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This new book provides a valuable resource for practicing nurses at all levels in the health care continuum who care for older adults at the end of life. The focus of the book is on enhancing the quality of life for older adult patients and families who have progressive, incurable illnesses. ... Read more

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In straightforward, well-organized sections, Abuse-Proofing Your Facility gives you all the tools you need to dramatically lessen resident abuse in your facility. Written by three leading experts, this book can protect your residents and it can protect you from costly liability exposure. ... Read more

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One in five people in the United States will die in a nursing home.To ensure good care at the end of life, all nursing home residents need attention to their physical, emotional, spiritual needs, and the opportunity to voice preferences.With the support of the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute's Project Death in America, the authors have developed an innovative educational program to help nursing home staff provide competent and compassionate end-of- life care.

Written in a clear style, the book examines eight topics in end-of-life and palliative care in a long-term-care setting.Topics include: recognizing the final phase of life; grief and loss; advance care planning; choices about eating and drinking; pain management; emotional and spiritual care; and caring for the caregivers.

The materials are designed to engage the learner and help nursing home staff apply what they have learned.Chapters contain learning exercises, clinical cases to facilitate group discussion, and useful Appendices. ... Read more

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Oncology Nursing Review has been updated and revised based on the latest research and literature in the relevant fields of oncology. Questions have been revised, removed, and replaced in an effort to create the most current and comprehensive study package on the market. ... Read more

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With simple, no-nonsense language and lighthearted illustrations, the Survival Guide gives CNA's step-by-step information about how to handle specific problems like: managing job stress, dealing with death on the job, being a good communicator, getting along with your supervisor, relating to family members, working with aggressive residents, and balancing work and family. ... Read more

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Most Helpful Book I've Ever Read!
I've been a CNA for about 2 years, and really, really liked this book. The section on angry residents is particularly useful! Its rare to find a book that really seems like it understands what we CNAs have to go through! ... Read more

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The HANDBOOK OF HOME HEALTH NURSING PROCEDURES provides practicing home health nurses and students with a handy, practical guide to more that 200 nursing procedures commonly carried out in the home. This valuable resource helps nurses who practice in the home setting accurately assess clients and plan, deliver, and evaluate care without advice from other nurses or physicians. Additionally, the handbook allows nurses to review complex or unfamiliar procedures prior to performing them and provides expert, on-the-spot advice. ... Read more

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The updated edition of this unique guide provides practical and innovative strategies for care of people with Alzheimer's disease.Written from the viewpoint that activity-focused care promotes the resident's cognitive, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual wellbeing, the text is very readable and highly recommended for caregivers and families of people with Alzheimer's disease. ... Read more

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Resourceful Care Planning Guide
I don't need a thousand words to encourage the publisher to print more books. This book provides wonderful information on the problems that arise and some strategies for care of the individual with Alzheimer's. I really wished I hadn't loaned my copy out...ah well perhaps someone is finding what a great resource it is for the caregiver. ... Read more

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This book covers fundamental issues in healthcare design. It provides basic information and resources for planning, designing, and furnishing cost-effective, efficient, patient-friendly facilities. It covers everything from site visits to floor coverings and provides an overview of the elements essential to creating physical environments that enhance the quality of healthcare delivery. ... Read more

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Revised to include discussions of subacute care and managed care, this straightforward guide offers concise and specific recommendations regarding diagnostic and management strategies of the elderly patient. The book effectively shows how to improve the quality of care, and the critical steps to take in response to a variety of problems found in providing nursing home care, including diseases and disorders frequently encountered. Additionally, typical nursing home organization, procedures, and general management issues are examined along with the latest OSHA documentation guidelines. ... Read more

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Take the stress out of 485's
Carol Bedrosian has taken all of the stress from doing that pesky home care paperwork. This book is essential for anyone in homehealth and especially for a new home health nurse. It comes highly recommended by someone who's own copy is falling apart. ... Read more

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This full-color text meets OBRA and CDC requirements, specifically designed to prepare readers to take state certification exams. It presents basic resident care information for long-term care facilities emphasizing the realities of clinical practice while it offers solutions to the common problems encountered in practice.(Nursing Assistant, Long-term care, OBRA, CDC)ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Manual ISBN: 0-8273-8451-3 Test Bank ISBN: 0-7668-0930-7 ... Read more

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Nursing Assisting:Essentials of Long-Term Care
Am currently using this text to teach a nurse aide training course. Very good. Obvious it was written be a Long Term Care Nurse who has been there and done that! The material is to the point with just the right amount of technical information. Find it useful for the more advanced students as well as those who still need to get a GED. ... Read more

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Providing the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to becoming a home care aide, this engaging text features a colorful design, a clear writing style, and an abundant use of photos, drawings, boxes, and tables. An ideal learning tool, this new edition introduces scenarios with a cast of four aides and a supervisor to help bring the text to life and to provide realistic examples of what the student can expect to encounter in practice. Preparing students to become valuable members of the home care team, this practical text highlights key considerations and reminders, as well as what to observe, report, and record. ... Read more

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Here are the guidelines and tools that the advanced practice nurse needs to provide comprehensive end-of-life care. A review of the end-stage disease processes provide the background for understanding the multiple symptoms experienced by individuals at the end of life. Clinical practice guidelines offer in-depth discussions of the pathophysiology of 17 different symptoms, assessment data to collect when evaluating and monitoring these symptoms, interventions for specific symptom management, and suggestions for patient and family teaching. In addition, a unit in the book is devoted to discussions of psychosocial issues, complementary therapies, and grief and grieving. ... Read more

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clinical practice guidelines for end of life care
This is an excellent book and is a valuable addition to the libary of both RN's and APRN's working in hospice and palliative care. It provides both a general overview and specific guidelines for end stage disease process and symptom management. It would be a useful resource for anyone studying for the CHPN exam, in addition to a good working reference book to asssist in the managment of patients and their symptoms. ... Read more

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The Pocket Guide to Home Health Care offers guidance for nurses and therapists who are interested in transitioning or have just transitioned into the home health arena. It provides practical, in depth information regarding Medicare's Conditions of Participation (COP).Even seasoned nurses have difficulty understanding and using the COP, but this book will be especially useful for novice home health nurses and therapists. ... Read more

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Based on best practices and field-tested in hundreds of facilities, this book will help train, orient, and support your new CNAs; give your veteran CNAs added status and responsibility; and REDUCE your turnover! You don't need additional staff or a big budget to kick-off or maintain a CNA mentoring program. CNA Mentoring Made Easy has everything your CNA trainer needs in one easy-to-use book. If your facility invests the time and energy, this program will help you reduce your facility's CNA turnover, save you money, and build a more loyal staff. ... Read more

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Every hospitalization, period of convalescence, or visit to a patient can be an opportunity for healing to happen. Since most hospitalizations are sudden and unexpected, few patients and family members are prepared to take advantage of these healing opportunities. Help Me to Heal is a "just-in-time" resource that anyone can pick up and immediately use—to help realize this great healing potential. It provides the empowering tools, strategies, and resources that will enable readers to turn their bedside environment and illness experience into a sacred space and time where healing can occur.

When patients, caregivers, and family members are provided with these strategies, they become participants in the healing process—and are then able to communicate their needs to doctors and staff simply and effectively, thereby creating a healing team where everyone is moving in the same direction. ... Read more

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How to Stay Alive in a Hospital
Bernie Siegel and Yosaif August have based their book on three main principles:

1. You have the right to heal, no matter what your life experience has been.

2. You can create a healing team.

3. You can learn to become the master of your life's time.

This book is divided into three main sections:

Part I: A Patient's Survival Guide - This section explains how you can form a healing team, protect yourself in a variety of ways (including making sure the people caring for you wash their hands) and speaking up about anything you feel might be a mistake. Chapter 3 explains what you need to know to prepare for a hospital stay. I liked the list of healing objects you can take into the hospital to make you feel less stressed. This could range from a favorite quilt to favorite music, photos, healthy snacks and your laptop computer. This section addresses issues like having a private room or sharing a room, dealing with aromas and intrusions.

Part II: Healing Strategies for Family, Friends, and Caregivers - This is a section for those who are looking after someone who is healing.

Part III: Healing Ways - An interesting section on bedside yoga, breathing exercises, stretching and massage. Instructions are given for helping the healing process with the healing power of touch.

There is an extensive resource section with ideas like "bedscapes" that can be put up on a wall to help patients feel less closed into a room.

Bernie Siegel and Yosaif August have created a beautiful gift for patients and caregivers. I also hope doctors and nurses will read this book so they can observe care from the patient's perspective.

~TheRebeccaReview.com

Excellent book for anyone who may someday go to the hospital
I finished this book right before going in for surgery and the timing couldn't have been better. The book is described as a "practical" guidebook which is right on the mark because after reading it I felt far better prepared at making sure I got the kind of care I needed and far better at expressing those needs
Simply put, it fills a gap that has long been missing in the medical world: helping patients strengthen their rightful place in directing an important part of their own recovery. Get it for anyone you love who is about to go into the hospital - especially yourself!

True help for healing
As a hospital chaplain, I find this is just the right approach for patients and their families and friends.

This book helps to heal the body and enliven and mobilize the spirit. It is an uplifitng guide to surviving and thriving.
I especially appreciate all the ways it offers to make hospital visits truly healing - for patient and visitor and how to create a "healing team" with medical professionals and family and friends. It offers real tools to help folks find and strengthen their own inner resources . And it's fun to read!!!

Siegel and August - Match Made in Heaven
The coming together of Yosaif August and Bernie Siegel is truly a match made in heaven. If you or a loved one is ill, chances are you will be needing strong, wise and compassionate allies. And you'll find them through the voices of these two wonderful, often hilariously funny, always compassionate and most importantly eminently practical men. If you want to learn how to be militantly on your own side -- when doing so could save your life - read this book!

Self Empowerment for hospital care
This book really helps the patient to be his best advocate and navigate his way through the sometimes scary medical maze. I highly recommend it to anyone dealing with illness and doctors and health care practitioners. ... Read more