Product Description: Both comprehensive and accessible, this is an ideal resource for anyone who plans to teach or practice integrated, cost-effective healthcare in the 21st century.• Explores the complexities of interprofessional teamwork and education, addressing both practice and teaching• Discusses how patients are affected by healthcare providers who do not function as a cohesive team and looks at the patient's role in teamwork• Offers a detailed model of interprofessional teamwork based on the authors' experience with a long-term, well-functioning interprofessional healthcare team• Uses illustrative narratives and case studies to provide examples of the concepts and principles presented• Includes a chapter based on interviews with patients and their caregivers to highlight experiences with functional and dysfunctional teams• Presents new topics, such as critical areas of practice (primary care, long-term care, and transitions of care); ethical issues in teamwork; educational theory; the use of narrative; and challenges in sustaining interprofessional educatio...read more

Product Description: For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Surgeons job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines...read more

Product Description: Haematology of Australian Mammals is a valuable guide to collecting and analysing the blood of Australian mammals for haematological studies and diagnosis and monitoring of disease. It outlines general principles for selecting sites for blood collection and for handling and analysing samples to achieve quality results...read more

Product Description: Developments in the worldwide space business. There is information on past, current and future space programmes and the capabilities of space centres, details of launchers, satellites and support systems, as well as information on the commercial contractors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the development of the Soviet space program from Sputnik to the Mir space station, and looks at future Soviet plans for the exploration of space