Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Douglas S. Paauw, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Douglas S. Paauw, MD is devoted to Comprehensive Care of the Patient with Chronic Illness. Dr. Paauw has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Primary Care of the Homeless Patient; Primary Care of the Patient...
The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care
Autonomy in Patient-Centered Care for Chronic Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means. We must understand patients as subjects who know things and as agents who do things. Bioethics has urged us to respect patient autonomy, but it has understood this autonomy...
Improving Healthcare Team Performance
The 7 Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Practical, proven techniques for improving team performance in the health care world
Teams and collaboration have become an expectation in most healthcare facilities and environments. It is accepted that high performance, patient focused teams are critical to quality patient care. However,...
Palliative Care for Advanced Alzheimer's and Dementia
Guidelines and Standards for Evidence-Based Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in both Gerontologic Nursing and Hospice and Palliative Care!
"This book...provides important information on best practices and appropriate ways to care for a person with Alzheimer's and advanced dementia. Drs. Martin and Sabbagh have assembled a...
Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
From Diagnosis to Bereavement
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or motor neurone disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family. Whilst new treatments for ALS are being developed, these are not curative and offer only the potential to slow its progression....
What Doctors Feel
How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care
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Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments....
Reality Stories of Medicine
Things About Patient Care You Don't Learn at School
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This e-book is intended for healthcare providers at any level, students or practitioners. It contains six chapters of "real life" medical stories with over 300 observations learned from the day to day life of a practicing internist and subspecialist. Dr. Gullberg is a physician who has been...
by Jeffrey Borkan, Richard E. Hawkins, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Developed by the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, Health Systems Science is the first text that focuses on providing a fundamental understanding of how health care is delivered, how health care professionals work together to deliver that care, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Although the need for improved care for dying patients is widely recognized and frequently discussed, few books address the needs of the physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, hospice team members, and pastoral counselors involved in care. Care of the Dying Patient contains material not found...
Doctoring
The Nature of Primary Care Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more...
The Patient's Wish to Die
Research, Ethics, and Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Wish to die statements are becoming a frequent phenomenon in terminally ill patients. Those confronted by these statments need to understand the complexity of such wishes, so they can respond competently and compassionately to the requests. If misunderstood, the statements can be taken at face-value...
Cardiac Diagnosis for Acute Care
The NP's and PA's Guide to a Comprehensive History and Deciphering the Differential
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
Helps clinicians to systematically look beyond the obvious to arrive at a correct diagnosis
Written specifically for both novice and experienced cardiovascular clinicians in acute care settings, this is the only resource to focus on the art of conducting an in-depth patient history. Too often,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Medical and health activities can greatly benefit from the effective use of health informatics. By capturing, processing, and disseminating information to the correct systems and processes, decision-making can be more successful and quality care and patient safety would see significant improvements....
Losing Our Way in Healthcare
The Impact of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Healthcare in the US is rapidly changing. The changes that are occurring as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare” will forever modify the way in which doctors and patients interact.
This book is a collection of essays that initially are a heartfelt description of the...