The first text specifically designed for medical professionals interested in volunteering internationally. Reverence for Life: Guide to International Health Care Service Opportunities offers both a comprehensive introduction to volunteer service and a wide-ranging directory of international health service organizations, detailing the relevant information on each. It is the ultimate source for potential volunteers to get information, get advice on how to make a decision, compare programs, and much more. This first part of Reverence for Life is comprised of the author's and other inspirational s... View More...
The move to managed care in the human services has increased the popularity of single-subject design -- an adaptable methodology that is information based, outcome oriented, and consumer driven. Special Features: Contains 39 tables and 55 figures; Demonstrates how clinicians can use the model to monitor treatment effectiveness; Promotes accountability in clinical practice. View More...
Informed by the authors' years of field research, teaching, and consulting, this readable, accessible new volume will assist novice researchers to understand qualitative, action research. The authors first define action research and clarifies its nature, providing a clear description of the relationship between qualitative and quantitative research. They then offer step-by-step procedures for planning, implementing, and evaluating the kind of research projects that help people use their own understanding and expertise to work systematically through a data gathering process, and, ultimately, f... View More...
The landmark bestselling guide--now updated with the latest essential information The third edition of this critically acclaimed guide leads you through the realities of caring for a loved one struggling with Alzheimer's. The author, a nationally recognized authority, details the latest developments in treatment and care options and offers helpful, hopeful advice for getting through difficult challenges. Now fully revised and updated, this edition includes new chapters designed to help caregivers cope with stress and depression and offers information on the latest breakthrough research develop... View More...
The landmark bestselling guide--now updated with the latest essential information The third edition of this critically acclaimed guide leads you through the realities of caring for a loved one struggling with Alzheimer's. The author, a nationally recognized authority, details the latest developments in treatment and care options and offers helpful, hopeful advice for getting through difficult challenges. Now fully revised and updated, this edition includes new chapters designed to help caregivers cope with stress and depression and offers information on the latest breakthrough research develop... View More...
What are the goals of health promotion and the most apropriate means of achieving them? The prevailing view is that these goals are to prolong life and reduce mortality rates. Since the leading causes of morbidity and mortality are now largely attributable to lifestyle behaviors--smoking, diet, exercise, etc.--the means of achieving reductions in heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes and other chronic conditins are to identify more effective techniques for changing people's behavior. Virtually all health promotion research is currently directed towards accomplishing this objective. But at w... View More...
Presenting the most important concepts of diagnosis and management in the field of eye care, this text complements the medical student curriculum. Each chapter includes learning objectives and sample clinical problems. A companion set of 78 colour slides is also available. View More...
Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals. Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how patients, many weak and helpless, too often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health care system and how ethics decisions, once the dilemmas of troubled individuals, become the set... View More...
Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals. Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how patients, many weak and helpless, too often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health care system and how ethics decisions, once the dilemmas of troubled individuals, become the set... View More...
Author Maria Corwin offers a text that addresses the current concerns that readers may have regarding shorter treatment programs. As stated in her preface, her goal is to "help readers and clinical workers gain a sense of competency and confidence in doing time-limited work." View More...
This gerontology text addresses the care of the elderly in a positive and humanistic manner. Learning objectives, summaries, case studies, discussion and sample questions promote student learning and there is a presentation of the normal ageing process according to system changes. The book emphasizes health promotion lifestyles and activities, and there is a strong focus on theory application which gives the student the opportunity to better prepare for the NCLEX exam. This edition contains a new chapter on applying management skills in the supervision role. View More...
This book addresses the question of how health care teams function on a daily basis through an innovative ethnography of communication in an interdisciplinary geriatric team. To illustrate the complexity of teamwork, backstage communication processes among team members are richly described, their effects on frontstage communication with patients delineated, m and a model of embedded teamwork developed. The presentation enables readers to explore the relationships among epistemology, methodology, and writing practices in health care View More...
For undergraduate and graduate courses in patient care and basic health related profession programs, as well as medical, social work, and other health disciplines. This text is based on the idea of CulturalCare, which is the concept that promotes health care as culturally sensitive, culturally appropriate, and culturally competent. Stressing that CulturalCare is both content and process, the text explores how this concept is essential in order to meet the complex health care needs of patients and their families and communities. Using a practical and student-friendly approach, the Sixth Edition... View More...
Delivering Health Care in America, Third Edition provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the basic structures and operations of one of the largest sectors of the U.S. economy. With the most current data, legislation, and overall system changes addressed, the third edition covers the conceptual basis for the system, its historical origins, the structures of ambulatory care, inpatient care, and other important services structures, the translation of these structures into health services themselves, and the manifestations of their impact on costs and quality. The text includes lear... View More...
"Having so many theories put together thoughtfully, proximally, in a single book will help the field come to grips with what the role is of theories as we go forward and address the individual actions, and societal and community influencers of individual action, that promote healthy behaviors." --Jim Marks, director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention New and longstanding threats to public health, such as violence, drug misuse, HIV/AIDS, and homelessness are creating an ever greater demand for innovative theories t... View More...
This book takes the conversation between bioethics and health policy to a new level. Moving beyond principles and normative frameworks, bioethicists writing in the volume consider the actual policy problems faced by health care systems, while policy-makers reflect on the moral values inherent in both the process and content of health policy. The result is a vigorous dialogue with some of the nation's leading experts at the interface of ethics and health policy. the book provides a history of the values implicit in U.S. health policy, a discussion of the federal and state roles in policy making... View More...
" "Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit. By using the practices described within, you can learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress related disorders...discover the roles that anger and tension play in heart disease... r... View More...
" "Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit. By using the practices described within, you can learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress related disorders...discover the roles that anger and tension play in heart disease... r... View More...
This clearly written resource provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in analyzing and addressing public health problems. The book guides the reader through basic GIS concepts and methods, with an emphasis on practical applications. Described are ways that GIS can be used to map health events, identify disease clusters, investigate environmental health problems, understand the spread of communicable and vector-borne infectious disease, and more. Numerous tables, figures, and concrete examples are included. The companion website features download... View More...
Offers information on drugs, surgery, do-it-yourself treatments, exercise, alternative therapies and more to beat the pain of osteoarthritis. View More...
Offering an urgent expose of the medical juggernaut that is sweeping the country and endangering our health, Health Against Wealth takes an unflinching look at the profit-hungry entrepreneurs who have poured into this new health industry and provides alarming examples of political manipulation by powerful HMO lobbyists. View More...
Conveniently organized to correspond with LaFleur Brooks' and Gillingham's Health Unit Coordinating, 5th Edition, this innovative new pocket guide presents essential information in a highly portable and easy-to-access format. Much of the information is presented in bulleted or numbered lists, to emphasize key points or highlight guidelines for carrying out vital tasks. Procedures give step-by-step instructions for performing duties such as patient admission, discharge, transfer, and more. In addition, this handbook contains such practical features as the full glossary from Health Unit Coordina... View More...
This heavily illustrated book is an important resource for anyone involved in community health education. Methods and experiences from at least 35 countries are discussed, and the focus is educational rather than medical. Activities suggested for the most effective and enjoyable community education include theatre, drawing, flannel boards, and other low-cost, popular teaching aids. Helping Health Workers Learn provides a people-centred approach to health care and presents strategies for effective community involvement through participatory education. View More...
Gripping accounts of medical workers who volunteer to serve in some of the world's most dangerous hotspots. The humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, (also known as M decins Sans Fronti res or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and those who lack reliable health care. Each year, more than 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses, and other professionals join locally-hired staff to provide medical aid in more than eighty countries. At the forefront are the volunteer doctors who risk their lives to perform surgery, establish or rehabili... View More...
This core text covers topics that every clinical allied healthcare worker needs to know. Written and edited by registered nurses and experienced educators, Introduction to Clinical Allied Healthcare, 2E provides an educational foundation in anatomy, professional ethics, healthful living, and the healthcare environment. This text also provides information on basic clinical skills relating to asepsis, Standard Precautions, patient care, vital signs, and first aid. View More...
Provides an introduction to care of the elderly in the nursing home setting, for nursing students and nurses new to long-term care. Part I focuses on clinical practice, and Part II focuses on issues such as management and quality improvement. Appendices offer sample forms, tables on lab findings, an View More...
You can get there Where do you want to go? You might already be working in a health care or business setting. You may be looking to expand your skills. Or, you might be setting out on a new career path. Wherever you want to go, Introduction to U.S. Health Care will help you get there. Easy-to-read, practical, and up-to-date, this text not only helps you learn fundamental concepts of the American health care system; it also helps you master the core competencies and skills you need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The book's brief, modular format and variety of built-in learning resour... View More...
People with mid-stage dementia are served by special care units in long-term care facilities, although as these residents deteriorate, they are transferred out of the unit and into a general nursing home unit. These nursing homes are not equipped to deal with palliative needs of end-stage dementia care. The book addresses those needs. With this in mind, Part One examines the stages of dementia end-stage in particular. Other chapters in this section provide background on the hospice movement and hospice concepts; the idea of maintaining personhood; and administration of a late-stage care unit. ... View More...
