Tilley

This text addresses important professional issues for nurses and midwifes. It explores the impact of clinical governance, examines issues of accountability in key areas of nursing and midwifery, and addresses legal and policy implications for practice.

This textbook teaches the nursing student about the psychiatric nurse settings, where the main aim is to reduce distress of the patient, and about mental health nursing which tries to help people resolve their problems and adapt to their setting thereby pre-empting further potential mental health problems.

Realistic Evaluation offers an alternative to the positivist and relativist orthodoxies of current evaluation research, and provides a complete blueprint for evaluation activities.