This is the authoritative guide to prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines for all healthcare professionals. Nobody working in healthcare can afford to be without the latest edition of "BNF". Compiled with the advice of clinical experts and continually updated to reflect the latest evidence from all credible sources worldwide, this essential reference provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing, dispensing, administering, and monitoring medicines.
Considering ethical cases and concerns of nurses working in an Irish context, relating them to the Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives and Irish law, this title analyses ethical issues including: autonomy, truth-telling, advocacy, confidentiality, informed consent, abortion, assisted human reproduction, death and dying, withdrawal of treatment, justice, allocation of scarce resources. It defines new terms, explains ethical and legal principles, probes familiar notions and assumptions, and evaluates arguments. It explains ethical theories clearly and integrates them throughout the text.
Providing additional cases, suggested forms of assessment e.g. essay titles and exam questions and useful web links on our website, this is an invaluable text for nursing students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, clinical nurses and midwives, nurse managers and academics. Nursing Links An Bord Altranais (the Nursing Bord), the Irish Nurses Organisation, the Department of Health and Children, the Nurse2Nurse site and the Office for Health Management are all sites which may be of interest.
It covers the four areas of accountability affecting all nurses namely civil liability, professional liability, criminal liability and accountability to the employer. Each chapter contains the following: - learning objectives and outcomes - important legal concepts and phrases explained - summary at the end of each chapter - weblinks for further information and research. Where legal concepts and terminologies are used, they are thoroughly and clearly explained in a 'non-legal' manner.
Up-to-date leading Irish and UK cases are used throughout the text. The cases are broken into three sections: - The facts - The issues to be decided - The decision of the court. Followed by analysis and commentary on the important issues raised by the decision.
Problem questions based on factual scenarios, which test the student's application of principles, are provided at the end of each section. Suitable for 1st and 2nd year degree nursing students at Universities and I.Ts and as a post-registration refresher text.
"Nursing Models for Practice" is an outstanding textbook with an international reputation, which has retained its popularity with students for more than a decade. The third edition continues to offer an excellent introduction to the background theory and application of models in nursing practice. In a world where nurses are being asked to be more and more explicit about the contribution they make to health care, the evidence on which they base their practice, the actions they take, and the outcomes they are working towards with patients all have to be justified.
The use of well-developed theoretical models is therefore becoming even more important. Critically, they help not only to plan care, but also to explain to others exactly what it is that they are aiming to achieve. This new edition will be welcomed as a vital introduction to the world of models for students of nursing, whether at an introductory level or for those returning to study in order to update their knowledge.
This is the most comprehensive UK Adult Nursing core text, now in its third edition, for the next generation of nurses. This best selling textbook has been revised and updated to present the knowledge and skills required for competent, evidence-based nursing practice, whilst maintaining the thorough approach that was welcomed in the first two editions. The book remains the core text of choice for students of adult nursing.
The third edition continues to reflect the issues and challenges for nursing practice in an era of rapid developments in diagnosis, therapy and care. As always, the importance of the patient as partner in care is emphasised. The three section format which has proved so effective is retained, progressing from a broad systems approach to more detail on specific patient concerns and nursing issues.
Ample cross-referencing encourages links between the sections: Section One - care of patients with common disorders; Section Two - common patient problems and related nursing care; and Section Three - now entitled - nursing patients with special challenges. This text is an invaluable resource, not only for student nurses, but also for qualified nurses, those returning to practice and nurse educators.
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