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

Research and Evidence-Based Practice is an accessible textbook for nursing, health and social care students seeking to understand what research is and how it can provide evidence for practice.Through clear explanations, key case studies, questions and activities, the book will help you to understand the principles of research and develop your own evidence-based practice. You will learn:Why research is carried out, what the aims are, and why it matters.How to search and review the literature and evaluate the quality of researchHow research projects are designed, how participants are recruited, how data is collected and analysed, and how research findings are communicatedAbout the costs of research and how it is fundedAbout the ethics of research in health and social careHow to review evidence and how evidence is used to improve the quality of careThis book will help you to demonstrate your understanding of research and evidence and to develop and promote best practice in health and social care.From reviews:“I would definitely recommend this book to any student starting a research module or even to refresh your memories ready for your dissertations/literature reviews. The content included is everything I would want to know as a student starting a research module. The glossary at the back is great for understanding the research terminology, which can often feel like a brand new language when you first start reading research papers. There are also handy references which you can use to do further reading and enhance your critical discussion within your assignments.The book lives up to its intention to act as a lead-in to the research topic and has a clear and concise style throughout, whilst explaining things in the amount of detail needed to fully understand them. A must read for any nursing or health and social care student!”Review on studentnurseandbeyond.co.uk, March 2019Essentials is a series of accessible, introductory textbooks for students in nursing, health and social care. New and forthcoming titles in the series:The Care ProcessCommunication SkillsLeadershipMental HealthPromoting Health and WellbeingStudy Skills

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.