Patient Care category: 3822 books
Good Practices in Palliative Care
A Psychosocial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A team of two practitioners in psychosocial palliative care and an academic have drawn together the work of twenty-eight highly experienced practitioners. Good Practices in Palliative Care : a psychosocial perspective provides detailed descriptions of innovatory practices and how they were developed,...
Women and Cardiovascular Disease
Addressing Disparities in Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the US and Europe today. Over the last 20 years, many innovations in technology have allowed for improved therapies for heart attack and stroke and overall outcomes have significantly improved. Death rates from cardiovascular...
European Integration and Health Policy
The Artful Dance of Economics and History
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The impact of European integration on diverse national social policies is still largely unknown. While policy decision making remains at the country level, there is a strong possibility that indirectly, as a result of ideological imperatives and financial constraints, policies will change. National...
Bereavement Care
A New Look at Hospice and Community Based Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Here is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current bereavement care practices and key concerns of care providers. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, interests, and perspectives from divergent disciplines and clinical experiences, the contributing authors explore theories and constructs that...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all? Access to Health Care considers the meaning of 'access' in health care and examines the theoretical issues that underpin these questions.
Contributors draw on a range of disciplinary...
I Will Need to Break Your Other Leg
tales of medical adventure and misadventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In these often hilarious, and always thought-provoking tales of medical intrigue and misadventure, drawn from the author's experiences as a doctor in rural Nepal and the inner-city wildernesses of the UK, Prasanna Gautam encounters medical conundrums with some very surprising outcomes. But there is...
When Death Comes Knocking for Your Patients
A Guide for Nurses and Palliative Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
As a nurse or palliative caregiver, do you want to take better care of terminally ill patients, their loved ones, and yourself? Would you like to be empowered under difficult circumstances and feel more comfortable about what to say when providing palliative care?Based on thirty years of experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Led by both children’s rights perspectives and methodological arguments, there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people’s participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies – with many now considering the active involvement of children...
Making Sense of Medicine
Bridging the Gap between Doctor Guidelines and Patient Preferences
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The more we know about medicine, the more we realize that many health questions have no one true answer. Realizing this, and thinking carefully about how medicine asks patients to treat their conditions, leads us to some questions. How reliable are the guidelines that might form the basis of doctors’...
by Chris Pasero, MS, RN-BC
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
Pain Assessment and Pharmacologic Management, by highly renowned authors Chris Pasero and Margo McCaffery, is destined to become the definitive resource in pain management in adults. It provides numerous reproducible tables, boxes, and figures that can be used in clinical practice, and emphasizes...
Intellectual Disability and Being Human
A Care Ethics Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability.
This pioneering book, in considering intellectually disabled...
Failure to Progress
The Contraction of the Midwifery Profession
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Changes in the field of midwifery are of concern to those within the health care system, the academic world and those whose lives are touched by midwifery care. This text reflects on the current situation and questions whether it is the most appropriate way of providing care for the childbearing woman....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This edited volume brings together innovative contributions from a range of health and social care professionals and research scientists who are interested in introducing new approaches to qualitative research into the world of health and social care.
A range of methodologies including discourse...
by Elaine Holt MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
**Dr. Elaine Holt is not your average doctor. **Her medical practice is small, while her heart for her patients is huge. The Doctor Next Door is a collection of extraordinary stories about ordinary people. The stories spotlight the physician as a down-to-earth person, sometimes flawed and unnervingly...