Medical / Nursing

The Nurse Manager's Guide to an Intergenerational Worforce

by Bonnie Clipper

As a part of the Nurse Manager's Guide series, this how-to guided approach provides strategies and tools to help coach and motivate nurse managers when it comes to communicating with their nurses in order to...

Landing Your Perfect Nursing Job

by Lisa Mauri Thomas

This book will help nurses to strategically get through the job search process, so they can come out on top. This book addresses nurses: whether brand-new, mid-career, or approaching retirement. This is a reference...

Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work

by Rudge & Holmes

Within a variety of practice environments, health professionals often experience feelings of disgust and repulsion towards the presence of an abject object. This volume employs the work of Julia Kristeva, through...

Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions: MultiDisciplinary Perspectives

by D'Cruz & Jacobs

Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions explores the nature and role of knowledge in the practical work of the caring professions. It focuses on knowledge of the practical over the theoretical, looking...

Supporting People with Dementia at Home: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century

by Challis & Sutcliffe

Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. It offers...

The Chicago Review Press NCLEX-RN Practice Test and Review

by Linda Waide & Berta Roland

Fully revised to conform to the 2004 NCLEX Test Plan, this study guide and test includes “hot spot,” fill-in-the-blank, and select-all-that-apply questions to reflect the new test format. Ten written practice...

Menopause: The Drug-Free Way

by Juliet Bressan

Doctors are traditionally keen to medicalise the menopause, but, in the face of ongoing controversy about HRT, there is an increasing call for a natural menopause. Written by a GP, Menopause the Drug Free Way...

Schaum's Outline of Psychiatric Nursing

by Daminga Bynum-Grant & Margaret Travis-Dinkins

Study faster, learn better, and get top gradesModified to conform to the current curriculum, Schaum's Outline of Psychiatric Nursing complements these courses in scope and sequence to help you understand its...

There's No Place Like Home: Place and Care in an Ageing Society

by Christine Milligan

This book addresses key concerns about the nature and site of care and care-giving. It utilizes geographical perspectives to present a comprehensive analysis of how the intersection of informal care-giving within...

NCLEX-RN Flash Review

by LLC Learning Express

This handy, portable guide is valuable for hopeful nursing candidates on the go. Learning the nursing terms that are a part of every current and aspiring nurse’s vocabulary is essential for preparing for the...

Art Therapy and Health Care

by Cathy A. Malchiodi

Demonstrating the benefits of creative expression for patients living with acute or chronic illness, this volume provides a complete, practical introduction to medical art therapy. It presents evidence-based...

Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach

by Christine A. Courtois & Julian D. Ford

This insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present their effective, research-based approach for helping...

Nursing, Revised Edition

by Jean Watson

Jean Watson's first edition of Nursing, now considered a classic, introduced the science of human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used and respected sources of conceptual models for nursing....

A Caring Approach in Nursing Administration

by Jan J. Nyberg

Current mainstream books and publicity about management and administration in health care are concerned with the takeover of health care by managed-care organizations. Many provide lots of quick and externally...

Mentoring in Nursing, Second Edition: A Dynamic and Collaborative Process: A Dynamic and Collaborative Process

by Sheila C. Grossman

"This book successfully combines scholarly work with practical, easy-to-understand advice that has appeal even beyond nursing and healthcare. It provides a view of mentoring that is much deeper than most readers...

Learning and Mobilising for Community Development: A Radical Tradition of Community-Based Education and Training

by Peter Westoby & Lynda Shevellar

Learning and Mobilising for Community Development introduces the reader to different ways of thinking about, and organising community-based education and training within different settings. Stories from the...

Parish Nursing: A Handbook for the New Millennium

by Harold G Koenig & Sybil Smith

Make parish nursing an alternative to shrinking healthcare resources!

Because of shrinking healthcare resources, both human and monetary, parish nurses in the future will be called upon to deal with rising numbers...

IV Therapy For Dummies

by Bettie Lilley Nosek & Deborah Trendel-Leader

The fast and painless way to ace your IV Therapy course

Are you an aspiring nurse, nurse practitioner, or physician's assistant struggling with IV therapy? Help is here! IV Therapy For Dummies tracks to a typical...

Sociology and Nursing

by Peter Morrall

This introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues which they should find of great help in thinking about their work and the role of their profession....

Managerialism and Nursing: Beyond Oppression and Profession

by Michael Traynor

Managerialism and Nursing examines the effect of new management strategies on nurses, their morale and the profession as a whole. Using an innovative study of nurses conducted by the Royal College of Nursing,...