Bailliere's Nurses' Dictionary, 27th Edition

Description

The 27th edition of this established and well-respected pocket dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of nurses and healthcare workers in a variety of clinical settings throughout the world. Packed with useful information, and now published in full-colour throughout, Baillière's Dictionary for Nurses and Healthcare Workers provides the essential pocket reference resource for everyone involved in nursing and healthcare.

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

Table of Contents

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Author Information

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