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Fills a crucial need in helping nurses to provide safe, culturally-competent care to LGBTQ+ patients. This pivotal resource-the first written specifically for nurses-focuses on the unique health needs and inequities affecting LGBTQ+ patients and discusses how to provide them with safe, respectful, and holistic care. Written in an easy-access bulleted format with concise paragraphs, this book sets the stage by examining the background and history of the LGBTQ+ population and focusing on the heal...

Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners. This book explores how this happens and how we can change it. This interdisciplinary volume is grounded in a framework that challenges the dominant discourse that health in fat individuals must be improved through weight loss. The first p...

As world competitiveness sharpens, more industries are using shiftwork. This set of short pages from the most recent international symposium on shiftwork brings together review papers on a number of the world's leading shiftwork researchers. Health problems must concern both shiftworkers and their managers, and a series of papers report new findings on coronary risk factors and cardiovascular diseases, general health complaints, sleep and the effect of poor sleep in performance. Should women wor...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Chronobiology, held jointly with the British Society for Chronobiology at Birmingham, UK, 1988. Contributions, both fundamental and applied, illustrate the multidisciplinary nature of contemporary chronobiology and indicate how an understanding of biological rhythms may contribute to various aspects of human biology and endeavour.

In Deutschland arbeiten zunehmend AErzte aus dem Ausland, die auf Deutsch mit ihren Patienten kommunizieren. In der Studie werden diese Gesprache aus diskurslinguistischer Sicht betrachtet. Im Fokus der Untersuchung stehen dabei arztliche Anamnesegesprache. Die Gesprache wurden aufgezeichnet, in Ganze transkribiert und mit Bezug auf die Foucaultsche Diskursanalyse und die Forschung zur L1-L2-Kommunikation analysiert. Die Arbeit untersucht die Architektur des Verstehens in diesen Gesprachen und e...

Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto expedition (and other early European explorations and settlements of Alabama) to the 1780 Siege of Mobile, this is a comprehensive and readable collection of scholarship on early Alabama.

In order to love again, first she’ll need to learn how to live again…Following a tragedy, Zoe flees Australia and makes a life for herself in the UK. Two years later, working as a care nurse in Bath and knowing just how much comfort last words can bring, Zoe has taken it upon herself to become a notekeeper - writing down the final thoughts of her patients and delivering them to their loved ones. Zoe’s new boss, Ben, isn’t happy about her getting so involved in the patients’ lives. Even as they...

For all fans of Call the Midwife - a touching memoir of a young health visitor in postwar England (from the 1940s to the 1970s). After serving as a nurse in WW2, Molly Corbally joined the brand new NHS and became one of the first official District Health Visitors, attending to mothers and babies from all walks of life in the picturesque village near Coventry she came to call home. Social work was uncharted territory at the time, and Britain was very much worse for wear - TB, polio, measles and w...