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by Gary Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The importance of recognising the knowledge and the needs of service users and engaging them more proactively within the care process is now widely acknowledged, but it is not always clear how this can come about. The Lived Experience of Mental Health highlights individuals’ own lived and felt mental...
Beyond My Control
why the health and social care system need not have failed my mother
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
With 33 years' experience in health and social care, Suzan Collins believed she could ensure good care for her mother, and her family relied on her to do so. She was actually delivering training on best practice when she was first contacted with the news her mother had broken her leg at her nursing...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
BE THE ECG EXPERT!
In the emergency department-in any acute or critical care setting-when it's on you to direct a patient's care based on an ECG, you have to be the ECG expert. Right then. See what you need to see, recognize what's important, and act accordingly. And quickly.
Get...
A Happy Day Care
A Happy Day Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The Revolutionary Formula For Creating A Happy Day Care, Creating A Business Plan, Effective Preparation, A Day Care Starter Kit, Franchising and Networking
by Alex Burke
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
The Medical Culling of America
By
Alex Burke
Bill Durst, beloved family man, 42 was injured on the job. Denied surgery that would have given him his life back, the state buried him in medication, knowing it would bankrupt and kill him. Where there's a murder, there's a motive.
Perry...
Cover Me
A Health Insurance Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation,...
Extreme Measures
Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.
Jessica Zitter became a doctor...
The Citizen Patient
Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent...
Josie's Story
A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The “wrenching but inspiring” true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate (The Wall Street Journal).
Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s...
The Unspoken Words
What Every Health Care Professional Would Love to Say to a Patient and Can’T.
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
You would not believe what patients say to their health-care providers. I am not breaking any confidentiality rules, but I am giving you an insight into what we have to deal with to provide quality care. Hopefully, you learn how not to communicate with your health-care provider. Health-connected readers will be able to relate to this book and hopefully enjoy it.
by Margaret Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Palliative care as only a nurse can teach it Includes full-text PDA download! In this highly useful book, Campbell shared with you everything you must know about providing the best possible care to end-of-life patients and their families. Vignettes, clinical pearls, and nursing...
The Patient's Playbook
How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error—mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it’s readily available and we’re entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it.
The Patient’s...
Nortin Hadler's 4-Volume Healthcare Omnibus E-Book
Includes Worried Sick, Stabbed in the Back, Rethinking Aging, and The Citizen Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This four-volume Omnibus E-Book is a collection of Nortin Hadler's definitive works on the state of healthcare in America today. The set includes:
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, Hadler's best-seller that shows consumers how to distinguish good medical advice...
Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying
A Training Manual for Nursing Home Staff
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
In eight innovative sessions, Henderson, Hanson, and Reynolds provide sage advice, numerous case studies, a wide variety of assessment tools, intructional guidelines, and practical exercises to educate nursing home staff about care of the dying. A Multidisciplinary focus outlines important roles for all staff members in providing competent and compassionate end-of-life care.