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Written for use as a workbook in grief recovery groups, Journey Of The Heart is also a valuable healing tool for any individual grieving a significant loss. Drawing on the many years of her experience as a hospice nurse, JoAnne has created a sensitive explanation of the grief process with practical insights into how to understand and cope with the emotional and physical changes you will be facing. Her workbook is full of exercises that gently help you effectively work through your grief and not let it paralyze your life. Drawing on the teaching skills she developed while creating her hospice training manuals, JoAnne diagrams the grief process and presents numerous observations, ideas, and te...
Please Help Me Die Well reveals the seven crucial promises you must make to your end-of-life patient if they are to make their journey through their fi nal days in peace and comfort. Whether you are a nurse, a caregiver in a nursing facility, or are caring for your own loved one at home, this book is a powerful resource for you. Full of grace, compassion, and deep insight, this guide will change the way you look at the dying process forever. “JoAnne shows us how to take the inevitable pain, suffering, and loss at the end of life, and infuse it with meaning and deeply attuned care for our loved ones. Please Help Me Die Well is an in-depth and trustworthy guide for navigating the myriads of personal, existential, medical, and ethical issues that confront everyone who is charged to care for someone at the ‘great transition’ which awaits us all at the end. If you’ve ever wondered how to practically love and support a dying loved one as they begin to cross over the great threshold of life, this is the book to read.” – Gary D. Salyer, Ph.D., author of Safe to Love Again.
"This invaluable handbook provides comprehensive coverage of more than 325 I.V. drugs, blood products, and solutions. Each entry contains generic and trade names, pharmacologic and therapeutic classes, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (when applicable), pH (when applicable), indications and dosages, administration, preparation and storage, contraindications and cautions, adverse reactions classified in five different ways, interactions, effects on lab test results, action, pharmacokinetics, special considerations, and patient teaching. New to this Eighth Edition: monographs on 20 recently approved drugs; newly approved indications; effects of lab test results in every monograph; off-label uses; and a new drug class section."--BOOK JACKET.
For over a decade, a thousand hospice programs have relied on JoAnne Chitwood's "My Gift: Myself" Medicare approved training program to educate staff and volunteers in providing professional, compassionate care for the terminally ill patient. Now she and Dr. Melendez have greatly expanded upon this basic training to provide physicians and nurses working in end-of-life care a thorough overview of the hospice treatment program. The Seven Agreements is also an excellent reference book for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, counselors and pastors that directly interact with any person approaching end-of-life, whether they enroll in hospice or not. JoAnne presents...
Drawing on the universal values in health care, the second edition of Quality and Safety in Nursing continues to devote itself to the nursing community and explores their role in improving quality of care and patient safety. Edited by key members of the Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) steering team, Quality and Safety in Nursing is divided into three sections. Itfirst looks at the national initiative for quality and safety and links it to its origins in the IOM report. The second section defines each of the six QSEN competencies as well as providing teaching and clinical application strategies, resources and current references. The final section now features redesigned chapte...
This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in order to move the process of “performance assessment for learning” to the next level. In order to be better equipped to cope with increasing complexity, change and diversity in professional education and performance assessment, administrators and educators will engage in crucial systems thinking. The main question discussed by the book is how the required competence in the performance of students can be assessed during the...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
This text explains to consumers of research how to read, understand, and critically evaluate the statistical information contained in technical research reports. Excerpts from over 500 recent research articles are presented and discussed to illustrate concepts.