Ideal for the nursing professionals, students as well as general readers, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of nursing with up-to-date entries covering all related disciplines. It covers all aspects of nursing, including general nursing, special nursing care, adult nursing, critical care, oncology, child health, various therapies, information technology, learning disabilities, policy issues, ethics, nutrition pharmacology, public health, terminology from physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and radiology. To meet the needs of students, care has been taken to clearly explain each and very term in a clear and lucid language.