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By offering a new way of seeing and dealing with people with dementia, this book can help to make life easier and more pleasant for people with dementia (who make up between 60 and 80 per cent of nursing-home clientele) and for the staff who care for them, for whom this book is written.

Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice 2nd Edition addresses palliative care from a nursing perspective, and will assist nurses in a variety of settings to care for people and their families with confidence and competence. Written in the main by nurses, the book presents the expertise that the contributing authors have gathered over many years of practical experience in clinical practice, backed by extensive research and an awareness of the relevant nursing and medical literature.

By reading the chapters in this book, the nurse will be exposed to refreshing perspectives on the cancer experience. The ideas raised in the book can be reflected on and discussed with colleagues for further development. The practical suggestions from many authors can be integrated into the practice of specialist and generalist alike, to improve the quality of nursing care for the person with cancer.

Documentation is a wonderful opportunity to record and reflect upon all that is good in nursing. In addition to their ethical and professional responsibilities, caring nurses are aware of the personal satisfaction to be gained from documenting their holistic and reflective nursing practice. This book shows how nursing assessments, care plans, and progress notes can allow nurses to share their knowledge, observations, and skills. This is more than a ‘how-to do-it’ workbook. With contributions from a range of experts, this comprehensive evidence-based textbook explores the issues surrounding documentation and reveals the importance of professional communication within multidisciplinary teams.

The process of documenting and recording nursing care has reached a new art form with the use of specially designed forms, integrated patient records and computer technology. In this book, documentation takes on a new value and new meaning as it reveals not only how nurses write but how they obtain information on which to base the care and services they provide as well as the quality of that care. It has much to offer to the practising nurse, the nurse academic or the casual reader. It provides useful and meaningful insights into the progress of the nursing profession over the last twenty years.

Jane Crisp writes, in an easy-to-read fashion, about the way she kept in touch with the mother she loved and valued. She gives practical ideas for how we can involve someone we love in our daily activities even when popular opinion would throw them on the scrap heap. This book is a joy to read and a resource to dip into for ideas about how you, the family member or the professional carer, can celebrate and value the lives of those who have dementia.

As another volume in Ausmed's acclaimed 'Guide to Practice' series, Gynaecological Cancer Care: A Guide to Practice provides expert, practical, anthropocentric, evidence-based advice for all those who care for women with these diseases. Every respective author of the twenty two chapters is a clinical expert in her field, and this has ensured that current research knowledge and clinical expertise come together to provide readers with comprehensive, relevant guidance for the professional care of women with gynaecological cancer.

This book draws primarily on the clinical expertise of health professionals working with people who have gastrostomy tubes. The chapter authors include experienced nurses, speech therapists, dietitians, and doctors. This wealth of practical clinical experience is enhanced with appropriate reference to the published literature—particularly with respect to issues that are contentious or poorly understood.

Dementia Nursing: A Guide to Practice is written primarily for nurses who have twenty-four hour responsibility for the care of people with dementia in the context of residential aged care. The book will also be valuable for doctors, allied health professionals, personal-care workers, volunteers, families, and carers of people with dementia in a variety of settings. It will empower them all with practical strategies for clinical management and will encourage reflective care in which they enter into the experience of the person with dementia. Dementia nursing depends on partnerships with a variety of people. The book therefore provides knowledge and encouragement for all members of a team of care who support and accompany the person with dementia.

Caring for the Person with Faecal Incontinence will assist nurses to understand the principles behind a compassionate and effective approach to the management of faecal incontinence. The suggested nursing management strategies will be of use in a wide range of practice settings, including the community and residential aged care. In addition, nurse-readers will be encouraged to further explore the issues relating to the problem of faecal incontinence by accessing material in the reference list at the end of the book.

As the second volume in Ausmed's new 'Basic Guide' series, Counselling and Interviewing for Carers: A Basic Guide provides valuable information on fundamental counselling skills to everyone who cares; whatever their situation and professional background. The book assumes that readers have no formal training in medicine, nursing, psychology, or counselling. Technical jargon has been deliberately kept to a minimum. All readers, no matter what their professional background, can pick up this book with confidence, knowing that they will be able to follow what is being said. Counselling and Interviewing for Carers: A Basic Guide is written for all those who want to enhance their caring skills and thus improve the emotional and psychological health of people in distress.

The therapies described in this book include nutrition, aromatherapy, relaxation techniques, music therapy, pet therapy, therapeutic touch and massage. They can be used in nursing practice to induce relaxation, help create a healing environment, increase comfort, reduce pain and address troublesome symptoms. However, they also have a role in empowering both nurses and patients to maintain their own health. Also significant is the improved professional satisfaction that often accompanies advanced nursing practice in complementary care.

Caring for People with Problem Behaviours aims to assist nurses and other health workers and carers to learn practical approaches to people who present with difficult behaviours. In fact, this book will be of assistance to any workers whose jobs require them to deal with people. Overall, this book is a basic, practical text for nurses, health workers and others who are learning to manage difficult and challenging behaviours.

As the first volume in Ausmed's new 'Basic Guide' series, Care of Sick Children: A Basic Guide provides expert, practical, child-centred advice for parents and carers who care for children. The book assumes that readers have no formal medical or nursing knowledge and technical jargon has been deliberately kept to a minimum. All readers, no matter what their professional background, can pick up this book with confidence, knowing that they will be able to follow what is being said. Care of Sick Children: A Basic Guide is for all those parents and carers who have felt the anxiety of not knowing what they should do when a previously well child in their care is suddenly injured, or unexpectedly becomes ill.

Asian Mothers, Western Birth is a collection of papers which document the perceptions and experiences of childbearing and childrearing of women from Asian backgrounds — Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Hmong, Cambodian, Malaysian, Chinese and others who are now living in a Western country, Australia. Asian Mothers, Western Birth is a second edition of Asian Mothers, Australian Birth, written by a number of women and published by Ausmed Publications in Melbourne, Australia, in 1994. Asian Mothers, Western Birth has been written because of the recognition that the need for health care professionals to be sensitive and to understand the childbirth experiences of women in different cultures applies not only in Australia, but also in any country where people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds come to live together as a society, say, the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom.

This book is an ambitious attempt to bring together information about the many different types of services currently available and accessible to people in their own home, and what can be expected of them. A perpetual dilemma faced by the service provider in whatever skill area is the need to recognise the opportunities open to encourage the further ‘ripening’ of the older person … in the face of what may be judged as decreasing abilities.

The aged population has grown markedly throughout the world, but there is a shortage of experienced nurses with expertise in the holistic care of the elderly. This book is written to inspire and empower such nurses. Aged Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice is written by clinicians for clinicians. The inclusion of evidence-based and outcome-based practices throughout the book ensures that all readers, be they novices or experts, will have a reliable and comprehensive reference to guide their practice. Each author is a recognised expert in his or her subject area, and all present their topics with a focus that is practical, rather than academic. Available as textbook alone or as audiobook–textbook package.

Some infections are inevitable in an environment where frail people live in close proximity. Many older people have extra vulnerability to infections and lower defences due to depressed immune systems. This interesting session explores whether low-grade infections are more rife in some facilities and the reasons why this may be the case.

When it comes to the issue of infection control, there are a number of benchmarks used to determine the effectiveness of workplace standards. One measure of quality that is easily determined relates to the cleanliness of a facility. This lecture explores these issues from the perspective of a designated infectious disease auditor.

There is an increased emphasis in dementia care to critically examine practice and ensure it complies with national standards. This lecture will look at established benchmarks that describe what is considered best- practice dementia care. It will assist you to reflect on your own care deliverables relating to this difficult and complex area of care.