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Family Comforts: Simple, Heartwarming Food to Enjoy Together – From the Bestselling Author of What Mummy Makes
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Family Comforts is the much-anticipated new cookbook from Rebecca Wilson, the bestselling author, Instagram sensation and mum behind the phenomenally popular family food account @rebeccawilsonfood.
With over 100 brand new, flavour-filled recipes, Rebecca shows you how to cook nutritious meals the whole family will love. From quick suppers that can be prepared in a matter of minutes to slow cooker heroes that deliver big flavours with minimal effort, joyful weekend feasts, brilliant bakes and warming desserts, Rebecca’s ingenious, easy-to-follow recipes are suitable for young children from six months, and irresistible for older siblings and adults too. Parents and carers can wean their babies and introduce them to a variety of new foods, whilst sharing the same meals alongside them. An essential for every family’s bookshelf, let Rebecca Wilson show you how to cook just once for the entire family, giving you more time together around the table to enjoy comforting meals through autumn, winter, and beyond.
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Intellectual Disabilities: Health and Social Care Across the Lifespan
This textbook provides nurses, allied health and social care professionals with the background knowledge necessary to support individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families. It is a unique and viable resource which is particularly timely, as recent decades have seen a significant change in the demographics and associated care and support needs of this population.
The textbook is laid into four sections to provide a logical structure for the content with chapters developing key topic areas relevant to the field.
The introductory section sets the overall context for the book and considers the importance of developing an understanding of intellectual disability as a core concept identifying philosophies and models of service that underpin health and social care across the lifespan. Communication as a basis for caring and the overall concept of person-centred caring in a multidisciplinary context is considered. The second section explores key concepts from birth to adulthood exploring the nature of intellectual disability, the child with intellectual disability and other related neurodevelopmental conditions. The third section explores adulthood to older age and considers specific health care needs, understanding behaviour and other fundamental concepts including mental health, ageing and palliative care. The fourth and final section explores the integration of health and social care addressing such issues as supporting and enabling families, education, employment, and sexuality and relationships.
Edited by experienced and widely respected professionals, this textbook is written by international practitioners, educators and researchers who all play critical roles in working with individuals with intellectual disability and their families.
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Primary Health Care: Theory and Practice
General practitioners and other primary care professionals have a leading role in contemporary health care, which Trisha Greenhalgh explores in this highly praised new text. She provides perceptive and engaging insights into primary health care, focussing on:- its intellectual roots
- its impact on the individual, the family and the community
- the role of the multidisciplinary team
- contemporary topics such as homelessness, ethnic health and electronic records.
Concise summaries, highlighted boxes, extensive referencing and a dedicated section on effective learning make this essential reading for postgraduate students, tutors and researchers in primary care.
“Trish Greenhalgh, in her frequent columns in the British Medical Journal…more than any other medical journalist spoke to her fellow GPs in the language of experience, but never without linking this to our expanding knowledge from the whole of human science.
When I compare the outlines of primary care so lucidly presented in this wonderful book, obviously derived from rich experience of real teaching and learning, with the grand guignol theatre of London medical schools when I was a student 1947-52, the advance is stunning.”
―From the foreword by Julian Tudor Hart“Trish Greenhalgh is one of the international stars of general practice and a very clever thinker. This new book is a wonderful resource for primary health care and general practice. Every general practice registrar should read this book and so should every general practice teacher and primary care researcher.”
―Professor Michael Kidd, Head of the Department of General Practice, University of Sydney and Immediate Past President of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners“This important new book by one of primary care’s most accomplished authors sets out clearly the academic basis for further developments in primary health care. Health systems will only function effectively if they recognise the importance of high quality primary care so I strongly recommend this book to students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers.”
―Professor Martin Marshall, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, UK£89.95 -
Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research
The 7th Edition of a multiple AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!Prepare for the real world of family nursing care!
Explore family nursing the way it’s practiced today in the United States and Canada―with a theory-guided, evidence-based approach to care throughout the family life cycle that responds to the needs of families and adapts to the changing dynamics of the health care system. From healthpromotion to end of life, a streamlined organization delivers the clinical guidance you need to care for today’s families.- Updated, Revised & Expanded! Incorporating the science and evidence-based knowledge that reflects the changes in families, family health, health policy, and the environment which affect the health of families today
- New! Practice and reflection questions for every case study to help nursing students develop their ability to reflect on their practice of working with families which can challenge their own assumptions, beliefs, and biases
- New Chapter! Environmental Health and Families
- Revised! Relational Nursing and Family Nursing in Canada now appearing in the text rather than online
- New! NCLEX®-style questions in the Appendix to develop critical-thinking and clinical judgment skills related to family nursing
- A comprehensive overview of family nursing linking family theory and research to clinical implementation
- An evidence-based, clinical focus emphasizing today’s families
- Case studies with family genograms and ecomaps
- Three family nursing theories―Family Systems Theory, Developmental and Family Life Cycle Theory, and Bioecological Theory ―are threaded throughout the book and are applied in many of the chapter case studies.
- Canadian-specific content throughout
- Coverage of families dealing with end-of-life issues
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Culture, Religion and Patient Care in a Multi-ethnic Society: A Handbook for Professionals
This is a multi-disciplinary handbook which aims to guide health professionals towards identifying and meeting the needs of religious and cultural groups. It promotes the need for a framework of knowledge, ideas and increased self-awareness.’£3.55 -
Primary Care for Paramedics
As the demand for primary healthcare in the UK increases, a growing number of paramedics are taking on roles within general practice.
Written and edited by over 20 clinicians in the field of primary care, this is a core text exploring the scope of the paramedic role and its fundamentals within the world of primary care. This resource provides a clinical reference for paramedics already practising within this area, whilst also equipping prospective paramedics with the required theoretical underpinning and context necessary to build meaningful knowledge and understanding in this field. Alongside a comprehensive range of topics related to primary care, including assessment, diagnosis, investigations and management of a number of different presentations, it also covers aspects of consultation techniques, decision-making and professional issues. Clinical chapters are concluded with case studies to help put theory into the context of the primary care setting and consolidate learning.
Moving into a new area of practice can be daunting, but with your years of clinical experience as a paramedic and this manual at your side, you will have the knowledge to approach any patient consultation in primary care.
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Understanding Your Three-Year-Old (The Tavistock Clinic – Understanding Your Child)
What changes when a young child begins to leave toddlerhood behind? How do you keep track of your child’s good and bad experiences at nursery and kindergarten and support her through them? What is the best way to cope with temper tantrums, and why do they happen?
Louise Emanuel presents practical tips and a great deal of emotional reassurance for both the first-time and the experienced parent. She offers helpful guidance on a range of topics, from managing sibling rivalry and ensuring everyone in the family gets a good night’s sleep, to encouraging conversation and imaginative solitary and social play.
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Caregiver Daily Log Book: Daily Medical Care Planner For Caretakers Assisting Elderly People | Caregiver Log Book a Aaily Record | Journal Medical…
Caregiver Log Book Organizer and PlannerOur Caregiver Daily Log Book, the ultimate tool for anyone who cares for a loved one or client. This comprehensive log book is designed to help caregivers keep track of all the important details and information related to their loved one’s care. Whether you are a professional caregiver or a family member caring for a loved one, this log book will help you stay organized and informed. Our Caregiver
Daily Log Book is divided into nine “9” Schedules, each one dedicated to a specific aspect of caregiving. From medication schedules to vital signs, appointments to personal care, this log book covers it all. With plenty of space to write down notes and observations, caregivers can keep track of important details and share them with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
Not only does this log book help caregivers stay organized, but it also provides peace of mind. By keeping track of medications, appointments, and other important details, caregivers can ensure that their loved ones are receiving the best possible care.
Our Caregiver Daily Log Book is easy to use and provides a simple way to keep track of all the important details related to caregiving. It’s the perfect tool for anyone who wants to provide the best possible care for their loved ones. So why wait? Order your copy today and start taking control of your loved one’s care!
✔ The first few pages of the logbook contain the following charts:
- Personal information
- Emergency contacts Family members, friends, and neighbors who can be contacted in case of an emergency
- Pharmacy information
- Doctor information
- Medication list
Note: These pages are designed to ensure important information is easily accessible and can be quickly provided to medical professionals in case of an emergency.
✔ Each daily page has the following features:
Activity & Caregiving Notes For:
⭐ Name, Date
⭐ Medication Schedule: Name, Dose Given, Time, Notes.
⭐ Activities & Exercise: Type, Duration, Time.
⭐ Meals: Meal, Time, Amount.
⭐ Toileting: Time, U, BM. Times Up During The Night.
⭐ Vital Signs: Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Respiratory Rate, Temperature / Time & Observations.
⭐ Appointments: Doctor’s Visit Or Therapy Session/ Special Instructions, Time, Observations.
⭐ Personal Care & Physical Therapy
⭐ General Mood
⭐ Notes
⭐ Other
✔ This Log Book Is Great For:
⭐ In-home care agency
⭐ Personal care assistant
⭐ Independent caregiver
⭐ Community service group
⭐ Charitable organization
✔ How can this Caregiver Journal Notebook help?
⭐ Effective communication within the care team
⭐ Responsibility and ownership among care team members
⭐ Timely retrieval of patient records
⭐ Facilitates informed decision-making
⭐ Detection of changes in patient’s mental or physical stateFeatures:
- Size: 8.5” x 11” inch / 21.59 x 27.94 cm
- Paper: white pape “High-quality”
- Pages: 120 pages Cover: Soft, Matte cover
- for gel pen, ink or pencils
” This Caregiver Notebook Was Designed By An Experienced Home Care Business Owner. This Caregiver Logbook Draws On Their Firsthand Knowledge Of Working With Clients, Families, Care Facilities, Trustees, Curators, & Medical Professionals.”
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Essentials of Paediatric Intensive Care
This is an essential handbook for all those involved in the care of critically ill children. It covers all of the key aspects of paediatric intensive care and also features a comprehensive ‘list’ of drugs commonly used in paediatric anaesthesia and intensive care, including those used for premedication, anaesthesia, local anaesthesia, analgesia, cardiac anaesthesia, antibiotics, emergency and resuscitation drugs, inotropes, ‘new’ drugs (e.g. calcium infusions, epoprostenal).£27.19£46.99 -
Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: From Diagnosis to Bereavement
Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (or motor neurone disease) is a rare disease but one that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family. Whilst new treatments for A.L.S. are being developed, these are not curative and offer only the potential to slow its progression. Palliative care must therefore be integral to the clinical approach to the disease. Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: From diagnosis to bereavement reflects the wide scope of this care; it must cover not just the terminal phase, but support the patient and their family from the onset of the disease. Both the multidisciplinary palliative care team and the neurology team are essential in providing a high standard of care and allowing quality of life (both patient and carer) to be maintained. Clear guidelines are provided to address care throughout the disease process. Control of symptoms is covered alongside the psychosocial care of patients and their families, culminating in discussion of bereavement. The experience of patients and families is considered and case studies are provided to show the practical application of the theoretical knowledge. Different models of care are explored, and this new edition utilises the increase in both the evidence-base and available literature on the subject. Additional chapters on nursing, spiritual care, decision making, and ethical issues surrounding end of life care ensure that this new edition remains the essential guide to palliative care in A.L.S. .£30.95 -
Rehabilitation Cancer Care
Rehabilitation in Cancer Care is an essential clinical resource for all Allied Health Professionals working within or entering this specialist area. It provides practical guidance for the rehabilitation of people with cancer or those receiving palliative care. As well as explaining the key skills required at every stage of the cancer journey, the book specifically offers advice on diagnosis, treatment, management and effective interventions. Furthermore the role of each member of the interdisciplinary team is clearly explained at each stage, as is the importance of team work and holistic care.Section 1 introduces the reader to the rationale for the rehabilitation of people with cancer or those receiving palliative care, Section 2 looks at the multi-professional management of common cancers and Section 3 looks at symptom management.
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Who Cares?: One Family’s Shocking Story of Care in Today’s NHS
Around 34,000 people die unnecessarily in NHS hospitals every year – victims of mistakes, bad hygiene and poor care. Amanda Steane’s WHO CARES? is just one of these horror stories. Her husband Paul went into hospital for minor surgery. After repeated mistakes and neglect by inexperienced doctors and over-worked nurses in filthy wards, Paul emerged a helpless invalid. Unable to walk, talk or breathe properly, Paul took his own life. The NHS tried to avoid responsibility by claiming that key parts of Paul’s medical records were lost. But a nurse, outraged at how Pauld was treated, sent Amanda copies of the supposedly lost medical records.£3.91 -
Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop
You are old, ill, in pain and your doctor asks you what you want to do about it. You may be uncertain, but you’re definitely not alone. By the year 2020, some 50 million Americans will be over 65, and as the nation ages we must all ask what we ought to do about the health and medical care of our elderly. Our response will have profound consequences not just for individuals and families, but for society as a whole. This book helps us start to form an answer. To make decisions about medical care in old age, we need to know more about the reality of being elderly and sick, and “Choosing Medical Care in Old Age” gives us the opportunity. Muriel Gillick, a noted physician who specializes in the care of the elderly and in medical ethics, presents a panoply of stories drawn from her clinical experience. These encounters, with the robust and the frail, the demented and the dying, capture the texture of the experience of being old and faced with critical medical questions. From the stories of older people struggling to make choices in the face of acute illness, stories that are often poignant and sometimes tragic, Gillick develops broad guidelines for medical decison-making for the elderly. Within this framework, she confronts particular concerns and questions. When are certain procedures too burdensome to be justified? What are unacceptable risks? Should family members serve as exclusive spokespersons for relatives who can no longer speak for themselves? Gillick’s bold and personal prescription for medical care for the elderly calls for a change in the way medicine is understood and practised, as well as for changes in the institutions that serve the elderly, such as hospitals and nursing homes. An inquiry into the difficult issues and real-life dilemmas raised by current practices, her book offers a first step toward those changes.£30.73 -
Family Care, Development, and Health Communication in Rural China: Who’s Left Behind? (Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication)
Drawing upon the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, this book examines the conditions of care in the changing living environment of the elderly in rural China amid the economic transitions taking place in Chine since the 1970s. China’s development as a national economy is often acclaimed in popular as well as academic discourses, without questioning who contributes to the fruits of such development and who does and does not have access to it. With China moving into an aging society, studying the health of the elderly in rural families, who have been left behind while their adult children migrate to cities to work, offers a chance to understand the human costs of national development as well as challenging what health means for the study of health communication. This focus reveals health to have a much broader social connection than is usually acknowledged within the confines of the bio-medical model of health communication. Moreover, the analysis offered in the book attends to the broader structural features of economic transformations that constitute the contexts within which health meanings are negotiated.
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Chinese Transnational Families: Care Circulation and Children’s Life Paths (Routledge Research in Transnationalism)
The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families’ children have taken through their lives so far: from their early years to their current position as young adults, with care, in its multiple dimensions and timescales – past, present and future – as the unifying thread.
In doing so, it provides a contribution to the emerging body of research about care and transnational families and it posits the need to question hegemonic models of family, childhood and care, and to give voice and visibility to other actors, moving beyond the adult-centred perspective that dominates migration research.
The ethnographic approach together with the focus on the day-to-day lives of these families, in which care is the core concept, as it permeates people’s lives and traverses society generationally, makes this book appealing to both scholars and general public.
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Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses
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 disease. While also covering the essential topics necessary for the proper provision of cardiac care, this practical guide for nurses provides:
- A thorough introduction to cardiac practice, including the mechanics of the cardiovascular systems and the regulation of cardiac and vascular function
- Comprehensive exploration of cardiovascular disease assessment, including risk factors for cardiovascular disease, laboratory tests, and diagnostic procedures
- Practical discussions of the detection and management of heart rhythm disturbances, including ECG interpretation, cardiac monitoring, and arrhythmias
- In-depth examinations of the detection and management of acute coronary syndromes, including chest pain assessment and discharge planning
- Chapter overviews, key concepts, learning objectives and activities, with critical points intermingled throughout
Perfect for practicing nurses who care for patients with cardiac conditions, Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses will also earn a place in the libraries of other allied health professionals in cardiac care settings.
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The Glucose Goddess Method: Your four-week guide to cutting cravings, getting your energy back, and feeling amazing. With 100+ super easy recipes
‘A must for anyone who wants to understand their body and improve their health’ – Professor Tim Spector
‘A food revolution’ -Daily Mail
Jessie Inchauspé is a biochemist, author and founder of the Glucose Goddess movement (2 million followers on Instagram).
With her first book Glucose Revolution a no. 1 international bestseller, she started teaching everyone about the importance of blood sugar and easy hacks to manage it.
In The Glucose Goddess Method, she offers a four-week step-by-step plan to integrate simple, science-proven strategies for steadying your blood sugar into your everyday life. It comes complete with 100+ delicious recipes, an interactive workbook and lots of tips and advice from the Glucose Goddess community on how to stay on track.
This Method has been used by thousands to regulate their glucose, and the results are astonishing. You will gain boundless energy, curb your cravings, clear your skin, slow your ageing process, reduce inflammation, rebalance your hormones, improve your mood and sleep better than you have ever done before. You will create positive new habits for life.
The best part? You won’t be counting calories, and you’ll eat everything you love.
‘Jessie’s tips have been a lovely addition to my daily routine.’ Davina McCall
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Care Homes: The One-Stop Guide: When, Why and How to Choose a Care Home (One Stop Guides)
Choosing a care home is one of the more emotional and expensive decisions that anyone ever has to make. You may be unprepared, inexperienced, under time pressure and in an emotional whirlwind. This book is designed to cut through this noise and offer clear, practical advice for anyone who has to make this crucial decision.
Professor June Andrews looks at everything that you need to know, from first deciding whether care is needed for someone, to choosing a care home, to what happens next. She offers honest and sensible information about costs, quality of care and accommodation, and examines the finer details of what you might consider, such as food, décor, medical services and religious arrangements.
A good care home is a reward for a life well spent, and providing that care is a joy for the people who do it well. Avoiding the pitfalls, and finding the right place is the first step.
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The Just Chill Baby Sleep Book: Easy and Empowering Sleep Solutions
Joe & Rosie Wicks
‘We are all getting a good night’s sleep, thanks to Rosey’No one can prepare you for the sleep deprivation of having a newborn. The truth is, there is no magic wand – but there is straight-forward, actionable advice that will set your baby on a path towards a settled night’s sleep.
Baby sleep guru Rosey Davidson has been helping new parents with sleep for over a decade. She knows first-hand that every baby is different and that no parent needs to suffer with sleep struggles long term.
In this empowering and non judgemental book, Rosey sets out clear, practical solutions to help you make the right sleep decisions for your family. Covering every conceivable challenge that you may encounter in the first year, this is your nurturing guide to the methods that really work.
Whether you are in a fog of sleepless nights or expecting your bundle of joy, let this book be your guiding light, helping you to calmly and confidently navigate your baby’s first year
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Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It
‘A visceral, unsparing picture of our current situation . . . I can’t recommend it highly enough’ ROB DELANEY
‘A radical vision for how we might do things better in future’ LADY BRENDA HALE
‘Heartbreaking, beautiful and necessary . . . and every page of it an act of love’ SARAH JAFFE
A ground-breaking rethink of caregiving in our society, by writer, activist and former policy advisor Emily Kenway
Around the world, millions of people are quietly caring for long-term unwell, elderly or disabled loved ones; one-in-eight people in the UK and a sixth of the total US population, with comparable proportions across the globe. For many, this is a full-time job, saving our economies billions each year.
Yet when writer, activist and former policy advisor Emily Kenway found herself in the painful position of caring for her mother, she discovered that provision for people in her situation was, at best, hopelessly inadequate and, at worst, completely non-existent. This isn’t only in the form of paltry financial handouts for informal caregivers, but also a dearth of social, psychological, workplace and community structures to support people going through this experience.
Deftly blending memoir, polemic and deeply researched investigation, Who Cares lifts the lid on a subject society has never been willing to confront. Through Emily’s personal story, as well as the voices of other caregivers and those receiving care, unflinching investigations into the facts of care, and research from scientists at the forefront of potential solutions all over the world, this ground-breaking books asks vital questions about why we have a ‘crisis of care’, at both a global level and in the individual lives affected – and shows how we need to reorganise and reimagine the fundamental building blocks of our world to ensure caregiving is at its heart.
Praise for Emily Kenway’s first book, The Truth About Modern Slavery:
‘A powerful treatise’ Amelia Gentleman, Guardian
‘A must-read’ Frankie Boyle, comedian
‘Electrifyingly good’ Molly Smith, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
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Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONAn authoritative and deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for change, from the award-winning author and journalist.
‘[Labours of Love] should be compulsory reading for every MP, every manager in the NHS and the care “industry”… Informative, moving and essential’ – Philippa Perry
We’re facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives. Care-work is underpaid; its values disregarded. Britain’s society lauds economic growth, productivity and profit over compassion, kindness and empathy. For centuries the caring labours of women have been taken for granted, but with more women now in work, with increasing numbers of elderly and with austerity dismantling the welfare state, care is under pressure as never before.
Over five years, Madeleine Bunting travelled the country, speaking to charity workers, doctors, social workers, in-home carers, nurses, palliative care teams and parents, to explore the value of care, the hidden glue that binds us together. She finds remarkable stories, in GP surgeries, in work undertaken by parents for their disabled children and in end-of-life teams, that conjure a different way of imagining our society and the connections between us. Blending these revelatory testimonies with a history and language of care, and with Bunting’s own experiences of caring for the young and old in her family, Labours of Love is a hugely important portrait of our nation today – and of how it might be – which raises a clarion call for change.
‘A moving, forensic and historically grounded examination of how as a society we are falling so badly short in fulfilling our moral responsibilities to each other through life’s most difficult passages, The Crisis of Care would have been timely at any point, but never more so than in the epoch-defining circumstances of 2020 as we seek at last to re-define our values’ – David Kynaston, author of Engines of Privilege
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Multifaith Care for Sick and Dying Children and their Families: A Multi-disciplinary Guide
What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths? What, in the context of the young person’s faith, might it be helpful to know to support the child and the family, improve care, communicate sensitively and avoid causing offence?
Drawing on extensive, evidence-based research and practice, this practical resource addresses the multi-faith needs of sick and dying children and young people in hospitals and the wider community. Covering Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism, it provides the key information needed to help multi-disciplinary healthcare staff offer the best, culturally-appropriate care to sick children and their families. The book discusses daily, palliative, end of life and bereavement care in a range of settings, including hospitals, hospices, schools and home. The information provided covers those aspects of the religions discussed that are essential for healthcare staff to understand, including modesty and hygiene, taboos, food and prohibited products, age-related issues, sacred objects, visitors, and the expectations of the family. It includes important information on the issues of disability and mental health in each faith as well as addressing the significance within different faith traditions of the transitions from childhood to adolescence to adulthood.
A comprehensive resource that uniquely focuses on the care needs of sick children from different faiths, this book will be of immeasurable value to multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals including doctors, nurses, bereavement support and palliative care workers, carers, counsellors, chaplains and arts therapists.
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Family Centred Care: Concept, Theory and Practice
I cannot remember when I last read a nursing text and felt the same sense of relief: at last we have a resource which brings together the mass of concepts, theories and practice issues which are so fundamental to children’s nursing. What is unique about this book is that it really does take the step of putting theories into practice. This book would make an excellent introduction for those wanting to increase their level of expertise in working with children and families at any stage in their careers. – extract from The Foreword by Anne Casey – Editor of Paediatric Nursing.Family centred care is the cornerstone of Children’s Nursing practice and this engaging and comprehensive text introduces both the theoretical and practical components of this important concept. The authors analyse current issues surrounding family centred care and provide readers with a unique Continuum for Practice that will enable them to implement the concept both in the community and in hospital based settings.
The text is clearly structured into the following three parts:
Part One provides a definition of family centred care and a Practice Continuum.
Part Two is an analysis of current perspectives, issues and challenges impinging on family centred care.
Part Three addresses the skills required to actually practice family centred care so that it can become a reality for children, families and nurses.
The underlying principles of family centred care are presented as frameworks grounded in the realities of day-to-day practice. In this way the reader is equipped with a toolkit that they can use to develop their expertise, at their own pace in their individual care environment. Family Centred Care will be essential reading for all student and qualified nurses working with children and their families in a variety of health care settings.
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Family Medicine and Primary Care: At the Crossroads of Societal Change
- Written by the European expert on family medicine, this book offers theory enforced with practical case studies and reflections
Modern family healthcare is under a lot of pressure, from insecurity when it comes to diagnosis and prescription behaviour, to delivering quality assistance while balancing a large number of patients, There is need for reform – but before reform, there must be a vision. Not only for daily healthcare, but also for education – because in education lays the roots for social change.
By means of real patient testimonies and examples of daily consultations, this book focuses on family medicine. It pays special attention to the practical side of social determinants, diagnostics and therapy, and surrounding factors. Family Medicine and Primary Care emphasises the importance of qualitative work by general practitioners, correct education, and informed policies. It is a practical guide for high-level family medicine, with input from international experts.
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Handbook of Critical Care Nephrology
Designed specifically for nephrologists and trainees practicing in the ICU, Handbook of Critical Care Nephrology is a portable critical care reference with a unique and practical nephrology focus. Full-color illustrations, numerous algorithms, and intuitively arranged contents make this manual a must-have resource for nephrology in todayx27s ICU. •Covers all essential topics related to nephrology in the ICU, including ICU monitoring, drugs and blood products, imaging, acute kidney injury, electrolytes and acid-base disorders, poisonings and intoxications, extracorporeal therapies, organ transplantation, and ethics and palliative care. •Provides valuable information on specific conditions including sepsis, obstetrics, abdominal compartment syndrome, AKI in burns and trauma, gastrointestinal bleeding, neurological emergencies, environmental topics such as hemorrhagic fever and terrorism, hematologic/oncologic emergencies, and more. •Includes easy-to-understand visual abstracts of key studies. Enrich Your Ebook Reading Experience •Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. •Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.£50.38£56.00 -
Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being
‘I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism’
It is a myth that autistic children grow into ‘less autistic’ adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands such as relationships, parenting, or the work environment increase.
Niamh Garvey offers tips and tricks designed to reduce sensory and emotional stress and look after your autistic self. From understanding what’s happening when the stress response kicks in to using the ‘detective habit’ to spot your individual strengths and triggers. What’s more, every element of this book can be personalised to you.
Featuring strategies including ‘quick calm plans’ for managing triggers and lived-experience advice on understanding emotional regulation, coping with sensory overload and how to look after your senses during intimacy, this guide is here to ensure that you don’t just survive adulthood, you thrive in it.
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Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing 2/e (Oxford Handbooks in Nursing)
Enabling nurses to deliver safe and effective care and to achieve the best possible results for their patients, the Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing, 2nd edition is a concise and practical guide to all aspects of the nurse’s role.Covering assessment and management, right through to advice for the family, the expert authors provide information on a wide range of topics, including normal growth and development, pain, palliative care, religion and culture, and professional issues. In addition there is also a separate section on paediatric emergencies and coverage of recognising deviations from the norm as well as interpreting clinical findings and investigations, and measures to promote successful care practice.
Fully updated and revised for this new edition, it is now packed full of even more clinical information and practical advice, including a wealth of guidance and recommendations that have been gleaned from the authors’ many years of experience. The most up-to- date legislation, policy and practice is now covered, including significant changes in child safeguarding, immunisation, medicines, resuscitation protocols and the common assessment framework. The chapter on neonatal care has also been expanded and now contains information on care and breastfeeding of the pre-term infant, as well as developmental and kangaroo care. Cochlea implants, intussusception and professional issues – such as working with diverse communities, and involving young people in health services have also been included.
Written by practising nurses and subject experts, the Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing, 2nd edition continues to be a unique and invaluable companion to practising and student nurses, and to all who need to understand the special issues associated with children’s and young people’s nursing.
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CARE IN PRACTICE: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms: 8 (Matterealities / Verkörperungen: Perspectives from Empirical)
In what way is “care” a matter of “tinkering”? Rather than presenting care as a (preferably “warm”) relation between human beings, the various contributions to the volume give the material world (usually cast as “cold”) a prominent place in their analysis. Thus, this book does not continue to oppose care and technology, but contributes to rethinking both in such a way that they can be analysed together. Technology is not cast as a functional tool, easy to control – it is shifting, changing, surprising and adaptable. In care practices all “things” are (and have to be) tinkered with persistently. Knowledge is fluid, too. Rather than a set of general rules, the knowledges (in the plural) relevant to care practices are as adaptable and in need of adaptation as the technologies, the bodies, the people, and the daily lives involved.£23.99 -
An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis: A Manual for Family Workers
An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis is a manual for using cognitive behavioural approach to working with families of people with severe mental illness. The authors, all experienced clinicians, discuss the various core components of family work, including what constitutes family work, when it might be offered, and how and where it might be applied. As well as these core concerns, the authors also look at reframing challenges and overcoming common personal and external barriers to effective family work. Each chapter can be read individually or as part of the integrated manual. The central argument of the book is that family work must be individualised and it offers a clear approach to engaging and working with families to ensure that this happens, including guidance on how to link components of a service user’s plan with their family’s strengths and strategies for reducing stress. The book addressed both theory and practice, and concentrates on the experience of mental illness for the service user and their family, providing a focus for intervention. Exploring family work as an integrated psychosocial and educational support strategy, this manual will increase the confidence and competence of new family workers – mental health workers, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists – and broaden the knowledge of those already working in the area.£23.31£24.99 -
A Foundation for Neonatal Care: A Multi-Disciplinary Guide
This authoritative guide offers a vital overview including the recent fundamental changes in the care of newborn babies. As well as medical staff, key roles are now played by senior nurses, clinical nurse specialists, pharmacists, advanced neonatal nurse practitioners, nurse consultants, midwives, dieticians, physiotherapists and speech therapists. The involvement of such a diverse range of professional cultures in such a rapidly developing area often leads to competing priorities, complicated by a lack of established guidelines. There is also the added challenge of fetal medicine – an important emerging allied specialty new to many healthcare professionals. This book assists all professionals involved in the provision of neonatal care in understanding the genetic, physiological and biochemical mechanisms which have either led to or are associated with the clinical conditions affecting their patients. With comprehensive chapters on fetal medicine, genetics, inherited biochemical disorders, fundamental physiological concepts, the cardiovascular, renal and respiratory systems, bacterial and transplacental infections, pharmacokinetics, nutrition, and an overview of haemostasis, A Foundation For Neonatal Care aids understanding of the continuum of developmental physiology and pathology which is now required of neonatal care providers.£39.45 -
Families and Family Therapy
This special edition of the classic text includes a new introduction from Professor Arlene Vetere exploring its continuing influence on contemporary practice.
One of family therapy’s foundational texts, Families and Family Therapy is as relevant today as it has ever been. Examining the therapist’s role, Dr. Minuchin presents the views and strategies of a master clinician in a clear and practical form. Transcripts of actual family sessions―both with families meeting their problems fairly successfully and those seeking help―are accompanied by a running interpretation of what is taking place. The book constructs a model of an effectively functioning family and defining the boundaries around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling. It then explores the ways in which families adapt to stress from within and without, as they seek to survive and grow.
Combining vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy, this is an important text for all those interesting in the theory and practice of family therapy.
This book can be used on courses such as Family Therapy, Family Interventions, Systemic Practice, and Systemic Counselling within departments of Psychology, Mental Health, and Counselling; and by undergraduate students on Social Work qualifying courses.
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Family Experiences of Bipolar Disorder: The Ups, The Downs and the Bits In Between
Bipolar disorder can be a devastating illness, seriously affecting not only the person with bipolar but also their children, partner, parents, family and friends. While most people are familiar with the terms ‘manic depressive’ and ‘bipolar disorder’, there remains a lack of real understanding about the illness and many sufferers and their families can feel helpless, alone and misunderstood.
Family Experiences of Bipolar Disorder is a personal and honest account of bipolar disorder. The author Cara Aiken has lived with bipolar for 10 years, and in this book she gathers together her experiences and those of a host of contributors to portray the reality of the illness and its impact on family life. Their children give open and frank accounts of their lives with a bipolar parent, and partners and close family members explain how it has affected them. The book also features important facts and figures related to bipolar which are contributed by leading experts.
This moving and insightful book will provide an invaluable source of guidance, advice and support to people with bipolar disorder and their families, as well as an insight for professionals into the reality of life with the illness.
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Surviving Prematurity: With compassion, understanding and family integrated care
Surviving Prematurity offers a unique and compelling personal perspective on the triggers of stress and trauma that parents can encounter during a neonatal stay. The challenges inherent in being hurled into the unknown world of parenting prematurely born twins, and the varying uptake of Family Integrated Care (FICare) across neonatal units are explored in detail. These issues are illustrated with insights, interviews and honest accounts from healthcare professionals and parents. Using vividly described vignettes of her experiences, Nadia allows the reader to feel the emotion of everything her and her husband experienced as parents in extreme circumstances. She offers a sometimes brutal, but much needed view into the world of neonatal parents, the rollercoaster of emotions and exhausting fear of losing her babies.£7.99 -
Essential Primary Care (Essentials)
Essential Primary Care aims to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive overview of the clinical problems encountered in primary care. It covers the structure of primary care in the UK, disease prevention and the management of common and important clinical presentations from infancy to old age. Case studies are used in every chapter to illustrate key learning points. The book provides practical advice on how to consult with patients, make sense of their symptoms, explain things to them, and manage their problems.
Essential Primary Care:
• Is structured in five sections:
– The building blocks of primary care: its structure and connection with secondary care, the consultation, the process of making a diagnosis, prescribing, and ethical issues
– Health promotion
– Common and important presenting problems in roughly chronological order
– Cancer
– Death and palliative care
• Gives advice on how to phrase questions when consulting with patients and how to present information to patients
• Provides advice on how management extends to prescribing – often missing from current textbooks
• Contains case studies within each chapter which reflect the variety of primary care and provide top tips and advice for consulting with patients
• Supported by a companion website at www.wileyessential.com/primarycare featuring MCQs, EMQs, cases and OSCE checklists£39.69£41.50 -
Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink
With family doctors increasingly overburdened, bureaucratized, and burned out, how can the field change before it’s too late?
Over the past few decades, as American medical practice has become increasingly specialized, the number of generalists―doctors who care for the whole person―has plummeted. On paper, family medicine sounds noble; in practice, though, the field is so demanding in scope and substance, and the health system so favorable to specialists, that it cannot be fulfilled by most doctors.
In Searching for the Family Doctor, Timothy J. Hoff weaves together the early history of the family practice specialty in the United States with the personal narratives of modern-day family doctors. By formalizing this area of practice and instituting specialist-level training requirements, the originators of family practice hoped to increase respect for generalists, improve the pipeline of young medical graduates choosing primary care, and, in so doing, have a major positive impact on the way patients receive care. Drawing on in-depth interviews with fifty-five family doctors, Hoff shows us how these medical professionals have had their calling transformed not only by the indifferent acts of an unsupportive health care system but by the hand of their own medical specialty―a specialty that has chosen to pursue short- over long-term viability, conformity over uniqueness, and protectionism over collaboration. A specialty unable to innovate to keep its membership cohesive and focused on fulfilling the generalist ideal.
The family doctor, Hoff explains, was conceived of as a powered-up version of the “country doctor” idea. At a time when doctor-patient relationships are evaporating in the face of highly transactional, fast-food-style medical practice, this ideal seems both nostalgic and revolutionary. However, the realities of highly bureaucratic reimbursement and quality-of-care requirements, educational debt, and ongoing consolidation of the old-fashioned independent doctor’s office into corporate health systems have stacked the deck against the altruists and true believers who are drawn to the profession of family practice. As more family doctors wind up working for big health care corporations, their career paths grow more parochial, balkanizing the specialty. Their work roles and professional identities are increasingly niche-oriented.
Exploring how to save primary care by giving family doctors a fighting chance to become the generalists we need in our lives, Searching for the Family Doctor is required reading for anyone interested in the troubled state of modern medicine.
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Love and Care: ‘A superbly honest memoir about the unbreakable bonds of family, the cruelty of passing time and a love that never dies.’ Tony Parsons
***‘An honest and thoughtful memoir. Moving but, ultimately, full of hope. Beautiful.’ KATE MOSSE
‘Superb. Love & Care is a book about the unbreakable bonds of family, the cruelty of passing time and a love that never dies.’ TONY PARSONS
‘A beautiful, intimate story of love and understanding – candid and funny. This is a lyrical memoir of hope and forgiveness.’ RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path
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Shaun is finally free of responsibilities to anyone but himself; single, with two grown up daughters, he is just embarking on a new life in a new country when he gets a call to say his father is dying.
His mother has Parkinson’s Dementia and is in a care home. Shaun faces a stark choice: should he give up his new-found freedom, or turn his back on the woman he’d fought so hard to protect, not least from his own father?
Shaun’s mother had loved and cared for her son all her life. Could he now do the same for her?
‘A heart-warming, heart-wrenching, and beautifully humane account of loving and caring.’ NICCI GERRARD, novelist and author of What Dementia Teaches Us About Love
‘An insightful tale of care . . . this book needed to be written.’ JO GOOD, BBC Radio London
‘A vital subject, a really strong voice and, hurrah, humour makes this absorbing reading.’ CAROLINE RAPHAEL, Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime
‘An eye-opening – and at times jaw dropping – account that will make you weep with its tenderness and compassion . . . A highly readable tale of redemption and a celebration of love’s many hues.’ PAUL BLEZARD, Love Reading
‘Moving’ DAILY MAIL
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A Guide to Neonatal Care: Handbook For Health Professionals
A key text for all those involved in the care of neonates, including nurses, midwives and nursing students, providing a single source of valuable, accessible and fully up-to-date information about neonatal care.
This book will better equip those working in the neonatal field with the knowledge and skills they need to care for neonates in their first year of life. Integrated learning tools, including algorithms, flow charts, summary tables, bulleted checklists and reflective questions, encourage critical thinking and aid understanding. These are accompanied by clear supporting text in line with relevant and recent evidence and research. Other helpful features include Stop and Think boxes and alerts for Standard Precautions and Local Variations
Neonatal care is a speciality that often requires health professionals new to the field to acquire a discipline-specific set of skills. Care practices covered include working out drug dosages, fluid rates and calculations, looking up normal blood ranges and understanding the mode of ventilation a neonate is receiving, to name just a few. Overall, this book will empower neonatal carers as they improve their skills and achieve the best results for those in their care.
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Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care
Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families. Drawing from extensive personal experiences of working in paediatric palliative care, the author provides guidance on issues including symptom management and pain relief; cultural, religious and spiritual aspects of care; and the role of education for life-limited children. Addressing the importance of individual needs, the book looks at emotional, social and cognitive support at different stages of the illness, how parents and professionals can respond to children’s own questions about death, and the impact of life-limiting illness on the whole family – including grandparents and siblings. The material offers helpful suggestions on how to support families in making informed choices during distressing periods, such as where their child will die and how to prepare for the funeral. This book is a practical and invaluable tool for nurses, paediatricians, hospice care staff, bereavement counsellors and all those caring for life-limited children.£32.99 -
Disability, Care and Family Law
This book explores the series of issues that emerge at the intersection of disability, care and family law.
Disability studies is an area of increasing academic interest. In addition to a subject in its own right, there has been growing concern to ensure that mainstream subjects diversify and include marginalised voices, including those of disabled people. Family law in modern times is often based on an “able-bodied autonomous norm” but can fit less well with the complexities of living with disability. In response, this book addresses a range of important and highly topical issues: whether care proceedings are used too often in cases where parents have disabilities; how the law should respond to children who care for disabled parents – and the care of older family members with disabilities. It also considers the challenges posed by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly around the different institutional and state responsibilities captured in the Convention, and around decision-making for both disabled adults and children.
This interdisciplinary collection – with contributors from law, criminology, sociology and social policy as well as from policy and activist backgrounds – will appeal to academic family lawyers and disability scholars as well as students interested in issues around family law, disability and care.
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CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2021-2022
Guidelines and recommendations for the most common outpatient conditions―from sources you can trust!
Fully Reviewed and Updated Guideline Summaries!
- Organized into topics related to disease screening, prevention and management, and further subdivided into organ systems for quick reference
- Consolidates information from government agencies, medical and scientific organizations, and expert panels into concise recommendations and guidelines
- Updated with more than 90 new guidelines
- Significant updates to colorectal cancer screening, migraine prevention, and management of diabetes, cellulitis, asthma, and chronic pain among many others.
- New sections on orthopedics and sports medicine in addition to expanded specialty areas such as addiction medicine, transgender health, maternity care and hospital medicine.
- Spans all areas of general medicine and covers primary care topics in both ambulatory and hospital settings
- Includes website addresses for U.S. government agencies and professional societies
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