

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

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