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  • Creating the Health Care Team of the Future

    The Toronto Model for Interprofessional Education and Practice

    by Sioban Nelson, Maria Tassone, Brian D. Hodges ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate with each other across professional boundaries, and to start to think and act like a team that has the patient at its center. The team-based care movement is at the heart of major changes in medical education and will become an element in the new ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Complexities of Care

    Nursing Reconsidered

    Edited by Sioban Nelson, Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    "Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the polls as the most-trustworthy professionals. Yet, in spite of what seems to be an endless outpouring of public support, in almost every country in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Question of Competence

    Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Brian D. Hodges, Lorelei Lingard ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven chapters in The Question of Competence offer something very different. They critique the very notion of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Reflections from Common Ground . . . Cultural Awareness in Healthcare

    by Beth Lincoln ...
    Reflections from Common Ground . . . Cultural Awareness in Healthcare, showcases many of the opportunities and tools available for healthcare professionals to develop cultural awareness and competency. This unique book offers a way forward and easily lends itself to personal, group or institutional use. It is a tool to promote change, while also an interesting look into the origins of what we ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Beyond the Checklist

    What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety

    by Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall, Bonnie Blair O'Connor ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible financial and human toll of medical errors and injuries that harm rather than heal? Beyond the Checklist ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Strengths-Based Nursing Care

    Health And Healing For Person And Family

    by Laurie N. Gottlieb, PhD, RN ...
    "This is the first book to provide an in-depth exploration of strengths-based nursing care. It includes personal stories from practicing nurses and expert consultants using SBC, which enhances interest and credibility. It is filled with exercises and examples to help educators or nurses include SBC in their practice. As Dr. Benner states, the book is 'accessible and easy to read but requires much ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • The Refusal of Work

    The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

    by David Frayne ...
    Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.In this thought ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Drug Dealer, MD

    How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop

    by Anna Lembke ...
    The disturbing connection between well-meaning physicians and the prescription drug epidemic.Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Patient Crisis and Critical Thinking

    by Carol Whiteside, MSN, PhD ...
    The primary goal of nursing care is that the patient be oxygenating and perfusing at the same time. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Aim Your Brain® At Usmle Step 1

    The Ultimate System for Mastering Multiple-Choice Exams

    by Mary K. Miller ...
    Please select the ONE BEST answer: 1. You are a medical student preparing to take the USMLE Step 1 exam. Which of the following best expresses your innermost thoughts? (A) I hate multiple-choice exams. (B) I wish there were a better way to prepare for the test. (C) I know the material, but I don't do well on standardized exams. (D) I worry about the consequences of not passing. (E) All of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing

    Enhancing Professional Quality of Life

    by Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, PhD, RN, FT ...
    "[T]his is an exceptionalbook and worth the investment for both the novice nursewho wants to proactively recognize compassion fatigueand for the experienced nurse who is struggling with professionalquality of life."--Journal for Nurses in Professional Development"An excellent resource for all levels of nurses...Highly recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries"The book is a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Health Humanities Reader

    by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani DasGupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Bernice Hausman, Allison B. Kavey, Rebecca J. Hester ...
    Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In ... Read more

    $50.39 USD