Books in the Wiley Series in Nursing series

Heart Failure: A Clinical Nursing Handbook provides a much-needed introductory text to heart failure for students and nurses new to the area as well as an invaluable source of information in daily clinical practice for more experienced nurses, who are regularly seeing patients with heart failure.

The objective of this book is to provide an evidence base for ophthalmic nursing practice. There are areas of practice where little evidence exists, in those areas, the book aims to provide reasoned guidelines from an informed source, thus negating the need for every ophthalmic practice area to develop diverse often contradictory guidelines.

Much has changed since the first book Paediatric Oncology: Acute Nursing Care (1999), therefore, this new edition encompasses these changes in relation to the practice itself and the evidence that underpins it. Emphasis is placed on ensuring terminology is accurate, in keeping with the language of the current day.

This book provides a comprehensive look at all aspects of nutrition from roles and responsibilities to caring for a patient with specific nutritional needs. It is aimed primarily at nurses and addresses some of the issues they will encounter when caring for patients nutritional needs in a hospital setting.

This level of nurse works largely independently and their work is managed rather than supervised. They are able to demonstrate their duties to less experienced employees and supervise students, and can undertake surveys or audits. They may occasionally participate in research and development, clinical trials or equipment testing.

The evolution of day surgery has heralded a new era of medical, anaesthetic and nursing knowledge, skills and practice.

This book offers a systematic step-by-step approach to the fundamental care needs that an older person may have, and the procedural steps that the carer might take to address these needs. Up-to-date evidence provides the rationale. Each section focuses on a practical skill and the procedure involved.

Cardiac intervention is a fast expanding field of medicine that is reducing the need for cardiac surgery. A Nurse's Guide to Caring for Cardiac Intervention Patients will enable nurses to fully prepare their patients and families for various cardiac intervention procedures.

This book will provide student nurses, students studying for NVQ levels II and III, SNVQ and those students who are undertaking an Access to Higher Education (Nursing) Courses, with user-friendly and contemporary information in relation to some of the key clinical practice issues that they may experience when caring for individuals.

Following on from the first book entitled 'Conservative treatment of Male Urinary Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction' this book has been expanded to include seven new chapters and existing chapters have been extensively updated.

The text will provide the nurse with an insight and understanding of contemporary issues that affect men, their partners and their families. The subject matter concerns men's health from a general practice nurse's perspective. There are seventeen chapters in total addressing key/salient issues associated with the health of men.

This book provides Nurse Practitioners working in the field of Acute Medicine with an up to date, practical, and comprehensive guide to the management of acute medical patients. It serves as a text from which the busy highly skilled nurse can obtain information on assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute medical conditions.

This book has been developed to help nurses who are in nurse practitioner roles by supporting them to develop their 'advanced practice skills'. This book is intended to build on skills and knowledge that nurses will have acquired at staff nurse level.

Caring for older people encompasses complex physical, social and psychological needs, and poses many diverse challenges for nurses. Caring for Older People in the Community provides nurses with an up to date practical resource that explores these challenges.

The author addresses the different stages a patient may experience prior to receiving a VAD (Ventricular Assist Device, beginning with the various reasons for gaining venous access and specific challenges this may present e.g. age, acute and chronic disease processes, anatomical anomalies and cosmetic issues.

Featuring 11 chapters, each one with a detailed glossary, Learning to Care for People with Learning Disabilities is designed to be used as a reference book in either the clinical setting, classroom or at home. Chapters are re-divided into discrete sections reflecting contemporary Learning Disability nursing practice.

This text will help students understand fundamental aspects of clinical practice in order to provide safe and effective care to children and their families in various situations.