Suitable for trainee clinicians of various disciplines who find themselves involved in the management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery, this book is also useful for those who are involved in such care in the operating theatre, and elsewhere along the cardiac surgical pathway as an insight to both preoperative and postoperative needs.
This timely book provides a reflective analysis of person centred planning for people with learning disabilities, complementing policy initiatives that focus on individualised planning and service user involvement. Drawing on practical experience and research findings, the contributors explore policy and practice issues.
This valuable text offers a range of practical, person centred and evidence based approaches to tackling challenges faced by professionals working with people with learning disabilities.
Person-centred Practice in Nursing and Health Care is a comprehensive and practical resource for all nurses and healthcare practitioners who want to develop person-centred ways of working.
People with dementia have often played a passive role in the investigation of their condition. The contributors to this book look at ways of redressing the balance and involving them in the research process. They describe the skills that researchers and care staff need when seeking to validate the views of people with dementia successfully.
The new edition of this ground-breaking text is an essential resource for the management of drugs during pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period. Fully updated in line with current midwifery practice, it includes new chapters on Disorders of the Immune System and Recreational Drugs, and expanded coverage of pain relief.
This guide is designed to help physiotherapy students prepare for their placements. Placements can be intimidating to the unprepared. This handy pocket-sized book is designed to make your physiotherapy placements more enjoyable and less stressful, to help you get the most out of your practice learning experience.
Traces the origins of nursing theories through their founders. This book provides the personal story on some of the nursing leaders, clinicians and theorists so the reader can understand the context within which the nursing pioneer developed their theory. It attempts to explain the theories and practice of nursing.
Are you unsure about your cancer and palliative care placement? Do you need guidance on what to prepare to get the most out of your practice learning? Will you have the range of clinical skills to care for people with cancer? How can you maximise your learning during this placement? This book can help you with all these concerns.
John Killick explores the nature of playfulness and the many ways in which it can enrich the lives of people with dementia. Specific approaches and ideas for practice are described, and personal accounts of playfulness by those with dementia and their carers offer rich first-hand insights into its transformative potential.
A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is an accessible, portable book offering student midwives everything they need to grasp the key elements of midwifery language, knowledge and skills.
The new edition of this useful aide-memoire is divided into two parts. The first includes relevant terms, abbreviations and definitions.
Explores ways in which we learn about birth, how we talk and feel about it, assumptions that professional caregivers may make, and the roles and skills of midwives. This book contains topics that include home birth and water birth; the use of drugs in childbirth; and, obstetric and nursing interventions which are often used routinely.