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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

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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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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, ObserverAt 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, ObserverAt 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

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

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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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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

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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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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

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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
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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

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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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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

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‘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
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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

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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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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

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**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
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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

$67.78 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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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
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

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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
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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

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- Fully updated and refreshed to reflect current knowledge, data and perspectives
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Problem Solving for Better Health

A Global Perspective

Edited by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, Barry H. Smith, MD, PhD, Pamela Hoyt-Hudson, BSN, RN ...

Problem Solving for Better Healthcovers human potential and possibilities for change in a global environment where health issues have now reached crisis proportions. Through the Dreyfus Health Foundation's Problem Solving for Better HealthÆ and related programs, this book presents innovative methodologies that promote grass-roots solutions to pressing health issues. A progress report and call to ... Read more

$168.55 NZD

Problem Solving for Better Healthcovers human potential and possibilities for change in a global environment where health issues have now reached crisis proportions. Through the Dreyfus Health Foundation's Problem Solving for Better HealthÆ and related programs, this book presents innovative methodologies that promote grass-roots solutions to pressing health issues. A progress report and call to
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Health Systems, Health, Wealth And Societal Well-Being: Assessing The Case For Investing In Health Systems

by Martin McKee, Josep Figueras, Richard B. Saltman ...

This book, part of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy series, looks at health systems from a new perspective by arguing that they are part and parcel of improving health and achieving better economic growth. ... Read more

$111.72 NZD

This book, part of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy series, looks at health systems from a new perspective by arguing that they are part and parcel of improving health and achieving better economic growth.
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Middle Range Theory for Nursing, Third Edition

Third Edition

by Mary Jane Smith, PhD, RN, Patricia R. Liehr, PhD, RN ...

Praise for the Second Edition:"Smith and Liehr's exposition on nursing theory enhances nursing science and clinical practice with 12 middle range nursing theories. The discussion format of each chapter helps the reader understand the theories and the comparisons among them. This user-friendly reference is a must-have for students as well as academic and clinical nurse scholars."--AJN Book of the ... Read more

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Praise for the Second Edition:"Smith and Liehr's exposition on nursing theory enhances nursing science and clinical practice with 12 middle range nursing theories. The discussion format of each chapter helps the reader understand the theories and the comparisons among them. This user-friendly reference is a must-have for students as well as academic and clinical nurse scholars."--AJN Book of the
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Principi di dermatologia

by Claudia Meazzini ...

In questo libro di dermatologia si trattano in modo professionale nozioni di anatomia, fisiologia e patologia della cute e dei suoi annessi, con i relativi trattamenti orientativi sia di tipo locale che sistemico. Lo scopo di questo testo è quello di fornire i principi fondamentali che sono alla base di questa disciplina, rivolgendosi in particolar modo agli studenti dei corsi di laurea per le ... Read more

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In questo libro di dermatologia si trattano in modo professionale nozioni di anatomia, fisiologia e patologia della cute e dei suoi annessi, con i relativi trattamenti orientativi sia di tipo locale che sistemico. Lo scopo di questo testo è quello di fornire i principi fondamentali che sono alla base di questa disciplina, rivolgendosi in particolar modo agli studenti dei corsi di laurea per le
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How to Nurse

Relational Inquiry in Action

by Gweneth Hartrick Doane, Colleen Varcoe ...

Confidently address the theory-to-practice gap and equip your students with a theoretically sound, research-informed approach to successful nursing practice. How to Nurse: Relational Inquiry in Action, Second Edition, focuses on the “how” of relational inquiry to demonstrate the relevance of nursing research and help students confidently navigate the complexities of real-life nursing practice. A ... Read more

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Confidently address the theory-to-practice gap and equip your students with a theoretically sound, research-informed approach to successful nursing practice. How to Nurse: Relational Inquiry in Action, Second Edition, focuses on the “how” of relational inquiry to demonstrate the relevance of nursing research and help students confidently navigate the complexities of real-life nursing practice. A
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Nurses Making Policy, Second Edition

From Bedside to Boardroom

Edited by Ruth Ludwick, PhD, RN-BC, APRN-CNS, FAAN, Rebecca M. Patton, DNP, RN, CNOR, FAAN, Margarete L. Zalon, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAAN ...

Praise for the First Edition:“There is a plethora of policy books on the market, but none illustrate the steps in the policy process better than this one. The high caliber editors and contributors, all of whom have been involved in policy work, bring years of experience to illustrate the key points...This outstanding resource will help motivate many more nurses to get involved in the policy ... Read more

$221.47 NZD

Praise for the First Edition:“There is a plethora of policy books on the market, but none illustrate the steps in the policy process better than this one. The high caliber editors and contributors, all of whom have been involved in policy work, bring years of experience to illustrate the key points...This outstanding resource will help motivate many more nurses to get involved in the policy
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The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching, 2nd Edition

The Provider’s Guide to Coaching Scope and Competencies, 2nd edition

by Mary Elaine Southard, Barbara M. Dossey, Linda Bark, Bonney Gulina Schaub ...

The nurse-client relationship is at the core of quality nursing care. Nurse coaching is a structured, relationship-centered approach that promotes achievement of client goals. This new edition of The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching: The Provider’s Guide to Coaching Scope and Competencies teaches RNs how to interact with clients in a skilled, purposeful, and results-oriented way. Grounded in the ... Read more

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The nurse-client relationship is at the core of quality nursing care. Nurse coaching is a structured, relationship-centered approach that promotes achievement of client goals. This new edition of The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching: The Provider’s Guide to Coaching Scope and Competencies teaches RNs how to interact with clients in a skilled, purposeful, and results-oriented way. Grounded in the
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Transitando a la salud colectiva

Una experiencia de la Facultad de Enfermería de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

by Claudia Marcela Camargo-Rojas, Diana Norella Córdoba Rojas, Consuelo Granja Palacios, Jenny Amparo Lozano Beltrán, Dora Stella Melo-Hurtado, Carmen Lucía Niño Cardozo, Liliana Quevedo León, Edilma Marlén Suárez Castro, Marlín Téllez Pedroza ...

Este libro tiene como propósito visibilizar la participación y el aporte de la Facultad de Enfermería de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana a la salud colectiva, enmarcada en el contexto de la salud colombiana, la articulación histórica y los aportes de enfermería a las corrientes de pensamiento en salud pública en Colombia, a través del caso particular del Departamento de Enfermería en Salud ... Read more

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Este libro tiene como propósito visibilizar la participación y el aporte de la Facultad de Enfermería de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana a la salud colectiva, enmarcada en el contexto de la salud colombiana, la articulación histórica y los aportes de enfermería a las corrientes de pensamiento en salud pública en Colombia, a través del caso particular del Departamento de Enfermería en Salud
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Ross-Kerr and Wood's Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives - E-Book

CDN NURSING ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES

Edited by Lynn McCleary, Tammie McParland ...

Get an in-depth look at where nursing's most timely issues and trends all began with Ross-Kerr and Wood's Canadian Nursing: Issues & Perspectives, 6th Edition. This extensively updated, engaging text examines the latest issues and trends in Canadian nursing, along with the history which laid the groundwork for where nursing in Canada is now and can be in the future. Comprehensive coverage includes ... Read more

$165.17 NZD

Get an in-depth look at where nursing's most timely issues and trends all began with Ross-Kerr and Wood's Canadian Nursing: Issues & Perspectives, 6th Edition. This extensively updated, engaging text examines the latest issues and trends in Canadian nursing, along with the history which laid the groundwork for where nursing in Canada is now and can be in the future. Comprehensive coverage includes
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