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This innovative textbook uses a problem-based learning (PBL) approach to cover content that is most common to child branch nursing courses. The book features individual chapters focusing on the different care environments that student nurses experience when caring for children, young people and families within health and social care.
The definitive book on family centred care for health professionals, this popular text has been thoroughly revised in line with contemporary health policy. Including greater emphasis on child-centred care, interprofessional working and care in community settings; it is a valuable resource for all those working with children and families.
A Place to Call Home? by Lynda Smith is set in 1936, a time between the two world wars, but Jacobs story begins in 1905. He is a Russian Jewish immigrant whose parents and younger sister are desperate to escape the escalating danger of the Russian pogroms. They embark on a long, perilous sea journey and arrive in the northwest of England where, at the age of ten years, Jacob starts a new life in his adopted country. His ambition is to be a successful businessman, and he achieves that goal. His life becomes even more complicated when he falls in love with one of his female employees. They enter into an affair, resulting in the birth of a son, who is blissfully unaware that Jacob is his father. Torn between his loyalty to his wife and daughters, his deeply embedded Jewish roots, and his mistress and his son, Jacob is in constant turmoil about what to do so as to cause the least amount of hurt and pain to all the people he holds dear. The story takes into account the horror of the Great War, in which Jacob enlisted as a boy solider in 1916. Threaded throughout this story are the themes of socio-economic disparity, religious bigotry, ignorance, and anti-Semitism.
The story has moved on to the years 1945 and 1952 when Patrick (Jakes illegitimate son) has returned from the war an RAF Hero. With Jakes demise the story picks up with Patrick, following his trials and tribulations in a much changed post war world. Patrick meets by chance Jakes daughter Ruth who unbeknown to them both is his half-sister. The two form a long distance purely platonic alliance but each can feel the pull of something stronger despite their widely differing social backgrounds.
Jakes Boy continues the story from 1936 to 1945 in post-war Britain and follows the trials and tribulation of Jacobs son, Patrick, who has returned from the war a decorated RAF airman who took part in the famous Dam Busters Raid (aka Operation Chastise). With Jakes demise, the story picks up with Patrick, following his trials and tribulations in a much-changed post-war world. Patrick meets by chance Jakes daughter, Ruth, who unbeknownst to them is his half-sister. The two form a purely platonic long-distance alliance, but each can feel the pull of something stronger despite their widely differing social backgrounds.
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