Accompanied by a Lab Manual that incorporates nursing-specific case studies to reinforce content from a nursing perspective. This book can be packaged with the Bates for Nursing Online course for a complete nursing assessment solution.

A pocket-sized guide that presents an approach to physical examination and history taking in a quick-reference outline format. It features a full-color art program and an easy-to-follow two-column format with step-by-step examination techniques on the left and abnormalities with differential diagnoses on the right.

What is it like to help and support women throughout pregnancy and childbirth and into motherhood? This new edition explores what it is to be a midwife, looking at the factors that make midwifery such a special profession, as well as some of the challenges.

This book helps nursing students succeed in their final year and prepare for their first nursing role.

Compiles writings that bring levity to the serious and challenging world of the nursing profession. This title features articles filled with insights into the diverse situations and issues that confront nursing students and nursing professionals every day. It includes over 100 pieces of whimsical and witty writings by or about nurses.

Fiona Phillips is one of our best-loved television presenters. But in August 2008 she announced that she was to quit the job she loved, revealing that her father had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's just a year after her mother had died of the same disease. In this book, she gives an account of growing up in the 60s and 70s within a complex family.

Provides concepts in human embryology and development.

Part of the Nursing and Health Care Practice series, this book provides pre-registration nursing and health care students with all the tools required to fully understand and develop skills for reflective practice, with the goal of becoming a successful reflective practitioner. It also includes a wide number of examples and illustrations.

Part of the Nursing and Health Care Practice series, this title provides pre-registration nursing and health care students with all the tools required to fully understand and develop skills for reflective practice, with the goal of becoming a successful reflective practitioner.

Gives information and advice to help you deal with the common problems faced by carers of cancer patients. This guide deals with pain, physical symptoms, psychological problems, death and bereavement. It adopts a unique approach to encourage the carer to work with the patient, doctors and nurses to achieve realistic and mutually agreed outcomes.

Packed full of personal accounts, hints and tips to help student nurses and newly qualified nurses as they progress from graduation to revalidation. This book will prepare you for the transition from student to registered nurse and help you make the most of your time as a newly qualified nurse.

The cruel early death of his wife Helen tears up the script of Adam Golightly's middle-class, middle-aged existence. Miserably single, outnumbered by his kids and haunted by life's screaming fragility, he recounts his fight back against the hand of fate.

This book has a potentially huge market right across the allied health, social care and education professions. Working interprofessionally is the new concept in vogue for effective health and social care provision and right at the top of the agenda in teaching in the related professions.

From the international bestselling author of Better, Complications and The Checklist Manifesto and Reith Lecturer 2014, a revolutionary and emotionally searing account of death, dying and medicine.

Offers fresh perspectives on working with older people in a range of physical health, mental health and social care contexts. This book contains examples that can be familiar both to practitioners working with older people and to older people themselves and their families.

Losing a loved one and coping with the subsequent adjustments that follow are a difficult fact of life, but people with learning disabilities face specific difficulties in processing and managing these changes. This book acknowledges the importance of helping relationships in supporting this vulnerable group through periods of loss and bereavement.