Becoming a Nurse will demystify what you need to know while preparing you to meet NMC standards and become a confident, practising professional. This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, and includes four new chapters on ...

Since the publication of the First Edition of Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology, the textual fabric in which contemporary society functions has undergone a radical transformation - namely, the ongoing information revolution ...

This second edition has been completely updated to include new studies, new computer applications and an additional chapter on problems and issues that can arise when carrying out content analysis in four major categories: measurement, indication ...

Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure ...

Introduction: A very British revolution -- 1. Atmospheric impurity -- 2. Below the poverty line -- 3. Reinventing Liberalism -- 4. The health of the nation -- 5. The well-being of the nation -- 6. The greatest argument for socialism ever produced ...

This guide helps undergraduate medics and junior doctors, as well as experienced doctors taking on new managerial responsibilities, to become effective leaders and managers by introducing both management and clinical leadership theory and ...

This book examines European welfare states, how and why they are changing, and how they are likely to develop.

An essential companion for students across the social and health sciences, this text provides a wide-ranging coverage of qualitative methods complemented by extended illustration from the array of academic disciplines in which qualitative ...

The Politics of Evidence Based Policymaking identifies how to work with policymakers to maximize the use of scientific evidence. Policymakers cannot consider all evidence relevant to policy problems. They use two shortcuts: ‘rational’ ways to ...

How do academics decide what counts as "proper" knowledge, worthy of being read, cited, funded? And is feminist scholarship recognised as such? These questions drive this groundbreaking book, which offers an ethnography of academia.