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Patient Pictures
RCN Publishing and Health Press Ltd have created a partnership to provide you with the Patient Pictures series of books.
These offer a valuable resource for you to use when advising patients. The series covers key clinical areas and, in total, there are approximately 800 pages for you to help patients.
Each double page has illustrations of the anatomy and physiology or procedure (for example, gastroscopy) on the right-hand page with accompanying patient text advice to the left-hand page. You can use these to show patients how procedures are carried out, and print them off so that patients can take the information home.
Click on the images below to download the booklets. Or for more information on Patient Pictures please click here.
In this section:
- Breast cancer
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We have written this book for the women we treat, to help them understand breast cancer so that they can make informed decisions about treatment. We hope that our colleagues in nursing will find this book a useful aid in communicating with their patients. - End-stage renal failure
This booklet on end-stage renal failure seeks specifically to usepictures as a medium for patient education. - ENT: ear, nose and throat
Times have changed from the 'Carry on Doctor' approach of telling patients as little as possible about their operations on the basis that they couldn't possibly understand. - Erectile dysfunction
Although impotence, or erectile dysfunction (ED), has been known about for many years, until the early 1980s, the only available treatments were a pat on the back, hormone replacement, yohimbine and semi-rigid prostheses. Intrapenile, or intracorporeal, injections then became the mainstay of treatment. Although many men couldn't accept or tolerate the injections, diabetic men on insulin found the treatment both acceptable and easily learned. A proportion of patients recovered spontaneously from their ED. Still, many men were too shy or scared to seek treatment. - Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology encompasses many diseases and treatment procedures that are best explained, and easiest for patients to understand, when shown diagrammatically. - Ophthalmology
Sight is perhaps the most important of the senses. Many patients who consult their doctor or optometrist with a visual disturbance have a genuine fear of blindness. - Respiratory disorders
Diseases of the lungs and airways are extremely common, and are a frequent reason for referral and admission to hospital. A bewildering variety of tests are now available for investigating lung diseases - some of which can be performed in general practice, but most of which need to be performed in hospital. Many lung diseases are, however, managed in general practice, and asthma, which is now the commonest disease, is often treated in this setting by specialist nurses. - Rheumatology
This book is for healthcare professionals to use with their patients. It aims to help you to prepare patients for their first visit to the rheumatologist and the treatments they may receive. Rheumatologists work as part of a multidisciplinary team with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other healthcare workers. This team treats a variety of conditions, from sports injuries to osteoporosis and arthritis. Although some of these conditions are amenable to simple treatment such as a soft tissue injection, others may involve protracted care shared among the team. - Urological surgery
In this book we have tried to illustrate, in a simple manner, the many operations that a urologist has to offer his or her patient. Concise explanations accompany these diagrams, which are designed to answer the questions that patients considering surgery, together with their relatives, are likely to ask. The pictures also provide hard copy that the patient can take home.
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The RCN Publishing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, the world's largest organisation for nurses. RCN Publishing produces one weekly, eight monthly and two quarterly nursing publications. Nursing Standard, the flagship journal, is the UK's biggest selling weekly for nursing. It is produced by RCN Publishing Company along with a suite of specialist nursing journals - Cancer Nursing Practice, Mental Health Practice, Learning Disability Practice, Nursing Children and Young People, Nursing Management, Emergency Nurse, Nursing Older People, Nurse Researcher and Primary Health Care. RCN Publishing Company also produce the RCN Bulletin, a major source of up-to-the-minute information for RCN members in all specialities, grades and working environments. With the latest nurse vacancies from trusts nationwide, it has become the most cost-effective nurse recruitment magazine available.