Revised and expanded the new edition of this popular student text provides a single comprehensive volume of all the major disciplines, perspectives and methodologies in health studies and relates them to the real world through applied examples and coverage of contemporary health issues.
This book looks at the role nurses play when working with people who have dementia and their relatives. Dementia Care Nursing is a fascinating insight into the field, which outlines approaches that may be used by nurses within practice and provides advice on how dementia care may be developed and enhanced.
Doing Clinical Healthcare Research: A Survival Guide will help students, academics and healthcare staff identify and overcome organisational barriers to conducting research in busy clinical environments and show how research should be project managed in order to guarantee successful outcomes for all involved.
Doing a Successful Research Project offers an accessible, even-handed introduction to carrying out research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students conducting a research project for the first time. Guides students carefully through the process from planning to completion, whilst assessing the different strategies available.
Being self-aware is particularly important for healthcare professionals who need to manage their cognitive, affective and behavioural self in order to engage effectively in therapeutic relationships. This book examines how self-awareness can be developed and applied in practice by combining theoretical and practical approaches.
Health economics applies the tools of economic analysis to the problems of health care finance and delivery. This introductory text uses clear, non-technical language to explain the available economic tools, and critically examine their strengths and weaknesses in relation to health policy and management issues.
A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health. The Sociology of Healthcare will stimulate debate, reflexive practice and critical thinking in applied sociology and is aimed at the teaching and learning needs of both lecturers and students.
“Excellent… the best study skills book around” – Dr P Starie, Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty, University of Portsmouth
The only study skills book to cover all the core skills has been revised and updated throughout. This number one, best-selling text introduces higher level study skills and helps students develop a deeper understanding of the learning process itself. The third edition includes new chapters on e-learning and numeracy.
An independent comparative review by Kate Williams of Oxford Brookes University ranks this as the best Study Skills resource – click on the link below to read the report in detail.
Focuses on the application of communication theory to practice and features focused research, with a highlight on the client's perspective. The text builds on both psychological and nursing theories, to develop a patient-centred and therapeutic framework for communication.
This is a maths book with a difference. Based in the healthcare context, it is designed to help healthcare students to tackle the maths they need in their work and to become more independent learners in the process. The book is particularly intended to help those who may be anxious about their maths, and strategies are included to help students to calculate under pressure of time and stress.
'I don’t think that I have come across a book before which provides so much detail and so many examples.' - Claire Hale, Dame Kathleen Raven Professor of Clinical Nursing, University of Leeds, UK
Especially written with FD students in mind, Foundations of Health and Social Care is a comprehensive introduction to the first two years of the subject, offering a unique balance of theory, practice skills and learning support.
A companion website includes samples chapters, a table of contents, reviews of this title and details of the key features. Lecturers can access PowerPoint slides, essay questions, assignment topics, weblinks, further reading and more.
‘This very comprehensive book is set to become a core text for all Foundation Degree students within the health and social care field.’
- Anne-Marie Reid, Programme Leader Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care, University of Bolton, UK
A bestselling, comprehensive introduction to Nursing Research; now updated with relevant government initiatives, new chapters on qualitative and quantitative research, and reworked Research Examples.
The third edition of this popular introductory text builds on its predecessors' reputation for providing a broad scope of material relevant to the Common Foundation course. The updated version features two new chapters: Ethics in Nursing and Health Informatics; the contents have been reorganised into a theory/practice structure and coverage of cultural and branch issues has been improved throughout. With its clarity, readability and range of interactive features, this text demonstrates fluently how knowledge can be applied to practice.
An accessible overview of the role, work and skills of a wide range of professionals involved in health and social care. Illustrated with case studies throughout, it examines the rationale, skills and conditions required for interprofessional working.
