Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Lorena Tonarelli
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Looking after someone ill, elderly or disabled can be physically and emotionally challenging, especially if you are new to caring. However, you are not alone.
Offering practical advice and drawing on the latest research in the field of caring, this book helps you begin your journey as a...
Choice Matters
How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care)
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out goods and services from music to mortgages. So what happens now that the revolution has come for healthcare? While consumers have begun to insist on healthcare that is as convenient and personalized as nearly every other good...
Occupational Health Services
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations.
Designed...
Death House
The True Story of an American Community Hospital and Its Physicians Who Murder for Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2001
There is an excellent chance this book will save your life. You will see doctors, the practice of medicine, and community hospitals as you have never seen them before. You will learn about things you never could have believed existed before. For what is written in this book has never been told before...
by Micha Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Dear Caregiver, I set out to write a comprehensive book with a fresh approach for caregivers and family members who are dealing and assisting individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. I gathered as much information as I could from over 25 years as an administrator of residential care and rest home...
Healing After Dark
Pioneering Compassionate Medicine at the Boston Evening Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2011
In 1927 in the field of health care an unusual event occurred. Morris Aaron Cohen, M.D. founded the Boston Evening Clinic, an unique and never before conceived facility for the treatment of the indigent and low-wage earners who could not afford to lose a day’s pay. It was an endeavor that achieved...
by John Mohan
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Improving access to hospital services has been a goal of public policy in Britain for over seventy years, but the means by which this goal is to be attained have changed significantly over time. Drawing substantially on original research,
lanning, Markets and Hospitals represents a systematic attempt...
Excellent Dementia Care in Hospitals
A Guide to Supporting People with Dementia and their Carers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Hospital workers are increasingly expected to have the knowledge and skills to care for people with dementia. This best-practice guide presents key information and strategies for working with people with dementia in hospitals to manage common issues. With a focus on person-centred care, this is an essential resource for healthcare staff.
by Stephanie Lind, Susan Chase
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Today we are in a healthcare crisis. All around the industrialized world people are struggling with declining health. From childhood obesity to the multiple health-related needs and concerns of an aging population, millions need help understanding, managing, or even reversing their maladies. Hospitals...
Hospice Voices
Lessons for Living at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected.
In telling...
Manual Nonfatal Strangulation Assessment
For Health Care Providers and First Responders
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
138 pages, 112 images, 19 contributors Manual Nonfatal Strangulation Assessment for Health Care Providers and First Responders is designed to standardize anatomic nomenclature, as it relates to the head and neck, for both new and experienced sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) and sexual assault...
Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry in California
State-of-the-State Report
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Examines the health care needs of newly released California prisoners; the communities most affected by reentry and the health care safety net of those communities; the critical roles that health care providers, other social services, and family members play in successful reentry; and the effects of...
Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice
Opportunities and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
How does nursing knowledge develop and how do we incorporate this knowledge into the practice of nursing?
Is it possible for nursing theory to address the needs of clinical practice?
These key questions in the field of nursing are explored in this groundbreaking work.
Based on...
by Gideon Alemede
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
This book will help you to acquire the required knowledge and self-care skills to quickly and easily manage sickle cell trait and sickle cell disorder. With adequate knowledge and self-care skills presented in this book ,people with sickle cell trait or sickle cell disorder can complement the efforts of health caregivers to live a graceful, purposeful and productive normal life.