Care category: 6811 books
Labors of Love
Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention—and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of...
by Ian Greaves, Keith Porter
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
The Oxford Handbook of Pre-hospital Care provides the reader with authoritative, evidence-based advice on the assessment and management of pre-hospital care emergencies. It is designed to provide information for all immediate care practitioners including doctors, paramedics, emergency care practitioners,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This unique book presents an authoritative guide to the medical and surgical management of complex neurosurgical problems encountered in the critical care setting. It provides straightforward summaries of each stage of patient care, guiding the reader through initial assessment, including ordering the...
Interventional Critical Care
A Manual for Advanced Care Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the interventional procedures that can be performed in intensive care settings. The book addresses fundamentals of the indications and technical aspects of procedures, and identifies pitfalls and resource needs. In addition, a section...
Outpatient Nutrition Care and Home Nutrition Support
Practical Guidelines for Assessment and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Nutrition, defined by Merriam-Webster, is the process of eating the right kind of food so you can grow properly and be healthy. However, making the right food and nutrition choices and finding the best and most accurate nutrition information can be a challenge, especially when a disease or injury...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Young people who leave care with few or no educational qualifications are at very high risk of social exclusion in adulthood. Yet in the past their education has attracted little attention from researchers or professionals. Studies by the editors and contributors to this volume show that the educational...
Health Care in Rural China
Lessons from HeBei Province
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by which these came about. By exploring universal questions in the social, historical and political context...
Care at the End of Life
An Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This work carefully guides the reader through the methodological, policy and ethical challenges facing health economists conducting research in palliative care. It has collected the opinions of many cutting-edge researchers. Those who design and conduct economic evaluations or economics-related...
Diabetes
Care Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This resource is an introduction to diabetes for those people who are supporting individuals living with this condition. It would be particularly useful for carers working in health and social care, or for someone supporting a member of their own family.
The first section explains what...
Caring for People with Challenging Behaviors
Essential Skills and Successful Strategies in Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
“[this] book is outstanding…[it] not only effectively captures key human relationship and organizational needs, [it] presents the material in a way that can be easily understood and taught in residential settings that often cannot devote more than small blocks of time to training.” —Catherine...
Ryan House
In the Heart of Phoenix
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In the Heart of Phoenix was written to share the possibility of your community being able to create a sustainable model of world-class caregiving that provides respite, palliative and hospice care for children and their families who are navigating life-limiting or end-of-life journeys. Award winning...
Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter
A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health...
Safe Passage
A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The study and practice of end-of-life care has seen an increasing understanding of the need for care that integrates clinical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and ethical expertise. Yet, no one existing volume pulls together perspectives from a diverse array of religions with ethical dilemmas and...
by Jane Nicol, Brian Nyatanga
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
With the number of people requiring palliative and end of life care steadily increasing, it is the responsibility of every nurse, regardless of specialism, to know how to provide high quality care to this group of people. Yet caring for those nearing the end of life can throw up complex issues, including...