Family-centred care is a fundamental concept upon which nursing care for children is based. This text addresses the theoretical and practical aspects of the concept and highlights its challenges and responsibilities.

Recounts the experiences of Florence Nightingale and compares them to modern medical practices.

A young toddler has fun pretending to be a nurse.

A humorous counting book from ten to one using plasters.

Follows a typical day in the life of a paramedic worker.

It's 1977, and fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel is working in an old people's home. The place is in chaos, and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl - she'd only gone for the job because it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or a punk. She's also distracted by her family's financial troubles, keeping up with schoolwork, and deciding which brand of shampoo to use. When a rival old people's home opens, offering better...

Anne Watts grew up in a small village in north Wales in the 1940s. She trained as a nurse and midwife, joined the Save the Children Fund, and was posted to Vietnam in 1967. Here, Anne was faced with a vision of hell that her training at Manchester's Royal Infirmary could not have prepared her for.

Looks at the life of Florence Nightingale and her role as a nurse in the Crimean War.

An extraordinarily powerful memoir based on the diaries of intensive care nurse Anthea Allen, who worked on the front line of one of the largest hospitals in Europe - St. George's in South London - during the peak of the Covid crisis.

Born in Belfast, Patricia Jordan left for England to train as a nurse in the 1940s. This is her moving and humorous account of life as a visiting nurse in a small English town.