Patient Care category: 3822 books
Spiritual Care in Common Terms
How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.
This book describes the art of charting patients' spiritual perspectives in an...
Love, Fear, and Health
How Our Attachments to Others Shape Health and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Can the way in which we relate to others seriously affect our health? Can understanding those attachments help health care providers treat us better? In Love, Fear, and Health, psychiatrists Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter draw on evidence from neuroscience, stress physiology, social psychology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book will be of tremendous use to all healthcare professionals from physicians to nurses to social workers, rehabilitation therapists, and chaplains. The pathway taken here is a sensible and reasonable one, emphasizing a patient-centred approach that underscores the importance of spiritually...
End of life choices
Consensus and controversy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects. dived into two parts, it introduces and explains...
That's Good Grease
And Other Surprising Compliments about Hospice
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Why do some people contact hospice when a family member is in a serious medical crisis and some people don’t? Is it the fear of the unknown? What happens if you call hospice? What does hospice care actually involve, anyway? That’s Good Grease ever so gently helps readers to...
What Matters in Medicine
Lessons from a Life in Primary Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Primary care has come into the limelight with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the unchecked and unsustainable rise in American health care expenditures, and the crest of Baby Boomers who are now Medicare-eligible and entering the most health care–intensive period of...
The Good Doctor
A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care
As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the...
by Sheldon Cohen M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The healthcare Genie is out of the bottle. Obamacare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impact every one of you. These changes will come slowly and inexorably, but regardless of who is in power, you need to be prepared. It will be more important than ever to take control of your health....
by Melanie Sears, RN
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the workplace, the classroom, and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation,...
by Sheldon Cohen M.D., FACP
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Complete risk factor analysis, a critically important part of a complete medical examination, is often a neglected aspect of an initial doctor-patient interaction. It may worsen with the impending healthcare changes to come—where doctors will face increasing patient loads. This book will introduce...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Respiratory conditions are a leading cause of death and disability and account for a massive proportion of hospital admissions. This comprehensive text provides a detailed overview and discussion of respiratory care, with chapters on assessment, investigations, treatments and a wide range of conditions,...
The Mediterranean Diet
A Clinician’s Guide for Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Over the past several years there has been increasing information in the medical literature regarding the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet. Clinicians may not be informed on advances in nutrition, and studies have demonstrated that they do not spend much time discussing food as a means for...
Curing Medicare
A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not...
The Patient Will See You Now
The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health
A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the...