This innovative book links humanities themes to clinical practice, using patients’ and health professionals’ stories to invite self-discovery and recognition of universal human experiences. This unique and accessible text is suitable for all those studying to become health professionals, on bot..

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Chan, Ngok, and Fong address the dearth of comparative studies on carers’ policies in Asia by analysing rapid socio-economic changes and rising caregiving demands in six East Asian societies, including China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. 

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When it was originally published in 1986, this book was one of the few to be written on social skills and mental health specifically for nurses. Yet it is nurses who are uniquely placed to improve the skills of those with mental illness since it is they who often have most contact with patients..

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The acquisition of professional interpersonal skills remains one of the key skills in the practice of nursing. Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1994, this established book maintains that social skills can be learnt, and that patient care can improve by anticipating and pr..

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Originally published in 1983, this book provides a revealing and comprehensive perspective on nurse education in the 20^th Century. The opening chapters look at the students themselves: the sort of people who come into nursing and it examines why the drop-out rate is high and how real..

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Originally published in 1988, this book presents an argument, based on contemporary literature and on the practice in the former Burford and Oxford nursing development units, to support the introduction of primary nursing and nursing beds in general hospitals. 

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Originally published in 1983 this book examines the beginnings of the nursing profession in its present form through one generation of general hospital nurses, Voluntary and Poor Law based, who were recruited and trained between 1881 and 1914. As such, they were the first to go through a co-ord..

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When this book was originally published in 1980, the speciality of occupational health nursing was only just beginning to be recognised by the nursing profession and the public. This book, considers topics and concepts that give the specialism its unique character.

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Originally published in 1974, this book helps nurses to a deeper understanding of those whom they are learning to serve. The author explains the relevance of sociology to contemporary nursing, showing that patients cannot be properly treated without knowing something about the families upon who..

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In recent years there has been a growth in interest in the history of nursing, both from nurses themselves, and on the part of historians and sociologists. Originally published in 1987 this book presents some of the most interesting work in this field from authors in Britain, the USA and Austra..

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