Patient Care category: 3822 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Find out how group care for children has changed in the last 20 years
Group Care Practice with Children and Young People Revisited focuses on the core issues that shape the quality of care that’s provided in institutional and residential care settings, as well as day care services that rely...
What Do I Do Now?
A Caregiver's Journey with Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Willem and Molly were married on February 10, 1984. Molly was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2007. What Do I Do Now? A Caregiver’s Journey with Alzheimer’s is a memoir in the form of 100 essays and anecdotes. The book tracks the author’s emotional, psychological, and spiritual...
Pain
Creative Approaches to Effective Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
One of the most challenging situations for nurses is to see patients in pain but be unable to provide effective help. In this authoritative text, the authors examine the many issues surrounding pain, including how it can be assessed, how it affects the individual and how it can be managed, and guides...
by Edward L. Bradley III, Editors of Consumer Reports Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
In a Patient's Guide to Surgery, Dr. Edward L. Bradley III explains all you need to know to prepare yourself for the surgical experience. This book describes how you can actively participate in the decision-making process and, as a result, improve your chances for successful surgery and recovery.
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Atrial Fibrillation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Atrial Fibrillation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes, provides a current and comprehensive update on pathophysiology, epidemiology, management strategies of rate control, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches to rhythm control, risk stratification for stroke and...
Talk to Your Doc
The Patient's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Doctors are busier than ever and the Internet produces more information than ever for patients. Getting the right treatment can be challenging if you don't have the right approach. Mary Hawkins helps patients advocate for the best care with a guide on how to discuss your condition with your doctor.
by Jay B. Brodsky, Hendrikus J. M. Lemmens
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
The global obesity epidemic is growing in severity, affecting people of every age and costing healthcare providers millions of dollars every year. Every day, anesthesiologists are presented with obese and morbidly obese patients undergoing every type of surgical procedure; the management of these...
Our Parents in Crisis
Confronting Medical Errors, Ageist Doctors, And Other Healthcare Failings
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
On the evening of Friday, June 7, 2002, 78-year-old Fern Sjoerdsma lay in a Chesapeake, Va., hospital bed, moaning and breathing rapidly and laboriously. Her whole body seemed bloated, especially her legs. She failed to respond coherently to questions that her daughter Ann asked and acted irritated by...
by Gregg Lipschik, Joan M Von Feldt, Lawrence Frame
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered. Precise and prescriptive, the handbooks offer up-to-date advice...
Attending
Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
With his “deeply informed and compassionate book…Dr. Epstein tells us that it is a ‘moral imperative’ [for doctors] to do right by their patients” (New York Journal of Books).
The first book for the general public about the importance of mindfulness in medical practice, Attending...
Treatment Kind and Fair
Letters to a Young Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
If you’ve ever sat on an examination table and wondered what is really going on in your doctor’s head, then this book is for you. New York Times contributor and beloved author Perri Klass addresses the primary issues in the life of any doctor and, by extension, the lives of those for whom they...
by Suzette Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
My book is the personal experience my family faced when trying to get adequate appropriate healthcare for our son. His doctors refused to listen to our son´s school and make a requested orthopedic referral. When they were continued to be made aware of the need for appropriate intervention his doctors...
Ultimate Health
Finding It
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Western health related industries employ more people, consume more money, and have more dependent adherents than any other activity involving the entire population. Since the early 1900s, life expectancy at birth has increased from about 50 years to the low 80s. However, not all interventions have been...
YOU'RE NOT DEAD 'TIL I SAY YOU'RE DEAD
A Nurse's Reflections on Death, Dying, and the Near-Death Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Every encounter with death reminds us of our own ultimate fate; what each of us must one day confront and endure. Our experiences with the dying shape who we are and how we will live. Framed by Victor’s own near-death experience, You’re Not Dead ‘til I Say You’re Dead explores the process...