Written with a focus on multi-disciplinary integrated care systems and a greater emphasis on prevention and patient autonomy, this title incorporates the most recent evidence-based guidelines and developments in nursing roles and contraceptive methods. An invaluable guide to women's health nursing.

The definitive guide for patients and their families, written by reknowned expert J. Eric Ahlskog.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and updated to include more assessment tools including the ABCDE approach and Sepsis 6, this bestselling textbook develops students' skills and confidence in all aspects of assessment and care planning.

Ideal for quick reference, this pocket-sized guide to patient consent puts all the crucial information at your fingertips. It covers all you need to know on: the underlying principles of consent; consent and adult patients; consent and adults who lacks capacity; children and consent; and young people and consent.

With a range of coaching tips, activities, scenarios and reflective exercises, this book enables you to translate current research on patient safety in to everyday good practice, by increasing understanding of the key concepts and helping you to develop strategies to minimise the risk of patient harm.

Designed for final year students and graduates studying kinesiology, exercise science, physical education, public health, preventive medicine and human biology, this title looks at the health benefits associated with a physically active lifestyle and a moderate level of fitness versus the potential deleterious consequences of physical inactivity.

Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically, and in detail, the relationship between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the role of exercise in the prevention and management of a wide range of important conditions.

Physical Activity Epidemiology, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of population-level studies on the effects of physical activity on disease. The text summarizes the current knowledge, details the methods used to obtain the findings, and considers the implications for public health.

This book addresses all the necessary requirements for fulfilling the practice teacher role effectively in healthcare.

The Principles of Endodontics, Third Edition is a contemporary and easy to read guide on why and how safe and effective endodontic treatment is carried out. Fully illustrated, it is an ideal introduction to endodontics.

This new member of the Oxford Specialist Handbook series provides a practical, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach to healthcare within the prison environment, taking a patient-centred perspective to provide complete treatment for the person in detention

This book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market - and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. This will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of Management, Public Policy and Health Care Management.

This book explores sociology and psychology relevant to nursing and explains why it is so important to understand these disciplines in order to provide holistic, person-centred care. This third edition has been updated according to the latest NMC standards and requirements.

Presents key themes relating to this challenge, including the means of measuring obesity, the most recent prevalence and trends, the health consequences and causes of obesity along with approaches to counter obesity both at an individual and a population level.

"A thoughtful, thorough and readable account of the history and current practice of qualitative research in health." - Louise Keogh, Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

A short, uplifting account of hope and healing by the author of Adventures in Human Being.

Guides the practitioners through solving serious spinal pathologies. This pocketbook offers advice on appropriate investigations. It gives readers the opportunity to utilise clinical reasoning processes as they work through the multiple case histories of real patients with serious pathology of the spine.

Do you need to conduct or understand research to support your studies or evidence-based practice in healthcare? Ensure that you have all the research tools at your finger tips with this quick reference guide covering both quantitative and qualitative research.

Many undergraduates rely upon the coverage of the respiratory medicine available in large textbooks of medicine such as "Kumar", "Davidson" and "Souhami". This book has the advantages of the "ICT" series, and offers coverage of the subject.

A clear and accessible introduction to safeguarding adults in nursing practice with a range of clients and across different settings.

Using the hormonal changes that occur around menopause as a springboard to transition from a woman's reproductive years to her self-productive years, this book gives positive, life-affirming guidance on how to make the second half of life, the best half.

This book will be of interest to mental health care professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, who treat patients with sexual disorders.