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Nursing Documentation: Writing What We D...o
eBook
Published: 1997
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, documentati...on 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.
Keeping in Touch With Someone Who Has Al...zheimer's
eBook
Published: 2000
Contrary to popular belief, we can retain close connections to our loved ones with dementia. This book is a joy to read and a resource to dip into for ideas about how you, the family member or profess...ional carer, can celebrate and value the lives of those who have dementia.
Gynaecological Cancer Care: A Guide to P...ractice
eBook
Published: 2005
Gynecological cancers represent the second most common group of cancer and the most common cause of cancer deaths in women. This Ausmed textbook teaches the art of caring for women experiencing these ...cancers. This book has the capacity to enable a very real difference to be made to the lives of women who may be diagnosed with gynecological cancers from a person-centered perspective.
Gastrostomy Care: A Guide to Practice
eBook
Published: 2004
Gastrostomy care is a complex topic. This book will greatly assist in understanding the care needs of a person with a gastrostomy tube, provide guidance in managing those needs appropriately, and assi...st people to make informed choices about their tube feeding.
Dementia Nursing: A Guide to Practice
eBook
Published: 2003
Dementia nursing has an important role to play in addressing urgent present-day issues and in planning for the future. It is founded on well-practiced assessment skills and the choice of skilled inter...ventions for all of a person’s physical needs—based on the best available evidence and an ability to evaluate the outcome.
Caring for the Person With Faecal Incont...inence: A Compassionate Approach to Management
eBook
Published: 1998
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 nur...sing 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.
Counselling and Interviewing for Carers:... A Basic Guide
eBook
Published: 2006
Counseling 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. Hi...ghly recommended for all nurses who interact with staff and colleagues on a regular basis.
Complementary Therapies in Nursing and M...idwifery: From Vision to Reality
eBook
Published: 2001
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 r...elaxation, 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 Behaviour...s
eBook
Published: 2001
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 wi...ll 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.
Care of Sick Children: A Basic Guide
eBook
Published: 2006
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 - New Editi...on
eBook
Published: 1999
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.
Ageing at Home: Practical Approaches to ...Community Care
eBook
Published:
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 t...hem. 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.
Aged Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice
eBook
Published: 2003
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 empow...er such nurses. Aged Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice is written by clinicians for clinicians.
End Matter
eChapter  End Matter
Added: 05/04/2012
From: Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice - 3rd Edition
This chapter includes the index to the third edition of Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice. This new edition has been thoroughly updated, rewritten and revised. It offers nurses and healthca...re professionals an evidence-based approach to providing better care for people in palliative care and for those who love and support them.
Prelims
eChapter  Prelims
Added: 05/04/2012
From: Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice - 3rd Edition
This chapter includes the preliminary information found in, and relating to, the third edition of Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice. This new edition has been thoroughly updated, rewritten ...and revised. It offers nurses and healthcare professionals an evidence-based approach to providing better care for people in palliative care and for those who love and support them.
Paediatric Palliative Care
eChapter  21
Added: 05/04/2012
From: Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice - 3rd Edition
This chapter provides an overview of the issues involved in child and adolescent palliative care. It explores the various illness trajectories experienced by children and the wide range of health and ...psychosocial issues for the child and their family in the process of dying. It also offers strategies that can be used in a comprehensive approach to care. This chapter also offers case studies and a comprehensive reference list.
Palliative Care in the Acute Hospital Sy...stem
eChapter  20
Added: 05/04/2012
From: Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice - 3rd Edition
This chapter looks at how acute hospitals are focusing on the care of people with acute needs and those with reversible exacerbations of chronic illness. It discusses palliative care consult services ...and integrated care pathways. This chapter also offers case studies and a comprehensive reference list.
Ageing, Dementia and Palliative Care
eChapter  19
Added: 05/04/2012
From: Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice - 3rd Edition
This chapter focuses on the palliative care needs of older people, which are often more complex than those of younger people, and specifically the palliative care needs of people living with dementia.... This chapter also offers case studies and a comprehensive reference list.
Palliative Care in Chronic Illness
eChapter  18
Added: 05/04/2012
From: Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice - 3rd Edition
This chapter focuses on the issues involved in providing a palliative approach to care for individuals with chronic life-threatening illnesses. It provides a discussion of the issues surrounding the n...eed for an integrated, palliative approach to chronic illness. This chapter also offers case studies and a comprehensive reference list.
Understanding Grief and Bereavement in t...he Palliative Care Setting
eChapter  17
Added: 05/04/2012
From: Palliative Care Nursing: A Guide to Practice - 3rd Edition
This chapter outlines a number of ‘understandings’ in relation to grief and bereavement and how these may be applied in a clinical setting. It will equip nurses to facilitate the narrative and sup...port the people in their care to begin creating meaning around their experience. There are also a number of tools included that may be adapted for an individual client base, case studies and a comprehensive reference list.

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