Law, Ethics and Professional Values

Caring is at the heart of what health professionals do and good psychological care – attending to a patient’s feelings, thoughts and behaviour – can even help improve physical health outcomes. This text explains the importance of psychological care for ill people, giving a sound theoretical basis to..

Caring is at the heart of what health professionals do and good psychological care – attending to a patient’s feelings, thoughts and behaviour – can even help improve physical health outcomes. This text explains the importance of psychological care for ill people, giving a sound theoretical basis to..

Care Ethics provides readers from different disciplines and professional groups with a substantial number of new theories and applications. It was originally published as two special issues of Ethics and Social Welfare...

Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this textbook deals specifically with nursing difficult patients. It gives invaluable practical recommendations, well founded in experience and supported by literature for nurses coping with challenging, real world situations...

This book is concerned with how we can humanise health and social care, keeping the person at the centre of practice. Investigating what it means to be human in a health and social care context, it presents new perspectives about how professionals can enhance their capacity for humanly sensitive car..

Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years. In this book, Doug Brugge and H. Patricia Hynes relate experience of multiple community collaborations across the United States and highlight the lessons to be learned for tho..

This textbook relates theory to practice and enhances students' learning and understanding of cultural issues that impact on patient care and their own practice as nurses, while considering wider social and political issues. Including new chapters on cultural principles from other disciplines, cultu..

Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies helps students actively untangle the many issues at the intersection of medicine and moral concern. Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, it offers balanced, philosophically based inquiry for undergraduates throughout the huma..

Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies helps students actively untangle the many issues at the intersection of medicine and moral concern. Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, it offers balanced, philosophically based inquiry for undergraduates throughout the huma..

This accessible text examines the concepts which are fundamental to everyday nursing practice, providing an excellent introduction to the subject for pre-registration students and those studying psychological concepts in relation to health care for the first time...

This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal syste..

This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal syste..