Fifth edition
Edited by Elizabeth Martin and Tanya McFerran
Over 10,000 entries
This latest edition of the best-selling, comprehensive and authoritative Dictionary of Nursing has been fully updated and revised to take account of recent developments in nursing practice and related fields. Coverage of advances in the field includes general nursing, statistics, common scales and indexes, religion and spirituality, and commonly used abbreviations. The Dictionary provides readers with a comprehensive treatment of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions. In addition to specific nursing terms, there are many entries in the fields of medicine, anatomy, physiology, psychiatry, nutrition, and pharmacology (including new drugs recently introduced into medical practice).
With over 10,000 clear and concise entries, written by medical and nursing specialists, this trusted dictionary covers the theory and practice of nursing, and even includes entry-level web links. The text is enhanced by 100 helpful illustrations and tables. This is an invaluable reference tool for all nursing students, recently qualified and practising nurses, and people training and working in related fields such as midwifery and health visiting.
Elizabeth Martin is Managing Editor for Market House Books Ltd.
Tanya McFerran is Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University
Print edition ISBN: 9780199211777
Publishing history: First edition 1990; second edition 1994; third edition 1998; fourth edition 2003; fifth edition 2008
Copyright: © Market House Books Ltd 1990, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2008
