Series Information An interactive approach to learning, this series provides everything a student needs for Foundation studies across healthcare disciplines. Written by an appropriate specialist in a non-technical style. Key features of the text demonstrate how theory has a practical application, as well as testing student's knowledge.

This text presents a balanced blend of quantitative research methods, and the most widely used techniques for collecting and analysing data in the health sciences. Highly practical in nature, the book guides you, step-by-step, through the research process, and covers both the consumption and the production of research and data analysis.

Divided into five parts, this practical book starts by considering what research with young people is and why we should do it, which leads the reader into how to do it. It gives some useful examples of action and finishes with some reflections about the whole process.

This book provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics of nursing and healthcare research.

This accessible book provides a guide to the context of portfolio development and its importance not just to assessment but to the patient experience.

This text gives practical guidance to students, taking them through the process of planning, preparing for, experiencing and evaluating fieldwork education.

A self-assessment resource for candidates preparing to sit the challenging FRCS (ORL-HNS) with over 300 single best answer questions and more than 70 extended matching questions.

Offers a sociological framework for analyzing health policy and healthcare. This volume includes chapters on consumerism, technology, evidence-based practice, public health, managerialism and social care among others, and incorporates references to various developments, such as regulation and incentivization.

If you need to brush up your maths skills, this is the perfect textbook to help you through your nursing programme. The text starts out with basic arithmetic and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration, common clinical measurements and how to understand statistics.

Nursing Research is the ultimate companion to research. The new edition offers everything you need to know, supporting you throughout your course. With this gentle but comprehensive beginner's guide, you'll have no trouble understanding research, the foundation to good evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness and quality care.

Written for nurses, this title provides a comprehensive introduction to nursing research that allows readers to build up their understanding of the research process and develop confidence in its practical application.

Written by highly experienced researchers and authors, this practical workbook demystifies the research process for nursing students and practitioners. Fully updated to incorporate recent technological developments, this new edition features a range of exercises to both challenge and support the budding nurse researcher.

Easy to use, understand and put into practice, this book will answer all your students' questions on the nursing research process.

Presents various methods for conducting high-quality studies. This title includes application exercises, models of comprehensive research critiques, a full NINR grant application, and a Toolkit on a CD-ROM, containing research tools (for example; consent forms, a demographic questionnaire, and statistical table templates).

The importance of evidence-based nursing and the need to be research-minded means that the nurses must be aware of research and use it to inform their practice. This book reflects changes in locating and reading research, including the impact of various technologies such as CDROM, Medline and the Internet.

Provides OSCE mark schemes to reflect the real OSCE experience, by encouraging self assessment when practicing the clinical scenarios. This book includes chapters on communication skills, medical ethics, explanation stations, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology subjects.

This handbook is a definitive, up-to-date, and succinct text covering the legislative requirements, scientific foundations, and clinical good practice necessary for clinical, academic, and healthcare research.

Covers PowerPoint in medicine from beginner to expert. This book explains the basics of digital images, with particular emphasis on medical images. It takes the reader step by step from beginner to advanced techniques for preparation of complex presentations, including the use of video and the preparation of interactive PowerPoint quizzes.

An anthology of important articles addressing diverse theoretical and philosophical perspectives on the nature of theory and knowledge development in nursing. It features 52 of the mostly read and frequently cited articles on nursing theory and includes articles reflecting advanced views of nursing theory and trends.

This book addresses the statistical, practical, and ethical issues arising from allocating groups of individuals, or clusters, to different interventions.