Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Developmental Disabilities
A Handbook for Occupational Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This significant volume provides broad coverage of the spectrum of problems confronted by patients with developmental disabilities and the many kinds of occupational therapy services these individuals need. Experts identify exemplary institutional and community service programs for treating patients...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Vulnerability and empowerment are central concepts of contemporary development theory and ethics. Vulnerability associated with human interdependence is a wellspring of values in care ethics, while vulnerability arising from social problems demands remedy, of which empowerment is frequently the just...
by Dominic Upton
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
What makes someone feel healthy? Why do some people respond differently under stress to others? Why dont people always follow nursing advice?
This second edition of Introducing Psychology for Nurses and Healthcare Professionalsprovides an accessible but thorough introduction to the key psychological...
Environmental Gerontology
What Now?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Environmental gerontology – the research on aging and environment – evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people. The field proliferated during the 1970s and 1980s, and remains viable and active...
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.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Presenting up-to-date empirical research on the subject of young people, housing and social policy in contemporary Britain, this book considers the issue of young people's early housing histories in the context of a range of government policy initiatives aimed at the group. It offers a critique of...
Working with Involuntary Clients
A Guide to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Many social workers are employed in positions where they deal with involuntary clients. These positions are demanding, and require a specific set of skills. The new edition of this successful book provides an accessible and practical guide for managing difficult and sensitive relationships and communicating...
Meds, Money, and Manners
The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both textbook and practical knowledge to assist clients...
Social Action with Children and Families
A Community Development Approach to Child and Family Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Meeting the needs of children at the same time as promoting family life is more than a question of resources: it needs a culture change in social services: a rediscovery and a modernization of the social action and community development traditions in social work. In Social Action with Children and...
by Bryn Davis, Bryn D. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
An excellent introduction for nurses to all aspects of pain and its management. Topics examined are relevant to all areas of health care practice and include:
*types of pain
*the experience of pain, including psycho-social factors
*interventions (pharmocological, physical and psychological)
*alternative...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
Supporting Women for Labour and Birth
A Thoughtful Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Fear of childbirth, the increasing use of epidurals and soaring caesarean section rates are the focus of much apprehension, debate, and controversy in contemporary maternity care. Across the world, support in labour has been shown to reduce obstetric interventions and improve outcomes for women and...