Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Elizabeth Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2011
After a visit to a nutritionist dramatically improved Kahn’s health, she experienced a paradigm shift about eating, healing and health care. She subsequently became a nutrition consultant and educator and an advocate for changing not only how people approach their own eating habits and health care...
by Dr. Michelle Kmiec
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
After being desperately sick ten years ago, the medical profession offered her nothing but prescription drugs and outrageous “healthcare” bills. Not willing to accept that as her faith, if she was to be healthy again, she decided she would have to look for the answers herself.
That’s...
Helping Children and Young People who Self-harm
An Introduction to Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Every year thousands of children and young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm. More still come to the attention of CAMHS teams, school nurses and other community-based services. Helping Children and Young People who Self-harm provides clear and practical guidance...
by Suzette Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
This book is for all of the caregivers out there who slowly found themselves in the position of taking care of a loved one who may no longer even recognize them due to the ravages of Alzheimer's. Through Brown's experience watching from the sidelines as her mother slowly declined, to the day-to-day...
Voices From the Field
Group Work Responds
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Voices From the Field is the book to challenge you from your cozy position of complacency! By simply opening its pages, you will learn about fascinating developments in group work sequences in group care, empowerment groups in action, and a whole spectrum of practice and education-oriented themes...
Catch Your Breath
Tender Meditations for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
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""One of the meditations from Catch Your Breath cited in Oprah Magazine""
Whether you have chosen to be a caregiver or were hijacked by circumstances, Catch Your Breath, a series of touching meditations by Linda Spalla, will become a wisp of sanity and a day-to-day...
Doctors and Doctrines
The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in a government-sponsored medicare plan claim that...
by Seymour Diamond, MD, Merle L. Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
The authors, world-renowned headache practitioners, have written a comprehensive review of the management of headache that will prove useful to both physicians and interested patients. Special attention is given to both pharmacologic therapies and nonpharmacologic treatments including dietary restrictions...
Take My Hand
The Caregiver’s Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Take My Hand is a welcome, practical guide for the emotional journey of caregiving.
The caregiver’s twisting and emotional journey is often bittersweet, combining feelings of exhaustion, reflection, love, frustration, delight, denial, connection, and loneliness. Just as they have taken on...
by Bonita Bandaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
A Promise Kept is a memoir of the author's life as caregiver to her aging parent. She shares lessons learned through keeping a promise to care for her mother at home. The book sheds light on the emotional conflicts of family care-giving and encourages caregivers to find persistence, strength, and...
A Life Worthwhile
The Story of Aaron
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
"This is a beautiful book about the life of Aaron who, against all the odds, lived well. This is a story of a severely disabled man who was loved and cared for by adoptive parents, and who became central to his wider family, a joy to sister and brother, nephews and nieces, and a popular fellow-student...
Applying Nursing Process
The Foundation for Clinical Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Because principles of nursing process are the building blocks for all care models, the nursing process is the first model nurses need to learn to “think like a nurse.” This trusted resource provides the practical guidance needed to understand and apply each phase of the nursing process, with an...
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
This important sequel to Nordic Social Policy (Routledge 1999) compares welfare state development over the last twenty years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with that of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other Western European countries. Topics covered include:
* income distribution,...