Suitable for nursing students and those studying on other Allied Health Professional fields, as well as those who simply wish to revise or refresh their understanding of these essential areas, this book provides a thorough grounding for the essentials of biomedical science prescribed by the NMC and Universities.
Covers skills that are fundamental to the delivery of excellent health care, and can help you to make a real difference to the quality of care that your patients receive. This text provides the know-how nurses need to interview patients, obtain health histories, perform physical examinations, and interpret findings.
Part of the popular "Incredibly Easy! Series[registered]", this title offers what you need to know to perform competent and safe maternal and neonatal nursing care. It covers fundamentals, such as fetal development, legal issues, and ethical issues; and family planning, including advantages and disadvantages to contraception methods.
Organizes developmental concerns and childhood disorders in an intuitive way, while weaving a family-centred approach to practice throughout the material. This title assists the nurse in dealing with situations to children's care: psychosocial structures of families, common milestones in development, and more.
Presents the essential clinical skills for safe and professional nursing practice. This book begins with fundamental skills covering the patient's hospital stay, specimen collection, aseptic technique and wound care, and medicines management. It then focuses on procedures related to specific body systems.
Suitable for nurses entering or needing a refresher in critical care nursing, this book presents the information on more than 100 critical care disorders, with humour, memory joggers, recurring icons to emphasize key points, and numerous quick-scan tables, illustrations, and flow charts.
This thoroughly updated resource offers comprehensive coverage of more than 500 disorders, including causes, assessment, treatment, and more. An easy-to-follow format includes chapters organized by body system. This new edition covers the latest developments on emerging diseases, advanced-practice guidelines, cultural considerations, and disease-prevention tips.
Presented in a logical and user-friendly manner, this book covers the basics of triage, such as the evidence-based triage process, and holistic care issues, such as cultural and psychological support considerations.