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Understanding how to deliver effective, person-centred care is vital for a future career as a Nursing Associate. In this book,…
trainee nursing associates are introduced to the principles of person-centred care, with case studies from a variety of healthcare settings and guidance on caring for different patient groups, from acute care to long-term and palliative care. This allows TNAs to see how the theory can be directly applied to their daily practice, regardless of where they work. The book also covers key issues in relation to providing care, such as inclusivity, ethics, legal issues, and health inequalities. Key features: Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for nursing associates (2018) Case studies, activities and other learning features help TNAs understand the theory and apply it to practice Designed around a Nursing Associate course, this book demonstrates how person-centred care feeds into each core module. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Understanding Nursing Associate Practice series (UNAP) is a new collection of books uniquely designed to support trainee Nursing Associates throughout their training and into a professional career.Understanding how to deliver effective, person-centred care is vital for a future career as a Nursing Associate. In this book,…
trainee nursing associates are introduced to the principles of person-centred care, with case studies from a variety of healthcare settings and guidance on caring for different patient groups, from acute care to long-term and palliative care. This allows TNAs to see how the theory can be directly applied to their daily practice, regardless of where they work. The book also covers key issues in relation to providing care, such as inclusivity, ethics, legal issues, and health inequalities. Key features: Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for nursing associates (2018) Case studies, activities and other learning features help TNAs understand the theory and apply it to practice Designed around a Nursing Associate course, this book demonstrates how person-centred care feeds into each core module. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Understanding Nursing Associate Practice series (UNAP) is a new collection of books uniquely designed to support trainee Nursing Associates throughout their training and into a professional career.Medicines Management for Nursing Associates (Understanding Nursing Associate Practice)
By Christina Roulston, Miriam Davies. 2021
The first medicines management textbook for trainee nursing associates! Effectively managing and administering medicines is a core responsibility for all…
Nursing Associates. To help you master these skills, this book covers everything you will need to know in medicines management, from understanding the fundamental legal and professional requirements, to developing essential drug calculations skills. By breaking down this often-overwhelming subject into manageable chunks, the book guides you through it all, step-by-step, with the help of insightful case studies and activities. Key features: Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for nursing associates (2018) Activities and other learning features help you get to grips with the key skills Wide-ranging case studies covering all fields and environments show how this knowledge applies to your practice. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Understanding Nursing Associate Practice series (UNAP) is a new collection of books uniquely designed to support trainee Nursing Associates throughout their training and into a professional career.Medicines Management for Nursing Associates (Understanding Nursing Associate Practice)
By Christina Roulston, Miriam Davies. 2021
The first medicines management textbook for trainee nursing associates! Effectively managing and administering medicines is a core responsibility for all…
Nursing Associates. To help you master these skills, this book covers everything you will need to know in medicines management, from understanding the fundamental legal and professional requirements, to developing essential drug calculations skills. By breaking down this often-overwhelming subject into manageable chunks, the book guides you through it all, step-by-step, with the help of insightful case studies and activities. Key features: Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for nursing associates (2018) Activities and other learning features help you get to grips with the key skills Wide-ranging case studies covering all fields and environments show how this knowledge applies to your practice. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Understanding Nursing Associate Practice series (UNAP) is a new collection of books uniquely designed to support trainee Nursing Associates throughout their training and into a professional career.Passing Calculations Tests in Nursing: Advice, Guidance and Over 500 Online Questions for Extra Revision and Practice (Transforming Nursing Practice Series)
By Susan Starkings, Larry Krause. 2021
Feel confident in your nursing calculations skills! This easy-to-use textbook provides you with everything you need to know to improve…
your calculations skills and pass your exams first time. Whether you’re preparing for your final year calculations exam, or for a numeracy test to get onto your chosen nursing degree, this book will help you through it all, breaking down the often challenging mathematics into clear and simple guidelines. There are hundreds of questions to practice with and a collection of scenario-based activities that show you how calculations skills are used in day-to-day nursing practice. It also includes... over 360 practice questions in the book and an extra 500+ questions free to use online an interactive website offering further support, self-testing, and mobile study a diagnostic chapter to help you identify areas you need to work on all new activities, scenarios and case studies reflecting up to date nursing situationsPassing Calculations Tests in Nursing: Advice, Guidance and Over 500 Online Questions for Extra Revision and Practice (Transforming Nursing Practice Series)
By Susan Starkings, Larry Krause. 2021
Feel confident in your nursing calculations skills! This easy-to-use textbook provides you with everything you need to know to improve…
your calculations skills and pass your exams first time. Whether you’re preparing for your final year calculations exam, or for a numeracy test to get onto your chosen nursing degree, this book will help you through it all, breaking down the often challenging mathematics into clear and simple guidelines. There are hundreds of questions to practice with and a collection of scenario-based activities that show you how calculations skills are used in day-to-day nursing practice. It also includes... over 360 practice questions in the book and an extra 500+ questions free to use online an interactive website offering further support, self-testing, and mobile study a diagnostic chapter to help you identify areas you need to work on all new activities, scenarios and case studies reflecting up to date nursing situationsIntroduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research with Microsoft Office Excel and R
By Robert P. Hirsch. 2021
The second edition of Introduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research delivers a thorough examination of the basic techniques and…
most commonly used statistical methods in health research. Retaining much of what was popular with the well-received first edition, the thoroughly revised second edition includes a new chapter on testing assumptions and how to evaluate whether those assumptions are satisfied and what to do if they are not. The newest edition contains brand-new code examples for using the popular computer language R to perform the statistical analyses described in the chapters within. You’ll learn how to use Excel to generate datasets for R, which can then be used to conduct statistical calculations on your data. The book also includes a companion website with a new version of BAHR add-in programs for Excel. This new version contains new programs for nonparametric analyses, Student-Newman-Keuls tests, and stratified analyses. Readers will also benefit from coverage of topics like: Extensive discussions of basic and foundational concepts in statistical methods, including Bayes’ Theorem, populations, and samples A treatment of univariable analysis, covering topics like continuous dependent variables and ordinal dependent variables An examination of bivariable analysis, including regression analysis and correlation analysis An analysis of multivariate calculations in statistics and how testing assumptions, like assuming Gaussian distributions or equal variances, affect statistical outcomes Perfect for health researchers of all kinds, Introduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who wishes to better understand health research literature. Even those without a great deal of mathematical background will benefit greatly from this text.An introduction to state-of-the-art modeling and simulation approaches for social and economic determinants of population health New Horizons in Modeling…
and Simulation for Social Epidemiology and Public Health offers a comprehensive introduction to modeling and simulation that addresses the many complex research questions in social epidemiology and public health. This book highlights a variety of practical applications and illustrative examples with a focus on modeling and simulation approaches for the social and economic determinants of population health. The book contains classic case examples in agent-based modeling (ABM) as well as essential information on ABM applications to public health including for infectious disease modeling, obesity, and tobacco control. This book also surveys applications of microsimulation (MSM) including of tax-benefit policies to project impacts of the social determinants of health. Specifically, this book: Provides an overview of the social determinants of health and the public health significance of addressing the social determinants of health Gives a conceptual foundation for the application of ABM and MSM to study the social determinants of health Offers methodological introductions to both ABM and MSM approaches with illustrative examples Includes cutting-edge systematic reviews of empirical applications of ABM and MSM in the social sciences, social epidemiology, and public health Discusses future directions for empirical research using ABM and MSM, including integrating aspects of both ABM and MSM and implications for public health policies Written for a broad audience of policy analysts, public planners, and researchers and practitioners in public health and public policy including social epidemiologists, New Horizons in Modeling and Simulation for Social Epidemiology and Public Health offers a fundamental guide to the social determinants of health and state-of-the-art applications of ABM and MSM to studying the social and economic determinants of population health.El demonio de la depresión: Un atlas de la enfermedad. Edición actualizada
By Andrew Solomon. 2015
El mejor libro sobre la depresi n ganador del National Book Award y finalista del Pulitzer El…
demonio de la depresi n que aparece ahora en una versi n aumentada y revisada es una obra fundamental que obtuvo el National Book Award y fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer Solomon explora el fen meno de la depresi n a partir de su propia lucha contra la enfermedad y de entrevistas con otros enfermos m dicos y cient ficos responsables pol ticos investigadores farmacol gicos y fil sofos as revela la sutil complejidad y la intensa agon a que la definen Este libro asume el reto de explicar la depresi n y describe el amplio abanico de medicamentos disponibles la eficacia de las terapias alternativas y el impacto que la enfermedad tiene en distintos grupos sociales en todo el mundo y a lo largo de la historia Solomon demuestra una sinceridad una inteligencia y una erudici n extraordinarias a lo largo de este viaje al m s oscuro de los secretos familiares Su contribuci n a nuestra comprensi n de la enfermedad mental y tambi n de la condici n humana es asombrosa Rese as Un libro escrito con tanta elegancia como rigor emp tico e iluminador erudito y til Solomon se disculpa porque ning n libro puede abarcar el alcance del sufrimiento humano Este se queda muy cerca Christine Whitehouse Time Una meditaci n acerca de la capacidad de sufrimiento humana pero tambi n de resistencia New Yorker Inteligente emp tico y repleto de conocimientos sobre el tema Solomon ha construido una ventana iluminadora y sensata sobre la idea m dica y la imagen de la depresi n Publishers WeeklyIt's Not About the Bike - My Journey Back to Life
By Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins. 2000
Mulholland's The Nurse, The Math, The Meds: Drug Calculations Using Dimensional Analysis
By Susan Turner. 2019
Mulholland’s The Nurse, The Math, The Meds, 4th Edition helps you overcome any math anxiety you may have by clearly…
explaining how to use dimensional analysis to minimize drug calculation errors. It shows how to analyze and set up problems, estimate a reasonable answer, and then evaluate the answer for accuracy. But first, a review of basic math ensures that you remember essential math skills. Updated by nursing educator Susan Turner, this edition includes plenty of practice exercises to help you understand and master each aspect of dimensional analysis.Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914
By Rob Boddice. 2021
In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob…
Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. He captures the rise of the professional and specialist medical scientist, whose métier was animal experimentation, and whose guiding principle was 'humanity' or the reduction of the aggregate of suffering in the world. He also highlights the rhetorical rehearsal of scientific practices as humane and humanitarian, and connects these often defensive professions to meaningful changes in the experience of doing science. Humane Professions examines the strategies employed by the medical establishment to try to cement an idea in the public consciousness: that the blood spilt in medical laboratories served a far-reaching human good.Medical, Psychosocial And Vocational Aspects Of Disability
By Martin Brodwin, John Howard, Frances Siu, Erin Brodwin, Ashley Du. 2014
Health Econometrics Using Stata
By Partha Deb, Edward Norton, Willard Manning. 2017
Health Econometrics Using Stataby Partha Deb, Edward C. Norton, and Willard G. Manning provides an excellent overview of the methods…
used to analyze data on healthcare expenditure and use. Aimed at researchers, graduate students, and practitioners, this book introduces readers to widely used methods, shows them how to perform these methods in Stata, and illustrates how to interpret the results. Each method is discussed in the context of an example using an extract from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. After the overview chapters, the book provides excellent introductions to a series of topics aimed specifically at those analyzing healthcare expenditure and use data. The basic topics of linear regression, the generalized linear model, and log and Box-Cox models are covered with a tight focus on the problems presented by these data. Using this foundation, the authors cover the more advanced topics of models for continuous outcome with mass points, count models, and models for heterogeneous effects. Finally, they discuss endogeneity and how to address inference questions using data from complex surveys. The authors use their formidable experience to guide readers toward useful methods and away from less recommended ones. Their discussion of "health econometric myths" and the chapter presenting a framework for approaching health econometric estimation problems are especially useful for this aspect. , count models, and models for heterogeneous effects. Finally, they discuss endogeneity and how to address inference questions using data from complex surveys. The authors use their formidable experience to guide readers toward useful methods and away from less recommended ones. Their discussion of "health econometric myths" and the chapter presenting a framework for approaching health econometric estimation problems are especially useful for this aspect.Health Informatics: A Computational Perspective in Healthcare (Studies in Computational Intelligence #932)
By Ripon Patgiri, Anupam Biswas, Pinki Roy. 2021
This book presents innovative research works to demonstrate the potential and the advancements of computing approaches to utilize healthcare centric…
and medical datasets in solving complex healthcare problems. Computing technique is one of the key technologies that are being currently used to perform medical diagnostics in the healthcare domain, thanks to the abundance of medical data being generated and collected. Nowadays, medical data is available in many different forms like MRI images, CT scan images, EHR data, test reports, histopathological data and doctor patient conversation data. This opens up huge opportunities for the application of computing techniques, to derive data-driven models that can be of very high utility, in terms of providing effective treatment to patients. Moreover, machine learning algorithms can uncover hidden patterns and relationships present in medical datasets, which are too complex to uncover, if a data-driven approach is not taken. With the help of computing systems, today, it is possible for researchers to predict an accurate medical diagnosis for new patients, using models built from previous patient data. Apart from automatic diagnostic tasks, computing techniques have also been applied in the process of drug discovery, by which a lot of time and money can be saved. Utilization of genomic data using various computing techniques is another emerging area, which may in fact be the key to fulfilling the dream of personalized medications. Medical prognostics is another area in which machine learning has shown great promise recently, where automatic prognostic models are being built that can predict the progress of the disease, as well as can suggest the potential treatment paths to get ahead of the disease progression.Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning (Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series)
By Thomas A. Gerds, Michael W. Kattan. 2022
Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning is a hands-on book for clinicians, epidemiologists, and professional statisticians who…
need to make or evaluate a statistical prediction model based on data. The subject of the book is the patient’s individualized probability of a medical event within a given time horizon. Gerds and Kattan describe the mathematical details of making and evaluating a statistical prediction model in a highly pedagogical manner while avoiding mathematical notation. Read this book when you are in doubt about whether a Cox regression model predicts better than a random survival forest. Features: All you need to know to correctly make an online risk calculator from scratch Discrimination, calibration, and predictive performance with censored data and competing risks R-code and illustrative examples Interpretation of prediction performance via benchmarks Comparison and combination of rival modeling strategies via cross-validation Thomas A. Gerds is a professor at the Biostatistics Unit at the University of Copenhagen and is affiliated with the Danish Heart Foundation. He is the author of several R-packages on CRAN and has taught statistics courses to non-statisticians for many years. Michael W. Kattan is a highly cited author and Chair of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has received two awards from the Society for Medical Decision Making: the Eugene L. Saenger Award for Distinguished Service, and the John M. Eisenberg Award for Practical Application of Medical Decision-Making Research.The Web in Higher Education: Assessing the Impact and Fulfilling the Potential
By Cleborne D Maddux, D Lamont Johnson. 2002
A contemporary look at the merger of technology and education!This timely collection of analytical essays provides provocative discourse on the…
role technology will play in education in the 21st century. In this book, an esteemed panel of educators, information specialists, program designers, and researchers discusses issues, trends, and problems in online technology and its potential to re-energize the educational system. The Web?s promise to provide unique opportunities for improved instruction is a given; how that promise can be fulfilled is the debate that fuels The Web in Higher Education.The Web in Higher Education offers detailed proposals for: designing Web-based programs designing online courses implementing Web-based course-management systems developing a community prototype for educators using the Web to enhance televised educationA thoughtful look at the role of online technology in education, this insightful book is essential for educators and administrators. The Web in Higher Education serves as a reference point for the merger of teaching and technology that will likely define the educational process in the 21st century.The Business of Birth: Malpractice and Maternity Care in the United States
By Louise Marie Roth. 2021
How the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choicesGiving birth is a monumental event, not only in the personal…
life of the woman giving birth, but as a medical process and procedure. In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth explores the process of giving birth, and the ways in which medicine and law interact to shape maternity care.Focusing on the United States, Roth explores how the law creates an environment where medical providers, malpractice attorneys, and others limit women’s rights and choices during birth. She shows how a fear of liability risk often drives the decision-making process of medical providers, who prioritize hospital efficiency over patient safety, to the detriment of mothers themselves.Ultimately, Roth advocates for an approach that protects the reproductive rights of mothers. A comprehensive overview, The Business of Birth provides valuable insight into the impact of the law on mothers, medical providers, maternity care practices, and others in the United States.Early Detection and Intervention in Audiology: An African perspective
By Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Amisha Kanji. 2021
A textbook with case studies for audiologists and speech pathologists to make recommendations for early detection and intervention of hearing…
impairments in the South African contextEarly hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) is the gold standard for any practicing audiologist, and for families of infants and children with hearing impairment. EHDI programs aim to identify, diagnose and provide intervention to children with hearing impairment from as early as six months old (as well as those at risk for hearing impairment) to ensure they develop and achieve to their potential. Yet EHDI remains a significant challenge for Africa, and various initiatives are in place to address this gap in transferring policy into practice within the southern African context. The diversity of factors in the southern African context presents unique challenges to teaching and research in this field, which has prompted this book project. The South African government’s heightened focus on increasing access to health care which includes ongoing Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs, make this an opportune time for establishing and documenting evidence-based research for current undergraduate and postgraduate students. Early Detection and Intervention in Audiology: An African Perspective aims to address this opportunity. Grounded in an African context with detailed case studies, this book provides rich content that pays careful attention to contextual relevance and contextual responsiveness to both identification and intervention in hearing impairment. With diverse contributions from experts in local and international contexts, but always with an African perspective, this is textbook will be an invaluable resource for students, researchers and practitioners.Maternal And Child Nursing Care
By Michele Davidson, Jane Ball, Marcia London, Patricia Ladewig, Ruth Bindler, Kay Cowen. 2017
Designed to support faster, more efficient learning in condensed courses, Maternal & Child Nursing Care presents key content about maternal-newborn…
nursing, women’s health, and pediatric nursing topics in an accurate, readable way. Throughout this family-focused text, special attention is paid to health promotion, home/community care, patient and family education, clinical reasoning, evidence-based practice, and cultural competence. Engaging features help readers learn and retain essential concepts in a short period of time.