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The Courage to Care

A Call for Compassion

by Christie Watson ...

Nurses have never been more important.'An inspiring book for our challenging times' Olivia ColemanWe benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses' ... Read more

$18.99 NZD

Nurses have never been more important.'An inspiring book for our challenging times' Olivia ColemanWe benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses'
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Confessions of a Male Nurse

by Michael Alexander ...

Series series The Confessions Series
From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty much dealt with everything: Body parts that come off in his hands; ... Read more

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From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty much dealt with everything: Body parts that come off in his hands;
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Sixty Years a Nurse

by Mary Hazard ...

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse’s training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later – one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience. ... Read more

$7.99 NZD

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse’s training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later – one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience.
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At the Coalface

The memoir of a pit nurse

by Joan Hart ...

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the ... Read more

$5.99 NZD

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the
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In Shock

How Nearly Dying Made Me a Better Intensive Care Doctor

by Dr Rana Awdish ...

***'*I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times'Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, Observer**At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her ... Read more

$18.99 NZD

***'*I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times'Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, Observer**At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her
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At the Coalface: Part 1 of 3: The memoir of a pit nurse

by Joan Hart ...

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the ... Read more

$4.99 NZD

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the
... Read more
At the Coalface: Part 2 of 3: The memoir of a pit nurse

by Joan Hart ...

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the ... Read more

$2.99 NZD

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the
... Read more
The New Arrival

The Heartwarming True Story of a 1970s Trainee Nurse

by Sarah Beeson ...

‘I hadn’t been in Hackney for 24 hours but I knew that the way I saw life and people had changed forever. There was such goodness here but there was a sadness I had never imagined before, and it wasn’t even lunchtime yet …’On a hot summer’s day in 1969, fresh-faced 17 year old Nurse Sarah Hill arrives at Hackney General Hospital in London’s East End.Battered suitcase in hand, she takes eager steps ... Read more

$5.99 NZD

‘I hadn’t been in Hackney for 24 hours but I knew that the way I saw life and people had changed forever. There was such goodness here but there was a sadness I had never imagined before, and it wasn’t even lunchtime yet …’On a hot summer’s day in 1969, fresh-faced 17 year old Nurse Sarah Hill arrives at Hackney General Hospital in London’s East End.Battered suitcase in hand, she takes eager steps
... Read more
At the Coalface: Part 3 of 3: The memoir of a pit nurse

by Joan Hart ...

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the ... Read more

$2.99 NZD

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the
... Read more
The New Arrival: Part 2 of 3

The Heartwarming True Story of a 1970s Trainee Nurse

by Sarah Beeson ...

The New Arrival can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3 (Chapters 10-21 of 30).You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Sarah completes her preliminary nurse training, and finds her feet with staff and patients alike, under the watchful eye of the stern matron.It’s the end of the swinging sixties, ... Read more

$2.99 NZD

The New Arrival can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3 (Chapters 10-21 of 30).You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Sarah completes her preliminary nurse training, and finds her feet with staff and patients alike, under the watchful eye of the stern matron.It’s the end of the swinging sixties,
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Patient and Person

Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

by Jane Stein-Parbury ...

A revised, updated edition of the bestselling nursing text promoting constructive interpersonal relationships.The latest edition of the ever-popular Patient and Person remains an authoritative guide to the practice and theory of developing interpersonal skills in nursing.This well known Elsevier nursing text has been fully revised and updated with new content and the latest research evidence, ... Read more

$61.05 NZD

A revised, updated edition of the bestselling nursing text promoting constructive interpersonal relationships.The latest edition of the ever-popular Patient and Person remains an authoritative guide to the practice and theory of developing interpersonal skills in nursing.This well known Elsevier nursing text has been fully revised and updated with new content and the latest research evidence,
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Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow

Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue

by Wendy Austin, E. Sharon Brintnell, Erika Goble, Leon Kagan, Linda Kreitzer, Denise J. Larsen, Brendan Leier ...

First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers who become “too tired to care.” Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical caring, is ... Read more

$48.63 NZD

First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers who become “too tired to care.” Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical caring, is
... Read more
The New Arrival: Part 3 of 3

The Heartwarming True Story of a 1970s Trainee Nurse

by Sarah Beeson ...

The New Arrival can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3 (Chapters 22-30 of 30).You can read Part 3 on release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Sarah completes her training, and, inspired by her experiences with a Health Visitor, she begins to realise that she may have found her passion…More than just a hospital, Hackney General was ... Read more

$2.99 NZD

The New Arrival can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3 (Chapters 22-30 of 30).You can read Part 3 on release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Sarah completes her training, and, inspired by her experiences with a Health Visitor, she begins to realise that she may have found her passion…More than just a hospital, Hackney General was
... Read more
From Silence to Voice

What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public

by Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon ...

Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
**This is an invaluable book for all nurses, especially those who are proud of being nurses and who have always wanted to make others understand our passion.**â• Nursing StandardFor more than a decade, From Silence to Voice has been providing nurses with communication tools they can use to win the resources and respect they deserve. Now, in a timely third edition, authors Bernice Buresh and ... Read more

$19.65 NZD

**This is an invaluable book for all nurses, especially those who are proud of being nurses and who have always wanted to make others understand our passion.**â• Nursing StandardFor more than a decade, From Silence to Voice has been providing nurses with communication tools they can use to win the resources and respect they deserve. Now, in a timely third edition, authors Bernice Buresh and
... Read more
Living with Chronic Illness and Disability

Principles for nursing practice

by Esther Chang, Amanda Johnson ...

- Fully updated and refreshed to reflect current knowledge, data and perspectives ... Read more

$94.75 NZD

- Fully updated and refreshed to reflect current knowledge, data and perspectives
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El debate sobre la venta de órganos

by Ricardo García Manrique ...

Los grandes avances de la medicina y la cirugía ofrecen, cada vez más, la posibilidad de salvar vidas y de mejorar considerablemente su calidad gracias al trasplante de órganos. Sin embargo, esto abre un complejo debate ético entre el derecho de los enfermos a la mejor atención médica y el derecho a la integridad corporal de cada persona.En la actualidad, hay muchos más pacientes esperando un ... Read more

$21.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Los grandes avances de la medicina y la cirugía ofrecen, cada vez más, la posibilidad de salvar vidas y de mejorar considerablemente su calidad gracias al trasplante de órganos. Sin embargo, esto abre un complejo debate ético entre el derecho de los enfermos a la mejor atención médica y el derecho a la integridad corporal de cada persona.En la actualidad, hay muchos más pacientes esperando un
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Annual Review of Nursing Education, Volume 5, 2007

Challenges and New Directions in Nursing Education

Edited by Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Kathleen T. Heinrich ...

This timely volume in the Springer Annual Review of Nursing Education series reflects the hottest issues and trends igniting national discourse today. Written by nurse educators and focused on the practice of teaching across settings, the Annual Review provides educators in associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, staff development, and continuing education with an array of ... Read more

$138.45 NZD

This timely volume in the Springer Annual Review of Nursing Education series reflects the hottest issues and trends igniting national discourse today. Written by nurse educators and focused on the practice of teaching across settings, the Annual Review provides educators in associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, staff development, and continuing education with an array of
... Read more
Cardiac Care

A Practical Guide for Nurses

by Ian D. Jones, Angela M. Kucia ...

In the newly revised Second Edition of Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses, a team of dedicated and widely recognised nursing medical experts from around the world deliver an invaluable and practical guide for nurses who practice in cardiac care environments.This latest edition includes brand new chapters on structural heart disease, takotsubo syndrome, and non-obstructive coronary artery ... Read more

$78.99 NZD

In the newly revised Second Edition of Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses, a team of dedicated and widely recognised nursing medical experts from around the world deliver an invaluable and practical guide for nurses who practice in cardiac care environments.This latest edition includes brand new chapters on structural heart disease, takotsubo syndrome, and non-obstructive coronary artery
... Read more
Legal & Ethical Standards for Nurses, Fourth Edition

by Sheryl Feutz-Harter ...

To practice nursing effectively today requires a sound understanding of the legal system and the laws specifically affecting nurses. Legal and Ethical Standards for Nurses is filled with practical information, covering topics such as delegation, documentation, professional liability insurance, regulatory issues, advance directives and many others! While these are exciting and challenging times for ... Read more

$15.17 NZD

To practice nursing effectively today requires a sound understanding of the legal system and the laws specifically affecting nurses. Legal and Ethical Standards for Nurses is filled with practical information, covering topics such as delegation, documentation, professional liability insurance, regulatory issues, advance directives and many others! While these are exciting and challenging times for
... Read more
Poetic Expressions in Nursing: Sharing the Caring

by Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN ...

This exciting collection of freeform poetry with over 40 poems by Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, is a sharing of both professional and personal thoughts and feelings. Susan is a strong advocate of the creative use of poetry to express the wonderment, frustration, dedication, and the love of nurses for their profession and their patients.Included is a tribute poem to nurses by Mohan Chilukuri, MD and a ... Read more

$4.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

This exciting collection of freeform poetry with over 40 poems by Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, is a sharing of both professional and personal thoughts and feelings. Susan is a strong advocate of the creative use of poetry to express the wonderment, frustration, dedication, and the love of nurses for their profession and their patients.Included is a tribute poem to nurses by Mohan Chilukuri, MD and a
... Read more
Matices de la seguridad en niños para prevenir lesiones no intencionales

by Elizabeth Sevilla ...

Hablar sobre lesiones no intencionales en niños es prioritario, ya que encabezan las primeras causas de que el niño enferme o muera; porque son originadas por acciones imprudentes, condiciones inseguras, falta de seguridad en el ambiente que rodea al niño; porque existe desconocimiento de las causas; porque es posible prevenirlas; porque representan un porcentaje mayor que las causas de lesiones ... Read more

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Hablar sobre lesiones no intencionales en niños es prioritario, ya que encabezan las primeras causas de que el niño enferme o muera; porque son originadas por acciones imprudentes, condiciones inseguras, falta de seguridad en el ambiente que rodea al niño; porque existe desconocimiento de las causas; porque es posible prevenirlas; porque representan un porcentaje mayor que las causas de lesiones
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DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice

by Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN, H. Michael Dreher, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF ...

This core text for the DNP curriculum explores the historical and evolving advanced practice doctoral role as envisioned by leading DNP scholars and educators. Its distinctive point-counterpoint format—consisting of commentaries that dispute or support the opinions of chapter authors--provides a foundation of varying opinions that stimulate vigorous critical dialogue. The second edition has been ... Read more

$169.27 NZD

This core text for the DNP curriculum explores the historical and evolving advanced practice doctoral role as envisioned by leading DNP scholars and educators. Its distinctive point-counterpoint format—consisting of commentaries that dispute or support the opinions of chapter authors--provides a foundation of varying opinions that stimulate vigorous critical dialogue. The second edition has been
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Taking Action

by Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, Gaea A. Daniel, PhD, RN ...

Series Book 20230201 - 20230201
The crucible of the global pandemic, racial injustice, and a crippling nursing shortage has sparked increasing calls for nursing to address its own problems from inequity to structural racism. In response, authors Susan B. Hassmiller and Gaea A. Daniel enlisted nearly 70 national and international nursing leaders to tackle the most pressing issues confronting the profession. Taking Action: Top 10 ... Read more

$53.12 NZD

The crucible of the global pandemic, racial injustice, and a crippling nursing shortage has sparked increasing calls for nursing to address its own problems from inequity to structural racism. In response, authors Susan B. Hassmiller and Gaea A. Daniel enlisted nearly 70 national and international nursing leaders to tackle the most pressing issues confronting the profession. Taking Action: Top 10
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Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing

Enhancing Professional Quality of Life

by Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, PhD, RN, FT ...

Praise for Past Editions"This book is a vital read for individuals and the collective nursing profession… I encourage those who are concerned about the collective nursing profession, about what nurse educators are teaching students, about healthcare's high staff turnover and poor patient quality outcomes to consider reading and using this book." - M. R. Morrow, RN, PhD., Nursing Science Quarterly* ... Read more

$70.14 NZD

Praise for Past Editions"This book is a vital read for individuals and the collective nursing profession… I encourage those who are concerned about the collective nursing profession, about what nurse educators are teaching students, about healthcare's high staff turnover and poor patient quality outcomes to consider reading and using this book." - M. R. Morrow, RN, PhD., Nursing Science Quarterly*
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