Patient Care category: 3822 books
Sustainable Medicine
Whistle-Blowing on 21st-Century Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Sustainable Medicine is based on the premise that twenty-first century Western medicine—driven by vested interests—is failing to address the root causes of disease. Symptom-suppressing medication and “polypharmacy” have resulted in an escalation of disease and a system of so-called “health...
After Adoption
Direct Contact and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements...
by Edwin R Gerler, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Your school must be prepared to face problems that range from name calling and bullying to extortion, rape, and homicide. Decrease the chances of tragedy and learn how to respond most effectively!
This essential handbook explores the causes of school violence, presents state-of-the-art information...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Trauma, trauma-related disorders, substance use, and addictive disorders often co-occur, and frequently play a role in the problems and issues that social workers contend with in their practice with individuals, families, and communities. Research shows that there is a relationship between trauma-related...
Social Work Practice with African American Families
An Intergenerational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Be more effective by understanding African American families from an intergenerational perspective
Social workers looking to provide competent practice with African American families may be more effective by using a new strengths-based approach from an intergenerational perspective. Social...
Social Work, Marriage, and Ethnicity
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
By looking at a variety of racial and ethnic groups in society, Social Work, Marriage and Ethnicity examines the conventional knowledge, theories and best practices relating to marriages. Contributors address marriage interventions, female empowerment, parenting, and cohabitation, as well as the variables...
Metabolic Disorders and Critically Ill Patients
From Pathophysiology to Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients. Since the beginning of the 20th century, maintaining the "milieu intérieur" has been a major challenge for intensivists. In addition...
by Scott Webb
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
All kinds of dietary options have been presented, but few trace the path of food sourcing, farming methods, and recent preservation and safety concerns. Starting with the common potato, this book analyzes what might have gone wrong in recent years. This extends to a whole variety of foods including...
Nutritional Management of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is a state-of-the art review for clinicians and dieticians with an interest in nutrition and inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis). The volume covers new data about dietary risk factors for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, examines the association between...
Nutrition in Neurologic Disorders
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book offers focused and concise coverage of all issues relating to malnutrition in the field of neurology, and in particular addresses practical aspects of nutritional support from a neurology perspective. In addition to providing basic knowledge on important nutritional concepts (body metabolism,...
What Do I Do?
How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder, Revised and Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Help families of institutionalized elders with this compassionate and practical manual.
by Dr. Gabriella Ottaviano Onyenweuzor
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
FIRST HELP FOR OCCASIONAL RESCUERS
This book is dedicated to all the people who have no knowledge of medicine and its applications while facing serious or trivial mediccal emergencies.
In my twenty years of experience in handling medical emergencies brought me in contact with people who panicked or...
Planning For Life
Involving Adults with Learning Disabilities in Service Planning
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
This book traces the development of services for people with disabilities and discusses how much things have really changed for today's 'service users' since the days of asylums. It also assesses whether the policy of involvement, such as that outlined in Valuing People, is achievable in practice...
Jaros Hygienic Wear
The therapeutic and prophylactic application.
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
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Professors Von Pettenkofer, Parkes, and Buck, pronounced Hygienists, have contributed largely to establishing theories regarding clothing materials and their relations to health. These conclusions have led to a more general consideration thereof, in the therapeutics,...