Patient S Health Care Survival Guide

Author : David Sherer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1630061638

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Hospital Survival Guide by David Sherer Pdf

Hospital Survival Guide: The Patient Handbook to Getting Better and Getting Out is the essential patient handbook to ensure that you and your family emerge from hospital visits healthier than before checking-in and without having to endure excessive stays, pain or indignities. Includes practical tips, warnings and surprising information you doctor might not tell you, such as the fact that July, when the new interns start, is the most dangerous month to have a procedure done at a teaching hospital; EMLA anesthetic cream can be requested to be used on children's skin, allowing for less painful I.V. starts; and washing off all iodine-based antiseptics thoroughly after surgery can prevent chemical burns. Proven tips for reducing hospital bills are also presented.

Author : Maryanne McGuckin, Dr., Sc., Ed.
Publisher : Demos Medical Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781617051180

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The Patient Survival Guide by Maryanne McGuckin, Dr., Sc., Ed. Pdf

Gold Winner 2012 Foreword Reviews Book of The Year, Health Category The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1.7 million people developed healthcare acquired infections in 2010. Since most people spend only a small part of their lives in healthcare facilities, this guidebook also tells readers how to avoid picking up serious infections in day care centers, schools, business offices, and other common locations. Unlike other books, which focus on how to change the hospital systems, The Patient Survival Guide focuses on empowering you with the knowledge and techniques to ensure a safer healthcare experience. The Patient Survival Guide: Inspires you to be a your own advocate Describes in vivid detail how your preparation and informed vigilance can significantly reduce the chances of harm and death to your loved one in a hospital Provides specific, practical, and outside-the-box strategies for anticipating and preventing errors, with chapters devoted to each of the most common mistakes and mishaps Provides checklists for patients to use upon admission to healthcare facilities

Author : Susan Wright LCSW Ph.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781728370002

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Patient’s Health Care Survival Guide by Susan Wright LCSW Ph.D. Pdf

The book is a story of one patient's remarkable journey from victim, to observer, to program solver. While struggling to save her life against caregivers who wouldn't listen, she realized that she was only one amongst many patients trapped in the same depersonalizing system. What began as a simple attempt at survival, over time became a desire to do something for others in the same boat. She decided to create a how-to self-care-healing guide for patients based upon her own personal experience during the three and a half months of futile attempts to put a name to her mystery disease. Later, she turned her attention to finding the means to reform the system itself. Having been exposed to all the chinks in a mismanaged health care system, she knew the problems began the moment patients met their primary care physicians (a good place to start).

Author : Maryanne McGuckin,Toni L. Goldfarb
Publisher : Demos Medical Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781936303311

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The Patient Survival Guide by Maryanne McGuckin,Toni L. Goldfarb Pdf

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Author : Susan Carlisle
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780273768821

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Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Essential Clinical Skills by Susan Carlisle Pdf

Whether you’re a student nurse on clinical placement or a healthcare worker on a busy ward, you need practical guidance at your fingertips, fast! This pocket-sized guide will help you to provide safe, effective, everyday patient care. The Nursing & Health Survival Guides have evolved - take a look at our our app for iPhone and iPad.

Author : Sharon L. Edwards,Joyce Williams
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780702076558

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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition E-Book by Sharon L. Edwards,Joyce Williams Pdf

Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices? This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty. This book will help you to Organise your job and yourself Assess patients and communicate with them Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions What to do in emergency This UPDATED edition: Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career. Part of the A Nurse’s Survival Guide series Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.

Author : Gretchen LeFever Watson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781538102107

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Your Patient Safety Survival Guide by Gretchen LeFever Watson Pdf

Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson's definitive guide empowers patients to be patient safety advocates. It takes a village to combat preventable errors and omissions that cause millions of deaths and sickness in our nation’s hospitals and care facilities. Although most of these deaths are due to human and system errors—not faulty medical decisions or diagnoses—this annual death toll—as well as the millions of additional incidents of survivable patient harm—could be cut in half through consistent use of simple and nearly cost-free safety behaviors. In Your Patient Safety Survival Guide, Gretchen LeFever Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement so that millions of unnecessary illnesses and deaths in hospitals, outpatient facilities, and nursing homes can be avoided. She provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every patient encounter. She also explains how addressing the most common safety problems will set the stage for tackling a wide range of issues, including healthcare’s role in the overuse of opiate painkillers and its related heroin epidemic. Watson’s call for a more sensible societal response to medical and human error in hospitals promotes a timely and full disclosure of all mistakes—an approach that has been proven to accelerate the emotional recovery of everyone affected by patient safety events while also reducing the financial burden on hospitals, providers, and patients. Readers will learn how to: • Change behavior to catch medical errors before they result in illness or death. • Prevent the spread of dangerous infections in hospitals and other care facilities. • Leverage the power of basic safety/hygiene habits. • Eliminate mistakes during surgery and other invasive procedures. • Avoid medication errors and the overuse of opiates • Raise awareness and inspire civic action in their communities.

Author : Susan Wright Lcsw, PH D
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1728370027

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Patient's Health Care Survival Guide by Susan Wright Lcsw, PH D Pdf

The book is a story of one patient's remarkable journey from victim, to observer, to program solver. While struggling to save her life against caregivers who wouldn't listen, she realized that she was only one amongst many patients trapped in the same depersonalizing system. What began as a simple attempt at survival, over time became a desire to do something for others in the same boat. She decided to create a how-to self-care-healing guide for patients based upon her own personal experience during the three and a half months of futile attempts to put a name to her mystery disease. Later, she turned her attention to finding the means to reform the system itself. Having been exposed to all the chinks in a mismanaged health care system, she knew the problems began the moment patients met their primary care physicians (a good place to start).

Author : Karen Storey,Rhian Last
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780702080869

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A Nurse's Survival Guide to General Practice Nursing E-Book by Karen Storey,Rhian Last Pdf

General practice nurses are faced with the daily challenge of keeping up-to-date with a vast range of conditions and their management. They also need to be familiar with evidence-based practice to inform high-level decision making. This Survival Guide will prove a valuable resource to nursing students experiencing general practice for the first time. Many universities across England now deliver ‘Fundamentals of General Practice’ programmes. This book will complement those programmes and provide essential information to assist nurses new to general practice. For experienced nurses working in general practice there are essential chapters covering the latest developments such as leadership, quality improvement, PCN developments and essential clinical knowledge that highlight the changes in clinical care in recent years, plus an acknowledgement of the impact the COVID 19 pandemic has had on management of care. This is an indispensable handbook for: Defining the essential knowledge for meeting continuing professional development requirements Understanding fundamental clinical skills to ensure best practice Exploring new ways of working to consult and communicate with patients Investigating ways to improve care delivery Handy format makes for easy reference Clear, bulleted content puts the emphasis on quick reference Reflective activities Diagrams clearly explain difficult concepts Case studies highlight best practice

Author : Ann Richards,Sharon L. Edwards
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780702078323

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A Nurse's Survival Guide to the Ward - Updated Edition E-Book by Ann Richards,Sharon L. Edwards Pdf

Further to the success of the previous editions, A Nurse's Survival Guide to the Ward continues to be the indispensable guide to all the procedures and problems faced by nurses and healthcare professionals every day. Whether you are a clinical practicing student or a qualified nurse, this book is the perfect straightforward reference for every doubt you might have about emergency situations, as well as assessments, clinical procedures and much more. What will you find in this updated edition: Completely updated and revised content written by well-known authors with extensive experience in the field; Up-to-date legal issues, health and safety, professional practice issues and ethics in nursing; Expansions of areas such as oxygen administration, fluid and electrolyte balance and nutrition Completely updated and revised content written by well-known authors with extensive experience in the field; Up-to-date legal issues, health and safety, professional practice issues and ethics in nursing; Expansions of areas such as oxygen administration, fluid and electrolyte balance and nutrition

Author : Richard N. Harrison,Lynda Daly
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780702076671

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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies Updated Edition E-Book by Richard N. Harrison,Lynda Daly Pdf

Are you a nurse, a physician’s associate or a medical student in an acute or emergency unit? This is your indispensable primer of acute medical care – a pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions. This book will help you to care for patients in the first critical 24 hours of admission manage patients using the most up-to-date evidence based approach understand the most common emergency medical conditions and their underlying disease mechanisms handle the patient’s assessment , understand the observations and manage their disease easily obtain clear practical advice know what to tell the patient and relatives using jargon-free language access information on SARS, avian influenza and bio-terrorism This updated edition contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis, introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart has revised its case histories in line with current practice This updated edition: contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis, introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart has revised its case histories in line with current practice improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis, introduction of the NEWS 2 observation chart revised case histories in line with current practice

Author : Heather Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317905844

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Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Palliative Care by Heather Campbell Pdf

This easy-to-use guide provides a quick reference to the principles of palliative and end-of-life care for adults, to help you enable your patients to not only die peacefully but also live until they die. The Nursing & Health Survival Guides have evolved - take a look at our our app for iPhone and iPad.

Author : Susan Lillyman,Pauline Merrix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317905806

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Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Record Keeping by Susan Lillyman,Pauline Merrix Pdf

Effective record keeping is a sign of safe and skilled Nurses and Midwives and is a legal requirement for all Healthcare professionals. This pocket-sized guide provides you with the tools to write clear and concise records. The Nursing & Health Survival Guides have evolved - take a look at our our app for iPhone and iPad.

Author : Gretchen Lefever Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9813143207

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Patient Safety Survival Guide: Why Patients and Providers Must Protect Themselves by Gretchen Lefever Watson Pdf

Author : Susan Lillyman,Pauline Merrix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317905813

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Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Record Keeping by Susan Lillyman,Pauline Merrix Pdf

Effective record keeping is a sign of safe and skilled Nurses and Midwives and is a legal requirement for all Healthcare professionals. This pocket-sized guide provides you with the tools to write clear and concise records. The Nursing & Health Survival Guides have evolved - take a look at our our app for iPhone and iPad.