Patient Care category: 3822 books
Dying and Disabled Children
Dealing With Loss and Grief
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
In this sensitive and compassionate look at terminally ill and disabled children, professionals from the medical community examine the stresses faced by their parents and siblings. They address the crucial element of communication--within a family and between health care providers and family members--in...
Intimate Violence
Contemporary Treatment Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Take an updated approach to treating partner violence!
Intimate Violence: Contemporary Treatment Innovations examines new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence, de-emphasizing the unilateral, psychoeducational approach in favor of treatment modalities that focus on the offenders'...
European Union Public Health Policy
Regional and global trends
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for...
by Lauren Van Scoy, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
As a doctor at the end of a 24-hour shift in the intensive care unit, it’s usually easy for me to fall asleep. Exhaustion hits me like a rock and it doesn’t matter that the morning sun is pouring into my bedroom. After so many long hours of fighting for life and pushing back death, when I finally...
Compassion in Nursing
Theory, Evidence and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Is nursing in England experiencing a fundamental moral crisis? A number of recent high-profile reports about the state of nursing care in English hospitals certainly add weight to this argument; however, although the intense media attention on the decline of compassion in nursing has highlighted some...
Humanising Healthcare
Patterns of Hope for a System Under Strain
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
A practical strategy for transforming the UK and other healthcare systems... offering an affordable, sustainable and compassionate alternative to the present mess.
Healthcare systems across the developed world are in trouble. Changing patterns of disease, an ageing population and advances...
by Gerald P Mallon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Focusing on the pragmatic aspects of social work with gay and lesbian persons, this book offers a knowledge base of practice that will better prepare students and practitioners for working more competently and effectively with lesbians and gay men. Written by scholars and practitioners in the social...
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Transnational Health and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in...
Equalising Opportunities, Minimising Oppression
A Critical Review of Anti-Discriminatory Policies in Health and Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Anti-Racist Practice (ARP), Anti-Discriminatory Practice (ADP) and Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP) form a trinity of concepts, nested into one another, which have evolved in welfare services over the last fifteen years. They tend to have developed as forms of practice panaceas and as a result have...
by Lawrence E. Estaville, Kristine Egan, Dr. Abel Galaviz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
With almost two hundred pages of original demographic and health-related maps that display county-by-county and regional information covering everything from the distribution of pharmacies, trauma centers, and emergency rooms to the number of lung, colon, and breast cancer patients in major metropolitan...
by Robert Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Editor Robert Sheridan and authors review the latest in Management of Burns. Articles will include Reflection: evolution of the field over 50 years, Acute burn procedures and operations, Special injuries and illnesses, Initial evaluation and fluid resuscitation, Critical care of burns, Biology and...
by Tourette Syndrome Association Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Providing authoritative and up-to-date medical and scientific information about Tourette syndrome, A Familys Guide to Tourette Syndrome speaks to patients, families, care providers, academic institutions, and medical centers in easy-to-understand language about this neurodevelopmental disorder that...
by Ann Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Many hospice social workers must address spiritual issues with their clients, but do not feel competent to do so effectively. This targeted volume draws upon multidisciplinary theory and research to advance a relational model of spiritually sensitive hospice care. The book will help readers elevate...
Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work
Autoimmunity and the contemporary disease experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work, through the specific...