An essential guide to critical care nursing including the key knowledge, skills and procedures that students need to know, supported by activities and clinical scenarios to enhance understanding and aid critical thinking, reflection and decision making.

A highly readable and comprehensive introduction to the key theories, debates and issues that help students to understand how sociology can answer complex questions about health and illness.

A practical book for students of health promotion and public health. Grounded in the real world, it explains how to design, implement and evaluate public health improvement projects.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards, this book introduces students to the principles and practice of leadership, management and team working. It uses students' own values and experience of leadership as a framework through which to learn about the topic, covering the core theory in straight-forward language and relating it to practice through multiple case studies and activities.

Principles of Rubin's Pathology, Seventh Edition distills the renowned coverage of Rubin's Pathology, Seventh Edition into a focused, approachable guide to the essentials of pathology. This resource introduces principles and mechanisms of pathology, followed by organ-specific information, extracting key information on pathogenesis, epidemiology, and clinical features of diseases. Detailed images clarify challenging content, and companion online resources enable students to learn on the go and...

This new edition introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills in nursing. By providing a simple to read overview of the central topics students are able to quickly gain a solid, evidence-based grounding in the subject.

By weaving vignettes and case studies throughout, this fascinating and original textbook provides an accessible primer not only on the key principles of neuroscience but, crucially, how they may manifest in the everyday lives of people with neurological conditions.

Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an ageing population with changing health needs, while countries with developing health systems must find ways of ensuring their populations are provided with access to healthcare. Innovative thinking is essential to meet these twin challenges, but innovation is both a cause and cure of many struggles in healthcare - we need it, but it is hard to manage a...

Writing and publishing scientific papers is the core business of every researcher, but is often experienced as difficult and frustrating. Good scientific content of a paper alone does not guarantee its publication in a good journal, because various aspects affect the writing and publishing process. This book is a quick guide into effective writing and publishing papers.

It provides authors with clear and concise key information on 12 major parts of the process, from how to get started to deal...

Step by Step to Proficiency in Diagnostic Ultrasound This workbook is divided into lessons that guide you-like an instructor in an ultrasound course-systematically through the individual organ systems and body regions. Key features of the fourth edition:Special multiple-exposure photos demonstrate the dynamics of handling the transducerTriplet-image units vividly illustrate transducer positioning, the ultrasound image, and relevant anatomyReference numbers on the accompanying diagrams help yo...