Patient Care category: 3822 books
Making Healthcare Care
Managing via Simple Guiding Principles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this volume, Hugo Letiche tackles the allimportant question, is there “care” in healthcare? If, as Klaus Krippendorff(2006) argues, “meaning is a structured space, a network of expected senses, a set of possibilities…[that] emerges in the use of language,” then within the healthcare systems...
by Carol Munn-Giddings, Richard Winter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Action research is a form of research closely linked to practice which can readily be undertaken by practitioners and service users. This handbook offers a comprehensive guide to action research as a strategy for inquiry and development in health and social care. It can be used by individuals or groups...
Living at the End of Life
A Hospice Nurse Addresses the Most Common Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
An updated edition of the most respected book on hospice care—for both patients and caregivers.
This warm and informative resource on hospice and other end-of-life care options now gets an update. It receives a new preface and revised guidance on elders who need more long-term care and support,...
Caring For The Elderly: It’s Your Turn To Look After Your Parents
A Very Helpful Collection Of Tips For Caring For The Elderly That Can Help You Make The Right Choices For Selecting A Caregiver, Choosing Retirement Homes For The Elderly Or Opting For Home Health Care For Possible Independent Living
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Taking care of the elderly, whether they are your parents or not, is a very demanding responsibility. It is a service that is both testing and taxing to your body, mind and spirit since the act requires you to give away your physical strength, utilize your mental aptitude and invest your emotions....
by Kristy Gonzalez Morganti, Sebastian Bauhoff, Janice C. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This report explores the evolving role that hospital emergency departments play in the U.S. health care system. EDs evaluate and manage complex and high-acuity patients, are the major point of entry to inpatient care, and serve as "the safety net of the safety net" for patients who cannot get care elsewhere....
Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence
A Collection of Papers from the First National Gerontological Social Work Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Inspire the next generation of gerontological social workers
The growing number of people over the age of 65 in the United States has increased the demand for social workers who are trained to work with the elderly—a demand that’s in danger of not being met. Fostering Social Work Gerontology...
Watch Your Back!
How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less—and What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Over the past twenty years, treatment of back pain has become ever more expensive and intensive. Use of MRI scans, narcotic painkillers, injections, and invasive spine surgery have all grown by several hundred percent. In some areas of medicine, newer treatments have improved quality and duration...
Social Work in the Health Field
A Care Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book provides an introduction to social work practice in the field of health care. It addresses both physical and mental health, examines various settings such as primary care, home care, hospice, and nursing, and also provides histories of social work practice in traditional industry segments.
by Nigel Malin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Services for People with Learning Disabilities provides a broad review of available services for people with learning disabilities. It describes the present network of services and explains the NHS and Community Care Act (1990) in terminoloy accessible to health care professionals and others engaged...
Time to Heal
American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1999
Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional...
by Alan Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas. This new edition features a brand new chapter entitled End of Life which will help health and social...
To Comfort Always
A history of palliative medicine since the nineteenth century
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Palliative medicine was first recognised as a specialist field in 1987. One hundred years earlier, London based doctor William Munk published a treatise on 'easeful death' that mapped out the principles of practical, spiritual, and medical support at the end of life. In the intervening years a major...
by John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Designed as a practical guide, The Handbook of Residential Care presents a unique combination of real examples and case studies, analysis, guidance and reflective discussion. It brings together all areas of residential work and all levels of involvement in it, with an emphasis of direct personal work...
by John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Managing Residential Care puts forward suggestions for improving the development of residential care through better management.
Extended examples and realistic case studies throughout demonstrate how managers can succeed and how sometimes the powerful forces of mismanagement can obstruct them.