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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This book is designed to assist clinicians who are new to intensive care by providing information on a range of important and novel topics of relevance in the day-to-day management of critically ill patients. Guidance is given on the appropriate response to various emergencies and circumstances, including...
by David A. Clark, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Community-based primary care physicians are routinely challenged as they stabilize, evaluate, and care for term and late-preterm neonates. Although there have been many spectacular advances in care of neonates, the challenges and successes of caring for the most preterm, very low birth-weight newborns...
AIDS Care at Home
A Guide for Caregivers, Loved Ones, and People with AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
An indispensable guide to every aspect of at-home care This thoroughly practical guide details the daily routines and unique concerns that are essential to quality at-home care of people with AIDS. From setting up a safe and comfortable environment to making medical and legal choices and solving emotional...
Community Health and Wellness - E-book
Primary Health Care in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Community Health & Wellness: Primary health care in practice, 5th Edition represents contemporary thinking and research in community health and wellness from Australia, New Zealand and the global community.
It challenges students and health professionals to become more aware of the primary...
Critical Care
Delivering Spiritual Care in Healthcare Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Providing a bridge between research in healthcare and spirituality and practitioner perspectives, these essays on chaplaincy in healthcare continue dialogue around constructing, negotiating and researching spiritual care and discuss the critical issues in chaplaincy work, including assisted suicide...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Focusing on the interdisciplinary team, this cardiovascular resource provides evidence-based knowledge and guidance for advanced practice nurses in a variety of care settings. Its clinically relevant and directly applicable information is presented in an accessible and well-organized format. The book...
Neurointensive Care
A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book provides guidance for physicians confronted with acute neurological crises in the context of patient safety centred practice standards. It highlights how the implementation of patient safety standards in the neurointensive care unit leads to better clinical outcomes and emphasizes the importance...
Caring Science in Phc
A Guide for Nurses in Primary Health Care Clinics
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This Caring Science in PHC, a guide for nurses in Primary Health Care, intends to lead the lecturers facilitating the Clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and diagnosis(Primary Health Care) and the basic Community Nursing Sciences students on the assessment of the client in the Primary Health...
by Viola Nzira
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This important text promotes understanding of the complexities and diversities of African family life. It stimulates creative thinking about how social care professionals can develop meaningful relationships and engage confidently and effectively with African families they encounter within work contexts.
The...
X-Rayed Book of Medical Care
Partial Truths, Half Lies
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The X-rayed Book of Medical Care is a carefully selected collection of medical essays. Village rulers (politicians), surreptitious academic researchers, and medical savants know whats best for us. They give us the truth and nothing but the truth, but not necessarily the whole truth. What you dont...
Taking Care of Our Folks
A Manual for Family Members Caring for the Black Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
With the growing concern over healthcare in America, studies show that elderly African- Americans often come out on the losing end of the system due to lack of health insurance. Because of this growing population, taking care of elderly patients in the African-American community has become the responsibility...
Self-help for Trauma Therapists
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
For those offering trauma-informed care, it can be difficult to maintain wellbeing and a balanced, positive outlook when the nature of their job requires frequent engagement with traumatic disclosures. Self-help for Trauma Therapists: A Practitioner’s Guide intends to assist human service workers-...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
The association between poor nutrition and disease is well established. Integrating nutritional sciences into clinical practice offers a valuable tool to improve patient care and prognosis, particularly within the critical care environment where nutrition is often overlooked. However, optimizing nutritional...
by James L. Hallenbeck
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr. Hallenbeck has written a guide to palliative care for clinicians. Topics addressed range from an overview of death and dying to specific approaches to symptom management. As an introduction to both the art and science of...