Sam Geuens • Ana Polona Mivšek Woet. L. Gianotten Editors 2023 Every year 140 million children are born around the globe, and the great majority of those mothers and newborns receive care from maternity service providers, professions with a wide range of status and training. Their background varies from traditional birth attendants (TBAs), who frequently […]
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Vinod Kumar • Nishkarsh Gupta Seema Mishra Editors 2022 Critical care in cancer patients is complex and different from routine care for non-malignant patients. These patients are immunocompromised, malnourished and have specific concerns due to cancer-related complications, treatment-related toxicities, and severe infections. The intensivist must understand about pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of common cancer-related issues.
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Iben Akselbo • Ingvild Aune Editors 2023 This Open Access book applies to teachers in higher healthcare education, and especially within nursing and midwifery who plans to use simulation as a learning method. The book contains ten chapters, and each chapter discusses different topics within simulation.
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Maria Kidner 2022 A Structured Process to Developing Professional Identity through Role Transition The development of this book came about from an opportunity and honor to work on the preparation for the new Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) role for the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2018. As I pondered the path of becoming an advanced practice […]
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Jean Foret Giddens 2021 Wisdom means keeping a sense of the fallibility of our views and opinions, and of the uncertainty and instability of the things we most count on. Gerard Brown. Conceptual learning is increasingly viewed as a major trend for the future of education—not in nursing alone, but across numerous disciplines. This belief is based on […]
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Jasmine Abdulcadir Noémie Sachs Guedj • Michal Yaron Editors 2022 Illustrated Guide to Diagnose, Assess, Inform and Report Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) remains a major public health issue ten years after the United Nation General Assembly adopted a resolution on its elimination. It also remains a neglected topic in pre- and post-grade curricula of health […]
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Nicolaus Kröger • John Gribben Christian Chabannon • Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha Hermann Einsele Editors 2022 Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (CAR-T) is a new class of medicinal products that are genetically engineered from T cells. It is expected that other forms of Immune Effector Cells-based therapies will soon reach the market, manufactured from other subsets […]
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Ólöf G. Geirsdóttir • Jack J. Bell Editors 2021 An Evidence-Based Practical Guide for Nurses When an older person is recovering or rehabilitating following an episode of ill health, injury, or surgery, one of the most important things those caring for them can do is to make sure that the nutritional aspects of their care […]
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Editor Ingela Oberg 2019 There are over 150 different kinds of documented brain tumours, yet despite the disparity between their grading and tumour type, the malignant brain tumours behave in a very similar way in the adult population, often associated with poor survival rates. The most frequent of the adult malignant brain tumours remains the […]
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Editors: Sofia Llahana, Cecilia Follin, Christine Yedinak, Ashley Grossman 2019 With Paediatric Editors Kate Davies and Margaret F. Keil We are extremely pleased and proud that our ambitious idea to write the first ever published book for endocrine nurses has finally come to fruition. We wanted this to be a useful resource for endocrine nurses […]
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