Nurse Education & Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Sustainability for Healthcare Management

   A Leadership Imperative

   By Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton, Seema S. Wadhwa

   Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It links health values with sustainability drivers in order...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Power and Welfare

   Understanding Citizens' Encounters with State Welfare

   By Nanna Mik-Meyer, Kaspar Villadsen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy

   In the welfare provision of today, power takes both the shape of juridical sanctions and of attractive offers for self-development. When state institutions punish criminals, remove children at risk, or enforce sanctions upon welfare recipients the question of power is immediately urgent. It is less...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland

   By Gerard Fealy

   Based on new research using previously unpublished sources, this compelling text is an in-depth study of the history of nurse education in Ireland, presenting a new authoritative account of the history of the traditional system of training in Ireland. Introduced as part of the reforms of hospital...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Theology of Suffering and Death

   An Introduction for Caregivers

   By Natalie Kertes Weaver

   This book offers a theological foundation for engaging with the realities of suffering and dying. Designed particularly for practical theology students and trainee caregivers, it introduces the spiritual and theological issues raised by suffering and dying. The chapters consider: how Christian...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Powerful Occupational Therapists

   A Community of Professionals, 1950-1980

   By Christine Peters

   Powerful Occupational Therapists examines the life and times of a small group of occupational therapy leaders and scholars in a post-1950s America, to market their profession as one of increasing importance. Participating in the 1950s rehabilitation, the 1960s equal rights, and the 1970s women’s...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Caring and Well-being

   A Lifeworld Approach

   By Kathleen Galvin, Les Todres

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

   Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Critical Reflection in Context

   Applications in Health and Social Care

   Edited by Jan Fook, Fiona Gardner

   Critical reflection enables practitioners – especially those within health and social care –to theorise from their own practice, improving and developing their work and practising both creatively and professionally. This book provides an accessible overview of the influential Fook/Gardner Critical...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Occupational Health Services

   A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition

   By Tee L. Guidotti, M. Suzanne Arnold, David G. Lukcso, Judith Green-McKenzie, Joel Bender, Mark A. Rothstein, Frank H. Leone, Karen O'Hara, Marion Stecklow

   Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations. Designed...

   Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Learning in the Workplace

   A Toolkit for Facilitating Learning and Assessment in Health and Social Care Settings, 2nd Edition

   By Joan Mulholland, Chris Turnock

   This toolkit is designed for preparing health and social care practitioners for their role in facilitating learning in their workplace. It enables readers to recognise learning opportunities, communicate their professional knowledge, provide students with appropriate support, judge performance,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Partners in Palliative Care

    Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

    Edited by Mary Beth Morrissey, Bruce Jennings

    The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge