Bøker utgitt av Elsevier Health Sciences

Contains practical guidance about what doing research actually involves for the researcher. This book bridges the gap and provides insight into undertaking research in nursing. It focuses on the practicality of research and identifies the pitfalls that can undermine even the carefully planned project.

Focuses on changing approaches to nursing, encompassing concepts of practice and the ways in which theory is generated and disseminated. This book discusses ways of bringing nursing theory closer to practice, integrating models of theory, practice, research and education. It presents working examples of initiatives in practice, and other areas.

Focuses on diving medicine. This book is useful for doctors and researchers working in the field of diving.

Written from the perspective of a range of health science practitioners, including audiology, dietetics, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy, podiatry, prosthetics and orthotics, radiography, and speech-language pathology, this book aims to be a resource for supervisors to develop their practice grounded in theory and evidence.

Provides information on management and prevention of back pain. This title presents the evidence, and gives practical guidance on how the findings may be applied in everyday practice. It is suitable for those working in the field of musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction.

Introduces and explains acupuncture and related techniques used in the treatment of children. This book, from a pediatrician with experience in acupuncture, introduces important concepts of childhood development that integrate conventional theories with the Traditional Chinese Medicine theories presented in the classic texts.

Provides a multidisciplinary introduction to anatomy and physiology for health professionals and nursing students.

Brings together a collection of the author's papers which, when taken as a whole, address many of the most pressing issues in psychiatric nursing.

A clinical manual that discusses the treatment of 201 diseases with Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture. It discusses aetiology and pathogenesis and emphasises on key points in diagnosis, differentiation of syndrome and treatment, particularly with herbal medicine.

Provides a holistic and balanced view of women's sexual well-being and of the inseparability of physical and mental health. This title is suitable for nurses and other health professionals.

Focuses on the principles of perioperative care in a variety of different surgical environments. The content mirrors the dynamics of modern perioperative practice by focusing on surgical interventions in various environments in which it is practised, including A&E departments, clinics, intensive care units, and at the site of serious accidents.

Midwives play a key role in enhancing relationships between a child and its parents for future well being. This book explores how the pressures inherent in the transition to parenting, and individual and social circumstances may make it difficult for mothers to respond sensitively to their babies' needs.

Includes case studies and scenarios that illustrate how to apply theory to clinical midwifery practice, taking into account society, exploring the causes of violence and focusing on violence in pregnancy and childbirth. This title is useful for midwife and health care professional involved in offering childbearing women care and support.

Presents the foundations of helping or caring rests on the carer's understanding of human behaviour and their skills in facilitating effective interpersonal communication. This book is structured in three sections: intrapersonal dynamics; interpersonal dynamics; and, interpersonal skills.

Presents information about the explicit and implicit assumptions which form the basis of the practice. This title examines the evidence and discusses the application to the clinical setting.

Provides an introduction to paediatric physiotherapy. This book includes chapters on: development of movement and skill; training motor control and optimising motor learning; and, maturational, pathophysiological and recovery processes in the CNS. It is suitable for the student and practitioner physiotherapist.

Provides information on obesity, and brings together the different aspects of obesity from the primary care clincian's point of view. With an emphasis on evidence-based knowledge, this book discusses issues such as the costs of obesity to society and the individual, the role of lifestyle and drug therapies, and surgical management.

A reference for all practitioners dealing with children's soiling problems. It helps the inexperienced practitioner to become more confident in dealing with these clients.

Describes the anatomical knowledge required for the 60 most common general surgical procedures.

Covers a wide range of sports injuries from head to toe, looking at cause, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation. This reference book allows professionals to reach a quick working diagnosis and provides a guide to managing the problem.

Offers an introduction to the care of foot problems in children. This title includes coverage of the general specialist and medical conditions which may influence the course of the podiatric treatment.

Addresses nursing care issues rather than disease processes and therefore looks at issues such as discharge planning, adolescents and cancer, coping strategies for family and staff.

A mononeuropathy has to be recognised through physical examination before it can be treated. This book provides guidance on examination of peripheral nerves, and looks at possible causes, prognosis and treatment. Mononeuropathies of the arm, leg and trunk are covered, and causes of mononeuropathies other than focal lesions are included.

This text aims to assist nurses grasping the complex context of current issues surrounding the process of needs assessment so that they could contribute to the debates and develop their practice appropriately.

Serves as a practical guide to implementing clinical audit in practice. This title introduces and contextualises what clinical audit is and how it fits in with other strategies such as evidence-based practice. It helps readers know how to design, plan and implement a clinical audit project in order to develop patient care.

A practical handbook, which provides an everyday reference for the inexperienced to provide artificial nutrition in a safe and effective manner. It covers the range of factors involved in TPN, patient selection and suitability for TPN, contraindications to patients receiving TPN and the practicalities involved such as line selection.

Addresses issues of importance to practitioners and covers various elements of specialist courses for post-graduate students. This book covers issues such as core elements of public health; nursing elements of public health policy; and, issues in public health. It includes case examples and provides information on health economics and informatics.

Presents massage research. This volume includes studies of massage for: stress, spinal cord injuries, enhancing growth, pain reduction (rheumatoid arthritis, back pain, migraine, and fibromyalgia), pediatrics, the elderly, increasing employee satisfaction (chair massage), enhancing cognition (alertness, autism), and/or immunity (HIV, cancer).

Acupuncture and moxibustion together are the principal therapeutic method of external Chinese medicine. This is an illustrated guide to acupuncture and moxibustion techniques. It describes the tools of the trade and how to use them. Presentation of each needle and moxibustion technique is followed with practical advice on how to use it.