Nurse Education & Management Books

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1. Working with Cultural Diversity in Health and Social Care

   By Siobhan E. Laird

   In a multicultural society, all health and social care professionals need to deliver culturally appropriate services to meet the complex needs of their patients and service-users. This useful text provides a toolkit for students and practitioners to enable them to take account of cultural...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-49445-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Learning to Care: A psychological approach to nursing and healthcare

   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...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-42908-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. 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...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57502-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Research Methods in Education, 7th Edition

   By Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison

   This 7th edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education continues to cover the whole range of methods employed by educational researchers. It is an essential resource for both the professional researcher and students of education at undergraduate and postgraduate level, who...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58336-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Understanding Psychological Theories of Motivation: An Introductory Guide

   By Richard Remedios

   We all think we know what motivation is. At an experiential level, we observe motivated behaviour all the time; we talk confidently about the causes of motivation both for ourselves and others. As part of our roles as educators, we try to influence motivation. In this sense we already have a...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-56144-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. 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...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-48669-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. 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...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-46786-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Mental Health Ethics: The human context

   Edited by Phil Barker

   All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits. As a result ethical conduct is complex. Despite the proliferation of Codes of Conduct and other forms of professional guidance, there are no easy answers to most human problems....

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-57100-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Governing the New NHS: Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management

   By John Storey, John Bullivant, Andrew Corbett-Nolan

   The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory bodies. All these changes have made governance a...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-49276-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision: Fundamental International Themes

    Edited by John R. Cutcliffe, Kristiina Hyrkas, John Fowler

    The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global ‘state of the art’ overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice. This authoritative volume builds on a previous volume, Fundamental Themes in...

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-77955-5 | Hardback (Routledge)