Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices.

Covering the what, why and how in easily accessible language, this book explores the common challenges faced by nursing students on placement and gives practical advice on how to overcome them. Updated to the latest NMC standards and written by a team of experienced lecturers and nurses.

Human Factors in Healthcare educates the reader about what human factors actually entail, providing an insight into the processes of self-awareness, communication, leadership in a crisis, decision making, co-ordination and situational awareness, as well as how they currently function in these areas and ways they might improve.

Offers the reader an autobiography of someone who lives with a significant disability. This book is supported by SCOPE who have provided an introduction and informative commentary about cerebral palsy. It provides information and inspiration to Scope members and those whose lives are touched by CP.

The 'revolutionary' (David Mitchell), profoundly beautiful memoir about living as a vulnerablebody that rewrites our understanding of disability, desire and family.

Suitable for nurses in the emergency department or critical care unit, this pocket-sized book of clinical tools provides access to essential information ICU/ER nurses need. It covers: abnormal assessment findings; laboratory values, including critical values; complications of diseases and procedures; and, IV infusion rates.

Bringing together the information required for a practitioner working in sexual and reproductive health, this book is a resource for use in day to day practice. It provides an integrated educational resource for nurses. It also highlights the need for training and education programmes to be developed with the concept of integrated care in mind.

In Interprofessional Collaboration the benefits of collaboration for patients and carers are confirmed through theoretical models illustrated with case studies of existing examples.

Part of the topical Nursing and Health Care Practice series, this text offers a host of practice based, real-life scenarios to show theory in practice along with a real-life case studies, boxed features and new activities to develop critical thinking and understanding.

An appreciation of interprofessional working is required knowledge for anyone undertaking a course in health, education and social care. Illustrated with case studies throughout, this glowing new edition provides pre-qualifying students with an accessible overview of the role, work and skills of a wide range of professionals.

Blending memoir, polemic and feminist philosophy, Intervals is a deeply moving work that harnesses the political potential of grief to raise essential questions about choice, interdependence and end-of-life care.

Covering all the skills, theory and knowledge that students will need to know in order to succeed, this book is packed full of information relating to the core modules and key topics taught in the first year of a nursing degree.

A handy book which provides snapshot guides to the main theories and issues in healthcare education.

An authoritative and deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for change, from the award-winning author and journalist.

An authoritative and deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for change, from the award-winning author and journalist.

Provides information about the laws which apply to death. This book guides the reader through a complex area of law, and covers a range of topics from the details of how a body should be laid out and the different religious practices, to the laws relating to resuscitation, the coroner's court and intended changes following the Shipman Reports.

Describes relationship between degenerative disease and physiological malfunction within the body. This book demonstrates how an integrated therapy, which draws on a variety of approaches, may be used to assess the body as a whole and to promote restoration of health, without the use of expensive drugs or equipment.

Children with a debilitating condition like cerebral palsy receive treatment from a variety of specialised therapists at once. This book documents and builds on the experiences of a team of special educators in south India, who have been experimenting with a strategy for working with children with disabilities.

This book will show public health students how to use information to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of their population.