Patient Care category: 3822 books
Healthcare at a Turning Point
A Roadmap for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, it’s that the system should be delivering better quality for less cost than it does. The truth is that our healthcare system is a sprawling mix of competing interests in which those of the patient are valued...
Medicine in Translation
Journeys with My Patients
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures....
Fluid and Electrolytes in Pediatrics
A Comprehensive Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the time-honored foundations of the practice of pediatric medicine is the understanding and application of the principles of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders. Presented in a new softcover format, Fluid and Electrolytes in Pediatrics: A Comprehensive Handbook brings together a select...
Mapping Uncertainty in Medicne
What to do when you don't know what to do?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Uncertainty is the norm in medical practice, yet often gives rise to distress in clinicians, who fear they will make shameful or guilt inducing errors. This book offers a succinct method to clinicians for classifying uncertainty and finding the right skills to manage different types of uncertainty...
The Littlest Caregiver
Excerpt From The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A doctor asked on Twitter, "What's one thing you wished you knew when you had to look after one of your own family members?"
I needed over 1000 words to respond, although my 140 character-answer is this: I wish I'd known better how to just sit still, or at least act normally, with...
Suffering and Spiritually
The Path to Illness Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
After twelve years, author Lorraine M. Wright, RN, PhD revisits her well-received book, Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Ideas for Healing (2005). With updated research, new illness narratives, this latest edition provides insights, guidance and advice for individuals/families experiencing illness...
by Clare Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Nutrition plays a crucial role in supporting patients receiving treatment for cancer. Carefully considered nutritional options can help to manage patients with weight loss and cachexia, support the patient’s ability to recover from surgery and cope with treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy....
Secure Accommodation in Child Care
'Between Hospital and Prison or Thereabouts?'
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "problems". But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure accommodation? In Secure Accommodation in Child Care the...
by Julia Twigg
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Community care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In...
Joshua's Story
Uncovering the Morecambe Bay NHS scandal
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In November 2008 James Titcombe and his family suffered a terrible tragedy – the death of their baby son Joshua, aged just 9 days old.
For the next six years James dedicated his life to finding out just what happened to Joshua. What he discovers goes far beyond the errors that caused his...
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery
Towards a Critical Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book explores the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/midwifery. It examines the ever-expanding integration in relation to:
the role and conceptualization of the patient
the role and responsibilities...
by Kevin L. Darden D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Each type of headache has specific causes. These causes are specific habits each one of us has but need to avoid.This book is the compilation of a complete treatment plan of a typical migraine patient. The mother in this book had migraines for decades. Her life completely changed with the ability to...
A Pain Doctor’S Dilemma
Prescribing Opioids in an Era of Overdose
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Dr. Richard Ng can easily recall the darkest day of his life: Feb. 17, 2017.
That was the day he was sentenced to eighty-seven months in prison after he admitted in a plea bargain that he prescribed hydrocodone without legitimate medical purposes to an undercover agent with the Drug Enforcement...
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Plurality and Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it...