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This book supports early years' practitioners in understanding their own practice working with young children in greater depth.

Helps nurses revise and prepare for their pathophysiology exams. This book covers a range of conditions common to nursing practice including pneumonia, diabetes, asthma, eczema and more. It includes chapters on: Integumentary system; Musculoskeletal system; Nervous system; Endocrine system; Urinary system; and, Reproductive system.

Suitable for nurses studying basic anatomy & physiology and preparing for exams, this book includes over 450 questions in total, each with fully explained answers including: 45 A&P illustrations; 180 glossary terms; multiple choice questions; true or false questions; labelling exercises; and, fill in the blank questions.

This book is aimed at promoting practitioners to reflect deeply on the play provision they make for children in classrooms and settings and to think through their own values related to play and playful pedagogies.

This book departs from some of the ideas about play that are held dear by many in early childhood education.

With an emphasis on practical application, this lively and accessible guide will help nurses to hone and develop their communication skills.

This book is designed to be the ultimate companion to help you fly through OSCEs with ease.

This book is designed as a practical toolkit to aid those training to do clinical supervision or starting out as clinical supervisors.

The current edition of Teaching Adults, 3e provides an overview of teaching adults in a range of different contexts.

Every manager, every coach, every HR professional, every trainer, every team leader - anyone who needs to get the best out of a group needs to know how to facilitate.

This accessible guide takes the mystery and fear out of care planning and will help you to develop a person centred approach to delivering good quality nursing care in all clinical settings.

News Culture offers a timely examination of the forms, practices, institutions and audiences of journalism. Having highlighted a range of pressing issues confronting the global news industry today, it proceeds to provide a historical consideration of the rise of 'objective' reporting in newspaper, radio and television news.

Through a series of case studies, the book highlights how factors in one learning context can conspire to make feedback and other forms of formative assessment highly instrumental, whilst in others this can be a springboard to deep and meaningful learning.

Managing Successful Universities, second edition considers how good management of universities can lead to successful universities.

Being full of scenarios, exercises, examples and links between practice issues, this student-friendly text promises to be an engaging book for nurse students on all branches.

This book is essential reading for psychology and health psychology students, those taking eating behaviour modules, and eating behaviour and disorders courses. It is also valuable reading for nutritionists, food scientists, occupational therapists and medical students.

The second edition of this book guides aspiring and newly appointed CSIs through the methods and procedures for the accurate recording and recovery of evidence from the scene of a crime.

This book considers and interrogates a range of new and critical issues in contemporary early childhood education.

A leading text in the field of social work skills and methods, illustrating how these two are linked, with a grounding in theory.

This toolkit suits coaches and prospective coaches in all sectors, particularly those who want a rapid and accessible route to understanding coaching practice and who want a reliable source book for coaching methods.

With over 1500 entries, this popular dictionary provides concise and up to date explanations of the theories, approaches and terminology that define front-line social work and social care.

How to Research is a clear and accessible guide to the business of doing a research project. It systematically takes the reader through from the planning to the writing up and finishing off.

Sound clinical judgement and decision-making is vital to delivery of high quality, patient-centred, nursing and interprofessional healthcare.

This book is aimed at those studying and working in the field of health care, including nurses and the professions allied to medicine, who have little prior knowledge of statistics but for whom critical review of research is an essential skill.

This book focuses on child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) for nurses training and working in this field. The authors explore the various roles CAMH nurses fulfil and consider how these roles might be undertaken with confidence.

This book examines geography's key concepts, and provides teachers with a theoretically robust and practical approach to curriculum planning using a concept-led approach.

This accessible, evidence-based book explores how important it is for midwives to understand the psychological aspects of care, in order to create positive experiences for mothers and families.

This popular introductory book provides a clear introduction to the key ideas within media studies.

This book critically engages with contemporary notions of 'at risk' youth. It explores the complexity of urban, working-class young people's relationships with education and schooling and discusses strategies for addressing these issues.

Controversial Issues in Prisons is a textbook designed to explore eight of the most controversial aspects of imprisonment in England and Wales today. It is primarily a book about the people who are sent to prison and what happens to them when inside.