Bailliere's Nurses Dictionary ― For Nurses and Health Care Workers

The 27th edition of this established and well-respected pocket dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of nurses and healthcare workers in a variety of clinical settings throughout the world. Packed with useful information, and now published in full-colour throughout, Baillière's Dictionary for Nurses and Healthcare Workers provides the essential pocket reference resource for everyone involved in nursing and healthcare.

• User friendly text presented in a handy pocket size format
• Suitable for a variety of settings raging from the high-tech high-dependency environment to primary care and community settings
• Clear artwork helps further clarify terms and difficult concepts
• Includes common abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes and roots, together with units of measurement and normal values
• Helpful appendices cover nutrition, resuscitation, first aid, medicines control, immunization and vaccinations, and prevention and control of infection
• Ideal for all newcomers to the clinical and healthcare environment!

• Now published in full-colour throughout!
• Expanded number of entries to aid comprehensiveness
• Includes the latest information on revalidation, the legal and professional framework of nursing, professional standards of practice and behaviour, and clinical supervision