Explains how to approach integrated care in a way that combines Chinese herbal medicine with Western medicine to enhance and improve medical care for patients with cancer. Each chapter covers a different type of cancer, introducing the conventional medical understanding of that cancer, including its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment.

...every nurse can benefit from reading this. It can teach us all a great deal about our relationships with other people and with ourselves. Buy it.' Philip Burnard, Nursing Times

This book examines aspects of care such as training, ethnicity, sexuality and competence in practice. Topics include the nature of touch, how physical contact is intended and experienced, carers' duty of care, and risk management. The book also explores management considerations of best value, care standards, performance monitoring and inspection.

Intrapartum care has undergone profound changes over the past fifty years. Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care takes a broad sweep to examine these changes and their intersection with midwifery, in particular their impact on the midwife's role during labour and birth. It is an invaluable guide for all midwives.

This book will introduce the skills required to work with the challenges of community nurse activities, from working in people's homes, organizing yourself, working with carers, assessment skills and working with other professions.

Explains the world of research both for those who must use it as part of evidence-based practice and those undertaking research. This title provides guidelines on critiquing research articles and producing successful reviews of the literature, with many tips on producing assignments that really work.

In this accessible guide the authors outline ways in which care homes can help families to become partners in the caring process. Using case examples, quotations and research-based evidence, the authors offer advice and guidelines for supporting relatives who choose to be involved in the care of people with dementia living in a care home.

A controversial argument against the notion that breast-feeding is superior to bottle-feeding

This book presents a variety of experience-based perspectives on working in palliative care. Emphasising the use of self and the importance of reflective practice in professional work, the book will be of relevance to professionals in medical and social care who want to gain a deeper understanding of their work and of the motivation underlying it.

The JRCALC Pocket Book is the easy-to-use guide to emergency care for busy healthcare professionals on the road and in the community. An extensive medicines formulary and Page for Age tables are included, which make medicines administration safer. The 2021 edition has been brought up to date with all the latest significant changes that have published on the JRCALC apps.

When her mother-in-law, Nancy, was diagnosed with Alzheimers, Andrea Gillies made the decision to care for her full time. 'Keeper' is the result of this - a frank, moving and utterly gripping account of Alzheimers and its impact on one family.

Andrea Gillies' brilliantly cogent investigations into the way Alzheimer's works are interwoven with her mother-in-law's unravelling grasp on reality.

The description of each activity includes step-by-step instructions, as well as tips on how to adapt it for small or large groups, for individuals at home or in an organization, or people who are bedridden.

Includes plenty of practical tips for caring for someone with dementia and on staying sane whilst doing so, a resources and useful contacts section and author's reflections on caring from a distance, and on when caring comes to an end.

Provides snapshot definitions of concepts which all nursing students and practitioners need to know.

Concise, accessible introduction to this expanding and interdisciplinary field of study.

Focusing on theoretical, policy and practice issues predicted to become increasingly important, this book looks at dementia care across the globe, including how policy is developed, and the range of approaches that can be taken, with insight from clinicians, policy influencers and researchers who discuss case studies and effective strategies.

This work contains useful information on approximately 100 carefully selected topics pertinent to modern practice in clinical general surgery. Wherever possible the information is presented in a uniform manner, with the focus on diagnosis and management.

A compact, easy-to-read text for trainee obstetricians and gynaecologists. This book provides information on 100 major topics regarded as essential knowledge to pass a postgraduate examination.