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Your Patient Safety Survival Guide
How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson's definitive guide empowers patients to be patient safety advocates.
It takes a village to combat preventable errors...
Suffering
Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses,...
by Mitchell D. Feldman, John F. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
The #1 guide to behavioral issues in medicine Thorough, practical discussion of the full scope of the physician-patient relationship
The goal of Behavioral Medicine is to help practitioners and students understand the interplay between psychological, physical, social and cultural issues of patients....
by Jelphs, Kim, Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Working in teams sounds simple but the reality is often more difficult within complex health and social care systems. This revised edition of this essential book brings together cutting-edge thinking about teamworking, and considers how this can be turned into practice within the context of interagency...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Ethical medical treatment is an important aspect of healthcare that is affected by multiple influencing factors in, both private and public, medical organizations. By understanding and adapting the components of the health system to these influencing factors, healthcare can have better outcomes for...
by Nancy Diepenbrock
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The fifth edition of this pocket-sized reference guide to procedures, treatments, and stabilization techniques for disorders, injuries, and patient situations commonly seen in the critical care setting. It features extensive cross referencing to prevent discrepancy between terms. The text is “to...
Winningham's Critical Thinking Cases in Nursing - E-Book
Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Highly regarded for its clinically relevant and thought-provoking content, Winningham's Critical Thinking Cases in Nursing, 6th Edition features 150 case studies that cover all four clinical practice areas: medical-surgical, pediatric, OB/maternity, and psychiatric nursing. Each case covers a common...
The Caregiver's Toolbox
Checklists, Forms, Resources, Mobile Apps, and Straight Talk to Help You Provide Compassionate Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Millions of Americans are or will be amateur caregivers for ill spouses, parents, or friends. Caregivers today, more than ever, use technology to help manage schedules, medication routines and pharmacy reminders, legal and financial affairs, as well as travel and expenses. Yet recent insurance options...
Paging God
Religion in the Halls of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how...
Fast Facts about GI and Liver Diseases for Nurses
What APRNs Need to Know in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The only resource of its kind, this is a concise, practical guide to GI and Liver Disease that delivers current information on diagnosing, managing, and treating common GI and liver disorders, along with liver transplant guidelines. Written for nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants...
The Diagnosis Is Terminal
What Do We Do Now?
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
After receiving the bad news of terminal illness, many told the author the first thought they had was What do we do now? This prompted the production of The Diagnosis is Terminal. It covers the initial notification, wills, legal suggestions, intensive care, doctors notes, record keeping, drugs, oximeter...
The Frontier Nurse Practitioner
A Conceptual Model for Remote-Rural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This pioneering text is the first to present a framework for remote-rural and frontier nurse practitioners (NPs), with a focus on the political and contextual forces that influence practice. This groundbreaking text distills contextual knowledge required for frontier practice, describes how it differs...
by Judith Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Target success in Cambridge National Level 1/2 Child Development with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge
With...
by JoAnn S. Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This issue will address health care issues and clinical implications of rural and other medically underserved priority populations. The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality identified priority populations to include rural residents, racial and ethnic minorities, low income groups, women, children,...