Patient Care category: 3822 books
What I've Learned from You
The Lessons of Life Taught to a Doctor by His Patients
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
What I've Learned from You is the story of the lessons of life taught to a doctor by his patients. It takes us on a journey from an inner-city trauma center to the bedside of a dying cancer patient. It explores human relationships and gives an intimate view into the window of the human condition....
by Betty R. Ferrell, Nessa Coyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
The essence of nursing care continually exposes nurses to suffering. Although they bear witness to the suffering of others, their own suffering is less frequently exposed. This slim volume attempts to give voice to the suffering that nurses witness in patients, families, colleagues, and themselves....
by Margaret Overton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Margaret Overton's Hope for a Cool Pillow is a passionate argument for planning end-of-life care. As physician, daughter and student of American health care, Overton pulls from all corners, showing us the emotional, financial and physical costs of not being prepared. Her daily rounds reveal harrowing...
How to Get Families More Involved in the Nursing Home
Four Programs That Work and Why
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Health care providers and social workers at nursing homes may feel they have little time to design programs for the family members of their residents, yet you will learn in How to Get Families More Involved in the Nursing Home that the benefits of such programs are immense and the time investment...
by Clair Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Covers palliative care and end of life skills needed by health care workers.
Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics
Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2018
In the UK and beyond, Down’s syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care. But why does screening persist, particularly in light of research that highlights pregnant women’s ambivalent...
Spinal Cord Stimulation Implantation
Percutaneous Implantation Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Spinal cord stimulators (SCS) are implantable medical devices used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin, such as sciatica, intractable back pain, and diabetic. The device generates an electric pulse near the spinal cord's dorsal surface, providing a parasthesia sensation that alters the perception...
The Pain Management Handbook
A Concise Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. SAMUEL JoHNSON, The Rambler, no. 48 (September 1, 1750) Who among us has not experienced the suffering of a patient with chronic disease, who in addition to the vicissitudes of fatigue, anxiety, and frustration, must also deal with the suffering...
by Bill McCarberg, Steven Stanos, Yvonne D'Arcy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
An estimated 60 million Americans suffer from pain. There has been an explosion in pain research, new pharmaceuticals, the recognition of complementary and alternative therapies, interventional techniques and surgery, professional pain societies and providers with expertise in pain management. Still,...
Healthy Eating with Chronic Kidney Disease, 2Nd Edition
A Book for Professionals and Patients
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
Healthy Eating for Chronic Kidney Disease was written to benefit both patients and registered dietitians or new renal dietitians. There are 264 pages of educational materials to teach the patient about kidney disease not yet on dialysis as well as patients on hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. There...
Pain, Emotion and Cognition
A Complex Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This book focuses on the reciprocal interactions between pain, emotion and cognition. International experts report on their findings, clinical experience and the most recent literature on the complex relations between these three domains. Clinical, psychological, behavioral and neuroimaging approaches...
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...
by Theodoros Theodoridis, Juergen Kraemer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, Spinal Injection Techniques presents all common methods for the injection of local anesthetics to address pain from the cervical spine to the sacrum. The authors describe techniques that are viable alternatives to spine surgery and that do not rely on...
Guten Tag, mein Name ist Hiob …
Ein Ratgeber zum Überbringen schlechter Nachrichten in der Medizin
Language: German
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Mit Fallbeispielen, Interviews und Formulierungshilfen Schlechte Nachrichten gehören zu den Tatsachen des Lebens. Gerade im medizinischen Alltag - sei es im Krankenhaus oder in der Arztpraxis - müssen Ärzte und Pflegepersonal ihren Patienten regelmäßig schlechte Nachrichten - also „Hiobsbotschaften“...