Books published by Open University Press

Suitable for nurses, this guide answers common questions about how to compile and write a good nursing portfolio. It includes: examples of good and challenging portfolio pieces; tools and techniques for reflection and critical thinking; and, guidance on the NMC competency frameworks.

This is a highly practical resource for lecturers with a particular focus on working with large groups, especially in a lecture environment. It is designed to complement and support the National Professional Standards Framework and maps directly on to the six areas of activity outlined within it.

Through simple examples, exercises and gradual progression, this book helps to remove the anxiety often associated with the arithmetic involved in drug calculations commonly encountered in clinical practice. It includes more than 500 test questions in total.

Demystifying the links between theory and practice for those studying in the field of early childhood.

This book supports early years' practitioners in understanding their own practice working with young children in greater depth.

This book is aimed at promoting practitioners to reflect deeply on the play provision they make for children in classrooms and settings and to think through their own values related to play and playful pedagogies.

This book departs from some of the ideas about play that are held dear by many in early childhood education.

With an emphasis on practical application, this lively and accessible guide will help nurses to hone and develop their communication skills.

This book is designed to be the ultimate companion to help you fly through OSCEs with ease.

This book is designed as a practical toolkit to aid those training to do clinical supervision or starting out as clinical supervisors.

Every manager, every coach, every HR professional, every trainer, every team leader - anyone who needs to get the best out of a group needs to know how to facilitate.

This accessible guide takes the mystery and fear out of care planning and will help you to develop a person centred approach to delivering good quality nursing care in all clinical settings.

Through a series of case studies, the book highlights how factors in one learning context can conspire to make feedback and other forms of formative assessment highly instrumental, whilst in others this can be a springboard to deep and meaningful learning.

Managing Successful Universities, second edition considers how good management of universities can lead to successful universities.

Being full of scenarios, exercises, examples and links between practice issues, this student-friendly text promises to be an engaging book for nurse students on all branches.

This book is essential reading for psychology and health psychology students, those taking eating behaviour modules, and eating behaviour and disorders courses. It is also valuable reading for nutritionists, food scientists, occupational therapists and medical students.

The second edition of this book guides aspiring and newly appointed CSIs through the methods and procedures for the accurate recording and recovery of evidence from the scene of a crime.

This toolkit suits coaches and prospective coaches in all sectors, particularly those who want a rapid and accessible route to understanding coaching practice and who want a reliable source book for coaching methods.

With over 1500 entries, this popular dictionary provides concise and up to date explanations of the theories, approaches and terminology that define front-line social work and social care.

How to Research is a clear and accessible guide to the business of doing a research project. It systematically takes the reader through from the planning to the writing up and finishing off.

Sound clinical judgement and decision-making is vital to delivery of high quality, patient-centred, nursing and interprofessional healthcare.

This book is aimed at those studying and working in the field of health care, including nurses and the professions allied to medicine, who have little prior knowledge of statistics but for whom critical review of research is an essential skill.

This book focuses on child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) for nurses training and working in this field. The authors explore the various roles CAMH nurses fulfil and consider how these roles might be undertaken with confidence.

This book examines geography's key concepts, and provides teachers with a theoretically robust and practical approach to curriculum planning using a concept-led approach.

This accessible, evidence-based book explores how important it is for midwives to understand the psychological aspects of care, in order to create positive experiences for mothers and families.

This popular introductory book provides a clear introduction to the key ideas within media studies.

This book-length glossary provides lucid, insightful definitions of the most significant keywords in news and journalism studies.

This book introduces grammar in a gentle way by illustrating the kinds of issues students may come across by setting them in context using a soap opera style script.