Patient Care category: 3822 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Now in paperback, the Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care integrates clinical wisdom with empirical findings. Written by an international team of authors, it draws upon the history of communication science, providing the reader with a comprehensive curriculum for applied...
Self-Help For Chronic COPD
A Health Guide On COPD Stages, COPD Treatments, COPD Therapy, COPD And Life Expectancy And COPD Support To Help You And Your Families Manage The Lung Disease And Cope With The Stress And Nervous Tension Of Living With COPD
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
COPD means chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is one of the most misunderstood common lung diseases because it involves a combination of disorders that increasingly damage the lungs and make breathing more and more difficult as it exacerbates.
Cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke...
Social Work, Health, and International Development
Compassion in Social Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Sharpen your social work in health care knowledge and skills
Social Work, Health, and International Development: Compassion in Social Policy and Practice presents leading international experts from a range of disciplines providing the latest in research, theory, and practical solutions to advance...
Staying Alive
The Signs That You Have to See a Doctor Right Now (and the Ways to Avoid Having to See One Again)
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Staying Alive is the ultimate medical survival guide for the twenty-first-century patient. Written by the award-winning family physician Dr. Matthew Hahn, the book details what most effectively saves patients’ lives and keeps them well. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dr. Hahn teaches you to...
by Kathleen Deska Pagana, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Access the clinically relevant information you need easily in any setting with Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference, 10th Edition. This bestselling handbook provides concise coverage of tests without sacrificing important details. Each test entry includes, where relevant, alternate or...
by Sylvia C. McKean, John J. Ross, Daniel D. Dressler
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
The leading textbook of hospital medicine – completely updated to reflect today’s challenges
A Doody’s Core Title for 2019!
Since its publication in 2012, Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, Second Edition has become the field’s premier resource. Comprehensive, authoritative,...
Human Factors in Healthcare
Level One
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The majority of errors, litigation, and complaints in the health service are due to 'human factors', yet the term is still not widely understood and is sometimes used interchangeably to refer to team training or communication skills. Although including these, the subject of 'human factors' goes far...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Clinical Fluid Therapy in the Peri-Operative Setting brings together some of the world's leading clinical experts in fluid management to explain what you should know when providing infusion fluids to surgical and critical care patients. Current evidence-based knowledge, essential basic science and...
by Rev Elizabeth Mackinley
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Gain greater depth of understanding of end-of-life spiritual issues for older adults
The period of time when a person approaches death is always difficult both for the patient and the caregiver. Aging, Spirituality, and Palliative Care discusses best practices in aged and palliative care while addressing patients’ diverse spiritual
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto
A history of medical care 1941–1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. The book offers new ways of exploring...
A Sea of Broken Hearts
Patient Rights in a Dangerous, Profit-Driven Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
This is a must-read for summer runners, baby-boomers, and anyone who suspects that they or a loved one has been harmed by medical errors in our health care system. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year from medical errors, but most mistakes are kept secret from patients.
After learning...
by David L. Reich, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Monitoring in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is a practical and comprehensive resource documenting the current art and science of perioperative patient monitoring, addressing the systems-based practice issues that drive the highly regulated health care industry of the early twenty-first century....
The Administration of Health Systems
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In the late 1960s, American society entered a period of rapidly accelerating social change. Certainty that U.S. vast scientific and technical capability would be able to find solutions to all problems began to turn to concern, as organizational efforts were unable to keep pace with new developments...
Healthcare Choices
5 Steps to Getting the Medical Care You Want and Need
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Making healthcare decisions is hard, but making the right choices has never mattered more.
Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Care You Want and Needgives you the tools you need to choose the best medical care—for you. Archelle Georgiou, MD, explainsher CARES model, the formula she...