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Advanced Practice in Healthcare
Skills for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Advanced Practice in Healthcare outlines the key components of advanced practice in which healthcare professionals are engaged. With a clear skills focus, it explores issues critical to providing effective enhanced care to patients whilst managing and negotiating the complexities of the healthcare...
Health Care in Malaysia
The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of:
the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of...
Bereavement Care
A New Look at Hospice and Community Based Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Here is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current bereavement care practices and key concerns of care providers. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, interests, and perspectives from divergent disciplines and clinical experiences, the contributing authors explore theories and constructs that...
by Penelope Leach
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Penelope Leach, the universally admired author of the best-selling classic Your Baby and Child, diagnoses the state of child care in America and the world today.
Who is caring for today’s children? How well are they succeeding? What does care cost, and who is paying for it? Leach answers...
The Redleaf Family Child Care Curriculum
Teaching Through Quality Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
This leading resource is a specifically designed curriculum for family child-care providers. They will be able to incorporate best practices and activities appropriate for the mixed ages of children in their care. Developmental domains and milestones, learning areas, age-appropriate activities and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all? Access to Health Care considers the meaning of 'access' in health care and examines the theoretical issues that underpin these questions.
Contributors draw on a range of disciplinary...
The Affordable Care Act and Integrated Behavioural Health Care
Meeting the Health and Behavioral Health Needs of a Diverse Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book provides a scholarly discussion of arguably the most important advance in U.S. public health services since Medicare 50 years ago - how the Federal program known as the Patient Care and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) or "Obamacare" became law. It addresses ACA in terms of its...
When Death Comes Knocking for Your Patients
A Guide for Nurses and Palliative Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
As a nurse or palliative caregiver, do you want to take better care of terminally ill patients, their loved ones, and yourself? Would you like to be empowered under difficult circumstances and feel more comfortable about what to say when providing palliative care?Based on thirty years of experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Led by both children’s rights perspectives and methodological arguments, there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people’s participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies – with many now considering the active involvement of children...
Share the Care
How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
You Don't Have to Do It Alone
Whether you're prepared for it or not, chances are you'll take on the role of caregiver when a family member or friend is affected by a serious illness or injury, or when you find your elderly parent needs help. As you'll soon discover, the range of tasks and responsibilities...
Promoting Health
The Primary Health Care Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The must-have health promotion textbook now in a new updated edition.
Increasing disparities in health globally mean the imperative for primary health care is greater than ever.
Now in its fifth edition, Promoting Health: the primary health care approach remains an essential toolkit...
by Sheila A. Sorrentino, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Provide safe and effective care in any type of long-term care setting! Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants provides a complete guide to the skills you need as a nursing assistant. More than 100 key procedures are described with clear, easy-to-learn instructions. Written by noted...
Focus On Your Best Health
Smart Guide to the Health Care You Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Focus On YOUR BEST HEALTH provides those making health care decisions with a roadmap for successful outcomes. Strategies contained in this book demystify medical care by translating the obscure language of medicine, guiding savvy navigation of the heath care system, and promoting appropriate advocacy...
Intellectual Disability and Being Human
A Care Ethics Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability.
This pioneering book, in considering intellectually disabled...