To meet the care needs of today's diverse patient community, healthcare professionals must learn to care in environments comprising different worldviews, communication styles and expectations.
Before his untimely death in 2000, the brilliant young Israeli economic historian Klug conducted a thorough survey into the different theories of international trade.
Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman As the population in western cultures ages, more people suffer chronic, ultimately life-limiting diseases and medical professionals need to be equipped to cope with the ever growing pressure of palliative care.
Nursing is centered on caring for and respecting human beings, including those who are detained or incarcerated and those who are under legal supervision in the community.
This no-nonsense guide promotes a multidisciplinary approach to pain management in adolescent patients, acknowledging persistent pain is a complex biopsychosocial problem.
Für die Unterstützung der Ressourcen kranker, alter und sterbender Menschen bietet dieses Buch zur Biografiearbeit mit seinen vielfältigen Methoden den richtigen Ansatz.
Patient-Centered Medicine: A Human Experience emphasizes the health professional's role in caring for patients as unique individuals by focusing on the patients' psychological and social realities as well as their biological needs.
This essential textbook on dementia care introduces the knowledge that nurses need, including the evidence base for practice and the guidance to transfer this newly acquired knowledge into everyday practice.
This revised companion book to Teaching IOM/HMD: Implications of the Institute of Medicine and Health & Medicine Division Reports for Nursing Education brings the IOM and HMD reports to life for learners.
Originally published in 1981 and edited by a pioneer in psychogeriatric services, this book spans medicine, psychiatry, social work and organisation of services of the elderly, written by eminent authors from several different professions.
Es un hecho constatado que la adopción de estilos de vida saludables (alimentación y actividad física) es determinante para alcanzar mejores condiciones de salud.
Edited and written by an international "e;who's who"e; of more than 100 authors, including anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, bench scientists, a surgeon, and representatives of industry, this text provides a comprehensive history of anesthesia, unique in its focus on the people and events that shaped the specialty around the world, particularly during the past 70 years when anesthesia emerged from empiricism and developed into a science-based practice.
Dieses Buch richtet sich an Pflegende und zeigt, wie man traumatische Erlebnisse aus dem Berufsalltag gemeinsam im Team bewältigen kann und gibt außerdem Tipps zur Selbsthilfe.
iThis guide and resource will give you all the direction and resources you need to perform in the role of a medical-surgical clinical instructorOInstructors will discover this book takes the work out of working in the clinical area.
Geistige Behinderung ist kein rein kognitives Problem, auch die (sozio-)emotionale Entwicklung kann beeinträchtigt sein und verzögert oder unvollständig ablaufen.
Wie erleben Menschen mit Cystischer Fibrose (CF) ihre genetisch bedingte, chronisch-progressiv verlaufende Stoffwechselerkrankung und insbesondere Genesungsmomente?
This is the only truly comprehensive advanced text for the assessment of women's health, written for such primary care providers as nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurses;midwives.
This book investigates the education and assessment of student midwives in clinical practice, paying particular attention to how their practice is graded.
Designed for daily use by professionals responsible for caring for patients with renal disease, this long-awaited primer provides a simplified, up-to-date review of peritoneal dialysis.
Globally, young people's health is an increasing priority area for health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, and concepts of empowerment feature strongly in international public health discourses on young people's health.
This textbook draws on international contributors with a range of backgrounds to explore, engage with and challenge readers in understanding the many aspects and elements that inform and influence contemporary nursing practice.
THE PROVEN MODEL FOR DRIVING POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGECleveland Clinic has long been recognized for driving some of the best clinical outcomes in the nation, but it was not always a leader in patient experience.
This book brings a fresh approach and conversation to the practice of professional supervision for human services by specifically articulating its often performed, but unnamed and under-explored therapeutic function.