Care category: 6811 books
Spirituality and Coping with Loss
End of Life Healthcare Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses’ experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations. Key findings indicate...
by Lisa Marcucci, Elizabeth A. Martinez, Elliott R. Haut
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
This pocket book succinctly describes 318 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, interns, nurses, and nurse-anesthetists in the intensive care unit, and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors. The book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or...
by Melanie Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Nursing the Cardiac Patient is a practical guide that addresses the management of cardiac patients across the spectrum of health care settings. It assists nurses in developing a complete understanding of the current evidence-based practice and principles underlying the care and management of the cardiac...
Cracking the Dementia Code
Creative Solutions to Cope with Changed Behaviours
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A New Creative Non-Drug Approach to Coping with Dementia As exciting discoveries continue for Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias, hope for a cure remains. In the meantime, day to day challenges continue for many families and caregivers. Karen Tyrell offers her expertise...
The Dementia Caregiver
A Guide to Caring for Someone with Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurocognitive Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Becoming a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or another neurocognitive disorder can be an unexpected, undesirable, underappreciated—and yet noble role. It is heartbreaking to watch someone lose the very cognitive capacities that once helped to define them as a person. But because...
The Empowered Patient
How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The facts are alarming: Medical errors kill more people each year than AIDS, breast cancer, or car accidents. A doctor’s relationship with pharmaceutical companies may influence his choice of drugs for you. The wrong key word on an insurance claim can deny you coverage. Through real life stories,...
by Erik R. Dubberke, MD, MSPH
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Clostridium difficile has joined the ranks of the “super bugs” that are often resistant to antimicrobials and are flourishing in hospitals and long-term care facilities. This new handbook, written by two leading infectious disease experts, examines the epidemiology of C difficile infection, its...
Emergency Department Design
A Practical Guide to Planning for the Future, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Emergency Department Design: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Future, second edition, is a one-of-a-kind resource written by the nation's foremost authority on emergency department design and published by the world's largest emergency medicine organization. It explains the architectural design...
by Liz Steel, Kim Vidhani, Bruce Lister
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
an accompanying interactive DVD which contains a wealth of supplementary material including a procedures and equipment library, case based scenarios to aid recall of important facts and a summary of important critical care literature.
Breastfeeding in Hospital
Mothers, Midwives and the Production Line
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
'Breast is best' is today’s prevailing mantra. However, women – particularly first-time mothers – frequently feel unsupported when they come to feed their baby. This new experience often takes place in the impersonal and medicalized surroundings of a hospital maternity ward where women are 'seen...
by Janine E. Janosky, Shelley L. Leininger, Michael P. Hoerger
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Single Subject Designs in Biomedicine draws upon the rich history of single case research within the educational and behavioral research settings and extends the application to the field of biomedicine. Biomedical illustrations are used to demonstrate the processes of designing, implementing, and...
Nursing and Family Caregiving
Social Support and Nonsupport
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
"[T]his text is a truly amazing microanalytic compendium of social support strategies in different family configurations, in different context and ethnic groups, and filling different types of needs."
--From the Foreword by Janice M. Morse,...
Healthy Pregnancy For You & The Baby Inside You
Pregnancy Signs, Maternity Wear, Pregnancy Stages, Prenatal Care, Pregnancy Diet, Pregnancy Exercise, Pregnancy Weight Gain, Pregnancy Complications, Teenage Pregnancy Plus Lots More Essential Pregnancy Tips For New Moms
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Pregnancy is a beautiful time for a woman. Growing your own child inside your womb is such a wondrous experience and every moment of it simply has to be cherished.
Pregnancy will cause a lot of life changes in you as a woman. Some of the changes you will embrace easily, while some of them...
Munchausen by Proxy
Identification, Intervention, and Case Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This step-by-step guide will help you identify and manage cases of this unique form of child maltreatment!
Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is a dangerous kind of maltreatment in which a caretaker deliberately and repeatedly exaggerates, fabricates, and/or induces a health problem or problems in someone...