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Health care providers often overestimate their ability to communicate effectively in a way that ensures a patient's understanding. This puts compliance, safety, and outcomes at risk. This book aims to raise awareness, improve assessment, and help practitioners to adapt to patients' communication ne…
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An easy-to-use resource guide on ways to effectively convey health information. Whether you are a health provider, public health specialist, health educator, practice manager, literacy teacher, professor, student, or librarian, this book is for you.
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With the help of families, informed and educated patients can participate in their own treatment, assist in identifying errors before they occur, and improve outcomes. This fact is the foundation of the revised edition of this book, which is designed to guide and support educators at all levels of …
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For health care providers or educators interested in developing educational material in print or for the Internet, this book provides best practice - supported by knowledge from the emerging field of health literacy. In this 3rd edition new evidence is presented, including information from recent r…
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The Cultural Competency Challenge is a self-assessment and learning tool, showcasing 18 diverse patient cases, designed to help surgeons become more aware of cultural differences among their patients, including communication and clinical considerations.
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This guide provides a 'framework' for people who lead training programs in a plain language approach to communications. Based on a two-day course, this reference is divided into nine modules that can be customized in order to help participants to develop the skills necessary to use a plain languag…
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Teaching is one of the most valuable services nurses provide to patients and families. But whether in the hospital, clinic, home, or long-term care facility, other tasks and responsibilities often compete for nurses' time. This book offers nurses useful, everyday information to apply to real-life …
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Although Outcome Measurement has become an important tool in the evaluation of health promotion, patient education and other health services interventions, there remain problems in locating reliable measurements and scales. This book provides a compilation of more than 50 self-administered scales f…
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Why do we need health literacy? Through a health promotion and social justice lens, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz, Lorie Donelle, and Rukhsana Ahmed describe health literacy as an increasingly important determinant of health and highlight the necessity of health literacy skills for ensuring equitable access…
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This practical text/reference provides theory-based approaches to teaching patients of all ages and their families in a variety of healthcare settings.--Table of Contents: Principles of Contemporary Patient Education;; Patient Education in Nursing Practice;; Health Promotion: Models and Application…
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A manual to provide health care professionals with information that will support them in their kowledge, and skill building in providing cuturally competent services to first generation immigrant and refugee women, including; Ante-partum with focus on pregnancy, intra-partum with focus on labour an…
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This guide describes the principles and processes involved in the development of the Chinese Peer Navigator Program at the BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver Centre and the bilingual resources that are used with Chinese-speaking patients (Mandarin, Cantonese and English).; This program also reflects “be…
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This text provides information for diagnosing and treating children with hematologic disorders. It brings together the pathophysiology of disease with detailed clinical guidance on diagnosis and management for the full range of blood diseases that you encounter in everyday practice. Written by lead…
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Concise reasons, tips & methods for making patient engagement effective.; The third book by e-Patient Dave, cancer beater, blogger, internationally known keynote speaker and advocate for patient engagement; co-founder and past co-chair of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Profile: www.ePatien…
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The Comprehensive Textbook of Healthcare Simulation is a cohesive, single-source reference on all aspects of simulation in medical education and evaluation. It covers the use of simulation in training in each specialty and is aimed at healthcare educators and administrators who are developing thei…
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This book presents simulation as an essential, powerful tool to develop the best possible healthcare system for patients. It provides vital insights into the necessary steps for supporting and enhancing medical care through the simulation methodology.; Organized into four sections, the book begins …
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Defining Excellence in Simulation Programsis an official publication of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), created to support the Society's mission to encourage excellence in healthcare education, practice and research through the use of simulation.
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This second edition of an acclaimed book for nurse educators provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulation scenarios and integrating them into the nursing curriculum. Based on extensive discussion with contributing authors and new faculty, the text has been updated…
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This practical guide to the use of simulation in pediatric training and evaluation, includs all subspecialty areas. It covers scenario building, debriefing and feedback, and it discusses the use of simulation for different purposes: education, crisis resource management and interdisciplinary team t…
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A focused guide for healthcare simulation operations in education and training; With the growing use of simulation within the field of healthcare, Healthcare Simulation: A Guide for Operations Specialists provides a much needed resource for developing the roles and responsibilities of simulation op…
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