Contains important information for staff, enabling them to work efficiently and effectively both within the NHS and private medical sectors. This book encourages an understanding of the importance of administrative staff in providing high standards of patient care and promotes teamwork in the healthcare environment.

Offers an overview of the major body systems and the diseases and disorders that can affect them. This book helps you learn about hallmark signs and symptoms, treatment, and nursing intervention so you have the knowledge to help your patients as a student and as a nurse once you start your career.

This book helps nursing students and those applying for nursing courses succeed first time in nursing calculations tests and get calculations right in practice.

Describes young people's thoughts and feelings before and after an abortion, and includes their experiences in the long term. This book increases understanding and stimulates discussion of abortion issues without bias, and incorporates political, religious, social, physical and mental considerations in its approach.

Only Paul Bentley's name appears in the previous edition.

A handy pocket guide to help mental health nursing students prepare for their practice placements. Placements can be daunting to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make mental health placements more enjoyable and less stressful and to help student nurses get the most out of their practice learning experience.

In recent years, there has been much greater sympathy for the benefits of dedicated, secure accommodation for those suffering from more severe forms of mental illness. This volume challenges the recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850.

A skillls focused text which is ideal for popular mentor preparation programmes.

The importance of the community practice teacher is increasing with the expansion in primary care. Universities around the country have developed courses for practice educators to provide definitive training for that role -- there are currently few texts that support these courses directly.

Covering completely new topics areas, including the effects of emotional labour, poverty and health policy, the new edition of this ground-breaking text brings together classic and current research to establish key tenets for maternity care within hospital and home. It remains the definitive guide to the complex area of midwife-mother relations.

Presents the philosophy of the midwifery practice. This book discusses the aims and realities of achieving best practice under various circumstances a midwife may be.

A discussion of community and public health care in relation to midwifery practice, using real life scenarios in a range of topic areas.

Based on Midwifery basics articles published in The practising midwife journal.

Based on Midwifery basics articles published in The practising midwife journal.

Based on Midwifery basics articles published in The practising midwife journal.