Patient Care

Most consumers agree their service experiences with hospitals, clinics, and physicians fall well short of their service experiences with hotels, resorts, and restaurants. So, what would their experiences be like if healthcare providers served them the same way hospitality providers do? Given that both industries share many common service touchpoints, one wonders whether healthcare service providers could adopt principles of hospitality to enhance the patient experience. The insights shared in this book reveal the answer: yes!

Por Qué Nos Rebelamos describe lo que está mal con la medicina industrializada, como ha corrompido su misión y ha dejado de cuidar del paciente. Montori rescata el lenguaje del cuidado del paciente y propone una revolución de compasión y solidaridad, de conversaciones sin prisa, y de una atención cuidadosa y gentil.

In the midst of the cold and dark in the current practice of medicine there is a glimmer of hope called the soul of medicine - comprehensive, compassionate, patient-clinician interactions focused solely on the needs of the patient - that can warm and enlighten both patients and clinicians. This book consists of essays and poems describing patient-clinician interactions exhibiting the soul of medicine. Though coming from different viewpoints, both the general public and medical personnel can be enlightened from what they read. The general public has the opportunity to witness the lifting of ...

Becoming a Certified Hemodialysis Technician (CHT) requires mastering critical dialysis concepts and passing the BONENT CHT exam. Conquer the BONENT CHT Exam: Your Concise Guide to Becoming a Certified Hemodialysis Technician (CHT) with the Board of Nephrology Examiners Nursing Technology (BONENT) is a focused study guide designed to help candidates efficiently prepare for exam success. This guide covers all essential exam topics, including kidney function, dialysis principles, vascular access management, and dialysis equipment operation. Readers will learn how to handle infection control, ...

If you like Grey’s Anatomy you’re about to find out that truth is stranger than fiction! With forty million Americans uninsured and the government poised to nationalize health care, Americans need all the information they can get on which way to turn. Dr. Thurston uses real life cases to give you a fascinating look at behind the scenes medicine, which will literally have you laughing out loud one minute and crying in disbelief the next. As our health care system morphs in ways that threaten to destroy the patient’s ability to choose, along with the doctor’s authority to make ...

The People's Hospital is the story of how Ben Taub Hospital strives to provide healthcare to Houston's most vulnerable population, against the background of the chaos of American healthcare. By telling the frequently heartbreaking stories of patients who have had to battle their desperate financial circumstances as well as life-threatening disease. These are extraordinary stories in which doctors are tied up with complex moral questions about money vs healthcare.

Encontrar la vocación profesional en la vida es, sin duda alguna, una de las decisiones más importantes que se pueden tomar. Si además esa vocación tiene una relación directa con el trato con los pacientes donde determinadas cualidades resultan imprescindibles para el bienestar de todos ellos, este audiolibro ofrece las herramientas necesarias para el descubrimiento de estas cualidades. Un audiolibro idóneo para todos los que sienten una vocación de servicio a los demás en cualquier profesión del campo de la salud, tanto si aún no se han formado como si llevan años de ejercicio profesional.

二万体の検死・解剖を行なった、元監察医が解き明かす「死のメカニズム」！65万部を超えたベストセラー『死体は語る』の著者、上野正彦が死にまつわる常識・迷信・疑問を一刀両断！

クリニックの選び方から最期の看取りまで――医者の本心を、包み隠さずお話します。

Вы когда-нибудь задумывались, с чем сталкиваются врачи-акушеры в своей практике? Как проходят их ночные дежурства? Как действуют врачи в сложных или безвыходных ситуациях? Анастасия Седова - врач акушер-гинеколог, о случаях из своей практики рассказывает на Дзен-канале "Блог акушера". Канал стремительно набирает популярность, а один рассказ набирает более 50 тыс. дочитываний. "Дневник акушера. Реальные истории, рассказанные врачом роддома" - это уникальный сборник историй о работе акушеров, о сложных операциях и появлении новых людей на свет.

You don’t need an earthquake to have a disaster. Many industries are in a state of tremendous turmoil and some will not survive the change. And yet, this is a time of extraordinary opportunity for individuals and organizations that can adapt, engage and innovate. Mere resilience is no longer enough. Are you ready to thrive? Inspired by challenges faced by the health care industry, but applicable to any organization, Beyond Resilience will show you how to transform: confusion into clarity, adversity into opportunity, pressure into productivity and the indescribable mess of disaster into ...

Pharmacist Cory Jenks had all the elements to make a competent healthcare professional. Good looks, academic accolades, multiple board certifications, and a competitive residency. However, none of these items prepared him for truly caring for his patients in a chaotic healthcare environment, and he was struggling. After implementing lessons he learned as an improv comedian, Cory’s perspective began to shift. In this audiobook, Cory takes you through the comical and powerful tools needed to create a memorable, humanizing experience for your patients and colleagues.

If you are an accomplished dentist who wonders why patients continually miss appointments and don’t follow your recommendations, know that you’re not the only one plagued with these questions. In The Well-Referred Dentist, Dr. Bita Saleh addresses the missing factor essential to patient compliance in all stages of dental treatment by identifying and resolving the patient’s “triad” of obstacles - fears, anxieties, and limiting beliefs.

Do you wish you understood others better? Do you want to master your own emotions? In recent years, it’s become increasingly obvious that emotional intelligence just as important, if not more so, than simply possessing a high IQ. Research suggests that people with higher emotional intelligence lead more successful, productive lives. They are happier, healthier, and generally better at achieving their goals. But what is emotional intelligence? How does it differ from IQ? And how can you learn to improve yours?

On the road to becoming a physician, Dr. Kelly longed to find serenity in a world of conflicting ideas and aspirations. The demands of his medical training left little time for personal growth, so he reached out to those around him. He took notes on the lessons of life he learned from his patients and their families. They opened their hearts and exposed their wounds. He paid attention and listened, and his patients became his teachers.

Over the past several years, there has been an overwhelming amount of patients coming to the emergency department for medical care. It is essential for all emergency departments to improve patient flow by identifying barriers that slow the patient flow down and improve and revise these areas.

For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body - something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear symptoms but no discernible disease, he concluded that his own assumptions were too narrow and, indeed, that the underlying basis for much of clinical medicine was severely limited.

Giving case studies in a variety of patient care environments, Dr. Goldman utilizes contemporary terminology and references to master fundamental skills to help facilitate effective doctor-patient interaction when communicating diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and recovery.

The digital tools available to every patient today enable you to better monitor and manage your health and improve your outcomes. From better medical adherence and effective communication with your providers, to how to use wearables; from clear detail about how your smartphone can check your vitals and sound advice on which websites offer reliable health information, this book provides the listener with a vital resource when interacting with our confusing healthcare system.

Kindermedizin von 4 bis 12 Jahren mit über 500 Fragen und Antworten In diesem lang ersehnten Nachfolgeband des Bestsellers Wenn der Rotz läuft und der Pups drückt dreht sich alles um die Gesundheit der lieben Kleinen von 4 bis 12 Jahren. Der Kids.Doc beantwortet die vielen neuen Fragen der Eltern zu den Themen Sauberwerden, Impfungen, typische Kinderkrankheiten sowie zur kindlichen Entwicklung vom Kindergartenalter bis zur Vorpubertät.