Tag: allied health professionals

The Resilience Toolkit: Powerful Ways to Thrive in Blue-light Services (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor(s): Rees J
First published:2019 Published: Bristol Publisher: SRA Books
Print ISBN:9781912300198

Today’s workplace is fast-paced, highly complex, and sometimes even life-threatening. Yet it is possible to thrive in the -pressure cooker’ of modern work life.

We all have the right to enjoy rather than just endure work. In the unpredictability of even the most challenging environments, the route to success and fulfilment at work is to build our resilience.

This ground-breaking book provides a highly effective toolkit that will empower you to survive, thrive and flourish in the dynamic and fast-changing context of blue-light services.

Discover how to:

  • Be ready for the unexpected, feel calm and confident under pressure and avoid burnout
  • Reduce stress and anxiety by understanding the essential components of a resilient work life
  • Evaluate your own resilience factor with the Workplace Resilience Instrument

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Thistlethwaite J and McKimm J
Pages: 104p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. (31 July 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1118756386

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education. This concise text includes how to identify and develop professional behaviours, how they are assessed, and how to challenge unprofessional behaviours.  Health Care Professionalism at a Glance:

  • Provides a user-friendly and thought provoking overview of health care professionalism
  • Introduces the main topics, key definitions and explores aspects relevant to learners and novice professionals
  • Considers fundamental features of professionalism that students are expected to acquire as well as how they are taught, learned and assessed
  • Includes summary boxes that highlight important points, reflection points, clinical cases and suggested further reading
  • Includes references relevant to different countries’ accrediting bodies

Medicine at a Glance, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Davey P
Pages: 504p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, (12 Jan. 2010)
eISBN-13: 978-1405186162

The central title in the market-leading at a Glance series, Medicine at a Glance provides a concise and accessible introduction to the study of medicine and is the ultimate revision guide for the core medical curriculum. Ideal for medical students, Foundation Programme doctors and those training in the allied health professions, Medicine at a Glance presents each topic as clear, double-page spreads with key facts accompanied by tables, illustrations, photographs and diagrams. Used by thousands of students in its previous two editions, Medicine at a Glance has been fully revised and updated to ensure that it remains THE essential revision guide purchase Contains new chapters on history and examination, patient consent and confidentiality, and substance abuse Further coverage of the essential facts for the diagnosis and treatment of common symptoms and conditions.

Oxford Handbook of Prescribing for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (2 ed.)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Sue Beckwith and Penny Franklin
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199575817
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199575817.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Prescribing for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, Second Edition gives concise, practical and expert advice on all aspects of non-medical prescribing, and has been completely revised and updated since the first edition. Containing the practical principles nurses and other non-medical prescribers need to practice safely, effectively and cost-consciously whatever the situation, it provides evidence-based advice on a wide selection of subjects to give a complete picture of the role of the prescriber. The topics covered range from basic pharmacology, to the legal aspects and processes of prescribing practice, as well as prescribing for specific conditions and special groups, such as the older person and the very young. It features the most recent legislation and changes to prescribing standards, giving nurses and non-medical prescribers access to the most up-to-date information to inform their practice. There is also additional content on complementary and alternative medicine, and guidelines on prescribing for cosmetic effect.

Developing Multiprofessional Teamwork For Integrated Children`s Services

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Angela Anning … [et Al.].
Pages: 157 Size: 4.42 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 May, 2010
eISBN-13: 9780335238125

This book is an important practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children`s services. The first book to combine theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the `real world` of children`s services, and reflections on policy and practice in inter-agency services in England, this fully updated new edition retains its popular approach, while reflecting the numerous changes to policy, practice, and research. The book exemplifies what multi-professional work looks like in practice. It examines real dilemmas faced by professionals trying to make it work, and shows how these dilemmas can be resolved. It considers lessons to be learnt, implications for practice and recommendations for making multi-professional practice effective. Featuring useful guidance, theoretical frameworks and evidence-based insights into practice, this book is a key resource for students on courses studying early childhood and families, as well as social workers, teachers, support workers in children`s centres, family support workers, health workers, and managers of a range of children and youth services.

Ayliffe`s Control of Healthcare-Associated Infection

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Adam P. Fraise, Christina Bradley

Pages: 521 Size: 2.66 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc – M.U.A.
Published: 29 May, 2009
eISBN-13: 9781444113075

The fifth edition of this classic text is the definitive, clinically orientated guide to a critical area within healthcare practice, full of sound, practical advice for all those involved in the control of infection in a variety of settings. Known in previous editions as Control of Hospital Infection, the new Ayliffe`s Control of Healthcare-Associated Infection has again been brought up to date and thoroughly revised to emphasise the broader range of its coverage, from the hospital setting – including the ward, operating theatres, kitchens and laundry facilities – to health care provision in the community. Returning readers will find that the content has also been restructured, improving access to related topics. Part One discusses the basic principles of infection control, including administrative issues, surveillance and reporting, sterilization, disinfection and decontamination, with an emphasis on the key area of hand hygiene. Part Two covers the specific areas of prophylaxis and treatment of infections. In Part Three prevention in different healthcare settings is presented, including issues particular to special wards and departments such as paediatric and neonatal units, intensive care, the elderly and those being treated or working within allied health areas such as x-ray, physiotherapy and the laboratory setting. Ayliffe`s Control of Healthcare-Associated Infection remains essential reading for all infection control practitioners, nurses, doctors, surgeons, allied health professionals, hospital managers and administrators, and public health personnel.

ABC of Major Trauma

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

David V. Skinner (Editor), Peter A. Driscoll (Editor)

Pages: 242 Size: 11.67 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Bmj Books
Published: 22 January, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118332320

Prehospital care is a growing area in medicine, and emergency treatments are becoming more sophisticated as the potential to save lives grow. The fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on nuclear and biological emergencies.  Each chapter gives concise and clear guidance and is accompanied by excellent photographs and diagrams.  Edited and written by leading UK trauma authorities, this is a truly comprehensive and practical book for everyday use by emergency medicine staff, nurses, hospital doctors, paramedics, and ambulance services.