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This new edition updates the successful Working in Care Settings, written for the Induction and Foundation Standards. Now revised to match the new Common Induction Standards, this workbook maintains its accessible design for care workers aiming to achieve these required standards. It provides care staff with all the underpinning knowledge required for the standards in a lively and user-friendly style.

Parish nursing presents a new approach to healthcare as well as pastoral care, linking together the spiritual and medical communities. With today's over-burdened healthcare system and an aging population, the need for parish nursing is becoming crucial. The parish nurse could be a key link between the two systems, providing truly wholistic care. "Parish Nursing" describes the preparation needed to become a parish nurse and looks at several leaders in the parish nurse movement, presenting the ste...

Each page is laminated to resist wear, and the six-ring binder lets pages snap in and out easily. Pages are easily updated as needed. Bulleted lists and charts summarize crucial facts. Illustrations clarify procedures and disease states, as needed. Contents include general information, safety, emergencies, assessment resources, nutritional guidelines, clinical management, infusion, palliative care (adult), death and dying, documentation, and office-specific information.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action, Fourth Edition reflects a well-honed vision of what nursing and health professionals need to know to both understand and influence health policy. Through their focus on relevant issues, the authors discuss how healthcare professionals can prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political, and policy dimensions of health care. The Fourth Edition focuses on the most relevant health policy issues while taking...

This second edition of this handbook has been completely updated and expanded to include new clinical topics such as Alzheimer's disease, breast cancer and cystic fibrosis. For each of the 60 clinical problems included, detailed standards and documentation guides including ICD 9 (diagnostic) codes, NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses, and service skills (including the skills of the multidisciplinary health care team) are provided. An entirely new section on patient, family, and caregiver education...

Build the skills you need to understand and care for a wide diversity of patients! The Health Care Professional's Guide to Cultural Competence, 2nd Edition provides a guide to safe and effective cross-cultural care. Applying theory to practice, the book begins with an overview of clinical cultural competence. This guide shows how to apply cultural competence across diverse populations, and then in working with specific populations. Using this approach, you will develop a set of behaviours, attit...

Diabetes education is a process, the key to which is establishing a therapeutic relationship with the individual. The overall goal of diabetes education is to enhance the individual's health capability, including their ability to solve problems and apply the learning to self-care. Thus, diabetes education is an interactive process of teaching and learning where information is co-generated. This innovative and thought-provoking new book explores the 'how' of diabetes education, rather than the 'w...

"Aspects of Community Health" introduces a range of views on community nursing and health care. The book illustrates how nursing science can be applied to community health care and remains one of the most widely used in the field of nursing. This edition contains two extra chapters, with eight of the previous nine chapters having been completely reworked and updated. The language, content, and case studies are easily accessible to non-health care students (e.g. social science students with an in...

Be prepared when disaster strikes with this comprehensive guide to the basics of disaster preparation and response. From the phases of a disaster through all of the elements of an institutional plan to specific events, you'll have the information you need at your fingertips...from a nursing perspective.

The increase in the number and life expectancy of elderly people is a general trend across Europe. Each country responds differently to the increased demands for elderly care, due to differences in their socio-cultural, political, and historical backgrounds. This book describes patterns of caregiving to frail, elderly people in Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Germany. For each country, characteristic features of professional and informal elderly care are described, specifically focusing o...