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Palliative Care Within Mental Health
Care and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This thought provoking and highly practical book is not just about caring for the dying within mental health, but also applying the quality care and practice of palliative care within mental health practice. Multidisciplinary in its approach, it focuses on intervention, treatment, care and practice,...
by Clare Kostelnick
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
With its highly visual format, topical information, and easy-to-follow guidance, Mosby’s Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition is the perfect resource to help you master the ins and outs of long-term care. One hundred step-by-step procedures — all written at the sixth-grade...
The Best Care Possible
A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.
It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority...
by Jeffrey Borkan, Richard E. Hawkins, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Developed by the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, Health Systems Science is the first text that focuses on providing a fundamental understanding of how health care is delivered, how health care professionals work together to deliver that care, and...
by Laura Cushing-Kidney, Thomas H. Lee, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs...
Distracted
How Regulations Are Destroying the Practice of Medicine and Preventing True Health-Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
After the many bureaucratic changes that followed the passing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and other legislation, patient care has become secondary to satisfying the whims of government and giant insurance company administrators, who are in total control. The result is a web of complicated...
Improving Healthcare Team Performance
The 7 Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Practical, proven techniques for improving team performance in the health care world
Teams and collaboration have become an expectation in most healthcare facilities and environments. It is accepted that high performance, patient focused teams are critical to quality patient care. However,...
Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS
Community-Based Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Recent global and national debates have shown that demographic change, the rising incidence of chronic disease, and the unmet need for more personalized care are trends demanding a new, integrated approach to health and social care. The advancement and adoption of technology in both health and social...
Drain's PeriAnesthesia Nursing
A Critical Care Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Drain's Perianesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach, 6th Edition is the most comprehensive book on the market specifically tailored to perianesthesia nurses. The book features five distinct sections - the PACU, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, nursing care, and special considerations. Nursing...
Compact Clinical Guide to Mechanical Ventilation
Foundations of Practice for Critical Care Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
"[This book] offers easy-to-use, quick tips that will benefit a great number of nurses. Critical care nurses often need help with ventilator modes and types of usage and this book is a great resource."Score: 96, 4 Stars.--Doody's Medical Reviews
The only book written about mechanical...
Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery
Clinical Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A unique question-and-answer book for surgical residents and trainees that covers all surgical aspects of critical care and acute or emergency medicine
This is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind question-and-answer text for medical professionals and apprentices concentrating on the growing subspecialty...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of end of life care in the UK and most developed countries. It enables more people to live well and die as they would choose, and has significant implications for the individual person, their family and carers, and our wider society. In the context...
Breaking out of the Health Care Abyss
Transformational Tips for Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
It has become routine to see in various health care magazines, e-mails to leaders, and executive discussions on social media internet outlets, a listing of the ten top challenges that CEOs believe they are facing in the health care industry today. They often call this list the “what is keeping me...