Published February, 2009
By Andy Bodenham, Helen Hamilton and H Hamilton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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The author addresses the different stages a patient may experience prior to receiving a VAD (Ventricular Assist Device, beginning with the various reasons for gaining venous access and specific challenges this may present e.g. age, acute and chronic disease processes, anatomical anomalies and cosmetic issues.

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Published October, 2008
By Carolyn Best and C. Best
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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This book provides a comprehensive look at all aspects of nutrition from roles and responsibilities to caring for a patient with specific nutritional needs. It is aimed primarily at nurses and addresses some of the issues they will encounter when caring for patients nutritional needs in a hospital setting.

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Published April, 2008
By Janet Marsden and J Marsden
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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The objective of this book is to provide an evidence base for ophthalmic nursing practice. There are areas of practice where little evidence exists, in those areas, the book aims to provide reasoned guidelines from an informed source, thus negating the need for every ophthalmic practice area to develop diverse often contradictory guidelines.

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Published April, 2008
By Faith Gibson, Louise Soames, Louise Soanes and F Gibson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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Much has changed since the first book Paediatric Oncology: Acute Nursing Care (1999), therefore, this new edition encompasses these changes in relation to the practice itself and the evidence that underpins it. Emphasis is placed on ensuring terminology is accurate, in keeping with the language of the current day.

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Published February, 2008
By Marilyn Edwards and M Edwards
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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This level of nurse works largely independently and their work is managed rather than supervised. They are able to demonstrate their duties to less experienced employees and supervise students, and can undertake surveys or audits. They may occasionally participate in research and development, clinical trials or equipment testing.

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Published November, 2007
By Christopher Nicholson and C. Nicholson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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Heart Failure: A Clinical Nursing Handbook provides a much-needed introductory text to heart failure for students and nurses new to the area as well as an invaluable source of information in daily clinical practice for more experienced nurses, who are regularly seeing patients with heart failure.

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Published July, 2007
By Ian Peate and I Peate
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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The text will provide the nurse with an insight and understanding of contemporary issues that affect men, their partners and their families. The subject matter concerns men's health from a general practice nurse's perspective. There are seventeen chapters in total addressing key/salient issues associated with the health of men.

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Published March, 2007
By Lisa Carroll and L Carroll
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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This book provides Nurse Practitioners working in the field of Acute Medicine with an up to date, practical, and comprehensive guide to the management of acute medical patients. It serves as a text from which the busy highly skilled nurse can obtain information on assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute medical conditions.

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Published February, 2007
By Eileen O'Grady, Eileen O′Grady, RN, Dip HE, BSc (Hons) and E O'Grady
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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Cardiac intervention is a fast expanding field of medicine that is reducing the need for cardiac surgery. A Nurse's Guide to Caring for Cardiac Intervention Patients will enable nurses to fully prepare their patients and families for various cardiac intervention procedures.

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Published December, 2006
By Ian Peate, Sonya Chelvanayagam and I Peate
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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This book will provide student nurses, students studying for NVQ levels II and III, SNVQ and those students who are undertaking an Access to Higher Education (Nursing) Courses, with user-friendly and contemporary information in relation to some of the key clinical practice issues that they may experience when caring for individuals.

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