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1) Ward D
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Medical student Amy Brenner has dreaded her required overnight rotation assigned to Ward D, the hospital's locked inpatient mental health unit, so when patients and staff being to disappear during her shift, Amy is convinced her worst fears are coming true.
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As our loved ones age, their ability to perform daily activities may be signicantly affected. Thissubchapter explores the various ways in which aging can impact the daily activities of theelderly and offers insights and strategies to address these challenges. Targeted at caregivers,nurses, baby boomers, and grown children, this chapter aims to provide valuable information andguidance for those involved in homecare for the elderly.
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Nursing Assistant/HealthCare AssistantYou will help patients with their medical needs while working as a nursing or healthcare assistant in a healthcare setting You Must have the perseverance and capacity to work with a wide range of patients, as well as the capacity to handle difficult situations. You also need to be able to read and comprehend charts and medical data in order to provide your patients with the best care possible. This manual teaches...
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Sorrel King was a 32-year-old mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter, Josie, was horribly burned by water from a faulty water heater in the family's new Baltimore home. She was taken to Johns Hopkins, renowned as one of the best hospitals in the world, and Sorrel stayed in the hospital with Josie day-in and day-out until she had almost completely recovered. Just before her discharge, however, Sorrel noticed something was wrong Josie was...
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Au Québec, la surveillance clinique fait partie des 17 activités réservées à la profession infirmière. Alors que ce concept existe depuis plusieurs décennies, peu d'auteurs s'y sont attardés sous l'angle d'un processus qui aborde la gestion du risque de complications.
Quelles sont les actions mentales qui guident le comportement pendant le processus de surveillance clinique ? Comment ces actions mentales et comportementales sont-elles interreliées ?
Ce...
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Cuando la muerte se avecina, es común que los individuos y sus familias encuentren refugio en creencias, símbolos o plegarias con el objetivo de encontrar alivio y sanación, lo cual da paso a la manifestación consciente o inconsciente de una espiritualidad, cuyo cuidado en el ámbito médico en muchas ocasiones se daba por sentado, dejándole a los religiosos que asumieran esta responsabilidad.
No obstante, esta indiferencia u omisión en asistir...
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Be the best babysitter in town! This handbook is the ultimate babysitter's helper, and a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the job.
How can a babysitter entertain a fidgety kid, lull a toddler to sleep, or comfort a child who's feeling sad or upset? From finding clients and snagging the job to dealing with emergencies and accidents, “The Babysitter's Survival Guide” has all the advice you'll need. This fully revised edition includes updated...
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Dementia caregivers cope with repetitive questions, mood swings, lost personal space, and live with exhaustion, frustration, and anger. You may not know how to prepare.
Dementia Home Care covers:
• Life hacks like camouflaging doors to prevent wandering, or "mom" bags for life's little emergencies and what to stock in it for road trips
• Distraction Techniques-Nursery Rhymes, warm blankets, food
• Hoarding-Thinning "collections" during sleep...
9) And Nanny Makes Three: Mothers and Nannies Tell the Truth About Work, Love, Money, and Each Other
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From the playground to the playroom, mothers and nannies are engaged in a relationship like no other — they are sometimes co-parents and comrades, often confidants, and much more than employer and employee. It is a complex relationship that touches on issues of love, trust, and money. It can be a wonderful collaboration between two women who care for the same child or it can be a difficult situation with unfulfilled expectations on both sides.
Mothers...
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If you or someone you love is living with diabetes, managing the condition can be a daily challenge. That's why I want to encourage you to consider purchasing this book - "Managing Diabetes: Essential Steps for a Healthy Life."This comprehensive guide offers practical and actionable steps for managing diabetes through healthy habits and medical care. You'll find advice on monitoring blood sugar levels, maintaining a balanced diet, practicing good...
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Your Simplified Guide to the BC Healthcare System!
Healthcare in British Columbia is nothing if not complicated. General practitioners, specialists, waiting lists, residential care and everything in between seem to all exist independently of anything else. Knowing where to turn can feel like something you need a medical degree for, or at least, it can feel like an art.
Author Connie Jorsvik believes things are too complicated for the average user...
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A veteran physician shares his opinion on the state of health care in America and what needs to be done to change it.
In an age where uncertainty rules the day, Dr. Rob Tenery explains how health care has evolved into a $2.6 trillion enterprise. He does this with carefully researched histories and a series of challenging and thought-provoking commentaries on the most important issues of the day. Dr. Tenery's book focuses on a time when doctors...
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"Prognosis Guarded" follows the exploits of doctors who owned a small hospital to develop in their own creative way, a method to bill Medicare for patients who were critical throughout their hospitalization. However, these patients had died months to years previously. This is a medical mystery surrounding greed and the dedicated medical professionals who attempt to uncover the mysteries. This book is a page turner that involves the interpersonal relationships...
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Today, this very day, 5,500 Africans will die of AIDS. If this isn't emergency, what is?
The aWAKE Project, Second Edition is an updated collection of stories and essays geared toward educating and mobilizing Americans to help with the AIDS crisis in Africa. Action is needed for a continent on which five people die every minute from the deadly AIDS virus. aWAKE stands for: AIDS-Working toward Awareness, Knowledge and Engagement.
Compiled of articles...
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Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the world-is extraordinary. It is a biological process that...
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Are you prepared to take care of your newborn baby?
Here a step-by-step book designed to cover EVERYTHING you need to take care of your Newborn Baby...
There are many tips out there that will point you in the direction of caring for a newborn, however, this book, Newborn Care Basics: Baby Care Tips For New Moms, strives to become the easy and quick guide on the basics that you will need to know.
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Health care as it stands today needs to be re-imagined. Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine by Paul Cerrato and Dr. John Halamka challenges the profession to renegotiate its priorities and address the fact that it's become timid and reluctant to explore new care delivery models. The guiding premise of this book is that rethinking and reimagining the way medicine is practiced in the 21st century will improve health outcomes, and that technology is...
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The book titled "Mastering ICU Nursing: A Quick Reference Guide, Interview Q&A, and Terminology" is a complete guide to the field of intensive care nursing. The book covers all aspects of ICU nursing, from the history and definition of the field, to the role and responsibilities of an ICU nurse, to the characteristics of critically ill patients. The first section of the ICU Nursing book provides an overview of basic anatomy and physiology concepts,...
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What Every Modern Grandparent Needs To Know.
Today's grandparents continue with their careers and activities well into their grandparenting years. Totally Cool Grandparenting explains how these modern grandparents can participate in the traditional joyous responsibilities of their role in up-to-date ways. With clear, upfront advice, humor, and time-tested tactics, gathered from personal experience and dozens of interviews with grandparents-and grandkids-across...