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| Title: | A Short History of a BIG Idea - The Joanna Briggs Institute 1996–2006 - 1st edition |
| This book overviews the establishment of the Joanna Briggs Institute and its rapid development as an international leader in the promotion and facilitation of evidence-based health care. | |
| Authors: | Zoe Jordan, Pauline Donnelly, Elizabeth Pittman |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Aged Care Nursing - 1st edition |
| A very practical, down-to-earth book about caring for older people. It is easy to understand and simple in it's design. Now used as a recommended text across a range of courses. Multi-author and edited for international market. Endorsed by Royal College of Nursing Australia. A best seller. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editors: | Susan Carmody, Sue Forster |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Ageing at Home - Practical Approaches to Community Care - 1st edition |
| A practical and generic book now used across Australia in community aged care. It is very useful and has met with much anecdotal positive feedback. Multi-author and multi-disciplinary authors look at : normal ageing, assessment, incontinence, medications, mental health, Parkinson's disease, dementia etc. | |
| Editor: | Theresa Cluning |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Alcohol Use - 1st edition |
| This book is an in-depth and practical guide to the problems alcohol can cause and the professional interventions that can help. It covers the impact of alcohol on various types of individual and in various circumstances. It explores a variety of perspectives as well as physical, spiritual, social and legal issues. The book outlines the range of problems, shows how they can be identified and examines appropriate approaches from different professional groups. | |
| Authors: | Theresa B Moyers, Terry C Blum, Susan A Storti, Salme Ahlostrom, Richard Velleman, Pip Mason, Paul M Roma, Paul Clenaghan, Olga Maranjian Church, Marjana Martinic, Karin L Anseline, J Aaron Johnson, Ian MacEwan, Hazel E Watson, Eillenn McKee, Douglass Cameron, David Cooper, Anne E Bartu, Alex Paton |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Anatomy & Physiology Made Easy - 1st edition |
| An easy-to-read book presented in full colour with many diagrams. Clearly explains a difficult topic including and introduction to common diseases. Popular in Australia. | |
| Author: | Inderbir Singh |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Approaches to Pain Management - An Essential Guide for Clinical Leaders - 1st edition |
| Clinical leaders in hospital, behavioural health care, ambulatory, long term care and hospice settings describe how they developed and implemented pain management programs to address Joint Commission standards and how they make pain management an integral part of care services. | |
| Editor: | Joint Commission Resources |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Asian Mothers, Western Birth - 2nd edition |
| A useful publication for those who work across cultures to improve care-giving and understanding in maternity services. Covers the topics of Pregnancy, childbirth and childrearing. Multi-author dealing with a difficult topic. | |
| Editor: | Pranee Liamputtong Rice, PhD |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Assertiveness and the Manager's Job - 1st edition |
| This title focuses on how to be assertive in the multi-layered health care system. Very practical book which is popular amongst 'grass-roots' nursing and allied health staff. It is also an ideal tool for managers who work in the caring profession. It analyses the difference between assertion and aggression and how you can ensure your view point is heard and not ignored. Very successful book. | |
| Author: | Annie Phillips |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Assessing - Cognitive, Behavioural, and Emotional Functioning Across the Continuum of Care - 1st edition |
| This book addresses the need to completely assess individuals with emotional and/or cognitive impairment who enter any health care setting for treatment of medical conditions other than their cognitive issues. Settings addressed include hospital, ambulatory health care, long term care, assisted living, and home care, as well as behavioral health care. | |
| Author: | Joint Commission Resources |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Care of Sick Children - 1st edition |
| This title is a guide to 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, unexpectedly becomes unwell. Also available with accompanying 2 hour audio book. Highly reviewed on radio 3LO (ABC). | |
| Series: | A Basic Guide |
| Author: | Gerry Silk |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Caring for People with Problem Behaviours - A basic, practical text for nurses, health workers and others who are learning to manage difficult behaviours. - 2nd edition |
| A best-selling, practical text for nurses and carers. Includes a range of problems associated with mental illness. Also contains many tools for use in the clinical environment. This book has now sold thousands of copies across a range of health care settings. | |
| Authors: | Bernadette Keane, Carolyn Dixon |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Caring For The Person Who Cannot Hear Well - 1st edition |
| Series: | Continuing Education Series |
| Author: | Adrian M. Prophet |
| Status: | Out of print |
| Title: | Caring for the Person with Faecal Incontinence - A Compassionate Approach to Management - 2nd edition |
| This revised edition contains a useful bowel assessment chart, tips on skin care and assistance with dementia sufferers. Useful handbook. | |
| Authors: | Karen Cavarra, Andrea Prentice, Cynthea Wellings, Janette Williams |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Communicating with Dying People and their Relatives - 1st edition |
| This book assists health professionals to communicate better with those who are terminally ill. A good guide for sensitive and compassionate care. Sold extensively to nurses who work in aged care, although its relevance is clearly beyond this sector. Easy-to-read and grasp key concepts. | |
| Author: | Jean Lugton |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Communication and the Manager's Job - 1st edition |
| This book should be on the shelf of every manager. It will serve as a handy reference point for undertaking staff appraisal, mediating in partnership disputes, or improving communication between staff and patients. Includes many useful tools which will improve communication across a range of situations. | |
| Author: | Annie Phillips |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery - from vision to practice - 1st edition |
| A remarkable book that clarifies the role of complementary therapies in nursing practice. Multi-author. Topics include: developing clinical practice guidelines, legal and ethical issues, careers and opportunities, nutrition, aromatherapy, massage, relaxation, therapeutic touch and healing touch, music therapy and nursing and the role of animals. | |
| Editor: | Pauline McCabe |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Contracted Staff And Patient Safety - 1st edition |
| Thie title offers practical tools and valuable lessons to effectively hire, orient, train, and work with contracted staff while maintaining high standards of patient safety! | |
| Author: | Joint Commission Resources |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Counselling and Interviewing for Carers - 1st edition |
| This book assumes that readers have no formal training in medicine, nursing, psychology or counseling. Technical jargon has been kept to a minimum. All readers, no matter what their professional background, can pick up this book with confidence, knowing that hey will be able to follow what is being said. Looks at a range of common mental illnesses and describes how to care for people with distressing symptoms associated with these conditions. | |
| Series: | A Basic Guide |
| Author: | Hugh Irons |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Dementia Nursing - 1st edition |
| This evidenced-based book empowers nurses and other health professionals with the latest knowledge and best clinical practice in dementia care. Comprising 24 chapters it is written by a very wide range of authors. Highly reviewed book. Endorsed by Royal College of Nursing Australia. Also available with accompanying 2 hour audio book. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editor: | Rosalie Hudson |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Doing More With Less: - Lean Thinking and Patient safety in Health Care - 1st edition |
| "Lean thinking" is a Japanese quality improvement methodology first used in manufacturing, but is now being introduced into many other fields. Its unique focus is on removing waste in a production or service process to improve operating efficiency and product value to the customer. Lean thinking has now made its way into health care and is receiving increasing attention in that arena. | |
| Author: | Joint Commission Resources |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | ECG Made Easy - 2nd edition |
| Very popular handbook which contains many illustrations and the rationale behind ECG interpretation. Includes a CD ROM with photo images of rhythms. | |
| Author: | Atul Luthra |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | ECG Made Easy - 3rd edition |
| Author: | Atul Luthra |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Echo Made Easy - 1st edition |
| Handbook which explains how to interpret ECHO. Useful handbook ideal for GPs and others who work with ECHO technology. | |
| Author: | Atul Luthra |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Ethics in Health Care - 1st edition |
| Authors: | S A Pera, S Van Tonder |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Evidence-based Management - 1st edition |
| This title explores how the established principles of evidence-based clinical practice can be applied in modern nursing and medical management. It is an essential guide for those who have managerial responsibilies. | |
| Author: | Rosemary Stewart |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Frontline Defense - The role of Nurses preventing Sentinel Events - 2nd edition |
| Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, this book focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential sentinel events. Topics include preventing medication and transfusion errors, as well as preventing suicide, falls, and treatment delays. | |
| Author: | Joint Commission Resources |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Fundamentals of Research Methodology for Health Care Professionals - 2nd edition |
| Author: | Hilla Brink |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Gastrostomy Care - 1st edition |
| This is an essential publication for all health professionals who work with people who have gastrostomies. It is a multi-author book, edited specifically for international markets. It is easy-to-read and very practical with many illustrations. It also broaches the difficult topic of withdrawal of parenteral feeding. Also available with accompanying 2 hour audio book. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editor: | Catherine Barrett |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Geriatric Medicine - A pocket guide for doctors, nurses, other health professionals and students - 2nd edition |
| Written by five Geriatricians from Australia and New Zealand, this book has been a useful as well as best-selling book. It gives concise information about the common causes of disease in the elderly and practical care and therapeutic guidelines. Low cost and very helpful medical book. | |
| Authors: | David Fonda, Wendy Busby, Ron Scholes, Michael Woodward, Len Gray |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Gynaecological Cancer Care - 1st edition |
| Excellent, highly reviewed Australian book written by 28 key health professionals from around the world. All authors are female. Gives very practical information about contemporary care. Also available with accompanying 2 hour audio book. Topics include: ovarian, endometrial, cervical, vulval cancers as well as the rarer cancers that affect women. Edited specifically for an international market. This book is relevant to those who work in the UK, North America and other countries. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editors: | Kathryn Nattress, Tish Lancaster |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Healing Words - The power of apology in medicine - 2nd edition |
| This is the book physicians and health-care professionals need to be reading to learn what patients and families want after adverse events. The author has done a great job synthesizing the important issues surrounding apology and disclosure. | |
| Author: | Michael S. Woods, M.D. |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Helping the Patient with Advanced Disease - A Workbook - 1st edition |
| Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of palliative care. This book provides an essential resource which will arm health professionals, carers and teams with the knowledge and skills needed in their daily work. | |
| Author: | Claud Regnard |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | How Drugs Work - Basic pharmacology for healthcare professionals - 1st edition |
| This book provides a clear and interesting understanding of drug absorption, action, metabolism, excretion and adverse reactions. It equips readers with a set of clear concepts on which to base their medication practice. As well, it is an invaluable text for educating staff about minimising clinical risk. | |
| Author: | Hugh McGavock |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Infection Control in Residential Aged Care, Practical Approaches to - 2nd edition |
| This book is an essential guide to infection control for all staff engaged in residential aged care and a wide range of other care settings. Endorsed by Royal College of Nursing Australia. Now in a 2nd edition it remains a core text. The author is a popular teacher who works for Barwon Health. He is well known and highly regarded by infection control nurses throughout Australia. | |
| Author: | Kevin J. Kendall |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Infectious Diseases in Children - A Clinical Guide for Nurses - 1st edition |
| A best-selling book written by an experienced nurse offers relevant information about infectious diseases. A quick and easy reference guide. | |
| Author: | Tara Walker |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Issues In Human Resources For Hospitals - 1st edition |
| The book offers numerous real-life forms and checklists, sample policies and procedures, and proven tactics and techniques any organization can employ to help overcome common challenges. This book will help any hospital move ahead of the pack in improving staff competence. | |
| Author: | Joint Commission Resources |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Keeping in Touch - with someone who has Alzheimer's - 1st edition |
| This title offers a recourse for both professional carers and family members to assist in the nurturing of people with dementia. It explains how a 'line' of communication can be maintained with a person who is seemingly in another reality. This book looks at the broad use of communication and ways of keeping in touch with a person who suffers from dementia. | |
| Author: | Jane Crisp |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Living Dying Caring - Life and Death in a Nursing Home - 1st edition |
| An intelligent book that looks at reflective care of older persons. Based on the practical experiences within a nursing home, it offers reflections on relationships, particularly at the time of a residents death. Beautifully written and ideal for those who enjoy and get much reward from working with older people. | |
| Authors: | Jennifer Richmond, Rosalie Hudson |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Living in a New Country: Understanding Migrants' Health - 1st edition |
| The title looks at what happens to the health of people who migrate from other countries. Multi-author. Topics include: reproductive and physical health; mental health concerns; young people and public health, heroin and the Vietnamese community, migrating in old age, infant feeding patterns, public health concerns etc. | |
| Editor: | Pranee Liamputtong Rice, PhD |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Lymphoedema - 1st edition |
| Lymphoedema is a profoundly debilitating condition which can respond well to good professional management practices. Written by a wide range of disciplines, this book provides vital information about lymphoedema for health care professionals. It thoroughly reviews this important yet often neglected area of care. The book contains many illustrations as well as much practical information. This book should be on every health professionals bookshelf. | |
| Editors: | Robert Twycross, Karen Jones, Jacquelyne Todd |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Making Sense of Risk Management - A Workbook for Primary Care - 2nd edition |
| This titles tells you about the fundamentals of risk management, clinical governance, law and ethics. Easy-to-read and very practical. | |
| Authors: | Dr Paul Lambden, Roy Lilley |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Nurse Managers - 1st edition |
| This book is an innovative and practical text that fulfils a previously unmet need. It provides the evidence-based practical advice that nurse managers need. Includes many authors from a range of countries. The book has proven to be a best-seller in Australia and the US. Editor of book is UK trained as are several of the authors. Also available with accompanying 2 hour audio book for enhanced and speedy learning. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editor: | Andrew Crowther |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Nurse Managers - 2nd edition |
| An international team of experienced nurses has again crafted a range of practical, eminently readable chapters that offer practical advice and ideas for the nurse manager. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editor: | Dr Andrew Crowther |
| Status: | Forthcoming |
| Title: | Nursing Dictionary - 2nd edition |
| Low cost and effective nursing dictionary. Contains more than 700 pages. Small size means it is easily portable. Gives quick information. Two colour forma with illustrations. | |
| Editor: | U. N. Panda |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Nursing Documentation - Writing What We Do - 1st edition |
| Very popular text. This is a book for nurses who care about what they write. Suitable for general nurses as well as those in long term care. Multi-author. | |
| Editor: | Jennifer Richmond |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Nursing Documentation in Aged Care - 1st edition |
| This title shows how nursing assessments, care plans and progress notes enable nurses to share their skills and communicate professionally. Best-selling book which focuses entirely on documentation of elderly care. Ideal for residential care settings. Also available with accompanying 2 hour audio book. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editors: | Christine Crofton, Gaye Witney |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Nursing the Person with Cancer - A book for all nurses - 1st edition |
| Relevant to all nurses. Includes: ethical issues, communication, cancer pain, palliative care, multi-culturism, caregiver support. Sold extensively throughout Australia. | |
| Editor: | Gordon Poulton |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Palliative Care And Aged Care - 1st edition |
| This book focuses on end-of-life issues specific to the needs of the elderly. An excellent evidence-based book written by two high profile Australian professorial nurses who are highly respected for their knowledge and actions. Ideal for managers working in aged care as well as those who actually deliver palliative care. Includes many practice issues. Australia is renowned as a centre of excellence for palliative care which is integrated throughout the health care system. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Authors: | Professor Margaret O’Connor, Dr Rosalie Hudson |
| Status: | Forthcoming |
| Title: | Palliative Care Nursing - 2nd edition |
| This publication is ideal for ALL nurses who care for people who are dying. A recommended text in many nursing courses. Evidence-based and person centred. Very popular title. Multi-author book. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editors: | Margaret O'Connor, Sanchia Aranda |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Patients as Partners - How to Involve Patients and Families in Their Own Care - 1st edition |
| A production of the Joint Commission Resources. This book gives useful advice from experts in the field about how to create a culture of safety in the healthcare workplace. Informs caregivers about methods for improving communication with patients and families and healthcare providers. | |
| Author: | Joint Commission Resources |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Promoting Men's Health - an essential book for nurses - 1st edition |
| Men continue to die younger than women and their health needs are arguably different. This book, written by a range of health care professionals examines some of the issues surrounding men and their health. | |
| Editor: | Tom Laws |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients - A Health Professional's Guide for What to Say and Do - 1st edition |
| Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients: A Health Professional's Guide for What to Say and Do developed out of a desire to support and guide health professionals to provide compassionate, high-level psychosocial care to all those affected by cancer. | |
| Editors: | Dr Katharine Hodgkinson, Dr Jemma Gilchrist |
| Status: | Forthcoming |
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| Title: | Renal Nursing - A Practical Approach - 1st edition |
| This practical Australian book assists in the development of high quality renal care. Addresses a wide range of renal diseases. Ideal for both specialised and general nurses. | |
| Author: | Bobbee Terrill |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Rethinking Dementia - an Australian approach - 1st edition |
| An easy to read title that has some practical suggestions on ways on working with people with dementia. Those carers who wish to delve further very comprehensive end note are provided. | |
| Editors: | Sally Garratt, Elery Hamilton-Smith |
| Status: | Out of print |
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| Title: | Spirituality - The Heart of Nursing - 1st edition |
| Important Australian text written by a range of health professionals. Looks at the spiritual side of nursing although it is not a religious text. 2nd Edition currently under consideration. | |
| Editor: | Professor Susan Ronaldson |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Strategies For Building A Hospitalwide Culture Of Safety - 1st edition |
| Strategies for Building a Hospital wide Culture of Safety provides guidance for senior leaders on how to create a culture of safety in their organization and how to support safe practices. | |
| Editor: | Allan S. Frankel, M.D. |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | The Midwife and the Bereaved Family - 1st edition |
| All midwifes need to own this book. It looks extensively at the profoundly distressing issues surrounding the death of a baby. Covers miscarriage, death of twins etc. Author is a midwife based in South Australia. | |
| Author: | Jane Warland |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | The Vulva & Vagina Manual - 1st edition |
| Authors: | David Allen, Graeme Dennerstein, Grazia Marin, James Scurry, John Brenan |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Thinking Management: Focusing on People - Contemporary Approaches for Nurse Managers - 1st edition |
| Editor: | Jean Anderson |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Understanding Medication Management - In your Health Care Organisation - 1st edition |
| This new book is a practical tool for international health care organizations seeking to improve their medication management processes and reduce medication errors. The book includes forms, checklists, case studies, and strategies. | |
| Author: | Joint Commission Resources |
| Status: | Published |
| Title: | Urinary Incontinence - 1st edition |
| Authors: | Cynthea Wellings, David Fonda |
| Status: | Published |
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| Title: | Wound Care Nursing - 1st edition |
| A best-selling book about modern wound management. All nurses need to keep up-to-date about contemporary wound management and the use of appropriate dressings. This multi-author, Australian book enables nurses to quickly learn about best-practice and evidence-based wound care. Also available with accompanying 2 hour audio book for speedy learning. | |
| Series: | A Guide to Practice |
| Editor: | Sue Templeton |
| Status: | Published |