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Addresses various trends, developments, and innovations in nursing education. This book provides information and ideas that educators and administrators can use in their nursing programs. It takes a look at such intriguing topics as innovations in clinical teaching and evaluation, partnerships for clinical teaching, and selecting clinical sites.
Provides clinical information that nurses may need in the care of patients with Parkinson's Disease. This book covers various topics including advanced care issues such as deep brain stimulation management, palliative care for frail older adults with Parkinson's, medication management, non-motor complications and psychosocial issues, and others.
Demographic Changes and the Well-Being of Older Persons
Examines the effects of the aging baby boomers in America on health care, migration and immigration and how it can support the tax health care networks, cultural issues regarding access to health care, and changing cultural attitudes towards marriage and family that are affecting the relationships between the elderly and their communities.
Discusses the nature of multiple sclerosis (MS), its management, and guidelines for dealing with all aspects of the disease and its impact on your life. A chapter on services available from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, a glossary, a list of resources, and additional reading make this the place to begin your education about MS.
Intended as a support for those who are involved in training Standardized Patients, from the art of coaching through preparing SP's for the physical exam, to encourage each coach to develop a system that will deliver the best results and, in the end, help train the most competent doctors.
Crown of Life - Dynamics of the Early Post-retirement Period
Contributed by experts, this volume presents some of the important research describing life between the ages of 65-75 or the Crown of Life period. It incorporates some of the important data to address important issues of the early post-retirement period. It includes topics that cover aspects and social issues of retirement and ""The Third Age"".
Focusing on the various facets of the caregiving experience, the authors aim to sensitize professionals to the ways in which caregiving is affected by the conditions, personalities, capabilities, and wishes of both the caregivers and the care recipients. Chapters explore the range of care receivers, from frail elderly to young children.
An annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing. Regular sections include scholarly articles, several book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history, and a section abstracting doctoral dissertations on nursing history. It is of interest to historians and researchers.
Written by the former director of the Spinal Cord Research and Education Foundation of the PVA, this is the first book to cover alternative therapies for Spinal Cord Injury. From acupuncture to laser-based therapies, herbal medicine, homeopathy, craniosacral therapy, magnetic healing and more, the book will empower readers.
