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Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence
A Collection of Papers from the First National Gerontological Social Work Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Inspire the next generation of gerontological social workers
The growing number of people over the age of 65 in the United States has increased the demand for social workers who are trained to work with the elderly—a demand that’s in danger of not being met. Fostering Social Work Gerontology...
Alive with Vigor
Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Alive With Vigor! compiles stories of surviving—and thriving—from a wide spectrum of contributors. Deeply personal essays recount matters of preventative health care, the hard decisions we each have to make, Do It Yourself health care, and how to deal with extracting health care from government/corporate...
by Diana Guzys, Eileen Petrie
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Community nursing is the fastest growing area of nursing practice in Australia. This book offers an engaging introduction to the theory, skills and application of community and primary health care. Based on the 'Social Model of Health', An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care explores...
by Gary J. Algozzine, Deborah J. Lilly, Robert Algozzine
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Compact and easy to use, this handy reference focuses on the information you need to administer intravenous medications in critical care and emergency environments. Essential coverage of 48 of the most common and complex IV drugs, including drip rate calculation charts, drug calculation formulae,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Clinical skills procedures are a fundamental aspect of patient-centred nursing care. The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures, Professional Edition provides up-to-date, evidence-based clinical skills procedures related to every aspect of a person's care. Procedure guidelines...
Watch Your Back!
How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less—and What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Over the past twenty years, treatment of back pain has become ever more expensive and intensive. Use of MRI scans, narcotic painkillers, injections, and invasive spine surgery have all grown by several hundred percent. In some areas of medicine, newer treatments have improved quality and duration...
Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?
Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its...
Social Work in the Health Field
A Care Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book provides an introduction to social work practice in the field of health care. It addresses both physical and mental health, examines various settings such as primary care, home care, hospice, and nursing, and also provides histories of social work practice in traditional industry segments.
by Nigel Malin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Services for People with Learning Disabilities provides a broad review of available services for people with learning disabilities. It describes the present network of services and explains the NHS and Community Care Act (1990) in terminoloy accessible to health care professionals and others engaged...
Spiritual Care in Common Terms
How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.
This book describes the art of charting patients' spiritual perspectives in an...
by Philomena N. Okeke
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book was written to encourage, support, empower, educate, and provide knowledge to new medical surgical nurses. These nurses are at the forefront, taking care of patients from emergency room to the floor. Nurses hit the floor and start running. The book explains CHF; chest tubes care; DNR; assessment,...
Time to Heal
American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1999
Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional...
Placement Learning in Older People Nursing E-Book
A guide for students in practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Worried about your placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments?
This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how...
ikioo® 21st Century Medicine
Artificial Intelligence for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
ikioo® 21st Century Medicine: Artificial Intelligence for Health Professionals
It’s no surprise that the US healthcare system needs drastic reform. Aging population demographics, increases in chronic disease prevalence, and advances in costly technologies contribute greatly to staggering...