Author: Kieran Lamb

AS & A level maths for dummies

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Editor(s): Beveridge C
First published:2016 Published: Chichester Publisher: For Dummies
Print ISBN: 9781119078487

Pass your AS & A level maths with flying colours

Looking to pass your AS and A level maths? Look no further. AS & A Level Maths For Dummies offers detailed, simple steps for all of the main types of problems you’ll face in your exams, offering explanations of how the topics link together, advice on how to remember the key facts and methods, and ways to structure revision. Even if your head is spinning and you don’t know where to begin, this fun and friendly guide gives in-depth support on exactly what you need to know.

In the big data and digital age, maths skills have never been more important to career success. AS & A Level Maths For Dummies guides you through the skills needed to pass the exams taken at the end of the first and second year of the course. It begins with the knowledge needed to get a top grade at GCSE, followed by sections on Algebra (functions, graph-sketching, and logarithms), Geometry (coordinate geometry, trigonometry, and working with shapes) and Calculus (differentiation, integration, and differential equations).

  • Helps you build the confidence you need to pass your exams
  • Serves as an excellent supplement to classroom learning
  • Makes difficult maths concepts easy to understand
  • Offers in-depth support in a fun and friendly style

If you’re an AS & A level student looking to do your very best at exam time, AS & A Level Maths For Dummies makes it easier.

Targeted cancer imaging: design and synthesis of nanoplatforms based on tumor biology

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Editor(s): Azizi, Mehdi
First published:2021 Published: London Publisher: Academic Press
Print ISBN:9780128245149

Targeted Cancer Imaging: Design and Synthesis of Nanoplatforms based on Tumour Biology reviews and categorizes imaging and targeting approaches according to cancer type, highlighting new and safe approaches that involve membrane-coated nanoparticles, tumor cell-derived extracellular vesicles, circulating tumor cells, cell-free DNAs, and cancer stem cells, all with the goal of pointing the way to developing precise targeting and multifunctional nanotechnology-based imaging probes in the future. This book is highly multidisciplinary, bridging the knowledge gap between tumor biology, nanotechnology, and diagnostic imaging, and thus making it suitable for researchers ranging from oncology to bioengineering.

Although considerable efforts have been conducted to diagnose, improve and treat cancer in the past few decades, existing therapeutic options are insufficient, as mortality and morbidity rates remain high. One of the best hopes for substantial improvement lies in early detection. Recent advances in nanotechnology are expected to increase our current understanding of tumor biology, allowing nanomaterials to be used for targeting and imaging both in vitro and in vivo experimental models.

Acupuncture: Efficacy, Safety and Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor(s): British Medical Association
First published:2020 Published: London Publisher: Routledge
Print ISBN:9781000116373

This book investigates the scientific basis and efficacy of acupuncture and the quality of training and standards of competence in its practitioners. Patients are increasingly asking about CAM alternatives to orthodox medical practices as they fear the side-effects of ever more potent traditional drug therapy.

The book discusses the important issues of safety and the education and training of acupuncture specialists. In addition the book investigates GP’s attitudes to acupunture and the extent to which they offer the treatment to their patients.

The Resilience Toolkit: Powerful Ways to Thrive in Blue-light Services (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor(s): Rees J
First published:2019 Published: Bristol Publisher: SRA Books
Print ISBN:9781912300198

Today’s workplace is fast-paced, highly complex, and sometimes even life-threatening. Yet it is possible to thrive in the -pressure cooker’ of modern work life.

We all have the right to enjoy rather than just endure work. In the unpredictability of even the most challenging environments, the route to success and fulfilment at work is to build our resilience.

This ground-breaking book provides a highly effective toolkit that will empower you to survive, thrive and flourish in the dynamic and fast-changing context of blue-light services.

Discover how to:

  • Be ready for the unexpected, feel calm and confident under pressure and avoid burnout
  • Reduce stress and anxiety by understanding the essential components of a resilient work life
  • Evaluate your own resilience factor with the Workplace Resilience Instrument

Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizen’s Survival Guide (Stockport E-Book)

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Author(s): Hurst L
First published:2020 Published: Chichester Publisher: Wiley
ISBN:978-1119616085

Data is no longer the sole domain of tech professionals and scientists. Whether in our personal, business, or community lives, data is rapidly increasing in both importance and sheer volume. The ability to visualize all kinds of data is now within reach for anyone with a computer and an internet connection. Google Data Studio, quickly becoming the most popular free tool in data visualization, offers users a flexible, powerful way to transform private and public data into interactive knowledge that can be easily shared and understood. Hands On With Google Data Studio teaches you how to visualize your data today and produce professional quality results quickly and easily.

No previous experience is required to get started right away—all you need is this guide, a Gmail account, and a little curiosity to access and visualize data just like large businesses and organizations. Clear, step-by-step instructions help you identify business trends, turn budget data into a report, assess how your websites or business listings are performing, analyze public data, and much more. Practical examples and expert tips are found throughout the text to help you fully understand and apply your new knowledge to a wide array of real-world scenarios. This engaging, reader-friendly guide will enable you to:

  • Use Google Data Studio to access various types of data, from your own personal data to public sources
  • Build your first data set, navigate the Data Studio interface, customize reports, and share your work
  • Learn the fundamentals of data visualization, personal data accessibility, and open data API’s
  • Harness the power of publicly accessible data services including Google’s recently released Data Set Search
  • Add banners, logos, custom graphics, and color palettes

Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizens Survival Guide is a must-have resource for anyone starting their data visualization journey, from individuals, consultants, and small business owners to large business and organization managers and leaders.

Google Data Studio for Beginners: Start Making Your Data Actionable (Stockport E-Book)

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Author(s): Kemp G and White G
First published:12020 Published: New York Publisher: Apress
ISBN:978-1484251553

Google Data Studio is becoming a go-to tool in the analytics community. All business roles across the industry benefit from foundational knowledge of this now-essential technology, and Google Data Studio for Beginners is here to provide it. Release your locked-up data and turn it into beautiful, actionable, and shareable reports that can be consumed by experts and novices alike.

Authors Grant Kemp and Gerry White begin by walking you through simple dashboards and interactive visualizations. As you progress through Google Data Studio for Beginners, you gain the knowledge necessary to blend multiple data sources and create comprehensive marketing dashboards. Advanced features such as calculated fields, cleaning up data, and data blending to build powerhouse reports are featured as well. Presenting your data in client-ready, digestible forms is a key factor that many find to be a roadblock, and this book will help strengthen this essential skill in your organization.

Centralizing the power from sources such as Google Analytics, online surveys, and a multitude of other popular data management tools puts you as a business leader and analyzer ahead of the rest. Your team as a whole will benefit from Google Data Studio for Beginners, because by using these tools, teams can collaboratively work on data to build their understanding and turn their data into action. Data Studio is quickly solidifying itself as the industry standard, and you don’t want to miss this essential guide for excelling in it.

Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd ed. (Stockport E-Book)

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Author(s): Weverka P and Wade M
First published:2022 Published: London Publisher: For Dummies
ISBN:978-1119830702

Microsoft Office 365 contains straightforward tools for virtually every office task you could possibly think of. And learning how to use this powerful software is much easier than you might expect! With the latest edition of Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, you’ll get a grip on some of the most popular and effective office software on the planet, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, and Teams.

This expanded handbook walks you through the ins and outs of reviewing and composing documents with Word, hosting and joining meetings with Teams, crunching numbers with Excel, and answering emails with Outlook. And it’s ideal for anyone who’s brand new to Office and those who just need a quick refresher on the latest useful updates from Microsoft.

In this one-stop reference, you’ll find:

  • Step-by-step instructions on the installation, maintenance, and navigation of all the critical components of Office 365
  • Guidance for using Office 365’s built-in online and cloud functionality
  • Complete explanations of what every part of Office 365 is used for and how to apply them to your life

It covers:

  • Common Office Tasks
  • Word 365
  • Excel 365
  • PowerPoint 365
  • Outlook 365
  • Access 365
  • Publisher 365
  • Working with Charts and Graphics
  • Office 365: One Step Beyond
  • Microsoft Teams
  • File Sharing and Collaborating

Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies is the last handbook you’ll ever need to apply Microsoft’s world-famous software suite to countless everyday tasks.

Self-Care for Allied Health Professionals: From Surviving to Thriving |(Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor(s): Battye A
First published:2021 Published: London Publisher: Routledge
Print ISBN:978-0367760144

Self-Care for Allied Health Professionals brings together a collection of self-care strategies into one easy-to-read volume, supporting Allied Health Professionals to do the best for their patients by caring for themselves.

The book offers information and practical strategies to look after your physical and emotional wellbeing at home and in the workplace, exploring topics such as sleep and food, resilience and meditation, stress, conflict and adversity. Written to be a flexible tool that can be read cover to cover or dipped in and out of as needed, it offers rapid response self-care strategies alongside more lasting changes, supporting practitioners to make small steps to build healthy habits for the future.

Key features of this book include:

  • A combination of quick response strategies, like a five-minute breathing exercise you can use before a difficult meeting, and opportunities for deeper work, examining your purpose and aligning your role with your values.
  • Combines ancient practices of meditation and mindfulness with the latest research on nutrition, exercise, sleep and wellbeing.
  • Consideration of the challenges professionals face in the context of pandemics and a changing health and social care landscape, helping you to thrive in a challenging world.

Self-care has never been more important. This is a book that every Allied Health Professional and trainee should have on their desk, to improve productivity, enhance job satisfaction and build resilience for whatever the future brings.

Trauma Stewardship : An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor(s): Lipsky L vD, Burk C
First published:2009 Published: San Francisco Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Print ISBN:9781576759448 |Online ISBN:978160509263 |DOI:10.1002/9781119088769

This book has helped caregivers worldwide keep themselves emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and physically healthy in the face of the sometimes overwhelming traumas they confront every day. A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other living things, and the planet itself. In Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way. Lipsky offers a variety of simple and profound practices, drawn from modern psychology and a range of spiritual traditions, that enable us to look carefully at our reactions and motivations and discover new sources of energy and renewal. She includes interviews with successful trauma stewards from different walks of life and even uses New Yorker cartoons to illustrate her points.“We can do meaningful work in a way that works for us and for those we serve,” Lipsky writes. “Taking care of ourselves while taking care of others allows us to contribute to our societies with such impact that we will leave a legacy informed by our deepest wisdom and greatest gifts instead of burdened by our struggles and despair.”

 

Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors, 3rd ed. (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor(s):Ian Bullock, Mike Davis, Andrew Lockey, Kevin Mackway-Jones
First published:12 June 2015
Print ISBN:9781118860076 |Online ISBN:9781119088769 |DOI:10.1002/9781119088769

The Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors, 3rd edition, provides a concise introduction to teaching. Written by experienced medical educators from the Advanced Life Support Group and Resuscitation Council (UK), this best-selling guide gives comprehensive and practical advice on the most effective teaching methods.

Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors covers basic principles and practical aspects of teaching in a variety of modalities. This edition includes material which reflects current developments within instructor courses and includes new material on feedback, an awareness of non-technical skills, the teaching of teams and supporting learners.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in teaching doctors and healthcare professionals in any context. It is aimed at the relative newcomer to the teaching role in all its variety and provides essential, practical advice as to how to get the best out of learners.

ABC of Learning and Teaching in Medicine, 3rd ed. (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 60p. Format: PDF Publisher: BMJ Books
Published: 2017
eISBN-13: 9781118892176

ABC of Learning and Teaching in Medicine is an invaluable resource for both novice and experienced medical teachers. It emphasises the teacher’s role as a facilitator of learning rather than a transmitter of knowledge, and is designed to be practical and accessible not only to those new to the profession, but also to those who wish to keep abreast of developments in medical education.

Fully updated and revised, this new edition continues to provide an accessible account of the most important domains of medical education including educational design, assessment, feedback and evaluation.  The succinct chapters contained in this ABC are designed to help new teachers learn to teach and for experienced teachers to become even better than they are. Four new chapters have been added covering topics such as social media; quality assurance of assessments; mindfulness and learner supervision.

How to Be a Reflexive Researcher

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Author: Hibbert P Pages: 176 Format: PDF Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 02/11/2021
eISBN-13: 9781839101854

This stimulating and challenging book provides a guide to reflexivity and reflexive practice, explaining its relevance to research in management, organisation studies and the social sciences. Rooted in the latest research, case studies and the author’s personal experience, the book builds a new perspective on reflexive practice involving bodily, emotional, rational and relational insights.

Paul Hibbert draws on personal experience, using the examples of his doctoral research and an advanced collaborative research project as case studies, to demonstrate how reflexive practice plays out in a range of research contexts. Each chapter includes dialogue points to encourage the reader to form their own opinions in response to the author’s point of view. Offering prospects for research that incorporates personal learning, growth and development, How to be a Reflexive Researcher also explores avenues of future research on reflexivity and reflexive practice. The book concludes that reflexive practice is not simply a research skill but is instead integral to the scholarly way of life.

Providing a comprehensive treatment of reflexive practice, this book will be a useful guide for scholars and students of business and management and the social sciences more broadly, especially those with an interest in qualitative and interpretive research approaches.

Reflexivity: a practical guide for researchers in health and social sciences

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Authors: Finlay Land  Gough B Pages: 251 Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 15/04/2008
eISBN-13: 9780470776988

Reflexivity is a popular tool used to analyse personal, intersubjective and social processes which shape research projects. It enables researchers, particularly within the qualitative tradition, to acknowledge their role and the situated nature of their research. In the current climate, which sees the popularity of qualitative methods coupled with increased public and professional scrutiny of research, reflexivity provides a means of bolstering greater transparency and quality in research.

This book recognises the considerable value of reflexivity to researchers, and provides a means to navigate this field. The book is foremost a practical guide which examines reflexivity at different stages of the research process. The editors and contributors offer candid approaches to the subject, which supply readers with diverse strategies on how to do reflexivity in practice.

Features

  • Provides an accessible, practical guide to reflexive research processes, methods and outcomes
  • Encompasses both the health and social science fields
  • Includes contributions from international researchers

The book is aimed at postgraduate and final year students of health and social sciences. Interested clinicians will also find useful insights in the text.

Reflexive Leadership In Context

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 86 Format: EPUB Publisher: Routledge
Published: 30/11/2020
eISBN-13: 9781000228588

This concise textbook seeks to unpack the real-life complexities of leadership by examining the theories and models surrounding it and encouraging self-analysis in the individual’s own contexts.

The book:

  • Provides an outline knowledge of the various perspectives of leadership theory;
  • Develops a critical and robust framework for considering existing leadership theory and consequently applying leadership practice across the organisation;
  • Identifies individual and important characteristics likely to enhance leadership practice in the workplace;
  • Considers a framework for analysing leadership performance and methods and practicalities for application.

Reflexive Leadership in Context provides a practical and concise introduction for executive education students currently studying for MSc/MBA apprenticeship programmes, as well as supplementary reading for postgraduate students studying modules within Leadership and Management.

Doing reflexivity: An introduction

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 175 Format: EPUB Publisher: The Policy Press
Published: 25/01/2017
eISBN-13: 9781447330882

Reflexivity is vital in social research projects, but there remains relatively little advice on how to execute it in practice. This book provides social science researchers with both a strong rationale for the importance of thinking reflexively and a practical guide to doing reflexivity within their research. The first book on the subject to build primarily on the theoretical and empirical contributions of Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive work, it combines academic analysis with practical examples and case studies, drawing both on recent reflexive research projects and original empirical data from new projects conducted by the author. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book will be of interest to researchers from all career stages and disciplinary backgrounds, but especially early-career researchers and students who are struggling with subjectivity, positionality, and the realities of being reflexive.

Advanced Analytics in Power BI With R and Python: Ingesting, Transforming, Visualizing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 393 Format: EPUB Publisher: APress
Published: 13/10/2020
eISBN-13: 9781484258293

This easy-to-follow guide provides R and Python recipes to help you learn and apply the top languages in the field of data analytics to your work in Microsoft Power BI. Data analytics expert and author Ryan Wade shows you how to use R and Python to perform tasks that are extremely hard, if not impossible, to do using native Power BI tools. For example, you will learn to score Power BI data using custom data science models and powerful models from Microsoft Cognitive Services.

The R and Python languages are powerful complements to Power BI. They enable advanced data transformation techniques that are difficult to perform in Power BI in its default configuration but become easier by leveraging the capabilities of R and Python. If you are a business analyst, data analyst, or a data scientist who wants to push Power BI and transform it from being just a business intelligence tool into an advanced data analytics tool, then this is the book to help you do that.

What You Will Learn

  • Create advanced data visualizations via R using the ggplot2 package
  • Ingest data using R and Python to overcome some limitations of Power Query
  • Apply machine learning models to your data using R and Python without the need of Power BI premium compacity
  • Incorporate advanced AI in Power BI without the need of Power BI premium compacity via Microsoft Cognitive Services, IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding, and pre-trained models in SQL Server Machine Learning Services
  • Perform advanced string manipulations not otherwise possible in Power BI using R and Python

Who This Book Is For

Power users, data analysts, and data scientists who want to go beyond Power BI’s built-in functionality to create advanced visualizations, transform data in ways not otherwise supported, and automate data ingestion from sources such as SQL Server and Excel in a more concise way

Building the Modern Workplace With SharePoint Online: Solutions With SPFx, Power Automate, Power Apps, Teams, and PVA

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 343 Format: EPUB Publisher: APress Published: 01/07/2021
eISBN-13: 9781484269459

Build a digital workplace solution from scratch using SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. The book will help you implement all the modern capabilities of the SharePoint Framework, Teams, and Power Platform into a SharePoint Online solution.You will begin your journey with a short overview of the basics of SharePoint Online. You will then work through a case study with a solutions approach to implement various business requirements using SharePoint Online. Further, you will learn how to provision sites using PnP and build SharePoint forms using out-of-the-box forms. The next section covers Power Apps and Power Automate, followed by a discussion on SharePoint Framework where you will learn to customize SharePoint Online sites using SPFx. Moving forward you will go through configuration and customization of PnP modern search. Wrapping up, you will integrate Microsoft Teams, MS Graph, and Power Virtual Agents with SharePoint Online. After reading Building the Modern Workplace with SharePoint Online you will be able to build SharePoint Online sites according to your business requirements and integrate SharePoint Online with other services for a modern workplace experience. What You Will Learn:

  • Build modern workplace solutions using SharePoint Online out-of-the-box features Use Power App forms, SPFx web parts, SPFx extensions, and modern search
  • Create Power Automate workflows
  • Develop Teams solutions and chatbots
  • Use Microsoft Graph and PnP JS with SharePointCustomize search capabilities
  • Who This Book Is ForAll SharePoint developers and power users.

Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate: Achieve digital transformation through business automation with minimal coding

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 302 Format: EPUB Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 18/09/2020
eISBN-13: 9781781267608

Enhance your organization’s productivity by automating repetitive tasks and simplifying business workflows using Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)Key FeaturesCreate basic and advanced workflows for automating Twitter posts, sending emails, push notifications, and much moreManage user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using flow controlsCreate flows that integrate with services both inside and outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystemBook DescriptionMicrosoft Power Automate (formerly Flow) is a workflow automation tool built into Microsoft 365 to help businesses and users to automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. If you are new to Microsoft Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction to help you to get up to speed with automating business processes in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of Microsoft and third-party applications. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you’ll get to grips with managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using efficient flow controls. This Power Automate book explains key concepts and takes you through creating your own flows step by step. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to use Microsoft Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with business workflow automation technology.What you will learn:

  • Get to grips with the building blocks of Power Automate, its services, and core capabilities
  • Explore connectors in Power Automate to automate email workflows
  • Discover how to create a flow for copying files between two cloud services
  • Understand the business process, connectors, and actions for creating approval flows
  • Use flows to save responses submitted to a database through Microsoft Forms
  • Find out how to integrate Power Automate with Microsoft Teams

Who this book is forThe book is for technologists, system administrators, and Power users with little or no Microsoft Power Automate experience. Familiarity with basic Microsoft 365 services is expected.

Quick and easy knits: 100 little knitting projects to make

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 123 Format: PDF Publisher: Search Press
Published: 01/09/2019
eISBN-13: 9781781267608

This fabulous book brings together 100 of the best knitting projects from the best-selling Twenty to Make series. With contributions from top knitting designers and best-selling authors, these fun designs are quick and easy to make, and include stylish hats, headbands, wrist warmers and scarves, cute baby booties, flowers, fruit, mug hugs, phone socks, teddies and festive decorations. Whether you are on a budget and want to make a quick and quirky gift for a friend, or wish to indulge in a special treat for yourself, you will discover a treasure trove of ideas within this book that you simply won’t be able to resist knitting.

Smithsonian Makers Workshop: Fascinating History & Essential How-Tos : Gardening, Crafting, Decorating & Food

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 304 Format: PDF Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 22/09/2020
eISBN-13: 9780358008613

50 DIY crafts, cooking, decorating, and gardening projects from the experts at the Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution presents a uniquely curated collection of lively how-to projects and historical narratives of four realms of American domestic arts: cooking, crafts, decorating, and gardening. Perfect for hobbyists interested in the historical context of what they create for their homes, this beautifully illustrated book contains fifty DIY projects-from a uniquely American quilt pattern to on-trend crafts like terrarium making and pickling-that all offer satisfying ways to bring history and culture to life. For those craving more, features provide rare insights from Smithsonian experts on prominent figures, events, and trends. Readers can learn about influential Americans who’ve had an impact on each realm; look at visual timelines of significant events that pushed development forward; or stay in the present and see how American arts in contemporary life is being redefined, all while enjoying satisfying and unique projects.

Cheshire: local, characterful guides to Britain’s special places

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 186 Format: EPUB Publisher: Slow Travel
Published: 08/06/2018
eISBN-13: 9781784775537

This volume provides holiday advice and tourist information on everything from Chester, The Wirral and Cheshire coast, the Mersey, Peak District and Lovell Telescope to canals, stately homes and gardens, walking, cycling and local food, drink, accommodation and culture.

Parachute Cord Craft: Quick & Simple Instructions for 22 Cool Projects

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 300 Format: PDF Publisher: Fox Chapel
Published: 27/08/2013
eISBN-13: 9781607651086

Weave and braid versatile parachute cord in an array of fashion colors to create attractive and useful accessories. Parachute Cord Craft ties everything together with 22 clever projects for home, outdoors, school, and sports. Make fashionable bracelets, necklaces, belts, lanyards, dog collars, key fobs and more, with detailed instructions and step-by-step diagrams.

Richard Osman’s House of Games: 1,054 Questions to Test Your Wits, Wisdom and Imagination

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 384 Format: PDF Publisher: BBC Digital
Published: 17/10/2019
eISBN-13: 9781473531970

Do you know how many post boxes there are in the UK? Could you guess how many times the word ‘goat’ appear in the King James Version of the bible? Fancy playing a game of charades where all of the books, films and plays are entirely made up?

Now, look around the room. Is anyone there the kind of person who’ll say ‘I just don’t understand this’, when faced with something that’s not just perfectly easy to understand, but is … well, fun?

Ask them to leave.

Have they gone? Good.

Now welcome inside the House of Games …

Featuring questions based on some of the most loved rounds from the hit BBC2 show, including Roonerspisims, Venn Will I Be Famous?, Dim Sums and Answer Smash, Richard Osman’s House of Games Quiz Book is the ultimate test of wit, wisdom and imagination.

Curated by Richard Osman and Alan Connor and featuring over 50 new and exclusive games to try out, this is your chance to step inside the House of Games and pitch your trivia skills against your family and friends.

Quirky, unique and exactly the right amount of silly, House of Games contains hours of guaranteed fun!

The Peak District: local, characterful guides to Britain’s special places

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 160 Format: EPUB Publisher: Slow travel
Published: 16/02/2016
eISBN-13: 9781784771522

Bradt’s Slow Travel Peak District brings a new perspective to this much-loved area. Slow down and let expert local author Helen Moat guide you to not just all the well-known places, but away from the crowds to uncover the hidden corners of the Peak District. The author’s love of interesting and colourful story is linked to the natural and manmade features of the area, highlighting the quirky and unusual, places and points of interest off the beaten tourist track, from dales to abandoned mills, historical ruins, strange follies and irresistible pubs. Connect with the people who work and live in the national park through first-hand accounts of their experiences, and discover great places to cook, eat and drink, with an emphasis on tasty, local and good quality food in atmospheric venues and locations. An emphasis on car-free travel throws up a range of options: walking, cycling, boating, buses and trains – and some more unusual modes of transport as part of the sightseeing experience. Helen Moat has won, or been placed, in numerous travel writing competitions and has a passion for, and extensive knowledge of, the Peak District.

H is for hawk

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 192 Format: PDF Publisher: Vintage Digital
Published: 31/07/2014
eISBN-13: 9781448130726

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.

H is for Hawkis an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald’s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.

The craft of poetry: a primer in verse

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 192 Format: PDF Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 20/04/2021
eISBN-13: 9780300256161

A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry-itself written entirely in verse

How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms-all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic craft-but read together they suggest how poetry can evoke a whole community and its way of life in myriad ways.

In a series of beautiful meditations, Newlyn guides the reader through key aspects of poetry, from sonnets and haiku to volta and synecdoche. Avoiding glosses and notes, her poems are allowed to speak for themselves, and show that there are no limits to what poetry can communicate. Newlyn’s timeless verse will appeal to lovers of poetry as well as to practitioners, teachers, and students of all ages.

Onomatopoeia

You’d play here all day if you had your way-
near the stepping-stones, in the clearest
of rock-pools, where water slaps and slips;
where minnows dart, and a baby trout flop-flips.

52 Nature Craft Projects: Inspiration for Every Week of the Year

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 143 Format: PDF Publisher: Search Press
Published: 15/09/2020
eISBN-13: 9781781269107

Take a leaf out of this book and combine connecting with nature with crafting at home. Using materials foraged sustainably from the great outdoors, Barbora Kurcova shows you how to create beautiful, visually inspiring art, gifts, and home accents and accessories.

This collection of clever ideas is packed with small, no-fuss projects that are demonstrated using step-by-step photography, with one engaging project for each week of the year – all of which are easily achievable and great for family crafting.

Cyclecraft: The complete guide to safe and enjoyable cycling for adults and children

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 304 Format: PDF Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 08/06/2020
eISBN-13: 9780117083806

Cyclecraft is the definitive guide to safe and enjoyable cycling for both adults andchildren. Whether you are new to cycling, looking to extend your skills, or wanting toknow how best to teach your children to cycle, Cyclecraft offers practical advice onhow to ride a bike confidently and safely in modern traffic conditions.Contents include: how to get started, with special advice for parents choosing a bike and setting it up basic skills, such as balancing, steering and gear changing how to share the roads and integrate with traffic advanced techniques for cycling safely on busier roads with faster traffic advice on carrying children and goods, and riding with others.Cyclecraft is aligned with the National Standard for Cycle Training and Bikeability.This edition of Cyclecraft has been revised to reflect the experience gained throughimplementation of the National Standard.

The theory and practice of Taiji Qigong, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 192 Format: PDF Publisher: Lotus Publishing
Published: 31/12/2020
eISBN-13: 9781913088255

Taiji Qigong is an easy-to-learn system of energy-enhancing exercises which co-ordinates movement with breathing and inner concentration. This book acts as an in-depth instruction manual for the practice of the 18 stances of Taiji Qigong.

Fever Pitch

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 181 Format: PDF Publisher: Penguin
Published: 02/01/2014
eISBN-13: 780141926544

As a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents’ marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal’s football ground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings he’d ever have: joy, humiliation, heartbreak, frustration and hope.

In this now-classic book, he vividly depicts his troubled relationship with his father,, his time as a teacher, and his first loves (after football), all through the prism of the game, as he insightfully and brilliantly explores obsession, and the way it can shape a life.

Writing: a user manual : a practical guide to the craft of planning, starting and finishing a novel

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 272 Format: PDF Publisher: A & C BLACK
Published: 16/02/2012
eISBN-13: 9781408157411

You are a writer and you have a killer book idea. When your project starts to take off you will find yourself managing a writhing tangle of ideas, possibilities and potential potholes. How do you turn your inspiration into a finished novel? Writing a User’s Manual offers practical insight into the processes that go into writing a novel, from planning to story development, research to revision and, finally, delivery in a form which will catch the eye of an agent or publisher.David Hewson, a highly productive and successful writer of popular fiction with more than sixteen novels in print in twenty or so languages, shows how to manage the day to day process of writing.Writers will learn how to get the best out of software and novel writing packages such as Scrivener, which help you view your novel not as one piece of text, but as individual linked scenes, each with their own statistics, notes and place within the novel structure. As you write, you will need to assemble the main building blocks to underpin your artistry : story structure; genre – and how that affects what you write; point of view; past, present or future tense; software for keeping a book journal to manage your ideas, research and outlining; organization and more.The advice contained in this book could mean the difference between finishing your novel, and a never-ending work in progress. An essential tool for writers of all kinds.

The Humans

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 225 Format: PDF Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 09/05/2013
eISBN-13: 9780857868770

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
OR IS THERE?

After an ‘incident’ one wet Friday night where Professor Andrew Martin is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, he is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst a crazy alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, and he’s a dog.

What could possibly make someone change their mind about the human race. . . ?

Book of Forgotten Crafts

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 256 Format: PDF Publisher: F+W Media
Published: F+W Media
eISBN-13: 9781446353998

A history of time-honored trades and artistry, and stories of the modern craftspeople keeping the traditions alive-includes photos.

Today, there is a resurgence in traditional trades and crafts as people look for sustainability and quality over mass-produced, foreign-made goods. The Book of Forgotten Crafts builds on that movement and reveals the fascinating history of British craftsmanship in a series of interviews with leading crafters at work today. Exploring a range of crafts-village workshop, decorative, basketry, textile, woodland, building, and sports and recreation-photographer Paul Felix and his collaborators profile potters, blacksmiths, glass blowers, pub sign designers, silversmiths, lobster pot makers, hedgelayers, thatchers, brick makers, bagpipe makers, gunsmiths, and many others.

The world the railways made

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 351 Format: PDF Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 25/09/2014
eISBN-13: 9781781858356

Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and universal: railways carried empire, capitalism and industrialization to every corner of the planet. For some, the ‘Iron Road’ symbolized the brute horrors of modernity; for others the way toward a brighter future.

From 1825, when the first passenger service linked Stockton and Darlington to the outbreak of World War I, Nicholas Faith presents an engaging and entertaining journey through the first century of rail, introducing visionaries, engineers, surveyors, speculators, financiers and navvies – the heroes and the rogues of the mechanical revolution that turned the world upside down.

The railway was the most important invention of the 19th Century, and THE WORLD THE RAILWAYS MADE argues that in the 21st Century, with high speed lines that can compete with air travel and over 190 metro systems in 54 countries underpinning the world’s greatest cities, it remains just as relevant.

Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire (Illustrated)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 266 Format: PDF Publisher: Lulu
Published: 31/03/2014
eISBN-13: 9781304996732

” …it illustrates, in a certain degree, the history and romance of the two Palatine counties, the Author’s aim having been to give to particular localities an individuality and freshness, by presenting in an entertaining and popular form the “sites” of remarkable scenes and incidents of bygone days. “England,” says a well-known writer, “is pre-eminently the country (compared with the rest of Europe) in which the monuments that embody historical associations, and link the present with a far-reaching past are most thickly strewn;” and in Lancashire and Cheshire the soil is plentifully studded with the memorials of ancient days, that stand out in refreshing and instructive relief among the crowding evidences of modern power and civilisation-places hallowed by associations and as the homes of those whose memories we would not willingly let die, and scenes that are identified with much of the history, tradition and romance of the centuries that are gone.”

Cricket ball

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 279 Format: PDF Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 05/11/2019
eISBN-13: 9781350014572

The cricket ball is the swinging, bouncing, spinning heart of the glorious game that gives it its name. This entertaining journey through the history of cricket draws on philosophy, science, history, politics, literature, biography and the myriad facts and figures of the vast cricket universe itself to bring you the weird and wonderful story of this legendary leathern orb. What precisely is a cricket ball? What is it made of and how is it made? How has it evolved over the centuries along with the game itself and what is likely to be its multi-coloured future? ‘Cricket Ball’ expertly answers all these questions and many more with a highly readable mixture of deep insight and light hearted humour.

Raspberry Pi projects for dummies

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 461 Format: PDF Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 30/01/2015
eISBN-13: 9781118766729

The Raspberry Pi has opened up a whole new world of innovation for everyone from hardware hackers and programmers to students, hobbyists, engineers, and beyond. Featuring a variety of hands-on projects, this easy-to-understand guide walks you through every step of the design process and will have you creating like a Raspberry Pi pro in no time. You’ll learn how to prepare your workspace, assemble the necessary tools, work with test equipment, and find your way around the Raspberry Pi before moving on to a series of fun, lively projects that brings some power to your plain ol’ Pi.

  • Introduces Raspberry Pi basics and gives you a solid understanding of all the essentials you’ll need to take on your first project
  • Includes an array of fun and useful projects that show you how to do everything from creating a magic light wand to enhancing your designs with Lego sensors, installing and writing games for the RISC OS, building a transistor tester, and more
  • Provides an easy, hands-on approach to learning more about electronics, programming, and interaction design for Makers and innovators of all ages

Bring the power of Pi to your next cool creation with Raspberry Pi Projects For Dummies!

Infamous Cheshire

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 95 Format: PDF Publisher: The History Press
Published: 21/09/2006
eISBN-13: 9781641602051

Infamous Cheshire explores the darker side of this idyllic county, where murders in sleepy villages, royal scandals ancient and modern and the antics of showbiz personalities reveal that all is not as tranquil as it may seem. In his new book Bob Burrows digs deep into forgotten tales of villainy and crime, deceit and death, as well as throwing new light on more recent and well-remembered events – including the Great Train Robbery’s connections with the county, Britain’s biggest financial fraud, the IRA attack in Warrington, the plane that crashed in the centre of Stockport, and even the story behind one of Cheshire’s roads – desginated the most dangerous in Britain. Infamous Cheshire will enthral and fascinate anyone who would like to discover more about the unexpected history of Cheshire.

Mary Berry’s quick cooking

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 288 Format: PDF Publisher: BBC Digital
Published: 21/02/2019
eISBN-13: 9781473531727

The nation’s queen of home cooking brings her foolproof, delicious approach to quick fix cooking. In this brand-new, official tie-in to the major BBC One series, Mary shows how being in a rush will never be a problem again. Find brilliant 20- and 30-minute meals and enjoy wonderful dishes that can be swiftly assembled and then left to cook away while you do something else. Mary’s utterly reliable, always delicious fast dishes tempt any tastebuds and her no-fuss expertise means you can cook from scratch and put mouth-watering home-cooked food on your family’s table without compromising on quality or freshness.

Being a singer: the art, craft, and science

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 225 Format: PDF Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 05/11/2019
eISBN-13: 9781641602051

Being a Singer: The Art, Craft, and Science provides the solutions you need to make practical, consistent changes in your singing. This book pulls back the curtain on how singing actually works, from cognition to anatomy to your amazing hearing system and even your instincts and emotions. Based on the training approach of Seth Riggs, supported by vocal science, neuroscience and motor learning, Being a Singer offers clear tools and strategies that train your voice, empower you to find solutions, build your awareness, and develop confidence. Stories and interviews will inspire you. Exercises with clear how-to’s, evaluations, and troubleshooting will train your voice, mind, and body.

50 gems of Cheshire: the history & heritage of the most iconic places

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 96 Format: PDF Publisher: Amberley
Published: 15/04/2019
eISBN-13: 9781445685861

The county of Cheshire holds many delights, from the wild moorlands of the Peak District to the gentler appeal of the Dee Estuary. Cheshire also boasts more than its fair share of heritage and history, from the ancient walled city of Chester to its distinctive rural villages of half-timbered buildings, as well as many ancient castles, houses and religious buildings that tell fascinating tales of the county’s rich and varied past. 50 Gems of Cheshire is overflowing with awe-inspiring photographs and fascinating facts to draw you closer to the places you already know and love and to tempt you to discover new gems of your own.

TNM Atlas: Illustrated Guide to the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours, 7th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Christian Wittekind, H. Asamura and Sobin LH

Pages: 274 Size: 1.27 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 16 November, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781119263548

The Union for International Cancer Control’s (UICC) TNM classification system is the most widely used cancer classification and staging system in the world. It is used to describe the anatomical extent of disease and is, therefore, essential to patient care, research and cancer control.

This seventh edition of the TNM Atlas provides health-care professionals with a detailed pictorial guide to the system, demonstrating its practical application via clear, direct text and an array of full-color medical illustrations. The atlas features:

 

  • Specially produced content, created to reflect the most recent iteration of the TNM classification of malignant tumours, the 8th Edition
  • More than 300 full-color medical illustrations covering all anatomical sites of cancer involvement
  • Quick-reference material that is ideal for use in clinical and educational settings

The revised seventh edition of the TNM Atlas is a valuable resource for all medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists, anatomical and surgical pathologists, cancer registrars, oncology nurses, physician extenders, international cancer care centers and NGOs dedicated to cancer control.

TNM supplement: a commentary on uniform use, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Christian Wittekind

Pages: 328 Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 24/07/2019
eISBN-13: 9781119263920

The Union for International Cancer Control’s (UICC) TNM classification system is the most widely used cancer classification and staging system in the world. It is used to describe the anatomical extent of disease and it is essential to patient care, research and cancer control.

This fifth edition of the TNM Supplement: A Commentary of Uniform Use offers practitioners a wealth of material intended to complement the system’s day-to-day use. The volume features:

  • Updated definitions of terms used in cancer staging.
  • New sections on carcinomas of the thymus, sarcomas of the spine and pelvis and soft tissue sarcomas of the head and neck, and comprehensive updates to the head and neck carcinomas, carcinomas of the lung and neuroendocrine tumours sections.
  • Frequently asked questions from the UICC helpdesk.

The Supplement may be treated as a companion text to the recent eighth edition of the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours (978-1-119-26357-9), supporting the correct and uniform application of the TNM classification system. The TNM Supplement can also be utilised as a standalone book, providing explanations and examples to answer many questions that arise during the daily use of the TNM cancer classification and staging system, particularly in unusual cases.

The Good Practice Guide to Therapeutic Activities with Older People in Care Settings

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Perrin T
Pages: 96p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (23 Feb. 2005)
eISBN-13: 978-0863885235

There are many activity manuals on the market today but this publication is the first to offer a clear guideline on exactly what constitutes good practice in activity provision. Written by the National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA), a charity whose remit is to set standards and disseminate knowledge of good practice in activity provision and to support activity providers who work in care settings for older people, this guide offers: a model of good practice in one concise volume; a benchmark against which activity providers can measure and evaluate their practice; clear links to current national standards; guidance for care home owners and managers who wish to respond to the recent government initiatives on providing activities for their clients; and a call for clinical governance in the emerging ‘profession’ of activity provision.

The Inner Consultation: How to Develop an Effective and Intuitive Consulting Style, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Neighbour R
Pages: 292p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (06/02/2018)
eISBN-13: 9780203736548

The Inner Consultation, Second Edition sets out the author’s thoughts on how consulting skills, and methods of teaching them, have evolved in the 17 years since the book’s first publication. It also develops the theme of ‘curiosity’ as the key requirement for patient-centred consulting and provides a practical consultation model with five checkpoints to work to, advice for developing skills, and suggestions for doctors to ensure they know the cues in the consultation that require their full attention. All general practitioners, GP registrars, and medical professionals will find this book essential and thought-provoking reading.

The NHS Budget Holder’s Survival Guide

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bailey D
Pages: 96p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (11 Aug. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1138429437

This book takes the readers step by step through the key skills and knowledge, to enable them to take control of their budget. It is helpful for the reader to learn how to find out the rules governing their budget, why budgets overspend and underspend and how to make a bid for increased funding.

The Primary FRCA Structured Oral Exam Guide 2, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: McCombe K and Wijayasiri L
Pages: 304p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: CRC Press, (16 Feb. 2016)
eISBN-13:

The Primary FRCA Structured Oral Examination Study Guide 2 is the definitive revision aid to the Primary FRCA structured oral examination. This second edition is revised and updated in line with the new Royal College of Anaesthetists ‘Guide to the Primary FRCA’, with over 20 new topics to reflect changes to the RCoA’s model questions and major revisions to graphs, diagrams and many of the pre-existing sections.

Packed with new guidelines and current hot topics, this second volume covers pharmacology, special patient groups and critical incidents in depth. Over 37 pharmacology topics are covered including mechanisms of drug action, dose-response curves, drug interactions, half-life, variations in drug metabolism, opioids, neuromuscular blocking drugs and more. Twelve special patient groups topics are covered including paediatrics, elderly, pregnancy, diabetes, hypertension and more. Over 20 critical incidents topics are covered including aspiration, cyanosis, bradycardia, failed intubation, ST segment changes, hypoxia and more. The second edition of this hugely popular book is improved in clarity and content but stays true to the pragmatic approach adopted by the authors in the first edition.

The Respiratory System at a Glance, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ward JT, Ward J, and Leach RM
Pages: 118p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (7 Aug. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1118761076

The Respiratory System at a Glance has been thoroughly updated in line with current practice guidelines and new techniques to provide a highly illustrated and comprehensive guide to normal lung structure and function, as well as associated pathophysiology. Each topic has been fully revised and is accompanied by clear diagrams to encapsulate essential knowledge.

Reflecting changes to the content, teaching and assessment methods used in medical education, this new edition now includes more information on acid base and its clinical ramifications, further detail on defence mechanisms and immunology, and also features online access to clinical cases and flashcards.

The Respiratory System at a Glance:
• Integrates basic and clinical science – ideal for integrated and systems-based courses
• Includes both the pathophysiology and clinical aspects of the respiratory system
• Is fully revised and updated to reflect current practice guidelines and new therapies
• Provides online clinical cases, brand new flashcards, and MCQs

The SAGE Handbook of Coaching

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bachkirova T, Spence G and Drake D
Pages: 794p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (17 Nov. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1473916531

The SAGE Handbook of Coachingpresents a comprehensive, global view of the discipline, identifying the current issues and practices, as well as mapping out where the discipline is going.   The Handbook is organized into six thematic sections:

  • Part One: Positioning Coaching as a Discipline
  • Part Two: Coaching as a Process
  • Part Three: Common Issues in Coaching
  • Part Four: Coaching in Contexts
  • Part Five: Researching Coaching
  • Part Six: Development of Coaches

It provides the perfect reference point for graduate students, scholars, educators and researchers wishing to familiarize themselves with current research and debate in the academic and influential practitioners′ literature on coaching.

The SAGE Handbook of Mentoring

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Clutterbuck DA, Kochan F, Lunsford LG, Dominguez N and Haddock-Millar J
Pages: 688p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (23 Feb. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1412962537

The SAGE Handbook of Mentoring provides a scholarly, comprehensive and critical overview of mentoring theory, research and practice across the world. Internationally renowned authors map out the key historical and contemporary research, before considering modern case study examples and future directions for the field. The chapters are organised into four areas:

  • The Landscape of Mentoring
  • The Practice of Mentoring
  • The Context of Mentoring
  • Case Studies of Mentoring Around the Globe

This Handbook is a resource for mentoring academics, students and practitioners across a range of disciplines including business and management, education, health, psychology, counselling, and social work.

The Good Mentoring Toolkit for Healthcare

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bayley H, Chambers R and Donovan C
Pages: 168p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (1 Sept. 2004)
eISBN-13: 978-1857756494

This toolkit can be used to help you establish good practice in mentoring, whether you are being mentored, an individual mentor, or responsible for setting up a mentoring scheme in your organisation – hospital or primary care trust, deanery, college, etc. It will guide you as to what to expect from mentoring and provide practical help in setting up the components of a mentoring scheme. Chapter 1 includes the many and varied definitions of mentoring. We employ general definitions of mentoring throughout this toolkit, rather than employing any terminology specific to one professional group. In brief, the benefits of mentoring for individuals are:

increases the confidence of the mentee by:

    • supporting them while they learn new skills, behaviours, etc.
      challenging assumptions
    • offering alternative perspectives
    • facilitating the mentee in finding solutions to their problems
  • encourages reflective practice by:
    • providing a sounding board
    • providing protected time and space to consider professional practice
    • increasing mentees’ understanding of their working environment
  • enhances self-development through:
    • action planning and learning
    • effective goal setting
    • increasing professional confidence and professional credibility.

Promoting Recovery in Mental Health Nursing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Trenoweth S
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (30 Nov. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1473913059

Promoting recovery from mental health problems is a guiding principle within modern mental health care. Working in partnership with service users, new practice techniques are being designed and delivered that can allow individuals to thrive within society and move towards a fulfilling life beyond their diagnosis. Recovery remains a broad and subjective term though and understanding what this means for your service users and how to implement recovery into your practice is an important challenge.

Developed in partnership with Certitude – an influential charity providing support for people with mental health problems or learning disabilities – this book will answer all your questions about recovery in mental health nursing. It provides clear explanations and practical guidance that you can immediately bring into your work on placement.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice, 8th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Townsend MC
Pages: 960p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: F.A. Davis Company, (1 Oct. 2014)
eISBN-13: 978-0803640924

Clearly written, comprehensive coverage of psychiatric mental-health nursing delivers what nursing students need to meet the challenges of health care today. Its evidence-based, holistic approach to nursing practice focuses on both physiological and psychological disorders. Designed to be used in longer psychiatric mental-health nursing courses, this text provides students with a comprehensive grounding in therapeutic approaches as well as must-know DSM-5 disorders and nursing interventions.

Psychiatry at a Glance, 6th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Katona C, Cooper C and Robertson M
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (11 Dec. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1119129677

Psychiatry at a Glance is an up-to-date, accessible introductory and study text for all students of psychiatry. It presents ‘need-to-know’ information on the basic science, treatment, and management of the major disorders, and helps you develop your skills in history taking and performing the Mental State Examination (MSE).

This new edition features:
• Thoroughly updated content to reflect new research, the DSM 5 classification and NICE guidelines
• All the information required, including practice questions, for the written Psychiatry exams
• Extensive self-assessment material, including Extending Matching Questions, Single Best Answer questions, and sample OSCE stations, to reinforce knowledge learnt
• A companion website at ataglanceseries.com/psychiatry featuring interactive case studies and downloadable illustrations

Psychiatry at a Glance will appeal to medical students, junior doctors and psychiatry trainees, as well as nursing students and other health professionals and is the ideal companion for anyone about to start a psychiatric attachment or module.

Psychiatry by Ten Teachers, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Dogra N, Lunn B and Cooper S
Pages: 296p.
Format: PDF
Publisher:  CRC Press, (3 Feb. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1498750226

Psychiatry by Ten Teachers follows the highly-praised and successful ‘Ten Teachers’ tradition of providing the key information in a chosen specialty as required by the medical undergraduate, junior doctor and trainee GP, written by ten respected experts in the field. With medical students closely involved in the text’s development from the outset the text focuses on what the medical student and junior really need to know, with a clear rationale for the inclusion of every topic discussed at a level appropriate for the inexperienced, and will be of value to their future career whatever field they ultimately decide to specialize in.

Completely up to date, this revised second edition encourages students and recently qualified doctors to get the most out of their psychiatry and community attachments, without overwhelming them with unnecessary detail. In line with the core curriculum recommended by the Royal College of Psychiatry, useful tips and advice ensure this is much more than a standard introduction to the subject, encouraging additional reading, supporting critical thinking and bringing exam success.

Psychosocial Assessment in Mental Health

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Trenoweth S and Moone N
Pages: 264p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (6 April 2017)
eISBN-13:

Psychosocial and holistic approaches to assessment have become a central feature of modern mental health care. This practical and comprehensive book guides students through the theory and practice of psychosocial assessments to help them integrate the data as preparation for the effective planning of treatment and interventions.

Key features:

  • step-by-step guide on how to undertake each stage of the assessment process in practice
  • clinical staff and service users voices describing their experiences of the process
  • end of chapter exercises
  • reflections and considerations for practice

This is essential reading for pre-registration nursing students and mental health professionals.

Radiology at a Glance, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Chowdhury R, Wilson IDC, Rofe CJ and Lloyd-Jones G
Pages: 150p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (3 Nov. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1118914779

Addressing the basic concepts of radiological physics and radiation protection, together with a structured approach to image interpretation, Radiology at a Glance is the perfect guide for medical students, junior doctors and radiologists.

Covering the radiology of plain films, fluoroscopy, CT, MRI, intervention, nuclear medicine and mammography, this edition has been fully updated to reflect advances in the field and now contains new spreads on cardiac, breast and bowel imaging, as well as further information on interventional radiology.

Radiology at a Glance:

  • Assumes no prior knowledge of radiology
  • Addresses both theory and clinical practice through theoretical and case-based chapters
  • Provides structured help in assessing which radiological procedures are most appropriate for specific clinical problems
  • Includes increased image clarity

Supported by ‘classic cases’ chapters in each section, and presented in a clear and concise format, Radiology at a Glance is easily accessible whether on the ward or as a quick revision guide.

Renal Nursing: Care and Management of People with Kidney Disease, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Thomas N
Pages: 456p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (23 Aug. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1119413141

Now in its fifth edition, Renal Nursing continues to be the essential evidence-based guide to nephrology and kidney care for nurses and allied health care professionals. This comprehensive text examines the stages of chronic kidney disease, pre-dialysis care, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapy, renal nutrition, renal care in children and young people and more. 

  • Offers thorough coverage of all major aspects of kidney care
  • Includes updated content on current practice, changes in policies, care and management, with the latest research evidence and current NICE guidance on renal replacement therapy
  • Has an innovative chapter on patient and public involvement in kidney care

Renal Nursing is an indispensable resource for nurses working in nephrology, dialysis and transplantation, nurses in post-registration renal courses, student nurses in renal wards, specialist renal dietitians, pharmacists and other allied health professionals in related fields.

Research Methodologies for Beginners

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Locharoenrat K
Pages: 324p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Jenny Stanford Publishing, (3 April 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-9814745390

This textbook introduces the general points of view of research methodology in the scientific and engineering fields of studies and presents an overview of the technical and professional communication needed for article publication in journals. It comprises several practice exercises that will give beginners the confidence to move on the communicative activities. Every chapter provides problem sets that will help readers check their understanding of each concept. The book will also help readers formulate specific research topics, research questions, and hypotheses; conduct literature reviews relevant to the research topics; develop applicable research methodologies; and write and present their research outlining the key elements of the proposed projects. It is very useful for students and researchers opting for a course on research methodology and for seminars at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Revalidation: Prepare Now and Get it Right

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Chambers R, Wakley G and Magnall A
Pages: 168p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (25 Jan. 2008)
eISBN-13: 978-1846191893

This won’t hurt a bit…How do you show that you consistently provide high quality clinical care both as an individual doctor and member of a team? How do you provide convincing evidence of your performance that justifies you as being fit to practise? And how do you achieve this in a way that is not too burdensome? Revalidation will now be more stringent that ever. You might need help gathering information so that your evidence is sufficiently robust and objective, presenting it so that addresses the fields in the General Medical Council’s document. You’ll need to make sure you match your portfolio with what is expected in your specialty area. This book helps you to sustain your energy in gathering and reviewing evidence of your day-to-day performance at work so that you are recertified and relicensed with ease, whatever future revisions are made to the revalidation process. By suggesting proactive and structured methods, this book offers easy to comprehend ways to guide you through the evidence cycle, with many examples in both clinical and non-clinical fields. It is ideal for primary care and hospital doctors preparing for revalidation, including trainee doctors. Appraisers, and trainee appraisers in trusts, deaneries or general practice will find the guidance invaluable, as will appraisal leads in healthcare organisations and those with responsibility for quality assurance of appraisal as part of clinical governance or regulation.

Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 6th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Thapar A, Pine DS, Leckman JF, Scott S, Snowling MJ and Taylor EA
Pages: 1096
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (15 Jun. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1118381885

Both interdisciplinary and international, it provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help researchers, trainees and practicing clinicians in their daily work. Integrating science and clinical practice, it is a comprehensive reference for all aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry.

New to this full color edition are expanded coverage on classification, including the newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and new chapters on systems neuroscience, relationship-based treatments, resilience, global psychiatry, and infant mental health.

Successful Professional Portfolios for Nursing Students, 2nd ed.

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Author: Reed S
Pages: 132p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (30 May 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1473916319

This book is a simple, quick and easy to use guide to building a professional portfolio for nursing students. Students are required by the NMC to keep an ongoing record of achievement, to demonstrate their competence at each stage of their programme. The portfolio is an essential part of the assessment of practice to demonstrate nursing competence. This book gives a step-by-step and practical explanation of how to compile a professional portfolio to succeed in these assessments. It can be used throughout nursing programmes and into your nursing career as a tool to help with interviews, appraisals and the NMC revalidation process.

Key features

  • Excerpts from other students′ portfolios show what makes a good portfolio
  • Step-by step activities guide you through building your own portfolio
  • Linked to the latest NMC Standards and ESCs for pre-registration nursing education

Supervision in Clinical Practice: A Practitioners Guide, 3rd ed.

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Author: Scaife J
Pages: 432p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge, 3rd edition
eISBN-13: 978-1138651883

This fully updated edition of Supervision in Clinical Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide is packed with practical examples from personal and professional experience. Since the publication of the first two editions, health and social care organisations have become increasingly risk averse, resources more strained, and moves have been made towards stifling levels of clinical governance. In this edition Joyce Scaife counters the idea of supervision as a constraint and challenges some of the thinking associated with ‘evidence-based’ practice when this focuses on what can be easily measured rather than what matters. Joyce Scaife explores frequently encountered dilemmas including:

    • How can supervisors facilitate learning?
    • What are the ethical bases of supervision?
    • What helps to create and maintain an effective working alliance?
    • How can supervisors balance management and supervision roles?
    • How can supervisors work equitably in an increasingly diverse and pluralistic world?

Symptom Sorter, 6th ed.

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Author: Hopcroft K and Forte V
Pages: 490p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (12 May 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-0367468095

Across its six editions, Symptom Sorter has excelled in redressing the balance between symptoms and diagnoses to become the essential handbook to accompany the consultation in primary care.  Presenting a multitude of symptoms commonly encountered in primary care, these are meticulously explored using the red flags, top tips and ready reckoner format for sorting symptoms that have made previous editions so popular and respected. This revised and updated sixth edition includes several new chapters and features expanded coverage of paediatric symptoms.

Key features:

  • Fully updated, with ‘investigations’ sections amended in line with latest guidelines and significant revisions throughout
  • Brand new chapters on acute abdominal pain in childhood, hand and wrist swellings, diarrhoea in children, loin pain, rectal bleeding in children, vomiting in babies, skinfold rash and dysuria
  • Consistent and logical presentation enables speedy access
  • Replicates accurately the experience in the consultation or clinic

An invaluable reference for all general practitioners, especially GP trainers and registrars, this new edition of Symptom Sorter is also highly recommended for advanced nurse practitioners, A&E nurses and pharmacists requiring a concise, easy-to-use guide.

The Cardiovascular System at a Glance, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Aaronson PI, Ward JPT and Connolly MJ
Pages: 159p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (2 April 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1119245780

The Cardiovascular System at a Glance is the essential reference guide to understanding all things circulatory. Concise, accessible, and highly illustrated, this latest edition presents an integrated overview of the subject, from the basics through to application. Featuring brand new content on stroke, examination and imaging, heart block and ECGs, and myopathies and channelopathies, The Cardiovascular System at a Glance goes one step further and offers new and updated clinical case studies and multiple-choice questions on a supplementary website.

  • Integrates basic science and clinical topics
  • Offers bite-size chapters that make topics easy to digest
  • Includes coverage of anatomy and histology, blood and haemostasis, cellular physiology, form and function, regulation and integration of cardiovascular function, history, examination and investigations, pathology and therapeutics
  • Filled with highly visual, colour illustrations that enhance the text and help reinforce learning

The Complete CSA Casebook: 110 Role Plays and a Comprehensive Curriculum Guide

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Blount E, Kirby-Blount H and Moulton L
Pages: 570p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: CRC Press, (8 Nov. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1498796460

This is the most comprehensive resource for candidates sitting the challenging final Clinical Skills Assessment exam, offering a complete curriculum guide as well as 110 role plays that can be removed and practised in pairs.

The guidance is seamlessly aligned to the RCGP syllabus, fully up-to-date and referenced with the latest guidelines, with detailed ‘model’ answers to each case. Offering a new, straightforward consultation model highly suited to the requirements of the exam, the book provides:

    • a realistic amount of information for both ‘doctor’ and ‘patient’ to closely replicate the exam
    • the answers! Each case includes a fully worked up ‘Model Consultation’
    • summaries of guidelines and tips from the authors’ recent experience of the CSA exam for all 110 cases
    • an easy way to mark each colleague’s role play attempts, with tick boxes on the Model Consultation and a universally applicable marking scheme card
    • a colour-coded curriculum for ease of reference
    • the only CSA casebook and revision guide providing information and answers across the curriculum.

The Complete CSA Casebook is an excellent resource to prepare for a number of international examinations, including:

    • Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) for the RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners).
    • Simulated Surgery, Learning Needs Assessment, for the International GP Recruitment (IGPR) Scheme, GP Returner Scheme and GP Induction Scheme.
    • Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for the RACGP (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners) Fellowship.
    • GPEP1 Clinical Examination for the RNZCGP (Royal New Zealand college of General Practitioners).
    • The Certification Examination in Family Medicine simulated office orals (SOOs) for The College of Family Physicians of Canada.”
    • The Family Medicine Certification Examination for the ABFM (American Board of Family Medicine).

and will remain an invaluable resource for best general practice after qualification.

The Doctor’s Guide to Critical Appraisal

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gosall N and Gosall G
Pages: 320p.
Format: EPUD
Publisher: PasTest, (20 Feb. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1905635979

The Doctor’s Guide to Critical Appraisal is a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the knowledge and skills clinicians need to appraise clinical research papers. This new edition expands on the award-winning third edition with a modified structure, new and updated chapters, new figures and scenarios, and more help with difficult topics. Also includes excerpts from real clinical papers to illustrate key concepts.

The Easy Guide to Focused History Taking for OSCEs, 2nd ed.

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Author: McCollum D
Pages: 280p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: CRC Press, (26 May 2017)
eISBN-13:  978-1138196520

This straightforward guide to taking patient history comprehensively covers all of the commonly seen OSCE scenarios within the current undergraduate medical curriculum. The Easy Guide to Focused History Taking for OSCEs includes introductory chapters with general OSCE guidance, mapping onto the Calgary-Cambridge model. These include tips from recently qualified doctors and highly respected physicians and surgeons who commonly examine OSCEs, as well as a sample OSCE marking scheme.

The book then covers 56 histories based on presenting complaints – more than any other text on the market – thoroughly testing both knowledge and examination technique. Each history is based around the exam requirements, with mnemonics, ‘red flag’ symptom boxes and list-based breakdowns to aid prompt recall. Common and serious differentials are highlighted, as well as investigations to help rule out the serious conditions. Each section concludes by outlining key aspects for each differential diagnosis as well as a list of investigations and management options.

With this book, every student will be well equipped to tackle any clinical problem, in the OSCE examination and also in their continued professional practice.

The Essential Dementia Care Handbook

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Stokes G and Goudie F
Pages: 240p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (31 May 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-0863882449

Replacing the successful “Working with Dementia”, this edition draws together many new ideas and practical approaches from a wide variety of professionals working at the leading edge of the provision of services to people with dementia and provides a comprehensive account of current best practice. Beginning with the diagnosis of dementia and other problems associated with aging, this book considers assessment, the person centered model of dementia, rehabilitation and therapy. It outlines practical interventions, illustrated with case studies that provide a stimulating insight into contemporary understanding and practice. Nursing staff, occupational therapists, residential care workers, social workers and all those in day-to-day contact with elderly people will be inspired by this vital handbook for all care staff.

The Essentials of Nursing Leadership

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Taylor R and Webster-Henderson B
Pages: 216p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (19 Dec. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1412962025

This new approach to leadership focuses on how students can develop leadership skills right from the start of their nursing programme through to transitioning to their first role. The book first takes students through the underpinning knowledge and theory and then through practical skills to help them understand all aspects of leadership and how it is a key component of providing quality care to patients in a range of environments and settings. Real stories from nursing leaders, practitioners and students are included to inspire students and show them how they can impact positively on practice, whatever level they are working at.

Key features include:

  • Real life focus, grounded in everyday practice, with lots of case studies and examples to help students see how theory relates to practice
  • Activities to help students reflect about their own practice, and about themselves as leaders
  • Video interviews with nurse leaders and students on the companion website
  • Further reading and links to journal articles in both the book and the companion website help students delve deeper and prepare for assessments.

The Foundation Programme for Doctors: Getting in, Getting on and Getting Out

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Alwan F, Francis R and Smith EJ
Pages: 120p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (20 Jan. 2007)
eISBN-13: 978-1846191169

This book includes a foreword by Jane Dacre, Academic Vice President, Royal College of Physicians, Professor of Medical Education, CHIME, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist, The Whittington Hospital, London. This book prepares you for the often daunting life after medical school, detailing everything you need to know about preparing, applying and surviving. It’s the most up-to-date guide available filling you in on recent important changes to the application system. This practical guide is full of valuable tips, tables, worked examples, frequently asked questions, further resources and useful addresses. Highly recommended for final year medical students and other clinical medical students preparing for their final year, this book is also invaluable for junior doctors progressing through the Foundation Programme and all those with teaching and supervisory responsibilities in medical schools and hospitals. ‘An invaluable resource for our new generation of doctors. It takes readers through the process from application, to F2 and beyond. It offers useful advice in a useable and readable format. It is written by a group of current and past medical students who have lived through, and continue to live through, the insecurities of the changing medical career structures. Its style is informal, engaging and easy to absorb, so it should be a good distraction for those currently in the run-up to their finals exams. Good luck to all of you, and don’t forget, Medicine is a wonderful career.’

Second Victim: Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Dekker S
Pages: 128p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge, (24 April 2013)
eISBN-13: 978-1466583412

How do people cope with having “caused” a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but they are victims too. They are second victims whose experiences of an incident or adverse event can be as traumatic as that of the first victims’. Yet information on second victimhood and its relationship to safety, about what is known and what organizations might need to do, is difficult to find.

Thoroughly exploring an emerging topic with great relevance to safety culture, Second Victim: Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience examines the lived experience of second victims. It goes through what we know about trauma, guilt, forgiveness, and injustice and how these might be felt by the second victim. The author discusses how to conduct investigations of incidents that do not alienate second victims or make them feel even worse. It explores the importance support and resilience and where the responsibilities for creating it may lie.

Drawing on his unique background as psychologist, airline pilot, and safety specialist, and his own experiences with helping second victims from a variety of backgrounds, Sidney Dekker has written a powerful, moving account of the experience of the second victim. It forms compelling reading for practitioners, risk managers, human resources managers, safety experts, mental health workers, regulators, the judiciary, and many other professionals. Dekker provides a strong theoretical background to promote understanding of the situation of the second victim and solid practical advice about how to deal with trauma that continues after an event leading to preventable harm or even avoidable death of a patient, consumer, or colleague.

Making Mandated Addiction Treatment Work, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Wallace BC
Pages: 390p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: RL, (5 Mar. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1442268593

The second edition of Making Mandated Addiction Treatment Work integrates cutting edge research with evidence-based addiction treatments to create a unified and effective treatment model for mental health professionals and those in training. Because the largest and fastest growing segment of the community-based addiction treatment population includes those who are mandated, Barbara C. Wallace provides insightful best practices for tailoring addiction treatment to diverse and challenging clients, including those who may have a history of trauma or mental disorders, different levels of motivation, and a high risk of relapse. Applicable in a variety of treatment settings in both urban and rural communities, this text weaves together new research and vivid case studies into a concise and practical resource. This book is ideal for practitioners and students of public health, criminal justice, and social welfare services.

Live More Think Less: Overcoming Depression and Sadness with Metacognitive Therapy

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Callesen P
Pages: 192p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Icon Books, (2 Jan. 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1785785542

The first practical book on metacognitive therapy, a groundbreaking new treatment proven to stop depression in its tracks. Many of us struggle with overthinking. We endlessly analyse what we’ve said and done or the decisions we have to make. Rarely does this treat the stresses of our lives. Often we become overwhelmed; we end up feeling powerless, spiralling into sadness and even depression.

Live More Think Less presents a radical strategy to take back control of our thinking processes. From training our attention to leaving our negative trigger-thoughts on the conveyor belt, the book guides us towards living better through mastering the attention we pay to our thoughts and how we act upon them.

Live Longer with AI: How artificial intelligence is helping us extend our healthspan and live better too

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Woods T and Ream M
Pages: 602p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Packt Publishing, (30 Sept. 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1838646158

A wakeup call that shows us how to live our best and longest lives through the power of AI

Key Features

  • Discover how the latest cutting-edge developments in health and AI are helping us live longer, healthier, and better lives
  • Personalize your health, wealth and well-being using technology best suited to help you plan and build up your assets for a multi-stage life
  • Understand how we can live our best lives in a post-COVID-19 world and equip ourselves for the next pandemic using technology

Leadership, Management and Team Working in Nursing, 3rd ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ellis P
Pages: 216p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (29 Nov. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1473997912

With all nurses expected to demonstrate leadership, management and team working skills it is vital that students engage with this aspect of their training as early as possible. As well as covering all of the core theory and knowledge, the authors encourage the reader to explore their own values and experiences when it comes to leadership that will help to develop emotional intelligence and a solid understanding of what good leadership and management practice looks like and why it matters to them.

Key features:

  • Written with the needs of student nurses firmly in mind with activities and case studies that bring theory to life
  • Linked to the 2018 NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses
  • Provides practical guidance on the immediate challenges that the new nurse will face

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author:  Somerville M, Kumaran K and Anderson R
Pages: 128p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, (5 Aug. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1118999325

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students understand the determinants of health and their study, from personal lifestyle choices and behaviour, to environmental, social and economic factors. This fully updated new edition features: More coverage of audit and quality improvement techniques Brand new sections on maternal and child health, and health of older people New chapters on social determinants of health and guideline development Expanded self-assessment material This accessible guide is an invaluable resource for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for a career in epidemiology and public health.

Physical Examination of the Newborn at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Campbell D
Pages: 130p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (16 Mar. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1119155577

Physical Examination of the Newborn at a Glance provides a comprehensive guide for all those involved with both the routine neonatal examination and the more specific full physical examination of a newborn.

Covering the routine care and the competencies required to perform the examination of the newborn as set out by the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) Screening Programme, this beautifully illustrated book encourages the critical appraisal of personal and practice standards relating to the examination of the newborn in order to promote effective and high quality holistic care of the family unit.

Encapsulating the learning requirements across a pre and post-registration audience, Physical Examination of the Newborn at a Glance is an indispensable resource for those beginning their journey to become a NIPE practitioner, as well as those who are looking to update their professional knowledge and understanding.

Healthcare Simulation at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: McKimm J and Forrest K
Pages: 96p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (26 July 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1118871843

Healthcare Simulation at a Glance presents an accessible overview of everything you need to know about simulation in clinical practice and healthcare education.

From embedding simulation in programmes, to technical and non-technical features of simulation in a variety of contexts, to how simulation can be used in assessment and the provision of feedback to healthcare professionals, this practical guide is the perfect resource for developing the skills and knowledge required as both a student and an educator. Healthcare Simulation at a Glance:

  • Introduces the concepts and theories underpinning simulation practice
  • Provides an understanding of the key terms and processes involved
  • Includes a range of examples and tips for easy application in practice

Healthcare Simulation at a Glance is ideal for both those new to using simulation in education, as well as experienced academics.

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Thistlethwaite J and McKimm J
Pages: 104p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. (31 July 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1118756386

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education. This concise text includes how to identify and develop professional behaviours, how they are assessed, and how to challenge unprofessional behaviours.  Health Care Professionalism at a Glance:

  • Provides a user-friendly and thought provoking overview of health care professionalism
  • Introduces the main topics, key definitions and explores aspects relevant to learners and novice professionals
  • Considers fundamental features of professionalism that students are expected to acquire as well as how they are taught, learned and assessed
  • Includes summary boxes that highlight important points, reflection points, clinical cases and suggested further reading
  • Includes references relevant to different countries’ accrediting bodies

Haematology at a Glance, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Mehta AB and Hoffbrand AV
Pages: 136p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell,n (28 Mar. 2014)
eISBN-13: 978-1119969228

Following the familiar, easy-to-use at a Glance format, Haematology at a Glance, Fourth Edition is a broad and accessible introduction to the study of blood. Fully revised and updated to reflect advances in the field and in clinical practice, this new edition covers essential knowledge, from basic hematological physiology to blood disorders and their diagnosis and treatment.  This new edition of Haematology at a Glance:

  • Features expanded sections on the underlying mechanisms, diagnostic techniques and management of the malignant haematological diseases. Also incorporates recent advances in knowledge of thrombosis and the newer oral anticoagulants
  • Contains the very latest clinical treatments
  • Includes updated illustrations and clinical photographs to illustrate concepts and aid understanding
  • Features extensive online self-assessment at www.ataglanceseries.com/haematology

Embryology at a Glance, 2nd ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Webster S and de Wreede R
Pages: 128p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (22 April 2016)
eISBN-13:

Embryology at a Glance is a highly illustrated and innovative introduction to key embryological concepts, with concise, memorable descriptions of major embryological developments. This new edition covers the basic principles of human development, from mitosis and meiosis, before exploring the primary formation of each body system, including the development of the musculoskeletal, circulatory, digestive, reproductive, and nervous systems during the foetal and neonatal periods.

Key features include:

  • New chapters on cell signalling genes, stem cells, and antenatal screening for common congenital and genetic defects
  • Full colour photographs and illustrations
  • Links to clinical practice highlighted throughout
  • Timelines of each developmental stage
  • MCQs and EMQs for revision and review
  • A companion website at www.ataglanceseries.com/embryology featuring 15 brand new animations, and podcasts to help clearly explain the processes that occur during development. An additional instructor resource contains an image bank of all the figures from the book to aid teaching this fascinating area

Acute and Critical Care in Adult Nursing, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Tait D, James J, Williams C and Barton D
Pages: 320p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (14 Dec. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1473912311

This book helps adult nursing students to competently manage care of critically and acutely ill patients, and to recognize and deal with the early signs of deterioration. The book takes a practical real-life approach to care, with each chapter focusing on patients with specific problems, then interweaving the knowledge and skills needed to care for that patient.

New to this edition:

  • two new chapters focusing on the renal system and endocrine system
  • updates to include the latest evidence and guidelines from NICE
  • refreshed activities and scenarios reflecting current nursing practice.

Wound Care at a Glance, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Peate I and Stephens M
Pages: 142p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (30 Jan. 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1119590507

The second edition of Wound Care at a Glance is the ideal study and revision companion for undergraduate nursing and healthcare students, newly qualified practitioners, and for all involved with the provision of high quality, evidence-based wound care. This concise and user-friendly guide enables readers to expand their knowledge and understanding of wound care and skin integrity, and render safe and effective patient-centred care.

The guide’s highly illustrated, visual approach to the subject of wound care and skin integrity explores the anatomy and physiology of the skin, acute and chronic wounds, pain management, legal and ethical issues, the various complexities of practical wound care, and more.

  • Contains all the information you need to provide safe and effective patient care
  • Presents a clear and concise account of appropriate wound care
  • Incorporates both images and text to appeal to visual and non-visual learners alike
  • Features a companion website containing interactive self-testing features

Values and Ethics in Coaching

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Iordanou I,Hawley R and Iordanou C
Pages:
Format:
Publisher:
eISBN-13:

The first complete guide to exploring values and ethics in coaching, this book will guide you through the responsibilities of coaching practice, and help you recognize and reconcile common ethical dilemmas and choices.

Part I explores the theory and research underpinning ethical coaching practice, and invites you to examine own personal and professional values.

Part II delves into the key ethical considerations in the coaching relationship, including contracting, confidentiality and understanding boundaries. It explores each issue in depth, and offers implications and suggestions for practice.

Part III examines individual professional contexts, including coaching in business, sports and healthcare with real life examples and reflections from practising coaches.

This book is vital reading for trainee and practitioner coaches, and those looking to introduce ethical coaching practice into a professional setting.

Urology at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Hashim H and Dasgupta P
Pages: 112p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (3 Feb. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1118923641

Following the undergraduate curriculum set by the British Association of Urological Surgeons, Urology at a Glance offers practical advice on diagnosis and management of one of the most rapidly developing medical specialties.

Building on basic science, the book provides an overview of clinical approaches to assist the medical student or junior doctor on rotation, as well as looking at practical procedures and specific details of the most commonly encountered urological disorders.

Vibrantly illustrated and containing common clinical scenarios, Urology at a Glance provides all the information and latest guidelines needed for a medical student or junior doctor to excel in this field.

Type 2 Diabetes: Cardiovascular and Related Complications and Evidence-Based Complementary Treatments

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Fried R and Carlton RM
Pages: 482p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (25 Oct. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1138580565

Approximately 29 million Americans are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes annually. Of that number, only about 36 percent (10.44 million diabetes sufferers) achieve satisfactory medical outcomes and would need additional help—rarely available—to reliably control their glucose levels. Contrary to popular belief, although anti-diabetic medications can lower sugar levels, nevertheless they have a poor performance track record because inflammation in the blood vessels persists.

This book details recent scientific findings that cardiovascular, kidney, vision, peripheral nervous system, and other body damage caused by chronic high levels of blood sugar (hyperglycemia) in Type 2 diabetes is actually due to excessive generation of unopposed free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS). These, in turn, cause chronic systemic inflammation and dysfunction of the endothelial lining of the arterial blood vessels, jeopardizing the formation of the protective molecule nitric oxide (NO), thus severely impairing the blood supply to every organ and tissue in the body. This book also catalogues the evidence that chronic hyperglycemia causes profound and often irreversible damage—even long before Type 2 diabetes has been diagnosed. In addition, because conventional prescription treatments are, unfortunately, often inadequate, the book details evidence-based complementary means of blood sugar control.

Top 3 Differentials in Radiology: A Case Review, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: O’Brien WT
Pages: 720p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers, (7 Feb. 2018)
eISBN-13:  978-1626232785

This fully revised second edition of ‘Top 3 Differentials in Radiology’ provides a comprehensive core exam review of frequently encountered imaging gamuts in all major radiological subspecialties. Author William O’Brien utilizes the widely acclaimed format of his first edition, with 330 new and updated radiology cases organized into 12 core sub-speciality sections. The last section, ‘Roentgen Classics’, includes cases from each of the previous core sections, with imaging findings characteristic of a single diagnosis. This book reflects content included in the current radiology board examinations with accurate and concise descriptions of key differentials, which are integral to acing the boards. Each case is formatted as a two-page unit. The left page features clinical images, succinctly captioned radiographic findings, and pertinent clinical history. The right page includes the key imaging gamut, differential diagnoses rank-ordered by the Top 3, additional diagnostic considerations, and clinical pearls. Key Features:

  • More than 700 high quality images, including advanced imaging techniques.
  • Rank ordered differentials organized into the Top 3 and additional diagnostic considerations.
  • A high-yield review of important imaging and clinical manifestations for all entities on the list of differentials.
  • Imaging pearls at the end of each case provide a quick review of key points.

This outstanding resource provides radiologists and trainees with a solid foundation of core radiology topics and a wide spectrum of key imaging findings encountered in clinical practice. It is a must-have for radiology residents preparing for board examinations. Veteran radiologists looking for a comprehensive review of critical topics in radiology will also find this book invaluable.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Kahneman D
Pages: 512p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Penguin, (3 Nov. 2011)
eISBN-13: 978-0141033570

Why is there more chance we’ll believe something if it’s in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? The answer lies in the two ways we make choices: fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), and gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking. It will enable to you make better decisions at work, at home, and in everything you do.

The Textbook of Non-Medical Prescribing, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Pickett K and Wilkinson R
Pages: 306p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (8 Nov. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1119520474

The Textbook of Non-Medical Prescribing is an authoritative and accessible overview of the vital skills, contemporary issues and essential knowledge relevant to both students and healthcare practitioners. Written as a response to the growing emphasis placed on prescribing in the modern health service, this text provides up-to-date information on safe and effective prescribing. This wide-ranging book helps students and trainees develop foundational knowledge of the key areas and prescribing competencies and provides healthcare professionals with a continued source of current information.

Now in its third edition, this text has been fully updated and revised to reflect changes in legislation, current practices and new guidelines. New and updated topics include independent prescribing for therapeutic radiologists, supplementary prescribing for dietitians, paramedics working in advanced roles to independently prescribe and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Competency Framework for all Prescribers.

  • Provides up-to-date information essential to safe and effective prescribing in a clear, easy-to-understand style
  • Discusses current issues and practices in pharmacology, prescribing and therapeutics and medicine management
  • Links to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Competency Framework for all Prescribers for non-medical prescribers
  • Presents learning objectives, key theme summaries, activities and numerous case studies
  • Offers access to additional online resources including interactive exercises, quizzes, self-assessment tests and web links

The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Pickett K and Wilkinson R
Pages: 400 p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Penguin, (4 Nov. 2010)
eISBN-13: 978-0241954294

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer: inequality.

This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show:

How almost everything – from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy – is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is
That societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them – including the well-off
How we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future

Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.

Physiology at a Glance, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ward JPT and Linden RWA
Pages: 172p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (21 April 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1119247272

Extensively revised and updated, this fourth edition of Physiology at a Glance continues to provide a thorough introduction to human physiology, covering a wealth of topics in a comprehensive yet succinct manner.

This concise guide breaks this often complex subject down into its core components, dealing with structures of the body from the cellular level to composite systems. New to this edition are three chapters on cell signalling, thermoregulation, and altitude and aerospace physiology, as well as a glossary of terms to aid medical, dental, health science and biomedical students at all levels of their training.

Featuring clear, full-colour illustrations, memorable data tables, and easy-to-read text, Physiology at a Glance is ideal as both a revision guide and as a resource to assist basic understanding of key concepts.

MRCPsych: Passing the CASC Exam, 2nd ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Sauer J and Sandilyan MB
Pages: 530p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (28 Oct. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1498722186

This is a fully-updated, comprehensive guide for trainees preparing for the MRCPsych CASC exam (Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies). Success in the CASC is the final step in being awarded the MRCPsych qualification, which signifies the physician has fulfilled the necessary training requirements and has passed the membership exams conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The book is presented in a clear layout and covers the full range of psychiatry subspecialties likely to be encountered on exam day.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Crane R
Pages: 208p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (27 Mar. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1138643222

This new edition of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features (MBCT) provides a concise, straightforward overview of MBCT, fully updated to include recent developments. The training process underpinning MBCT is based on mindfulness meditation practice and invites a new orientation towards internal experience as it arises – one that is characterised by acceptance and compassion. The approach supports a recognition that even though difficulty is an intrinsic part of life, it is possible to work with it in new ways.

The book provides a basis for understanding the key theoretical and practical features of MBCT and retains its accessible and easy-to-use format that made the first edition so popular, with 30 distinctive features that characterise the approach. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features will be essential reading for professionals and trainees in the field. It is an appealing read for both experienced practitioners and newcomers with an interest in MBCT.

Minor Surgery at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Mohan H and Winter DC
Pages: 120p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (13 Jan. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1118561447

Minor Surgery at a Glance is an essential companion for those who wish to learn or familiarise themselves with minor surgery, including trainees and practising surgeons, dermatologists, GPs, and emergency medicine physicians. Covering the basic principles of minor surgery, as well as offering an overview of techniques and common procedures accompanied by step-by-step illustrations, this book also provides concise summaries of vital information and the clinical practicalities.

Providing an accessible and practical introduction to a rapidly expanding area of practice, Minor Surgery at a Glance is ideal for medical students, foundation programme doctors, and trainees in a wide variety of disciplines who perform minor operations.

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Launer J
Pages: 164p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (7 Feb. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1138714359

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developing an ability to question them creatively, can make the person’s emerging story the central focus of health and social care, and of healing.

This text gives an account of the practical application of ideas and skills from contemporary narrative studies to health and social care. Promoting narrative-based practice in everyday encounters with patients and clients, and in supervision, teaching, teamwork and management, it presents “Conversations Inviting Change,” an established narrative-based model of interactional skills.

Underpinned by an account of theory from narrative studies and related fields, including communication theory and systems thinking, it is written for students and practitioners across a broad range of professions in primary and secondary health care and social care.

Palliative Care in Nursing and Healthcare

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Brown M
Pages: 192p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (21 Dec. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1446295694

This book helps nursing and healthcare students to prepare for the challenges of working with the increasing number of patients requiring palliative care, so that they can work in partnership with patients and their carers, providing care that is compassionate, practical and backed up by the latest evidence. Delivering palliative care can be emotionally challenging and the book focuses on supporting healthcare staff, allowing them to provide the care that is needed.

Paediatrics at a Glance, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Miall L, Rudolf M and Smith D
Pages: 204p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (27 May 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1118947838

Paediatrics at a Glance provides an introduction to paediatrics and the problems encountered in child health as they present in primary, community and secondary care, from birth through to adolescence.  Thoroughly updated to reflect changes in understanding of childhood illness over the last 5 years, the 4th edition of this best-selling textbook diagrammatically summarises the main differential diagnoses for each presenting symptom, while accompanying text covers important disorders and conditions as well as management information.

Paediatrics at a Glance:
• Is an accessible, user-friendly guide to the entire paediatric curriculum
• Features expanded coverage of psychological issues and ethics in child health
• Includes more on advances in genetics, screening and therapy of childhood illness
• Contains new videos of procedures and concepts on the companion website
• Includes a brand new chapter on Palliative Care – an emerging area in the specialty
• Features full colour artwork throughout

Organizational Behavior, 18th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Robbins S and Judge T
Pages: 784p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Pearson, (17 Jun. 2021)
eISBN-13: 978-1292403069

Long considered the standard for all organizational behavior textbooks, Organizational Behavior provides the research you want, in the language your students understand. This text continues its tradition of making current, relevant research come alive for readers. The Updated 18th Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the most recent research and business events within the field of organizational behavior worldwide while maintaining its hallmark features ― a clear writing style, cutting-edge content, and intuitive pedagogy. There’s a reason why Robbins textbooks have educated millions of students and have been translated into twenty languages ― and it’s because of a commitment that provides the kind of engaging, cutting-edge material that helps students understand and connect with organizational behavior.

In the dynamic, fast-paced and diverse 21st century workplace, managers and their employees are facing more challenges than ever before. In turn, educators must help to prepare their students for the reality of work and this text will support them to achieve this goal.

Ophthalmic Nursing, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Shaw ME and Lee A
Pages: 392p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge, (26 July 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1482249767

Ophthalmic Nursing provides an overview for those just setting out in a role within ophthalmic nursing. It includes basic and comprehensible anatomy and physiology – the foundations for understanding how the eye functions and why and how problems occur – and relates them to the care and needs of the patient.

This accessible text includes evidence-based procedure guidelines and the inclusion of reflective activities in most chapters allows readers to apply their knowledge to the realities of the care setting. Also covered are the most recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration.

Since the publication of the fourth edition, there have been many advances in the care and management of the ophthalmic patient. The authors have updated the chapters accordingly and included new colour images and diagrams. References, further reading and websites have also been updated to reflect current trends. A valuable resource for nurses in practice and training, this book continues to be the ‘go-to’ source for those caring for the ophthalmic patient.

Obstetrics by Ten Teachers, 20th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Kenny LC  and Myers JE
Pages: 342p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (7 Aug. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1498744393

First published in 1917 as ‘Midwifery’, Obstetrics by Ten Teachers is well established as a concise, yet comprehensive, guide within its field. The twentieth edition has been thoroughly updated by a new team of ‘teachers’, integrating clinical material with the latest scientific developments that underpin patient care. Each chapter is highly structured, with learning objectives, definitions, aetiology, clinical features, investigations, treatments, case histories and key point summaries and additional reading where appropriate. New themes for this edition include ‘professionalism’ and ‘global health’ and information specific to both areas is threaded throughout the text. Along with its companion Gynaecology by Ten Teachers the book will continue to provide an accessible ‘one stop shop’ in obstetrics and gynaecology for a new generation of doctors.

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Child T and Impey L
Pages: 376p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (30 Dec. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1119010791

Obstetrics and Gynaecology by Impey and Child continues to be an invaluable and authoritative resource for healthcare and medical students. This comprehensive guide provides the perfect level of detail on history and examination, investigations and diagnosis, as well as common diseases, abnormalities, and complications in gynaecology and obstetrics.

Fully updated in accordance with NICE and other national guidelines, this fifth edition now includes:

  • New sections on FGM and influenza
  • Expanded areas in medical disorders in pregnancy and mental illness
  • Improvements to the popular ‘management’ section along with a new section on sepsis
  • Colour coded sections on obstetrics and gynaecology for ease of use

Nutrition: Chemistry and Biology, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Spallholz JE, Boylan LM and Driskell JA
Pages: 360p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (17 Oct. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-0367400200

This second edition of a standard reference is greatly expanded with updated information on food sources of nutrients, effects of cooking, approved carbohydrate and fat substitutes, applications of nutritional therapy, and dietary recommendations

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, 11th ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Polit DF and Beck CT
Pages: 496p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher:  Wolters Kluwer Health, (2 Mar. 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1975112264

Complete with full research reports, critiques, and the innovative online Toolkit, this knowledge-building companion to Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice reinforces the acquisition of basic research skills and enhances students’ ability to confidently conduct, appraise, and critique research studies. Learning exercises emphasize careful reading and critical appraisal; robust appendices deliver fast access to a wide range of nursing research reports; and the timesaving online Toolkit provides best-practice research resources that can be easily adapted to meet individual needs.  Crossword Puzzles provide an entertaining and challenging review of key terms and concepts. Study Questions encourage critical thinking and reinforce the most relevant content from each textbook chapter.
Application Exercises hone students’ ability to read, comprehend and critique nursing studies most effectively. Full research reports in the robust appendices cover a wide range of endeavors. TheToolkit delivers fast online access to dozens of timesaving, adaptable resources that can be downloaded and customized to meet your specific needs.

Nursing Older People at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Tetley J,Cox N, Jack K and Witham G
Pages: 128p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (16 Mar. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1119043867

As the environment of care continues to evolve to promote person-centredness, dignity, health, and wellbeing, for nurses working with older people, this can be challenging. Nursing Older People at a Glance is a timely publication which provides an overview of key concepts that nurses need to know in order to care for older people in a wide range of settings.

Divided into six sections, it explores a range of themes such as person-centred care, health and wellbeing, health promotion, and the complexity of older people’s care, encompassing mental wellbeing, diverse communities and learning disability.

With a strong focus on dignity in care throughout, Nursing Older People at a Glance will readily equip undergraduate and post-qualification nurses with the knowledge and skills required to care for older people in a competent and compassionate manner.

Nursing in General Practice: The Toolkit for Nurses and Health Care Assistants

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Campbell P, Longbottom A and Pooler A
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (30 Jun. 2007)
eISBN-13: 978-1846191725

This indispensable toolkit is full of practical hints and tips to enhance and develop the role of nursing in general practice. The user-friendly, straight-forward style makes it great for quick reference, bringing together all the basic information required to find a clear career path. This toolkit, along with the linked on-line material, prepares readers for adjusting their roles in accordance with patient needs, personal and professional aims and career aspirations. It is ideal for all nurses and health care assistants in general practice, including healthcare students wanting a career in general practice. Practice managers, PCT managers, health care educators and general practitioners will also find it of great interest.

Nurses’ Clinical Decision Making

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gurbutt R
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (20 Sept. 2006)
eISBN-13: 978-1846190377

This work includes a foreword by Carl Thompson, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York. This inspiring text offers guidance and innovative ideas for teaching and learning. It explains how nurses make clinical decisions through the development of narratives, and how, using narratives, nurses gain a far more intimate knowledge of the patient than doctors can. The book considers service delivery around patients, renegotiation of professional roles of medical staff and their boundaries of responsibility and authority. “Nurses’ Clinical Decision Making” will appeal to all undergraduate and postgraduate students of nursing, registered nurses and nurse managers. Nurse educators, hospital managers, doctors and healthcare risk managers will also find the information contained here invaluable. ‘If nurses are decision-makers how can their role and practice be explained? Can decision-making be taught and are there different levels of decision-making skill? If so, how can expert decision-makers be recognised? These are just some of the pertinent questions that need to be asked if we are to recognise and understand the centrality of clinical decision-making in nursing practice. Clinical work is complex and takes place in a complex environment that centres around individuals who themselves are physically, socially and spiritually complex. Clinical work also involves multiple participants (nurses, doctors, patients, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists to name a few) who in the course of a days work can make scores of decisions.

Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience at a Glance, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Barker RA, Cicchetti F and Robinson ESJ
Pages: 184p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (22 Sept. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1119168416

Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience at a Glance is a highly illustrated, quick reference guide to the anatomy, biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology of the human nervous system. Each chapter features a summary of the anatomical structure and function of a specific component of the central nervous system, a section on applied neurobiology outlining how to approach a patient with neurological or psychiatric problems aligned to the chapter topic, standard diagnostic procedures for most common scenarios, as well as an overview of treatment and management options.

This fully updated and expanded new edition includes:

  • Dozens of full-page, colour illustrations and neurological scans
  • Expanded coverage of techniques to study the nervous system
  • More practical information on the neurological exam
  • New content on neuropharmacology and drug therapies
  • Bullet points and bold terms throughout assist with revision and review of the topic

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Boxwell G, Petty J and Kaiser L
Pages: 700p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (11 Nov. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1138556843

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing is a comprehensive, evidence-based text for nurses and allied health professionals caring for sick newborn infants.

This user-friendly text focuses on the common problems and related care occurring within the neonatal specialty. All previous chapters have been thoroughly updated and new content includes chapters on, for example, organisation of neonatal care, assessment of the neonate, the premature and low birth weight neonate as well as palliative care. In addition, the book now includes a broad and in-depth web-based companion comprising online resources, case studies with answer guides and learning activities. This accessible and interactive approach enables nurses to recognise, rationalise and understand clinical problems using an evidence-based approach. Divided into four parts, the book provides an overview of neonatal care, and a detailed look at the physical and emotional wellbeing of neonate and family, a range of clinical aspects of neonatal care, and key practices and procedures.

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing will be essential reading for both new and experienced nurses, allied health professionals and students learning about neonatal care including those undertaking qualifications in the neonatal specialism and pre-registration students taking relevant modules or placements.

Physics, Pharmacology and Physiology for Anaesthetists: Key Concepts for the FRCA, 2nd ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Cross M and Plunkett E
Pages: 438p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, (6 Mar. 2014)
eISBN-13: 978-1107615885

A key requirement of the primary and final FRCA examinations is a sound understanding of the basic sciences behind anaesthetic practice. It is important to be able to describe these principles clearly, particularly in the viva section of the examinations. Featuring several new topics, this fully updated new edition of this best-selling book provides all the important graphs, definitions and equations which may be covered in the examinations, together with clear and concise explanations of how to present them to the examiner and why they are important. Packed full of precise, clear diagrams with well structured explanations, and with all key definitions, derivations and statistics, this is an essential study aid for all FRCA examination candidates.

Patient-Centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Jeffrey D
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (1 Dec. 2005)
eISBN-13: 978-1857756210

This book provides the best information available on the ways priorities are currently set for health care around the world. It describes the methods now used in the six countries leading the process, and contrasts the differences between them. It shows how, except in the UK, frameworks have now been developed to set priorities. Making Choices for Health Care sets forth the key issues that need to be tackled in the years ahead. Descriptions of the leading trends are accompanied by suggestions to resolve outstanding difficulties. Topics include: the need for national research and development funding for new treatments, ways to shift resources permanently towards prevention and chronic care, and how DALYs may replace QALYs. While the concepts and values underlying priority setting have been discussed elsewhere, Making Choices for Health Care highlights real current practice. It is a vital tool for policy-makers, health care managers, clinicians, patient organizations, academics, and executives in pharmaceutical and medical supply industries.

Health Promotion and Wellbeing in People with Mental Health Problems

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bradshaw V and Mairs H
Pages: 232p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (7 Feb. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1473951969

This practical guide helps nursing students and other healthcare professionals promote and improve the health and wellbeing of those with mental health problems by looking closely at the disparities that people with mental health problems face in relation to their physical health.  It includes:

• Evidence-based techniques such as motivational interviewing and promoting physical activity.
• MCQs at the start of each chapter for readers to test their knowledge.
• Reflection points, activities and case studies to link theory to practice.
• Summaries of key messages to take away.

This is essential reading for all nursing students and healthcare professionals.

Hoffbrand’s Essential Haematology, 8th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Hoffbrand AV and Steensma DP
Pages: 432p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (19 Dec. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1119495901

Hoffbrand’s Essential Haematology is widely regarded as the most authoritative introduction to the subject available, helping medical students and trainee doctors understand the essential principles of modern clinical and laboratory haematology for nearly four decades. Now in its eighth edition, this market-leading textbook introduces the formation and function of blood cells and the diseases that arise from dysfunction and disruption of these processes.

Beautifully presented with over 300 stunning colour illustrations, the new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent advances in knowledge of the pathogenesis of blood diseases and their diagnosis and treatment. This new text:

  • Describes disorders and diseases of the blood such as the various anaemias and white cell disorders, leukaemias, lymphomas and myeloma, as well as bleeding and thrombotic disorders
  • Incorporates the latest World Health Organization (WHO) classification of haematological neoplastic diseases
  • Reviews contemporary application of multiparameter flow cytometry, DNA sequencing and other technologies in evaluating patients with suspected haematological disease
  • Discusses the therapeutic use of chimeric antigen T-cells, mono- and bi-specific monoclonal antibodies, inhibitors of intracellular signalling pathways and direct orally acting anticoagulants
  • Includes sections on blood transfusion and the haematological aspects of systemic diseases, pregnancy and the neonate

How Drugs Work: Basic Pharmacology for Health Professionals, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: McGavock H
Pages: 214p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher:  CRC Press, (7 Sept. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1785230776

This fourth edition of How Drugs Work equips readers with a set of clear concepts for matching the pharmacology to the diagnosis, and has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest knowledge and terminology. Rather than providing overwhelmingly comprehensive information, it condenses the aspects of pharmacology directly relevant to everyday practice into a concise, accessible volume, including material on the half life of drugs, patient non-compliance and severe chronic inflammation.

How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine and Healthcare, 6th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Greenhalgh T
Pages: 288p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (19 April 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1119484745

Required reading in many medical and healthcare institutions, How to Read a Paper is a clear and wide-ranging introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare, helping readers to understand its central principles, critically evaluate published data, and implement the results in practical settings. Author Trisha Greenhalgh guides readers through each fundamental step of inquiry, from searching the literature to assessing methodological quality and appraising statistics.  How to Read a Paper addresses the common criticisms of evidence-based healthcare, dispelling many of its myths and misconceptions, while providing a pragmatic framework for testing the validity of healthcare literature. Now in its sixth edition, this informative text includes new and expanded discussions of study bias, political interference in published reports, medical statistics, big data and more.

  • Offers user-friendly guidance on evidence-based healthcare that is applicable to both experienced and novice readers
  • Authored by an internationally recognised practitioner and researcher in evidence-based healthcare and primary care
  • Includes updated references, additional figures, improved checklists and more

How to Survive your Nursing or Midwifery Course

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gribben M,McLellan S and McGirr D
Pages: 296p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Sage, (23 Feb. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1473969230

Nursing and midwifery are inspiring and amazing professions – but as you face the realities of juggling work, study and life, you may now be thinking ‘what did I let myself in for’?
This book is designed to help anyone who is struggling and needs a little (or a lot of) guidance. It’s packed with useful information and practical exercises to help nursing and midwifery students cope with all the major sources of stress  – including:

  • juggling time
  • succeeding in assignments and exams
  • understanding what’s expected in real life and on placements
  • managing finances
  • coping with stress
  • applying for jobs and more

Infection Prevention and Control at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Weston D, Burgess A and Roberts S
Pages: 144p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (18 Nov. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1118973554

Infection Prevention and Control at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration nursing and healthcare students, as well as qualified nurses and medical students.

Infection prevention and control is one of the key five ‘essential skills clusters’ that is incorporated into all pre-registration nursing programmes. This highly visual and dynamic book is a thorough resource for nurses wanting to consolidate and expand their knowledge of this important part of nursing. Written by experienced infection prevention and control specialist nurses, it provides a concise and simple approach to a vast and complex subject, and equips the reader with key information in relation to various aspects of infection prevention and control practice.

  • Provides a snap-shot of the application of infection prevention and control in practice and the key infections affecting patients in both acute and primary care
  • A uniquely visual and accessible overview of a topic of relevance to all nursing staff
  • Includes key points for clinical practice, patient management, and signposting of key national guidance documents and websites
  • Available in a wide-range of digital formats – perfect for ‘on the go’ study and revision

Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice, 10th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Berman A,Frandsen G and Snyder S
Pages: 1520p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Pearson, (6 Aug. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1292359793

Consistency and accessibility are essential to student success in the Fundamentals of Nursing course. With its clear, approachable, writing style,Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing sets the foundation for nursing excellence. Coverage of the key concepts of contemporary nursing, as well as the latest nursing evidence, standards, and competencies, helps prepare readers to become effective nurses. To help students develop their clinical-reasoning abilities, new QSEN features draw connections to actual nursing practice. All basic and fundamental skills for the registered nurse are described within the nursing process. Students will learn to think like nurses as they see how the material they are reading is applied in nursing practice.

Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Graban M
Pages: 354p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Routledge, (27 July 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1498743259

Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Editionexplains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs, increasing capacity, and strengthening the long-term bottom line.

This updated edition of a Shingo Research Award recipient begins with an overview of Lean methods. It explains how Lean practices can help reduce various frustrations for caregivers, prevent delays and harm for patients, and improve the long-term health of your organization.

The second edition of this book presented new material on identifying waste, A3 problem solving, engaging employees in continuous improvement, and strategy deployment. This third edition adds new sections on structured Lean problem solving methods (including Toyota Kata), Lean Design, and other topics. Additional examples, case studies, and explanations are also included throughout the book.

Learning Disability Nursing at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gates B, Fearns D and Welch J
Pages: 184p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, (13 Feb. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1118506134

Learning Disability Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series. This visual, dynamic and user-friendly resource addresses the key principles underpinning contemporary learning disability nursing practice, relates them to key clinical practice issues, and explores them in the context of maintaining health and well-being. Exploring the full spectrum of care, this textbook addresses the needs of people with learning disabilities across the life span, from children through to adolescents and on to adults and older people. Aimed at nursing, health and social care students, as well as registered nurses, this is an invaluable resource for all those looking to consolidate and expand their knowledge, in order to provide safe, effective and compassionate care to people with learning disabilities.

  • The perfect revision and consolidation textbook
  • Highly visual colour presentation, with full colour illustrations throughout
  • Includes expert contributions from learning disability academic staff as well as clinicians
  • Embraces both primary and secondary care perspectives

Making Sense of the ECG: A Hands On Guide, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Houghton AR and Gray D
Pages: 264p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (4 Jun. 2014)
eISBN-13: 978-1444181821

Interpreting an ECG correctly and working out what to do next can seem like a daunting task to the non-specialist, yet it is a skill that will be invaluable to any doctor, nurse, or paramedic when evaluating the condition of a patient.

Making Sense of the ECG has been written specifically with this in mind, and will help the student and more experienced healthcare practitioner to identify and answer crucial questions, including:

  • Are these abnormalities significant?
  • How to I distinguish between VT and SVT?
  • Has the patient had a myocardial infarction?
  • How do I measure the QT interval?
  • Should I refer this patient to a cardiologist?

This practical, easy-to-read and easy-to-remember guide to the ECG as a tool for diagnosis and management has been fully updated in its fourth edition to reflect the latest guidelines.

Medical Ethics: A Reference Guide for Guaranteeing Principled Care and Quality

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Frezza EE
Pages: 236p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Productivity Press, (24 Oct. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1138581074

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research. Medical ethics allow for people, regardless of background, to be guaranteed quality and principled care. It is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. These tenets allow doctors, care providers, and families to create a treatment plan and work towards the same common goal without any conflict.

Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices. Ethical teaching should be an active part of training and should be taught in four division: basic ethics, clinical ethics, legal principles related to ethics and the ethics of research and affiliation. This book is a reference guide for physicians, healthcare providers and administrative staff. It looks at the ethical problems they face every day, gives the background and the ethical problem and then provides practical advice which can be easily implemented. This book provides the knowledge needed to understand who has the right to healthcare, the justice of clinical practice, what autonomy means for a patient giving consent, who is going to make any surrogate decisions and more.

Medical ethics Today: The BMA’s Handbook of Ethics and Law, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: British Medical Association
Pages: 956p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons,n (23 Feb. 2012)
eISBN-13: 978-1444337082

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and ethical perspectives and reflects developments surrounding The Mental Capacity Act, Human Tissue Act, and revision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.

Medical Statistics at a Glance, 4th ed.

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Author: Petrie A and Sabin C
Pages: 208p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell,  (4 Oct. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1119167815

Now in its fourth edition, Medical Statistics at a Glance is a concise and accessible introduction to this complex subject. It provides clear instruction on how to apply commonly used statistical procedures in an easy-to-read, comprehensive and relevant volume. This new edition continues to be the ideal introductory manual and reference guide to medical statistics, an invaluable companion for statistics lectures and a very useful revision aid.  This new edition of Medical Statistics at a Glance:

  • Offers guidance on the practical application of statistical methods in conducting research and presenting results
  • Explains the underlying concepts of medical statistics and presents the key facts without being unduly mathematical
  • Contains succinct self-contained chapters, each with one or more examples, many of them new, to illustrate the use of the methodology described in the chapter.
  • Now provides templates for critical appraisal, checklists for the reporting of randomized controlled trials and observational studies and references to the EQUATOR guidelines for the presentation of study results for many other types of study
  • Includes extensive cross-referencing, flowcharts to aid the choice of appropriate tests, learning objectives for each chapter, a glossary of terms and a glossary of annotated full computer output relevant to the examples in the text
  • Provides cross-referencing to the multiple choice and structured questions in the companion Medical Statistics at a Glance Workbook

Medical Statistics Made Easy, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Harris M and Taylor G
Pages: 140p.
Format:
Publisher: Scion Publishing Ltd, (15 Sept. 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1911510635

Medical Statistics Made Easy has been a perennial bestseller since the first edition was published.  It is widely recommend on a variety of courses and programmes, from undergraduate medicine, through to professional medical qualifications.  It is a book of key statistics principles for anyone studying or working in medicine and healthcare who needs a basic overview of the subject. It is ideal for non-statisticians who need to understand how statistics are used and applied in medicine and medical research.  Using a consistent format, the authors describe the most common statistical methods in turn and then rate them on how difficult they are to understand and how common they are. The worked examples that demonstrate the statistical method in action have been updated to include current articles from the medical literature and now feature a wider range of medical journals.  This fourth edition continues with the same structure as the previous editions, with new sections on cut-off points and ROC curves, as well as a new chapter on choosing the right statistical test. It also features a completely revised and updated “Statistics at work”. section.

Medicine at a Glance, 3rd ed.

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Author: Davey P
Pages: 504p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, (12 Jan. 2010)
eISBN-13: 978-1405186162

The central title in the market-leading at a Glance series, Medicine at a Glance provides a concise and accessible introduction to the study of medicine and is the ultimate revision guide for the core medical curriculum. Ideal for medical students, Foundation Programme doctors and those training in the allied health professions, Medicine at a Glance presents each topic as clear, double-page spreads with key facts accompanied by tables, illustrations, photographs and diagrams. Used by thousands of students in its previous two editions, Medicine at a Glance has been fully revised and updated to ensure that it remains THE essential revision guide purchase Contains new chapters on history and examination, patient consent and confidentiality, and substance abuse Further coverage of the essential facts for the diagnosis and treatment of common symptoms and conditions.

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Employers and Employees

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Author: Hasson G and Butler D
Pages: 256p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Capstone, (7 May 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-0857088284

The importance of good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace is a subject of increased public awareness and governmental attention. The Department of Health advises that one in four people will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives. Although a number of recent developments and initiatives have raised the profile of this crucial issue, employers are experiencing challenges in promoting the mental health and wellbeing of their employees. Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace contains expert guidance for improving mental health and supporting those experiencing mental ill health.  This comprehensive book addresses the range of issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing in work environments – providing all involved with informative and practical assistance. Authors Gill Hasson and Donna Butler examine changing workplace environment for improved wellbeing, shifting employer and employee attitudes on mental health, possible solutions to current and future challenges and more. Detailed, real-world case studies illustrate a variety of associated concerns from both employer and employee perspectives. This important guide:

  • Explains why understanding mental health important and its impact on businesses and employees
  • Discusses why and how to promote mental health in the workplace and the importance of having an effective ‘wellbeing strategy’
  • Provides guidance on managing staff experiencing mental ill health
  • Addresses dealing with employee stress and anxiety
  • Features resources for further support if experiencing mental health issues

Mental Health for Primary Care: A Practical Guide for Non-Specialists

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Morris M
Pages: 218p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (6 July 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1846192715

‘This book gives a ‘bottom-up’, practical overview of mental health. I have distilled psychological, biological and sociological background material and siphoned off anything that is not relevant to primary care. I aim to demystify the management of common problems and empower the reader to have a more rewarding and fun time at work and a better ability to cope with the ever-increasing demand and challenge of dealing with multiple physical and mental health issues often brought by a single individual to a time-limited consultation’ – Mark Morris.This book provides an up-to-date guide to mental health for primary care workers who are not experts in the field. It is logically structured, providing a clear overview of causal factors before presenting individual conditions in a diagnostic hierarchy. Particular attention is given to areas where there has been a deficit in understanding or training, along with problems that are most frequently encountered and managed in primary care. Meanwhile, a Psychological Tools section introduces solid practical frameworks for managing mental health problems developed from cognitive behaviour therapy, solution-focused and motivational interviewing techniques.

Microbiology and Infection Prevention and Control for Nursing Students

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ward D
Pages: 200p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage
eISBN-13: 978-1473925359

Preventing and controlling infection has long been an on going challenge for all healthcare workers at every level. High profile examples like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa or the prevalence of ‘super bugs’ like MRSA demonstrate that this challenge is not going to go away. As a nurse you have a responsibility to protect your patients from harm and preventing and controlling infection is a crucial component of this.

By introducing the unpinning microbiology to explain how infection occurs and spreads and the practical steps and precautions that you need to follow, this book will equip you with the knowledge and information necessary to play your part in preventing and controlling infection.

Key features:

  • Written specifically for pre-registration nursing students providing the core, evidence-based knowledge that you need to know
  • Breaks the science down using easy-to-follow language, practical examples and case studies
  • Applies microbiology to practice introducing practical steps, precautions and strategies that will benefit you as soon as you get onto your placements
  • Includes multiple-choice questions to test your understanding and activities to help you engage with wider issues around infection prevention and control.

Midwifery Emergencies at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Carr SM and Campbell D
Pages: 144p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (5 Oct. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1119138013

Midwifery Emergencies at a Glance is a succinct, illustrated guide covering the practical skills needed to manage obstetric and midwifery emergencies, as well as high-risk midwifery care. It provides clear guidance on the factors which predispose to complications so that preventative management can be employed whenever possible.  Broad-ranging yet easy-to-read, Midwifery Emergencies at a Glance details the underlying physiology and pathophysiology related to the emergency and explores both the physical and psychological care of the woman, partner and newborn during and following the emergency.

Key features:

  • Evidence-based, with guidance from the NMC, RCOG, NICE, and The Resuscitation Council
  • Presented in an innovative, visual style that makes the key concepts easy to understand
  • Provides helpful websites that expand on various topics as well as providing information on support groups for the woman and her family

Midwifery Skills at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lindsay P, Bagness C and Peate I
Pages: 208p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (16 Mar. 2018)
eISBN-13: 9781119233985

Being an effective midwife requires a range of knowledge and skills, all of which are essential to provide competent and safe care to childbearing women and their infants. Midwifery Skills at a Glance offers an invaluable, straightforward guide for students and practitioners – offering readable, easily digestible information, supported with illustrations throughout to enhance application to practice.  Clear and concise throughout, Midwifery Skills at a Glance covers a wide range of skills – exploring issues such as infection control, personal hygiene care, and safeguarding; assessment, examination and screening skills; how to care for the woman and neonate with complex needs; drug administration and pain relief.

  • A comprehensive, highly visual guide to the skills essential for safe, effective, and compassionate midwifery practice
  • Written by experts in their field
  • Briefly describes each skill and provides clear illustrations — making it an ideal companion in clinical practice
  • Offers instruction on the safe use of a wide range of essential skills required to deliver safe, evidence-based maternity care
  • Includes service user viewpoints and key points to help consolidate learning and reflect on the experience of receiving care

Essential Geriatrics, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Woodford H
Pages: 496p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: CRC Press, (5 Oct. 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1910227657

This third edition of Essential Geriatrics has been comprehensively updated and expanded, and now includes over 200 questions and answers throughout the text in the ‘best of five’ format. This text specifically focuses on the key aspects of elderly care, spanning both general medicine and the particular problems encountered in geriatrics as a route into the specialty. Practical guidance for managing the conditions covered is included at the end of each section, with reasoned approaches to areas where evidence is more scarce.

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Rawles Z
Pages:255p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge
eISBN-13: 978-1-315-10675-5

Covering all the essential components of healthcare assistant and assistant practitioner roles, Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession. This book:

    • Equips you with the knowledge to provide the safest and most effective patient care possible
    • Provides evidence-based guidelines to ensure best practice that is matched to the National Occupational Standards
    • Supplies comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary care settings with an emphasis on the role in primary care
    • Includes information on accountability, communication skills, confidentiality and reflection
    • Uses a light-hearted and accessible style, with definitions, case studies and activities to aid understanding

Essential Facts in Geriatric Medicine, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bracewell C, Gray R and Rai GS
Pages: 256p
Format: PDF
Publisher: CRC Press,  (25 Aug. 2010)
eISBN-13: 978-1846194672

Already established in its first edition as a key text in elderly care this comprehensively revised second edition of Essential Facts in Geriatric Medicine is a vital reference for health professionals involved in providing comprehensive care to the older population. The book thoroughly explores clinical aspects as well as demographic statistical legal and ethical areas relating to health and social services used by older people. There are entirely new chapters on elder abuse alcohol and drug abuse and HIV infection control and other essential topics. With two thirds of its content either completely new or thoroughly updated this book remains an invaluable ready reference for doctors, nurses and all health professionals involved in geriatrics and general medicine in hospital and community settings. It is also a vital revision text for general practitioners and clinical assistants as it reflects the syllabus framework of the Diploma in Geriatric Medicine.

Essential Revision Notes for MRCP, 4th ed.

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Author: Kalra PA
Pages: 752p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: PasTest, (4 Nov. 2014)
eISBN-13: 978-1905635924

Professor Kalra’s unique and longstanding bestseller has been comprehensively updated and revised to reflect recent exam changes. With each chapter authored by renowned experts in their respective specialties and with key information displayed in a concise and structured format, this book remains the definitive guide to the MRCP written examinations.

ENT Medicine and Surgery: Illustrated Clinical Cases

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lloyd S,Bance M and Doshi J
Pages: 284p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, (17 July 2018)
eISBN-13:

This practical ENT reference guide includes over 100 clinical case scenarios, ranging from basic ENT issues to more challenging clinical cases, presented randomly as they would occur in real life. Each scenario includes thought-provoking questions followed by reasoned answers and is superbly illustrated with diagrams and high quality photographs.

This is an invaluable text for otorhinolaryngologists in practice and in training, from hospital-based surgeons preparing for higher examinations to established physicians for their continuing professional development.

Essentials of Management for Healthcare Professionals

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Singh H
Pages: 186p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, 15 Dec. 2017
eISBN-13: 13: 978-1-315-09920-0

Medical care is an industry and private providers and hospitals are the major service providers. They operate on business principles. Hospitals are getting highly specialized and complex. The diagnostics and therapeutics are technology intensive. Private establishments have to compete with one another to remain in business. They strive to induct the best talent and latest technical know-how, resulting in ever-increasing costs to patients. Patients, who pay high charges, demand quality as a matter of right. To meet the challenge, hospitals are constrained to bring in professionalism in their systems and services. They appoint qualified professional managers to manage their clinics and hospitals with a view to sparing health professionals to focus on clinical care. Whether right or wrong, ‘management’ is often associated with authority and power. As a result, the medical professionals are reduced to secondary level in some organizations. To retain commanding positions in medical organizations, it has become necessary for the healthcare professionals to learn ‘management’, at least its basics.

On the other hand, non-medical managers while managing healthcare services do not get the required cooperation from the medical professionals, as the latter are often secretive and not willing to share medical knowledge. If medical knowledge is demystified, non-medical managers can perform many functions in healthcare organizations proficiently. Both medical and non-medical managers can complement each other in providing quality healthcare services.

The book aims to orient clinicians (including physicians and nurses) and other healthcare professionals on the essentials of business management and to familiarize them with management terms and jargon. They can learn to be effective managers besides being health professionals. Similarly, non- medical managers can get familiarized to nuances of clinical care and special managerial requirements of healthcare facilities. They all will be able to relate processes in healthcare settings with the concepts of business management. They can develop expertise on patient relationship management

Everyday Citizenship and People with Dementia

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Nedlund A,Bartlett R and Clarke CL
Pages: 117p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Dunedin Academic Press (24 Oct. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1780460826

Everyday Citizenship and People with Dementia prioritises the ordinary lives of people with dementia, and thereby broadens the agenda towards everyday citizenship. The contributors bring to the fore the idea that a person living with dementia has multiple opinions, identities and a stake in society.The notion of everyday citizenship is used to shift the focus away from care settings and diagnostic and post-diagnostic support – all of which are important, of course – to the normal everyday routines and settings of a persons life. The notion of citizenship is mobilised within a range of contexts from dealing with the welfare system to living and being a part of a neighbourhood. Each chapter focuses on everyday citizenship from the perspective of people living with dementia and shows how citizenship is a necessity for a vibrant, inclusive society. The discussion is informed by empirically based work and authored by experts from different parts of the world, including Canadian and Scots citizens who are living with dementia. The stress, throughout the book, is that the everyday and mundane is not only important in a practical sense but also in a political one. The book is thus for all interested in current debates about equality and the rights of people with dementia.

Forensic Psychiatry: Fundamentals and Clinical Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Puri B and Treasaden IH
Pages: 955p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: CRC Press, (23 Aug. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1-444-13521-3

This book covers the basic science and neurobiology of violence and integrates this with clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry.

    • Unique text which integrates the basic sciences, clinical, legal, and ethical aspects
    • Highly illustrated. Numerous colour images in the basic sciences section further explain the text
    • Succinct yet comprehensive coverage for instant access to the information

The book is designed for postgraduate trainees in psychiatry wishing to specialise in forensic psychiatry, specialists in forensic psychiatry, mental health, criminal lawyers, and forensic psychologists. It will be an invaluable reference work for clinical psychologists, criminologists, sociologists, and other professionals working with forensic psychiatric patients such as members of the probation service, social workers, and nursing staff.

Foundations of Adult Nursing, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Burns D
Pages: 501p.
Format: Epub
Publisher:
eISBN-13: 978-1473997936

Covering the issues, themes and principles that explain what it means to be a nurse today, this book provides the theory students need to know and applies it to the diverse patient groups and settings that students will encounter on their placements.

Key features of the book are:

  • It introduces the core aspects of adult nursing
  • An evidence-based approach with discussion of literature, policy and research and suggested further readingfor every chapter
  • Over 30 case studies to help students understand the realities of practice across a range of settings including primary care and the community
  • Stop and think boxes which challenge assumptions and encourage reflection
  • A companion website with sample questions for lecturers to use in seminars, multiple choice questions for student revision and free SAGE journal articles

The book has been closely mapped to the NMC′s 2018 Standards for Proficiency, Education and Training and supports students across their entire degree programme as they develop into nurses of the future ready to deliver and lead care.

Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology, 11th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Martini FH, Nath JL, and Bartholomew EF
Pages:1304p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Pearson, 5 Jan. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1292229867

Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology helps students succeed in the challenging A&P course with an easy-to-understand narrative, precise visuals, and steadfast accuracy. With the 11th Edition, the author team draws from recent research exploring how students use and digest visual information to help students use art more effectively to learn A&P. New book features encourage students to view and consider figures in the textbook, and new narrated videos guide students through complex physiology figures to help them deconstruct and better understand complicated processes. Instructors can also request a new handbook by Lori Garrett, entitled The Art of Teaching A&P: Six Easy Lessons to Improve Student Learning, which explores some of the most common challenges encountered when using art to teach A&P, alongside strategies to address these challenges.

Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology: An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students, 3rd Edition

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Peate I
Pages: 624p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
eISBN-13: 978-1119219477

Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology continues to be an accessible and comprehensive introductory text to pathophysiology, written specifically for nursing and healthcare students to assist in the understanding of human anatomy, and the complex disease patterns that affect normal physiology.

Thoroughly updated, and with full-colour illustrations throughout, this new edition incorporates additional learning features including reflective questions at the end of each chapter, investigation boxes, medication alerts, red flags to indicate essential information to be aware of when providing care, vital signs boxes relating to physiological measurements as well as inclusion of the National Early Warning Score.

With emphasis placed on a multidisciplinary approach, Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology highlights the importance of contemporary, safe, and effective practice in an environment in which the delivery of care is constantly evolving.

Fundamentals of Care: A Textbook for Health and Social Care Assistants

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Peate I
Pages: 265p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 3 Mar. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1119212201

Fundamentals of Care is an accessible introductory textbook for all health care assistants; assistant practitioners and social care support workers who are undertaking the newly introduced, mandatory Care Certificate, as well as offering a resource for providing care and support. Practically focused, each chapter begins with the outcomes associated with each standard, which helps contextualise and focus the reader on the content and relevance to the Care Certificate. The book also includes exercises to encourage the reader to stop, look, listen and act, thinking cap activity promotes further thinking and application to care and support provision along with case studies and resource files. Written to help the reader come to terms with the role and function of the heath and care assistants, Fundamentals of Care offers support to those undertaking the Care Certificate and to assist those who already work as health and care assistants, helping them in their quest to enhance safe and effective care.

General Practice at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Booton P, Cooper C, Easton G and Harper M
Pages: 448p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
eISBN-13: 978-0470655511

Following the familiar, easy-to-use at a Glance format, this brand new title provides a highly illustrated introduction to the full range of essential primary care presentations, grouped by system, so you’ll know exactly where to find the information you need, and be perfectly equipped to make the most of your GP attachment.

General Practice at a Glance:

  • Is comprehensively illustrated throughout with over 60 full-page colour illustrations
  • Takes a symptoms-based approach which mirrors the general practice curriculum
  • Offers ‘one-stop’ coverage of musculoskeletal, circulatory, respiratory, nervous, reproductive, urinary, endocrine and digestive presentations
  • Highlights the interrelations between primary and secondary care
  • Includes sample questions to ask during history taking and examination
  • Features ‘red flags’ to highlight symptoms or signs which must not be missed

This accessible introduction and revision aid will help all medical students and junior doctors develop an understanding of the nature and structure of primary care, and hit the ground running on the general practice attachment.

Lecture Notes: General Surgery, 13th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ellis H, Calne R and  Watson C
Pages: 448p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 8 Jan. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1118742051

General Surgery Lecture Notes continues to be an invaluable, appealing and approachable resource for thousands of medical students and surgical trainees throughout the world. This comprehensive guide focuses on the fundamentals of general surgery, and systematically covers all the clinical surgical problems that a student may encounter and about which they need to know.

Fully revised and updated to reflect the rapid changes which are taking place in surgical practice, this 50th anniversary edition:

  • Includes principles of treatment written at student level to aid understanding
  • Features full colour illustrations throughout
  • Includes electronic access to a range of extra material including case studies, images and photographs, and biographies
  • Includes free access to the Wiley E-Text
  • Is a perfect review text for medical students as well as junior surgeons taking the MRCS examination and other postgraduate surgical examinations

Trusted by generations of medical students, the clinical emphasis of General Surgery Lecture Notes makes this an essential purchase for all those wishing to learn more about general surgery.

Get Through MRCPsych CASC

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Zhang MWB, Ho CSH, Ho RCM and Puri BK
Pages: 367p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: CRC Press, 15 July 2016.
eISBN-13: 978-1498707893

This book is intended for psychiatric trainees sitting the CASC component of the MRCPsych exam. Written by authors with recent exam experience and long-term expertise in the field, the text provides 175 stations closely matched to the subjects that appear in the actual exam, along with concise synopses and guidelines for how to target your revision to enable recall of the most relevant information.

Group Leadership Skills: Interpersonal Process in Group Counseling and Therapy

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Chen M and Rybak CJ
Pages: 491p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Sage, 26 Oct. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1506349305

Group Leadership Skills provides a road map and a practical toolkit for users to lead all types of groups effectively. Drawing on extensive teaching and clinical experience, authors Mei-whei Chen and Christopher Rybak give readers numerous skills, techniques, insights, and case illustrations demonstrating how to tap into the heart of group therapy: the interpersonal processes. The text covers group processes from beginning to end, including setting up a group, running the first session, facilitating the opening and closing of each session, working with tension and conflict, and using advanced skills and intervention techniques to facilitate member change. The Second Edition expands on group leadership skills to include methods of running mandate groups, semi-structured groups, basic level unstructured groups, and advanced level here-and-now focused groups, as well as using psychodrama techniques to heal unresolved grief and loss.

Handbook of Clinical Anaesthesia, 4th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Pollard B and Kitchen G
Pages: 989p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: CRC Press, 29 Sept. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1498762892

The Handbook of Clinical Anaesthesia provides all the essential practical knowledge required by anaesthetists on co-existing medical conditions, operative procedures, and techniques. The fourth edition retains the concise and comprehensive nature of the third, giving readers all they need to know about each part of the FRCA syllabus in short, digestible, practical entries.

Handbook of Diabetes

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bilous R and Donnelly R
Pages: 250p
Format: PDF
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
eISBN-13: 978-1-4051-8409-0

The Handbook of Diabetes provides concise and efficient coverage of the diagnosis, epidemiology, and management of diabetes and its complications. Containing hundreds of attractive colour diagrams, illustrations, and clinical photographs, this popular quick-reference guide focuses on the management and measurement of diabetes mellitus with highly visual references.

Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM-5 Personality Disorders: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Sperry L
Pages: 316p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge, 22 Jun. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-0415841917

Since the publication of the acclaimed second edition of Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM-IV-TR Personality Disorders, much has changed in how the personality disorders are understood and treated. However, like its previous editions, this new edition is a hands-on manual of the most current and effective, evidence-based assessment and treatment interventions for these challenging disorders. The beginning chapters describes several cutting-edge trends in the diagnosis, case conceptualization, and treatment of them. Then, specific chapters focus on evidence-based diagnosis and treatment interventions for each of the 10 DSM-5 personality disorders. Emphasized are the most recent developments from Cognitive Behavior Therapies, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Analysis System of Psychotherapy, Pattern-Focused Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, Schema Therapy, Transference Focused Psychotherapy, and Mentalization-Based Treatment. As in previous editions, extensive case material is used to illustrate key points of diagnosis and treatment.

Handbook of Obstetric Medicine, 6th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Nelson-Piercy C
Pages: 362
Format: Epub
Publisher: CRC Press,
eISBN-13: 978-0367346126

Medical professionals are often involved in the management of the pregnant patient without necessarily being experts on all the complications surrounding pregnancy. The Handbook of Obstetric Medicine addresses the most common and serious medical conditions encountered in pregnancy, including heart disease, thromboembolism, diabetes, skin problems, gastrointestinal disease, neurological problems, hormonal diseases, hypertension and pre-eclampsia, and more. For each condition, the handbook includes a description of incidence, clinical features, pathogenesis, diagnosis, the effect of pregnancy, and management of the condition. The book also includes a detailed section focusing on the differential diagnosis of common symptoms including hypertension, chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness, headaches, dizziness, abdominal pain, and more.

The symptoms and differential diagnoses are presented in an easy-to-read tabular format and include a description of important clinical features and potential areas of investigation. For those clinicians understandably reluctant to prescribe drugs during pregnancy, a useful appendix includes a section on prescribing in pregnancy and a list of contra-indicated drugs. In addition, to assist in the interpretation of laboratory tests, a second appendix lists normal laboratory values in pregnancy, broken down by trimester. Pre –pregnancy counselling and postnatal follow up are vital in the holistic management of women with medical problems and this includes appropriate contraceptive advice. A third appendix has therefore been added as a ready reference for clinicians not familiar with effective contraception.

The new edition remains a pragmatic and easy-to-use design by including tables, bullets, and “Points to remember” boxes for ease of reference. It is an essential on-the-spot guide for obstetricians, physicians, general practitioners, and midwives in both practice and training.

Ear, Nose and Throat at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Goldstein JA
Pages: 96p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 29 Jan. 2013
eISBN-13: 978-1444330878

Ear, Nose and Throat at a Glance provides a highly-illustrated, accessible introduction to this practical but complex topic, which is increasingly encountered in every-day outpatient settings, as well as surgical departments.

Each double-page spread diagrammatically summarises the basic science relating to each anatomical area, outlines practical guidelines on the examination of patients, and provides an overview of the most common disorders and diseases.

This brand new title in the best-selling at a Glance series features high-yield information on all the topics covered at medical school, and includes:

  • Advice on clinical skills, practical examinations and procedures, such as otoscopic examinations, and tuning fork tests
  • Comprehensive illustrations showing anatomy and mechanisms of hearing
  • Assessment, management and treatment of both chronic and acute conditions
  • ENT trauma and emergencies
  • Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Extended Matching Questions (EMQs) to help test learning

 

Data Interpretation for Medical Students, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Hamilton P and Bickle I
Pages: 512p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Pastest, 21 Nov. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1784140007

Demystify the analysis of clinical data and test your knowledge with 200 cases. The third edition of this award-winning title has been revised and updated to provide even better guidance on how data is applied in practice. Fourteen subject-based chapters help medical students to understand and interpret the tests that help diagnose disease and monitor patient progress. Each chapter is accompanied by a useful summary and advice on exam technique.

 

 

Dermatology at a Glance, 2nd ed.

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Author: Chowdhury MMU, Katugampola RP and Finlay AY
Pages: 192p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 11 Oct. 2019
eISBN-13: 978-1119392613

The field of Dermatology is expanding at a rapid pace — new research findings and advanced treatment technologies have amplified the need for concise and up-to-date information on this dynamic area of medicine. Dermatology at a Glance provides medical students and trainees with a clear introduction to dermatological practice. This valuable resource covers essential components of dermatology, from patient consultation and basic procedures to advanced treatments of skin disorders. Illustrated with over 300 high-quality slides and full-colour photographs, this book is an ideal reference for those seeking to interview and examine patients, identify and diagnose skin diseases, and develop treatment plans.

Now in its second edition, Dermatology at a Glance offers revised coverage of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and presentations of various skin disorders, and examines central aspects of the British Association of Dermatologists core curriculum. New chapters on topics such as dermoscopy, diagnostic methods for lesions and rashes, cosmetic dermatology, and drug reactions reflect current research and practices.

  • Perfect for revision and quick consultation with its highly visual approach
  • Eight brand new chapters, including hidradenitis suppurativa, itch, and systemic and topical drugs

 

Develop Your Interpersonal and Self-Management Skills: A Practical Resource for Healthcare Administrative and Clerical Staff

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Author: Stainsby K
Pages: 152p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: CRC Press, 20 Mar. 2007
eISBN-13: 978-1560244332

A book written to help administrative and clerical staff in their work role, to provide information and practical suggestions. A large part of what the do involves communicating with other people: colleagues, patients, relatives, carers and the general public. Given the complexities, vulnerabilities and sometimes ‘demanding behaviour’ of other people, this may at times be an arduous task. Healthcare jobs take their toll on people, and being able to manage the various demands without being ground down is a great challenge. This book will help to affirm and build upon what they already know in a way that supports both them and their work.

Dimond’s Legal Aspects of Nursing: A Definitive Guide to Law for Nurses, 8th ed.

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Author: Griffith R and Dowie I
Pages: 800p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Pearson, 3 Jun. 2019
eISBN-13: 978-1292245379

Written specifically for student nurses as well as those already in practice, Dimond’s Legal Aspects of Nursing is your essential practical guide to the legal principles you need to be aware of in your everyday nursing practice.

Building on previous editions of the book by Bridgit Dimond, this 8th edition has been significantly reworked by a new author team with extensive experience in teaching nursing law. It has also been fully updated and revised in line with recent legal developments and the new Nursing standards to ensure it continues to meet the requirements of nursing law modules.

New to this edition:

  • Introduction of new and updated Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) Fitness to Practise procedures
  • Reference to the NMC Code 2015 (updated 2018) including Duty of candour
  • Data Protection legislation updated including reference to the General Data Protection Regulation 2016
  • Greater reference to the devolved UK administrations
  • Updated overview of a nurses’ duty of care
  • Reference to the new NMC approved curriculum, and the introduction of nursing associates
  • Introduction of upcoming changes to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
  • Comprehensive discussion of the practice implications of the Supreme Court Decisions in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015]
  • Consideration of the revised Health and Social Care Act 2008 (regulated activities) regulations 2014
  • Updated consideration of gross negligence manslaughter
  • Practical implications of the extension of the crimes of ill treatment and willful neglect under the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 section 20 and 21

 

Diseases and Diagnoses: The Second Age of Biology

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Author: Gilman SL
Pages: 254p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Routledge, 8 Sept. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1138509238

Diseases and Diagnoses discusses why such social problems as addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, racial predisposition for illness, surgery and beauty, and electrotherapy, all of which concerned thinkers a hundred years ago, are reappearing at a staggering rate and in diverse national contexts. In the twentieth century such problems were viewed as only historical concerns. Yet in the twenty-first century, we once again find ourselves confronting their implications. In this fascinating volume, Gilman looks at historical and contemporary debates about the stigma associated with biologically transmitted diseases. He shows that there is no indisputable way to measure when a disease or therapy will reappear, or how it may be perceived at any given moment in time. Consequently, Gilman focuses on the socio-cultural and political implications that the reappearance of such diseases has had on contemporary society. His approach is to show how culture (embedded in cultural objects) both feeds and is fed by the claims of medical science-as for example, the reappearance of “race” as a cultural as well as a medical category. If the twentieth century was the “age of physics,” in the latter part of the past century and certainly in the twenty-first century biological concerns are recapturing central stage. Achievements of the biological sciences are changing the public’s sense of what constitutes cutting-edge science and medicine. None has captured the public imagination more effectively than the mapping of the human genome and the promise of genetic manipulation, which fuel what Gilman calls a “second age of biology.” Although not without controversy, the role of genetics appears to be key. Gilman puts contemporary debates in historical context, showing how they feed social and cultural concerns as well as medical possibilities.

 

Dying Well: A guide to enabling a good death, 2nd ed.

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Author: Neuberger J
Pages: 194p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: CRC Press, 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1-85775-940-2

An introduction to the history of ideas about death. Grief – reactions normal and abnormal. The role of helpers. The best that we can do. Religious beliefs and customs. How can we make dying better for people? The good death.

Critical Resilience for Nurses: An Evidence-Based Guide to Survival and Change in the Modern NHS

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Author: Traynor M
Pages: 184p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Routledge, 16 Mar. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1138194236

The nursing profession is under pressure. Financial demands, student debt, the target culture, political scrutiny in the wake of major care scandals and increasing workloads are all taking their toll on professional morale and performance. This timely book considers the meaning of resilience in this adverse context and explains why measures to preserve individual nurses’ and students’ well-being are flawed if they don’t take into account wider political and organizational perspectives.

Arguing that healthcare can be thought about and experienced differently, this book:

  • Provides a summary of the latest research on resilience, explaining its relevance and also limitations for nurses;
  • Considers debates about compassion and highlights the effects of policy agendas on nurse education and nursing work;
  • Re-evaluates nursing’s professional identity, including where nursing has come from and the effects of class, gender and race on its powerbase;
  • Assesses the role of politics and social media, both in driving change and feeding resistance; and
  • Introduces the idea of critical resilience as a complete framework for resisting bullying and fostering survival and change in the nursing workforce.

Direct, upbeat, at times provocative and witty, this agenda-setting book enables nurses to understand why they feel the way they do. It also lists what opportunities are available to them to change, resist and survive in what has become a complex, challenging – if still deeply rewarding – line of work.

 

The Nurse Mentor’s Handbook: Supporting Students in Clinical Practice

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Author: Walsh D
Pages: 270p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Open University Press, 26 Aug. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-0335248612

This popular book is an essential companion for supporting and supervising student nurses in clinical practice. The book examines the theory of supervision and the underlying principles of teaching and assessment in nurse education and includes case studies, tools and interventions that can be used in clinical practice.

Emergency Nursing at a Glance

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Author: Holbery N
Pages: 182p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell, 4 Mar. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1118867679

From the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series comes a wide-ranging and succinct overview of the key concepts of emergency care.  Emergency Nursing at a Glance uses the unique and highly visual at a Glance format to convey vital information quickly and efficiently, ensuring that nursing students have access to all the important topics they need for an emergency care placement.  This highly visual, easy-to-read guide is the ideal companion for anyone entering fields involving urgent or unscheduled care.

  • Includes all aspects of emergency care, including trauma, minor injury, triage processes, patient assessment, common emergency presentations, as well as legal, ethical and professional issues.
  • Covers care of adults, children, and those with learning disabilities and mental health conditions
  • Presented in the bestselling at a Glance format, with superb illustrations and a concise approach

Clinical Investigations at a Glance

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Author: Gleadle J, Li J and Yong T
Pages: 384p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 30 Dec. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1118759325

Clinical Investigations at a Glance provides an up-to-date, evidence-based overview of diagnostic investigations, looking at their choice, importance and interpretation for commonly presenting symptoms and conditions.

Designed to help develop the evidence-based use of investigations and interpret results properly, the book provides a unique perspective on many critical issues in medical testing, with the aim of improving diagnostic accuracy and reducing unnecessary tests or harm.

Clinical Investigations at a Glance is structured in three parts: an overview of tests; common presentations (such as chest pain, nausea and vomiting, weight loss and anaemia); and conditions organized by body system, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and nephrology.

Key features include:

  • How to interpret investigations, using high quality illustrations to compare ‘normal’ and ‘diseased’ results
  • Evidence-based, including references
  • How to select the most appropriate investigation, the accuracy of tests and how to manage incidental findings

Collaborative Practice in Critical Care Settings: A Workbook

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Author: Reeves S, Alexanian J, Kendall-Gallagher D, Dorman T and Kitto S
Pages: 138p.
Format: EpRoutledge, 6 Sept. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1138633490

Communication in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide for Compassionate Practice

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Author: Gault I, Shapcott J, Luthiand A and Reid G
Pages: 225p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Sage, 1 Nov. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1412962315

This book uses real student experiences and stories from patients to help students develop their communication skills throughout the three years of training, with a focus on how to develop person-centredness and compassionate and collaborative care.

Contexts of Midwifery Practice

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Author: Muscat H,Passmore H and Chenery-Morris S
Pages: 208p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Learning Matters 18 May 2015
eISBN-13: 978-1446295373

In order to become skilled and competent practitioners, student midwives need to understand the complex individual, family and societal issues they will encounter. By introducing the contemporary context of midwifery practice, this book helps students to understand the problems many women face in society.

The book covers topics including violence, mental and sexual health, the rising obesity epidemic and increases in numbers of women from non-UK countries. The authors emphasise the fact that students need to be aware of their public health responsibilities and discuss various health promotion strategies.

Counseling Across the Lifespan: Prevention and Treatment, 2nd ed.

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Author: Juntunen CL andSchwartz JP
Pages: 743p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Sage, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781483389141

This practical book helps readers provide effective mental, emotional, and behavioral health services to clients across the continuum of care, from health promotion through long-term treatment and remediation. Anchoring each chapter within a life stage—from childhood through older adulthood—the text identifies the nature and origin of various psychological issues and emphasizes the importance of anticipating and responding early to concerns that arise for large portions of the population. The Second Edition features new chapters and expanded coverage of important topics, such as sociocultural contextual factors and interprofessional health perspectives.

Counseling Across Cultures, 7th ed.

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Author: Pedersen PB, Draguns JG, Lonner WJ, Trimble JE and Scharrón-del Río MR
Pages: 787p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Sage, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781452217529

Artiiculates the positive contributions that can be made by incorporating multicultural awareness in the training of skilled counsellors”. The Fourth Edition of Counseling across Cultures is an excellent source of information and remains a classic in its field.

Children and Young People’s Nursing Skills at a Glance

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Author: Gormley-Fleming E and Martin D
Pages: 160p.
Format: Epub
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell, 2 Mar. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1119078531

Children and Young People’s Nursing Skills at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration children’s nursing students. Highly visual, each clinical skill is covered in a two-page spread, with superb colour illustrations accompanied by clear informative text.

Providing up to date, evidence-based information on a wide range of clinical skills that are required by today’s children’s nurses, this comprehensive and accessible text makes it easy for the reader to grasp the fundamentals in order to meet the care needs of the child and family, both in the hospital and community setting.  Structured around the key systems of the body, the book is divided into sixteen sections, and covers all the essential clinical skills, including:

  • Principles of assessment
  • Communication
  • Record keeping
  • Drug calculations and administration
  • Safeguarding
  • Care planning
  • Respiratory and cardiac care
  • Gastrointestinal care
  • ECG reading and interpretation
  • Neurological assessment
  • Musculoskeletal care.

Child Mental Health in Primary Care: A Practical Guide, 2nd ed.

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Author: Quentin Spender, Niki Salt, Judith Dawkins, Tony Kendrick and Peter Hill
Pages: 385p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: CRC Press, 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1-85775-262-5

This book helps general practitioners, health visitors and other professionals working in primary care to assess, manage and refer children and adolescents with mental health problems. School medical officers, social workers and educational psychologists, many of whom are in the front line of mental health provision for children and young people, will also find it particularly useful. Each problem is covered in a uniform way, with definitions, assessment outlines, detailed management options and indications for referral. Numerous case examples further illuminate aspects of many conditions. The book supports service provision in the new primary care environment, and forms a comprehensive practical guide to the full range of difficulties and disabilities affecting the mental health of children and young people.

The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism

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Author: John Barnes. Pages: 320  Format: PDF Publisher: Headline
8 Mar. 2018
eISBN-13:  978-1472290380

John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before moving to the UK with his family in 1975. Six years later he was a professional footballer, distinguishing himself for Watford, Liverpool and England, and in the process becoming this country’s most prominent black player.

Barnes is now an articulate and captivating social commentator on a broad range of issues, and in The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism he tackles head-on the issues surrounding prejudice with his trademark intelligence and authority.

By vividly evoking his personal experiences, and holding a mirror to this country’s past, present and future, Barnes provides a powerful and moving testimony. The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism will help to inform and advance the global conversation around society’s ongoing battle with the awful stain of prejudice.

The Art of Coaching: A Handbook of Tips and Tools

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Author: Jenny Bird and Sarah Gornall. Pages: 288  Format: PDF Publisher: Bloomsbury
8 Mar. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1408870587

Combining brand-new, original diagrams with classic models from the learning development and management fields, Jenny Bird and Sarah Gornall have a created a valuable resource for quick reference, instant accessibility and fast learning, built on a strong theoretical base. Each model in the book is explained with a clear, accessible diagram and a simple guide to what it is, how it works and how to put it into action. The text is full of inspiration for applications of the ideas in scenarios based on real coaching practice.

The Art of Coaching will be an invaluable companion for coaches looking for new ways of developing awareness with clients, coaching students and trainees, coach supervisors, learning and development professionals and those working in human resource departments.

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

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Author: Reni Eddo-Lodge. Pages: 288  Format: PDF Publisher: Bloomsbury
8 Mar. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1408870587

The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.

Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World

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Author: Layla Saad. Pages: 256  Format: EPUB Publisher: Quercus
28 Jan. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-1529405101

Layla Saad’s ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY is an indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don’t know where to begin. She moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won’t end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action. My fellow white people often tell me about the antiracism books they have read. My question is, “How will BIPOC know that you have read that book?” As Saad makes clear, if you have read and followed this book, BIPOC will know.

Landscapes past and present: (Cheshire and beyond)

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Author: White GJ and Varey SM. . Pages:  Format: EPUB Publisher: University of Chester Press
DATE OF PUB
eISBN-13: 9781908258472

Stretching from the Peak District to the Welsh border and the Irish Sea, Cheshire has a rich diversity of landscapes, some of which it shares with neighbouring counties. This volume, which marks the 30th anniversary of Chester Society for Landscape History, celebrates that diversity, both in and beyond Cheshire, through a series of papers based on members’ original research. It covers features dating from the twelfth century to the twentieth, all of which can still be seen today.

Collaborative Learning in Practice: Coaching to Support Student Learners in Healthcare

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Author: Lobo C, Paul R, Crozier K. Pages: 272  Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
25/05/2021
eISBN-13: 9781119695387

Collaborative Learning in Practice provides a detailed description of the CLiP model and explains how coaching can be integrated into a range of learning conversations. Written by an experienced team of practitioners, this unique text describes the theoretical basis of the CLiPmodel, highlights potential pitfalls and successes, and offers practical guidance on implementation. A wealth of real-world case studies demonstrates how the CLiPmodel works in a range of professional and practice settings, considering healthcare education, research and leadership. This authoritative book: Provides an overview of the innovative CLiP model of practice-based learning, linked to the NMC standards for student supervision and assessment Offers numerous real-life examples of how to implement and evaluate CLIP in practice Explores the use of reverse mentoring to update and share knowledge collaboratively Discusses how coaching approaches such as GROW and OSCAR can enhance learning experiences Includes access to online learning tools including self-assessment tests, additional practical scenarios and case studies, and links to further reading Developing practitioner knowledge and skill through an accessible, reader-friendly approach,Collaborative Learning in Practice is an essential resource for nursing and allied healthcare educators, nursing and healthcare students, and practice mentors, supervisors, and assessors in clinical environments.

Understanding Hospitals in Changing Health Systems

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Author: Duran A and Wright S. Pages: 242 Format: PDF Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
27/11/2019
eISBN-13: 9783030281724

This book seeks to reframe current policy discussions on hospitals. Healthcare services turn expensive economic resources-people, capital, pharmaceuticals, energy, materials-into care and cure. Hospitals concentrate the use and the cost of these resources, particularly highly-trained people, expensive capital, and embedded technologies. But other areas of health, such as public health and primary care, seem to attract more attention and affection, at least within the health policy community. How to make sense of this paradox? Hospitals choose, or are assigned, to deliver certain parts of care packages. They are organised to do this via “business models”. These necessarily incorporate models of care – the processes of dealing with patients. The activity needs to be governed, in the widest senses. Rational decisions need to be taken about both the care and the resources to be used. This book pulls these elements together, to stimulate a debate.

The midwife’s labour and birth handbook, 4th ed.

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Author: Chapman V. Pages: 441  Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
21 Sept. 2017
eISBN-13: 9781119235101

Providing a practical and comprehensive guide to midwifery care, The Midwife’s Labour and Birth Handbook continues to promote best practice and a safe, satisfying birthing experience with a focus on women-centred care.

Covering all aspects of care during labour and birth, from obstetric emergencies to the practicalities of perineal repair (including left-hand suturing), the fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to include:

  • Full colour photographs of kneeling extended breech and footling breech births
  • New water birth and breech water birth photographs
  • Female genital mutilation
  • Sepsis
  • Group B streptococcus
  • Care of the woman with diabetes /Neonatal hypoglycaemia
  • Mental health
  • Seeding/microbirthing

It also addresses important issues such as:

  • Why are the numbers of UK women giving birth in stirrups RISING rather than falling?
  • Why are so few preterm babies given bedside resuscitation with the cord intact?
  • Would the creation of midwife breech practitioners/specialists enable more women to choose vaginal breech birth and is breech water birth safe?
  • What is the legal position for women who choose to free birth – and their birth partners?
  • Why are midwives challenging the OASI care bundle?

Incorporating research, evidence and anecdotal observations, The Midwife’s Labour and Birth Handbook remains an essential resource for both student midwives and experienced practising midwives.

Transgender Employees in the Workplace: A Guide for Employees

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Author: Kermode J. Pages:  Format: EPUB Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
21 Sept. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1785922282

A necessity for any senior line management or business owner in the SME sector, and a refreshing addition to the literature for corporate personnel and HR departments. Kermode and Fae demonstrate a sensitivity not just to their researched experiences of trans people, but also to the needs of employers or line managers who require a deeper understanding than routine rule books or check lists. Individual experience is brought to bear on important legislation regarding trans rights in public and private sectors as well as academic settings. Fae’s chapter on data management is as richly nuanced as those on religion and politics or local and international work issues. The book identifies how individual trans experiences collide with work and IT systems, how trans rights legislation can conflict with staff culture, and helpfully provides guidelines for all involved to create a positive engagement that delivers wider benefits to the organisation as a whole. — Previn Karian, MD, Resonance Practitioners Ltd and Editor, Critical & Experiential: Dimensions in Gender and Sexual Diversity.

Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity

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Author: Michael Beattie and Penny Lenihan with Robin Dundas. Pages: 312 Format: EPUB Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
21 Mar. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1785927416

This book is essential reading for all counsellors, therapists, and mental health practitioners. It explains current psychological and sociological thinking about femininity, masculinity, and non-binary gender in a highly accessible way, and demonstrates clearly how gender is relevant to all of our clients. Numerous case studies bring the material to life and help the reader to understand how best to work with clients across gender diversity, drawing on various therapeutic approaches and practices. The book particularly provides an excellent introduction to working with trans clients, including a thorough description of best practice in this area, as well as a good sense of the key issues facing trans people today. — Meg-John Barker is a Senior Lecturer in psychology at The Open University, psychotherapist, and author of How to Understand Your Gender, Queer: A Graphic History, and many other books.

Can I tell you about gender diversity?: A Guide for Friends, Family and Professionals

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Author: CJ Atkinson. Pages: 64 Format: EPUB Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
21 Dec. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1785921056

The pedagogies outlined in this book have made a positive, significant difference to the lives of young trans people in our schools. By following the practical strategies we can together begin the journey to inclusion. This guide will help you take the first steps to educate and then support you to create an environment that actively celebrates gender diversity! A definite go-to-guide for all schools. What is gender diversity? Kit explains all in this illustrated guide for children aged 7+

Working with difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy

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Author: Cameron Rose. Pages: 176  Format: EPUB Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
4 Jun. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-1526436658

This book guides you through the complexities of working with difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy. It introduces you to contemporary thinking on the construction of difference, social identity and culture, and applies the theory to therapy practice. With reflective exercises and case examples, it will help you to work more confidently and sensitively with difference.

Transforming Lives: Health Initiatives in Faith Communities

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Author: Alexander Rödlach. Pages: 214 Format: PDF Publisher: Lexington Books
23 Sept. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-1793625793

Faith community nursing and health ministry programs in congregations have increasingly been recognized as having a significant impact on the health and well-being of individuals. Based on a case study in Omaha, Nebraska, Transforming Lives: Health Initiatives in Faith Communities documents how nurses and health ministers touch and transform the recipients of their services and the participants in activities they organize. Alexander Rödlach argues that much of their success is due to their ability to collaborate with leadership in congregations and health systems. These programs have the potential to become significant partners with health systems and governments in providing health services to communities.

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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Author: Perez CC. Pages: 432  Format: EPUB Publisher: Vintage;;
5 Mar. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-1784706289

Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you’re a woman. Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the impact this has on their health and well-being. In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew. ‘HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things – a monumental piece of research’ Caitlin Moran.

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance, 2nd ed.

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Author: Margaret Somerville, K. Kumaran and Rob Anderson. Pages: 304  Format: EPUB Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell;
5 Aug. 2016
eISBN-13: 978-1118999325

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students understand the determinants of health and their study, from personal lifestyle choices and behaviour, to environmental, social and economic factors. This fully updated new edition features: More coverage of audit and quality improvement techniques Brand new sections on maternal and child health, and health of older people New chapters on social determinants of health and guideline development Expanded self-assessment material This accessible guide is an invaluable resource for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for a career in epidemiology and public health.

Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, 3rd ed.

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Author: Ron Stall, Brian Dodge, José A. Bauermeister, Tonia Poteat and Chris Beyrer. Pages: 304  Format: EPUB Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press;
27 Oct. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-0803646063

The classic, go-to text on sensory integration for Occupational Therapists.

Current theory and research based on the original work of A. Jean Ayres and applications of sensory integration to practice. Case studies covering a wide range of age groups and diagnoses.

LGBTQ Health Research: Theory, Methods, Practice

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Author: Ron Stall, Brian Dodge, José A. Bauermeister, Tonia Poteat and Chris Beyrer. Pages: 304  Format: EPUB Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press;
27 Oct. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-1421438788

The first book focused entirely on the growing field of LGBTQ health research, this volume provides the necessary public health tools to teach about and study LGBTQ populations effectively.

Over the last 30 years, the health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans have become increasingly recognized, in particular for the ways in which they are distinct from those typically assessed and addressed in society. Universities and researchers are paying greater attention to LGBTQ public health issues and how they might adapt existing methods to research marginalized communities, but—until now—there has been no authoritative resource to guide their education or practice. Developed for graduate students in public health and health sciences—but perfect for anyone interested in this topic—this book will fill that gap and provide the necessary public health tools to teach about and study LGBTQ populations effectively.

Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

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Author: Sue Westwood. Pages: 394  Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge
31 Oct. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-0367556136

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms and values, other resources, wider social processes, political participation and community engagement. Secondly, in terms of thinking about the ‘who’ of inequality, this has so far been limited to a very narrow range of minority populations. Finally, when considering the ‘how’ of inequality, social gerontology’s theoretical analyses remain under-developed. The overall effect of these issues is that social gerontology remains deeply embedded in normative assumptions which serve to exclude a wide range of older people.

Design for Inclusivity: A Practical Guide to Accessible, Innovative and User-Centred Design

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Author: Roger Coleman, John Clarkson, Hua Dong and Julia Cassim. Pages: 268  Format: EPUB Publisher: Routledge
17 Oct. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-0566087073

Inclusive design not only ensures that products, services, interfaces and environments are easier to use for those with special needs or limitations, but in doing so also makes them better for everyone. Design for Inclusivity, written by a team that has pioneered inclusive design practice internationally, reviews the recent social trends and pressures that have pushed this subject to the fore, and assesses design responses to date in an international context. The authors make the business case for inclusive design and explain the formalisation of the approach in standards and legislation. The text includes case studies which describe transport, product development, IT and service projects, as well as industry-university collaborative projects, and highlights lessons that have been learned. This is very much a practical book. It offers tools, techniques, guidelines and signposts for the reader to key resources, as well as including advice on research methods, and working with users and industry partners.

Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals

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Author: Michael R. Kauth and Jillian C. Shipherd. Pages: 242  Format: EPUB Publisher: Routledge
17 Oct. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1138229037

Adult Transgender Care provides an overview of transgender health and offers a comprehensive approach to training mental health professionals in transgender care. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to transgender care, emphasizing the complementary contributions of psychiatry, psychology, and social work in providing transgender care within an integrated treatment team. Included in this text are overviews of how to conceptualize and provide treatment with complex and difficult clinical presentations and considerations for understanding how to address system-level challenges to treatment.

Social Work and Health Care Practice with Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities: Voices for Equity, Inclusion, and Resilience

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Author: Shanna K. Kattari, M. Killian Kinney, Leonardo Kattari  and N. Eugene Walls. Pages: 512  Format: EPUB Publisher: Routledge
7 Feb. 2019
eISBN-13: 9780429443176

This book examines issues across the lifespan of transgender and nonbinary individuals whilst synthesizing conceptual work, empirical evidence, pedagogical content, educational experiences, and the voices of transgender and nonbinary individuals. It highlights the resilience and resistance of transgender and nonbinary individuals and communities to challenge narratives relying on one-dimensional perspectives of risk and tragic lives.

While there is currently unprecedented visibility and increasing support, members of these communities still face shockingly high rates of violence, victimization, unemployment, discrimination, and family rejection. Significant need for services and support coupled with social, clinical, and medical service systems ill-equipped to provide culturally responsive care illustrates the critical need for quality education and training of educators, practitioners, and service providers in best practices of working with members of the transgender and nonbinary community.

Trans and Non-binary Gender Healthcare for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Other Health Professionals

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Author: Christina Richards and James Barrett. Pages: 132  Format: EPUB Publisher: RCPsych Publications
27 Aug. 2020
eISBN-13: 9781108703024

Gender diversity is now recognised as simply part of human diversity, rather than being pathological. This shift calls for a need for mental health professionals to adapt their practice when working with trans and non-binary people. Written by two clinicians with significant experience in this field, this book provides practical, everyday advice on what to do when seeing gender-diverse people in both inpatient and outpatient settings. It avoids focusing on academic theory or being overly political and, instead, offers straightforward, useful guidance on common issues clinicians may face, such as which ward to accommodate someone on or which name to use when. Topics include common drug interactions, differential diagnoses, complex case formulation, autistic spectrum conditions, the spectrum of sexualities, surgeries, legal and religious matters, forensic assessment, psychotherapy and mental health diagnoses. Fully relevant to contemporary practice, this is a much-needed guide for busy clinicians seeking immediate, practical and authoritative answers.

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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Author: Robin DiAngelo . Pages: 192  Format: EPUB Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
7 Feb. 2019
eISBN-13: 978-0141990569

A book that shows how fearful, wounded and angry white reactions shut down vital discussions of race and racism and thereby uphold and perpetrate white supremacy. Its main insights relevant well beyond the United States, White Fragility will facilitate difficult but necessary conversations that we must have in Britain too. With both compassion and uncompromising clarity, Diangelo helps us understand the everyday manifestations of ‘white supremacy’ and provides several unexpected answers to the familiar defensive question ‘How is that racist?’ If we want to end racism and develop as human beings, we must be prepared to get ‘racially uncomfortable

Don’t Touch my Hair

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Author: by Emma Dabiri. Pages: 246  Format: EPUB Publisher: Penguin
2 May 2019
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This book is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation. Over a series of wry, informed essays, Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and on to today’s Natural Hair Movement, the Cultural Appropriation Wars and beyond. We look everything from hair capitalists like Madam C.J. Walker in the early 1900s to the rise of Shea Moisture today, from women’s solidarity and friendship to ‘black people time’, forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian’s braids.

The scope of black hairstyling ranges from pop culture to cosmology, from prehistoric times to the (afro)futuristic. Uncovering sophisticated indigenous mathematical systems in black hairstyles, alongside styles that served as secret intelligence networks leading enslaved Africans to freedom, Don’t Touch My Hair proves that far from being only hair, black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation.

Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

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Author: by John Hoberman. Pages: 306  Format: EPUB Publisher: University of California Press
3 April 2012
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Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today.

Black & Blue penetrates the physician’s private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. Within the world of medicine this racial folklore has infiltrated all of the medical sub-disciplines, from cardiology to gynecology to psychiatry. Doctors have thus imposed white or black racial identities upon every organ system of the human body, along with racial interpretations of black children, the black elderly, the black athlete, black musicality, black pain thresholds, and other aspects of black minds and bodies. The American medical establishment does not readily absorb either historical or current information about medical racism. For this reason, racial enlightenment will not reach medical schools until the current race-aversive curricula include new historical and sociological perspectives.

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

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Author: by Afua Hirsch. Pages: 384  Format: EPUB Publisher: Vintage
4 Oct. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1784705039

You’re British.

Your parents are British.

Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.

So why do people keep asking where you’re from?

We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch’s personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be – and an urgent call for change.

How To Be an Antiracist

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Author: by Ibram X. Kendi . Pages: 320  Format: EPUB Publisher: Vintage
15 Aug. 2019
eISBN-13: 978-1847925992

In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.

Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and story-teller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force for good. Along the way, Kendi punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.

In the process he demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism – what it is, where it is hidden, how to identify it and what to do about it.

The good immigrant

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Author: by Nikesh Shukla. Pages: 272  Format: pdf Publisher: Unbound
4 May 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1783523955

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?

Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go ‘home’ to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick ‘Other’?

Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be ‘other’ in a country that doesn’t seem to want you, doesn’t truly accept you – however many generations you’ve been here – but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.

Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants – job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees – until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and – most importantly – real.

Overcoming Everyday Racism: Building Resilience and Wellbeing in the Face of Discrimination and Microaggressions

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Author: by Susan Cousins. Pages: 216  Format: pdf Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
18 July 2019
eISBN-13: 978-1785928505

Susan Cousins offers a fresh approach to thinking about racism. For BAME readers it’s a vital self realisation approach which offers ways to explore identity and focus on wellbeing in order to thrive despite experiencing racism everyday. It has reached into my heart as a white woman, helped me accept my privilege and recognise my clumsy attempts at understanding. Exquisitely written and simply brilliant.

Religions, Culture and Healthcare: A Practical Handbook for Use in Healthcare Environments (2nd Ed.)

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Author: by Susan Hollins. Pages: 236 Size: 2.15 MB Format: pdf Publisher: Routledge
Published: 25 Feb. 2009
eISBN-13: 978-1846192609

Health professionals provide care to patients of differing religions and cultures, and knowledge of their cultural and religious background, way of life and beliefs and practices is vital to delivering sensitive and responsive care. This revised and updated guide provides practical and comprehensive information on each of the major faiths, providing an accessible reference for appropriate day to day care of patients in multicultural societies. Healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists, psychologists, hospital chaplains and administrative staff will find it an indispensable ready reference.

The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us

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Author: by Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia . Pages: 236 Size: 2.15 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 20 Oct. 2020
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Diversity initiatives are falling short. This book shows leaders how to develop the skills needed to build sustainably inclusive organizations using a tested, research-based model developed by the global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry.

According to the journal Human Resource Management, companies are spending over $8 billion a year on diversity programs. Yet today, the senior leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies are far from mirroring the diversity of its workforce and its customers. Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia, senior leaders at Korn Ferry, argue that to build sustainable diversity and inclusion, organizations need to have inclusive leaders at all levels.

In this book, Tapia and Polonskaia draw on Korn Ferry’s massive database of 3 million leadership assessments to reveal the essential qualities of inclusive leaders. They discuss the personality traits these leaders share and detail how to develop what they call the five disciplines of inclusive leadership: building interpersonal trust, integrating diverse perspectives, optimizing talent, applying an adaptive mindset, and achieving transformation.

Tapia and Polonskaia also outline the competencies behind each discipline, describe individual and organizational exemplars of inclusive leadership, and show how the five disciplines enable leaders to unleash the power of all people and to build both structurally and behaviorally inclusive organizations. This book will help leaders foster the skills to deal with today’s complex challenges and create a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous future for all of us.

Compassion in Nursing

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Author: Edited By Alistair Hewison And Yvonne Sawbridge. Pages: 236 Size: 2.15 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 16 September, 2017
eISBN-13: 978113744370

Compassion has become a prominent issue in health policy and practice and the recommendations of the Francis Report and the Berwick Review emphasised the need for compassion in care. This timely and important text book provides a valuable resource for practicing and student nurses which examines compassion in depth, but from a real world perspective. It appreciates and discusses the emotional labour of care and the realities of practice which can make ‘caring’ and ‘having compassion’ feel like a difficult and impossible task. This is an essential guide for those seeking clarity and depth in the analysis of compassion in contemporary nursing. Whether on a pre-qualifying undergraduate degree or an experienced practitioner, this is a must-have book for anyone interested in creating a compassionate health service.

Paediatric symptom and sign sorter, 2nd ed.

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Author: El-Radhi, A. Sahib . Pages: 255 Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 07/03/2019
eISBN-13: 9780429455155

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This book will be a vital tool for all clinicians in the front line when an ill child presents with an acute illness. Experienced paediatricians, postgraduate doctors, primary care physicians, and paediatric nurses will find this a useful refresher, and it will be an invaluable primer for newly trained doctors and students, or those new to the paediatric wards.

Each chapter here provides an overview of each symptom and sign followed by the most likely underlying causes in an easy-to-use tabular format. Investigative techniques and guidelines follow, ranging from the simple and inexpensive to the more complex, as do Top Tips and Red Flag warnings to note; new to this second edition are concluding summaries of Key Points, as well as an entirely new Endocrine chapter.

Managing children with developmental language disorder: Theory and practice across Europe and beyond

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Edited By James Law, Cristina McKean, Carol-Anne Murphy, Elin Thordard. Pages: 551 Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/04/2019
eISBN-13: 9780429455308

Although most children learn language relatively quickly, as many as 10 per cent of them are slow to start speaking and are said to have developmental language disorder (DLD). Children with DLD are managed by a variety of different professionals in different countries, are offered different services for different periods of time and are given a variety of different therapeutic treatments. To date, there has been no attempt to evaluate these different practices. Managing Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Theory and Practice Across Europe and Beyond does just this, reporting on the findings of a survey carried out as part of the work of COST Action IS1406, a European research network.

Law and colleagues analyse the results of a pan-European survey, looking at how different services are delivered in different counties, at the cultural factors underpinning such services and the theoretical frameworks used to inform practice in different countries. The book also provides a snapshot of international practices in a set of 35 country-specific “vignettes”, providing a benchmark for future developments but also calling attention to the work of key practitioners and thinkers in each of the countries investigated.

This book will be essential reading for practitioners working with children with language impairments, those commissioning services and policy in the field and students of speech and language therapy.

Becoming and being a play therapist: Play therapy in practice

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Author: Ayling, Peter. Pages: 298 Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/02/2019
eISBN-13: 9780203711224

Becoming and Being a Play Therapist: Play Therapy in Practice presents a rich and illuminating account of current play therapy practice, with an emphasis on becoming and being a play therapist and on some of the varied clinical contexts in which play therapists work. Written by members of British Association of Play Therapists, this book highlights the current complexity of play therapy practice in the UK and reflects the expertise of the collected authors in working with emotional, behavioural and mental health challenges in children and young people.

Divided into three parts, the book is designed to build on and consolidate the principles and professional/personal competences of play therapy practice. Key topics include:

    • Training and establishing oneself as a play therapist in the UK, a comprehensive guide.
    • The improvisational practitioner; therapist responses to resistance and aggressive play.
    • Systemic considerations in play therapy with birth families and adopters; advantages and challenges.
    • Case-study based explorations of play therapy across a range of service user groups, including childhood trauma, bereavement and sexual abuse, and agency contexts, including school and CAMHS settings.

Becoming and Being a Play Therapist will be relevant both for play therapy trainees and for qualified play therapists as well as for related professionals.

Safeguarding children and young people online: A short guide for social workers

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Author: Megele, Claudia. Pages: 277 Format: PDF Publisher: The Policy Press
Published: 01/01/2020
eISBN-13: 9781447331834

The first book to provide practitioners with an evidence-based, practical guide to safeguarding children and young people from abuse in a world of sexting, selfies and snap chat. Case study examples and discussion of key principles present an overview of the key risks to children and young people online.

Manual of dietetic practice, 6th ed.

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Author: Joan Gandy. Pages: 266 Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 13/06/2019
eISBN-13: 9781119235903

The authoritative guide for dietetic students and both new and experienced dietitians – endorsed by the British Dietetic Association

Now in its sixth edition, the bestselling Manual of Dietetic Practice has been thoroughly revised and updated to include the most recent developments and research on the topic. Published on behalf of the British Dietetic Association, this comprehensive resource covers the entire dietetics curriculum, and is an ideal reference text for healthcare professionals to develop their expertise and specialist skills in the realm of dietetic practice. This important guide includes:

  • The latest developments and scientific evidence in the field.
  • New data on nutrition and health surveillance programs.
  • Revised and updated evidence-based guidelines for dietetic practice.
  • An exploration of how Public Health England has influenced the field.
  • Practical advice on public health interventions and monitoring.
  • A companion website with helpful materials to support and develop learning.

Written for dietitians, clinical nutritionists, and other healthcare professionals by leading dietitians and other professionals, the Manual of Dietetic Practice continues to provide a crucial resource for experts and novices alike.

Clinical examination skills in paediatrics: For MRCPCH candidates and other practitioners

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Author: A. Mark Dalzell. Pages: 160 Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 12/11/2019
eISBN-13: 9781119238850

Examining children presents unique challenges for trainees and new doctors in paediatrics. Paediatric patients vary greatly in age and development, often find it difficult to describe their symptoms, and can behave unpredictably in clinical settings. Clinical Examination Skills in Paediatrics helps MRCPCH candidates and other practitioners learn effective history taking and fundamental examination techniques.

Clear and concise chapters-with contributions from a team of paediatric specialists-demonstrate the clinical examination and questioning techniques used in daily practice. Emphasis on the intellectual processes involved in decision making assists both trainees preparing for a formal examination as well as new clinicians faced with a difficult diagnostic problem. Topics include cardiovascular and respiratory examination, examining a child with a neuromuscular disorder, musculoskeletal examination, and taking history from a child with diabetes and a rheumatological condition.

  • Includes access to a companion website containing high-quality videos that demonstrate techniques, procedures and approaches
  • Features commentary by experienced practitioners which offer observations and deductions at each stage of the examination process
  • Offers tips for communicating effectively with the patients using appropriate lay terms
  • Helps translate the symptoms and signs experienced by patients into medical-speak
  • Covers all the skills tested in the MRCPCH Clinical exam

Clinical Examination Skills in Paediatrics is the perfect study and reference guide for paediatrics trainees, MRCPCH candidates, foundation doctors, allied healthcare professionals, and anyone looking to improve their clinical and communication skills in paediatrics.

Practical endocrinology and diabetes in children, 4th ed.

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Author: Malcolm D. C. Donaldson, John W. Gregory, Guy Van-Vliet and Joseph I. Wolfsdorf Pages: 301 Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 07/02/2019
eISBN-13: 9781119386193

The revised and updated fourth edition of Practical Endocrinology and Diabetes in Children offers a practical, highly clinical and up-to-date handbook of paediatric endocrinology and diabetes. The book is written in clear terms and offers a user-friendly format that is designed to be concise, yet comprehensive.. The international panel of expert contributors explore the range of endocrine disorders in children including growth, thyroid, adrenal and problems related to puberty.

A comprehensive guide to music therapy, 2nd ed.

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Author: Jacobsen, Stine Lindahl. Pages: 553 Format: PDF Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Published: 21/05/2019
eISBN-13: 9781784507930

Music therapists have a rich diversity of approaches and methods, often developed with specific relevance to meet the needs of a certain client population. This updated edition reflects this diversity, and is a comprehensive guide to accessing the ideas, theory, research results and clinical outcomes that are the foundations of this field.

Spiritual care and allied health practice: A person-centered approach

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Author: Carey, Lindsay B. Pages: 268 Format: PDF Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Published: 21/06/2018
eISBN-13: 9781784505011

This textbook explains the importance of Allied Health Professionals providing spiritual care and gives applied information on how this can be done. The first book of its kind, it is essential reading for AHPs and students in order to understand how to give holistic and patient centred care.

The straightforward guide to safeguarding adults: From getting the basics right to applying the care act and criminal investigations

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Author: Barnett, Deborah. Pages: 303 Format: PDF Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Published: 18/04/2019
eISBN-13: 9781784506407

This is a complete guide to safeguarding adults in frontline practice. Based on legal framework set out in the Care Act 2014, this new manual shows how to interpret the law and how to implement these principles in frontline practice. It also includes case studies to help recognise common issues, and tools for risk assessment.

Leading and managing change in the age of disruption and artificial intelligence

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Author: Donald, Mathew. Pages: 216 Format: PDF Publisher: Emerald
Published: 24/05/2019
eISBN-13: 9781787563698

In a global age of disruption, future organisational change is not avoidable. Organisational effects will be immediate and transformational across companies, and due consideration and preparation ahead of these changes may be paramount for the survival of organisations and their leaders of tomorrow.

Leading and Managing Change in the Age of Disruption and Artificial Intelligence modernises the topics of management, leadership, and organisational change to inform those leading and managing organisations into the future. The book covers modern disruptions ranging from Trump and other geo-political changes, to Brexit, new currencies, trade wars, and even knowledge mobility. It also considers the broad scope of potential impacts posed by artificial intelligence.
With insights and strategies that the modern manager of the future can implement in their daily work, this book provides critical thinking that will future proof organisations with practical models. It will interest and inform managers and leaders across small and large organisations and will also prove useful and thought-provoking to those studying in business related disciplines such as management, leadership, and organisational change.

Emergency triage, 3rd ed.

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Author: Mackway-Jones, Kevin. Pages: 208 Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 21/10/2013
eISBN-13: 9781118299043

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK, Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments. It is also used in hospitals throughout Brazil.

Emergency Triage is the core text for the MTS, which utilises a risk averse system of prioritisation for patients in all unscheduled care settings.  As such, it is an essential text for all emergency department staff using the MTS, in particular triage nurses. The book is both a training tool and a reference for daily use in the Emergency Department and prehospital settings.

This edition features revised protocols that reflect new approaches to prioritisation, with accompanying revised flowcharts –  the core part of the book.

Paediatric gastrointestinal disorders: A psychological perspective

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Author: Martin, Clarissa. Pages: 396 Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 15/03/2019
eISBN-13: 9780429091346

The medical specialty of paediatric gastroenterology is focused on problems and disorders within the gastrointestinal tract, liver and pancreas of children from infancy until age eighteen. This inspirational compilation provides information on current research and clinical practice regarding the psychosocial aspects of paediatric gastrointestinal conditions.

Safeguarding adults together under the Care Act 2014: a multi-agency practice guide

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Author: Starns, Barbara. Pages: 266 Format: PDF Publisher: Critical Publishing
Published: 07/10/2019
eISBN-13: 9781913063276

The Care Act 2014 has been criticised for the lack of a clear process for professionals to follow. With its emphasis on the personal individual approach to safeguarding, professionals have sometimes felt unclear as to how they should deliver safeguarding support.

Written by a practitioner, with an academic background, Safeguarding Adults Together seeks to provide that vital guidance. Whilst there is an absence of process in the Act, there is still a clear set of safeguarding elements which when put together provide a framework of operation for professionals to become more effective in their safeguarding practice. Professionals tend each to look at a particular aspect of safeguarding, but it is only when the whole framework is demonstrated can practitioners understand how they can best provide good safeguarding support to adults who need their help.  This book provides the reader with that knowledge and understanding about how adult safeguarding works by translating the Care Act into practice.

This is a follow book to the successful The Social Worker’s Guide to the Care Act 2014 by Pete Feldon ISBN 9781911106685.

Safeguarding Adults:

  • provides a unique safeguarding framework approach that explains what adult safeguarding is and how it works.
  • includes memorable illustrations that explain difficult complex elements of safeguarding
  • is packed with practice case studies and examples to support understanding of safeguarding and application of knowledge and skill.

Practical Treatment Options for Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Therapy Manual

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Author: Dobe, Michael. Pages: 316 Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Edition: 2nd.
Published: 30/08/2019
eISBN-13: 9783030192013

Pain is an increasingly common symptom in children and adolescents. Once recurrent pain leads to pain-related disability that affects a child’s functional, emotional and social well-being, it is considered a chronic pain disorder. Such disorders can develop as the primary condition or be due to a well-defined underlying physical condition, such as migraine or juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Approximately 5% of the paediatric population suffers from a severe chronic pain disorder. Its treatment in childhood and adolescence is complex and needs to address a variety of biological, psychological and social influencing factors.This treatment manual describes the inpatient treatment programme of one of the world’s largest inpatient treatment facilities for chronic pain management in children and adolescents – the German Paediatric Pain Centre. The guidance provided is also applicable to outpatient pain management or day-hospital approaches.The manual examines the epidemiology, aetiology, diagnostics and treatment principles in detail, explains the criteria for inpatient treatment, and describes the structure and organisation of a tertiary treatment centre for chronic pain. It also presents therapeutic interventions, such as dealing with “Black Thoughts”, “Distraction ABC”, “Stress Day” and the “Pain Provocation Technique” with the aid of numerous examples of pain management and health care from a clinical perspective. Lastly, it discusses the special features of pain treatment for children and adolescents with comorbid psychological disorders, family difficulties or defined somatic diseases, as well as pharmacological and interventional treatment options.

Acquired brain injury: An integrative neuro-rehabilitation approach, 2nd ed.

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Author: Elbaum, Jean. Pages: 369 Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Edition: 2nd.
Published: 22/07/2019
eISBN-13: 9783030166137

This book presents a comprehensive interdisciplinary team approach to the rehabilitation of acquired brain injury (ABI) survivors. Medical and clinical specialists will receive a deeper understanding of not only each other’s roles but of their complementary functions in this field. Many case examples are provided, illustrating a wide range of challenges and stages of recovery. This edition features 3 entirely new chapters and multiple updated chapters by new and returning authors.
Featured in the coverage:
  • The role of Robotics in acquired brain injury
  • A comprehensive chapter on physical therapy in ABI
  • Outstanding recoveries woven together by a video news producer who recovered from a meningioma
  • State of the art updates on neurosurgery, neurology, physiatry, neuropsychiatry and neuro-optometry.
  • Updated chapters on neuropsychology, speech-language and occupational therapies including new technology and approaches as well as evidence based practices
  • Psychosocial challenges and treatment following ABI
  • The importance of family as team members
  • Post rehabilitation options and experiences
Acquired Brain Injury: An Integrative Neuro-Rehabilitation Approach, 2nd edition provides clarity and context regarding the rehabilitation goals and processes for rehabilitation specialists, interdisciplinary students of neuro-rehabilitation as well as practicing clinicians interested in developing their knowledge in their field

Advances in Elder Abuse Research: Practice, Legislation and Policy

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Author: Phelan, Amanda. Pages: 266 Format: PDF Publisher: Springer
Published: 01/01/2020
eISBN-13: 9783030250935

This book provides an insight into advances in elder abuse in the areas of research, policy, practice and legislation. It provides readers with a broad understanding of the topic and considers the progress in elder abuse knowledge. The book explores the nexus of ageism and elder abuse, describes key social policies and their legislative manifestation, covers major policies and programs related to elder abuse, defines elder sexual abuse and much more. It offers the reader a comprehensive insight into new perspectives and approaches to both understanding and responding to elder abuse. As such it will be an asset to academics, students, healthcare practitioners, policy makers and the general public.

Cardiac Pacing and ICDs 4th ed.

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Author: [edited By] Kenneth A. Ellenbogen. Pages: 545 Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 15/04/2008
eISBN-13: 9781405150071

Cardiac Pacing and ICDs, is the ideal resource for clinicians who need an accessible, clinically-focused guide to cardiac pacemakers, ICDs and CRTs. Completely updated, and now with larger full-color images throughout, this new sixth edition offers thorough coverage of essential topics like:

  • Indications for both temporary and permanent pacing
  • Pacing hemodynamics explained in clinically relevant terms with simple algorithms for mode selection and device programming
  • Tips and Tricks for implantation and removal of devices and left ventricular leads
  • Evaluation and management of pacemaker and ICD device malfunctions
  • MRI safety and how to follow patients with devices
  • Remote follow up and more
  • Thoroughly revised and redone to provide more tables, charts and figures explaining devices

Caring for People with Dementia: A Shared Approach

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Author: Wilson, Christine Brown Pages: 217 Size: 994 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 27 March, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781526415134

Skills in caring for people with dementia are increasingly demanded of all health care practitioners as the numbers of diagnosed increase. Caring for People with Dementia presents Christine Brown Wilson’s latest research into improving dementia care for both non-expert students and junior staff as well as more senior managers.

The text first guides the reader through the underpinning theory behind the different approaches to person centred and relationship centred care and provides case scenarios with a range of practical strategies staff and students have developed and implemented. It then presents the different levels of the organisational change using practical strategies adopting a person centred and relationship centred approach involving the person with dementia and their families.

This book will be indispensable reading for all nursing and healthcare students and practitioners who want to improve the quality of life for people with dementia.

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease

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Author: [edited By] Egger Gary Pages: 185 Size: 10.84 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 24 April, 2017, 3rd ed.
eISBN-13: 9780128104262

Our lifestyle choices have a profound effect on our health. As we live longer, one thing is clear: many of us will spend time living with injury and chronic illness due to our own choices. Changes in health patterns typically follow shifts in living conditions. Disease patterns have changed worldwide, from infectious to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. This change has been so emphatic – nearly 70% of all presentations to a doctor in modern western societies are now chronic disease related – that medical services are being forced to change to accommodate this.Lifestyle Medicineis an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases – primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles – in contrast to the microbial ’causes’ of infectious disease. New chapters in this third edition explain the link between energy intake and expenditure; consider how modern technology are determinants of chronic disease; show how environmental influences, such as endocrine disruptors, influence our health; and summarize recent research on early childhood experiences and chronic disease.

    • Explores the relationship between lifestyle and environmental drivers and the major modern chronic diseases
    • Outlines the knowledge and skills bases required by health professionals to deal with lifestyle and environmental determinants of chronic disease, as well as the tools and procedures available for doing this
    • Develops pedagogy for Lifestyle Medicine that will enable it to become a practical adjunct to conventional health and medical practice

A beginner’s guide to evidence-based practice in health and social care

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A beginner's guide to evidence-based practice in health and social care

Author: [edited By] Aveyard, Helen Sharp, Pam,. Pages: 185 Size: 10.84 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 14 May, 2014, 2nd ed.
eISBN-13: 9780335246731

Have you heard of ‘evidence based practice’ but don’t know what it means?
Are you having trouble relating evidence to your practice?

This is the book for anyone who has ever wondered what evidence based practice is or how to relate it to practice. Fully updated in this brand new edition, this book is simple and easy to understand – and designed to help those new to the topic to apply the concept to their practice and learning with ease.

The book provides a step by step guide to what we mean by evidence based practice and how to apply it. This new edition features:

  • Additional material on literature reviews and searching for literature
  • Even more examples for health and social care practice
  • Extra material on qualitative research and evidence based practice
  • Expanded section on hierarchies of evidence and how to use them

A Beginner’s Guide to Evidence Based Practice in Health and Social Care is key reading for everyone involved in looking at and applying evidence in healthcare.

Burns and Grove’s The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence, 8th ed.

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Author: [edited By] Jennifer R. Gray, Susan K. Grove, Suzanne Sutherland. Pages: 738 Size: 10.84 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 10 August, 2016
eISBN-13: 978032337760

Master the research methods used as a foundation for evidence-based practice! Burns and Grove’s The Practice of Nursing Research, 8th Edition provides a solid foundation in the appraisal, synthesis, and generation of research evidence for clinical nursing practice. Not only will you learn how to properly evaluate and use existing research evidence, but you’ll also learn how to participate in research and quality improvement projects. Updated to reflect today’s focus on online research and evidence-based practice, this edition includes clear, step-by-step guidelines to research procedures as well as many examples from current and classic literature. From an expert author team led by Jennifer Gray, this book helps you perform scholarly research for evidence-based practice.

Being a nurse : A personal guide from graduation to revalidation

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Author: Lauren Philpott. Pages: 186 Size: 1.94 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Lantern Publishing
Published: 30 June, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781908625540

Being a Nurse will help both student nurses and newly qualified nurses in their progression from graduation to revalidation. Packed full of personal accounts, hints and tips, the book provides advice to new starters on dealing with the challenges of being a nurse. It covers important topics such as first-day nerves, the value of teamwork, how to avoid burnout, coping with a bad day and how to know when you’re ready to progress. The author takes a jargon-free, supportive approach that aims to help you develop your confidence as a nurse so that you in turn can offer the best care for your patients.

Nursing practice: knowledge and care, 2nd ed.

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Author: Edited By Ian Peate, Karen Wild. Pages: 987 Size: 107.53 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 20 November, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781119237488

The second edition of the successful and definitive nursing textbook, Nursing Practice is designed to support the student throughout the entire nursing degree. Structured around the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct, it explores a range of clinical and professional issues that the student will need to know, in one complete and accessible volume. Thoroughly updated and with full-colour, high quality illustrations throughout, this new edition features an additional chapter on the principles of supporting families and carers in practice, advice on revalidation, as well as a number of learning features and activities to help consolidate learning. Nursing Practice provides invaluable information to enable not just student nurses, but also those who are qualified and members of the extended nursing family, to develop a deeper understanding of their patients needs and to ensure that they are practicing safely and effectively.

Driving Results Through Social Networks: How top organizations leverage Networks for performance and growth

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Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level companies and government agencies. In this groundbreaking book, they describe in-depth how these leaders are using network thinking to increase revenues, lower costs, and accelerate innovation.

The fearless organization: Creating psychological safety in the workplace for learning, innovation, and growth

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Author: Amy C. Edmondson. Pages: 258 Size: 1.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley
Published: 13 November, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781119477228

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of “fitting in” and “going along” spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid questions, and yes dissent can slow things down, but talking through these things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big deal, and where actual mistakes are owned and corrected, and where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing.

This book explores this culture of psychological safety, and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation.

  • Explore the link between psychological safety and high performance
  • Create a culture where it’s “safe” to express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes
  • Nurture the level of engagement and candor required in today’s knowledge economy
  • Follow a step-by-step framework for establishing psychological safety in your team or organization

Shed the “yes-men” approach and step into real performance. Fertilize creativity, clarify goals, achieve accountability, redefine leadership, and much more. The Fearless Organization helps you bring about this most critical transfor

Elephant in the Room: How Relationships Make or Break the Success of Leaders and Organizations

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A systematic look at how relationships determine the success of leaders and their enterprises, along with tools to help strengthen and change them

Since time immemorial, relationships have determined the fate of leaders. But today they are more critical to success than ever. No longer can leaders count on long time horizons or sloppy competition to make up for the inefficiencies that poor relationships create. Leaders must make decisions and take actions quickly and well with others, even those with whom they share very little?perhaps not even a time zone. This new world puts relationships at the center of what leaders must understand and master to succeed.

Uses in-depth observational studies and clinical research to explore how relationships at the top of organizations work, develop, and change

Shows how to understand, strengthen, and transform these relationships, so they can withstand the most intense pressures and conflicts

Building an Innovative Learning Organization: a framework to build a smarter workforce, adapt to change, and drive growth

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Institute a culture of learning to boost organizational performance and agility

What makes organizations successful? Today, most successful companies are learning organizations. Building an Innovative Learning Organization shows you how to join their ranks and bring your organization up to the head of the class. This book is a practical, actionable guide on how to boost performance, successfully manage change, and innovate more quickly. Learning organizations are composed of engaged, motivated employees who continually seek improvement, which leads to organizational agility and the ability to innovate ahead of the curve. When you encourage learning at every level, from the intern to the C suite, you gain a more highly skilled workforce with a greater ability to act in any situation.

Building an Innovative Learning Organization shows you how to create this culture in your organization, with detailed explanations, practical examples, and step-by-step instructions so you can get started right away. Written by a recognized thought leader in the training industry, this informative and insightful guide is your roadmap to a more effective organization.

You will discover how to:

  • Attract, retain, and motivate the best employees
  • Become a more innovative and agile organization
  • Create a culture of continuous self-improvement
  • Encourage learning at all levels and translate it into action

Learning and education doesn’t end at graduation—it’s a lifelong process that keeps you relevant, informed, and better able to achieve your goals. These same benefits apply at the organizational level, making the culture self-sustaining: learning organizations attract top workers, who drive the organization forward, which attracts more top workers. If you want the best people, you have to be their best option. Building an Innovative Learning Organization gives you a blueprint for building a culture of learning, for a stronger, more robust organization.

The Newborn Lung: Neonatology Questions and Controversies, 3rd ed.

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Author: Bancalari, Eduardo Pages: 419 Size: 5.85 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 13 October, 2018
eISBN-13: 9780323568753

Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the most challenging aspects of neonatal care, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options in the field. In each volume, renowned experts address the clinical problems of greatest concern to today’s practitioners, helping you handle difficult practice issues and provide optimal, evidence-based care to every patient.

  • Stay fully up to date in this fast-changing field with The Newborn Lung, 3rd Edition.
  • The most current clinical information throughout, including key management strategies that may reduce some of the chronic sequelae of neonatal respiratory failure.
  • New content on the role of microbiome in lung injury and lung development.
  • Current coverage of non-invasive respiratory support, perinatal events and their influence on lung development and injury, cell-based lung therapy, automation of respiratory support, and oxygenation targeting in preterm infants.
  • Consistent chapter organization to help you find information quickly and easily.
  • The most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care.

The most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care.

Building a Global Learning Organization: using TWI to succeed with strategic workforce expansion in the LEGO Group

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Pages: 234 Size: 4.62 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Productivity Press – M.U.A.
Published: 06 June, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781498700641

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book, Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group worldwide Learning Organization.The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures, it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization.Providing expert insight into the work of culture change, the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success, identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application.The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book, you will gain valuable insight into how your organization whether large or small, national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture.

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to succeed with strategic workforce expansion in the LEGO Group Patrick Graupp, Gitte Jakobsen, John Vellema.

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Pages: 234 Size: 4.62 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Productivity Press – M.U.A.
Published: 06 June, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781498700641

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book, Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group�s worldwide Learning Organization.The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures, it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization.Providing expert insight into the work of culture change, the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success, identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application.The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book, you will gain valuable insight into how your organization�whether large or small, national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture.

How to Read a Paper, 6th ed.

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Author: Trisha Greenhalgh Pages: 285 Size: 2.27 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05 April, 2019
eISBN-13: 9781119484738

Required reading in many medical and healthcare institutions, How to Read a Paper is a clear and wide-ranging introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare, helping readers to understand its central principles, critically evaluate published data, and implement the results in practical settings. Author Trisha Greenhalgh guides readers through each fundamental step of inquiry, from searching the literature to assessing methodological quality and appraising statistics.

How to Read a Paper addresses the common criticisms of evidence-based healthcare, dispelling many of its myths and misconceptions, while providing a pragmatic framework for testing the validity of healthcare literature. Now in its sixth edition, this informative text includes new and expanded discussions of study bias, political interference in published reports, medical statistics, big data and more.

Offers user-friendly guidance on evidence-based healthcare that is applicable to both experienced and novice readers
Authored by an internationally recognised practitioner and researcher in evidence-based healthcare and primary care
Includes updated references, additional figures, improved checklists and more.

How to Read a Paper is an ideal resource for healthcare students, practitioners and anyone seeking an accessible introduction to evidence-based healthcare.

Text Atlas of Wound Management, 2nd ed.

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Author: [edited By] Vincent Falanga ; With Christina Lindholm … [et Al.]. Pages: 228 Size: 206.96 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc
Published: 20 March, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781841848785

The second edition of this critically acclaimed Text Atlas of Wound Management presents new features for dermatologists and nurses who deal with the practical and clinical aspects of wound care. Expert contributors provide a hands-on approach to diagnosis and wound management, as well as a broad exposure to cutaneous wounds-both acute and chronic-to ensure complete exposure to the problems encountered and solutions offered. This colorful guide enables readers to feel as though they are analyzing wounds alongside the experts. With high-quality color illustrations throughout, new highlights include a chapter on histopathology and a section on sourcing products.

Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation: Treatment options and risk assessment, 3rd ed.

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Author: Edited By Christof Schaefer, Paul Peters, And Richard K. Miller. Pages: 920 Size: 11.97 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 17 September, 2014
eISBN-13: 9780124079014

Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation, 3rd Edition is a quick and reliable reference for all those working in disciplines related to fertility, pregnancy, lactation, child health and human genetics who prescribe or deliver medicinal products, and to those who evaluate health and safety risks. Each chapter contains twofold information regarding drugs that are appropriate for prescription during pregnancy and an assessment of the risk of a drug when exposure during pregnancy has already occurred. Thoroughly updated with current regulations, references to the latest pharmacological data, and new medicinal products, this edition is a comprehensive resource covering latest knowledge and findings related to drugs during lactation and pregnancy.

  • Provides evidence-based recommendations to help clinicians make appropriate recommendations
  • Uniquely organized and structured according to drug class and treatment indications to offer authoritative clinical content on potential adverse effects
  • Highlights new research developments from primary source about working mechanism of substances that cause developmental disorders

Agile Working and the Digital Workspace: Best Practices for Designing and Implementing Productivity

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Author: Eary, John Pages: 163 Size: 2.35 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Business Expert Press
Published: 03 October, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781947441545

Organizations are increasingly adopting new ways of working to take advantage of new digital technologies to enhance the services they can offer and become more productive. This book defines and explains the different terms that are used to describe new ways of working and identifies the benefits and limitations of different approaches.

Readers will learn about the key components of successful agile working and how a holistic approach is needed for the successful implementation of agile working. The author provides advice on the introduction of new ways of working, including preparing a robust business case, setting up an agile working program, and providing a road map. The contributions of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to the digital workspace and agile working are assessed.

Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching: a beginner’s guide

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Author: Edited By Nicola Whitton And Alex Moseley. Pages: 233 Size: 2.06 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 23 May, 2012
eISBN-13: 9780203123775

Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching provides educators with easy and practical ways of using games to support student engagement and learning. Despite growing interest in digital game-based learning and teaching, until now most teachers have lacked the resources or technical knowledge to create games that meet their needs. The only realistic option for many has been to use existing games which too often are out of step with curriculum goals, difficult to integrate, and require high-end technology.

Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching offers a comprehensive solution, presenting five principles for games that can be embedded into traditional or online learning environments to enhance student engagement and interactivity. Extensive case studies explore specific academic perspectives, and featured insights from professional game designers show how educational games can be designed using readily accessible, low-end technologies, providing an explicit link between theory and practice. Practical in nature, the book has a sound theoretical base that draws from a range of international literature and research.

The Sage handbook of interview research: The complexity of the craft

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Author: Gubrium, Jaber F. Pages: 625 Size: 4 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Sage Publications Inc
Published: 14 February, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781452262031

The Second Edition both builds on, and moves beyond, the first edition by: – updating the book in terms of recent developments, especially in qualitative interviewing – shortening the volume so that it can be used as the main text for graduate seminars in qualitative research, as well as a general reference book – featuring a how-to/instructional approach through empirically and theoretically informed discussions – enhancing the multidisciplinary flavour of the first edition.

Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method

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Author: Per Kristiansen, Robert Rasmussen. Pages: 243 Size: 2.3 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley
Published: 26 June, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781118931363

Building a Better Business Using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method delivers a creative approach to enhancing innovation and improving business performance, with the focus on unleashing play. Written by the two original Master Trainers for LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP), the book outlines how LSP can develop teams, people, relationships and business . Based on the merging of play with organizational development, systems thinking and strategy development, LSP can foster improved meetings, faster innovation processes, team growth, and better communication.

The belief that everyone intends to do good and has the potential to do it is at the heart of LSP. The method nurtures the idea that everyone in an organization can contribute to discussions and outcomes. Building with LEGO bricks is a type of creative play that triggers a different kind of thought process, unleashing imagination and potential that is frequently untapped by the logical mind. The book explains this hands-on, minds-on approach, and discusses the theory as well as the practical implementation of LSP. Topics include:

  • Observation of internal and external interaction dynamics
  • Fostering a free and honest exchange of opinions
  • Suspending hierarchy for better, more effective communication
  • Facilitating change by encouraging exploration

The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method is employed by start-ups and multinational corporations alike to maximize synergy among teams and throughout organizations. For leaders looking to boost effectiveness and see better results, Building a Better Business Using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method is a comprehensive introduction to this creative management technique.

Ewles & Simnett’s Promoting Health: A Practical Guide, 7th ed.

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Author: Angela Scriven ; Foreword By Shirley Cramer. Pages: 281 Size: 2.86 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Bailliere Tindall
Published: 30 June, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780702066948

Retaining the features that characterized the phenomenal success of previous editions – namely, authority, accessibility and a user-friendly style – the latest edition of Ewles & Simnett’s Promoting Health: A Practical Guide, continues to offer readers with a sound introduction to the theory and practice of promoting public health.

Organised into three parts, the first section, ‘Thinking About Health, Health Promotion and Public Health’, explains what health, health promotion, public health and health education entail. The second part, ‘Planning and Managing Health Promotion and Public Health Practice‘ focuses on the health promoter’s daily work, beginning with a basic planning and evaluation framework followed by a discussion of how to identify and assess needs and priorities. The final part of the book, ‘Competence in Health Promotion and Public Health Practice‘, examines how readers can develop their competence in carrying out a range of activities, including enabling clients to learn in one-to-one and group settings, working with communities and changing policies and practices.

Fully updated throughout by a renowned author, the latest edition of this classic book includes the latest research on the comparative effectiveness of different approaches to health promotion and public health practice, and explores the development of public health communication strategies, including social marketing, social media campaigns, and use of pressure groups and ‘nudging’. The book also highlights the latest thinking on a wide variety of topics to ensure relevance to a broad array of practitioners working across differing settings.

Richly endowed with a wide range of interactive exercises and helpful case studies, Ewles & Simnett’s Promoting Health: A Practical Guide, seventh edition, will be ideal for anyone involved with health promotion and public health wherever they are based.

  • New edition of a seminal text fully updated for today’s reader
  • Focuses on the theories, principles and competencies for practice across a wide range of settings ranging from communities, schools, and workplaces, to GP surgeries and hospitals
  • Authoritative and accessible writing style helps make learning easy
  • Reflective activities help students consolidate their learning
  • Case studies – many from real life – provide practical examples to help readers apply concepts to their own setting
  • Gives emphasis to good communication and the effective use of communication tools
  • Practice points help readers structure their study and recap on what they have learned
  • Describes changes to the structure and organisation of public health within the UK, including the latest national standards for work in health promotion and public health
  • Outlines new research on the comparative effectiveness of different approaches to health promotion and public health practice
  • Explores the development of public health communication strategies, including social marketing, social media campaigns, and use of pressure groups and ‘nudging’
  • Highlights the latest ‘current thinking’ across a variety of different settings, to ensure relevance to a broad array of practitioners working across differing settings
  • Explores the increasing use of the internet to help individuals monitor and support their own wellbeing

Physical Examination of the Newborn at a Glance

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Author: Denise Campbell, Lyn Dolby. Pages: 131 Size: 11.68 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 16 February, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781119155584

Physical Examination of the Newborn at a Glance provides a comprehensive guide for all those involved with both the routine neonatal examination and the more specific full physical examination of a newborn.

Covering the routine care and the competencies required to perform the examination of the newborn as set out by the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) Screening Programme, this beautifully illustrated book encourages the critical appraisal of personal and practice standards relating to the examination of the newborn in order to promote effective and high quality holistic care of the family unit.

Encapsulating the learning requirements across a pre and post-registration audience, Physical Examination of the Newborn at a Glance is an indispensable resource for those beginning their journey to become a NIPE practitioner, as well as those who are looking to update their professional knowledge and understanding.

Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring

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Author: Natalie Lancer, David Clutterbuck And David Megginson. Pages: 341 Size: 1.24 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 15 July, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781315691251

This is a fully revised and updated second edition of the successful Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring, also incorporating the best bits of its sister text Further Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring. The book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the wide range of tools and techniques available to coaches and mentors. With a strong academic underpinning, it explores a wide range of approaches, and provides techniques both for use with clients and to support professional development of the coach or mentor. Key features include:

  • Easy-to-use resources and techniques for one-to-one coaching;
  • Case studies throughout the text, helping to put theory into practice;
  • An overview of different theoretical approaches;
  • A dedicated section on ‘themes for the coach’ discussing coaching across cultures, evaluating your coaching and looking after yourself as a coach

Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring 2nd Edition is an invaluable resource for professional coaches and mentors looking to enhance their practice, and for students of coaching and mentoring.

Acute medicine: a practical guide to the management of medical emergencies

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Author: Edited By David Sprigings, John B. Chambers. Pages: 785 Size: 20.1 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 27 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781118644263

Acute Medicine offers an accessible and concise guide to the practical management of all acute medical problems likely to be encountered in the emergency department, ambulatory care centre, acute medical unit or on the wards.

Reflecting the maturation of acute medicine as a separate specialty, the book is divided into common presentations, specific problems and procedures. New to the fifth edition is a chapter on bed-side ultrasonography; throughout, emphasis is placed on patient safety, and the use of flow diagrams, tables and figures ensures that key information is quickly accessible.

Thoroughly revised by experts in the subject, and updated to reflect current approaches to diagnosis and management, Acute Medicine is an excellent companion for the trainee as well as an aide-mémoire for the more experienced physician.

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 13th ed.

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Author: Shlomo Melmed, Kenneth S. Polonsky, P. Reed Larsen And Henry M. Kronenberg, Editors. Pages: 1,944 Size: 62.55 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 11 November, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780323341578

For more than 65 years, Williams Textbook of Endocrinology has been the gold standard in the field, delivering authoritative guidance on every aspect of adult and pediatric endocrine system disorders. The 13th Edition has been thoroughly updated by Drs. Shlomo Melmed, Kenneth S. Polonsky, P. Reed Larsen, and Henry M. Kronenberg, to bring you state-of-the-art coverage of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, thyroid disease, testicular disorders, and much more, all designed to help you provide optimal care to every patient. Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical information, it is an essential, relevant resource for endocrinologists, endocrine surgeons, gynecologists, internists, and pediatricians – any clinician who needs the most reliable coverage available on the diverse features across the spectrum of endocrine disease.

Psychiatry: Breaking the ICE

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Author: [edited By] Sarah Stringer, Juliet Hurn, Anna M. Burnside. Pages: 576 Size: 5.74 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley
Published: 21 September, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118557259

Psychiatry: Breaking the ICE contains everything psychiatry trainees need in order feel confident and competent in general adult inpatient and community placements.

  • A practical and reassuring guide to life as a psychiatrist, structured around the tasks expected both in day-to-day practice and in out-of-hours work
  • Key themes running throughout the book include ethical and legal issues, risk assessment and management, patient experience and safe prescribing

The authors are closely involved in the training, mentoring and supervision of core trainees, and know the real-world challenges faced by junior psychiatrists