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Proud to be a Nurse

The Encouragement Book

by German Quernheim, Angelika Zegelin

This book demonstrates the importance of professional pride for carers in training, teaching and practice. The authors explain which mechanisms and strategies help to develop this attitude. They describe the facets of professional pride as identity, individuality, passion, courage, selfworth, meaningfulness, knowledge, and education. The contents provide a boost to professional carers and give them the courage to be proactive against chronic pressures and ethical dilemmas and to change situations that are undignifed. Occupational profles and practice reports offer specifc role models and tips for implementation. The authors convey the basics of lobbying activity in the caring professions. They show carers how to represent themselves successfully and how to convey and embody selfconfdence outwardly.

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What We Can Still Do!

Basal Stimulation in End-of-life Care

by Stephan Kostrzewa / Marion Kutzner

Meeting those who are dying often leaves people feeling helpless and lost for words. Nurses face the questions “What can we still do?” and “How can we provide adequate support for the dying on their final journey?” The authors answer these questions by transferring the concept of basal stimulation to support for the dying and describe its possible applications in palliative care and hospice work. They document the differences between end-of-life care in hospices, hospitals and retirement homes. They describe how peoples’ experience, perception and bodily functions change during the dying process and what alleviates their symptoms. In so doing, they also demonstrate how nurses overcome hesitancy and insecurity through touch and support and allow hands and gestures to talk when verbal language falls silent.

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Palliative Care for People with Dementia

by Stephan Kostrzewa

The practice-oriented palliative care manual describes how caregivers can care for, support, and accompany dying people with dementia.

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Integration of Foreign Employees in Nursing

Theories, Concepts as Well as Pedagogical Experiences and Framework Recommendations for Practice

by Michael Bossle / Horst Kunhardt

The shortage of skilled nursing staff is glaring. Staffing needs will increase strongly due to retirements over the next ten years. To improve the situation, professional associations are calling for better working and general conditions, adequate staffing and remuneration, greater investment in training and professional development, and more decision-making powers for nursing professionals in the healthcare system. Recruiting and integrating foreign nursing professionals is an important element in reducing the shortage of skilled workers.

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Care-related Micro-training

by Martin Schieron

The practical book on micro-trainingdescribesthe most important features,elements and fields of application ofmicro-training. The author lists the necessarycompetences of trainees anddescribes how to apply and evaluatemicro-training. He explains the basicsof micro-training, shows how to assess,create and use training material andpresents examples of micro-training.

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Communication and Interaction in Care

by Heinz-J. Büker, Margret Schumacher

Communication and interaction areamong the key skills that need to be acquiredin nursing training and applied inpractice. The authors of this short textbookon communication and interactionin nursing introduce the basics ofcommunication and describe the communicativeskills of empathy and activelistening.

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Neuro-palliative Care

by Christoph Gerhard

This interdisciplinary practical handbookon palliative care for people withneurological diseases offers a person-centered and resource-orientedperspective on patients and aims topromote and maintain their quality andsense of life at the end of life. It describeshow symptoms of neurologicallyimpaired people can be systematicallyrecognized and specificallytreated and it shows how team memberscan communicate with peoplewith impaired communication, confusionand impaired consciousness.

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Person-centred Nursing Practice

by Christoph von Dach, Hanna Mayer

This is a reference book on the developmentof nursing practice in healthcarefacilities. The authors present person-centered nursing practice in itsbasic principles and with a model. Theydescribe paths, roles and examples of aperson-centered development culture.Using examples, they show how theconcept of person-centeredness canbe developed, planned, implemented,applied, evaluated, researched andtaught.

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February 2016

Nurse Writers of the Great War

by Christine Hallett, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz

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May 2016

Nurse Writers of the Great War

by Christine Hallett, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz

The First World War was the first 'total war'. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses. Of these, some were experienced professionals, while others had undergone only minimal training. But regardless of their preparation, they would all gain a unique understanding of the conditions of industrial warfare. Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare. ;

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February 2016

Nurse Writers of the Great War

by Christine Hallett, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz

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Notes for Personal Care Workers

The Quick Reference Book on Caring for the Elderly

by Sylke Werner

This quick reference book explains what personal care is, why it is necessary, which competencies personal care workers require, and how to safely and professionally care for, engage, and support people in need of care and their relatives in their daily lives. Target Group: Personal care workers, geriatric nurses

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Notes for Dementia Support Workers

The Quick Reference Book on Working with People with Dementia

by Sylke Werner

The practical quick reference book for dementia support workers, who inspire, support, and care for people with dementia in their daily lives in their own homes and in residential care. With a clear, specific, and professional approach, Sylke Werner explains the responsibilities that dementia support work entails and the forms and symptoms of dementia. She provides detailed descriptions of activities and ways of life for people with dementia, as well as work on the patient’s life story, care, and activities in the patient’s own home, care homes, and palliative care environments. Challenging behavior, the importance of care workers’ being attentive to their own needs, and legal principles are also covered in this practical handbook for dementia support workers. Target Group: Dementia support workers, geriatric nurses, activity and enrichment specialists, nursing assistants/direct care workers

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Protection in In-home Care for the Elderly

Preventing and Identifying Abusive Situations – Supporting Care Recipients and Caregivers

by Barbara Baumeister, Trudi Beck (editors)

Why and how are elderly people abused when they receive care in their own homes? How can this abuse be identified and prevented? The authors explains why the elderly are abused when they receive at-home care, differentiate between various forms of abuse, and demonstrate how it can be identified. They present interventions and provide tools for preventing and identifying abuse and for supporting care recipients and caregivers. Target Group: Geriatric nurses, social workers, geriatricians

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Green for the Soul

How to Help People Blossom

by Berndt Vogel

This richly illustrated and clearly structured publication demonstrates how green indoor and outdoor spaces can be used to stabilize individuals’ psychiatric health, to enable relaxation and recovery, to engage people, to enable them to experience inclusion, and to develop creativity and imagination. The author describes the diverse ways that gardening can be used to foster creativity and to engage, and presents the opportunities for interaction that landscapes offer people, animals, and plants. She explains how landscapes can prompt a search for meaning in crisis situations or everyday life and presents spaces for new experiences and taking stock of past experiences in green environments. Target Group: Horticultural therapists, occupational therapists, activity therapists, landscape architects, psychiatric nurses

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August 2016

Evidence-based Nursing and Caring

by Johann Behrens, Gero Langer

Evidence-based-nursing and caring, a method that relies on scientifically verifiable data from an outside perspective (“external evidence”) as well as the individual needs of those cared for as well as the caretakers (“internal evidence”). This title offers a detailed insight into external and internal evidence in nursing care and shows in a 6-step-approach how to • make shared decision • analyse and describe problems • find literature and relevant studies • critically evaluate nursing studies and their quality • change nursing practice and • evaluate nursing care. Target Group: Nursing Students, Nurse Educators.

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Crisis Intervention in Nursing Settings

Practice Book on Psychosocial Crisis Support for Nurses and Health Professionals

by Manuela Fastner

Critical experiences, the confrontation with critical life events and the traumatization of patients and relatives are among the stressful everyday experiences in nursing and health care professions. With this practical book on crisis intervention in nursing, the author presents a handbook for practitioners in nursing and health care professions.

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Gerontology – Compact

Short Textbook for Professional Nursing and Social Work

by Kathrin Kürsten/Heike Kautz/Hermann Brandenburg (Eds.)

Professional care and social work care for older people require thorough knowledge of gerontology, social work and nursing science. This book explains basic concepts of ageing, care and social work, describes the fundamentals of philanthropy and ethical decision-making as well as describing care policy stakeholders and fields of action.

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Nursing Education Manual

Theory - Empiricism - Practice

by Maria A. Marchwacka (Ed.)

The handbook explains theoretical approaches to nursing education, provides empirical findings on the concept of education in nursing, and shows possibilities for practical applications and implementation of nursing education using examples in vocational education, such as interdisciplinary learning, competence orientation, simulation testing, and inclusion, as well as professionalism and awareness of language registers of teachers.

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Caring for People with Paraplegia

Assessment, Problems, Interventions and Evaluation

by Ute Haas

Paraplegia generally means a sudden, although sometimes gradual, change in the lives of those affected and their relatives, which challenges all previous behavior patterns and life activities. Caring for and looking after people with this condition is very challenging and demands thorough knowledge and special skills on the part of caregivers as well as close interdisciplinary cooperation. The second edition has been updated and expanded in light of new scientific and practice-related findings concerning respiratory and excretion problems, including surgical procedures on the intestines, pressure sores and pain, as well as body image. The theoretical frame of reference for the care process in the form of Gordon’s functional health patterns is explained and illustrated in a new chapter for all process elements.

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The Encouragement Book

by German Quernheim, Angelika Zegelin

Basal Stimulation in End-of-life Care

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by Stephan Kostrzewa

Theories, Concepts as Well as Pedagogical Experiences and Framework Recommendations for Practice

by Michael Bossle / Horst Kunhardt

by Martin Schieron

by Heinz-J. Büker, Margret Schumacher

by Christoph Gerhard

by Christoph von Dach, Hanna Mayer

by Christine Hallett, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz

by Christine Hallett, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz

by Christine Hallett, Christine Hallett, Jane Schultz

The Quick Reference Book on Caring for the Elderly

by Sylke Werner

The Quick Reference Book on Working with People with Dementia

by Sylke Werner

Preventing and Identifying Abusive Situations – Supporting Care Recipients and Caregivers

by Barbara Baumeister, Trudi Beck (editors)

How to Help People Blossom

by Berndt Vogel

by Johann Behrens, Gero Langer

Practice Book on Psychosocial Crisis Support for Nurses and Health Professionals

by Manuela Fastner

Short Textbook for Professional Nursing and Social Work

by Kathrin Kürsten/Heike Kautz/Hermann Brandenburg (Eds.)

Theory - Empiricism - Practice

by Maria A. Marchwacka (Ed.)

Assessment, Problems, Interventions and Evaluation

by Ute Haas

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