Patient Care category: 3822 books
Physical Aspects of Care
Nutritional, Dermatologic, Neurologic and Other Symptoms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost effective care. Palliative care is also characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach. Nurses are...
by Dr Peter Barham, Peter Barham, Robert Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
The aim of contemporary mental health policy is to enable people who have had a severe mental illness to lead relatively independent lives in the community, rather than be sequestered permanently in the large mental hospitals. In recent years plans to hasten the closure of many of these hospitals...
Physical Aspects of Care
Pain and Gastrointestinal Symptoms
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost effective care. Palliative care is also characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach. Nurses are...
The Caring Self
The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 1.7 million home health aides and personal and home care aides in the United States as of 2008. These home care aides are rapidly becoming the backbone of America’s system of long-term care, and their numbers continue to grow....
by R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Christopher Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics focuses on Observation Medicine in the ED. Editors R. Gentry Wilkseron and Christopher Baugh have assembled an expert team of authors on topics such as: History and Principles of Observation Medicine; Observation Unit Design and Establishing an Observation...
by Margaret Schell Frazier, RN, CMA
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Prepare for the changing healthcare field with current disease pathology information and ICD-10-CM codes for more than 500 commonly encountered conditions with Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 5th Edition. Consistently organized and easy to read, this portable, practical reference provides...
Along the Continuum of Care
What Every Case Manager Must Know...
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Along the Continuum of Care creates a mind shift for the case manager in the new paradigm to be effective agents of change and resource connectors. The urgent need to improve health outcomes is resulting in moment-to-moment changes in the world of case management. Along the Continuum of Care focus...
Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care
Philosophy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
In today’s contentious political environment surrounding abortion, clinicians, counselors and social workers need a clear framework for providing skilled, compassionate decision counseling. They need help working with the hard stuff: “What do I do when my patient asks me if God will forgive her?”...
Spiritual Care in Practice
Case Studies in Healthcare Chaplaincy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
These diverse case studies make a compelling case for the importance of effective spiritual care in healthcare and provide unprecedented insight into the essential role of the chaplain within the healthcare team. Presented alongside critical reflections and responses from professionals within chaplaincy,...
Bioethics Mediation
A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Expanded by two-thirds from the 2004 edition, the new edition features two new role plays, a new chapter on how to write chart notes, and a discussion of new understandings of the role of the clinical ethics consultant. **** Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro-level systems and micro-level issues, including the examination of issues for patients, carers and providers of care. Coverage includes papers on geographical...
Palliative Care
A Patient-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman As the population in western cultures ages, more people suffer chronic, ultimately life-limiting diseases and medical professionals need to be equipped to cope with the ever growing pressure of palliative care. This book gives...
by Clarence Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Telemedicine is a rapidly expanding technology to deliver exams and treatment to patients in remote areas of the world who have no other way to receive medical care. The doctor or nurse can have a conversation with the patient through software similar to Skype or Face Time, in real time. Today's...
Practicing for Practice
A Handbook for Residents About to Enter Practice (Especially for Those in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics-Gynecology) with Emphasis on Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites. The author believes there is sufficient information and enough advisors available on the business aspects, so those are not...