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Nurses play a key role in the rehabilitation process – maximising the quality of life and independence of individuals following trauma, disease or end…

The Emotionally Intelligent Nurse Leader offers nurse managers, health care leaders, and emerging leaders a useful guide for identifying, using, and r…

Nursing the Highly Dependent Infant or Child is an accessible and clinical guide to the caring for the acutely ill child. It provides guidance on the …

This book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is n…

Introductory Neurology provides a concise introduction to neurology for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. This book is designed to rela…

Learning disability nurses play a leading role in the care and support of people with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Nursing explores the …

When there is a diagnosis of HCM in a family, this complete, easy-to-read guide is your essential resource for finding the answers to your many questi…

Following the publication of the department of health document – Comprehensive Critical Care (2000), the majority of hospitals in England have set up …

Originally emanating from presentations at an international conference, this text brings together research and practice development from three perspec…

This book has been written specifically for busy junior doctors looking for that ‘competitive edge’. The medical interview is quite different from any…

Although the electrocardiogram (ECG) is accepted as a standard clinical tool, electrograms (EGMs) recorded during electrophysiology studies are consid…

Osteoarthritis is the most common cause of musculoskeletal disability, affecting five million people in Britain. By far the majority of cases are mana…

What's your worst nightmare as a doctor? Missing a life-threatening condition must be among the biggest fears for health professionals. But sometimes …

This book, a successor to the highly popular Practical Guide to Polaroid Retinal Photography, describes the essential components of a retinopathy scre…

At last, a book about the little pieces of occupation which make up life' s real situations and experiences and form a basis for therapy. Offered in t…

Diabetes presents differently in older people and normal ageing processes, predisposition to specific complications, and other co-morbid conditions co…

This is the first book to address the uses of handheld computers within clinical practice and considers the many different possible applications of ha…

A comprehensive guide to providing effective dental treatment and care to patients affected by diseases Essentials of Human Disease in Dentistry, Seco…

Nurses who conduct research have a longstanding interest in questions of nursing knowledge. Nursing Knowledge is a clear and well-informed exposition …

Using findings from one study in particular, but including evidence from a wide range of studies over the past 10 years, Excessive Crying in Infancy a…

Practitioners of all professions recognize the need and importance of collaboration, yet many find it far from easy to achieve. This book provides ins…

The theory behind the PDU model is outlined and the key principles underpinning it are identified. The PDU approach is clearly differentiated from the…

This book has been developed to help nurses who are in nurse practitioner roles by supporting them to develop their ‘advanced practice skills’. This b…

Even though primary and community care managers face the same challenges as their hospital counterparts they’ve never had an equivalent range of metho…

This textbook is primarily intended for student nurses, students studying for National Vocational Qualifications (levels II and III Health Care) and t…

The increasing number of individuals with co-existing substance misuse and psychiatric disorders presents a key challenge to mental health and addicti…

Discovering Nutrition offers a concise look at the science of nutrition through the lens of today's issues and hot topics. In this compact, accessible…

This book gives a practical focus to the underpinning theory of nursing in order to help students through the academic part of their undergraduate cou…

The Nuts and Bolts of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy By Tom Kenny, RN Vice President, Clinical Education and Training, St. Jude Medical, Austin, TX…

This book is the British Medical Association’s statement on the ethics related to care of the elderly, written and reviewed by a panel of renowned med…

The book covers the fundamentals of global aging and health and provides real-world models from countries and regions that offer the best practices in…

Evidence based practice is now widely accepted as a fundamental tenet of midwifery. The importance of evidence in defining midwifery policy and practi…

Electrocardiography is a simple investigation to perform, but accurate interpretation can be challenging. This book takes a logical and systematic app…

Compiled from electrocardiographic data on more than 1,800 normal newborns, infants, children, and adolescents, this convenient reference gives you fa…

The number of ICD patients is increasing sharply, yet the number of electrophysiologists—physicians who specialize in the electrical system of the hea…

The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has undergone spectacular progress and has revolutionized the treatment of patients at risk of sudden…

A practical and evidence-based guide for student, pre-registration and qualified pharmacists Symptoms in the Pharmacy is an indispensable guide to the…

Providing user-friendly information in an accessible manner, Men's Health: The Practice Nurse's Handbook provides nurses with an insight and understan…

Covering major aspects of health care nursing, this handbook is written from a holistic viewpoint and involves the roles of the multidisciplinary team…

In this book, well-known physicians, Bocker, Eckardt and Breithardt have put together a succinct and focused book that compliments the CATA Series wel…

Mental health is a significant factor in providing effective nursing care for patients in hospital and residential settings. Non-mental health nursing…

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease affecting a large percentage of the population world-wide. In the UK alone there are over 1.4 million people di…

This level of nurse works largely independently and their work is managed rather than supervised. They are able to demonstrate their duties to less ex…

The book begins by placing clinical guidelines within the context of the broader movement towards evidence based practice; it explores the concept of …

Following on from the first book entitled ‘Conservative treatment of Male Urinary Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction’ this book has been expanded t…