Examines the effect of new management strategies on nurses, their morale and the profession as a whole.

Equip yourself with the practical skills you need to manage people through the emotional aspects of change and drive business performance with this evidence-based guide.

A wide-ranging but practical text for healthcare practitioners to support them in the implementation of change in the workplace.

Tells about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. This book focuses on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. It employs examples from social care and health settings to illustrate techniques for managing people, resources, information, projects and change.

Anyone who is a manager or professional leader can expect to have to lead projects that contribute to service development and service improvement. This text looks at the subject of change which is a normal part of working life in public services.

Focuses on the importance of business awareness for health care professionals. This title provides an overview of key aspects of business planning, financial and personnel issues. It covers the policy context, operational aspects of delivering health care and quality as a management agenda in the context of clinical governance.

An essential guide to mentorship in health and social care.

A timely, conscise and well-written student introduction to Medical Sociology.

Never has it been so important that aspiring leaders are quipped with the theoretical and practical know-how to drive forward health reform and ensure quality. This timely and exciting new text enables health care students and practitioners to become reflective and genuinely mindful leaders.

Describes several frequently encountered complaints and disorders that do not pose a serious health threat, often have a good prognosis, and have not been paid much attention during medical education or in scientific papers. This book provides information on minor ailments, as far as possible based on scientific evidence.

The Evidence-Based Nursing Series is co-published with Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The series focuses on implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and mirrors the remit of Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, encompassing clinical practice, administration, research and public policy.

An easy-to-read, interactive and concise text providing nurses with the tools necessary to advance their careers. This book helps nurses explore their personal characteristics and identify areas for improvement. The authors provide the characteristics of a leader and a follower, and how and when to use each of these roles to achieve success.

Presents an analysis of the transition from a comprehensive and universal service to New Labour's 'mixed economy of health care', in which hospitals with foundation status, loosely supervised by an independent regulator, are run on largely market principles. This book also aims to demystify slogans such as 'diversity' and 'local ownership'.

This Demystified title offers practical, easy-to-understand management information to nursing students, current nurses, and other medical facility administrators faced with the task of managing (and motivating) their staff.

This text examines the potential of nurses to provide a first-point-of-contact consultation service as an alternative to going to see the doctor. It analyzes the different nurse practitioners models around the world and presents a proposal for the UK.

The relationship between nursing theory and practice has been an area of intense professional debate for many years. With new governmental directives relating to how nurses care for patients, the debate continues about how and why nurses care has never been more important. This book looks at the key issues in this field.

Designed to help students develop a proactive approach to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care they give, the contents of the book can be applied to all branches of nursing and to all environments where patients are nursed, whether in hospital, at home or care homes.

Nursing for Public Health reflects the growing need for all nurses to promote the health of patients as well as treating illnesses. This textbook examines core policies, theories, and models of public health, alongside nursing skills and interventions for health issues such as obesity, smoking and sexual health.

This book provides a timely guide to enabling patient and carer participation in nursing care, made relevant for nursing students.

Presents a history of the nursing process. This book analyzes its use in use in various fields, such as managerial technologies and psychiatric nursing.

Julia Hallam considers the 'image' of nursing and how it has been constructed, contributing to the debates surrounding gender and occupational identity.