Patient Care category: 3822 books
A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs
Utilization, Satisfaction, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Explore new frontiers in Alzheimer's support systems!
When Congress authorized the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States program in 1990, no one knew how effective the program would prove to be. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs provides you with results of the first...
by Hunter, David J.
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Health care systems everywhere face multiple pressures from changing demography, the rise of non-communicable disease, the growing demand on health services, and limited resources at a time of austerity. Focusing on the British NHS from a political science perspective, this second edition of this...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
The 30th Anniversary volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care looks at the important links between major social factors and health and health care. The four main factors examined in the book are race/ethnicity, immigration, Socioeconomic Status (SES) and gender. Starting with an introductory...
Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine
Empowering Discernment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Examine the impact and importance reproduction and genetics have on religious values
Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment explains the mystery of the God-human relationship so ministers, priests, and pastors can follow the ethics and mechanics of counseling...
Trauma and Physical Health
Understanding the effects of extreme stress and of psychological harm
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Trauma research and clinical practice have taught us much about the widespread problems of child maltreatment, partner violence, and sexual assault. Numerous investigations have documented links between such trauma exposure and long-term negative mental health consequences. As we learn more about...
Palliative Medicine
A case-based manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Palliative care is now an integral part of the undergraduate medical curriculum. Medical education across the board is adopting a case-based approach. This book uses a series of cases to illustrate critical points in palliative medicine. The case-studies have been carefully chosen to reflect real...
Aging with Care
Your Guide to Hiring and Managing Caregivers at Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Finding the right fit to match aging adults with the best caregiver to assist them in their home can be fraught with challenge. In today’s pressurized world, the process involves overstressed family members and a shortage of great caregivers. So many adult children are seeking a helping hand and...
Evidence and Skills for Normal Labour and Birth
A Guide for Midwives
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Evidence-based care is a well established principle in contemporary healthcare and a worldwide health care movement. However, despite the emphasis on promoting evidence-based or effective care without the unnecessary use of technologies and drugs, intervention rates in childbirth continue to rise...
Annual Review of Health Care Management
Strategy and Policy Perspectives on Reforming Health Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
System wide health reform has become the norm across the globe, forcing health care delivery organizations to critically examine the ways in which they are structured and operate on a day to day basis. Resource scarcity has become common while at the same time, quality and clinical outcomes become...
Telemedicine and Telehealth
Principles, Policies, Performances and Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Telemedicine and telehealth are changing the face of health care delivery and becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. Dr. Darkins and Dr. Cary share their knowledge and provide practical insights and advice on making telemedicine programs into successful clinical services and a productive business....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The European Pain Federation EFIC is made up of Chapters of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Its Health Care Professionals look after a population of over 740 million people in its 37 member countries. European Pain Management provides a review of the organization and delivery...
Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
Reactions and Role of the Psychiatric Team
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
People with personality disorders are to be found in all branches of psychiatric services, from the outpatient and community care through to acute inpatient care. Their behaviour is difficult, manipulative, threatening and they are hard to manage in institutional settings. Dangerous and Severe Personality...
by Mark Doel
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Written by an experienced groupworker and academic, this book promotes greater knowledge and understanding of groupwork and group processes, particularly in social work and social care settings. Incorporating both theory and practice, it provides a practical guide to those considering groupwork, and...
Advancing Social Work Practice in the Health Care Field
Emerging Issues and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Department of Social Work at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, this innovative and exciting book traces the growth of the social work mission and the development of vanguard social work programs at Mount Sinai. Leading social work educators...