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by Brian Casull
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
As a physician and Physician Executive with 40 years in service supporting the patient, I share a passion and concern about the fate of health care in this country. Per a United States Congressman: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare.’ The data proves otherwise: there is...
Residential Child Care Staff Selection
Choose with Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Here's vital information on making the right recruitment choices, getting the best staff, and avoiding potential abusers!
More than a set of procedures, good staff selection practice is about a set of principles that embody particular attitudes to the task. If we achieve these basic principles,...
Integrated Care in Action
A Practical Guide for Health, Social Care and Housing Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Integration is now a key expectation within the delivery of health and social care services in the UK and internationally. However, it still remains difficult to achieve and sustain in practice. Based on learning from successful, and unsuccessful, integrated care initiatives, this book is an invaluable...
Health Literacy in Primary Care
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2007
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
At the intersection of health care delivery and practice there lies a large area of patient care with no manual: how to provide the best care to patients who have a critically low level of comprehension and literacy. Because all patients play a central role...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book will be of tremendous use to all healthcare professionals from physicians to nurses to social workers, rehabilitation therapists, and chaplains. The pathway taken here is a sensible and reasonable one, emphasizing a patient-centred approach that underscores the importance of spiritually...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Make sure your clients get the best possible care throughout their lives
Contemporary Issues of Care presents the latest research findings on human behavior and the social environment for social workers practicing at the individual, family, and community levels. This timely book applies the...
by AACN
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2007
2007 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner
Acute and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialists: Best Practices presents the knowledge and tools the CNS needs to provide the best standards of practice and performance. It focuses on the role of the CNS in acute and critical care, emphasizing the relationship...
Critical To Care
The Invisible Women in Health Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2008
Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results...
End of life choices
Consensus and controversy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects. dived into two parts, it introduces and explains...
Community-Based Programs and Policies
Contributions to Social Policy Development in Health Care and Health Care-Related Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This collection is focused on the provision of community-based programs and activities in health and related long-term care services that have contributed, or may in the future contribute, to social policy development.
Several of the articles in this collection deal with community-based health...
Less Medicine, More Health
7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care.
You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too...
by Eleanor DeArman Kinney
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2002
Despite the attention to the problem of protecting the health care interests of Americans, there is little consensus on what should be done politically or otherwise to address this problem. In Protecting American Health Care Consumers Eleanor DeArman Kinney, a nationally regarded expert on health...
by Stephen Simac
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
"Stephen Simac puts his finger on the pulse of American medicine and on its wallet and finds huge destruction in the mismatch. Save Trillions is a rational fix for a troubled system."
Dr. Walter Bortz, author of Next Medicine: the Science and Civics of Health
former Professor of Medicine...
Health Care Reform and Globalisation
The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model were met by vocal opposition. In the UK and post-communist Europe, attempts to introduce aspects of that model have...