system, it includes chapters that begin with a system overview and a brief guide to history-taking.

An illustrated guide to the differential diagnosis of symptoms commonly seen by community pharmacists. It examines the symptoms or conditions according to background; prevalence; and, aetiology, arriving at a differential diagnosis, questions to ask the patient, and conditions to eliminate.

Deals with the field of community public health. This book reflects the positive emphasis on developing and describing various services in relation to their purpose and client/user group.

Addresses medical conditions, and psycho-social development problems. This book, written by a nurse, health visitor and teacher, uses a problem-based approach that relates to conditions in everyday practice. It seeks to serve as a companion for the healthcare professionals who treat children and young adults.

Aims to help pharmacists advise on complementary and alternative medicine, and recommend what is available and what may be appropriate for a particular patient. Giving an overview of CAM therapies, this book also focuses on specific conditions, with detail to those relevant to pharmacists - such as asthma and pain relief.

For those working in maternity care who seek the evidence base for therapeutic approaches, this title offers a guide to the principles and practice of complementary therapies, and their application to expectant and new mothers and their babies.