Hospice Plain & Simple
Unless you're immortal, you need this book! Facing the end of your life or the life of a loved one doesn't have to be scary. Hospice Plain and Simple is a practical, compassionate guide for patients, families, and caregivers navigating the end-of-life journey. Written by veteran hospice nurse Brenda Hampton, this book offers honest, clear information about what hospice really is-and what it isn't. With over 27 years of experience, Brenda walks you through every step: when to call hospice, what to expect, how to manage care, and how to find peace in the process. You'll find answers to tough questions, guidance on making hard choices, and real stories from the bedside that bring clarity and comfort. Whether you're preparing for your own care or supporting a loved one, this book will help you understand the process, let go of fear, and make the most of every moment.Hospice Plain and Simple is a guidebook about hospice care: what it is, what it isn't and how we die.About the AuthorBrenda Hampton, RN, has worked in hospice care for over 27 years, guiding thousands of patients and families through the most challenging chapters of their lives. Known for her no-nonsense compassion and heartfelt communication, Brenda brings a nurse's knowledge and a friend's warmth to every page of this book. Hospice Plain and Simple is her way of continuing that care-long after the last visit.
Faculty Development in the Health Professions
This second edition of 'Faculty Development in the Health Professions', originally published in 2014, presents updated chapters and new topics. It also highlights changes in the evidence base for faculty development and identifies recommendations for research and practice in the field. With chapter authors coming from five continents, it builds on and presents global lessons learned for an international audience. This book describes a multitude of ways, ranging from workshops to the workplace, in which health professionals can develop their knowledge and skills as teachers and educators, leaders and managers, and researchers and scholars. By providing an informed and scholarly overview of faculty development, and by describing original content that has not been previously published, this book helps to ensure that research and evidence inform practice, move the scholarly agenda forward, and promote dialogue and debate in this evolving field. It serves as an invaluable resource for faculty development program planning, implementation and evaluation, and helps to sustain faculty members' vitality and commitment to excellence.
Patient No Longer: How You Can Lead the Consumer Revolution in Healthcare, Second Edition
Patient No Longer delves into the next phase of healthcare's evolution: consumer-centric care. The authors challenge the status quo and explore how we can build a truly consumer-driven healthcare system-- one that is data informed, compassionate, and ultimately meaningful for patients-- by answering a critical question: What can we do now to transform our healthcare model into one that puts consumers at the center of the experience? Drawing on new research and real-world case studies, the book analyzes long-term effects of COVID-19 on healthcare, revealing how the pandemic accelerated the shift toward patient-centered care. The book offers a fresh look at the progress-- and the work yet to be done-- in achieving a system in which providers partner with patients to create healthier communities. This extensively revised edition features new content throughout, including: - Information regarding potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform healthcare - Ideas for improving patient experience to remove barriers to care With actionable insights and a forward-thinking framework, the book equips organizations to deliver the compassionate, human-centered care patients deserve.
A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Health Cooperatives
In the era of complex healthcare challenges, the question arises: Can health cooperatives be the catalysts for transformation in the healthcare system? This research monograph delves into this thought-provoking query, exploring the potential of health cooperatives as influential entities in the future of healthcare. Despite advancements, healthcare systems still need help with sustainability, equality, costly therapies and various other segments.This monograph aims to dissect the notion of "Healthy lives and well-being for everyone," protracted by policymakers and proponents of the existing healthcare setup. Researchers, cooperative professionals, healthcare practitioners, decision-makers, patients, policy developers, librarians and booksellers will find this book relevant and interesting to read. The captivating narrative is supported by analysing 20 countries across five continents, explaining their historical and modern notion of the context and health cooperatives' development. It also sheds light on the significance of modern cooperatives in the current healthcare landscape. In addition, the monograph offers insights into multiple case studies of health-oriented cooperatives showing their diversity and flexibility in operations.This research monograph paves the way for envisioning a future where health cooperatives have the potential to play an important role in addressing various challenges affecting positive societal changes.
Becoming and Being a Physician
Structured around personal stories, this book provides a rigorous review of current thinking and research on the physician life cycle. It considers the trajectories and factors that influence a doctor's development over decades of a medical career.Taking an integrated approach, the authors consider the formal stages of a physician's training including medical school, residency training and practice, and review discourses around professionalism, competency-based education, lifelong learning, expertise development, reflection, and narrative that merge into the construct of medical professional identity formation.
Radical Approaches to the Care Crisis
This book explores the critical issue of how to manage the ever-increasing demand for social care in Britain's ageing society. With informal care, from family members and friends, now the dominant form of adult social care in the UK, this precarious system is struggling to provide enough support. Exploring the relationship between formal and informal care, this book develops ideas for a 'caring economy', showing the potential to integrate paid-for and unpaid care within a framework of solidarity based on the strengths of the community, working to improve the quality and quantity of state-funded care provision while sharing unpaid support more widely as a community responsibility.
The Candy Striper
Join the extraordinary journey of Vera Henson, a compassionate and resilient home health care aide whose life becomes a tapestry woven with the threads of love, sacrifice, and the unpredictable challenges of caregiving. Vera steps into the homes of her diverse clientele, armed with an unwavering dedication to bringing comfort and joy to those in need.From the unexpected joys found in the smallest victories to the difficulties of having to say goodbye, Vera's story unfolds with grace and authenticity. As Vera faces the challenges of balancing her personal life with the demands of caregiving, readers will be drawn into a world where the human spirit triumphs over adversity. "The Candy Striper" is a celebration of resilience, kindness, and the transformative power of one individual's commitment to making a difference in the lives of others.Prepare to be captivated by Vera Henson's journey, where the highs and lows of being a caregiver are painted with the vibrant colors of compassion, illustrating that sometimes, in the quiet moments of care, true heroism is found.
Peer Interventions for Health and Wellbeing
This book introduces peer interventions (primarily peer education, peer counselling and peer support) for the positive promotion of health and well-being as alternative or parallel methods to traditional clinical processes for reaching hard-to-access populations. It is strongly evidence-based, with chapters discussing reviews of the evidence, followed by important papers with key messages for implementation. Furthermore, it describes implementation and evaluation procedures, both in resource-rich environments and in developing countries.Key Features: Bridges the traditional gap between professional clinical advice and the "real world", reaching where professionals cannot go. Brings together information about those interventions that are well evidenced. Distils information about how to implement interventions for medical professionals and paraprofessionals and charitable agencies and researchers. Presents a fine balance between research and implementation, with evidence-driven guidance.
Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications
Designed to help you comprehend and retain the challenging material you need to know, Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications, Sixth Edition, covers the essential neuroscience information needed for coursework, exams, and beyond. Using a rigorous yet clinically-focused approach, it integrates neuroanatomy, pharmacology, and physiology, with separate sections devoted to essential concepts, regional neurobiology, and systems neurobiology.Begins with the basic concepts that are needed to understand neuroscience at a fundamental level, followed by regional coverage designed to help prepare you for examinations, and ending with a full section on systems neurobiology as you enter the clinical phase of your educationContains new end-of-chapter review questions, as well as thoroughly updated information in every chapter, with an emphasis on new clinical thinking as related to the brain and systems neurobiologyFeatures hundreds of correlated state-of-the-art imaging examples, anatomical diagrams, and histology photosPays special attention to the correct use of clinical and anatomical terminology, and provides clinical text and clinical-anatomical correlationsAn eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text and figures, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloudEvolve Instructor site with an image collection and test bank is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https: //evolve.elsevier.com.
SACKRED Birth
This book offers a new obstetric quality paradigm to address violations of physical and emotional safety during childbirth hospitalization. It's a vital call for prioritizing Black mothers' expressions, expectations, and experiences in clinical practice, decision-making, and care delivery.
It's Not What You're Thinking
It's Not What You're Thinking by Dr. Rick van Pelt addresses the deep-rooted crises in healthcare--escalating costs, persistent safety issues, and the overwhelming burnout of caregivers. In this groundbreaking work, van Pelt introduces "Precision Problem Solving," a fresh, no-hypothesis approach that reveals how entrenched problem-solving methods have failed to transform the healthcare landscape. His methodology rejects conventional thinking and instead focuses on addressing conflict to create safe learning conditions, objective observation, and sustained solutions through comprehensive understanding of core functional problems.With over thirty years of clinical experience, van Pelt outlines practical solutions for navigating the chaotic intricacies of healthcare. For example, he discusses how misaligned approaches to patient safety have hindered progress and why fragmented management systems continue to exacerbate burnout. He also explores the importance of interprofessional collaboration, offering insights into how healthcare systems can foster empowerment and ownership by eliminating conflict and focusing on comprehensive understanding.This book offers a much-needed alternative for healthcare leaders, professionals, and administrators seeking to enact lasting, transformative change. It provides a methodology along with tools designed for practical implementation in complex environments where the stakes are high. It's Not What You're Thinking is essential reading for anyone ready to challenge the status quo and build a more reliable, sustainable system.
General Medicine and Surgery, MLA Edition
Totally revised and updated edition now mapped to the MLA (Medical Licensing Assessment) curriculum "I like the unique style ... It is simple, engaging and easy to read, whatever your learning preferences (I particularly like the colour coding!). It also covers topics comprehensively, making it not only a great aide-memoire but also a very useful everyday book on the ward." From the Foreword by Professor Farah Bhatti OBE, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon All the core knowledge you need at medical school in one place! General Medicine and Surgery: Medical Student Revision Guide contains the core information you need on: Cardiology; Endocrinology; Gastroenterology; Hepato-pancreato-biliary; Haematology; Immunology & Allergy; Neurology; Renal; Respiratory; General surgical principles; The acute abdomen; Gastrointestinal surgery; The breast; Vascular surgery; Urology; Critical illness; Emergency presentations; Rheumatology; Trauma & orthopaedics. Throughout medical school, and the years thereafter, a huge volume of knowledge must be acquired and retained, to achieve the standards expected of a safe and successful doctor. This is a mammoth task. General Medicine and Surgery: Medical Student Revision Guide is designed to make accessing and remembering core knowledge as easy as possible: each topic is presented in a colourful, revision-ready note format, with extensive use of diagrams, tables and flowcharts key points are highlighted and core concepts summarised, making the information easier to digest, assimilate and memorise a consistent structure means you always have access to clinical presentation, investigations and management, risk factors and complications. Every chapter has been peer-reviewed by a specialist in the field, to ensure it is accurate and reflects the most up-to-date guidelines. In addition, these specialists have also used their own personal experience of studying for medical exams to ensure that the books focus on the most important conditions, concepts and vocabulary needed to pass finals. General Medicine and Surgery: Medical Student Revision Guide is the perfect companion for your medicine degree, exam revision, medical finals and your early career as a foundation doctor.
Caregiving Reimagined
Claudia Cassidy Bennett, an occupational therapist with a career spent treating patients with neurological disorders, discovered the profound power of emotions when she began caring for her mother, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In Caregiving Reimagined: A Practical and Spiritual Guide for Family Caregivers, Dr. Bennett offers a deeply personal and heartwarming account of her own caregiving journey, candidly sharing both her struggles and triumphs. Through her reflections, insights, and expertise she provides a blend of practical advice and spiritual wisdom, empowering others to navigate their caregiving roles with confidence and compassion. In this book, you will discover: - Practical strategies to make caregiving tasks more manageable - A spiritual practice program designed to nurture your soul while caring for others - Effective self-care techniques to recharge and stay balanced - Simple ways to integrate spiritual practices into your daily caregiving routine - Guidance on assisting with activities-of-daily-living (ADLs) with proficiency and kindness - Crucial safety tips for performing caregiving tasks with care and efficiency Dr. Bennett encourages caregivers to see this role as an opportunity to strengthen relationships with loved ones, deepen their spirituality, and enhance their self-awareness through introspective questioning.
Routledge Handbook of Health and Media
The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies.
Reading and Understanding Health Research
This concise guide equips readers with the essential skills required to analyze and critically appraise health research evidence, an integral element to evidence-based practice and professional development.
Socially Determined: The Healthcare Executive's Role in Health Equity
While federal regulators and accrediting bodies have championed national health equity initiatives, the COVID-19 pandemic further underscored systemic health disparities and inspired action. Socially Determined explores how healthcare and public health organizations continue to work toward equitable, person-centered care. This book provides healthcare executives with an overview of the essential elements of health equity and explains the relationship between value-based care, healthcare quality, and health equity. The book's core themes are the crucial role of community investments in improving the economic, social, and environmental realities of marginalized populations and the need for public-private partnerships to tackle issues at scale. Topics covered include new efforts to collect reliable data on social determinants of health and build a health analytics infrastructure to benchmark, monitor, and track progress toward health equity Mandates and accreditation requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Joint Commission, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the Public Health Accreditation Board are woven throughout the chapters.
Recent Updates in Intensive Care Medicine
Recent Updates in Intensive Care Medicine consists of six chapters, each addressing key topics in the daily practice of critical care. It covers the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and peripartum hemorrhage, as well as the role of intensivists in managing patients through outreach team coverage beyond the intensive care unit. Written by experts in their respective fields, this book is designed to support critical care physicians, surgeons, general practitioners, and paramedical and technical staff in critical, intensive, and acute care settings.
Neurology Clerkship Manual
This manual contains the hard-core of the basic information required by the neurology clerkship. Medical students have to incorporate this information during the fourth year when they are overwhelmed by the rigorousness of the last year of medical school study already overstrained by grades, matching program, graduation preparedness and future residency plans.There must be a way to make this information interesting and easy to assimilate. We have been educating medical students successfully in the Texas Tech Neurology Clerkship for 30 years. These lectures include several original ideas and analogies that make complex subjects very easy to understand and to remember. This manual provides the student the master key concepts of all aspects of clinical neurology.Notwithstanding, the conceptual framework outlines the steps in the diagnostic workup as described by expert clinicians. We hope these lectures will continue to serve medical students as well as physicians and even non-physicians individuals interested in the nervous system. We are sure this manual will sale well among medical students and physicians in general, not only from Texas Tech but also from other medical schools.
