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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Designed for those interested in understanding and improving communication in health care settings, this text is written from the dual perspective of nursing and communication. The authors analyze the importance of such factors as empathy, control, self-discipline, confirmation, collaboration and autonomy. provides information on ethical, nonverbal, small group and conflict resolution communication and presents practical strategies for complex problems in health care today.
The popular notion of a lone scientist privately toiling long hours in a laboratory, striking upon a great discovery, and announcing it to the world is a romanticized fiction. Vincent Kiernan's Embargoed Science reveals the true process behind science news: an elite few scholarly journals control press coverage through a mechanism known as an embargo. The journals distribute advance copies of their articles to hundreds and sometimes thousands of journalists around the world, on the condition that journalists agree not to report their stories until a common time, several days later. When the embargo lifts, airwaves and newspaper pages are flooded with stories based on the journal's latest iss...
The book will help nurses and other health care professionals improve their personal communication style and master one of the most important aspects of health care - effective communication with the patient. New sections in this edition include a chapter on multicultural issues; new material on communicating across the lifespan; attention on public health issues, ethics and effective communication techniques; and case studies for communicating with AIDS patients and "family".
Looking after a mentally ill loved one on a daily basis presents a unique set of problems and challenges. But it is possible to provide effective and compassionate care without sacrificing the well-being of the primary caregiver or the needs of other family members.
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