A sound knowledge of cardiovascular physiology is fundamental to understanding cardiovascular disease, exercise performance and may other aspects of human physiology. Cardiovascular physiology is a major component of all undergraduate courses in physiology, biomedical science and medicine, and this popular introduction to the subject is intended primarily for these students. A key feature of this sixth edition is how state-of-the-art technology is applied to understanding cardiovascular funct...

Mapped to the 2018 NMC standards and using insightful examples, scenarios and case studies, the fifth edition of this popular and bestselling book shows students what reflection is, why it is so important and how it can be used to improve nursing practice.

Meet the legal and ethical challenges you will face as a healthcare professional in ambulatory outpatient and clinical settings. The eighth edition of this text guides you through legal concepts and the law, ethical issues, and the emerging area of bioethics to prepare you to treat your patients with understanding, sensitivity, and compassion.

THIS ENLIGHTENING AND ALARMING book deserves a wide readership among doctors but also among politicians, health administrators, and drug and medical device regulators.’— Kerry J Breen, Adjunct Professor –Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University

Concise, clearly written, and vibrantly illustrated, Langman’s Medical Embryology, 15th Edition, makes complex embryology concepts approachable to help you build the clinical understanding essential to your success in medical practice, nursing, or other health professions. Hundreds of full-color illustrations clarify the stages of embryonic development with rich detail, and engaging learning features, clinical examples, and online review questions ready you for the challenges ahead on your ...

From learning how to perform research to mastering the critical appraisal of research reports for use in practice, Polit & Beck’s Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, 12th Edition, emphasizes the critical role of research in today’s changing healthcare field and empowers students to confidently utilize research capabilities to improve patient outcomes and enrich their professional careers. AJN award-winning title with the new edition authored by Jan...

The book 'Live with Passion!', written by integral coach and management consultant Humphrey Isselt, is dedicated to providing insight with regard to what is actually meant by passion. Not from an academic principle or scientific framework, nor a 'dictionary definition', but based on the essence of passion: the balance between feeling and reason.

Passion is a powerful drive, it motivates and inspires. Passion is an expression of feeling and therefore a reactive process. It is in fact a reacti...

With his book "What Do You Need?" Humphrey Isselt offers a guide to answer the essential life question: What do I need? Can the question "What do I need?" be answered in such a way that you know what is expected of you or what you expect from the other person? The question is often asked with the aim of 'being happy'. "What do I need to be happy?" However, people generally do not know what makes them happy. One then strives for short moments in which one strives for desires and wishes (impuls...