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by Randy Stapilus
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
America's health care system is bankrupting its people, businesses and society while it both over-treats and under-treats, with poorer results than in most of the industrialized world. Its ills are so many there is no single cure. But there are many things we can do, and this book includes 50 of them....
Never Go to the Hospital Alone
And Other Insider Secrets for Getting Mistake-Free Health Care from Your Doctor and Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
This year 176,445 patients in the U.S. will die due to preventable errors, infections, and medication mistakes. This book explains the simple steps you must take to avoid being one of them.
Safety systems expert Steve Harden shows you how to pick a great doctor and a great hospital for yourself...
How to Pass Your OSCE
A Guide to Success in Nursing and Midwifery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was developed for all undergraduate nursing programmes, with the aim of emphasising the need for nursing students to be competent in clinical skills, to assess clinical reasoning skills and as a means of standardizing the assessment process.
This...
by John Maltby, Glenn Williams, Julie Mcgarry
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Research Methods for Nursing and Healthcare is an essential introductory text for all nursing and healthcare students coming to research methods for the first time or those nurses and healthcare staff wishing to improve their skills in this area. The book includes comprehensive coverage of the main...
by Douglas E. Faries, Robert Obenchain, Josep Maria Haro
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This book guides researchers in performing and presenting high-quality analyses of all kinds of non-randomized studies, including analyses of observational studies, claims database analyses, assessment of registry data, survey data, pharmaco-economic data, and many more applications. The text is sufficiently...
Medical Terminology
A Student Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
This workbook has been developed for all individuals with little to no background in the health care field. It is a basic introduction to medical terminology. It provides the student with an opportunity to develop good word-building skills so that the student can identify medical terms by their corresponding...
The Dying Process
Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.
Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology...
Social Work
Voices from the inside
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Social Work: Voices from the Inside offers unique insight into social work from the perspectives of those ‘on the inside’, that is, service users, carers and practitioners.
Drawing on a narrative tradition, fifty-nine people from across the UK tell their stories about how and why social...
Caring and Coping
A Guide to Social Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Caring and Coping provides a clear and accessible explanation of the history, politics, management, funding and day-to-day work of the social services in Britain.
Social Care now encompasses a wide range of increasingly specialised professions. Caring and Coping aims to improve the practitioner's...
by Carter V. Multz
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
This book explains why American Medicine is an administrative monstrosity and tells how simple changes can provide coverage for all Americans add pharmacy and leave 200 Billion left over.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply...
This Time Get It Right: Good-Bye ObamaCare
Health Savings Accounts Open the Door to Universal Coverage and Lower Costs
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
ObamaCare needs replacing. Instead of universal coverage at lower costs, it leaves tens of millions uncovered and increasingly greater numbers with skyrocketing premiums and costs, fewer insurance choices.
Its "top-down" approach means huge bureaucracies and prolix rules just to...
The Eldercare Handbook
Difficult Choices, Compassionate Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this comprehensive and accessible guide, long-term care expert Stella Henry helps readers navigate the daunting logistics and powerful emotions of making care decisions for an elderly parent or loved one. Drawing from her 36 years as a registered nurse and a nursing home administrator, as well...
by Sheldon Cohen M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The healthcare Genie is out of the bottle. Obamacare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impact every one of you. These changes will come slowly and inexorably, but regardless of who is in power, you need to be prepared. It will be more important than ever to take control of your health....