New Thinking on Improving Maternity Care offers a new set of theories to help explain the nature of maternity care provision across Europe and beyond.

Provides answer to questions about little children for the parents of the twenty-first century. This book points out the inevitable strains of bringing up children and offers advice on all fronts from sleeping problems and tantrums to toilet training. This edition includes information on childhood eating habits, sibling rivalry and discipline.

Provides in-depth information on the care of the newborn, both normal and abnormal, full-term and pre-term, from minor to major abnormalities and illnesses. This text provides an introduction to neonatology, concentrating on common conditions, for the health professionals concerned with care of the newborn.

A beautifully written, heartfelt response to the untolled epidemic of suicide.

Research has shown that kids who don't get enough sleep are far more likely to have behavior problems, be overweight, and have learning problems. This book provides parents with solutions to various sleep-related problems of children ages 2 through 6.

There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. This book provides you with strategies to overcoming naptime and nighttime problems.

Offers information on multiple aspects of normal birth, proposing approaches and paradigms for research and practice.

An introductory text to help student midwives understand and engage with concepts related to normal midwifery practice.

A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

Through a sweeping historical overview of suicide, a moving literary survey of famous suicide notes, and a psychological analysis of himself, Simon Critchley offers us an insight into what it means to possess the all too human gift and curse of being of being able to choose life or death.

Now is Not the Time for Flowers is the beautiful and honest memoir from writer Stacey Heale. Told through the lens of her life and experiences, she examines the messy and unexpected realities of love, desire, motherhood, death, grief and its aftermath, and the challenges and questions that our nuanced lives force upon us.

Numeracy and Clinical Calculations for Nurses is a bestselling introduction for student nurses which guides the reader from the basics through to core clinical calculations. The second edition features even more worked examples and practice tests to help you develop your proficiency and accuracy.

Packed full of resources to aid learning and with all chapters tied closely to the NMC standards, this book explains how to support student nurses from the day that they arrive on placement in six straightforward, concise and clear chapters, and covers essential topics including assessment, the role of the sign-off mentor and team-working.

Offers guidance and ideas for teaching and learning. This work explains how nurses make clinical decisions through the development of narratives, and how, using narratives, nurses gain a far more intimate knowledge of the patient than doctors can. It is useful for students of nursing, registered nurses and nurse managers.

A step-by-step guide to 50 of the most common nursing skills and procedures.

Suitable for adults, children, and special population, this title offers step-by-step guidance on every phase of the nursing assessment. It focuses on what nurses need to know to assess clients: the health history, physical examination, normal and abnormal findings, nursing interventions, and nursing diagnoses.