This text focuses on various issues that impact directly on professional nursing practice. They explore a range of topics of importance to professional nursing practice with perspectives drawn from the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Ireland.

This bestselling guide has established itself as the ultimate guide to patient communication for all doctors, whatever their experience and wherever they practice.

This book provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death. D. Micah Hester argues that healthcare providers making end-of-life decisions ought to pay close attention to the narratives of patients and their communities so that their dying processes embody their life stories.

As more and more people survive into old age, the burden of caring for them becomes greater and greater. People working in healthcare increasingly have to do more with less. This book is a guide to getting it right for healthcare professionals. It is about doing the right thing, in the right way, at the right time, for the right people.

This book presents ideas, evidence and guidance for those interested in using the most recent advances in learning and human development to enhance medical education's ability to form competent and caring physicians. It does this by establishing development of a professional identity as a primary goal of medical education.

Using case studies for analysis and illustration, this volume provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the central topics and debates in health care ethics. It will appeal to students and teachers of applied ethics, bioethics, professional ethics, medicine, health law and medical sociology, as well as to health care professionals.