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Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice 3ed
Paperback,
24/11/2015,
£26.99
£24.29
The third edition of this highly-regarded text has been revised and updated throughout. It introduces readers to the importance of the concepts of power and empowerment; provides a methodology to plan, implement and evaluate public health programmes; and investigates the implications of empowerment on public health practice.
Leadership in Health Care
Paperback,
15/10/2015,
£26.99
£24.29
Now with a companion website featuring author videos, free journal articles and quizzes to help students understand and revise the theory, this third edition has also been updated throughout with new activities and practical examples.
Leadership and Management in Healthcare 3ed
Paperback,
27/03/2017,
£25.99
£23.39
Drawing on the most up-to-date policies and professional regulations, and with an emphasis on the provision of person-centred care, the authors - both of whom have backgrounds in clinical practice, education and management - show how essential leadership and management skills can be applied across a range of situations in everyday practice.
Changing nursing practice
Paperback,
24/12/1997,
£17.99
£16.19
Aims to explore how nurses can serve as agents of change in the drive towards better working practice. This book reflects research on managing change in nursing practice and the developments in NHS legislation. It includes material on various stress release methods and explores the concept of change theory.
Nursing Process: A Global Concept
Paperback,
24/11/2005,
£30.99
£25.59
Presents a history of the nursing process. This book analyzes its use in use in various fields, such as managerial technologies and psychiatric nursing.
Leadership in Healthcare 2ed
Paperback,
21/02/2012,
£24.99
£22.49
New edition of an established key leadership and management text, fully updated and with two new chapters on current hot topics - emotional intelligence and interprofessional teamworking. Praised for its accessibility and engaging style and ability to bridge the gap between theory, research and practice.
Essentials of Nursing Leadership
Paperback,
05/12/2016,
£22.99
£20.69
This new approach to leadership focuses on how students can develop leadership skills right from the start of their nursing programme through to transitioning to their first role. Real stories from nursing leaders, practitioners and students are included to inspire students and show them how they can impact positively on practice, whatever level they are working at.
Business Planning for Healthcare Management
Paperback,
01/09/2000,
£24.99
£22.49
Addresses planning strategies that work for healthcare organisations. This book is suitable for hospital managers, clinical practitioners and others new to management.
Healthcare Management
Paperback,
01/09/2011,
£29.99
£26.99
A comprehensive, research-based introduction to healthcare management, covering healthcare systems, services, organisations and management.
Complete Facilitator's Handbook
Paperback,
01/05/1999,
£35.00
£31.50
Helps facilitators to understand and develop a personal style to their work. Analytical in approach and highly structured, this title offers theoretical content on the fundamental thinking underlying facilitation (which includes exploration of its dimensions and modes, whole person learning).
Nursing the Image
7,
31/08/2000,
£26.99
£24.29
Julia Hallam considers the 'image' of nursing and how it has been constructed, contributing to the debates surrounding gender and occupational identity.
Managerialism and Nursing
7,
24/06/1999,
£28.99
£26.09
Examines the effect of new management strategies on nurses, their morale and the profession as a whole.
Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare 2ed
Paperback,
15/03/2013,
£31.99
£28.79
Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare explores the basis of practice development and its aims, implementation and impact on healthcare, to enable readers to be confident in their approaches to practice development.
PARTNERS IN LEARNING: A Guide to Support and Assessment in Nurse Education
Paperback,
28/02/2002,
£21.95
£19.76
This text for nurses involved in nurse education and learning, discusses new government initiatives which place greater emphasis on service providers and universities in nurse development. Topics covered include teaching styles, motivation, learning theories, and assessment and legal aspects.
Learning Medicine
Paperback,
13/12/2007,
£19.99
£17.99
A definitive careers guide giving true insight into the meaning and process of becoming a doctor.
Economics of Health Care Financing
Paperback,
26/08/2004,
£26.25
£23.63
This edition examines the economics of health care systems in a non-technical manner. It is written in a highly accessible manner for economists and non-economists alike. It is very timely and includes the latest evidence of health care reforms and their implications from a number of countries with different systems.
Mastering Mentorship
Paperback,
15/05/2013,
£20.99
£18.89
An essential guide to mentorship in health and social care.
Purchasing to Improve Health Systems Performance
7,
01/03/2005,
£24.99
£22.49
This book addresses the gap of areas of the central role the purchasing function plays in many health system reforms and provides an up-to-date analysis of the evidence on different approaches to purchasing and support for policy-makers and practitioners as they formulate purchasing strategies.
Integrated Theory & Knowledge Development in Nursing
Paperback,
16/11/2010,
£44.99
£40.49
Helps you understand how nursing theory and patterns of knowing complement each other to assist nurses in making choices in research and practice. This title examines various concepts of knowledge development, encouraging you to see the relationship between the different types of knowledge.
Clinical governance & best value
Paperback,
23/10/2003,
£25.99
£23.39
A handbook for members of the health care team, showing use of examples and checklists, how the clinical governance imperatives can be addressed and achieved in order to deliver quality patient-focussed health care.
Implementing Excellence in Health Care
Paperback,
01/07/2010,
£23.99
£21.59
This practical book considers practice issues in healthcare and explores the key issues and factors which influence the workings of a healthcare organization.
Practical Supervision
Paperback,
21/04/2014,
£15.99
£14.39
Concise and jargon-free, this introduction to supervision is designed to equip all those in the helping professions who are starting out with the theoretical, practical and ethical base needed for effective practice. It includes helpful suggestions for using creative methods and short exercises to support learning and development throughout.
Creative Supervision Across Modalities
Paperback,
15/12/2013,
£19.99
£17.99
This book takes a theoretical look at creative supervision, discussing the background, philosophy and creative technique, and demonstrates, through a series of chapters written by experienced practitioners from a variety of disciplines, that creative approaches to supervision are applicable and beneficial across modalities.
Practical Guide to Transformative Supervision for the Helping professions
Paperback,
15/09/2011,
£16.99
£15.29
This book explores what is meant by transformative supervision and how it can be undertaken. It examines the key factors that contribute to the transformative function, such as the role of observation and questioning, the importance of working with emotions, and exploring intuition.
Supervision as Transformation
Paperback,
15/07/2011,
£18.99
£17.09
Supervision provides a positive space for compassion, inquiry, reflection, and above all development. The chapters in this book are written from a wide range of perspectives, all of which take a practical approach to supervision and show how transformative it can be when approached in the right way.
Business of Nurse Management: A Toolkit for Success
Paperback,
15/03/2012,
£51.95
£46.76
Nurse managers often assume their positions without sufficient knowledge of the nuts and bolts of managing staff and supplies. This volume provides time-tested tools, templates, and guidance that new nurse managers, administrators, and educators can use immediately to effectively manage staff and supplies while promoting quality patient care.
Best Practice in Professional Supervision
Paperback,
15/06/2010,
£19.99
£17.99
Best Practice in Professional Supervision is an authoritative guide to being an excellent supervisor, covering the role, functions and dispositions involved. The authors consider basic skills, the practicalities of forming and maintaining the supervision relationship, and the organisational context and culture of supervision.
To Thine Own Self be True: Guide to Assertiveness in the Workplace
Paperback,
01/12/1995,
£7.95
£7.16
Gender and the professional predicament in nursing
Paperback,
01/02/1995,
£25.99
£23.39
Examines the ways in which our understanding of nursing is gendered, and how our notion of nursing is connected to our idea of what it is to be a woman. This work explores the implications this connection has for the status of nursing as a profession, and examines some of the fundamental questions that the nursing profession has tried to address.
Providing Quality in the Public Sector
Paperback,
01/03/2003,
£25.99
£23.39
Argues that if public services are to be reformed or improved, achieving the best possible quality of service is essential. This title presents a model for understanding quality and putting it into practice. It examines quality philosophies and approaches. It presents overviews of policy on quality in central and local government.
Nurse Management Demystified
Paperback,
01/12/2006,
£12.99
£11.69
This Demystified title offers practical, easy-to-understand management information to nursing students, current nurses, and other medical facility administrators faced with the task of managing (and motivating) their staff.
Problem-based Learning in Nursing
7,
13/04/2000,
£19.99
£17.99
This text provides first-hand guidance for those involved in nurse education who are interested in the introduction of this strategy for teaching and learning. Topics covered include the nature of PBL, developing a problem-based curriculum, facilitor preparation and assessment for PBL.
Group Dynamics and Organizational Culture: Effective Work Groups and Organizations
Paperback,
28/11/2012,
£30.99
£27.89
Furnham and Xenikou provide an overview of the classic and contemporary theories debated within organizational culture, grounding debates within the context of group dynamics. This psychological focus ties in with OB modules, allowing students to develop their understanding of the psychological processes underpinning organizational life.
Successful Mentoring in Nursing 2ed
Paperback,
17/12/2013,
£17.99
£16.19
A concise and practical guide to becoming a nursing mentor
Regulating Healthcare Quality
7,
16/06/2004,
£26.99
£24.29
Doctors and nurses increasingly face a number of dilemmas with regulating health quality issues. This book focuses on the legal and professional conflicts and issues that can arise from regulating health care quality. It spells out and discusses the issues, taking an academic approach.
Effective Management in Long Term Care Organisations
Paperback,
01/04/2008,
£18.00
£16.20
Effective Management in Long-term Care Organisations is a unique combination of up-to-date management theory and practice designed for students and new care managers in nursing homes, residential homes and the variety of care settings in the community.
Medical Statistics Made Easy
Hardback,
04/09/2003,
£12.99
£11.69
A concise, easy-to-ready guide for all medical students and professionals who require an understanding of key statistical techniques. The material is presented in a consistent, user-friendly format with each statistical technique being graded by ease of use and frequency of appearance in mainstream medical journals.
Nursing Care from Theory to Practice
Paperback,
15/03/2004,
£21.45
£19.31
The relationship between nursing theory and practice has been an area of intense professional debate for many years. With new governmental directives relating to how nurses care for patients, the debate continues about how and why nurses care has never been more important. This book looks at the key issues in this field.
Practical Leadership and Management in Nursing
Paperback,
14/12/2009,
£24.99
£22.49
U.K. adaptation of: Effective leadership and management in nursing / Eleanor J. Sullivan, Phillip J. Decker.
Managing in Health and Social Care 2ed
Paperback,
22/02/2010,
£30.99
£27.89
Tells about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. This book focuses on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. It employs examples from social care and health settings to illustrate techniques for managing people, resources, information, projects and change.
Public Manager Case Book: Making Decisions in a Complex World
Paperback,
18/09/2002,
£42.99
£38.69
A collection of eight public administration cases that aims to help students practice the decision-making skills they need in their jobs as public managers. Each case includes background data such as budgeting priorities, political imperatives and zoning issues.
Leadership, Management and Team Working in Nursing
Paperback,
12/07/2011,
£18.99
£17.09
This book helps student nurses to understand and develop their role as leaders, managers and team workers in a changing and challenging health care environment.
Planning and Budgeting Skills for Health and Social Work Man
Paperback,
19/03/2012,
£21.99
£19.79
Provides managers and leaders within Health and Social Care organisations with essential planning and budgeting skills.
NHS Plc
Paperback,
21/09/2005,
£9.99
£8.99
Presents an analysis of the transition from a comprehensive and universal service to New Labour's 'mixed economy of health care', in which hospitals with foundation status, loosely supervised by an independent regulator, are run on largely market principles. This book also aims to demystify slogans such as 'diversity' and 'local ownership'.
Bringing User Experience to Healthcare Improvement: The Concepts, Methods and Practices of Experience-based Design
Paperback,
20/03/2007,
£29.99
£26.99
Presents a way of bringing about improvements in healthcare services by being user-focussed. This work explores the underlying concepts, methods and practices of EBD, and offers an approach to healthcare customer satisfaction. It also includes a foreword by lynne Maher, Head of Innovation Practice, University Of Warwick, Coventry.
Essential Skills for Managing in Healthcare
Paperback,
25/10/2010,
£19.99
£17.99
Identifies the critical skills needed to hit the ground running as a manager in healthcare and lay the groundwork for future success.
Theory and Practice of Leadership 2ed
Paperback,
15/12/2011,
£36.99
£33.29
The Second Edition of this esteemed text explores leadership from the head to the toe of an organization - whether that leadership is traditional or virtual, and whether the organization is corporate or non-profit.
Leadership, Management and Team Working in Nursing 2ed
Paperback,
08/05/2015,
£19.99
£17.99
Written with the needs of student nurses firmly in mind this book explains the importance of leadership, management and teamwork and enables students to apply theory into practice.
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