Reading List
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RESEARCH:
- Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit
by C Heneghan, D Badenoch.
- "This is a concise guide to practising evidence-based medicine. Presented in the style of handy manual for rapid reference to terminology and implementation. The book is user friendly, practical and visually appealing. The authors are based at the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine in Oxford and well versed in what is needed by people new to evidence-based medicine..."
PRICE: £9.95. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 02/11/2003
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CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS:
- Heart Sounds Made Easy.
by EM Brown. et al.
- "A practical and simple guide to the art of cardiac auscultation and which teaches the reader how to identify a pathological heart murmur..."
PRICE: £16.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 02/02/2003
PERIOPERATIVE PRACTICE:
- General Surgical Anatomy and Examination: An Illustrated Colour Text
by AM THOMPSON.
"Slim book with clear text and clinical photographs to guide you through physical examination and history taking, enabling you to identify normal and abnormal anatomy and disease processes. Surface and underlying anatomy depicted with comparative radiographs to aid understanding and recognition.." (J Thatcher).
PRICE: £16.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 24/07/2003
CLINICAL PRACTICE:
- Applied Basic Science for Basic Surgical Training
by AT Raftery (ed).
"Detailed, yet very readable text with diagrams, providing the essential underlying physiology related to surgery and surgical procedures. Divided into two parts. Part one looks at pathology and microbiology, and part two focusses on specific systems. Written for the surgeon in training.."(J Thatcher).
PRICE: £46.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 25/07/2003
SPECIALITY SPECIFIC:
- Maxillofacial Nursing Handbook
by M Perry, C Evans, K Peel (Eds).
- "Detailed handbook giving coverage of all aspects of Maxillofacial Nursing
care and management. Including trauma, malignancy, reconstructive surgery,
orthognathic surgery, aesthetic surgery and Maxillofacial infections. Each
chapter is split into short sections detailing the medical and surgical
aspects of every condition, together with relevant nursing care"...A Weston
PRICE: £21.99 (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 02/11/2003
EXPANDING PRACTICE:
- Expanding the Role of the Nurse: The Scope of Professional Practice
by G Hunt and P Wainwright (ed).
- "In the light of recent professional developments in nursing and midwifery, this book considers a range of issues affecting professional nursing and the role of the nurse..."
PRICE: £22.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 02/02/2003
ANATOMY:
- Anatomy at a Glance
by O Fiaz and D Moffat.
- "Basic anatomy book. Very easy to read. Good for quick referencing, but not in depth"...(C Earl)
PRICE: £15.95. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Submitted: 04/06/2003
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE:
- Clinical Risk Management
by C Vincent (Ed).
- "The aim of this work is to reduce the risks of medical treatment and enhance the safety of patients in all areas of healthcare..."
PRICE: £50. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 07/02/2003
CLINICAL AUDIT:
- Implementing Change in Clinical Audit
by R Baker, H Hearnshaw and N Robertson (Eds).
- "The authors cover all the knowledge and skills required to implement change in clinical practices based on results of the multiprofessional clinical audit..."
PRICE: £22.50. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 07/02/2003
FIRST ASSISTING:
- The RN First Assistant: An Expanded Perioperative Nursing Role
by J Rothrock.
- "This text offers clear, concise, step-by-step guidance on the expanded roles and responsibilities of the RN serving as first assistant in the operating room..."
PRICE: £33.00. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk)
Listed: 02/02/2003
NURSING:
- Nursing Models and Nursing Practice
by P Aggleton and H Chalmers.
- "This classic textbook offers a succinct overview of some of the most popular and influential nursing models in use and their application to clinical practice..."
PRICE: £16.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 07/02/2003
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE:
- Becoming a Reflective Practitioner: A Reflective and Holistic Approach to Clinical Nursing,
Practice Development and Clinical Supervision.
by C Johns.
- "Chris Johns has written a new text and uses a variety of examples to show how nurses have used reflective practice to develop their work..."
PRICE: £19.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 10/02/2003
TEACHING AND EDUCATION:
- Teaching Adults.
by A Rogers.
- "In the third edition of this text, Alan Rogers draws upon a range of recent work on adult lifelong learning to address this key question, by looking at what is distinctive about adult learning and teaching..."
PRICE: £14.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 07/02/2003
PUBLIC HEALTH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY:
- Epidemiology and public health medicine
by NJ Vetter, IP Matthews.
"This book will cover four of the major strands of the courses taught to medical undergraduates under the umbrella terms of epidemiology and public health. Namely mainstream epidemiology, critical appraisal of medical evidence or evidence based medicine, population based issues such as communicable disease and environmental hazard, and the provision of health care..."
PRICE: £16.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 03/09/2003
PROFESSIONAL ISSUES:
- Nurse Prescribing: Politics and Practice
by M Jones (Ed).
- "Nurse prescribing has been a political and professional hot potato for years. Now, for the first time in book form, RCN Adviser Mark Jones has brought together some of the key players to debate the issues and map out a way forward..."
PRICE: £17.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 07/02/2003
PHARMACOLOGY:
- Essentials of Pharmacology for Health Occupations
by R Woodrow.
- "Designed especially for nursing, medical assistant, and allied health programmes which allow limited time for the study of medications, this updated and classroom-tested pharmacology text provides drug information in an easy-to-use, format that helps build confidence in the study of medications..."
PRICE: £33. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 02/02/2003
POLITICS IN HEALTHCARE:
- Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care
by D Mason, J Leavitt and M Chaffee.
- "The new edition of this respected resource is designed to raise nurses' awareness and understanding of health policy and political issues, enable them to analyze policy issues, enhance their political knowledge and skills, and prepare them for leadership roles in policy-making and public health..."
PRICE: £32.99. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 07/02/2003
LAW AND ETHICS:
- Law and Ethics in Nursing and Health Care
by J Hendrick.
- "Uses case studies to examine legal and ethical issues within the specific context of health care..."
PRICE: £19.25. (Click HERE to order from amazon.co.uk).
Listed: 07/02/2003
