Nurse Education & Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Working in Mental Health

   Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

   Edited by Peter Phillips, Tom Sandford, Claire Johnston

   A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening – both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered by an increasing...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Value of Transnational Medical Research

   Labour, Participation and Care

   Edited by Ann Kelly, P. Wenzel Geissler

   What is the value of medical research? With contributions from anthropologists, sociologists and activists, this approach brings into focus the forms of value – social, epistemic, and economic – that are involved in medical research practices and how these values intersect with everyday living....

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing

   A Reflective and Portfolio-Building Approach

   By Herman Wheeler

   This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Advanced Practice in Healthcare

   Skills for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

   Edited by Carol Cox, Marie Hill, Victoria Lack

   Advanced Practice in Healthcare outlines the key components of advanced practice in which healthcare professionals are engaged. With a clear skills focus, it explores issues critical to providing effective enhanced care to patients whilst managing and negotiating the complexities of the healthcare...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
5. Professional Responsibility

   New Horizons of Praxis

   Edited by Ciaran Sugrue, Tone Solbrekke

   What does professional responsibility entail in an increasingly insecure, unpredictable and de-regulated world? This is the core question addressed in this text. The point of departure for the various contributions is that professional responsibility is a way of being in the world that includes a...

   Published September 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. An Introduction to Psychological Care in Nursing and the Health Professions

   By Helena Priest

   Caring is at the core of what nurses and other health professionals do. But caring encompasses more than simply looking after people’s physical health needs. People requiring any health service will have psychological needs that affect their feelings, thoughts, and behaviour. Good psychological...

   Published August 22nd 2011 by Routledge
7. Qualitative Research in Midwifery and Childbirth

   Phenomenological Approaches

   Edited by Gill Thomson, Fiona Dykes, Soo Downe

   Qualitative research, particularly phenomenology, is increasingly popular as a method for midwifery and health-related research. These approaches enable rich and detailed explanations to be uncovered and bring experience to life. Important recommendations and practice- based implications may then...

   Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. Video in Social Science Research

   Functions and Forms

   By Kaye Haw, Mark Hadfield

   In this digital age the use of video in social science research has become commonplace. As sophistication has increased along with usability, as spiralling staff costs push out direct observation, the researchers training today are grasping video as a means of coming to terms with the continued...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. Research Methods in Education

   7th Edition

   By Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison

   This rewritten, expanded and updated 7th edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education encompasses the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice, underpinned by clear theoretical foundations,...

   Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Researching Young Children's Perspectives

    Debating the ethics and dilemmas of educational research with children

    Edited by Deborah Harcourt, Bob Perry, Tim Waller

    What ethical dilemmas face researchers who work with young children? Researching Young Children’s Perspectives critically examines the challenges and complexities of rights based, participatory research with children. Rather than approaching these dilemmas as problematic issues, this book positions...

    Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge