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In solution-focused therapy, all that is required is a client's vision of how his or her life might be different and more satisfying. This title shows that solution-focused practice can be a useful approach in end-of-life and bereavement work. It is suitable for social workers, hospice workers, and psychologists.
Emphasizing on nurse-managed centers, this book provides a step-by-step guide to starting and sustaining a community health center. It includes information on developing a mission statement, pulling together an advisory board, writing a business plan, and getting funding. The Appendix includes sample bylaws and a full policy and procedure manual.
Intends to re-envision the practice of nursing by configuring caring in terms of the person the nurse cares for. This title stresses the importance of knowing the patient, and differentiating the person from the disease. It provides an insight on how to care for the patient on a personal level, professionally administering clinical treatment.
Talks about the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This book helps in understanding female leaders and gives insight into the lives of such imminent women as: Isadora Duncan; Georgia O'Keefe; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Alice Paul; Ella Fitzgerald; and others.
Presents major issues in health literacy from the standpoint of the patient, and the challenges that the problem places on health care providers. This book looks at some specific methodologies that have been demonstratively effective in communicating with low-literate patients. It describes alternatives to written forms of patient communication.
Professionals Who Care for the Dying and the Bereaved
Describes and analyzes the impact that the caregiving process has upon health care professionals, teams, and institutions which provide services to people who are dying and bereaved. This book uses case examples from clinical practice as well as verbatim accounts of nurses and physicians to illustrate the concepts presented.
From the lessons nurse educators and students learned from surviving the Gulf coast hurricanes, to the impact of foreign nurses' immigration on American nursing education, this edition reflects topics on the vanguard of both national and international nursing education concerns.
Helps readers see the local problem and concern of aging as a global epidemic affecting all areas of the health care workplace. This title is written for expert administrative leaders and policymakers who can help make a difference at both local and regional levels.
