Across its six editions, Symptom Sorter has excelled in redressing the balance between symptoms and diagnoses to become the essential handbook to accompany the consultation in primary care.

Details the skills identified in "Taylor's Fundamentals of Nursing, Sixth Edition" and describes additional advanced skills. This title outlines the procedures and skills in a step-by-step manner, with rationale, and offers guidance on how to respond to unanticipated outcomes.

Title on suppl.: Skill checklists for Taylor's clinical nursing skills.

Skilled midwives have been shown globally to reduce maternal and infant mortality economically, effectively and respectfully. This book address the real issues of teaching and learning real midwifery. It is a must-read for anyone engaging in facilitating midwifery teaching and learning.

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In this book, thirty carers from different backgrounds and circumstances share their experiences of caring for a parent, partner or friend with dementia. This unique collection of personal accounts will be an engaging read for anyone affected by dementia in a personal or professional context, including social workers, practitioners and care staff.

New edition of a successful, well respected text Encourages reflection, critical analysis and exploration User friendly and interactive with activities throughout Comprehensive and authoritative Fully updated to include latest policy guidelines Previously published by Nelson Thornes.

Offers information for implementing the requirements of the children's National Service Framework that will support the expansion of Community Children's Nursing and enable it to move forward and away from fragmented service delivery. This book is suitable for a wide audience of providers and facilitators of care and treatment through childhood.

The leading textbook for the undergraduate medic and those considering a career in general practice, with a user-friendly and reflective approach

An accessible introductory textbook that covers the four stages of the care process. The book uses clear explanations, scenarios, activities and an overarching case study that runs through every chapter and is ideal for nursing, health and social care students.

A compelling and beautifully written exploration of the topic which breaks all taboos: assisted death

A wise and comforting collection of quotes and meditations, together with a guide to humanist funerals, from the Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Little Book of Humanism

The Sunday Times bestselling memoir by the beloved clergyman - a moving and beautifully written account of losing his partner of 12 years and coping with 'the madness of grief' after his death

When his father develops Alzheimer's, Arno Geiger must finally get to know him properly. His father was conscripted from his Alpine village into World War II as a 'schoolboy soldier' - an experience that marked him. This intelligent, moving and often funny account shows us that whatever happens, a human being retains their past and their character.

I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. How do you create an existence when all you have to work with is a void? Blackburn turns, instead, to the quixotic nature of destruction - both natural and human-made - and repair.