Download or read book Hospice in the Hood written by Tia Rees and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing the lyrics to a Stevie Wonder song sealed the deal for one of Tia Rees’s hospice patients and his mother. Their surprise at a white nurse knowing such things is a daily fact of life for Tia, who tries to provide top-notch care for her African-America patients, even though it involves travel through tough inner-city streets and rough neighborhoods. Gunshots, gangs, violence, guns, drugs, poverty and racial tensions provide the backdrop for stories about her patients and their families. Hospice in the Hood covers three years of Tia’s latest job taking care of hospice patients, and her stories range from stolen moments of laughter to the final breaths of a patient. Read about relatives who are startled by (and sometimes admire) her sharply dressed security men, poignant celebrations, quiet moments with her charges, and sometime-sunsettling encounters with neighborhood residents. The riots in Ferguson, Missouri, brought a new note to the conversations Tia had with patients and their families when they confronted their deepest feelings about race. As their situation grows worse and hopelessness sets in, she and the families she serves develop close relationships. Tia also shares moments of insight gleaned from conversations with her dying patients in their final days and their struggle to cope with pain. In the end, she finds it is the small things that can sometimes make the biggest difference, such as the music that ties her to her patients, providing a bridge between cultures with toe-tapping tunes, moving melodies and lyrics of love.
Download or read book Hospice written by Jack McKay Zimmerman and published by Urban & Schwarzenberg. This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barriers to Hospice Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book About Hospice Care written by Hospice of Central New York (Liverpool, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care written by Tara Flanagan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative medicine, an interdisciplinary field that brings together the studies of literature and medicine, offers both a way of understanding patient identity and a method for developing a clinician’s responsiveness to patients. While recognizing the value of narrative medicine in clinical encounters, including the ethical aspects of patient discourse, Tara Flanagan examines the limits of narrative practices for patients with cognitive and verbal deficits. In Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care: Identity, Practice, and Ethics through the Lens of Paul Ricoeur, Flanagan contends that the models of selfhood and care found in the work of Ricoeur can offer a framework for clinicians and caregivers regardless of the verbal and cognitive capabilities of a patient at the end of life. In particular, Ricoeur’s concept of patient identity connects with the narrative method of life review in hospice and offers an opportunity to address the religious and spiritual dimensions of the patient experience.
Download or read book Palliative Care written by Diane E. Meier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness. Diane E. Meier, M.D., one of the field's leaders and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in 2009, opens the volume with a sweeping overview of the field. In her essay, Dr. Meier examines the roots of palliative care, explores the key legal and ethical issues, discusses the development of palliative care, and presents ideas on policies that can improve access to palliative care. Dr. Meier's essay is followed by reprints of twenty-five of the most important articles in the field. They range from classic pieces by some of the field's pioneers, such as Eric Cassel, Balfour Mount, and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, to influential newer articles on topics such as caregiving and cost savings of palliative care. The reprints cover a wide range of topics including: Why the care of the seriously ill is so important Efforts to cope with advanced illness Legal and ethical issues Pain management Cross-cultural issues Philosophical perspective The demand for palliative care has been nothing short of stunning largely because of palliative care's positive impact on both the quality and the cost of care provided to seriously ill individuals. By providing a wide-ranging perspective on this growing field, this book will serve as a guide for developing meaningful approaches that will lead to better health care for all Americans.
Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sanctuary Hospice House written by Jeff Hood and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaplaincy puts the theologian in incredibly close contact with the many problems of our healthcare system. After many months in that role, I determined that I needed more education with regards to what ethics should look like in such a space. With this in mind, I started a masters program in healthcare ethics at Creighton University. For over a year, I trained to complete an ethical analysis of a healthcare institution. After such training, I settled on Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, Mississippi. While there, I discovered how racism covertly works in such a space. This text was the culmination of all of my studies that year. Though this project is almost eight years old, my experiences with hospices over the years have informed me that every word is as relevant as ever. I have not had any contact with Sanctuary Hospice House since I finished this project. I hope that they have grown. For some reason, I doubt it. Regardless, these words are for anyone concerned about the racism that often infests these spaces. Surely, we can't let lies like these live forever...especially when folks are dying.
Download or read book Guide to the Nation s Hospices written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Hospital Mortality Information written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work written by Terry Altilio MSW, ACSW, LCSW and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work is a comprehensive, evidence-informed text that addresses the needs of professionals who provide interdisciplinary, culturally sensitive, biopsychosocial-spiritual care for patients and families living with life-threatening illness. Social workers from diverse settings will benefit from its international scope and wealth of patient and family narratives. Unique to this scholarly text is its emphasis on the collaborative nature inherent in palliative care. This definitive resource is edited by two leading palliative social work pioneers who bring together an array of international authors who provide clinicians, researchers, policy-makers, and academics with a broad range of content to enrich the guidelines recommended by the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care.
Download or read book Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care written by Eduardo Bruera and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "the thoroughness of the text has to be admired. It is an excellent starting point for students of palliative care which makes an important contribution to any library."-British Journal of Hospital Medicine" covers a plethora of topics ranging from the development of palliative medicine in different countries to clinical topics and bioethics an
Download or read book Pediatric Palliative Care written by Betty Ferrell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pediatric palliative care is a field of significant growth as health care systems recognize the benefits of palliative care in areas such as neonatal intensive care, pediatric ICU, and chronic pediatric illnesses. Pediatric Palliative Care, the fourth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, highlights key issues related to the field. Chapters address pediatric hospice, symptom management, pediatric pain, the neonatal intensive care unit, transitioning goals of care between the emergency department and intensive care unit, and grief and bereavement in pediatric palliative care. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice. Plentiful tables and patient teaching points make these volumes useful resources for nurses.
Download or read book Palliative Care and Ethics written by Timothy E. Quill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospice is the premiere end of life program in the United States, but its requirement that patients forgo disease-directed therapies and that they have a prognosis of 6 months or less means that it serves less than half of dying patients and often for very short periods of time. Palliative care offers careful attention to pain and symptom management, added support for patients and families, and assistance with difficult medical decision making alongside any and all desired medical treatments, but it does not include a comprehensive system of care as is provided by hospice. The practice of palliative care and hospice is filled with sometimes overt (requests for hastened death in an environment where such acts are legally prohibited) and other times covert (the delay in palliative care referral because the health care team believes it will undermine disease directed treatment) ethical issues. The contributors to this volume use a series of case presentations within each chapter to illustrate some of the palliative care and hospice challenges with significant ethical dimensions across the three overarching domains: 1) care delivery systems; 2) addressing the many dimensions of suffering; and 3) difficult decisions near the end of life. The contributors are among the most experienced palliative care, hospice and ethics scholars in North America and Western Europe. Each has been given relatively free reign to address what they feel are the most pressing ethical challenges within their domain, so a wide range of positions and vantage points are represented. As a result, the volume provides a very diverse ethical exploration of this relatively young field that can deepen, stretch, and at times confront any simple notion of the challenges facing patients, their families, professional caregivers, and policy makers.
Download or read book End of Life Issues Grief and Bereavement written by Sara Honn Qualls and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care, including grief and bereavement The needs of individuals with life-limiting or terminal illness and those caring for them are well documented. However, meeting these needs can be challenging, particularly in the absence of a well-established evidence base about how best to help. In this informative guide, editors Sara Qualls and Julia Kasl-Godley have brought together a notable team of international contributors to produce a clear structure offering mental health professionals a framework for developing the competencies needed to work with end-of-life care issues, challenges, concerns, and opportunities. Part of the Wiley Series in Clinical Geropsychology, this thorough and up-to-date guide answers complex questions often asked by patients, their families and caregivers, and helping professionals as well, including: How does dying occur, and how does it vary across illnesses? What are the spiritual issues that are visible in end-of-life care? How are families engaged in end-of-life care, and what services and support can mental health clinicians provide them? How should providers address mental disorders that appear at the end of life? What are the tools and strategies involved in advanced care planning, and how do they play out during end-of-life care? Sensitively addressing the issues that arise in the clinical care of the actively dying, this timely book is filled with clinical illustrations, guidance, tips for practice, and encouragement. Written to equip mental health professionals with the information they need to guide families and others caring for the needs of individuals with life-threatening and terminal illnesses, End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement presents a rich resource for caregivers for the psychological, sociocultural, interpersonal, and spiritual aspects of care at the end of life. Also in the Wiley Series in Clinical Geropsychology Psychotherapy for Depression in Older Adults Changes in Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults: Assessment and Intervention Aging Families and Caregiving
Download or read book When Cancer Crosses Disciplines written by Monica Robotin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered if your patient''s new symptoms are a manifestation of metastatic disease, treatment effects or are altogether unrelated to the cancer diagnosis; whether herbal remedies interact with cancer treatment; when to refer for genetic testing; or how to provide informed advice regarding dietary and lifestyle modifications?. This volume answers these and many other questions, spanning from cancer prevention to palliative care. Each chapter is comprehensively referenced, to allow the reader to explore related fields in more detail. The book is unique in summarizing a large amount of information that is beyond conventional oncology textbooks. While cancer is treated by multidisciplinary teams of medical oncologists, hematologists, surgeons and radiation oncologists, other specialists are called upon to treat symptoms, side effects or other diseases that can occur concurrently with cancer. In addition to the physical challenges brought about by a cancer diagnosis, patients and their relatives need sensitive and skilled psychosocial support throughout the cancer journey. The book brings together specialists from a wide range of medical, surgical, psychological and supportive specialties, while keeping the focus on the interdisciplinary management of cancer. Sample Chapter(s). Foreword (57 KB). Chapter 1: Cancer and Tobacco: Its Effects on Individuals and Populations (810 KB). Contents: Cancer Prevention: Cancer and the Epidemiologist; Interdisciplinary Management Issues in Cancer Treatment: Beyond Cancer Treatment; Cancer and the Surgeon; Cancer and the Physician; Cancer and the Geneticist; Surviving Cancer: Survivorship Issues; Cancer, Palliative Care and End of Life Issues. Readership: Practicing medical, surgical and radiation oncologists; hematologists; psychologists; basic and advanced trainees; primary care practitioners; nurses; medical students; and others interested in the field of oncology.
Download or read book An Emergency Physician s Path written by Robert P. Olympia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: A career in emergency medicine can be truly rewarding, despite the long hours and adverse conditions. The decision to embark on this journey typically starts during medical school, usually with the allure of resuscitations and life-saving procedures performed in the fast-paced environment of the emergency department. During an emergency medicine residency, the young physician is faced with career decisions that may involve working in a community or academic emergency department setting, or pursuing specialization through fellowship. Following residency and fellowship training, the emergency physician may decide to purely work clinically in an emergency department, or combine clinical responsibilities with administrative, education or research pursuits. This unique text provides medical students, residents, fellows and attending physicians with a comprehensive guide to be successful in a career in emergency medicine. Sections include the history of emergency medicine, choosing a career in emergency medicine from a medical student's point of view, pursuing fellowship and additional training, community and academic careers in emergency medicine, career options in emergency medicine, critical skills in emergency medicine, research/scholarship, being a teacher, and carving a path in emergency medicine. All chapters are written by experts in the field, representing emergency departments throughout North America.
