Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing
Constance Dahlin, Patrick Coyne, and Betty Ferrell (eds)
Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of seriously ill and dying patients and their families. This comprehensive work ...
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Care of the Acutely Ill Adult (2 edn)
Fiona Creed and Christine Spiers (eds)
The new edition of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult enables nursing staff to develop an in-depth understanding of the knowledge required to care for patients whose condition is deteriorating. ...
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Care of the Imminently Dying
Betty Ferrell, Nessa Coyle, Judith Paice, and Judith Paice (ed.)
Skillful nursing care during the final hours of life can bring comfort and quality, not only to the patient but also to the patient’s loved ones who are attending the death. Symptom burden ...
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Caring Matters Most: The Ethical Significance of Nursing
Mark Lazenby
Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness. Nurses can develop this goodness, or moral character, ...
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Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing
Constance Dahlin, Patrick Coyne, and Betty Ferrell (eds)
The Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is a companion guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of ...
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Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model (2 edn)
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy V. Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
Communication in Palliative Nursing presents the COMFORT Model, a theoretically-grounded and empirically-based model of palliative care communication. Built on over a decade of ...
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Critical Care Nursing: Science and Practice (3 ed.)
Sheila Adam, Sue Osborne, and John Welch (eds)
This textbook encompasses the knowledge, skills, and expertise needed to deliver excellent nursing care to critically ill patients. Emphasis is placed on a holistic and compassionate ...
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Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable
Jeremy Snyder
One often hears stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by individuals offering empty promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned ...
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Geriatric Medicine: an Evidence-based Approach
Frank Lally and Christine Roffe (eds)
Geriatric medicine: an evidence based approach is an online clinical reference for health care professionals who manage older patients, and summarizes up-to-date research literature in a ...
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The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook: Using Lean and the Theory of Constraints for Better Healthcare Delivery
Boaz Ronen, Joseph S. Pliskin, Shimeon Pass, and Donald M. Berwick
The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook is about doing more using existing resources. For example, achieving more throughput in the operating rooms, reducing waiting times ...
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Manual of Simulation in Healthcare (2 ed.)
Richard H. Riley (ed.)
The use of simulation-based education has become widely embedded in almost all areas of healthcare. Medical educators have enthusiastically accepted the range of techniques offered by ...
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MBA for Healthcare
Joseph Sanfilippo, Eric Bieber, David Javitch, and Richard Siegrist
MBA for Healthcare is designed to provide healthcare providers with a modus operandi for virtually all aspects of “the business of medicine.” This educational book is a unique ...
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A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters
Jane Sturgess, Derek Duane, and Rebekah Ley (eds)
Patient expectations for immediate, risk-free healthcare have never been greater; the scrutiny that the medical profession face to deliver this perfect care has also never been greater; the ...
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Medical Education and Training: From theory to delivery
Yvonne Carter and Neil Jackson (eds)
This resource offers theoretical and practical guidance for those planning, delivering, and receiving education and training in ever-changing healthcare environments. Themes covered include ...
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Medical Reasoning: The Nature and Use of Medical Knowledge
Erwin B. Montgomery
Modern medicine is one of humankind’s greatest achievements. Yet medical errors and irreproducibility in biomedical research suggest something is amiss. Concerns have driven considerable ...
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Motivational Interviewing: A Guide for Medical Trainees
Antoine Douaihy, Thomas M. Kelly, and Melanie A. Gold (eds)
Motivational interviewing (MI) is among the most powerful tools available to promote behavior change in patients. In an age of chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, ...
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Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care
Antoine Douaihy and K. Rivet Amico (eds)
Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care reflects significant advances in clinical practice and research, as well as the growing momentum of professional acceptance of the ...
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Operative Solutions in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
Ashley R. Dennison and Guy J. Maddern
This resource combines clearly written, practical text with over 200 illustrations and numerous flow charts which take the reader through the management of all the commonly encountered ...
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Patient Centered Medicine: A Human Experience
David H. Rosen and Uyen Hoang
Patient-Centered Medicine: A Human Experience emphasizes the health professional’s role in caring for patients as unique individuals by focusing on patients’ psychological and ...
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Physician Communication: Connecting with Patients, Peers, and the Public
Terry L. Schraeder
Physician Communication: Connecting with Patients, Peers, and the Public presents the current world of physician communications, from face-to-face and digital communications to ...
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