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Treating Health Care
How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...
by M. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
~~What every teen girl must know to survive the teenage years!
Are you a teenage girl, or parent of one, who is struggling with the angst and drama of the teenage years?
Advice for Teenage Girls offers an essential guidebook for teens on subjects and issues that they face in and out...
by Kathleen Heery, MS RN CCM
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
After many years in the health care and insurance industries, author Kathleen Heery MS, RN, CCM was struck by the reality that health care services could better align with health and that the chaos and expense in receiving these services could be better coordinated. The Affordable Care Act, also called...
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing
Enhancing Professional Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
"[T]his is an exceptionalbook and worth the investment for both the novice nursewho wants to proactively recognize compassion fatigueand for the experienced nurse who is struggling with professionalquality of life."--Journal for Nurses in Professional Development
"An excellent...
by Judith A. Halstead, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Winner of the Journal of Nursing Education's Top Teaching Tools Award!
"All too often novice educators enter their first teaching position and find their adjustment to the role of a faculty member daunting.... [This volume] is a 'must read' for any novice educator transitioning from the...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Better Total Health! Is the fact that you would like to get a grip on how to manage better health for you and your loved ones health but just don't know how making your life difficult... maybe even miserable? First, you are NOT alone!...
Coercive Care
Rights, Law and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue. This edited volume explores the concept of ‘coercive care’ in relation...
Adding 15 years to life, can we? yes we can-Heart Book
Heart , Heart , Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
A book focusing on maintaining the health of our heart and anticipating any issues as we can afford to have an heart attack in India or any country.
Fat Land
How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2004
“An in-depth, well-researched, and thoughtful exploration of the ‘fat boom’ in America.” —*TheBoston Globe***
Low carb, high protein, raw foods . . . despite our seemingly endless obsession with fad diets, the startling truth is that six out of ten Americans are overweight or obese....
Transitions in Nursing - E-Book
Preparing for Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Chang and Daly’s highly respected text assists students when preparing for their first nursing role by addressing key issues such as:
Team work
Organisational culture
Stress management
Communication skills
Professional development strategies
Self-care.
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Ethical Challenges in Health Care
Developing Your Moral Compass
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
Lachman successfully addresses the most important topics in health care ethics in this volume...The 20 chapters are divided logically and proceed onward from those dealing with the evolution of the philosophical basis for personal and organizational ethics...This...
Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication
Meaning, Culture, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
This volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. It includes an international collection of contributors, and highlights non-traditional (non-Western) perspectives on health communication.
Critical Reflection in Context
Applications in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Critical reflection enables practitioners – especially those within health and social care –to theorise from their own practice, improving and developing their work and practising both creatively and professionally.
This book provides an accessible overview of the influential Fook/Gardner...
Writing with Chronic Illness
Improve Outlook and Productivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
In this WMG Writer’s Guide, award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers words of wisdom for writers who suffer from chronic illnesses and who want to keep working, to improve their craft and spread their creative wings.
A long-time sufferer herself, Rusch reports from the trenches....