QuickStudy Bookletss cover the key information on some of the toughest subjects today, helping students boost their grades. The QuickStudy Nursing booklet contains 144 full-color pages and includes: Nursing process, communication, patient education and much more! It measures 4.25" x 7.5," small enough to fit in a pocket.
The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as the Jews' Hospital in the City of New York, but more than a century would pass before a school of medicine was created at Mount Sinai. This work chronicles the development of the medical school from its origins in the 1960s to the current leadership.
A Cancer Victim Refuses Chemotherapy and Finds Tomorrow's Cures in Today
A cancer memoir detailing the search for biotherapies in cancer treatment, while encouraging others to research, question, and become self-advocates for their own treatments. This book endorses various molecularly based technologies, and is useful for those interested in cancer research, especially patients and their families, and physicians.
Demonstrates the effective use of any ambulatory setting in medical education. This practical hands-on resource investigates the tools needed from a theoretical framework for teaching, in addition to essential teaching skills, dealing with difficult trainees, setting up a private practice as a setting for teaching, and more.
Provides practical guidance to plan, organize, and run a teaching skills program for medical residents. This book offers materials for course use, including modules for use with paediatric residents, teaching clinical procedures, works rounds, and role play. It also includes evaluation forms that can be customized to fit a particular program.
Academic medical centers provide cutting edge acute care, train tomorrow's physicians, and carry out research that will expand the range of treatable and curable illnesses.
Hildegard Peplau's 50-year career in nursing left an indelible stamp on the profession of nursing, and on the lives of the mentally ill in this country. She wore many hats -- founder of modern psychiatric nursing, innovative educator, advocate for the mentally ill, proponent of advanced education for nurses, Executive Director and then President ......
This volume focuses on the experience of growing old as it is linked to societal factors. Ryff and Marshall construct this "macro" view of aging in society by bridging disciplines and brining together contributors from all the social sciences. The book is organized into three sections: theoretical perspectives, socioeconomic structures, and ......
How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states? Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program.
An analysis of the claims and benefits of chiropractic, this work measures the profession against the careful scientific standards and consumer protection requirements.
Proper nutrition, weight, and exercise have all been strongly linked to improved health and longevity among the elderly. This timely volume presents the latest medical research on nutrition and its impact on healthy aging in a variety of older populations and in a range of care settings. Topics include the diagnosis and management of protein ......
Modern medicine is one of the most successful branches of science, with a distinguished history of conquering many of the twentieth century's deadliest diseases. Yet today people are turning in record numbers to alternative therapies that have little or no scientific basis. What accounts for this flight from reason in the face of hard evidence ......
This volume evaluates a range of assessment measures with regard to older adults. The expert contributors address topics such as assessment of health, functional disability (ADLs), mental agility, aging and personality, depression, and pain. While the instruments themselves are readily available from other sources, this book discusses the ......
During the past few decades, the dramatic social changes with regard to our aging population and changes in the family unit have made both demographic and socioeconomic consequences, as well as an effect on matters of social policy. The prestigious editors, George L. Maddox and M. Powell Lawton, have assembled an impressive group of expert ......
This collection of six papers on the role of quantitative risk assessment in the promulgation of recent regulatory standards represents the latest contribution to a series of volumes published by Lester Lave and the Brookings Institution on regulatory decisionmaking.
