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Family Health Assessment in Community Nursing Practice

Dorothee Johanna He O’Sullivan Burchard

The family is essential for promoting health. Nurses are well placed to advance family health care. Nursing work and assessment of family health needs is multi-dimensional and complex. Limited work exists in this area of practice. This book examines community nurses’ assessment practice from a theoretical and family-focused perspective to gain a deeper understanding of the ...

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220,99 €

Hospital Sketches

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome stories for children, and after their positive reception, she did not generally return to creating works for adults. Alcott continued to write until her death. ...

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8,15 €

Trachoma control in Central Australian Aboriginal communities

Van C. Lansingh / Van CLansingh

A primary health care approach to trachoma control was implemented in two Central Australian Aboriginal communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara land, Pipalyatjara and Mimili based on the World Health Organization (WHO) SAFE strategy (Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial hygiene, and Environmental improvements). Baseline data was gathered for 18 months from March 1999 through September...

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118,03 €

Nursing Care Plan

Joel Patalagsa

Nursing education is beset with challenges brought about by increasing complexities in providing health care as well as changing needs of stakeholders and consumers. The need to equip nurse graduates with basic patient care competencies necessitates that theoretical and clinical learning experiences be updated in order to keep abreast with these challenges. This book offers...

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113,19 €

Lifestyle medicine

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In this fast growing society, people are more interested in quick and easy lifestyles, than striving for an ideal way of life! Hence, the fashion conscious and weight-conscious people are very much concerned about losing weight by adopting methods lik...

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66,08 €

Vegetarianism and Health

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Health professionals have highlighted that vegetarianism has the potential of reducing various health complications like heart diseases and death-related diseases. Basically, after taking into account outside factors like age, exercise, socioeconomic b...

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55,72 €

Professionalism in Nursing

Maria A. Revell / Maria ARevell

Professionalism in Nursing: A Foundation for Practice creates excitement about a career in nursing for those who are just entering the profession and rekindles the flame for nurses returning to the academic setting. The book moves from nursing’s roots to its future and areas of potential expansion. It gives clear insight into what a nurse is and what nurses do.The view of nursi...

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82,09 €

Selected Themes in Nursing Home Management

Edwin A. Ngeri

Selected Themes in Nursing Home Management presents a critical examination of traditional practices by managements of nursing homes-practices that have rendered illusory the accomplishment of the noble goals of providing needed care for the elderly population. Anchored in real floor experiences of the author, the book provides a roadmap toward the destination of compassionate c...

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17,62 €

Selected Themes in Nursing Home Management

Edwin A. Ngeri

Selected Themes in Nursing Home Management presents a critical examination of traditional practices by managements of nursing homes-practices that have rendered illusory the accomplishment of the noble goals of providing needed care for the elderly population. Anchored in real floor experiences of the author, the book provides a roadmap toward the destination of compassionate c...

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27,70 €

Nasal irrigation

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ever heard of the Hydro Pulse? Scientists have recently developed the Hydro Pulse which is a Sinus Pulse Irrigator, for treating chronic sinusitus. How does the Hydro Pulse work? Medical scientists have explained that the Hydro Pulse provides a sinus p...

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55,76 €

Natural family planning

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Health officials from Uganda highlight that family planning services can help to reduce the massive number of maternal deaths which occur every year. Meanwhile, the Uganda government is planning to reduce the level of maternal deaths by 3/4 by the year...

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55,74 €

I Am Not a Syndrome - My Name is Simon

Sheryl Crosier

The medicalcommunity said that Simon was 'incompatible with life' but the Crosier family refused to accept that diagnosis. 'I Am Not a Syndrome - MyName is Simon' is the moving and gripping story of a baby diagnosed withTrisomy 18, a genetic disorder in which a person has a third copy of materialfrom chromosome 18. Produced byindependent book publisher All Star Press, 'I Am No...

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13,71 €

The dangers behind sedentary behaviours

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Medical experts have warned those who sit for long hours against fatal diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular complications, strokes, hypertension and other health problems which can lead to sudden death! More importantly, several medical reports have ...

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89,32 €

World Mental Health Day

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. October 10th 2012 celebrates the 20th anniversary of World Mental Health Day. Researchers have voiced out that compared to 2011, 28% less individuals were found to hide themselves behind the stigma of being rejected by the society due to mental problem...

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96,97 €

Bad eating habits

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nutritionists have voiced out that bad eating habits are due to instincts. As a matter of fact, health officials have laid much emphasis on the fact that people should strive hard to retain themselves and also to retrain the functions of their senses. ...

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66,08 €

Health importance of Berries

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. While some berries are very rich in vitamins and minerals, others have proved to be poisonous and deadly for human beings and other creatures. Berries like tomato, banana, strawberry, blackberry are edible while the blueberry are very attractive yet ar...

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97,07 €

Catching Critical Changes

Nancy Banfield Johnson

When an adult or elderly patient presents with a change in condition, nurses must know what questions to ask the patient and what signs to look for. Then nurses must analyze that information to figure out the appropriate actions to take to ensure that patient gets the proper treatment. This book introduces a step by step process that will help nurses make these crucial nursing ...

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18,81 €

Maternity

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Medical specialists have brought up evidence showing that the mothers who are depressive during their child’s infancy, tend to have shorter children. Indeed, some scientific research have exposed facts showing that children with mothers having mild, mo...

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75,17 €

Health benefits of sex

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Medical specialists from the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida, have highlighted that sexual vitality is crucial for maintaining the balance of a healthy body and the mental well-being of an individual. Throughout years, various...

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82,94 €

Anti-aging cream

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The lovers of Lancome are warned: the United States regulators have brought up evidence showing that the skincare products by L’oreal SA act like a drug on the human skin! The world’s biggest cosmetics group has received orders fron the FDA (United St...

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66,12 €

The Miracle of Hospice

Cathy Truehart

'Truehart gives us a real inside peak at her work and the devotion and skills of those who work alongside her. But most important, she takes the 'scary' out of hospice. She makes it clear that choosing hospice creates the best possible world for the dying and the people who love them...that terminal illness does not necessitate living every day as though it is your last. Rather...

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14,02 €

Caution

Stacia G. Girard

Is your loved one really getting the best care possible in the nursing home? Are you sure? Do you want to be?Author Stacia Girard didn’t take anything for granted when it was time to move her mother into a care facility. Through her unceasing demands for better care and respect, she made sure that her mother got the care she deserved. Here, she shares her story-and her secrets-...

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20,71 €

Caution

Stacia G. Girard

Is your loved one really getting the best care possible in the nursing home? Are you sure? Do you want to be?Author Stacia Girard didn’t take anything for granted when it was time to move her mother into a care facility. Through her unceasing demands for better care and respect, she made sure that her mother got the care she deserved. Here, she shares her story-and her secrets-...

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31,95 €

Communicating Health Disparities

Glen T. Cameron / Glen TCameron / Qi Qiu

Revision with unchanged content. Gaps in health care access and outcome betwen ethnic groups have presented long-term challenges to the health community. For health communicators the question is: what can the media do to help eliminate racial disparities in health care? This study answers that question from a perspective of agenda building. By effectively gaining media coverage...

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74,79 €

Relationship of Patient Safety Practices to Patient Outcomes

Deirdre K. Thornlow / Deirdre KThornlow

Revision with unchanged content. Secondary data were used to examine the relationships between hospital characteristics, utilization of patient safety practices, and patient outcomes in a stratified probability sample of acute care hospitals in 20 states in the US. Patient safety outcome rates for infections due to medical care, decubitus ulcers, failure to rescue, and post-ope...

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119,18 €

Television, Bedpans, and Me

Beverley Keegan

Growing up in a small mining town in New South Wales, Australia, during World War II, Beverley Keegan knew that she wanted to become a nurse. Her adventures began when she traveled on an overnight train to the big city of Sydney to commence her nursing training. Once she became a nurse, her working life continued for more than fifty years in various locations in Australia, New ...

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21,32 €

Television, Bedpans, and Me

Beverley Keegan

Growing up in a small mining town in New South Wales, Australia, during World War II, Beverley Keegan knew that she wanted to become a nurse. Her adventures began when she traveled on an overnight train to the big city of Sydney to commence her nursing training. Once she became a nurse, her working life continued for more than fifty years in various locations in Australia, New ...

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26,03 €

A Partnership Model in the Care Process of Young Children

Ayub Were / Charles Odhiambo / DAVID OMONDI OKEYO

This book highlights how a community based partneship model can be used to improve the care environment of young children from birth to 8 years. The model demostrates the applicability of a combined effort of the community and other development agencies (e.g. NGOs, faith based organizations and government) in the care process of young children. Focus is directed on key issues o...

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107,85 €

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