Care category: 6811 books
by Tina Tilmouth, Jan Quallington
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Reflect on how best practice can be managed in care settings, develop your leadership skills and achieve your career goals with this new edition of Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care.
This new edition of Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care has been...
Partnership working 2e
What is integrated care and how can we deliver it?
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
UK health and social care are increasingly being asked to work together across traditional agency boundaries. Although this sounds easy in theory, doing it in practice is complicated and difficult. In many cases, moreover, current training programmes, research and textbooks are even more divided than...
Rural Nursing, Fifth Edition
Concepts, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
“[This book] continues to be the first line resource toward understanding rural health nursing and the interface with cultural, health, health beliefs, and health care in rural populations…Highlights the realities of rural nursing from bedside to advanced practice… This book and the chapters...
by Wanda Kay Nicholson, MD, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Dr. Nicholson's issue is devoted to providing health care to the underserved woman. Leading experts in the area have written reviews to address the leading thinking and management of patient outcomes in the following areas: Racial/ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare; Perinatal Quality Indicators...
Anaesthesia, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting - International Symposium on Critical Care Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Advances in intensive and critical care medicine occur rapidly. Innovation, training and research are the pillars that support a process deriving from basic science and multiprofessional/multidisciplinary interventions. The APICE 2010 Yearbook highlights several innovations for optimising prevention...
Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine
Case Studies on Critical Care, Complexity and Errors
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Enormous advances in information technology have permeated essentially all facets of life in the past two decades. Formidable challenges remain in fostering tools that enhance productivity but are sensitive to work practices. Cognitive Informatics (CI) is the multidisciplinary study of cognition,...
by Steven Godin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Control health care costs with these cost-effective, technology-based prevention/intervention techniques!
In 2001, Americans spent $1.4 trillion on health care services. By 2010, health care costs are forecasted to approach 20% of the United States’ Gross National Product. Technology Applications...
by Mary Mahoney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In this second book in the "My Strategic View" series, Mary Mahoney explores the many areas of health-care that affect us as individuals and as businesses. In recent years, her firm – J. Robinson Group – has evolved to focus more on health-care clients, and since 2013, Mahoney's blog posts...
Home Health Nursing
Scope and Standards of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Home health is one of the fastest-growing industries, expected to add well over 1 million new jobs throughout the next decade. As a nurse practicing in this area, you are going to be called upon to coordinate and deliver care like never before. Americans ages 65 and older will be nearly 20 percent...
by Shu-Fen Wung, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Dr. Wung is addressing an important component of critical care nursing: the role of technology in pateint care. She has assembled top authors to provide current clinical information in the following areas: Sensory overload and technology in critical care; Alarm fatigue; Nurse-technology Interactions;...
by Valerie Page, E. Wesley Ely
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Delirium is a common clinical problem in critical care patients, with up to 80% of patients experiencing at least one episode during their time on a critical care unit. It is associated with significantly adverse outcomes for patients, including death and long-term cognitive impairment equivalent...
The Great Health Care Fraud
What Politicians Don't Want You to Know About Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This is the book that literally changes the face of health care as it allows insured individuals to claim the care and coverage they need regardless of what their health care insurance company decides to approve. It's a book that hasn't had a single fact or point of law contested from reviews by the...
Pain Management Nursing
Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Assessing and managing pain—the primary symptom for those seeking health care—is imperative in every RN’s daily practice. Pain management nursing takes this further with its specific focus to alleviate pain, improve pain relief, optimize function, and maintain quality of life of patients across...
by Audrey S. Weiner, Judah L Ronch
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2003
Change in the culture of long-term care and the care of our elders is urgently needed! This insightful book lights the way.
This book will inform you about the theoretical and practical applications of culture change within the institutional long-term care setting. It examines existing models of positive cultures, emphasizing