Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Handbook

Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Handbook
Author: Jackie Carnell
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781857753714

A practical manual covering all issues regarding the health service. It highlights the way that all community practitioners can contribute to primary care groups and is written specifically from the health visitor's and community nurse's viewpoint.

The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community

The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community
Author: Ben Y.F. Fong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2021-08-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000427447

Community health is an emerging and growing discipline of public health and it focuses on the physical, social, and mental well-being of the people of specific districts. This interdisciplinary field brings together aspects of health care, economics, environment, and people interaction. This handbook is a comprehensive reference on public health for higher education students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers of health care. There are five key thematic sections in the book: perspectives in public health; community health in practise; planning, built, and social environment and community health; digital and mobile health; and, towards sustainable health in the community. Each theme explores the leading research and trends. This book aims to help achieve the shared goal of healthier communities and quality of life for the residents. This collaborative work should be a very useful handbook to health professionals and government bodies in the planning of initiatives to improve population health, prevent chronic diseases, control infectious diseases and outbreaks, and prepare for natural disasters. This handbook integrates research and practise of public health in the community.

The Child Surveillance Handbook

The Child Surveillance Handbook
Author: David M. B. Hall
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1994
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781870905244

'In which occupation are you?' 'From how long have you been smoking?' 'Do you take any alcohol/drinks?' All overseas qualified doctors who apply for registration in the UK must satisfy the General Medical Council that they have the necessary knowledge of English by obtaining a satisfactory score in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) examination. This interactive workbook provides a wide range of questions and answers on this subject containing specific medical sections to address the common problems and pitfalls relating to vocabulary and fluency in everyday medical consultations. Overseas qualified doctors needing to take the IELTS examination in order to be eligible for the GMC PLAB examination which is required for practice in the UK will find this book essential for their study.

Oxford Handbook of Prescribing for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

Oxford Handbook of Prescribing for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
Author: Sue Beckwith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2011-05-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199575819

This new edition is fully revised to provide concise, practical, and expert advice for the non-medical prescriber. Intended for all levels, it covers basic pharmacology, legal parameters, safe and effective prescribing and common conditions. Written by experienced nurse prescribers, it contains a wealth of guidance and information.

The Evaluation Handbook for Health Professionals

The Evaluation Handbook for Health Professionals
Author: Anne Lazenbatt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002-04-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1134536658

This easy-to-use handbook is a useful resource for all health professionals engaged in processes of evaluation in a variety of contexts within the world of healthcare. Encouraging an evidence-based approach to practice, it provides: * guidelines on how to design and evaluate an intervention * examples of good practice * reliable and easy-to-use measures * advice on how to work effectively. Designed to prompt self-evaluation and group project evaluation, it illustrates how simple evaluation methods can help to break down the divisions between research and practice. It shows how more practitioners can apply such methods to improve the quality of care as well as the treatments and services which they offer their patients and clients. The examples, drawn from clinical settings, community practice and work in the voluntary sector, demonstrate the kind of evaluation that can be undertaken by a small-scale team or a single practitioner with limited resources. The Evaluation Handbook will be a useful source of reference for those new to evaluation as well as more experienced managers and researchers.

Practice Nurse Handbook

Practice Nurse Handbook
Author: Gillian Hampson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0470777605

There have been major advances in practice nursing in recent years, and a rapid expansion in the role of the practice nurse. The Practice Nurse Handbook is an essential guide to all aspects of clinical practice, health promotion, and practice management, for nurses in general practice. The handbook includes chapters on common medical conditions, screening tests, sexual health, mental health, chronic disease management, travel health, immunisations, and emergency situations. It addresses legal issues, changes in primary care, nurse prescribing and covers key issues in team working. Each chapter contains suggestions for reflection on practice and presents the underlying evidence base. The fifth edition of the Practice Nurse Handbook has been revised and updated to include the latest policy developments, including the National Service Frameworks, changes to the GP contract, information on primary care organisations, Quality and Outcomes Frameworks and new roles for practice nurses

Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice

Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice
Author: Sue Chilton
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1444114158

Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice is an introductory textbook for professionals and students who have chosen a career in community health care nursing. The book gives comprehensive coverage of the full range of professional issues, such as personal safety and the environment, in addition to public health, health promotion and family health nursing. This user-friendly text provides clear guidelines on how to transfer skills from the hospital/ acute setting to the community. In addition, it fully reflects current government health, social policy, the implications for the roles and responsibilities of the community health care nurse, and aims to support a trainee/new practitioner to function safely and effectively in the full range of community settings.

Communication Difficulties in Childhood

Communication Difficulties in Childhood
Author: James Law
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2000
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9781857750980

This text addresses the practical issues of communications problems in children from a background of the underlying neurophysiological mechanics that cause them. It deals with clinical presentations, surveillance management and outcomes in terms which health care professionals will recognize.

The Doctor's Handbook

The Doctor's Handbook
Author: Tony White
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2010
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1846194598

Previously published as The Specialist Registrar and New Consultant Handbook, these completely revised and reconfigured volumes reflect the changing everyday work of specialist trainees, registrars and consultants. The two volumes of The Doctors Handbook are an essential reference for all doctors, from specialist trainees to consultants.

Caring for Muslim Patients

Caring for Muslim Patients
Author: Aziz Sheikh
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2000
Genre: Cross-cultural studies
ISBN: 9781857753721

Offers practical advice to enable all healthcare professionals in hospitals and in the community to provide care in a culturally appropriate manner.