Primary Care Nursing Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Introduction to Vocational Rehabilitation

   Policies, Practices and Skills

   By Clive Langman

   This text provides an overview of vocational rehabilitation (VR) practice, making it the perfect companion for students and practitioners with an interest in supporting people back to work and improving their sense of health and well-being. The book is divided into three parts: the first covers...

   Published August 18th 2011 by Routledge
3. Practice-based Evidence for Healthcare

   Clinical Mindlines

   By John Gabbay, Andrée le May

   This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions. Firmly rooted in real practice while drawing lucidly on a great breadth of theoretical frameworks, it examines afresh how clinicians use knowledge. Evidence-based practice has recently become a key part of the...

   Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
4. Psychiatric and Mental Health Essentials in Primary Care

   By Lee Ann Hoff, Betty Morgan

   Psychiatric and Mental Health Essentials in Primary Care addresses key mental health concepts and strategies for time-pressured practitioners in various healthcare settings serving diverse populations. It offers theoretically sound and succinct guidelines for compassionate, efficient, and effective...

   Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
5. Developing Holistic Care for Long-term Conditions

   Edited by Carl Margereson, Steve Trenoweth

   Developing Holistic Care for Long-term Conditions focuses on how to help people with long-term health conditions cope more effectively. It brings together physical and mental health, offering a holistic approach for students and practitioners in a variety of care settings. Comprising four sections...

   Published October 6th 2009 by Routledge
6. Physical Activity and Health

   The Evidence Explained, 2nd Edition

   By Adrianne E. Hardman, David J. Stensel

   Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically and in detail the relationships between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the benefits of exercise in the prevention and treatment of a wide range of important conditions. Now in a fully updated and revised edition,...

   Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge
7. Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care

   A Guide to Good Practice

   By Judith Carrier

   Effective management of long-term conditions is an important aspect of contemporary nursing policy and practice. Systematic and evidence-based care which takes account of the expert patient and reduces unnecessary hospital admissions is vital to support those with long-term conditions/chronic...

   Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge
8. Health Promotion for Nurses

   Theory and Practice

   By Stewart Piper

   Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role – both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the nurse...

   Published January 25th 2009 by Routledge
9. Trauma and Physical Health

   Understanding the effects of extreme stress and of psychological harm

   Edited by Victoria L. Banyard, Valerie J. Edwards, Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

   Trauma research and clinical practice have taught us much about the widespread problems of child maltreatment, partner violence, and sexual assault. Numerous investigations have documented links between such trauma exposure and long-term negative mental health consequences. As we learn more about...

   Published December 2nd 2008 by Routledge
10. The Psychology of Lifestyle

    Promoting Healthy Behaviour

    By Kathryn Thirlaway, Dominic Upton

    Improving lifestyles is thought to be one of the most effective means of reducing mortality and morbidity in the developed world. However, despite decades of health promotion, there has been no significant difference to lifestyles and instead there are rising levels of inactivity and obesity. The...

    Published November 25th 2008 by Routledge