Communication in Palliative Care
ISBN: 9781032547596 / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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519,65 zł |
Communication in Palliative Care
ISBN: 9781032547572 / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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181,84 zł |
Diario di un'ostetrica al contrario - Biografia di un'accompagnatrice nella morte e nel morire
ISBN: 9788898750740 / Włoski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,27 zł |
Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care
ISBN: 9783031654510 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,30 zł |
Talking to Cancer Patients and Their Relatives
ISBN: 9780192616050 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Doctors, nurses, and other workers in cancer care are increasingly aware of the need to improve their ability to interact effectively with cancer patients and their relatives, and colleagues. This book focuses primarily on the skills and strategies needed for effective communications between health professionals and patients trying to adapt to a fear-provoking diagnosis and an uncertain future. The practical guidelines have been tested over the years in clinical practice and validated by those using them.
Doctors, nurses, and other workers in cancer care are increasingly aware of the need to improve their ability to interact effectively with cancer pati...
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341,09 zł |
Topics in Palliative Care: Volume 5
ISBN: 9780195132205 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders. The interdisciplinary clinical purview includes those factors - physical, psychological, social, and spiritual - that contribute to suffering, undermine the quality of life, and prevent a death with comfort and dignity. Palliative Care is a fundamental part of clinical practice, the "parallel universe" to therapies directed at cure or prolongation of life. All clinicians who treat patients with chronic...
The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of...
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444,49 zł |
A Time for Listening and Caring: Spirituality and the Care of the Chronically Ill and Dying
ISBN: 9780195146820 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a thoughtful, informative, and practical guide for anyone involved in caring for the seriously and chronically ill or dying. The connection between spirituality and medicine has been receiving a lot of attention in both the scientific and lay presses recently, but research and anecdotal evidence all indicate that spirituality is central to the care of the chronically ill and dying. It is therefore critical that healthcare providers who interact with seriously ill patients know how to address their spiritual needs. This book presents current thinking on how spiritual care can...
This book is a thoughtful, informative, and practical guide for anyone involved in caring for the seriously and chronically ill or dying. The connecti...
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336,17 zł |
Cancer in Context : A practical guide to supportive care
ISBN: 9780198515258 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers healthcare professionals, academics and anyone affected by cancer a fresh and original approach to the supportive care of people with cancer. It looks at some of the underlying reasons why cancer often leads to high levels of distress. More importantly, it suggests many practical ways distress can be prevented and minimised. The book combines the actual experiences of cancer patients, as recorded in their personal diaries, with theory, research and practical clinical advice. In each of its seven chapters the book takes a different perspective and a different approach to...
This book offers healthcare professionals, academics and anyone affected by cancer a fresh and original approach to the supportive care of people with...
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572,50 zł |
Nerve Blocks in Palliative Care
ISBN: 9780198527039 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a succinct, practical, clinically-based guide to nerve blocking techniques that are available in current practice. A nerve block is the injection of either a local anaesthetic or a drug that inactivates nerves to control otherwise uncontrollable pain. Nerve blocks can be used to determine the source of pain, to treat painful conditions that respond to nerve blocks, to predict how the pain will respond to long-term treatments, and to prevent pain following procedures.
This book is a succinct, practical, clinically-based guide to nerve blocking techniques that are available in current practice. A nerve block is the i...
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286,93 zł |
Dyspnoea in Advanced Disease : A guide to clinical management
ISBN: 9780198530039 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dyspnoea is a common symptom in people with advanced cancer, cardiac, respiratory, and some neurological diseases. This book deals with the palliation of breathlessness associated with advanced disease. It includes chapters on the best ways to help patients and families live as fully as possible with this distressing symptom.
Dyspnoea is a common symptom in people with advanced cancer, cardiac, respiratory, and some neurological diseases. This book deals with the palliation...
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478,95 zł |
Long-term pain : A guide to practical management
ISBN: 9780199214150 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for primary care clinicians this book is about patients who suffer with long term pain. Written in a distinct, friendly style, it analyses ideas about pain from the simple to the complex and provides up-to-date and relevant information written by doctors whose practice is either wholly or substantially related to people with pain. It provides examples of everyday patients to provide clinicians with the confidence to prescribe and treat patients with more difficult pain. In an attempt to 'demystify' some areas of pain medicine it also includes details of the science behind common...
Designed for primary care clinicians this book is about patients who suffer with long term pain. Written in a distinct, friendly style, it analyses id...
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203,19 zł |
Enhancing Cancer Care : Complementary therapy and support
ISBN: 9780199297559 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around one in three peopel in the western world will develop cancer at some stage in life and complementary therapies are increasingly being used alongside orthodox treatments as part of the 'integrative' approach to cancer care. Enhancing Cancer Care is a practical, evidence-based guide to complemetnary cancer therapies, also described as natural or holistic therapies. More and more patients are turning to these therapies as there is now considerable evidence that they can help with symptom-control and quality-of-life, and that some may also extend survival. Complementary therepies can also...
Around one in three peopel in the western world will develop cancer at some stage in life and complementary therapies are increasingly being used alon...
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365,72 zł |
Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-Of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
ISBN: 9780231127943 / Angielski / Twarda / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families, Living with Dying begins with the narratives of five healthcare professionals, who, when faced with overwhelming personal losses altered their clinical practices and philosophies. The book provides ways to ensure a respectful death for individuals, families, groups, and communities and is organized around theoretical issues in loss, grief, and bereavement and around clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups. Living with Dying addresses...
The first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families, Living with Dying begi...
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519,70 zł |
Facing Death: Where Culture, Religion, and Medicine Meet
ISBN: 9780300076677 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We have learned a great deal in recent years about keeping death at bay through medical technology. We are less well informed, however, about how to face death and how to understand or articulate the emotional and spiritual needs of the dying. This profound and eloquent book brings together medical experts and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. The book helps both medical personnel and patients to view death less as an adversary and more as a defining part of life. In the first half of the book, physicians and the...
We have learned a great deal in recent years about keeping death at bay through medical technology. We are less well informed, however, about how to f...
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193,14 zł |
Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System
ISBN: 9780312374648 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Gripping...A superb resource for boomers dealing with their parents' final days...as well as for health-care professionals who need to hear this story from the other side." --Kirkus Reviews With advances in medicine, technology, and daily diet and exercise practices, Americans are living longer than ever before. We have an unprecedented opportunity for meaningful closure - free of pain, among loved ones, with our affairs in order and spiritual calm attained. Instead, most of us discover that our doctor has minimal training in providing end-of-life care, and will seek to extend... "Gripping...A superb resource for boomers dealing with their parents' final days...as well as for health-care professionals who need to hear this s... |
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103,28 zł |
Care-Related Quality of Life in Old Age: Concepts, Models, and Empirical Findings
ISBN: 9780387721682 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ageing of populations across the world poses a crucial challenge for the twenty-first century. Society faces three major changes: firstly, increasing numbers of active older people demanding new social structures and oppor- nities; secondly, increasing numbers of frail or disabled older people requiring new interventions and improved health and social care with resulting economic consequences; and finally complex economic, technological, organisational and social challenges involved in the ageing of society. If society wants to benefit from these changes, innovative social, organisational...
The ageing of populations across the world poses a crucial challenge for the twenty-first century. Society faces three major changes: firstly, increas...
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384,63 zł |
Death & Dignity
ISBN: 9780393311402 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death and Dignity shows patients and family members how to make crucial decisions at the end of someone's life. It provides invaluable guidance for those who fear unnecessary suffering and excessive medical intervention. Featured in The New York Times and USA Today.
Death and Dignity shows patients and family members how to make crucial decisions at the end of someone's life. It provides invaluable guidance for th...
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94,50 zł |
A Good Death: Conversations with East Londoners
ISBN: 9780415137973 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Good Death is based on a survey in East London and provides a wide range of fascinating and helpful insights into all aspects of experiencing death and surviving grief.
The voices in the book are those of people who have managed to cope despite being under the shadow of impending death. Their experience could be a comfort to anybody in a similar situation. A Good Death is intended for people who are dying, for their lay and professional carers and for student doctors, nurses and social workers. A Good Death is based on a survey in East London and provides a wide range of fascinating and helpful insights into all aspects of experienci...
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244,21 zł |
Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal
ISBN: 9780471392170 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helping your family and loved ones when they need you most
""""Caregiving"" has a big heart-on a much-needed topic. A rare book of spiritual and practical wisdom."" ""A poignant, wise, and in-the-trenches view of caregiving that is both practical and spiritual, especially of value to midlife adults."" ""Lovely. . . . Beth McLeod's experience and wisdom shine through as she shares her heartfelt journey of loss, surrender,... Helping your family and loved ones when they need you most
""""Caregiving"" has a big heart-on a much-needed topic. A rare book of spiritual and pra... |
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72,98 zł |
Medical Futility: And the Evaluation of Life-Sustaining Interventions
ISBN: 9780521568777 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic, and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is either to extend costly medical treatment of uncertain effectiveness, or to terminate treatment, thereby ending the patient's life. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer perspectives on issues ranging from the definition of medical futility to the implications for care in various clinical settings, including intensive care, neonatal and pediatric practice and nursing homes. An important contribution toward the more humane and...
This volume surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic, and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is eit...
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222,88 zł |