Patient Care category: 3822 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Recent global and national debates have shown that demographic change, the rising incidence of chronic disease, and the unmet need for more personalized care are trends demanding a new, integrated approach to health and social care. The advancement and adoption of technology in both health and social...
Managing the Myths of Health Care
Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
**“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”
In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his...
Health Care in the Black Community
Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!
Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including...
by Vivien Martin, Julie Charlesworth, Euan Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. Examples from social care and health settings are used to illustrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of end of life care in the UK and most developed countries. It enables more people to live well and die as they would choose, and has significant implications for the individual person, their family and carers, and our wider society. In the context...
by Kaplan Medical
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The only official Kaplan Lecture Notes for USMLE Step 3 cover the comprehensive information you need to ace the exam. This 2-volume set is the perfect companion for Kaplan’s USMLE courses.
Up-to-date. Updated biannually by Kaplan’s all-star faculty. This updated edition reflects the 2014...
by Jonathan Herman & Teri Smieja
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This original book combines the perspective of a practicing Obstetrics/Gynecologist and a BRCA1 positive patient who met online. Through their mutual desire to help people who live with the threat or actuality of BRCA mutations and Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (HBOC), Dr. Herman and...
by Oommen P. Mathew
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Health care in the US is facing a crisis, but there is polarization and disagreement among policy makers and the public about how to solve this crisis. The overall outcome is ranked much lower than most developed nations and nearly 50 million people are uninsured. Health care is big business and is 17...
Redesigning Health Care for Children with Disabilities
Strengthening Inclusion, Contribution, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
One in five families has a child with special health care needs-but medical and human service professionals often don't get the training they need to provide long-term, integrated care for these children. Filling a critical gap in professional education, this groundbreaking textbook and training tool...
Narrative and Stories in Health Care
Illness, dying and bereavement
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
The use of narrative methods has a long history in palliative care, pioneered by Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, Narrative and Stories in Health Care provides a vibrant, multidisciplinary examination of work with narrative and stories in contemporary health and social...
Breaking out of the Health Care Abyss
Transformational Tips for Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
It has become routine to see in various health care magazines, e-mails to leaders, and executive discussions on social media internet outlets, a listing of the ten top challenges that CEOs believe they are facing in the health care industry today. They often call this list the “what is keeping me...
Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia
Fundamentals for Pastoral Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Spiritual Care for Persons with Dementia explores spirituality in those with dementia to enrich our understanding of the neurological and psychological aspects of hope, prayer, and the power of belief. You will discover how your ministry is vitally relevant to the clinical well-being and quality of...
by Joyce Simard
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
"The Namaste Care program revolutionizes how to lovingly provide care for those facing advanced dementia and empowers healthcare providers to find the person within using creative, multi-model interventions. In her book, Joyce Simard leads you to the very heart of this approach to dementia care."...
Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care
A community based approach for life limiting illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Caring for terminally ill patients and their families is challenging. Patients with life limiting illness require the skills of many professionals but also the support of their community. While most clinicians are comfortable in assessing a broad range of physical problems, it is often the psychosocial...