An ideal text for medical and health professions education programs that are shortening and condensing their coverage of embryology. It combines descriptions with over 400 full-color illustrations, taken from the "Langman's Medical Embryology".

This book offers a solution to the familiar dilemma of decoding communication difficulties for learners developing the language of schooling. The author takes a sociocultural Vygotskian approach to reinterpret international research in language disabilities, namely specific language impairment, communication difficulties, dyslexia and deafness.

For speech-language pathologists who work with bilingual children or adults, this book presents current researchon bilingual populations and the best practices for working with them.

It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to HurtChristie Watson was a nurse for twenty years.

A powerful, timely and incredibly moving memoir in the bestselling tradition of Blake Morrison, Joan Didion and Ruth Picardie.

Offers an interdisciplinary introduction to death, dying, and bereavement. Integrating the experiential and the scholarly, as well as the emotional and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, this seventh edition provides coverage of death studies.

Gaining a first job as a nurse or midwife is becoming not only highly competitive but an increasingly more complex process.

This is a unique and practical resource for student midwives written by an experienced midwifery lecturer. It draws on a wide variety of real life case studies and enables student midwives to consider and prepare for ethical and legal dilemmas they may face in clinical practice.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and written specifically for nursing students, this book provides a crash course in law and associated professional issues, using case studies and activities to demystify complex legal concepts and jargon.

With a practical focus, this book will equip readers with the skills, knowledge and confidence necessary to lead person-centred dementia care. The areas explored are relevant across a range of care settings, and to all those in, or starting, either a managerial or non-managerial leadership role within a dementia care service.

This well-respected core text provides a comprehensive solid foundation for students of nursing and practitioners who care for and or support people with learning/intellectual disabilities in a range of health and social care settings and scenarios.

Offers real ways to improve quality of experience for people with learning disabilities in all areas of life. This title reflects practice developments including the impact of changing policy and legislation on the nature and configuration of services.

Presents you the book as well as the eBook giving you the printed book, and access to the complete book content electronically. This title is suitable for students of learning disabilities covering a variety of topics. It is intended not only for nursing courses, but also for care workers, OTs, and other professional and non-professional carers.

This pocket-sized and highly practical text aims to provide students and qualified learning disability nurses with vital information, covering common situations and queries, through to unexpected situations and concerns.

Learning disability nurses play a leading role in the care and support of people with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Nursing explores the theory and practice of learning disability nursing, with an emphasis on understanding the experiences of learning disability nurses as they seek to practice effectively.

Highlighting examples of positive, evidence based practice throughout, this book explores working with people with learning disabilities at all life stages. With contributions from people with learning disabilities and their families, its person-centred approach illustrates how policy can be translated into practice with life-changing consequences.

This revised 3rd edition examines the current issues of those using and delivering services and support. The book takes an optimistic stance, striving to renew and extend the enthusiasm of the previous editions in the face of an everchanging landscape of policy and provision.

For over 30 years, the author has practised a communication-based form of care. She shows how, by following a few straightforward and simple ideas, the quality of life for Alzheimer's sufferers can be dramatically improved, and their dignity and self-respect renewed.

Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the necessary information, within one short volume, for a sound introduction to the particular characteristics and needs of elderly patients.

A readable textbook on the law relating to midwifery practice which discusses the legal issues arising in typical situations encountered by midwives. Written by a well-known author of many books on legal aspects of healthcare.