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Children's Rights
Policy and Practice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Get up-to-date information on children’s and parent’s rights
Children have a basic human right to be free of abuse and maltreatment. The late Dr. John Pardeck’s Children’s Rights: Policy and Practice, Second Edition comprehensively explores the latest legal, psychological, sociological,...
by Mukti Jain Campion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
In recent years the notion of parenting and parenthood have increasingly come under examination from the media and professionals and, in particular, government and politicians. More and more, parents are being held to account by society for their failure to deliver the sort of citizens it wants. But...
by Amanda Blaber
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This important new book is the first specific text for paramedic students focusing on leadership as a key educational need for all NHS health care practitioners.
by G. Richard Braen
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This manual, part of the best-selling Lippincott® Manual series is the most user-friendly quick-reference available in emergency medicine. In an easy-to-scan outline format with key terms boldfaced, the Manual of Emergency Medicine offers practical guidance for diagnosis and management of all types...
Bariatric Surgery Complications
The Medical Practitioner’s Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This text provides a background of scientific evidence to understand the complications that occur after bariatric surgery for all providers responsible for care after surgical intervention. Written by experts and based on current peer reviewed literature, the text provides a focused approach to the...
Therapeutic Pluralism
Exploring the Experiences of Cancer Patients and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The profile of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has risen dramatically over the last decade and cancer patients represent its most prolific users. As a result, the NHS and UK cancer services are attempting to develop a wider range of therapeutic options for patients. Despite such developments,...
Adoption
Changing Families, Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors; academics and policy makers. Chapters on research and policy...
Childbirth in the Global Village
Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?
Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?
If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?
These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights...
Emergency Laughter
Stories of Humor Inside Ambulances and Operating Rooms
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Mike Cyra takes us on another hilarious grand tour of the strange medical humor in the real-life world of emergency medicine and surgery. Whether he’s assisting trauma surgeons who are singing “Take me out to the ballgame” while removing a well-placed iconic symbol of America’s greatest past...
Reconstruction of Social Work Through Personalisation
The Need for Policy and Practice Shift in Social Care: Family Directed Support Care Systems.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The growing older people population and their increasing needs for care is now presenting significant difficulties to both national government and local authorities because of constriction of formal caregivers and family units. Inevitably a change of this magnitude within the complex system in which...
Fetal Heart Ultrasound - E-Book
How, Why and When
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Fetal Heart Ultrasound, now in its second edition, has been written as a practical guide for the ultrasound examination of the fetal heart. The fetal heart is considered to be the most important and difficult part of a fetal examination. This book aims not only to clarify and simplify the approach...
Safe Haven:
Skills to Calm and De-escalate Aggressive and Mentally Ill Individuals (for Professionals in Inpatient Settings)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders sometimes display any one of a number of frightening behaviors: verbal outbursts, physical threats and even violence. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur walks professionals working in inpatient and residential settings through...
Meaningful Living across the Lifespan
Occupation-Based Intervention Strategies for Occupational Therapists and Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
In this book, Ikiugu and Pollard explore the notion of meaningfulness, in the light of Viktor Frankl's (1992) assertions that the will to meaning is the primary motivation for behavior in human existence, and that the frustration of the pursuit for meaning in the modern and Western world constituted...
Caretakers and Lifesavers
My Memoirs - To Hell and Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book is about my complex, fulfilling life in EMS, Health Care, Medicine and many personal adventures as I can remember them. The stories and presentations are as accurate and as clear as I could portray them without hurting or harming others along the way. Along the way, I have learned so many...