Product Description: How does caregiving affect health and well-being and what resources help caregivers? This book provides a synthesis of psychological research on caregiver stress and brings attention to the personal, social and structural factors that affect caregivers' well-being and as well as recent behavioral interventions to enhance health...read more

Product Description: This book highlights and examines the vital role of nurses in protecting children and young people from maltreatment. It explores the input of nurses from different disciplines and draws on relevant theoretical, research, and policy literature, yet focuses in particular on the evidence base for the value of their work...read more

Product Description: Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is the intravenous administration of nutrients carried out in the patient's home. This book analyzes current practices in HPN, with a view to inform best practice, covering epidemiology of HPN in regions including the UK and Europe, USA and Australia, its role in the treatment of clinical conditions including gastrointestinal disorders and cancer, ethical and legal aspects and patient quality of life...read more

Product Description: HOMEMAKER HOME HEALTH AIDE, 7th Edition helps you prepare for a meaningful career in the growing field of home health. Using a clear, supportive approach, the authors show you how to care for a variety of sensitive client populations, from infants and the elderly to special needs and the terminally ill, and become a valued member of the home health care team...read more

Product Description: Surviving Family Care Giving: Co-ordinating effective care through collaborative communication is a practical book for family and other home carers in a variety of situations. Gráinne Smith shows how to provide the most effective coordinated care possible through constructive communication and collaborative care, to support individuals who have long term physical and mental health problems, including conditions from Alzheimers to alchoholism, autism to anorexia, schizophrenia to multiple sclerosis...read more

Product Description: If you have picked up this book, you are probably a caring person. You may prove that every day by helping someone who is elderly or developmentally disabled or who suffers from a physical or mental illness. It helps to know that Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady and a director of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Human Development, which is committed to studying caregiving issues, knows firsthand the challenges of this labor of love...read more

Product Description: Pediatric Home Care is a practice-based text perfect for either students or for supporting pediatric nurses practicing in a home-care setting. The text includes a variety of nursing information required for this type of care across a large spectrum of physiologic categories and acuity levels...read more

A personal collection of essays on the experience of caring for family through crises of illness and death includes contributions by such writers as Julia Glass, Julia Alvarez, Ann Harleman, Helen Schulman, and Andrew Solomon.

Product Description: As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term and chronic care. Patient care at home falls mainly on untrained and unprepared family members, who struggle to adjust to the new roles, responsibilities, and expenses...read more

Product Description: As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term and chronic care. Patient care at home falls mainly on untrained and unprepared family members, who struggle to adjust to the new roles, responsibilities, and expenses...read more

Product Description: Home Care Nursing: Using an Accreditation Approach, is an overview of home care, from the time a client enters the home care system to the time the client is discharged. You can be confident that Home Care Nursing offers you the solid foundation you need, as the entire book is based on the categories of The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO), which sets forth accreditation standards for all home care organizations...read more

This comprehensive, user-friendly book provides the theoretical knowledge and skills content you need to successfully complete a nursing assistant certification exam. The book meets OBRA guidelines and prepares you to work in a variety of long-term care settings or sub-acute units in the hospital. A major goal of this resource is to help you develop an understanding of the principles of safe and effective care of residents in long-term care. Special emphasis is placed on residents' rights, nutrition and hydration, restorative care, resident mobility, and maintaining a safe environment. From Doody's Book Review "This book, written to meet the needs of persons who wish to become CNAs and work in long term care (LTC), provides core concepts and clearly explains the basic principles of nursing care of the elderly. Weighted Numerical Score: 100 - 5 Stars!"

Product Description: Workbook accompanies Being a Homemaker/Home Health Aide, 6th edition. Helps students identify the critical concepts. Includes matching exercises with key terms and definitions from each chapter; fill in the blank, multiple choice, and critical thinking questions; an answer key; and more...read more

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for home care aide students! It includes Birchenall's Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 2nd edition text & the Workbook for Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 2nd edition.

Product Description: Home Care Aide In-Service Module: Safety is one in a series of four separate in-service modules designed to allow the educator to present an in-service with little preparation time. All of the mini-modules include group activities, real-life scenarios with discussion questions and answers and come with transparency masters and a free PowerPoint CD...read more

Product Description: Home Care Aide In-Service Module: Patient Care is one in a series of four separate in-service modules designed to allow the educator to present an in-service with little preparation time. All of the mini-modules include group activities, real-life scenarios with discussion questions and answers and come with transparency masters and a free PowerPoint CD...read more

Product Description: Home Care Aide In-Service Module: Infection Control is one in a series of four separate in-service modules designed to allow the educator to present an in-service with little preparation time. All of the mini-modules include group activities, real-life scenarios with discussion questions and answers and come with transparency masters and a free PowerPoint CD...read more

Product Description: Home Care Aide In-Service Module: Supportive Measures is one in a series of four separate in-service modules designed to allow the educator to present an in-service with little preparation time. All of the mini-modules include group activities, real-life scenarios with discussion questions and answers and come with transparency masters and a free PowerPoint CD...read more