home care for the client with alzheimers

Home Care for the Client with Alzheimer's

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fuzy, Jetta Lee, Fuzy, PUBLISHER: Delmar Publishers, -- Focuses on the need of the special client population -- Stand-alone chapters make it ideal as an in-service training Manual Resource -- End of chapter review questions test reader's comprehension -- Helpful hints throughout module emphasize key points

Meal Preparation and Training: The Health Care

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Klinger, Judith Lannefeld, PUBLISHER: Slack, This book identifies and examines training techniques for the kitchen. Designed specifically for the therapist or health care professional, techniques demonstrated should be utilized by health care professionals to teach those with physical disabilities or the elderly how to understand and perform tasks in the kitchen successfully. Some issues addressed in the book include kitchen planning, meal planning, nutrition, safety, stress, and more. Materials are provided to help with kitchen and home planning. The book looks at how to deal with clients in their homes, working with children, hospice, and dealing with individuals with physical and cognitive limitations and elderly from a health care professional's perspective. Meal Preparation and Training: The Health Care Professional's Guide is divided into several sections. Part I assesses the situation - the types of patients as well as the caregivers and family - then focuses on specific disabilities and problems including a client with arthritis, chronic pain, etc. Part II is involved with the kitchen and the home, from safety and modifications to transporting items. Part III focuses on equipment, appliances, nutrition, shopping, and includes a guide to teaching recipes. Part IV provides help for the health care professional and caregivers with extensive support materials. These include funding, agencies and organizations, sources for equipment and materials, general references, and forms and plans for making equipment. The forms and plans may be photocopied, enlarged if desired, and are designed for use with clients.

Patient Care Standards: Collaborative Practice Planning

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tucker, Susan Martin / Wells, Marjorie Fyfe / Paquette, Eleanor Vargo, PUBLISHER: C.V. Mosby, "Patient Care Standards" provides students and practicing nurses with the most comprehensive guidelines for planning care for medical-surgical clients in today's dynamic health-care environment. The book provides standards of care for more than 400 medical-surgical client problems and procedures in a consistent nursing process framework. The 6th edition has been thoroughly updated and includes a number of new features to reflect changes in practice.

Illustrated Guide to Home Health Care

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Springhouse Publishing, PUBLISHER: Springhouse Corporation, Home care instructions for patients and their families are explained completely and in simple terms. Large typeface throughout helps readers with impaired vision. Illustrations enhance comprehension. The first section covers the fundamentals of home care, including how to properly handle a hospital bed, feed patients who have difficulty eating, administer medications, provide incontinence care, perform exercises, learn or teach how to use crutches and canes, and more. The second section gives concise instructions for specific procedures, such as oxygen therapy, I.V. therapy, suctioning, tracheostomy care, respiratory therapy, parenteral nutrition, cast care, colostomy care, and more.

Atlas of the Difficult Airway

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Masci, Joseph R., PUBLISHER: Mosby, This revised and repackaged new edition provides the primary care physician with practical strategies for the evaluation and care of patients at all stages of HIV infection. With expanded contents and more detail, "Outpatient Management of HIV Infection" is useful for practitioners who care for a substantial number of AIDS patients.

Nursing Care Planning Guides: For Adults in Acute, Extended

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ulrich, Susan Puderbaugh / Canale, Suzanne Weyland, PUBLISHER: W.B. Saunders Company, This comprehensive reference helps readers create care plans for clients in the acute care, extended care, or home care setting. For each of more than 60 individual disorders, detailed care plans feature a definition/discussion of the disorder, outcome/discharge criteria, nursing and collaborative diagnosis, desired outcomes, nursing actions and selected purposes/rationales, NIC interventions and NOC outcomes, and discharge teaching guidelines.

Charting Made Incredibly Easy!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Springhouse, PUBLISHER: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Now nurses can chart the Incredibly Easy way with this remarkable reference. They'll find easy-to-follow directions for charting thoroughly and accurately in all clinical situations. And they'll learn to improve speed and efficiency, reduce legal risks, and meet requirements for licensing, accreditation, and reimbursement. Contents include charting basics: understanding charting, the nursing process, plans of care, and charting systems; charting in contemporary health care: acute care, home health care, longterm care, and rehabilitation; and special topics: enhancing charting, avoiding legal pitfalls, and documenting procedures.

Care-Giving in Dementia 2

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miesen, Bere M. L. / Miesen, M. Bere / Jones, Gemma, PUBLISHER: Routledge, Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge. This second volume of contributions from leading practitioners and researchers around the world is a handbook for all those involved in hands on caring, or in planning care, for persons with dementia. Volume 2 of Care-Giving in Dementia provides a rich source of information on most recent thinking about individualised long-term care of both dementia sufferers and their families. Key themes in Volume 2 are: the subjective experience of dementia the provision of care for family carers differing cultural perspectives of dementia the crucial importance of life-history information for understanding a person's reaction to their illness. Chapters on the search for an ethical framework and the best environment within which to provide care are particularly timely.

North American Health Care Policy in the s

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: King, Arthur / Thornton, Robert K., PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, Considers conceptual and empirical issues in the design of national health policy ranging from a discussion of broad principles through specific aspects of health to evaluations of proposals for reforming the U.S. health care system. Contains comparative studies concerned with some details of Canadian and American health care. Reviews the current U.S. situation and suggests guidelines for policymakers who will shape the future of the health care delivery system.

Nursing Assisting: Essentials of Long-Term Care

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Acello, Barbara / Acello, PUBLISHER: Cengage Learning, This easy-to-use book presents basic resident care information for the nursing assistant in long-term care facilities. It meets OBRA requirements and includes CDC guidelines for standard precautions. The material focuses on essential, need-to-know information (with theory as appropriate) to help readers prepare for state certification exams. The content emphasizes the realities of clinical practice and offers solutions to the common problems encountered in practice.

100 Bright Ideas for Your Home

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weston, Tamsin, PUBLISHER: Betterway Books, Now anyone can change the look of their home in a day or less This series makes it easy with quick, inexpensive ideas perfects for readers decorating their homes for the first time. Each title is packed with practical advice and inspirational photos that illustrate 100 great design ideas.

Home Care of the High Risk Infant: A Family-Centered

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ahmann, Elizabeth / Ahmann, PUBLISHER: Aspen Publishers, This revised, expanded edition addresses the increased interest in and demand for information about the nursing care of premature, technology-dependent infants once they are at home. Clinical practice and research updates, care plans, assessment forms, sample care maps, and other hands-on materials presented in an 8 1/2 x 11 format make this a practical tool as well as a textbook.

Zachary's New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Blomquist, Geraldine Molettiere / Blomquist, Paul B. / Lemieux, Margo, PUBLISHER: Magination Press, Children in foster care and adopted children often suffer painful separations from their families for reasons that they may not understand. They are often very confused, angry, and sad. This comforting story describes what happens to Zachary the kitten who is taken from his home when his mother is no longer able to care for him. Children will follow Zachary as he first enters foster care and is subsequently adopted by a loving family of geese. Zachary's story will help foster and adopted children -- and the adults who care for them -- cope with their many losses and feel both happier about their present and more optimistic about their future.

Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Birchenall, Joan M. / Steight, Eileen, PUBLISHER: Mosby Elsevier Health Science, This comprehensive new textbook contains highlighted need-to-know reference information. It focuses on reality-based responsibilities of a home care aide.

The Waite Group's Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To [With

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jerke, Noel / Jung, David / Szabo, George, PUBLISHER: Sams, Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To is a practical step-by-step guide to implementing three-tiered distributed slient/server solutions using the tools provided in Microsoft's Visual Basic 6. It addresses the needs of programmers looking for answers to real-world questions and assures them that what they create really works. It also helps to simplify the client/server development process by providing a framework for solution development.

Chiropractic Care of Special Populations

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mootz, Robert D. / Bowers, Linda J., PUBLISHER: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Chiropractors provide care to male and female patients of all ages. Often there are special adjustment and management considerations for patients at different stages of the lifespan. This volume examines chiropractic care for selected populations of patients -- infants, children, women, and older adults. This book will familiarize chiropractors with these patients' special needs and with the conditions that commonly affect them. It also provides optimal treatment techniques.

Hospital Handbook on Multiculturalism and Religion

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kirkwood, Neville A., PUBLISHER: Morehouse Publishing, In our religiously pluralistic society, clergy, medical and nursing staffs in modern hospitals are confronted with caring for people with varied beliefs and customs. Since the overall care of a patient, and not just the surgeries performed or medicines given, affect an individual's recovery, it is vitally important to be familiar with cultural and religious understandings and expectations around hygiene, pastoral care, autopsies, transfusions, and even the practices associated with death itself. A Hospital Handbook on Multiculturalism and Religion is a succinct guide to the care of patients from a variety of faith perspectives: Christian, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhist, B'hai, and others. Each chapter examines not only the customs themselves, but the significance of certain rites and attitudes, supplying health care workers and chaplains with the information they need to provide the best care possible.

Building Your Home: An Insider's Guide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smith, Carol, PUBLISHER: Builderbooks, In the second edition of Building Your Home: An Insider's Guide, customer service expert Carol Smith shows you how to work with your builder to create the home of your dreams. This guide is a must-have for anyone planning to build a high-quality home. With this comprehensive, step-by-step book, you can avoid common mistakes in the home building process and Choose a qualified builder Establish your budget and secure financing Select the location, benefits, and features of your new home Participate effectively in the design and building process Prepare for home owner orientation, closing, and moving in Create a home maintenance plan Communicate with your builder on warranty service

Foster Family Care: Theory and Practice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Martin, Judith A., PUBLISHER: Allyn & Bacon, This book is authored by Judith Martin, co-author of the classic child welfare text with Dr. Alfred Kadushin. The book describes the process of carrying out one of the core child welfare services for families: foster family care. Taking an in-depth look at this service, "Foster Family Care" moves the reader from the experiences of children and their parents as they first enter care, through the process of settling in and confronting the problems that led to the need for placement, to an assessment of the outcomes of care and its consequences for the growing child. The book offers a thorough review of current literature on foster family care and a critical perspective on this service. A central theme is the concept of quality service delivery; the perspective draws heavily on attachment theory and on practice principles embedded in the concept of permanency planning. For social workers, psychologists, or practitioners in related fields.

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Designing Enterprise Client/Server Systems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gold-Bernstein, Beth / Marca, David, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, This book contains a complete, proven set of tools and techniques for reducing the risks and increasing the manageability of client/server projects.The book contains extensive coverage of the organizational and management issues involved in successful client/server planning, followed by an exclusive method for modeling adaptive client/server systems that are business-driven, scaleable, and enable change. Among the many powerful real-world tools this book provides are: specific decision criteria for choosing technical components of a distributed system; methods and guidelines for partitioning data and processing across processors and locations; and techniques for performing traffic analysis even before one line of code is written.All IT executives, project managers, business analysts and implementers of client/server technology.

Managed Care Answer Book, Fourth Edition

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dacso, Sheryl Tatar / Dacso, Clifford C., PUBLISHER: Aspen Publishers, This is an indispensable reference for all professionals involved in the design, implementation, financing, or operation of a managed care program, written in the classic Answer Book format. You'll find extensive coverage of managed care, cost containment strategies, and advice on organization and implementation of programs with important issues covered from both the purchaser's and the producer's perspectives. The topic is covered from the ground up, with crucial questions and authoritative, up-to-date answers on every facet of managed care, including such valuable features as: Contract negotiation strategies and dispute resolution techniques -- Maximizing utilization review and outcomes assessment -- Techniques for managed care implementation and administration -- payer and provider contracting -- Advice on legal and regulatory considerations -- and information technology and telemedicine.

Grammar Sense 3A [With CDROM]

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bland, Susan Kesner, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, - Offers creative yet practical techniques for presenting the grammar, along with troubleshooting tips, cultural notes and suggestions for additional activities- Contains an Answer Key for the "Student Book and the complete Tapescripts for the Audio Program

Christmas Story

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tebbs, Victoria / Mitchell, Melanie, PUBLISHER: Lion Children's Books, See and Say are simple retellings of Bible stories with bright and appealing pictures-and lots of words for young children to join in with. In the Christmas Story, they will clip-clop with the donkey, sing with the angels, and gasp with the shepherds. In the Creation Story, they will crash with the seas, slish splosh with the fish, and zzz on the seventh day. In the Lost Sheep Story, they will count with the shepherd and baa, baa, baa with the sheep And in the Noah's Ark Story, kids will splish with the rain, coo with the dove, and cheer with Noah With simple concepts and familiar words for repetition, young children will come to learn the story for themselves.

El Verano de Los Animales

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fiedler, Christamaria, PUBLISHER: Alfaguara, Hugo can't believe that he will have to take care of everyone's pet during his summer vacation. The small apartment in which he lives with his parents becomes the new home for four dogs, seven rabbits, four turtles, a parrot....How will he handle the situation?

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