Nursing Books

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41. Mental Health Ethics

    The Human Context

    Edited by Phil Barker

    All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits. As a result ethical conduct is complex. Despite the proliferation of Codes of Conduct and other forms of professional guidance, there are no easy answers to most human problems....

    Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
42. Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision

    Fundamental International Themes

    Edited by John R. Cutcliffe, Kristiina Hyrkas, John Fowler

    The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global ‘state of the art’ overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice. This authoritative volume builds on a previous volume, Fundamental Themes in...

    Published October 3rd 2010 by Routledge
43. Governing the New NHS

    Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management

    By John Storey, John Bullivant, Andrew Corbett-Nolan

    The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory bodies. All these changes have made governance a...

    Published September 22nd 2010 by Routledge
44. Helping Children and Young People who Self-harm

    An Introduction to Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals

    By Tim McDougall, Marie Armstrong, Gemma Trainor

    Every year thousands of children and young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm. More still come to the attention of CAMHS teams, school nurses and other community-based services. Helping Children and Young People who Self-harm provides clear and practical...

    Published July 4th 2010 by Routledge
45. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner

    An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice

    By Joyce Scaife

    Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner provides guidance for supervisors, focusing on what they can do to facilitate the development of reflective practice...

    Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge
46. ESMO Handbook of Cancer in the Senior Patient

    Edited by Dirk Schrijvers, Matti Aapro, Branko Zakotnik, Riccardo Audisio, Hendrik van Halteren, Arti Hurria

    Series: European Society for Medical Oncology Handbooks

    Cancer is a disease related to ageing, and the proportion of senior patients increases worldwide. While the proportion of persons beyond age 70 is still small in developing countries, their numerous population means that there are more "elderlies" in India than in Europe. This book reflects the...

    Published May 19th 2010 by CRC Press
47. Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care Second Edition An Introductory Text

    By Karen Holland, Christine Hogg

    The second edition of this popular introductory text explores the many sensitive issues of culture, race and ethnicity as they affect patient care, including:-health and illness beliefs, and their relationship to religious beliefs-mental health and culture-women's health in a multicultural...

    Published April 29th 2010 by CRC Press
48. New Approaches to Qualitative Research

    Wisdom and Uncertainty

    Edited by Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major

    Qualitative research has seen a surge of growth during the past decade. This is in large part because positivist approaches have not yielded the kinds of results that had been anticipated, and more researchers are seeking alternative perspectives to understand phenomena. The number of researchers...

    Published April 6th 2010 by Routledge
49. Managing in Health and Social Care

    2nd Edition

    By Vivien Martin, Julie Charlesworth, Euan Henderson

    Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. Examples from social care and health settings are used to...

    Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge
50. Legal Nurse Consulting,

    Principles and Practices, Third Edition (2 Volume Set)

    Edited by Ann M. Peterson, Lynda Kopishke

    Over the past generation, the practice of legal nurse consulting has grown to include areas such as life care planning, risk management, and administrative law, as well as taking on a more diversified role in both criminal and civil law and courtroom proceedings. First published in 1997, Legal...

    Published February 18th 2010 by CRC Press