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Grammar and Writing Skills for the Health Professional by
Extremely student friendly, GRAMMAR & WRITING SKILLS FOR THE HEALTH PROFESSIONAL, 3e, focuses on the fundamentals of grammar and writing to help you develop the skills to communicate clearly and effectively in real-world practice. An indispensable resource the can be used during your schooling as well as you when enter your career, the text is divided into three modules. The first focuses on basic grammar (nouns, pronouns, verbs) and the second on more advanced topics (sentences and paragraphs). The third module helps you develop writing skills for medical reports, correspondence, emails, office meeting minutes, progress notes, charting, research, and brochures. The text's unique writing process can also be used for cover letters and resumes. In addition, the text includes current information on HIPAA, the Joint Commission, American Health Management Information Association, and much more, while real-world applications at the end of every section illustrate how chapter concepts relate to your future career.
Health services assistance : supporting nursing in acute care by
'Increasing demand and an ageing population continue to shape the changing context for the health workforce in Australia. This has resulted in the need for the Health Services Assistant who can provide a high standard of personal and clinical care for patients as well as retaining highly skilled and experienced Enrolled and Registered Nurses for more complex needs. This wide skill mix will result in high-quality care for every patient and efficient use of health care services. This text supports the beginning learner by describing the knowledge and skills required to work towards a Certificate III in Health Services Assistance (Assisting in Nursing Work in Acute Care). This nationally recognisd qualification reflects the role of a variety of workers who use a range of factual, technical and procedural knowledge to provide assistance to health professional staff for the care of patients'.
The Australian carer : a training manual for aged care workers by
Overview
The Australian Carer: A Training Manual for Aged Care workers, 4e addresses the CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support, and particularly supports the Aged Care and Home and Community elective streams.
A practical, down-to-earth training manual for personal care workers in the contemporary health and community services environment, it also supports skill development and knowledge for the competencies and qualifications associated with the training package for aged care.
The Australian Carer, 4e keeps you up to date on the latest best practice with revised content around legislation and funding, palliative care, communications technology, strengths-based care, and new pedagogy to encourage reflection and debate on aged care issues.
An Introduction to Medical Terminology for Health Care by
A thorough knowledge of medical terminology is essential for all health care roles whether clinical or administrative in nature. The new edition of this attractive and easy to use self-directed learning manual provides a simple, interactive and comprehensive guide to the language of medicine. A self-directed learning package that requires no previous knowledge of medical terminology New design with icons to direct the reader and facilitate the learning process Case Histories help put the words into a 'real life' context Over 120 clear images enable students to associate medical terms with human anatomy and medical equipment Self-assessment modules allow readers to test their knowledge of the meaning of word components and their association with a disease, anatomical feature or medical specialty Simple, non-technical descriptions of pathological conditions, symptoms, laboratory tests, medical instruments and clinical procedures Numerous fill-in word exercises to ensure fast and effective learning Comprehensive abbreviation lists and a glossary A valuable resource for readers taking the City and Guilds (AMSPAR) exams or CMA (AAMA) exams in medical terminology Fresh design and updated artwork program gives added appeal to the volume Each unit contains a list of common associated words often used in conjunction with specific medical terms in patient records and medical publications More information on pathological conditions, laboratory tests and clinical procedures Self-assessment exercises on medical specialties Revised lists of common abbreviations associated with each speciality
The experienced carer : frontline leaders in Australia's aged care workplaces by
Senior frontline carers both in HACC and residential settings are central to making ageing a positive and largely self-managed experience. This training manual seeks to target the advanced care and frontline leadership skills of senior carers. In doing so it reflects the Community Services Training Package competencies for the Certificate IV level award for aged care work. The Experienced Carer 2e covers all of the compulsory competencies, plus the most popular electives from the new CHC43015 Certificate IV in Ageing Support qualification, as well as CHC40108 Certificate IV in Aged Care. This new edition now includes learning content on Home and Community Care (HACC) in this context.
Climate change adaptation : for health and social services by
This book pulls together evidence and experience about what we need to do in local communities to support and protect the people most vulnerable to the current impacts of climate change in Australia. It will assist community based health and social services organizations to adapt to the current impacts of climate change in Australia. The authors examine two key questions: What problems is climate change currently creating for communities, service users and health and social service organizations in local communities? What is it that organizations should do about them? To answer these questions, the authors will explore adaptation issues and actions relevant now and over the next 5-10 years. The book will discuss the experiences different populations have of climate impacts and the evidence defining their adaptation issues and actions. The book will provide expertise from a range of researchers and NGOs, and will assist community-based health and social service organizations to think about their clients, communities, the organizations and their programs. It will be relevant to community-based health and social service agencies across Australia. Sections include: Issues (impacts, adaptation, mitigation, inequity, communication); vulnerable populations and appropriate adaptations; organizational adaptation; and resources that are useful for organizations. The broad framework for each chapter will be: the current climate impacts requiring adaptation; the populations affected and their adaptation needs; the interventions relevant at the local level.
Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care by
In response to the growing emphasis on clinicians' capacity to practise effective communication, Communicating Quality and Safety in Healthcare provides real-time communication scenarios and interprofessional case studies. The book engages healthcare trainees from across medicine, nursing and allied health services in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that confront today's healthcare teams. This book explains the role of communication in mental health, emergency medicine, intensive care, and a wide range of other health service and community care contexts. It emphasises the ways in which patients and clinicians communicate, and how clinicians communicate with one another. The case studies explain why and how communication is critical to good care and healing. Each chapter analyses real-life practice situations, encourages the learner to ask probing questions about these situations, and sets out the principal components and strategies of good communication.
Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health profession by
Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 3rd ANZ Edition is the definitive reference text for Australian and New Zealand regions. Harris, Nagy and Vardaxis's Mosby's Dictionary, 3rd Edition delivers more than 1,100 new and revised definitions, more than 50 new drug entries, and a total of 74 new and updated tables for key reference information to complement definitions. As the only Australian medical dictionary, you also benefit from context-specific information written in local spelling conventions alongside phonetic pronunciation guides throughout Harris, Nagy and Vardaxis's reference book.
Promoting health : the primary health care approach by
With increasing disparities in health on a global scale, the urgent imperative for primary health care is greater than ever. An essential toolkit for health promotion action, 'Promoting Health: The primary health care approach' 5th edition poivides a clear understanding of how primary health care plays an integral role in supporting health promotion across all health care settings. Using sound evidence-based research, the highly respected author team aptly educates students and primary health care practitioners on the social, environmental, cultural and psychological determinants of health, and provides the knowledge and skills for using health promotion strategies within primary health care to foster wellbeing and prevent ill health.
Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions by
Inter-professional education that begins in undergraduate or graduate-entry programs has been accepted by universities as a proven method for fostering collaborative practice among health professionals yet there are few truly multidisciplinary books about evidence-based practice that meet the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in inter-professional courses. Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is designed to meet this need. It provides the reader with an excellent foundation in the knowledge and skills necessary to perform and understand the implications of evidence-based practice within a healthcare environment. It discusses the critical role of clinical reasoning and includes a range of practical strategies to facilitate shared decision making and effective communication with clients for improved client outcomes. Evidence-based decision making is common to all professions and provides an ideal platform for multidisciplinary work. With this in mind, to facilitate an understanding of how evidence may be integrated into clinical practice there are a number of chapters that contain worked examples from many different health professions that demonstrate appraisals of the methodological quality and interpretation of results for a number of different methodologies (such as randomised controlled trials, diagnostic studies, cohort studies, and qualitative research). Health professionals from a range of disciplines will benefit from familiarity with the intervention being evaluated, the context of the intervention, and the outcome measures used. Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is of direct relevance to all health profession students and practitioners engaged in client care and in making informed clinical decisions in order to achieve better client outcomes. Worked examples of a wide range of case scenarios and appraised papers (some are discipline-specific and others are multidisciplinary). Designed to be used by students from a wide range of health professions, thus facilitating the student''s ability to understand the needs of multi-disciplinary health-care teams in a real-life setting. Includes a detailed chapter on implementing evidence into practice and other topics that are not typically addressed in other texts, such as a chapter about how to communicate evidence to clients and another that discusses the role of clinical reasoning in evidence-based practice. Summary points at the end of each chapter. Supported by an Evolve resource package that contains revision questions that utilize a range of question formats. Three new health disciplines covered - human movement & exercise science, pharmacy and paramedicine - with new clinical scenarios. New chapter - Embedding evidence-based practice into routine clinical care. Elsevier''s Evolve - an expanded suite of online assets to provide additional teaching and student resources. New examples of appraising and using systematic reviews of qualitative evidence (meta-synthesis) Nine new contributors including paramedicine, CAMS, qualitative EBP and nursing. New larger format and internal design. This book will provide the reader with the basic knowledge and skills necessary to be an evidence-based clinician and to understand the implications of evidence-based practice (EBP) in the overall healthcare environment. The book will contain two parts. Part 1 provides the EBP content that is generic to most health professions. The Part 2 provides information about the EBP-related issues that are specific to each health profession and to multidisciplinary teams. Part 1 will cover all of the key steps in the EBP process, such as formulating clinical questions, knowing what type of evidence is appropriate for various clinical questions, finding evidence effectively, appraising the various types of evidence, and making sense of the results sections of papers. It will also include a chapter on research translation and implementing EBP and other topics not typically addressed in other texts, such as how to communicate evidence to clients and other stakeholders, and the importance of clinical reasoning in EBP.
Improving healthcare team performance : the 7 requirements for excellence in patient care by
Practical, proven techniques for improving team performance in the health care world Teams and collaboration have become an expectation in most healthcare facilities and environments. It is accepted that high performance, patient focused teams are critical to quality patient care. However, there is often a wide gap between traditional practices and the new behaviours and practices required for teamwork and collaboration. Improving Health Care Team Performance goes beyond theory to provide the knowledge, tools, and techniques required to develop a single team, or to develop an organization wide team based culture, from which exceptional patient care emerges. Most uniquely it emphasizes that effective teamwork goes far beyond team dynamics and provides detailed description of additional requirements, such as shared learning and change compatibility, and how to fulfill them. A practical handbook for healthcare leaders striving to ensure a superior patient experience and high quality of care, Improving Healthcare Team Performance not only provides specifics on how to develop high functioning teams, whether multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or departmental but also offers those dealing with the common healthcare leadership challenges of low morale, poor communication, interpersonal conflict, and lack of knowledge sharing the tools to take immediate action to improve performance. Providing a proven approach to addressing and preventing everyday issues impacting patient care, Improving Health Care Team Performance contains everything needed to identify areas of greatest need within a team or department, take targeted action to address key gaps, and measure progress towards positive change. Presents a clear depiction of what constitutes collaboration and a high-performing patient focused team. This includes the skills and practices required to improve team performance and ultimately the quality of patient care, how to develop new attitudes and behaviours within the team, as well as the leadership requirements for success in a patient focused, team based culture. Provides a set of development tools accessible online to help the reader quickly and easily apply the knowledge gleaned. Offers targeted solutions including tips/recommendations, a step-by-step approach for affecting necessary change at every level of the organization, and skills and team development activities. Designed for leaders working in any healthcare environment, Improving Health Care Team Performance is a practical approach to improving team performance and the quality of patient care.
Lippincott's essentials for nursing assistants : a humanistic approach to caregiving by
Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Lippincott's Essentials for Nursing Assistants provides the foundational concepts and facts that a nursing assistant needs to function competently in the workplace, be it a long-term care facility, an acute care facility, or a home health agency. Geared to students enrolled in "essentials" courses, this book includes only the most basic, essential information, with the understanding that this foundational knowledge will be supplemented by classroom instruction and on-the-job training.
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Community-Based Healthcare : The Search for Mindful Dialogues by 
Essentials of Management for Healthcare Professionals by 
Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems by 
ABC of Quality Improvement in Healthcare by 
Whole Person Care : Transforming Healthcare by 
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