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Ensure you're at your clinical best! Laboratory Procedures for Veterinary Technicians, 7th Edition covers the broad spectrum of laboratory procedures that veterinary technicians need to perform effectively in the practice setting. Comprehensive content presents the fundamentals of microbiology, hematology, urinalysis, immunology, and cytology, along with the laboratory procedures used to perform the most widely used tests such as complete blood...

Master all the animal care duties of a veterinary technician! McCurnin's Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses, 10th Edition provides a solid foundation in every aspect of veterinary technology, including care of small and large animals, birds, reptiles, and small mammals. Procedure boxes offer step-by-step guidelines to performing key tasks, and use of the veterinary technician practice model helps to improve your critical...

The 5th edition of this highly regarded text has a new title and approach which builds on the foundations of previous editions to acknowledge mental health as essential to holistic nursing practice in every setting. Written by Kim Foster, Peta Marks, Anthony O'Brien and Toby Raeburn - a team of highly respected mental health nursing educators, researchers and clinicians, the new edition has been carefully reorganised to reflect contemporary...

Navigating the Maze of Research demystifies the world of research with all the essentials you need to know - how to find relevant research papers, how to conduct your own research, and how to use research findings in your work. Produced by a high profile editorial team including Australia's leading nursing researcher, this valuable text is engaging and easy to read. It breaks down research processes into easily digestible sections, each brought...

This title features: innovative ideas to increase critical thinking; practical guidelines for family interviewing; and, clinical tools, skills and examples that breaches the boundaries of practice, education and research. You can use the thoroughly revised evidence-based Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models to competently and compassionately assess and intervene with families experiencing illness, loss, and/or disability. It offers...

Patient and Person: Interpersonal Skills in Nursing offers guidance on the skills needed to interact with patients as people - an essential component of building an effective therapeutic relationship and providing quality care. Author Jane Stein-Parbury explains key concepts in simple language, without assuming any prior knowledge. The book includes empathy, dealing with challenging behaviours, advocating for a patient and admitting a patient....

The new edition of Physiology in Childbearing with Anatomy and Related Biosciences continues to offer readers with a sound introduction to human biology as it relates to pregnancy and childbirth. Retaining the features that characterised the popularity of previous editions - namely, a clear and accessible writing style, extensive artwork program and online question bank with downloadable image collection - the volume addresses basic...

Practical Electrolysis is a complete reference guide to the treatments and techniques for electrolysis excellence. This comprehensive text comes packaged with an exclusive Electrolysis Skills DVD which guides the reader through a range of electrolysis treatments from consultation to aftercare, including sections on positioning, tweezer techniques and perfect insertions. This complete package is fully endorsed by Habia and City & Guilds and is...

Promoting Health examines the social, environmental, cultural and psychological determinants of health and illness and the role that primary health care has in addressing health inequalities and the broad range of skills that health practitioners need to address this issue. In this new edition, the authors have uniquely utilised two fundamental tenets central to all health promotion practice and developed key features from both the World Health...

Gain the knowledge and skills you need to analyze radiographic images and solve imaging challenges! Reflecting the latest ARRT (R) content specifications, Radiographic Image Analysis, 6th Edition provides a guide to evaluating and adjusting images to produce diagnostic-quality radiographs. It helps you to identify the error in positioning or technique that may have caused a poor image, then shows how to correct the problem, so you can reduce the...

This text provides clear, easy-to-read guidance on more than 110 skills for midwifery students and midwives seeking to update their practice. Underpinned with the most recent evidence-based practice and research, the second edition walks the reader through general and basic skills in a sequential and logical manner, following a woman's journey through pregnancy, labour and birth, and postnatal care. With a focus on the performance of midwifery...

This textbook carefully guides learners through the principles of body analysis, heat and water treatments, masks and wraps, tanning, massage techniques, and electrical applications. Explaining its subject accessibly, and with practical diagrams and sumptuous photographs throughout. "The Art and Science of Spa & Body Therapy" helps spa technicians to understand both the theory and practice of their vocation.