Employing an evidence-based approach, this comprehensive textbook introduces the core clinical skills and competencies a newly-qualified nurse is required to have for professional practice. It is divided into five broad sections looking at:

• Care and compassion and communication, including personal care and pain assessment
• Essential skills, including observations, monitoring and emergency management
• Organisational aspects of care, including moving and handling, and wound care
• Safety and...

Level 2 (highly dependent) patients are nursed in a variety of clinical areas. High Dependency Nursing Care has been written for pre qualified and post qualified students undertaking modules and placements to prepare them for nursing the acutely ill and nurses caring for these patients. Written by a team of nurses experienced in providing, supporting and developing high dependency care, it discusses practical issues and explores the current evidence base for clinical practice.

This essential textbook covers the context of care with chapters on fundamental aspects,...

Although midwives usually work with healthy women, sadly there are still occasions where medical intervention is necessary. In order to minimise the danger to mothers, it is vital that midwives can recognise deterioration and are aware of what action to take. Taking into account recommendations made by successive CEMACE reports on maternal deaths, 'High Risk Maternity Care' examines relevant pathophysiology and pharmacology, highlighting appropriate interventions and how to interpret indications of clinical deterioration.

When Dani Beckett finds herself divorced, she is in a world unknown to her. Meeting Jack Edwards after purchasing his stolen horse at an auction, changes everything. Dani never realized how much she depended on a marriage that had been nothing. Realizing that her marriage had failed long ago, leads her into the arms of man that should be her enemy. When Jack Edwards decides to work with Dani after finding out about her husbands money laundering to get his horse back he realizes that he not only found his stolen horse, but the woman he thought never existed. Now the two of them are woking...

Employing an evidence-based approach, this comprehensive textbook introduces the core clinical skills and competencies a newly-qualified nurse is required to have for professional practice. It is divided into five broad sections looking at:

• Care and compassion and communication, including personal care and pain assessment
• Essential skills, including observations, monitoring and emergency management
• Organisational aspects of care, including moving and handling, and wound care
• Safety and...