When this text was published two decades ago, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The text was recently chosen by "Contemporary Sociology" as one of the ten most influential books of the 25 years between 1974 and 1999.

Research and Evidence-Based Practice is an introductory textbook that aims to help nursing, health and social care students understand the principles of research. The book shows students how research provides evidence for practice and helps them to develop their own evidence-based practice.

This book builds your understanding so you can confidently consume research and conduct your own nursing or midwifery research project.

Comprehensive and thorough in scope, The Research Process in Nursing 7th edition provides everything you could want to know about research methods.

A guide to care of patients with respiratory illness. It explores the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, examines assessment of respiratory function, and addresses management of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchitis, lung cancer and respiratory infections including TB and pneumonia.

This work argues that dying and bereavement are issues for all social care practitioners, illustrating the wide variety of ways in which they are involved. Examples are taken from mainstream as well as specialist settings.

This book outlines some of the key issues in risk perception, assessment and management in dementia care in a way that is both practical and accessible to a wide range of practitioners. It develops an approach to risk that promotes choice for people with dementia whilst also acknowledging the complex challenges care providers face.

The Roar Behind the Silence provides information, inspiration and practical suggestions to support maternity care workers, policy makers, and maternity care funders across the world in their quest to deliver sensitive, compassionate and high quality maternity services.

A gripping journey up the River Magdalena into the centre of Colombia, and a deeply personal meditation on memory and loss in the footsteps of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Provides an account of the Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing, including in-depth discussion of its conceptual development, its place within the wider body of nursing theory and a critique of its application in practice. This book concludes with a discussion of the place of this model for nursing.

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today.

Revised edition of Routledge handbook of disability studies, 2012.

Helping to equip student nurses and midwives with the confidence, knowledge and skills needed for working with families to support and protect children, the book covers the full spectrum of safeguarding work, from professional issues such as boundaries, confidentiality, referral and accountability through to multi-agency working.

A clinical neuropsychologist with a specialization in memory loss and dementia presents a comprehensive 5-step program to keep your brain operating at peak capacity and to prevent mental aging.

The first book to examine the roots of our uncomfortable and often hostile attitudes towards disabled people, and to argue for greater official recognition of these crimes as hate crimes

Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. This title includes hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. It features: detailed explanations and practice problems in the different areas of critical care nursing; support for all the major textbooks for critical nursing courses.

"This book provides a review for ECG Interpretation for nursing students"--Provided by publisher.

Helps students to succeed in the classroom and on exams. This title gives you: 242 practice problems with concise explanations; essential information on tests, procedures, and medications; and, support for all the major textbooks covering emergency nursing.

Shows you how science concepts relate to nursing and health care. This book includes coverage of Microbiology and Anatomy and Physiology; and, application to nursing and health. It includes practice points which relate the concepts to clinical practice. It also includes self test questions that test your learning.

In the current economic climate, the search for cost effective treatment sits high on the agendas of clinical managers. Yet, it makes little sense if these very same treatments are found to be clinically ineffective. Discovering whether an intervention