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Nursing Older People
Issues and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
This edition captures the underlying new approach in patient centred care and thinking from a multidisciplinary perspective. It highlights the most recent ideas and experiences of policy analysts, nurses, doctors, allied health professionals and the consumer experience from both Australia and Internationally....
Learning Disabilities - E-Book
Towards Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Learning Disabilities: Toward Inclusion (formerly edited by Bob Gates) is one of the leading textbooks in this field. It offers real ways to improve quality of experience for people with learning disabilities in all areas of life.
This new edition brings together a comprehensive and coherent...
Minor Injuries E-Book
A Clinical Guide for Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Now with a free instructional video demonstrating basic examination techniques, this second edition of Minor Injuries makes it much easier to learn procedures for assessing minor injuries. It is unique in linking the underlying anatomy to the examination processes that are part of the education of...
Clinical Aromatherapy E-Book
Essential Oils in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003
Aromatherapy is one of the main complementary therapies to be practiced by nurses and other health care professionals in hospital, hospice, and community settings. Written by a nurse, this clinical text highlights how aromatherapy can enhance care and the role health care professionals play in its...
Contexts of Nursing
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Contexts of Nursing 3e builds on the strengths of previous editions and continues to provide nursing students with comprehensive coverage of core ideas and perspectives underpinning the practice of nursing. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New material on Cultural Awareness...
Pregnancy and Childbirth
A holistic approach to massage and bodywork
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Pregnancy and childbirth brings together, for the first time, western and eastern approaches providing a sound amalgamation of theoretical and practical information for bodywork practitioners world-wide. It describes in detail the application of massage and shiatsu from early pregnancy, including...
Practice Essentials
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Practice Essentials - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series this chapter provides a checklist of the important factors to consider in establishing and operating an integrative health clinic. It is not a definitive practice management manual. Most of the principles described here are the...
Psychiatry & Psychosocial Medicine
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. The most common psychiatric disorders presenting to General Practitioners are depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, and alcohol abuse and dependence. The prognoses of anxiety, depression and psychotic disorders...
by David Healy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
This version is now out of print. An edition with e-book is available under ISBN 97880702041365. Psychiatric Drugs Explained contains a clear and comprehensive guide to the uses, benefits and impact of psychotropic drugs. It explains how people taking the drugs experience their side effects...
Medical Ethics
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Medical Ethics - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series - ‘Ethics’ is a word derived from the Greek ethikos, which means ‘habit’ or ‘custom’. Put simply, in modern usage it is the study of how we ought to live or act in response to the situations confronting us in daily life....
Spirituality
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
*Spirituality - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. *'Spirituality' means different things to different individuals and there is no one way of exploring or expressing it. The search for meaning is ubiquitous to humankind, and being able to make meaning of life, and especially adversity,...
Palliative Medicine
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Palliative medicine - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Palliative care, at its best, is provided by a team of individuals working towards common goals for a particular patient. The team may include doctors, nurses, allied healthcare staff, counsellors and family members. Symptom control,...
Blood
General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Blood - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. This chapter examines the management of patients with haematological disorders likely to be encountered in general practice. Haematology in general practice involves the care and monitoring of a very broad and disparate group of medical conditions...
by Elias J. Anaissie, MD, Michael R. McGinnis
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
The first book of its kind to focus on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of patients with fungal infections, this definitive reference returns in a completely revised, full-color new edition. It presents specific recommendations for understanding, controlling, and preventing fungal infections...