Vanessa Heaslip – författare

The notion of vulnerability is critical to person-centred and high-quality nursing and healthcare practice, and underpins all nursing education. Understanding Vulnerability: a Nursing and Healthcare Approach focuses on vulnerability experienced every day by patients and clients in healthcare, and provides clear and supportive guidance to nurses and other healthcare practitioners on protecting and caring for vulnerable patients.  Taking a fresh, critical and reflective perspective that reflects current trends towards the promotion of equality and acknowledges everyone’s vulnerability, this book is essential reading for all nursing and healthcare students, as well as healthcare practitioners who are committed to providing person-centred care.  Special features:•One of the first books to address the issue of vulnerability from a nursing and healthcare perspective•Written by a group of experienced professionals, academics and educationalists with both educational and research expertise in the exploration of vulnerability•Includes narratives, perspectives and case studies, illustrating and bringing to life the issues within the book

Using archaeological sites and historic landscapes to promote mental health well-being represents one of the most significant advances in archaeological resource management for many years. Its potential contribution to health-care and wellness initiatives is boundless. Prompted by the Human Henge project working within the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, this volume provides an overview of work going on across Britain and the near Continent at many different scales. Contributors share experiences, and discuss the outcomes, implications, and theoretical underpinnings of heritage-based well-being projects.

If you’re studying nursing, health, or social care, this book is your essential guide to understanding how research shapes real-world care—and how you can use it to improve your own practice.Clear. Practical. Student-friendly.Designed to cut through complexity, this book helps you finally make sense of research and apply it with confidence in both academic work and clinical settings.Why this book is a must-haveMaster the essentials of researchUnderstand why research is done, how it’s designed, and what makes evidence trustworthy.Build real evidence-based practice skillsLearn how to find, evaluate, and apply research to improve patient care and professional decision-making.Gain confidence in academic workFrom literature reviews to dissertations, this guide supports you through every stage of your studies.Make sense of complex concepts—easilyClear explanations, real examples, and structured learning help you grasp even challenging topics.Learn what matters in practiceEthics, funding, data collection, analysis, and communication—everything you need to understand how research becomes action.Whether you're starting your first research module or preparing for your dissertation, this book helps you move from confusion to clarity—and from theory to practice.A practical foundation for better learning, better assignments, and better care.

This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations.

This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations. In particular, contributions focus on six high priority crises through which children and young people become either permanently or temporarily separated from their families: removal by child welfare services, migration, family breakdown, placement into institutional care, incarceration and/or the death of a parent. Authors emphasize the feelings of grief and loss experienced both by the child and their family whatever the separation context and the eventual impact on the young person ´s mental health. They conclude that reunification with the family is not always possible or desirable and permanent alternative sources of care and/or attachment may be required.  But if reunification is possible, it is a complex and a multidimensional pathway as children move from one care context to the next.  Innovation, coproduction with the birth family and tackling stigma and discrimination associated with family separations, is a high priority.