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Discover the groundbreaking liturgical and sacramental scholarship of Marie-Dominique Chenu.Why is Chenu’s scholarship still relevant today? Like his slightly younger confrere Yves Congar, the French Dominican Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895–1990) was an important visionary of Catholic theology in the twentieth century. Long before scholars like Louis-Marie Chauvet, Chenu elaborated on the essential symbolic nature of sacramental mediation, on the operationality of gra...

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Tara Mahfoud, Sam McLean, Nikolas Rose

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Progress in Brain Research

The use of models has been important to the historical and contemporary study of the human brain, yet very little study by social scientists has been dedicated to how the brain sciences develop and use models to better understand what brains are and how they work, including the complex entanglements between brains, bodies and their environments. Vital Models: The Making and Use of Models in the Brain Sciences explores the history and use of brain models from clinical psychiatry to psychoph...

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Sam Chenery-Morris, Moira McLean

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Transforming Midwifery Practice Series

For new students the language and concepts of midwifery care can at first be daunting. This book helps students to understand the expectations of midwifery training in relation to normal midwifery practice. It covers the basics of midwifery care including professional practice, frameworks informing midwifery care, key concepts and philosophies of care, communication and care skills, antenatal care, normal labour and birth, postnatal care, neonatal care and breastfeeding, as well as a brief...

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Jane Yeadon

Who'd have thought a missing bacon rasher and a teaspoon would play a part in advancing someone's career? It's the late '60s and Jane Yeadon has always wanted to be a district nurse. Staff nursing in a ward where she's challenged by an inventorydriven ward sister, she reckons it's time to swap such trivialities for life as a district nurse. Independent thinking is one thing, but Jane's about to find that the drama on district can demand instant reaction; and without hospital back up, she's...

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Ruth Elder, Debra Nizette, Katie Evans

The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventio...

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Susan Gauge

This title is now available under ISBN 9780702052149. CTG Made Easy 4th edition continues the successful format of previous editions, offering a practical guide to all health professionals involved in monitoring the fetal heart rate during labour, and specifically in the interpretation of CTG traces. The workbook approach remains, with many new and updated case histories and CTGs, all using current terminology and a recommended proforma for interpretation. The book will aid health professi...

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Diane M. Fraser, Margaret A. Cooper

Perfect for practice placement, this handy Survival Guide gives you the clinical information you need at your fingertips. - Pocket-sized guide to midwifery - High-level summary of the clinical content needed for practice - Concise, bullet-point style for quick reference - Section on anatomy - Great revision aid! •Pocket-sized guide to midwifery•High-level summary of the clinical content needed for practice•Bullet-pointed for quick reference•Section on anatomy•Great revision aid! - Perinata...

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Denise Tiran

Reflexology in Pregnancy and Childbirth is a definitive text on the safe and appropriate use of reflex zone therapy in pregnancy, labour and the puerperium, focusing on evidence-based practice, professional accountability and application of a comprehensive knowledge of the therapy related to reproductive physiology. Denise Tiran, an experienced midwife, reflex zone therapist, university lecturer and Director of Expectancy – the Expectant Parents' Complementary Therapies Consultancy - has a...

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Elizabeth S. Gilbert

- Updated evidence-based content includes the latest AHWONN standards of practice. - Patient safety and risk management strategies include updated approaches to improving outcomes, reducing complications, and increasing patient safety during high risk pregnancy and delivery. - New Venous Thromboembolic Disease chapter provides current information on this increasingly common condition. - Information on the latest assessment and monitoring devices keeps you current with today's technology. -...

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Karen Elcock, Kath Sharples

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A Nurse's Survival Guide

Are you mentoring students?This is an indispensable handbook for: - both new and experienced mentors seeking practical advice - academic staff who deliver mentorship programmes - link lecturers who support mentors in practice. - Guidance and tips on supporting and assessing - Understanding accountability – mapping to NMC standards - Skills focus, using case studies - Hints, tips, insights and humour - Supporting the student with a disability - Using simulated learning - The role of the sig...

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Patricia M. Connors, RN, MS, WHNP

In The Perinatal Nurses Guide to Avoiding a Lawsuit, Pat Connors shares her 10 years of experience and the expertise she acquired working as a legal nurse consultant and nurse expert. Working with both plaintiff and defense attorneys, combined with 40 years as a perinatal nurse, affords her a unique ability to educate perinatal nurses as to factors that might lead them to become involved in the dreaded LAWSUIT. At one time, physicians were considered the captain of the ship and nurses were ex...

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Debra Bick, Christine MacArthur, Heather Winter

This title is now out of print. A new edition with e-book is available under ISBN 9780702041174. This practical handbook presents evidence-based guidelines for the identification and management of postnatal health needs. It reviews the evidence on the physical and psychological postpartum health problems experienced by women, and the primary management of these, and facilitates individualised care. The ten guidelines were developed by experts in postpartum health as part of a large randomi...