Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as chest pain, altered mental status, and headache. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 40 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in the American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial ......
Provides the essential biostatistical concepts, oncology-specific examples, and applicable problem sets for medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and surgical oncologists. All examples are relevant to oncology and demonstrate how to apply core conceptual knowledge and methods related to hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, ......
A comprehensive handbook covering clinical infectious disease for students, residents, primary care medical providers, nurses, and PAs. Written in outline format with short, focused chapters, the book presents a systematic method for understanding basic mechanisms, establishing a diagnosis, and implementing appropriate treatment for commonly ......
Replete with vital information, the second edition of this authoritative women's health text provides graduate nursing students and nurse practitioners with the resources to deliver optimal health to women of all ages. Edited by a team of highly distinguished clinicians, scholars, and educators, chapters retain a distinctive sociocultural lens ......
A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in the American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial ......
A QuickStudy Reference Tool for Students and Medical, Health & Administr ative Fields
With a built-in easel this reference tool can stand upright on your desktop workspace for true at-a-glance quick reference. Twenty-one durable laminated pages covering terms and abbreviations essential for students or anyone in the medical or health related fields, medical office and administration, EMT, nurse, medical coding and many more. The ......
Explores the idea of metacognition, the idea that we can think about the way we or other people think, and thus gain a better understanding of ourselves, and the patients we seek to help. Intended for medical educators, this book teaches students and interns how to extrapolate lessons from experience and integrate learning and practice.
Part of the series Leading Principles & Practices in Elder Care, Culture Change in Elder Care is a one-of-a-kind exploration of the ongoing efforts to revolutionise elder care in America, with contributions from many of the innovators who have championed the 'culture change' movement. Supporting the ideals of person-centred care from economic, ......
This second volume in the series Leading Principles & Practices in Elder Care examines the issues and practices behind the day-to-day implementation of individualised elder care. Through profiles of pioneering model communities, readers learn what person-centred care looks like in practice. From the providers who are raising the bar for best ......
Catch Up Compendium, 3rd edition, contains well over 600 pages of the core background material essential for any student studying courses in the biological and biomedical sciences.
In today's competitive marketplace, it takes more than degrees and aspirations to become a leader at a hospital or healthcare organisation. Get the edge you need in Climbing the Healthcare Management Ladder, where you can learn from the direct experiences of today's top healthcare executives about what it takes to achieve your highest aspirations ......
Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement
The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement. The author has joined seasoned scholars and younger, emerging voices together to bring fresh insight into the technologies that are already reshaping the future of Christian life and hope.
This is a must read for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing, and others in leadership positions in long-term care. It offers practical, common sense, easy-to-implement approaches that will yield immediate positive results. It also serves as a wake-up call to leaders who doubt their impact and as an affirmation to leaders who struggle ......
Not sure of where the superior colliculus is in the human brain? Want to find out what components make up the pancreas? Look no further than our comprehensive 3-panel guide! Each area of the endocrine system is clearly detailed and labeled through full-color illustrations by award-winning artist Vincent Perez.
This volume is uncontestably the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the subject of self-care available to date. It should set the stage for a new policy perspective on building a health care system that incorporates self-care at its core.--Lowell S. Levin, Yale School of Public Health Practitioners and researchers who work with older ......
Our jam-packed 3-panel (6-page) guide is ideal for all sonography (ultrasound) students. This up-to-date guide features our customary easy-to-use format and informative, fluff-free style, with sections that cover all aspects of sonographyaranging from sound waves to image interpretation. Each section features "The Sonographer Knows" summary of ......
Surveys the research on how psychological, social, and physiological factors may interact and contribute to the development of symptoms. This volume is of interest to both psychologists and health care professionals interested. It helps them understand the interaction between mind and body in medically unexplained illness.
