Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Janie Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The exercise programming guidelines provided in this book focus on functional fitness training and safety and demonstrate how physical activities supervised by activities personnel can strongly benefit participants’quality of life. Exercise Programming for Older Adults guarantees that exercise programming...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand is the first comprehensive text on health promotion in New Zealand. Primarily written for students, practitioners and policy makers in the health sector, it will be of interest also to those promoting health in Maori, Pacific Island and other NGOs and to those...
by Thomas Brown, Sonali Shah
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Medicine is still largely taught as an apprenticeship. Not until recently have medical students and physicians been taught to critically examine the evidence base behind medical management decisions. This book is perfect for students, not only because it will help them care for patients during their...
Medicare Meltdown
How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Medicare affects everyone. If you are a boomer, you are counting on Medicare to protect you from the cost of health care when you retire. If you have turned 65, you already depend on Medicare. If you are a Gen-X or Gen-Y, you are contributing to Medicare from your paycheck. Will Medicare continue...
AIDS Orphans Rising
What You Should Know and What You Can Do to Help Them Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
Every 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is formed
The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, often four or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family. In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households. Imagine watching your mother and father...
Needless Suffering
How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Needless Suffering offers a sociological examination of a complex medical problem: chronic pain and the inability of doctors and other health professionals to understand and manage it in their patients. People in pain, writes Dr. David Nagel, are the poor of the medical world. Like the poor, they...
Normalisation
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Normalisation, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention. As the community care debate has moved into the public arena, it has attracted a certain...
by Diane Mason
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Caring for an aging parent can be a traumatic experience or a beautiful event depending on how one looks at the situation. Learning how to provide the care can be one of the biggest projects that you will ever pursue.
Those golden years that each of us has heard about for years...
Beyond Caring
Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1996
Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals.
Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness...
Working with Women and AIDS
Medical, Social and Counselling Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
Women now account for one third of the ten million people with HIV infection worldwide. Yet until very recently most services were geared towards men, and doctors and other professionals were often unprepared for the particular issues that women would raise. Working with Women and AIDS provides a...
by Katie May
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
Diabetes is a condition where the sugar levels in a person's blood are too high. If left untreated, diabetes can progress over time, resulting in serious complications such as blindness, heart attacks, and kidney disease. Unfortunately, there is currently no medical cure for diabetes.
A healthy...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Stroke is a comprehensive reference on nutrition for the multidisciplinary team caring for stroke patients. Targeting physicians, nurse practitioners, clinical dietitians, and advanced allied health and medical students, this volume provides an introduction on the...
Becoming Citizens
Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The decreasing rate of involvement in organized groups and with voting by young people is a disturbing trend that perhaps can be turned around. Becoming Citizens: Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic Engagement brings together civic education, experiential education, and political theory to provide...