Rakuten Kobo

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

£3.49

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 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

£6.99

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
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

£1.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

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
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

£7.99

**'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
Life, Death and Biscuits

by Anthea Allen ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses have had to fight. Anthea Allen’s writing is raw, honest and full of love for those she cares for.’ Susanna ReidAn extraordinarily powerful memoir based on the diaries of intensive care nurse Anthea Allen, who worked on the front line of one of the largest hospitals in ... Read more

£2.99

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses have had to fight. Anthea Allen’s writing is raw, honest and full of love for those she cares for.’ Susanna ReidAn extraordinarily powerful memoir based on the diaries of intensive care nurse Anthea Allen, who worked on the front line of one of the largest hospitals in
... Read more
Birds Hold our Secrets

A Caritas Story of Grief and Remembering

by Anna M Biley ...

Drawing on her many years as a nurse, mother and wife, Biley tenderly takes us on a personal journey of conscious dying as she supports her beloved nurse academic husband Fran. Diagnosed with cancer, Fran’s wish was to die mindfully – whatever the circumstances. Anna travels alongside using Caring Science Theory as her guide whilst trying to maintain ‘normalcy’ in the home for her two young sons. ... Read more

£8.45

Drawing on her many years as a nurse, mother and wife, Biley tenderly takes us on a personal journey of conscious dying as she supports her beloved nurse academic husband Fran. Diagnosed with cancer, Fran’s wish was to die mindfully – whatever the circumstances. Anna travels alongside using Caring Science Theory as her guide whilst trying to maintain ‘normalcy’ in the home for her two young sons.
... Read more
General Hospital Care for People with Learning Disabilities

by Lynn Hannon, Julie Clift ...

General Hospital Care for People with Learning Disabilities is a comprehensive resource for those health professionals in a general hospital setting who may come into contact with people with learning disabilities. The book explores the nature of learning disabilities and highlights specific healthcare needs. It takes the reader through all the key factors in the healthcare process, through pre ... Read more

£39.99

General Hospital Care for People with Learning Disabilities is a comprehensive resource for those health professionals in a general hospital setting who may come into contact with people with learning disabilities. The book explores the nature of learning disabilities and highlights specific healthcare needs. It takes the reader through all the key factors in the healthcare process, through pre
... Read more
Mary Seacole

The Making of the Myth

by Lynn McDonald ...

Mary Seacole: The Making of the Myth is the first book to challenge the popular misconceptions that surround Mary Seacole’s iconic status as a “pioneer nurse” and battlefield heroine, intended, by some, to replace Florence Nightingale in those roles. McDonald masterfully disentangles reality from the myths, both those that exaggerate Seacole’s work and ignore or denigrate Nightingale’s. Drawing on ... Read more

£4.31

Mary Seacole: The Making of the Myth is the first book to challenge the popular misconceptions that surround Mary Seacole’s iconic status as a “pioneer nurse” and battlefield heroine, intended, by some, to replace Florence Nightingale in those roles. McDonald masterfully disentangles reality from the myths, both those that exaggerate Seacole’s work and ignore or denigrate Nightingale’s. Drawing on
... Read more
Safe Patient Handling and Mobility

Interprofessional National Standards Across the Care Continuum, 2nd Edition

by , ...

The Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) Standards were published in 2013 to fulfill a need for national guidelines to reduce the risks of injuries and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of healthcare workers. Significant strides have been made in SPHM research, education, training, and advocacy, since the first edition of the Standards. But patient handling and mobility-related injury rates ... Read more

£15.38

The Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) Standards were published in 2013 to fulfill a need for national guidelines to reduce the risks of injuries and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of healthcare workers. Significant strides have been made in SPHM research, education, training, and advocacy, since the first edition of the Standards. But patient handling and mobility-related injury rates
... Read more
Ethical Case Studies for Advanced Practice Nurses

Solving Dilemmas in Everyday Practice

by Amber Vermeesch, PhD, MSN, RN, FNP-C, FACSM, FNAP, ANEF, Patricia Cox, DNP, MPH, MN, BSN, RN, Inga Giske, DNP, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, PMH-BC, NE-BC, Katherine Roberts, DNP, BSN, RN, FNP-C ...

Healthcare delivery can present ethical conflicts and dilemmas for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs)—nurses who already have a myriad of responsibilities in caring for patients. Ethical Case Studies for Advanced Practice Nurses improves APRNs’ agility to resolve ethical quandaries encountered in primary care, hospital-based, higher education, and administration beyond community settings. ... Read more

£17.91

Healthcare delivery can present ethical conflicts and dilemmas for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs)—nurses who already have a myriad of responsibilities in caring for patients. Ethical Case Studies for Advanced Practice Nurses improves APRNs’ agility to resolve ethical quandaries encountered in primary care, hospital-based, higher education, and administration beyond community settings.
... Read more
Social Aspects Of Health, Illness And Healthcare

by Mary Larkin ...

This book fills a gap for an introductory text that offers broad coverage of the sociological issues that are relevant to health students coming to the theoretical and experiential aspects of health and illness for the first time. ... Read more

£16.19

This book fills a gap for an introductory text that offers broad coverage of the sociological issues that are relevant to health students coming to the theoretical and experiential aspects of health and illness for the first time.
... Read more
Nursing Today - Revised Reprint - E-Book

Nursing Today - Revised Reprint - E-Book

by JoAnn Zerwekh, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau ...

A student favorite for its easy-to-read style, real-life applications, and humorous cartoons, Nursing Today: Transition and Trends, 7th Edition Revised Reprint helps you make a successful transition from student to practicing nurse. It covers the profession's leading issues and opportunities, ensuring that you graduate not only with patient care skills but with career development skills including ... Read more

£41.39

A student favorite for its easy-to-read style, real-life applications, and humorous cartoons, Nursing Today: Transition and Trends, 7th Edition Revised Reprint helps you make a successful transition from student to practicing nurse. It covers the profession's leading issues and opportunities, ensuring that you graduate not only with patient care skills but with career development skills including
... Read more
Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

Core Concepts for Professional Development

Edited by Kathryn A. Blair, PhD, FNP, FAANP ...

The sixth edition of this time-tested text on advanced nursing role development is completely updated to encompass the full complement of current APRN practice roles. Reflecting the evolving spheres of the DNP and CNL, it illuminates in greater depth the transition into practice of APRN master’s and doctoral students and emphasizes the APRN’s all-important role in influencing health policy, global ... Read more

£53.54

The sixth edition of this time-tested text on advanced nursing role development is completely updated to encompass the full complement of current APRN practice roles. Reflecting the evolving spheres of the DNP and CNL, it illuminates in greater depth the transition into practice of APRN master’s and doctoral students and emphasizes the APRN’s all-important role in influencing health policy, global
... Read more
Rural Nursing, Fifth Edition

Concepts, Theory, and Practice

Edited by Charlene A. Winters, PhD, RN, FAAN, Helen J. Lee, PhD, BS ...

“[This book] continues to be the first line resource toward understanding rural health nursing and the interface with cultural, health, health beliefs, and health care in rural populations…Highlights the realities of rural nursing from bedside to advanced practice… This book and the chapters within are some of the most often cited in the rural nursing literature.”Pamela Stewart Fahs, RN, ... Read more

£62.00

“[This book] continues to be the first line resource toward understanding rural health nursing and the interface with cultural, health, health beliefs, and health care in rural populations…Highlights the realities of rural nursing from bedside to advanced practice… This book and the chapters within are some of the most often cited in the rural nursing literature.”Pamela Stewart Fahs, RN,
... Read more
Health Literacy in Nursing

Providing Person-Centered Care

by Terri Ann Parnell, MA, DNP, RN ...

"Dr. Parnell has captured the essence of health literacy and cultural competence, not only for nurses, but also applicable to all care providers and community workers. [and] provides us with a road map to enhance our success through health literacy and cultural competence. This is a must read for all health professionals."-Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS (From the Foreword)17th Surgeon General ... Read more

£41.30

"Dr. Parnell has captured the essence of health literacy and cultural competence, not only for nurses, but also applicable to all care providers and community workers. [and] provides us with a road map to enhance our success through health literacy and cultural competence. This is a must read for all health professionals."-Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS (From the Foreword)17th Surgeon General
... Read more
Analyzing and Conceptualizing the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing

by Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FCAHS, FAAN ...

Delivers all information required for the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing courseBy embracing the major conceptual and theoretical contributions to nursing research that are outside of traditional nursing theory, this book serves as a vital resource for nurse researchers, and one that is indispensable for doctoral nursing students embarking on their dissertations. Containing the full complement ... Read more

£79.55

Delivers all information required for the Theoretical Foundations of Nursing courseBy embracing the major conceptual and theoretical contributions to nursing research that are outside of traditional nursing theory, this book serves as a vital resource for nurse researchers, and one that is indispensable for doctoral nursing students embarking on their dissertations. Containing the full complement
... Read more
Virtual Simulation in Nursing Education

by Randy M. Gordon, DNP, FNP-BC, Dee McGonigle, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN, ANEF ...

Learn best practices for successfully integrating virtual simulation into nursing curriculumWritten for students in nurse educator programs, nursing faculty, and other health care educators, Virtual Simulation in Nursing Education unpacks the necessary tools for successful integration of technology into nursing programs. The benefits of virtual simulation in nursing education are innumerable: less ... Read more

£53.54

Learn best practices for successfully integrating virtual simulation into nursing curriculumWritten for students in nurse educator programs, nursing faculty, and other health care educators, Virtual Simulation in Nursing Education unpacks the necessary tools for successful integration of technology into nursing programs. The benefits of virtual simulation in nursing education are innumerable: less
... Read more
Bioethical Decision Making in Nursing

by Gladys Husted, PhD, MSN, RN, Carrie Scotto, PhD, MSN, RN, Kimberly Wolf, PhD, MS, PMHCNS-BC, James H. Husted ...

FOURTH EDITION NAMED A 2013 DOODY'S CORE TITLE!"This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not clearly defined. This [is] a valuable book for ethics and theory courses." Score: 100, 5 stars--Doody'sMore relevant today than ever, Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a practical framework to ... Read more

£53.54

FOURTH EDITION NAMED A 2013 DOODY'S CORE TITLE!"This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not clearly defined. This [is] a valuable book for ethics and theory courses." Score: 100, 5 stars--Doody'sMore relevant today than ever, Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a practical framework to
... Read more
Health Care System Transformation for Nursing and Health Care Leaders

Implementing a Culture of Caring

by Anne Boykin, PhD, MN, Savina Schoenhofer, PhD, MEd, MN, BSN, Kathleen Valentine, PhD, RN, MS ...

"The authors' approach to creating a transforming culture through use of foundations laid in the theoretical development of "Nursing As Caring" offers a solid foundation upon which to recalibrate and reconfigure toward a caring organizational health system."-Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, FACCWSAssociate Professor, Leadership Scholar, College of Nursing and HealthcareInnovation, Arizona ... Read more

£41.30

"The authors' approach to creating a transforming culture through use of foundations laid in the theoretical development of "Nursing As Caring" offers a solid foundation upon which to recalibrate and reconfigure toward a caring organizational health system."-Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, FACCWSAssociate Professor, Leadership Scholar, College of Nursing and HealthcareInnovation, Arizona
... Read more
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

£56.60

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
Generating Middle Range Theory

From Evidence to Practice

by Callista Roy, PhD, RN, FAAN ...

"As expected, this book is complex but it is also engaging, thought-provoking, and exciting because it helps nurses and other readers think deeply about meeting the needs of patients at their most vulnerable moments. Score: 94, 4 Stars--Doody's Medical ReviewsCallista Roy, one of nursingís leading theorists and creator of the widely used Roy Adaptation Model of Nursing, presents a unique pathway ... Read more

£40.58

"As expected, this book is complex but it is also engaging, thought-provoking, and exciting because it helps nurses and other readers think deeply about meeting the needs of patients at their most vulnerable moments. Score: 94, 4 Stars--Doody's Medical ReviewsCallista Roy, one of nursingís leading theorists and creator of the widely used Roy Adaptation Model of Nursing, presents a unique pathway
... Read more
Fast Facts for Curriculum Development in Nursing

How to Develop & Evaluate Educational Programs in a Nutshell

by Jan L. McCoy, PhD, RN, Marion Anema, PhD, RN ...

Series series Fast Facts
"This new addition to the Fast Facts series is a pithy, quick-access guide for novice nurse educators to the development, revision, and evaluation of programs and curricula that meet the standard requirements of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the NLNAC, and CCNE. Applying the concepts and principles of Systems Theory, the guide moves step-by-step through the development process ... Read more

£26.00

"This new addition to the Fast Facts series is a pithy, quick-access guide for novice nurse educators to the development, revision, and evaluation of programs and curricula that meet the standard requirements of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the NLNAC, and CCNE. Applying the concepts and principles of Systems Theory, the guide moves step-by-step through the development process
... Read more
Writing Winning Proposals for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

by Elizabeth Tornquist, MA, FAAN, Sandra Funk, PhD, FAAN ...

FACILITATES WRITING SUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS OF SUBSTANCE, CLARITY, AND CONVICTIONWith an in-depth focus on writing with substance, clarity, and conviction, this comprehensive resource takes the reader step by step through the entire process of writing and submitting a successful proposal. Written by preeminent authors and educators with extensive experience in teaching proposal and grant writing to ... Read more

£50.48

FACILITATES WRITING SUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS OF SUBSTANCE, CLARITY, AND CONVICTIONWith an in-depth focus on writing with substance, clarity, and conviction, this comprehensive resource takes the reader step by step through the entire process of writing and submitting a successful proposal. Written by preeminent authors and educators with extensive experience in teaching proposal and grant writing to
... Read more
Health Care Finance, Economics, and Policy for Nurses

A Foundational Guide

by Betty Rambur, PhD, RN, FAAN ...

The complexities of health care finance, economics, and policy today are inextricably intertwined with traditional nursing practice. This undergraduate nursing text distills these challenging topics into an engaging, easy-to-read format that facilitates ready application to any practice setting. Written specifically for RN to BSN and second-degree nursing programs, the book is the only such text ... Read more

£48.95

The complexities of health care finance, economics, and policy today are inextricably intertwined with traditional nursing practice. This undergraduate nursing text distills these challenging topics into an engaging, easy-to-read format that facilitates ready application to any practice setting. Written specifically for RN to BSN and second-degree nursing programs, the book is the only such text
... Read more

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Issues eBooks

Show: