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This book is intended as a resource for all those involved in simulation-based healthcare education within the hospital environment, either within a dedicated simulation learning area or in-situ in the practice area. The basic principles will also be useful to individuals involved in simulation in any...

Timely Discharge From Hospital is aimed at practitioners working in acute, community, intermediate and ambulatory care settings; all areas of practice are featured. Each section is arranged in themes but written to stand alone, allowing the reader to dip in and out. The book is further enhanced by a...

Improving Patient Outcomes is aimed at ward and department leaders and prospective leaders. The evidence for effective team working and its impact on patient care is readily available and as a leader you do not have to make enormous changes to the way you work to have an effect. All the chapters link...

Perioperative nursing is constantly evolving in response to the pressures created by rapid technological development, changing social needs, financial constraints in the NHS, and the drive to improve patient care. Written by experts in the field, this book is designed to help perioperative practitioners...

What is autism really like? Academic literature often defines autism in a clinical, pathology-orientated way, whereas personal testimony can tell health and social care professionals how it feels. This book presents personal accounts from people whose lives have been touched by the day-to-day realities...

Many nurse practitioners and radiographer practitioners view paediatric trauma radiographs with a certain amount of trepidation. Rightly so paediatric radiographs can be difficult to interpret, requiring additional learning and experience, but that is the challenge, and interest of paediatric trauma....

This book was originally written after feedback suggested that storytelling was very helpful to students and practitioners wanting to remember blood tests and their implications. Each section, where appropriate, therefore contains a ‘story’, as well as an overview of the relevant anatomy, physiology...

This book is intended for nurses and midwives who work in Assisted Reproduction clinics and those who either work in, or have an interest in womens health. The number of IVF births is increasing steadily as a percentage of all births and therefore infertility may be said to be increasingly influential...

Pre operative assessment of the surgical patient is a key part of the perioperative process. However, it is one that cannot be separated from the other aspects of perioperative management, both clinical and administrative, that ensures the safe and effective treatment of surgical patients. There are...

Aimed at all health professionals regardless of their clinical setting, Brief Therapy addresses the patients needs, physical, mental and emotional. Usually, nurses and doctors deal with the practical aspects of healthcare, such as prescribing medication and carrying out tests. Meanwhile, mental health...

A collection of poetry that will tug at the heart and then empower. These poems take you on a journey through heart ache and pain then lead you into finding one's own strength within.

Csí és Vit a fecskepár, akik Délre készülnek az ősz beköszöntével. Vit azonban megsérül így itthjon kell maradnia. Amíg a hideg télben fagyoskodik eljár egy beteg asszonyhoz, akinek egy kis örömöt...

Since it was originally published in 2010, CT Anatomy for Radiotherapy has been an invaluable aid to a wide variety of radiotherapy professionals, both qualified and in training. This second edition has many welcome additions and updates, while retaining its original user-friendly format. All essential...

The adequacy of the cardio respiratory system can generally be gauged from basic clinical signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate and depth, skin texture and colour, use of accessory muscles of respiration and mental status. These basic signs should never be ignored, but in critical...