Patient Care category: 3822 books
Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing
A Reflective and Portfolio-Building Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal system.
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Chronic Abdominal Pain
An Evidence-Based, Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Chronic Abdominal Pain is a comprehensive resource focused on the management of chronic abdominal pain. Chapters begin with an overview of pain generation, adaptive mechanisms and various diagnostic approaches. A complete range of novel, conservative, minimally invasive and surgical therapeutic options...
Values-Based Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
Working Together in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The provision of care within the context of the modern health service environment involves a wide range of professionals. The health care team might include general practitioners, nurses, midwives, hospital doctors, physiotherapists, other allied health professionals, as well as receptionists and...
Providing Compassionate Healthcare
Challenges in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Despite the scope and sophistication of contemporary health care, there is increasing international concern about the perceived lack of compassion in its delivery. Citing evidence that when the basic needs of patients are attended to with kindness and understanding, recovery often takes place at a...
by Susan Kersley
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Doctors can benefit from Coaching, not only for themselves but also as a way of enabling their patients to make decisions about treatment options. This book explains what Coaching is, and how it can encourage doctors improve their work-life balance. There are discussions about the benefits of telephone...
And in Health
A Guide for Couples Facing Cancer Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This book offers engaging and digestible lessons for couples navigating the life change that a cancer diagnosis brings. Dan Shapiro draws on his more than twenty-five years of clinical work as a health psychologist who has researched and worked with couples facing cancer, and on his own experiences...
The Heart Logs
An Engineer’s Trip Through the Medical System
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This memoir chronicles a tumultuous six month period in the life of the author, beginning with his sudden hospitalization due to endocarditis, an infection of the heart, and ending with his return to a normal life. The events and the people that connect the start to the finish are many and varied, sometimes...
by Rob Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Dr Rob Hicks is instantly recognizable from his TV and radio shows and raids the kitchen and bathroom to show old-fashioned but effective ways to get better and stay healthy. In an age when many of us are looking for more natural remedies, Rob explores two angles – what do you need to fight particular...
Upstream Medicine
Doctors for a Healthy Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
When patients visit a clinic or hospital, they bring stories of the everyday life conditions that made them sick in the first place – stories about where they work, live, and play; stories about income, food security, and housing. Doctors today are listening. Personal stories and patient encounters...
Ways You Can Help
Creative, Practical Suggestions for Family and Friends of Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Drawing on her own personal experience, Margaret Cooke offers sensitive, sensible advice to anyone who feels awkward or uncomfortable near people in emotional or physical pain.
by Marcia Carteret
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
With the changing demographics in the population of the United States, healthcare providers across the country will continue to see significant numbers of individuals and families who have immigrated to the U.S. or applied for refugee/asylee status here. Many of these newcomers are from countries...
by Richard E Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Combine a working knowledge of epidemiology to your health and medical skills!
Every day, health promotion and disease prevention professionals interact with epidemiologists during the course of their practices. Investigations into the causes, distribution, and control of disease provide practitioners...
Medical Cannabis
A Guide for Patients, Practitioners, and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Can Medical Cannabis help you? Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have legalized some form of Medical Cannabis for treatment of serious conditions. Pain, cancer, sleep disturbance, mood disorders, epilepsy, osteoporosis, anxiety disorders, and many others are all conditions that may be...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Turbulent changes in worldwide economies and decreases in overall quality of life have led to a re-evaluation of the current state of health services. Improvements in this sector will allow for more efficient healthcare delivery to the public, as well as increased patient satisfaction. Effective Methods...