Helping The Patient with Advanced Disease, Regnard, Claude
Автор: Cohen Название: Memmler`s The Human Body in Health and Disease, 11e ( Paperback ) ISBN: 0781790735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780781790734 Издательство: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Рейтинг: Цена: 3784.00 р. 5405.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: A primer on normal and abnormal anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology, basic microbiology, chemistry and the human disease process. It includes real dissection photographs from "Rohen`s Color Atlas of Anatomy, Sixth Edition".
Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ratios will unfairly burden hospital budgets, while reducing management flexibility in addressing patient needs.
Safety in Numbers is the first book to examine the arguments for and against ratios. Utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research, Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton weigh the cost, benefits, and effectiveness of ratios in California and the state of Victoria in Australia, the two places where RN staffing levels have been mandated the longest. They show how hospital cost cutting and layoffs in the 1990s created larger workloads and deteriorating conditions for both nurses and their patients—leading nursing organizations to embrace staffing level regulation. The authors provide an in-depth account of the difficult but ultimately successful campaigns waged by nurses and their allies to win mandated ratios. Safety in Numbers then reports on how nurses, hospital administrators, and health care policymakers handled ratio implementation.
With at least fourteen states in the United States and several other countries now considering staffing level regulation, this balanced assessment of the impact of ratios on patient outcomes and RN job performance and satisfaction could not be timelier. The authors' history and analysis of the nurse-to-patient ratios debate will be welcomed as an invaluable guide for patient advocates, nurses, health care managers, public officials, and anyone else concerned about the quality of patient care in the United States and the world.
Описание: Pocket sized and practical, this handbook is the ideal guide to support frontline staff and trainees, as well as all allied professionals in the name of patient safety. It will aim to demystify what is often seen as a complex topic, helping doctors understand the methods needed to provide safe care.
Автор: Chambers Название: Supportive Care for the Renal Patient.2004 ISBN: 0198516169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198516163 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5538.00 р. 7912.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: This book provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of supportive care for the nephrology patient. An international group of contributors emphasize the continuum of palliative care from the time of diagnosis through to end-of-life care athe issues surrounding withdrawal of dialysis. The book addresses the psychological impact of the disease, the importance of involving the patient in making decisions about their care, ethical considerations, the role of the family and the multidisciplinary team.
Описание: The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of meaning in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population. Clinicians are focusing on the development of non-pharmacologic interventions that can address issues such as hopelessness, loss of meaning, and spiritual well-being in patients with advanced cancer at the end of life. This effort led to an exploration and analysis of the work of Viktor Frankl and his concepts of logotherapy, or meaning-based psychotherapy. While Frankl's logotherapy was not designed for the treatment of patients with life-threatening illnesses, his concepts of meaning and spirituality have inspired applications in psychotherapeutic work with advanced cancer patients, many of whom seek guidance and help in dealing with issues of sustaining meaning, hope, and understanding cancer and impending death in the context of their lives. Individual Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (IMCP), an intervention developed and rigorously tested by the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is a seven-week program that utilizes a mixture of didactics, discussion and experiential exercises that focus around particular themes related to meaning and advanced cancer. Patients are assigned readings and homework that are specific to each session's theme and which are utilized in each session. While the focus of each session is on issues of meaning and purpose in life in the face of advanced cancer and a limited prognosis, elements of support and expression of emotion are inevitable in the context of each group session. The structured intervention presented in this manual can be provided by a wide array of clinical disciplines, ranging from chaplains, nurses, palliative care physicians, to counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, graduate psychology students, psychologists and psychiatrists.
Автор: Isabelle Bichindaritz; Sachin Vaidya; Ashlesha Jai Название: Computational Intelligence in Healthcare 4 ISBN: 3642264921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642264924 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 30606.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a sample of the state of art in the practical applications of computational intelligence paradigms in healthcare, such as intelligent agents and case-based reasoning. It presents a number of applications and case studies.
Автор: Maurice D Mulvenna; Chris D. Nugent Название: Supporting People with Dementia Using Pervasive Health Technologies ISBN: 1447125371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447125372 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 21661.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: New healthcare technologies are enabling people to remain at home longer and for lower costs. This book reveals how these technologies can be designed in conjunction with users and health care practitioners. It also explores new methods and technologies.
Автор: Brown, Edwina A; Murtagh, Fliss E M; Murphy, Emma Название: Kidney Disease ISBN: 0199695695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199695690 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides practical guidance on managing renal patients at the end of life stage. It is presented in easily accessible, bullet point style, and is illustrated with case histories from real life patients, and drug tables.
Описание: This volume delves into the potential that design thinking can have when applied to organizational systems and structures in health care environments to mitigate risks, reduce medical errors and ultimately improve patient safety, the quality of care, provider well-being, and the overall patient experience.
An eye-opening and compelling ethnography about how doctors make decisions
The oath that doctors take to "do no harm" suggests that patient welfare is at the center of what it means to be a successful medical professional. It is also understood, however, that hospitals are not only vessels for medical care—they are businesses, educational institutions, and complex bureaucracies with intricate codes of etiquette that dictate how each staff member should approach situations with patients. In Conflicted Care, Hyeyoung Oh Nelson provides an in-depth look at the decision-making processes of physicians at a large, prestigious academic medical center—that she calls Pacific Medical Center—and finds that more often than not patient wellbeing is only one of several factors governing day-to-day decisions.
The steps physicians take reveal a kind of hidden curriculum of the medical world, one that is guided by status and hierarchy, bureaucracy, norms for consulting with third-parties, regulations for interactions with patients, and medical uncertainty. While at an institutional and individual level patient care continues to be integral to everything the physicians do, they are forced to reconcile that vow with these other, often-conflicting internal logics. Harm, Nelson argues, is thus built into the practice of medicine in the United States. This harm can take the form of unnecessary treatments and consultations or inadequate treatment for pain to motivate specialist intervention that would otherwise be resisted. These and other practices have the overall consequence of significantly driving up inpatient care costs, which then results in patients forgoing needed, ongoing treatment once they receive their medical bills.
Drawing on a deep ethnography of physicians in the Internal Medicine Service unit, Nelson offers a sharp assessment of current policies aimed at alleviating medical costs and explains why they are ineffective. She concludes by offering novel policy and practice recommendations for health care practitioners, policy makers, and healthcare institutions.
Автор: Booth, Sara; Dudgeon, Deborah Название: Dyspnoea in Advanced Disease ISBN: 019853003X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198530039 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Dyspnoea is a common symptom in people with advanced cancer, cardiac, respiratory, and some neurological diseases. This book deals with the palliation of breathlessness associated with advanced disease. It includes chapters on the best ways to help patients and families live as fully as possible with this distressing symptom.
Название: Patient Multiple ISBN: 1785333941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785333941 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 16988.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.
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