Baillière's Dictionary for Nurses and Health Care Workers Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 27th Edition

by Jayne Taylor, PhD MBA BSc(Hons) DipN(Lond) RN HV RNT

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

ISBN: 9780702075650

Publication Date: 03-20-2019

Page Count: 566

Imprint: Elsevier

List Price: $8.99

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Key Features
- User friendly text presented in a handy pocket size format
- Suitable for a variety of settings raging from the high-tech high-dependency environment to primary care and community settings
- Clear artwork helps further clarify terms and difficult concepts
- Includes common abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes and roots, together with units of measurement and normal values
- Helpful appendices cover nutrition, resuscitation, first aid, medicines control, immunization and vaccinations, and prevention and control of infection
- Ideal for all newcomers to the clinical and healthcare environment!
New to This Edition
- Now published in full-colour throughout!
- Expanded number of entries to aid comprehensiveness
- Includes the latest information on revalidation, the legal and professional framework of nursing, professional standards of practice and behaviour, and clinical supervision
Contents

A–Z Entries

Appendices

1 Nutrition

2 Resuscitation

3 First Aid

4 Medicines and their Control

5 The Legal and Professional Framework of Nursing

6 Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour

7 Common Abbreviations

8 Common Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots

9 Units of Measurement and Tables of Normal Values

10 Immunization and Vaccinations

11 Prevention and Control of Infection

12 Revalidation

13 Clinical Supervision
Authors

Jayne Taylor, PhD MBA BSc(Hons) DipN(Lond) RN HV RNT, Head of Organisational Development, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Watford, UK