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	Aquatic Exercise for Pregnancy A resource book for midwives and health & fitness professionals Susan Baines, Lecturer Midwifery & Applied Healthcare Ethics at University of Salford Susie Murphy, BSc (Hons), RGN, RM, Exercise Professional, Community Midwife, NHS Lanarkshire ISBN: 9781905539420 June 2010 • M&K Publishing • 132 pp A4 format Aimed at midwives and health and fitness professionals, this practical, illustrated resource book covers every aspect of one of the most beneficial forms of exercise for pregnant mothers. Aquanatal exercise combines the therapeutic properties of warm water with suitably chosen music, to create a unique method of exercising. Unlike dry land exercise, which tends to work specific parts of the body, aquanatal exercise gently works the whole body. Written by two specialist coaches for the Register of Exercise Professionals (UK), who have developed the UK’s first level3 Pregnancy Aquatics, Nutrition and Health module at the University of Salford, this book is the culmination of over ten years’ passionate interest and work in the field of aquanatal exercise. Contents include: Water generally – aquanatal specifically The anatomy of movement and the main muscles • Pool safety – risk assessment and management • Getting the best out of your classes • Aquanatal choreography • Practical tips for more fun and interesting classes • Contraindicated aquanatal exercises • The pelvic floor and aquanatal exercise • Ethical considerations • Public health, physical activity and aquanatal exercise • aquanatal exercise and parent education Nutrition during pregnancy and for physical exercise • The law and aquanatal exercise • Voice care for the aquanatal exercise coach • Marketing within the NHS • Sample screening and risk assessment forms • Sample sessions plans and client information sheets Price: £26.00
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	Fat Matters From sociology to science Edited by Gina Tsichlia, Registered Dietician and Lecturer, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and Alexandra M. Johnstone, Senior Scientist, Obesity and Metabolic Health Division, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen ISBN: 9781905539390 April 2010 • M&K Publishing• 144 pages In a consumerist society obsessed with body image and thinness, obesity levels have reached an all-time high. This multi-faceted book written by a range of experts, explores the social, cultural, clinical and psychological factors that lie behind the ‘Obesity Epidemic’. It is required reading for the many healthcare professionals dealing with the effects of obesity and for anyone who wants to know more about the causes of weight gain and the best ways of dealing with it. Fat Matters covers a range of issues from sociology through medicine to technology. This is not a book for the highly specialised expert. Rather it is a book that shows the diversity of approaches to the phenomenon of obesity, tailored to the reader who wants to be up-to-date and well-informed on a subject that is possibly as frequently discussed and as misunderstood as the weather. Contents include: Female form in the media • Social determinants of obesity • Assessing fatness • The technology of obesity • Homo Adipatus – a new species • Obesity and weight loss • The ‘patient’s’ perspective • The ‘patient’ and the ‘expert’ working together in weight management • Physical inactivity, appetite regulation and obesity • Obesity, a psychological condition? Price: £28.00
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	Cardiac Arrhythmia Recognition: An easy learning guide 3rd in the Easy Learning Guides SERIES FROM M&K Fiona Foxall, MA, BSc, Formerly Head of Continuing Education, School of Health, University of Wolverhampton ISBN: 9781905539536 • February 2010 • M&K Publishing • Paperback • 170 pages • illustrated This workbook is a no-fuss, practical guide containing all the information you need to get to grips with cardiac monitoring. It will help you recognise common cardiac arrhythmias and guide you in what actions to take when they occur. Presented in a clear and simple format, this workbook builds on your understanding. If you work your way through this book and carry out the exercises, you will soon become more con?dent and competent about haemodynamic monitoring and manipulation as well as understanding all the information that initially seems so complicated. Here’s to easy learning! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Fiona Foxall qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1984 and worked as a senior intensive care sister until 1990 when she moved into nurse education. She has always maintained clinical currency and competence by continuing to practice, teaching critical care nurses and undertaking continuing professional development within the intensive care setting. She was employed as the Head of Continuing Development in the School of Health at the University of Wolverhampton but now lives and works in Australia. Price: £14.00
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	Preventing & Reducing AGGRESSION and VIOLENCE in Health and Social Care A holistic approach Richard Byrt, Lecturer Practitioner, School of Nursing and Midwifery, De Montfort University and Arnold Lodge Medium Secure Unit, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust James Dooher, Principal Lecturer, Academic Lead for Mental Health/Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Kelvin Ford Senior Lecturer in Psychology, specialising in Mental Health Care and Psychotherapeutic Interventions at De Montfort University, Leicester. ISBN: 9781905539574 April 2010 • M&K Publishing • 280 pages No one should face aggression or violence in the workplace but these problems are increasingly being reported by health and social care workers and the people using their services. This helpful book explores the reasons why some individuals may become aggressive or violent and explains how a holistic approach can offer effective ways of preventing, anticipating, reducing and dealing with aggression and violence when they arise. By critically exploring the common issues and difficulties encountered by professionals, the authors provide valuable insights into this behaviour and how to implement safeguards against it. Contents include: A holistic approach • Violence and aggression in services and the social context • Essential principles and theoretical models • Safe, therapeutic environments • De-escalation: Reducing arousal and aggression • Non-verbal and verbal communication • Biological explanations of violence and aggression • Culture, diversity and communication • Individuals with specific communication needs • More on individuals with specific communication needs • Clients’ physical health needs • Psychosocial interventions including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy • Other types of psychotherapy and therapeutic communities Price: £28.00
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	Ward Based Critical Care A guide for health professionals Sally A. Smith MSc DipHE Nursing ENB100 998 RN, Nurse Consultant in Critical Care Outreach, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Ann M. Price MSc PGCE BSc (Hons) ENB100 RN, Senior Lecturer Canterbury Christ Church University Alistair Challiner FRCA FIMCRCSEd EDIC DCH, Consultant Intensivist, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust ISBN: 9781905539031 January 2010 • M&K Publishing • 392 pages • illustrated • £39.00 This book aims to guide practitioners in the initial management of the critically ill patient within the ward setting. It is aimed at a range of healthcare professionals including junior doctors, registered nurses physiotherapists and students. It is also relevant to practitioners who are moving into a setting that cares for acutely ill patients. It is divided into sections according to the ABCDE approach, as routinely used and taught in critical care and resuscitation training, with the intention of promoting consistent and prompt management of patients, and to prevent further deterioration. Ward-based Critical Care contains many useful features such as clinical scenarios, hot tips and practical skills and the text is richly illustrated and cross-referenced throughout. Contents include: ABCDE approach throughout • Up-to-date guidelines and policies • Initial physiological observations at admission and assessment • Treatment plans based on diagnosis and past medical history • Guidance on frequency of physiological observations • Use of ‘track and trigger’ systems • Graded response strategies • Effective handover during patient transfer • Physiological and psychosocial needs of the patient Price: £39.00
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	The Ophthalmic Study Guide For nurses and health professionals Dorothy Field, RGN, OND, BSc (Hons), PGCE (A), MA, EdD. Julie Tillotson, RGN, OND, BSc (Hons), Nurse Consultant, Bournemouth Eye Unit Mandy Macfarlane, RGN, ENB 346, ENB 934, ENB 998/LAPE, Bournemouth Eye Unit ISBN: 9781905539406 November 2009 • M&K Publishing• 224 pages • A4 format • illustrated Over recent years, an increasing variety of professionals have been involved with the care of ophthalmic patients. The aim underlying the changes of the last 20 years has been to provide an efficient, high quality and cost effective service to patients, which utilises the skills of the multidisciplinary ophthalmic team. This study guide cannot be considered to be a substitute for more formal, assessed education and training for role expansion, but can be considered in terms of being a ‘skills escalator’ in that those who make good use of it’s contents and use the little ‘To do’ sections to reflect on and research their practices should be able to develop their basic knowledge and skills in practice more quickly, and develop the habit of self assessment and self directed learning. The simple questions at the end of each chapter can be used for self-testing, or as a basis for questions that mentors could ask their students. Contents include: Information for students and mentors • Basic anatomy and physiology of the eye • Basic refraction • Basic pharmacology • Pre-operative cataract information • Intra-operative cataract care • Postoperative cataract care • Introduction to the glaucomas and primary open angle glaucoma • Primary closed angle glaucoma • The secondary glaucomas • Retinal problems • Age related macular degeneration (AMD) • Ophthalmic equipment • Basic ophthalmic procedures Price: £39.00
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	Nurses and Their Patients - Informing practice through psychodynamic insights Edited by Louise de Raeve PhD. Pg.Dip, Cassel Cert. in Psychological and Family Centred Nursing, RGN Mic Rafferty, RGN, RMN, MN, Cassel Cert. in Psychological and Family Centred Nursing, PgDip (FE) and Mary Paget, RGN, Dip N (Wales), BSc Nursing (Wales), MSc, PGCtHE ISBN: 9781905539314 September 2009 • M&K Publishing• 280 pages Research has shown that a patient’s emotional state can definitely affect the physical processes of disease and recovery. For patients undergoing hospital treatment, their relationships with nursing staff may have a major influence on their emotions and thus affect their ability to cope with their condition. This book explores the importance of the nurse–patient relationship in the light of psychoanalytic theory. Written by contributors from many different nursing backgrounds (ranging from mental health to paediatrics to palliative care), Nurses and Their Patients also includes a number of practical case studies and a section on research and clinical supervision. Anyone involved in caring for patients will find this book helpful, inspiring and thought-provoking. Contents include: Part I THEORY - The nature of the unconscious • Developing relationships • The experience of illness and loss • Passing on the blame Part II CASE STUDIES - A personal experience • Visiting time • The bubble bath • Sadie’s baby • Pre-operative anxiety: understanding why? • Joe’s story • Thoughts on the impact of a suicide PART III THE WIDER CONTEXT: RESEARCH AND SUPERVISION - Reviewing the evidence base for psychodynamic principles in nursing • ‘Fevered love’ • Using Winnicott (1960) to create a model for clinical supervision Price: £28.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)
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	Self-assessment in Axial Skeleton Musculoskeletal Trauma X-rays Karen Sakthivel-Wainford Advanced Radiographer Practitioner H.D.C.R.(R),PG Cert, MSc. ISBN: 9781905539475 M&K Publishing • August 2009 • 300 pp • illustrated Many practitioners are now continuing to expand their reporting skills from appendicular skeleton to include the axial skeleton in trauma. Other allied profession may also be reviewing axial skeleton trauma radiographs, for instance nurse practitioners (such as in cases of hip trauma). Many practitioners initially fear reviewing axial skeleton radiographs, understandably as missing an injury may have dire consequences, but with training, audit and care this fear can be overcome; and one can look forward to the challenge of axial radiograph reporting. As axial trauma radiographs can be a difficult to review, the book starts with several chapters, to introduce or revise specific axial trauma. The first chapter discusses mechanisms of injury of major trauma. Followed by a chapter on pelvic trauma. The next chapter looks at reviewing trauma cervical spine radiographs. Then is presented a series of trauma cases of the axial skeleton, on which you are asked to write reports, plus sometimes answer a few questions, (the answers are over the page). This section is divided into six chapters; trauma cases of the pelvis; of the hip and femur; the cervical spine; dorsal and lumber spine; the skull, facial bones and mandible (15 cases in each chapter); the last chapter being 25 mixed cases. Although it is preferably to work your way through the book from start to finish; if you feel you need revision on say cervical spine radiographs, then you can flick to the chapter on reviewing the cervical spine and next to the cases on cervical spine. Each case has appropriate clinical history although this may not be the original history in order to anonymous the case. Some of the cases may not have side markers these may have been removed whilst removing patients’ details. Price: £33.00
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	Perspectives on Death and Dying June L Leishman PhD, MEd (Hons), Post Grad Dip Ed, Cert HE Psychology, Cert HE Social Psychology RNT RCNT RMN and James Moir PhD, MEd (Hons), BEd ISBN: 9781905539215 • July 2009 • M&K Publishing • 148 pages • illustrated In the past, most people encountered death at a relatively young age. Dying relatives were cared for at home, and mortality rates were higher. Today, there is much less familiarity with death, which increasingly takes place in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. This wide-ranging and enlightening book offers an exploration of death and dying as human conditions that impact on the individual, their significant others and those involved with their care and well-being. It is aimed at medical and healthcare staff, social workers and counsellors, as well as social sciences and health psychology students, professional health and social care educationalists, and anyone with an interest in this topic. Drawing on aspects of social anthropology, history, and the social and behavioural sciences, the book examines the customs, attitudes and beliefs surrounding death and dying. Emphasis is placed on the unique experience of death for each individual, and the book highlights the challenges faced by those who work with people who are dying or those who have experienced loss through death. In addition, each chapter ends with some reflective questions that allow the reader to consider certain issues at a more personal level. Contents include: The loneliness of dying • Developments in end-of-life care • Death, dying and the dead body • Death and the challenge of ageing • A dying language • Making a case for death education • Death, social change and lifestyle in the UK • The End Price: £22.00 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)
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	Issues in Ophthalmic Practice Current and future challenges Edited by Susan Watkinson, BA, RN, OND (Hons), PGCEA, MSc, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Adult , Nursing, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University ISBN: 9781905539178 • July 2009 • M&K Publishing • 242 pages • illustrated Ophthalmic nurse practitioners face many challenges today, owing to the effects of demographic change, advancing technology and research, and increasing government legislation. This book contains a wealth of information related to the nursing management of people with various ophthalmic conditions. At the same time, it encourages ophthalmic nurses and allied healthcare professionals to think critically about the wider political and professional issues impacting on their everyday practice. The last three decades have seen major advances in the care of people with ophthalmic conditions in all age groups, and ophthalmic nursing has become correspondingly more complex. This timely book reflects the most current, evidence-based practice in ophthalmic nursing while highlighting the need for ophthalmic nurses to develop habits of critical thought as a way of maintaining their position within a wider community of practice. Contents include: Introduction • Issues in ophthalmic practice – current and future challenges • Pre-assessment of day-case cataract surgery • Eye emergencies • Accident & Emergency ophthalmic practice • Managing contact lenses and associated eye problems • Managing common eye disorders in the outpatient department • Ophthalmic Theatre Practice • Legal and ethical issues in ophthalmic nursing • Issues in paediatric ophthalmic nursing • Older people and ophthalmic practice • Professional education and evidence-based ophthalmic practice Price: £29.00
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	Managing Intimacy and Emotions in Advanced Fertility Care: The future of nursing and midwifery roles Helen Allan, RN RNT BSc PGDE, PhD. Reader, Senior Research Fellow at Centre of Research in Nursing and Midwifery Education, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK ISBN: 9781905539079 • June 2009 • M&K Publishing • 180 pages • illustrations This book is intended for nurses and midwives who work in Assisted Reproduction clinics and those who either work in, or have an interest in women’s health. The number of IVF births is increasing steadily as a percentage of all births and therefore infertility may be said to be increasingly influential in women’s health nursing and midwifery. The sense of connectedness which women caring for women express and as the data in this book show, women patients feel that there is something special about being cared for by female nurses and midwives. The emotions raised in clinical practice for nurses and midwives from caring for women need attention and discussion and this book is intended to contribute to a greater awareness of emotions in clinical practice even in a busy NHS. Indeed, paying attention to emotions when you are busy may help you understand and deal with the business. This book is intended for practicing nurses and midwives and therefore each chapter ends with a reflection from the author on the implications of the data for practice and an opportunity for the reader to reflect on their practice too. Contents include: A theoretical overview of caring and emotions • The experience of infertility • The nature of caring and managing emotions in fertility nursing • Managing emotions and the body in fertility nursing: chaperoning brought up to date • Experiences of infertility: liminality and the role of the Assisted Reproduction clinics • Managing intimacy in fertility nursing • The nature of advanced fertility nursing roles: why do nurses undertake them? Price: £21.00
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	The ECG Workbook Angela Rowlands, Head of Education, Health Dialog UK Andrew Sargent, Senior Lecturer, Thames Valley University ISBN: 9781905539147 October 2008 • M&K Update • A4 format • 96 pages • illustrated A straightforward approach forms the basis of this book that aims to present a systematic approach to ECG interpretation and be digestible to those setting out in this discipline, without the burden of unnecessary jargon. Each step to the systematic approach is presented simply. At the end of each chapter there are a number of activities to help the reader practice what they have just learnt, evaluate their learning and relate their learning to patient scenarios. Answers can be found at the back of the book. Contents include: Recording a readable electrocardiogram (ECG) • Sites of infarction • The electrical conducting system of the heart • Bundle branch blocks • A systematic approach to rhythm strip analysis • Chamber enlargement • Heart blocks • A systematic approach to ECG interpretation • The 12 lead ECG • Ischaemia, injury and necrosis • Axis deviation • Answers to activities Enhanced by real-life ECGs Many books on ECG interpretation use simulated ECG tracings. Most of the traces that you find in this book are from real people and of the quality that you will be expected to interpret from in practice. Price: £21.00
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