Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Ruth Ann Goode-Chresos
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique “how-to” approach to social work practice in home health care agencies. You will find a historical perspective on home health care and clinical interventions to help you improve home health care for your patients....
Patient Centered Medicine
A Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Patient-Centered Medicine: A Human Experience emphasizes the health professional's role in caring for patients as unique individuals by focusing on the patients' psychological and social realities as well as their biological needs. The book concerns itself with caring for the whole patient, and outlines...
Singapore's Health Care System
What 50 Years Have Achieved
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but its standards of health care, not only in curative medicine but also in prevention, are exemplary. Fifty years ago, the infant mortality rate (IMR) was 26 per thousand live...
Social Work in Ambulatory Care
New Implications for Health and Social Services
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The contributing authors of this volume--respected authorities on health care and social work--describe the shift from hospital based care to ambulatory patient and family focused community based services. Social Work in Ambulatory Care assists readers who need to develop, plan, and implement new...
Participatory Research in Palliative Care
Actions and reflections
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Participatory research is a relatively new method of researching practice especially within palliative care. It differs from other methodologies in that there is an expectation of action within the research process. The values that underpin participatory research are collaboration, empowerment, and...
by Lois E Passi
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Unlike any other text that discusses day hospital programming, A Guide to Creative Group Programming in the Psychiatric Day Hospital contains protocols for the invention of new groups, saving you the time and effort needed to create one yourself. Intended for social workers, psychologists, and occupational...
The Doctor Crisis
How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Calming fears, alleviating suffering, enhancing and saving lives-this is what motivates doctors virtually every single day. When the structure and culture in which physicians work are well aligned, being a doctor is a most rewarding job. But something has gone wrong in the physician world, and it...
Time to Care
Personal Medicine in the Age of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Proposing the patient-doctor relationship that was central in traditional medicine be brought back to the center of the healthcare system, this history observes how the high cost of technology-based care has caused an economic squeeze through wasteful and ineffective practices. Targeting habits of...
by Stephen C. Schimpff, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Approximately 100,000 deaths per year in the United States result from preventable medical errors. This figure is about twice the number of people who die in car accidents and five times the number of murder victims annually, and twenty times the number of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The development of better processes to provide proper healthcare has enhanced contemporary society. By implementing effective collaborative strategies, this ensures proper quality and instruction for both the patient and medical practitioners. Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science: Concepts, Methodologies,...
Safer Hospital Care
Strategies for Continuous Quality Innovation, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, about 440,000 deaths from hospital mistakes are expected in 2018. These mistakes are preventable, but the number of deaths has been increasing for the last two decades instead of decreasing. This book describes how to prevent deaths at very low...
All In
Using Healthcare Collaboratives to Save Lives and Improve Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In the face of ever-accelerating rates of health reform, the ability to quickly learn and adapt is an increasingly essential survival skill. Collaborative learning, as this book illustrates, is a powerful method to rapidly spread knowledge. Yet knowledge comes in two flavors – “knowledge that”...
by Marcia Carteret
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In cross-cultural health care interactions, there are many situations where communication is challenging because patients and their families exhibit different values, beliefs, and behaviors from those of their American physicians. Physicians educated in western medicine, who work in the health care...
by Staci Nix McIntosh, MS, RD
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
For concise, need-to-know coverage of the most up-to-date topics and research in nutritional care turn to Williams’ Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 15th Edition. This market leading text provides coverage of hot topics, emerging trends, and cutting-edge research, plus all the essentials for...