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1. Intensive Care Nursing: A Framework for Practice, 3rd Edition

   By Philip Woodrow

   This new edition of Woodrow’s Intensive Care Nursing will be warmly welcomed. Especially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units, this comprehensive text has been developed to be as accessible as possible. Including a new chapter on planning for pandemics, it has been...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58452-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. 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)

3. Grief, Loss and Bereavement Care: An Evidence-Informed Approach for Health and Social Care Practitioners

   Edited by Peter Wimpenny, John Costello

   Bereavement is a challenging area for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This invaluable text draws together a comprehensive evidence-base for supporting grieving people from a wide range of research, and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-46751-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Healthcare Sensor Networks: Challenges Toward Practical Implementation

   By Daniel Tze Huri Lai, Marimuthu Palaniswami

   Edited by Rezaul Begg

   May 2011 | 978-1-4398218-1-7 | Hardback (CRC Press)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. Racial Disparity in Mental Health Services: Why Race Still Matters

   Edited by Larry E. Davis

   Differences unfortunately still remain in the way many races are provided health and mental health services. This book comprehensively examines this tough issue across a wide spectrum of areas, including racial identity, intergroup relations, education, socioeconomic conditions, substance abuse,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-7890-3821-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Diet and Nutrition in Palliative Care

   Edited by Victor R. Preedy

   With contributions from international experts , this pioneering work defines palliative care and end-of-life care while also covering methods of pain control and sedation. It presents general concerns and information on critical care factors such as hydration, dysphagia, artificial nutrition, home...

   March 2011 | 978-1-4398193-2-6 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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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)

10. Child-Centred Pharmacology: An Introduction for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

    By Barbara Novak

    The successful management of children’s health problems requires a sophisticated understanding of their health problems and needs, as well as knowledge about how best to respond to their situations. This holds particularly when prescribing for children. Discussing the best choice of therapeutic...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-54900-4 | Paperback (Routledge)