Care category: 6811 books
Compassion
Compassion, Continuity and Caring in the NHS
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Compassion takes as its starting point 'Cum scientia caritas', the motto of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Translated as 'Science with compassion', it captures the technical and caring aspects of being a doctor. Science is continually developing but compassion is unchanging. But how relevant...
The Enduring Self in People with Alzheimer's
Getting to the Heart of Individualized Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
“. . . an outstanding contribution to a growing literature that will change the way we age in the 21st century.”
—Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., and Danny George, M.Sc., authors of The Myth of Alzheimer’s
“This book will help move us to better and better care practices in our journeys with...
Disability Politics and Care
The Challenge of Direct Funding
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
“We do not need care!” is a rallying cry for disability movements. It is informed by a recognition that a lack of choice over life decisions – from relationships and employment, to what to wear or eat – is a subtle yet pervasive form of violence endured by many people with disabilities as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
This text provides a high level, comprehensive but concise review of adult surgical critical care. It can be used to review complex topics of critical illness in surgical patients, as a reference tool, or as preparation for a board examination. It is focused on the surgical patient including...
Community Health and Wellness
Primary Health Care in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
A new edition of the esteemed nursing text exploring social, cultural and political issues affecting individual and community health
What makes a healthy community? And how can nurses and midwives support community health and wellbeing?
In Community Health and Wellness, 4th Edition:...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of governments which have fundamentally altered the...
by Carlos M H Gómez
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Intensive care patients are the most critically ill in any hospital and they are a patient group that utilises a disproportionate amount of medical resources. Intensive care medicine, around for about 40 years, is a relatively recent but globally expanding specialty due to a growing geriartric population...
Denver Health Medical Center Handbook of Surgical Critical Care
The Practice and the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
As surgical critical care continues to evolve, this handbook provides the framework for the surgical intensivist, and focuses specifically on the surgical considerations encountered in the care of the critically ill patient. Drawing from decades of experience at one of the world's busiest and most...
Doctors and the State
The Politics of Health Care in France and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 1991
All advanced health care systems face severe difficulties in financing the delivery of today’s sophisticated medical care. In this study David Wilsford compares the health systems in France and the United States to demonstrate that some political systems are considerably more effective at controlling...
by Sharon L. Edwards, EdD SFHEA NTF MSc PGCEA DipN(Lon) RN, Joyce Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices?
This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty.
This book will help you to
Organise your job and...
Home Health Care Provider
A Guide to Essential Skills
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients. It is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are...
Parish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy
Navigating the Maze of Professional Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Understand the roles of these three unique professions and how collaboration can make each more effective!
This is the first book to clarify the roles and interprofessional dynamics of these three professions and describe how they can best work together. Here you’ll find theological perspectives...
by Brittany Busse
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This text outlines, from a surgeon's standpoint, how wounds can be expeditiously and effectively managed in the Urgent Care setting by physicians and mid-level providers with Primary Care training. The main topics addressed include the principles of wound healing, wound types, types of primary...
The Encyclopedia of Elder Care
The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Praise for the Third Edition:
“The third edition of this outstanding resource reflects the many advances in the care of older people that have occurred since the publication of the second edition…The vast bulk of the content is accessible and relevant to an international audience. The indexing...