A guide to balancing academic work, placements and home life to help students to stay the course and succeed at their studies!

Provides a structured programme of support for nursing students and newly registered nurses. This up-to-date new edition is packed with advice on everything a newly registered nurse might encounter, from how to choose your first nursing post to the best way to escalate concerns and report incidents.

Part of the "Illustrated Colour Text" series, this book provides an illustrated short account of human anatomy for medical and other health science students. It includes a high proportion of cadavaric photographs prepared especially for this book. It concentrates on the clinical relevance of the anatomy.

Designed to complement "Forbes and Jackson's Color Atlas and Text of Clinical Medicine 3rd Edition", this is a guide to the most common clinical disorders. Containing 525 photographs, it is suitable for use during clinical practice. It also presents signs you see in clinical practice, and is well-indexed to help you easily reach a diagnosis.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the fifth edition of this prize-winning title retains the high level of illustration and accessibility that has made it so popular worldwide with medical students and trainees approaching clinical specialty exams. Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics has been translated into eight languages over its life.

A breakthrough approach to understanding and relating to someone living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

Imaging is a critical component of the management of patients having radiotherapy. This book covers the basic principles of the main imaging modalities; site specific chapters give best practice for individual tumour sites, and it also contains information on radioprotection and regulatory issues.

Designed to support the widely recognised PARIHS framework, which works as a guide to plan, action and evaluate the implementation of evidence into practice, this book provides a very practical 'how-to' guide for facilitating the whole process.

Using her experience of working with older people with dementia, Grethe Berg explains how mealtimes can be used as opportunities for meaningful interaction, socialising and reminiscing. This book provides much-needed help and practical strategies for care managers and carers to reclaim mealtimes as positive experiences for people with dementia.

Birth centres are suitable for every woman whose birth is straightforward, which accounts for around 75 per cent of all women. This guide shows how small scale maternity provision has a profound clinical and organisational advantage over large scale hospital provision, including saving of time and money by reducing intervention rates.

An astonishing and brave memoir of life, love, and assisted death, from the author of White Houses.

Honest drawings of the first year of parenthood.

Explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding. This guide is filled with helpful advice, medical facts and real-life stories that can help mothers understand how and why breastfeeding works and how they can use it to more deeply connect with their children and their own bodies without fear, inhibition, or embarrassment.

A guide to childbirth. It explains why the natural birthing process, when left to its own devices, can proceed so beautifully on its own. It teaches you: how to create a safe, comfortable environment for birth in any setting; tips for maximising your chances of an unmedicated labour and birth; and, the risks of anaesthesia and caesareans.

Combining a disability rights and a feminist perspective, and based on in-depth interviews with disabled people in a range of circumstances, this book explores the experience of receiving help with daily living activities. In so doing, Morris challenges the rhetoric of community care policies.

Brings together key research in the ward and provides a forum for the concerns of all involved. Contributors are drawn from a wide range of perspectives, including service users, lay support groups, midwives, social scientists, obstetricians, nursing and law. This book is timely and topical and covers a number of current debates.

A person's sense of hope is essential to bereavement counselling and nursing. This book brings together research and thinking on hope to give guidance to professionals working with the bereaved. Taking in a variety of sources, this book gives a comprehensive view of the developments and possibilities in hope-inspiring bereavement counselling.

Written in the same format as the successful Griffith's "Instructions for Patients" and Schmitt's "Instructions for Pediatric Patients". This book provides coverage of the developments in diagnostics, treatments, medications, nutrition, and other aspects in management of the disorders and diseases.