Specialist Care Books

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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. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. Researching Young Children's Perspectives: Debating the ethics and dilemmas of educational research with children

   Edited by Deborah Harcourt, Bob Perry, Tim Waller

   How can children’s understanding of the research process be supported? What factors "get in the way" when working with young children? How can all young children be assured of a voice in research? How can participatory research methods be designed so that they benefit children?...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60494-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Generational Intelligence: Age, Identity and the Future of Gerontology

   By Simon Biggs, Ariela Lowenstein

   A series of social issues related to ageing have become very high profile – issues such as workplace planning, global migration, generational equity and health care rationing, family care and elder mistreatment. An understanding of changing adult identities and intergenerational relationships is...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-54655-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

    By Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea

    Population Mental Health identifies the tools and strategies of public health practice – surveillance and screening, early identification, preventive interventions, health promotion and community action – and their application to twenty-first century public mental health policy and practice....

    January 2011 | 978-0-415-77921-0 | Hardback (Routledge)