Bøker av Ruth Chambers

Helps you to sustain your energy in gathering and reviewing evidence of your day-to-day performance at work so that you are recertified and relicensed with ease, whatever future revisions are made to the revalidation process.

A practical workbook for general practice. It takes readers on a path from becoming aware of what causes stress at work and home, to enhancing their careers and developing further as people and professionals. It also explains how to manage stress better, be assertive, and manage time.

Contains tips and words of advice covering various stages in publishing including proposals, selection of authors, writing, editing, finding the right publisher, managing other authors, self discipline, marketing, and finance.

The Children's National Service Framework sets standards for children's and young people's services, outlining what support should be available to children and their parents in managing and preventing a wide range of conditions and problems.

This working manual has been developed to ensure that all health professionals involved in immunization will be both knowledgable about procedures and confident about their benefits

This updated and revised second edition contains website details and updated contact details and is now relevant for hospitals as well as for primary care. It ties in with new responsibilities under clinical governance and health improvement programmes, and contains numerous practical tips.

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book shows how to integrate quality improvements into everyday work. It outlines how learning more about mental health and reviewing current practice can be incorporated into personal development or practice learning plans.

Reflects the emphasis on evaluation and audit of clinical care and services provided by individual practitioners, practice teams and Trusts. This work addresses the evolution of systems for monitoring performance in Trusts with the establishment of the Healthcare Commission and the coordination of regulation bodies through Healthcare Concordat.

Outlines what you need to know for writing successful bids and tenders. This work provides tips and introduces ideas for building up contacts, setting up networks, organising potential collaborators and avoiding pitfalls. It also includes examples of successful and not-so-successful bids to illustrate the concepts.

Designed for independent learning, with answers to frequently asked questions, self-assessment exercises and tips, this work is suitable for healthcare professionals in leadership roles. It also provides inspiration for academics and workplace educators, managers and leaders in government, strategic health authorities and workforce deaneries.

This book presents a wide variety of games, activities and techniques that any teacher, tutor or team leader can use to help others learn. Each of the chapters has a short introduction followed by several exercises that are interactive, fun and will reinforce learning in knowledge, skills and attitudes.

A guide to managing infertility. It outlines the risks and implications of the various infertility treatments, providing information about best practice in this complex field. It also addresses the costs and availability of fertility treatment, along with organizations' contact details.