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Heart failure is a condition that often results in chronic tiredness and shortness of breath. It also requires complex nursing and medical treatment, especially after a hospital admission, which is all too frequent for persons with heart failure. This book describes and discusses the latest research concerning the benefits of having specially trained nurses manage the care of patients with heart failure after they have been discharged from hospital to their own home. Leading nurses and doctors from around the world discuss their experiences with this type of innovative and effective care program. Building upon these experiences, the book also contains a practical guide to developing this type of care program into a fully functional service that provides quality care to those patients admitted to hospital with heart failure.
Implementing NICE/NCC-CC guidelines on chronic conditions. This is a follow-up report from the Chronic heart failure guidelines published in 2003.
Maggie Jackson, RN and professional quilter, has escaped her abusive, embezzling husband and come home to Spokane, Washington, where she hopes to live peacefully with her cat Henry, and making the quilts she loves. She takes a job in a veterinary clinic and is enjoying the low-stress work. But, she soon discovers that there is trouble underfoot, the clinic is part of an illicit drug pipeline. Will her new-found peace be shattered? Determined not to let this happen, she and Henry go to work. Will they succeed, or end up victims again? The Crematory Cat is the first of a series of Killer Quilts mysteries featuring Maggie and her helper, Henry.
As a palliative medicine physician, you struggle every day to make your patients as comfortable as possible in the face of physically and psychologically devastating circumstances. This new reference equips you with all of today's best international approaches for meeting these complex and multifaceted challenges. In print and online, it brings you the world's most comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of your field. You'll find the answers to the most difficult questions you face every day...so you can provide every patient with the relief they need. Equips you to provide today's most effective palliation for terminal malignant diseases • end-stage renal, cardiovascular, respiratory, a...
Seventh-grader Boris Snodbuckle has a strange name, a quirky personality and no chance of beating Robert Pinsent, the most popular boy in school, to become president of the student council. Even Boris’s best friend and sidekick Adrian (the book’s narrator) thinks it’s hopeless. But Boris knows Bendale Public School is sunk if Robert wins, and he won’t let that happen. So watch out people, Operation Save Our School has just begun! With his knack for outrageous adventure (and trouble!) and an unshakable belief in the impossible, the unforgettable Boris Snodbuckle is everybody’s new favorite hero!
How do we make the most of the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century and radically redesign the way we work—forever? Professor Lynda Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future of work. Drawing on thirty years of research into the technological, demographic, cultural, and societal trends that are shaping work and building on what we learned through our experiences of the pandemic, Gratton presents her innovative four-step framework for redesigning work that will help you: Understand your people and what drives performance Reimagine creative new ways to work Model and test these approaches within your organization Act and create to ensure your redesign has lasting ...
"Life is like food, if you gulp you can't taste it," says Bob. Bob the sloth has lots to say if only the other animals in the rainforest would take time to listen. Toucan bird, anaconda, piranha fish, poison dart frog, howler monkey and anteater all consider him as lazy, hanging in his tree all day long. Bob is about to show them how wrong they really are... and maybe they will learn a few life lessons along the way. Set in the beautiful rainforest of Borneo, this book is a refreshing and fun reminder of how we should really live life, and how mindfulness can be part of everyone's everyday.
TheInternational Who's Who in Popular Music 2002offers comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music. It brings together the prominent names in pop music as well as the many emerging personalities in the industry, providing full biographical details on pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists. Over 5,000 biographical entries include major career details, concerts, recordings and compositions, honors and contact addresses. Wherever possible, information is obtained directly from the entrants to ensure accuracy and reliability. Appendices include details of record companies, management companies, agents and promoters. The reference also details publishers, festivals and events and other organizations involved with music.
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Taking the reader from an understanding of the basic mechanisms of heart failure through to an appreciation of the complexities of heart failure management and the remarkable improvements possible with good treatment, the Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure 2e covers all aspects necessary to manage a patient with heart failure. In full colour throughout, containing over 300 illustrations, and supported by detailed referencing from the huge evidence base that has developed over the last two decades, the textbook also includes extensive chapters on common co-morbidities. The new edition has been completely updated in line with new British and European Guidelines and contains new chapters on; Natriuretic Peptides and Novel Biomarkers in Heart Failure, The Future of Heart Failure, and Regenerative Therapies. Essential reading for consultant cardiologists and those in training, general physicians and those caring of the elderly, cardiothoracic surgeons, primary care doctors, pharmacists, and specialist nurses.