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The NHS Experience
The 'Snakes and Ladders' Guide for Patients and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The NHS Experience is an accessible and engaging guide for all those journeying through the NHS, whether as patients, carers or professionals. It draws on the experience of staff and families at Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide good practice guidance for both users and providers of health care.
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by Mervyn Singer, Andrew Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
The fully revised, third edition of this bestselling Handbook describes best practice of critical care in a succinct, concise and clinically-orientated way. Covering the principles of general management, it includes therapeutic and monitoring devices, specific disorders of organ systems, as well as...
Dr Ruth's Guide for the Alzheimer's Caregiver
How to Care for Your Loved One without Getting Overwhelmed…and without Doing It All Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Dr. Ruth, a trusted name in relationship therapy, presents effective coping strategies for both the practical problems and emotional stresses of Alzheimer's care. More than 15 million Americans are responsible for the care of a loved one with Alzheimer's disease, a situation that can quickly lead to...
Aging with Dignity
Innovation and Challenge in Sweden – The Voice of Elder Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. As the worldwide population ages, the healthcare systems of every country will meet challenges of scale in providing for their elderly. Aging with Dignity: Innovation and Challenge in Sweden: The Voice of Elder Care Professionals is a study in the...
Only Love Remains
Lessons from the Dying on the Meaning of Life - Euthanasia or Palliative Care?
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
What happens to the dying in the final days and weeks of their lives? What emotions come to the surface and what do they want to talk about? Attilio Stajano, a volunteer worker at the palliative care ward of a Brussels hospital, presents a series of deeply-moving personal encounters with seriously-ill...
by David Pearson, Sandra Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
How to Succeed on Primary Care and Community Placements offers practical advice on how to get the most from your time on community visits, within patient consultations, and with the practice team. It highlights the unique opportunities and challenges you will face on placement, from using clinical...
Pregnancy Series I
All You Need to Know About Antenatal Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The outmost goal of managing a pregnancy is to prevent complications and enhance safe labour, childbirth, and neonatal period. This goal is achieved in this book. The first chapter on prepregnancy care deals with what you have to do before trying for a baby; this was followed with human anatomy, early...
The Quality Playbook
A Step-by-Step Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The Quality Playbook and the companion Workbook (which you can purchase separately on the publisher's website www.SecondRiverHealthcare.com) are about creating great clinical outcomes and safer care for patients, families, and communities; creating healthcare organizations that rank at the top...
Remaking the American Patient
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of...
Assisted Living
Sobering Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Learn how to make elder housing more homelike!
Taking an incisive look at assisted living for the elderly, Assisted Living: Sobering Realities is an important book for the professionals who work with aging Americans and their families. This vital book provides a multidisciplinary overview of...
The Conversation
A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
In this "enlightening" (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of-life care: talking, medicine's oldest tool.
There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds...
The Cancer Experience
The Doctor, the Patient, the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Navigating the tumultuous waters of cancer treatment and decision making is difficult for all patients. It is also difficult for doctors and other medical personnel. This books deals with a variety of emotion-related and ethics issues that form much of the basis of the world of cancer related medicine:...
Your Health, Your Decisions
How to Work with Your Doctor to Become a Knowledge-Powered Patient
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed,...
Dealing with Doctors, Denial, and Death
A Guide to Living Well with Serious Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Often when death is the inevitable and impending outcome of a health diagnosis, doctors are reluctant to discuss alternatives to treatment, feeding into a culture of denial that can result in expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary over treatment that may or may not extend life but almost always damages...