Home & Community Care

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to help student nurses make the most of their community nursing placements. Community placements can be daunting - you'll be working in a variety of settings, caring for a range of individual people and families...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641521390Author Andy de SantisFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This innovative workbook enables students and those working in health and social care to deepen their understanding of the values that underpin their practice. Rich in practical exercises and downloadable resources that invite the reader to engage with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926923178Author Katherine MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Life and Death MattersPublisher Life and Death MattersWeight(grams)...

The day-to-day responsibility for wound management is a role usually undertaken by nurses. It includes assessing the wound, selecting an appropriate treatment, and evaluating the patients' progress. In order to do this effectively the nurse needs to...

Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for all health visiting students, school nursing students, and occupational health nursing students, that reflects the current key changes in community public health nursing. It is a key textbook for...

Non-Invasive Ventilation involves the use of a mask to assist breathing for patients who can't breathe for themselves, providing an alternative to invasive ventilation, which involves the insertion of a tracheal tube into the throat of an unconscious...

This unique and highly popular book provides an essential and authoritative guide to the principles and practice of nurse prescribing. The second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in response to the recent developments that have secured an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826135360Author Janice LoschiavoFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 690g

This reflective and evidence-based book will equip students as well as professionals who work with people with learning disabilities in primary, secondary and specialist healthcare settings, with the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively...

System Innovation Disruptor Diary: A Holistic Approach to Disrupting with Love and Human CaringSystem Innovation: A Holistic Approach to Disrupting with Love and Human Caring, which lays out a foundational, holistic approach for facilitating successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912712380Author Eddie BartnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Centre for Welfare ReformPublisher Centre for Welfare ReformWeight(grams)...

Nursing for Public Health: Promotion, Principles and Practice is an essential resource which reflects the growing need for all nurses to maintain and improve health as well as treating illnesses. This book takes as its starting point that the aims of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739570439Author George HornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint George Horner writerPublisher George Horner writer

What if the work of a nurse, physio, or homecare worker was designated an art, so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities? What if the interactions created by artists, directors, dancers, or workshop...

Come through the doors of the care homes with the care home manager, the home to our elderly, vulnerable adults, their final home. Experience the day-to-day life as a Registered manager and share some of her tales she tells. Susie tells her tales of...

Working in teams sounds simple but the reality is often more difficult within complex health and social care systems. This revised edition of this essential book brings together cutting-edge thinking about teamworking, and considers how this can be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784529093Author Martin DewhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 174gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

"An extremely popular and valuable resource to students, practitioners and managers in community health care nursing" - Journal of Advanced Nursing The fifth edition of Community and Public Health Nursing is an essential source of information...

This book explores the theory and practice of the developing innovative practice of 'co-production' - a model of service in which users of a service will play an active and participatory role in the service provided to them, adopting a working...

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) promotes collaborative work and positive outcomes. It is an approach that can be used with individuals, families and groups in acute hospitals as well as with clients who are seen as outpatients or in the community...

Designed to help readers develop the practical skills needed to become effective public health practitioners, this concise text gives a highly accessible overview of the theory and practice of public health and health promotion. The book covers a...

Community and Public Health Nursing: An Active Learning Approach recognizes the increasing need for an emphasis on population-based health in nursing education and responds with content that spans from health equality and disease prevention to...

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 modern health policy. The authors focus...

Originally published in 1987, reissued here with a new preface, this book presented a history of the Queen's Nursing Institute on the occasion of the centenary of its founding in 1887. Since that time, the Institute had been the major force behind all...

Gain the knowledge and skills you need to promote health and prevent disease in Canada! Edelman and Kudzma's Canadian Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 2nd Edition describes public health concepts from a Canadian perspective, helping you to...

Originally published in 1960, this is a graphic and humorous story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteenth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication. Mrs Stocks records how 'our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646466177Author Jim CarreyFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Foster AcademicsPublisher Foster AcademicsWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646466184Author Jim CarreyFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint Foster AcademicsPublisher Foster AcademicsWeight(grams) 875gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Awarded first place in the 2020 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Community & Public Health categoryHow do you solve population-level health problems and develop appropriate nursing interventions?This unique, problem-solving, case-based approach shows...

Nurses have a unique role in redefining the way we view partnerships in healthcare. Transitioning from individualized to family-focused care is not only advocated by the Institute of Medicine; it's becoming a way of life. Families want their perspectives...

This reflective and evidence-based book will equip students as well as professionals who work with people with learning disabilities in primary, secondary and specialist healthcare settings, with the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively...

Essential for every school health office, this fully illustrated reference is the ultimate guide to caring for and supporting children with special health care needs in educational settings. A comprehensive update of the classic guide school nurses...

Breakthroughs in medical science and technology, combined with shifts in lifestyle and demographics, have resulted in a rapid rise in the number of individuals living with one or more chronic illnesses. Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically...

Home health care is an important aspect of community health and a growing area of healthcare services. Clinical Case Studies in Home Health Care uses a case-based approach to provide home healthcare professionals, educators, and students with a useful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729541558Author Margaret BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Churchill LivingstonePublisher Elsevier Australia

The ideal "how-to" book for harnessing the power of the nurse-family relationship!Use the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models to assess families effectively and know when and how to intervene to reduce suffering and promote health. They are...

This text provides a foundational understanding of therapeutic relationships and the transitional discharge model (TDM), a person-centered, evidence-based model that supports a smooth transition from hospital to community for people with mental...

This textbook - now thoroughly revised and updated - provides a practical guide for those in training, or practising within, occupational health nursing. Concerned with the health of people at work and the effects of work on health and health on work,...

This practical guide will assist healthcare practitioners to manage and meet the physical and psycho-social needs of people with complex chronic diseases/long-term conditions. Systematic and evidence-based care which takes account of the expert patient...