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This book offers a practical approach to guide nurses in the art
and science of renal care. It is holistic as well as technical
therapeutic and compassionate in its approach. Acute and chronic
renal failure renal osteodystrophy and other selected diseases are
comprehensively discussed. The nurse's role with regard to specific
treatments such as peritoneal dialysis haemodialysis plasma
exchange and haemoperfusion as well as organ transplantation
procedures are discussed in detail and a section relating
specifically to paediatric care is included. The final section of
the book is devoted to the use of complementary therapies and
alternative medicine in renal disease. 'The book lays the
foundation on which nurses can build their evidence-based practice
and knowledge skills and enhance patient care. The aim of this book
is to provide a practical holistic guide for nurses to the skills
and knowledge required by them to care for their patients. It
covers the renal patients experiences both physically and
psychologically incorporating the dialysis therapies of acute and
chronic failure on to renal transplantation. Nursing renal patients
within an acute hospital setting a chronic dialysis unit or a
satellite unit places many challenges on the nurse caring for them
today. I therefore hope that this book will provide the knowledge
needed by those working in the field of renal nursing and that it
will be used as a resource in renal units throughout the UK' Avril
Redmond Chair of RCN Nephrology Nurses Forum in the Foreword
What Makes a Good Health Care System? examines the various
assumptions that underpin the different views of what makes a good
health care system. The national systems in the UK, Australia and
Canada are thoroughly examined. Each country has a different view
of what a good health care system is trying to achieve, and the
book elucidates these by highlighting key policy documents and
comments from key stakeholders. Case studies emphasise the diverse
needs and expectations of individuals, examining and comparing
concepts of health needs, quality as a measure of 'good-ness' and
the various ideas on Gold Standards. This book will be valuable
reading for all healthcare managers and clinicians with management
responsibilities, as well as policy makers and shapers and all
those with a general interest in health.
Information is a key resource to primary health care and is
increasingly required in individual practices. This book will
demystify the subject, which is often presented in complex terms.
It sets out in a simple and interesting way what information those
working in primary care will need, the systems required to deliver
them and how to set them up. Information and IT for Primary Care
uses exercises, stories, key points, case studies, model answers
and think boxes. Worldwide web links refers the reader to resources
and shows how to get the most out of your computer. The book is
user-friendly, jargon free and based on primary research evidence.
It is essential reading for everyone working in primary care
organisations including GPs, practice managers and nurses, and
staff working in community trusts and the NHS.
Immunisation is one of the few preventive interventions of
undoubted and proven effectiveness...GPs are thoroughly convinced
of the public health arguments in favour of immunization and regard
it as an integral part of their clinical practice. This book is
designed to help them plan provide develop and monitor a
comprehensive immunisation service not only for their NHS patients
but also if they wish on a private basis for travellers and for
local companies. Good practice organisation is the key to providing
high quality clinical and preventive services and this book is a
notable and helpful contribution towards that good organisation. It
should help even the most efficient doctors to ensure that they are
providing the best managed and most profitable immunisation service
they can - a service that should be welcomed by the patients it
will benefit.' John Chisholm in the Foreword
Alan Gillis – one of the most admired Irish poets of his generation – addresses some of the most pressing concerns of the age: how can we live at the centre of our contemporary paradox, disconnected and hyper-connected as we are?
A poet of thresholds and crossings, Gillis finds his answers in the suburbs and edgelands, at the hesitation before the doorstep or the gate. The Readiness sites itself at the heart of our human contradictions, and explores their meaning. These poems form a series of bad dreams and clear visions that speak to the chaos and fragility of both self and society: the childhood innocence that persists into the resignation of adulthood; the beauty of nature in an age of environmental ruin; the terrible isolation of contemporary life – and the live-streamed, advert-laden over-wiring that springs from its digital commons. It does this with a formal confidence, a dry wit and often astonishing lyricism that marks Gillis as one of the most individual and vital poetic voices now at work.
This is a new edition of this established guide for students
studying literature for the first time. This up-to-the minute
foundational guide introduces the full range of literary forms,
styles, theories and critical strategies which new students need to
cover. By careful use of examples it demonstrates exactly how
strategies for reading texts can be put to work and all texts
discussed are conveniently available in the Norton Anthology of
English Literature. The successful first edition is now updated
with the latest in research and teaching by the academics based at
one of the UK's leading university literature departments. It
features a new Students Resources section with 3 new chapters on
Reading, Writing, and Reflecting and including 'how to' features
such as how to avoid plagiarism, and how to prepare a bibliography.
It discusses both British and American authors, while the texts
discussed in the book generally appear in the Norton Anthology of
English Literature. It introduces a wide range of literary forms,
styles and critical strategies, essential knowledge for the
beginning student of literature.
This book has been written as a response to the increasing
polarisation of the public debate between science and religion. On
one side of the debate, there are the "aggressive atheists", who
claim to represent Science. On the other you have religious
fundamentalists, who amongst other things insist on the literal
truth of Scriptural writings. This view ignores a huge constituency
or people with more moderate views: scientists inspired by a sense
of wonder at what they discover in their daily work, religious
adherents who hold much more tolerant and inclusive views of the
world, or indeed agnostics who either hold no strong view or
acknowledge that they simply "don't know". Many people look to
science or religion for answers because they feel uncertain about
the future. They want nice simple answers that make them feel
secure. This book will not provide simple answers. It will try to
follow Einstein's advice that "Everything should be made as simple
as possible, but not simpler."
Software Quality: Theory and Management has been in print around
the world since 1992. After the publisher accidentally removed it
from the European market in 1998, it continued to sell well in
South East Asia and has to date sold over 10,000 copies world-wide.
Originally used with BSc and MSc students at the University of
Salford, previous editions have been used as a textbook in the UK,
Europe, North America and Asia. However, the contents of the second
edition look sadly dated by now, and even core concepts such as
development methodologies have moved on substantially. Therefore, I
have decided to produce a third edition which has been updated in
both content and method of delivery.
This book has been designed to help dentists to establish and
maintain information systems that are necessary for effective
working. It will consider the context of dentists in the UK, USA
and Canada. It tries to do at least six (almost ) impossible
things: 1. Talk about information in an interesting way. 2. Show
how information can actually be useful. 3. Explain how to get you
to love your computer. 4. Make SNODENT Codes interesting. 5. Help
practices to share meaningful information. 6. Make you smile while
reading a book about information. It includes references to
incredibly unhip comedy series such as 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to
the Galaxy' (such as why not round off this chapter by breakfast at
Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?). The book
assumes that you the reader are based in, or work with, a dental
practice. Each chapter includes exercises that generally require
you to have access to a dental practice.
The NHS is currently in the middle of the biggest information
technology project in Western Europe, which will fundamentally
change the working practices of all NHS staff over the next five
years. This book explains to ordinary clinicians why they should be
bothered with IT, and what their responsibilities are in making it
work. This book provides an enlightening and reassuring read that
dispels ignorance and suspicion. The user friendly style is
helpful, and friendly panels with tips, warnings, reflective pauses
and key points highlight important details. It is also suitable for
use as a student textbook. The Clinician's Guide to Surviving I.T.
is a must for every doctor, nurse and midwife in the NHS.
The 1930s have never really been considered an epoch within Irish
literature, even though the Thirties form one of the most dominant
and fascinating contexts in modern British literature. This book
argues that during this time Irish poets faced up to political
pressures and aesthetic dilemmas which frequently overlapped with
those associated with "The Auden Generation." In so doing, it
offers a provocative intercession into Irish history. But more than
this, it offers powerful arguments about the way poetry in general
is interpreted and understood.
In this way, Gillis seeks to redefine our understanding of a
frequently neglected period and to challenge received notions of
both Irish literature and poetic modernism. Irish Poetry of the
1930s gives detailed and vital readings of the major Irish poets of
the decade, including original and exciting analyses of Samuel
Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W. B. Yeats.
This clear, straightforward and practical book uses the example of
a disease register to show how computers can work for you, and not
the other way round. The results are improved patient health and
patient care. And computers play a major role in achieving this.
The book describes how to computerise patient records, implement
systems to process them in accordance with best practice and
available evidence, improve working practices and procedures, train
staff and manage the process of change. In addition the book
provides an overview of the process of implementing an electronic
disease register, examines the real example of a coronary heart
disease (CHD) register in a primary care organisation, and
considers future developments, including the impact of the CHD
National Service Framework. Whatever stage of computerisation your
practice is at, whether you are a general practitioner, practice
manager, or other member of the primary care team or primary care
organisation, you will find this to be an essential guide.
This informal, fun guide is ideal for anyone involved in public
speaking; addressing a group of people in a wide range of
situations including lecturing as part of your day job, presenting
research findings to your academic peers, and presenting to
potential future colleagues as part of an interview process. These
situations are all different, and as with many things, context is
everything. Whether you're working with large or small audiences,
there are basic rules for speaking that should never be
overshadowed by bewildering presentation technology.
This work includes a foreword by Jeffrey Koplan, Vice President,
Academic Health Affairs, Emory University, Atlanta, Formerly
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This
groundbreaking new book blows apart the myths about who is at risk
of getting AIDS and shows how these myths are driven by moral and
political pressures. It provides an objective, logical, clear,
epidemiologically based analysis on the current situation and
situates itself firmly at marked variance with the politically
correct position of UNAIDS and most AIDS activists. "The AIDS
Pandemic" argues that the story of HIV has been distorted by UNAIDS
and AIDS activists in order to support the myth of the high
potential risk of HIV epidemics spreading into the general
population. In the past, most policy makers and members of the
public have uncritically accepted UNAIDS' high prevalence estimates
and projections when in fact lower HIV prevalence estimates are
more accurate. Time, money and resources are being wasted
worldwide. This book is full of fresh analysis for all people
working in any capacity in HIV/AIDS programmes. It will be
invaluable to undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare students,
health and social care professionals and the international media.
Policy makers and shapers will find the pioneering information
crucial to the future of the AIDS strategy. 'For close to a half
century, my work as a public health epidemiologist has involved
field research, program management, and teaching, mostly on public
health surveillance and prevention and control of communicable
diseases. [Since 1981] I have been involved virtually full time
with the international response to the AIDS pandemic which is
without question one of the most severe infectious disease
pandemics in modern times. During my public health career that
began in the early 1960s, I have always been considered a part of
conventional or mainstream medical science. However, since the
mid-1990s, I have found myself swimming upstream against mainstream
AIDS organisations. I have, during this period, gradually come to
the realisation that AIDS programs developed by international
agencies and faith based organizations have been and continue to be
more socially, politically, and moralistically correct than
epidemiologically accurate.' - James Chin, in the Preface.
'Controversy and differing opinions have been hallmarks of the AIDS
epidemic since its onset. The scope of the problem, how to identify
high risk groups without increasing the burden of stigma, the
safety of blood products, the best balance between prevention and
treatment, have all been hot issues sometimes dividing the public
health community. The passion and conflicts about how to consider
and address the AIDS pandemic reflect the huge impact this disease
has had globally and its interplay with macro economic, legal,
social, political, national security and ethical domains. Vital,
provocative, thoughtful, direct, passionate, rational and willing
to challenge conventional wisdom. "The AIDS Pandemic" is filled
with information, rational arguments and opinions, often
intermingled. It is a rare book on epidemiology that puts so much
of the author's personality and viewpoints, along with his
knowledge and experience, before the reader. The result is a
thought-provoking, likely-to-be-controversial, contribution to the
AIDS literature that should engage and stimulate the reader.' -
Jeffrey Koplan, in the Foreword.
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