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by Sir Arthur Newsholme
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
First published in 1936, this book is a continuation of Sir Arthur Newsholme’s Fifty Years in Public Health and covers a wide variety of topics in relation to the subject. It is in part autobiographical as the author recollects and reflects upon his experiences of the system. The book is divided...
Learning in the Workplace
A Toolkit for Facilitating Learning and Assessment in Health and Social Care Settings
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This toolkit is designed for preparing health and social care practitioners for their role in facilitating learning in their workplace. It enables readers to recognise learning opportunities, communicate their professional knowledge, provide students with appropriate support, judge performance, co-ordinate...
by Clarence Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Telemedicine is a rapidly expanding technology to deliver exams and treatment to patients in remote areas of the world who have no other way to receive medical care. The doctor or nurse can have a conversation with the patient through software similar to Skype or Face Time, in real time. Today's...
The Latino Patient
A Cultural Guide for Health Care Providers
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2002
One book every health care professional needs!
By 2030 Latinos will comprise roughly 20 percent of the population of the United States. Growing numbers of health professionals are realizing the importance of understanding Latino cultural values as they impact the clinical encounter. Such knowledge...
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 2: Patient Blood Management in a Jehova's Witness trauma patient
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Patients involved in major trauma frequently suffer from severe blood loss and anemia, which can be challenging to treat. Additional issues are presented in the population of Jehovah’s Witness patients, who refuse transfusions of allogenic blood or its components. We established a stable hemodynamic...
Help Me, My Husband Had a Stroke
A Practical Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
January 4, 2007 started at the Mansfield house like so many other days. Nancy got the children up and ready, and their giant yellow limos took them to school. But then, in a moment, it became clear that something was very different. At age 46, her husband, Larry, suddenly had an acute change of mental...
Practicing for Practice
A Handbook for Residents About to Enter Practice (Especially for Those in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics-Gynecology) with Emphasis on Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites. The author believes there is sufficient information and enough advisors available on the business aspects, so those are not...
Medicines Management
A Nursing Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Medicines Management: A Problem-Based Approach uses patient scenarios to explore pharmacology and medicines management.The book provides the pharmacological background, and examines the other factors, which enable nurses to provide care to the patient. It will equip the new nurse with the skills they need to problem-solve, prioritise and make decisions while delivering effective care.
Adult Development and Well-Being
The Impact of Institutional Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Foster well-being in an institutional setting
Human services workers are consistently discovering more about how important adult well-being is as a foundation of positive human development. Adult Development and Well-Being: The Impact of Institutional Environments closely examines this relationship...
by Collette Clifford, Stephen Gough
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Marilee Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The basic motivators will drive people to want to learn more about this topic -- fear, money, and insecurity.-- Consumers fear losing their life savings to LTC costs. Yet, they hesitate to buy insurance with an annual premium of $1,800 without knowing what it covers.-- In October of 2002 (one month...
Children as Caregivers
The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In Zambia, due to the rise of tuberculosis and the closely connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize that children take on active caregiving roles...
Contemporary Mental Health
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The authors explore theoretical developments and policy and practice initiatives in the complex and changing area of mental health services. They examine the tensions, dilemmas and opportunities now operating, including those relating to gender and ethnicity and places the involvement of users/survivors...
Medical Geography (Routledge Revivals)
Progress and Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Geographers have for a long time contributed much valuable detailed data on the geographical patterns of disease and health care delivery to the medical world. On its first publication in 1985, this edited collection addressed the need for a review of progress in the field of medical geography that...