Care category: 6811 books
by Gary Rosenberg, Andrew Weissman
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
An essential resource for social work professionals!
As the focus of the health care industry shifts from predominantly hospital-based care to out-patient managed care, social workers must adapt to a new environment. Owing to changes driven by major advances in medical care knowledge, technology,...
A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance
Doing Better Together
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
“Essential reading for all current and future leaders in long-term care. The authors are outstanding in this field, and provide valuable insight.”
—Nicholas G. Castle, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh
“A really good book for anyone who...
by Vicki S. Good, DNP, RN
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Awarded third place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Critical Care- Emergency Nursing category. Learn to effectively address life-threatening and potentially life-threatening patient conditions, with Advanced Critical Care Nursing, 2nd Edition. Endorsed by the American Association of...
by Jennifer Manning, Todd Tartavoulle, DNS
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Critical care units are high-risk areas which contribute to increased health care costs and increased patient morbidity and mortality. Patients in critical care units are commonly confronted with existing and the potential to develop infections. Critical care practitioners play a crucial role as initial...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Fully updated and revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing is the essential guide to caring for patients in primary care and the community. Concise, easy-to-use, and comprehensive, this handbook ensures that the reader has the skills and knowledge required...
Care of the Dying
A pathway to excellence
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Even for the most experienced healthcare professional, managing the last few days of life can be difficult. This unique book provides guidelines for the care of the dying based on the Liverpool Integrated Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP). Developed at a hospice, the information can be disseminated...
by Lindsay Worthley
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
INSIDE GOD’S SHED: MEMOIRS OF AN INTENSIVE CARE SPECIALISTL. I. G. WorthleyInside God’s Shed is a series of tales that describe the experiences of an Intensive Care specialist during his career working in two major Australian teaching hospital intensive care units (critical care...
by Grace Budrys, PhD, Professor Emerita
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," as it unfolds—including both challenges and successes....
Reinventing American Health Care
How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The definitive story of American health care today-its causes, consequences, and confusions
In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was...
The Battle Over Health Care
What Obama's Reform Means for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
As the most substantial health care reform in almost half a century, President Obama's health care overhaul was as historic as it was divisive. In its aftermath, the debate continues.
Drawing on decades of experience in health care policy, health care delivery reform, and economics, Rosemary...
Managing the Myths of Health Care
Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
**“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”
In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his...
Health Care in the Black Community
Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!
Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including...
Palliative Care
Transforming the Care of Serious Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.
Diane E. Meier, M.D., one of the field's leaders and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in 2009, opens the volume with...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Although the need for improved care for dying patients is widely recognized and frequently discussed, few books address the needs of the physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, hospice team members, and pastoral counselors involved in care. Care of the Dying Patient contains material not found...