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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa.
Case studies from anthropologists in the field, examine different branches of welfare and community care, for example:
* Maternity services
* Children with learning difficulties
* Children's...
Evaluating the "Keep Your Health Plan Fix"
Implications for the Affordable Care Act Compared to Legislative Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This report describes a comparative analysis of three proposals to allow Americans to keep their existing health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposals are evaluated based on their potential impact on the ACA-compliant market and the cost and coverage of health insurance. The possibility...
Surgical Metabolism
The Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review for clinicians with an interest in the peri-operative nutritional management of all surgical patients. The text reviews normal physiology, the pathophysiology of starvation and surgical stressors, and focuses on appropriate nutritional repletion...
by Sheila A. Sorrentino, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Master the essential skills of today’s nursing assistant! Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 9th Edition prepares you to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings. Known for its comprehensive coverage and an easy-to-read, visual approach, this book includes step-by-step...
Aging in Place
Navigating the Maze of Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Identifies and explains many issues families may face as parents age
Describes in detail the estate planning and other legal documents an older person should have in place
Offers an introduction to Medicaid planning
Outlines various options for providing extra care for aging relatives...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The management of pain can often be achieved by medications, physical therapies, or by various procedural techniques that have evolved in recent decades. With the trend towards more outpatient surgeries and less invasive surgeries to decrease perioperative risk, perioperative time, and costs, the...
Homeless Children
The Watchers and the Waiters
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
At last, here is a compassionate, humane, and informative volume on the most unique and vulnerable group in our society today--homeless children. Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters is unique because it offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the children and the enormously...
Care of the Difficult Patient
A Nurse's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this is the first text to deal specifically with nursing difficult patients. Whether patient problems stem from mental distress and ill health, historic substance abuse, demanding family members or abusive behaviour, difficult patients place extra...
Improving Health Care of the Poor
The New York City Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Crossing Borders
Migration, Ethnicity and AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Academics and activists have come together in this edited volume to tackle the complex issues surrounding migration and AIDS. The book sets the agenda for the development of HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme in migrant and minority ethnic communities.
Issues covered include: migration patterns;...
Learning Disabilities
Practice Issues in Health Settings
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1994
Learning Disabilities raises issues which are of crucial importance to all health care professionals and students who work with people with a learning disability. The authors, senior nurse teachers and practitioners in the field, examine these issues, and the theoretical concepts underpinning them,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This practical handbook allows nurses, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and allied health professionals practicing in the fields of neurosurgery, neurology, and spinal care to quickly review essentials while in the work environment. It emphasizes procedural steps and critical elements...
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 1: The importance of preoperative evaluation of hemostasis and anemia
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This case report describes the poor outcome of a female patient who underwent elective nephrectomy. Unfortunately, the patient was suffering from undiagnosed preoperative platelet dysfunction and anemia, although blood count and clotting were almost within normal ranges two weeks earlier at the day...
Transforming the Doctor's Office
Principles from Evidence-based Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
From the parking lot to the exam room, doctors can improve the physical surroundings for their patients, yet often they do not. Given the numerous and varied duties doctors must perform, it may fall to the design profession to implement changes, many based on research, to improve healthcare experiences....