Category: Safeguarding

Midwifery Skills at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lindsay P, Bagness C and Peate I
Pages: 208p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, (16 Mar. 2018)
eISBN-13: 9781119233985

Being an effective midwife requires a range of knowledge and skills, all of which are essential to provide competent and safe care to childbearing women and their infants. Midwifery Skills at a Glance offers an invaluable, straightforward guide for students and practitioners – offering readable, easily digestible information, supported with illustrations throughout to enhance application to practice.  Clear and concise throughout, Midwifery Skills at a Glance covers a wide range of skills – exploring issues such as infection control, personal hygiene care, and safeguarding; assessment, examination and screening skills; how to care for the woman and neonate with complex needs; drug administration and pain relief.

  • A comprehensive, highly visual guide to the skills essential for safe, effective, and compassionate midwifery practice
  • Written by experts in their field
  • Briefly describes each skill and provides clear illustrations — making it an ideal companion in clinical practice
  • Offers instruction on the safe use of a wide range of essential skills required to deliver safe, evidence-based maternity care
  • Includes service user viewpoints and key points to help consolidate learning and reflect on the experience of receiving care

Children and Young People’s Nursing Skills at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gormley-Fleming E and Martin D
Pages: 160p.
Format: Epub
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell, 2 Mar. 2018
eISBN-13: 978-1119078531

Children and Young People’s Nursing Skills at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration children’s nursing students. Highly visual, each clinical skill is covered in a two-page spread, with superb colour illustrations accompanied by clear informative text.

Providing up to date, evidence-based information on a wide range of clinical skills that are required by today’s children’s nurses, this comprehensive and accessible text makes it easy for the reader to grasp the fundamentals in order to meet the care needs of the child and family, both in the hospital and community setting.  Structured around the key systems of the body, the book is divided into sixteen sections, and covers all the essential clinical skills, including:

  • Principles of assessment
  • Communication
  • Record keeping
  • Drug calculations and administration
  • Safeguarding
  • Care planning
  • Respiratory and cardiac care
  • Gastrointestinal care
  • ECG reading and interpretation
  • Neurological assessment
  • Musculoskeletal care.

Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day: My Autobiography

Posted onAuthorJames Ryan

Author: Moore T.
Pages: 320 Format: Epub Publisher: Michael Joseph
Date: 17/09/2020
eISBN-13: 9780241486115

Born at the tail end of the Spanish flu epidemic, Tom Moore was raised in the Yorkshire Dales by a loving family that had not escaped tragedy. Yet when the clouds of war threatened, Tom raised his hand and joined up to fight. The Second World War took him to the Far East, where his can-do spirit was forged. Whether fighting for his life in Burma or helming a firm back home, racing motorbikes or raising a family, he always sought to do his very best. To make a difference to those around him. Captain Tom’s story is that of our parents and our grandparents.

Safeguarding children and young people online: A short guide for social workers

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Megele, Claudia. Pages: 277 Format: PDF Publisher: The Policy Press
Published: 01/01/2020
eISBN-13: 9781447331834

The first book to provide practitioners with an evidence-based, practical guide to safeguarding children and young people from abuse in a world of sexting, selfies and snap chat. Case study examples and discussion of key principles present an overview of the key risks to children and young people online.

The straightforward guide to safeguarding adults: From getting the basics right to applying the care act and criminal investigations

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Barnett, Deborah. Pages: 303 Format: PDF Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Published: 18/04/2019
eISBN-13: 9781784506407

This is a complete guide to safeguarding adults in frontline practice. Based on legal framework set out in the Care Act 2014, this new manual shows how to interpret the law and how to implement these principles in frontline practice. It also includes case studies to help recognise common issues, and tools for risk assessment.

Safeguarding adults together under the Care Act 2014: a multi-agency practice guide

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Starns, Barbara. Pages: 266 Format: PDF Publisher: Critical Publishing
Published: 07/10/2019
eISBN-13: 9781913063276

The Care Act 2014 has been criticised for the lack of a clear process for professionals to follow. With its emphasis on the personal individual approach to safeguarding, professionals have sometimes felt unclear as to how they should deliver safeguarding support.

Written by a practitioner, with an academic background, Safeguarding Adults Together seeks to provide that vital guidance. Whilst there is an absence of process in the Act, there is still a clear set of safeguarding elements which when put together provide a framework of operation for professionals to become more effective in their safeguarding practice. Professionals tend each to look at a particular aspect of safeguarding, but it is only when the whole framework is demonstrated can practitioners understand how they can best provide good safeguarding support to adults who need their help.  This book provides the reader with that knowledge and understanding about how adult safeguarding works by translating the Care Act into practice.

This is a follow book to the successful The Social Worker’s Guide to the Care Act 2014 by Pete Feldon ISBN 9781911106685.

Safeguarding Adults:

  • provides a unique safeguarding framework approach that explains what adult safeguarding is and how it works.
  • includes memorable illustrations that explain difficult complex elements of safeguarding
  • is packed with practice case studies and examples to support understanding of safeguarding and application of knowledge and skill.

Advances in Elder Abuse Research: Practice, Legislation and Policy

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Phelan, Amanda. Pages: 266 Format: PDF Publisher: Springer
Published: 01/01/2020
eISBN-13: 9783030250935

This book provides an insight into advances in elder abuse in the areas of research, policy, practice and legislation. It provides readers with a broad understanding of the topic and considers the progress in elder abuse knowledge. The book explores the nexus of ageism and elder abuse, describes key social policies and their legislative manifestation, covers major policies and programs related to elder abuse, defines elder sexual abuse and much more. It offers the reader a comprehensive insight into new perspectives and approaches to both understanding and responding to elder abuse. As such it will be an asset to academics, students, healthcare practitioners, policy makers and the general public.

Examination of the Newborn

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Anne Lomax. Pages: 267 Size: 5.62 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 18 June, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118913185

This is a practical, evidence-based guide for students and practitioners to undertake safe and effective neonatal examination. It is revised and updated throughout in line with current national and Nursing and Midwifery Council guidelines. It includes full colour photographs and illustrations, as well as clinical case studies at the end of each chapter to help guide and illustrate good practice. A new companion website contains a wealth of information on all aspects of examining the newborn, including safeguarding, early warning systems, and tongue tie, as well as interactive multiple choice questions, and links to videos.

Safeguarding and Protecting Children in the Early Years

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By James Reid With Steven Burton. Pages: 257 Size: 5.66 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 09 October, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781315559551

This new edition provides a comprehensive guide for safeguarding and child protection in the early years. Aimed at both students and practitioners, it offers clear insight and guidance into the legal and policy foundations for effective safeguarding practice, together with both the historical context and also more contemporary developments in safeguarding practice in the early years sector.  It has been fully updated to reflect current legislation and includes new material on interagency work, supporting children’s resilience and safeguarding all children. Drawing on the everyday dilemmas and experiences of early years professionals, it helps you to find solutions to both practical and moral issues in a context of legal duties and responsibilities. The chapters consider:

  • the historical context of safeguarding and child protection
  • the legislative framework around safeguarding and child protection
  • safeguarding through inter-professional and multidisciplinary work
  • the identification of neglect in early years children
  • the consequential abuse that can occur as a result of parental behaviours
  • safeguarding children’s health and wellbeing
  • safeguarding as a member of a team, and the importance of communication
  • safeguarding against the misuse of technology.

Safeguarding and Protecting Children in the Early Years has been written by a multidisciplinary team of academics from a breadth of UK universities, with a wealth of experience in safeguarding and child protection, the EYFS, health visiting, social work, the police and in leading and managing services for children and families. This second edition is essential reading for anyone working with or aspiring to work with children in the early years.

Health Visiting: Preparation for Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Karen A Luker, Gretl A McHugh, Rosamund Bryar. Pages: 309 Size: 1.85 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 22 July, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781119078593

The fourth edition of this seminal text retains its focus on placing the health visitor at the forefront of supporting and working with children, families, individuals and communities. Health Visiting: Preparation for Practice has been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes and developments in health policy, public health priorities, and health visiting. It considers the public health role of the health visitor, and the important role and responsibilities the health visitor has with safeguarding children to ensure the child has the best possible start in life. Key features:

  • Fully updated throughout, with new content on practice and policy developments
  • Takes into account the challenges and changing role of the health visitor, and the need to ensure that their practice is evidenced-based
  • Includes an additional chapter on working in a multicultural society with a discussion on some of the challenges faced by health visitors
  • Discusses and debates the practice of public health and working with communities
  • Examines the role of the health visitor with safeguarding and child protection, as well as working within a multi-professional team
  • Features case studies and learning activities

Health Visiting: Preparation for Practice is essential reading for student health visitors, public health nurses, and those on community placements, as well as other health practitioners working with and in the community.

Children and Young People’s Mental Health: Essentials for Nurses and Other Professionals

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Tim McDougall. Pages: 277 Size: 1.43 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 04 October, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781315690223

Children and Young People’s Mental Health equips nurses and healthcare professionals with the essential skills and competencies needed to deliver effective assessment, treatment and support to children and young people with mental health problems and disorders, and their families. Drawing on McDougall’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing and taking the Cavendish Report and Willis Commission into account, this new textbook has been designed to ensure those working in CAMHS can continue to provide a high quality, evidence-based service. The book explores best practice in a variety of settings and addresses issues such as eating disorders, self-harm, ADHD, forensic mental health issues and misuse of drugs and alcohol in children and young people, as well as child protection, clinical governance, safeguarding and legal requirements. Furthermore, with young people contributing directly to several chapters, the book reflects the importance of involving them in planning, delivering and evaluating CAMHS services. It is essential reading for all health and social care professionals and students working with children and young people, particularly those working in specialist child and adolescent mental health settings.

Oxford Handbook of Paediatrics (2 ed.)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Robert C. Tasker, Robert J. McClure, and Carlo L. Acerini
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Print ISBN-13: 9780199608300
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199608300.001.0001

This invaluable reference covers all significant aspects of acute and chronic paediatrics. Areas such as neonatology, surgery, genetics and congenital malformations and child protection are covered in a user-friendly and succinct style.