Written by educators and renal nurses with extensive experience of clinical practice the Oxford Handbook of Renal Nursing is a concise, current and evidence-based guide to the care of patients with renal disease.

The Oxford Handbook of Surgical Nursing provides a practical, easily accessible, concise, and up-to-date evidence-based guide relating to all the core elements of surgical care, including detailed information on the care required in the subspecialties of surgical practice.

This easy-to-use guide covers all aspects of paediatric anaesthesia, from the basics to rare and complicated procedures.

Topics in this volume include: resuscitation, stabilization and monitoring; the anatomical and physiological basis of critical illness in infancy and childhood; and pharmacological support in paediatric intensive care.

Serves as a clinically focused text that outlines important components to be considered when assessing and managing health problems among infants, children and adolescents. This work aims to provide nurse practitioners with information that has immediate relevance to their practice in paediatrics. It is divided into two parts.

Reflects the trend towards a core curriculum and self-directed learning. This book's content is restricted to the 'must know' core information presented in a synoptic style. Each chapter ends with a selection of self-assessment material and full explanatory answers.

Paediatrics at a Glance provides an introduction to paediatrics and the problems encountered in child health as they present in primary, community and secondary care, from birth through to adolescence.

Reader-friendly volume with a problem-solving approach, invaluable in the run up to clinical, written or OSCE examinations, and an ideal course companion for all undergraduate medical students when studying paediatrics at various stages in their clinical training

Fully updated in a 2nd edition Written by a researcher who is an experienced and practising midwife Emphasises woman-centred care and 'normality' Based on current research evidence Adopts an accessible and easily readable style .

Pain Science Yoga Life combines the neuroscience of pain with yoga philosophy and practice for pain care. Rooted in evidence-based practice, this book is a unique blend of the science of pain, the art and science of yoga and its practical application. It aims to bridge the gap that exists between a person in pain and their ability to move beyond suffering and back to life.

This book is specifically designed to equip nursing students and non-specialists with essential knowledge in relation to the care and management of people nearing the end of life, covering complex issues such as handling bereavement and cultural differences.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and written with the support of a student advisory board, this is the ultimate resource for developing students' confidence and competence in end of life care.

This unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. Drawing on new original research, the authors examine service users' experiences, tracking their journeys through it, exploring the care they receive and the effects of culture and difference through their first hand comments and ideas.

Describes the kind of care needed towards the end of life or at any point on what has been called "the cancer journey". This work focuses on the highest quality of life for the person with cancer and includes care of the family before, at and after the death. It is suitable for nurses and others.

This textbook reviews current research and examines the evidence base for palliative care policy and practice.

Suitable for nurses involved with palliative care, this book focuses on the needs and perspectives of the patient, and gives the reader an understanding of how best to deliver full, rounded care. Covering the wide range of care provision in hospices, hospitals and patients' homes, it explains and expands theoretical issues.

This sensitive and compassionate book provides older people who are nearing the end of life and their loved ones, as well as the professionals who work with them, with a greater depth of understanding of spiritual issues surrounding death and dying.

Discusses palliative care. This book encourages health professionals to conceptualize their practice in the light of the fact that their patients are deteriorating and dying, supporting them in their dichotomous role which involves affirming that person's life whilst acknowledging that life is ending.

This book guides clinicians through the management of common situations found in palliative medicine. Using patient case scenarios, it gives students and medical professionals an accessible, evidence-based entryway to gain the skills and knowledge needed to provide high quality palliative and end of life care to patients and their families.

Participatory Research in Palliative Care discusses participatory research methods within the discipline of palliative care. Providing an overview of the action research methods, it uses exemplars from studies within palliative care, as well as discusses the prominent issues currently faced in this methodology from a global perspective.

The must-have resource to face the UKCAT and BMAT admissions tests with confidence, and succeed in your application to medical or dental school.

Sheila Kitzinger, passionate campaigner for women's and babies' rights, childbirth educator and author, describes the experiences that have shaped her since childhood and the enormous changes that have taken place over the last 50 years on the subject of birth.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and filled with practical activities and case studies, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology in Nursing provides an integrated introduction to both the biology of disease and the therapeutic agents that are used to manage them.