Home Care category: 386 books
Home Health Nursing
Scope and Standards of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Home health is one of the fastest-growing industries, expected to add well over 1 million new jobs throughout the next decade. As a nurse practicing in this area, you are going to be called upon to coordinate and deliver care like never before. Americans ages 65 and older will be nearly 20 percent...
Palliative and End of Life Care for Children and Young People
Home, Hospice, Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
“Anne’s contribution to our understanding of the needs of young people with cancer has been unparalleled and without her extraordinary insights our services would be that much poorer.”
From the foreword by Simon Davies , CEO Teenage Cancer Trust
This topical and timely text provides valuable...
by Atlantic Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
With today’s large aging population, a growing number of people face the burden of placing their spouses or elder relatives in long term care. For many, this means choosing a Medicaid health care plan that makes sense. Medicaid is the largest health care provider program in the world, but what does...
Circles of Care
How to Set Up Quality Care for Our Elders in the Comfort of Their Own Homes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2001
"My parent needs help, but refuses to consider a nursing home." That’s the dilemma facing millions of baby boomers today. How can we ensure responsible, compassionate, even uplifting care for our aging parents at home?
Mindfulness is key, Ann Cason writes. Good care begins with...
Making Individual Service Funds Work for People with Dementia Living in Care Homes
How it Works in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Dispelling the myths about how personalisation works for people with dementia living in care homes, this book demonstrates how to introduce Individual Service Funds (ISFs), what works and what doesn't, and how to deal with difficulties and setbacks.
Individual Service Funds are one way that...
by Pete Calveley, Sue Goldsmith, Caroline Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The award-winning PEARL (Positively Enriching and enhancing Residents' Lives) programme was developed to enable care homes to move from providing good fundamental care to excellent person-centred dementia care. Trialled extensively by one of the UK's largest care providers, it has been proven to dramatically...
Labors of Love
Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention—and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Fully updated and revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing is the essential guide to caring for patients in primary care and the community. Concise, easy-to-use, and comprehensive, this handbook ensures that the reader has the skills and knowledge required...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Palliative Care Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for nursing students, health and social care practitioners, and all those involved in palliative care delivery, both in the clinical and home setting. Written by an expert team of academics, nurses, educators and researchers it provides...
by Maurice King
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book has 400 pages 400,000 words and more than 700 illustrations. It tells you how to deliver a mother at home, or in a health centre. Although it is mainly written for assistant midwives, it will be useful all kinds of medical reader, including especially medical students, and indeed for the general...
Palliative Care Nursing, Fourth Edition
Quality Care to the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Praise for the Third Edition:
"In this comprehensive textbook on palliative care nursing, editors Marianne Matzo and Deborah Witt Sherman succeed in bringing together the heart of nursing and the true meaning of palliative care with the most current evidence based practice." --GeriPal
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Review of previous edition:
"An extremely popular and valuable resource to students, practitioners and managers in community health care nursing." Journal of Advanced Nursing
Community Health Care Nursing has become established as an essential source of reference for all those working...
Compassionate Person-Centered Care for the Dying
An Evidence-Based Palliative Care Guide For Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
A milestone resource for palliative care nurses that facilitates evidence-based compassionate and humanistic care of the dying
"A valuable contribution to the evolving field of palliative nursing care. It is authored by a model for this field, Bonnie Freeman, and brings to the bedside what...
Palliative Care
Transforming the Care of Serious Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.
Diane E. Meier, M.D., one of the field's leaders and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in 2009, opens the volume with...