If feeding patients or nursing home residents is part of your role as a health care worker, this book is for you. Jam-packed with crucial information on how to safely feed patients with swallowing problems, or dysphagia, this book is a fascinating read but it's also a reference book you'll want to keep close at hand. This comprehensive guide is full of practical advice about the basics of dysphagia and dysphagia diets, potential problems associated with dehydration, tube feeding, and aspiration pneumonia, as well as the unique swallowing problems faced by people with specific diseases such as Parkinson's. Specifically created for use by nursing staff, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) in the United States, and personal support workers (PSWs) in Canada, this book was born out of a desire to maximize the skills of CNAs and PSWs, while making life better for people with dysphagia.

Home Health 101 is a concise guide to hiring and managing in home care givers. Dominic Ottaviano clearly points out step by step how to hire a care giver, protect yourself by selecting a payroll service, and manage the care giver once you have hired the best one possible. Home Health 101 will allow you to avoid many pitfalls in hiring and managing employees saving you time and money while finding the best care giver to fit your needs. Home Health 101 gives you all the tools you will need to determine the amount of care needing and the management skills needed to determine the best times for care to be given allowing maximum utilization of you money.

Dr. Lynn Edwards shares with us another in her series of family empowerment books. Parenting Senior Parents is plain talk about tough issues facing us as we take on the care of our aging senior parents. It focuses on the critical financial, legal, medical, nursing home, driving, and Medicare concerns that are unique to the special needs of our seniors. It offers ways to facilitate healthy conversations about such matters with parents and siblings as we tackle the increasing responsibility of Parenting Senior Parents. It addresses the sensitive issues of Alzheimer's, Depression, and loss of independence that dramatically impact entire families. It brings compassion and understanding to directing care with dignity, offering several helpful hints to helping aging seniors ensure their independence as long as possible. And it gives us a platform for preparing for our own senior years, encouraging a dialog with our children and potential caregivers, now. (Get ready, Josh, I am adding candles to my birthday cake every year.)

"The Chicago Sun Times" praises ""Into the Blue" is Susan Edsall's fascinating chronicle of the fight to get her father back into his beloved Big Sky...an engagingly readable testament to an everyday courage....Salted with hilarious memories of Edsall family life, peppered with touching reminiscences of flight with her father, [Edsall] mixes the positive with the painful until it's not only palatable but also poignant."
Three years ago, Susan Edsall's father, a rebuilder and pilot of antique airplanes, suffered a devastating stroke that left him unable to read, write, speak, tell time, understand the alphabet---or fly. The doctors told Susan the best her family could hope for was that he would learn to play checkers. Susan knew if her dad couldn't fly, he'd just as soon not breathe, so she chose another path. Battling the pessimistic conclusion of the experts---and her own looming fears---she and her sister, Sharon, aka the Blister Sisters, decided to take matters into their own hands. With no medical training but double doses of determination, they bushwhacked their own rehab program and got their father back behind the controls of his beloved open-cockpit biplane and into the air.
Susan Edsall's "Into the Blue" is a powerful family memoir about two feisty sisters from Montana who bring their father back to life---and discover themselves in the process. Inspiring, gritty, and often hilarious, it's also the story of anyone who has ever fought back from a dire prognosis to pursue a cherished dream.

One goal of this book is to take complex issues and present them in simple terms and to that end we have included editorial cartoons. Nothing seems to simplify life in a few strokes of a pen and one succinct line as they do. Every discussion needs humor and we hope you enjoy them. We certainly enjoyed choosing them. The clinical tales of interactions are slices from our professional lives and are important illustrations of the core beliefs of the book, the absolute necessity for patients and families to have meaningful, knowledgeable interactions with those who care for them. Our fifteen readers acted as a first semester class in Hospitalization 101 and their questions, criticisms, and suggestions served to keep us on target. This is our personal view of hospital health care with its strengths and weaknesses.

This latest edition remains the primary and most comprehensive source on the Culture Care Theory with the Sunrise Enabler and the Ethnonursing Research Method. Several classic chapters have been retained, some chapters have been completely updated, and many new chapters have been added for the 21st century. This definitive book on the Culture Care Theory and ethnonursing method contains extensive new research on diverse cultures. Nurses and other health professionals will continue to find Culture Care Diversity & Universality a most reliable guide for providing culturally congruent, competent, and safe care in a growing multicultural world.

South African nurses care for patients in London, hospitals recruit Filipino nurses to Los Angeles, and Chinese nurses practice their profession in Ireland. In every industrialized country of the world, patients today increasingly find that the nurses who care for them come from a vast array of countries. In the first book on international nurse migration, Mireille Kingma investigates one of today's most important health care trends. The personal stories of migrant nurses that fill this book contrast the nightmarish existences of some with the successes of others. Health systems in industrialized countries now depend on nurses from the developing world to address their nursing shortages. This situation raises a host of thorny questions. What causes nurses to decide to migrate? Is this migration voluntary or in some way coerced? When developing countries are faced with nurse vacancy rates of more than 40 percent, is recruitment by industrialized countries fair play in a competitive market or a new form of colonialization? What happens to these workers and the patients left behind when they migrate? What safeguards will protect nurses and the patients they find in their new workplaces? Highlighting the complexity of the international rules and regulations now being constructed to facilitate the lucrative trade in human services, Kingma presents a new way to think about the migration of skilled health-sector labor as well as the strategies needed to make migration work for individuals, patients, and the health systems on which they depend."

Why is this book important to you in setting up your care-giving business? This book was written especially for those who are considering the idea of getting into the business of providing service in a residential care setting particularly those who are exploring the business potential for the first time but have little or no experience at all. For those who have a lot of courage and determination to succeed, but may have very limited money to start up the business, this book is for you. It is also for those who are interested in establishing their first residential care business despite their limitations and challenges in setting up the business and not knowing what to do and where to start. The book serves as an easy guide to the inexperienced self-starters who could use some help when going through the whole process from start to finish. It shall clarify the confusion that most beginners in the business normally encounter particularly those who do not have any idea on what to do first, who to turn to next, what agency to approach and when, where to look for the best location for their facility, what form to fill out, how to get funding, etc. Contrary to what other people think, anyone can succeed and make a lot of money in this business. It is up to you to find out if this business is right for you.

"But I Can Still Dance" offers a refreshing approach to caregiving. Portrayed is Carleen Breskin Clarke's own story along with her solutions for caregiving issues often skirted over in print. Loneliness, sex problems, money, guilt, and feelings of entrapment are discussed candidly in ways which all caregivers can identify and understand.

While learning to live a more positive and quality-filled life, you will discover a world infused by the sweetness and joy that the gift of giving to a loved one can bring. Ms. Clarke writes,"the richest rewards of life are sprinkled along the way of the journey and not found at the end of the rainbow."

"But I Can Still Dance" can change your life. You will learn to have more fun and have a life worth living. Resentment, bitterness, and anger will be part of your past, and you will be set emotionally free.

This Basic Handbook On How To Start Up A Private Physical Therapy Practice Is A Hands-On Guide For Any Physical Therapist Who Is Contemplating Or Preparing To Go Out On His/Her Own. Starting & Managing Your Own Physical Therapy Practice Is A One-Of-A-Kind Guide That Offers Insight Into The How'S, What'S, And Where'S Of Private Business And Gives The Practitioner Enough Information And Insight To Veer Him/Her In The Proper Direction. This Book Is A Guide Map, A Tool Developed To Open Your Eyes To What Is Necessary To Open And Run Your Own, Successful Practice.

The First-Ever Practice Guidelines By And For The Profession! These Proceedings Are The Result Of The Landmark Mercy Center Consensus Conference In Which Chiropractic Practitioners In The Academic, Clinical, Political, And Regulatory Sectors Met To Reach Agreement On Standards Of Practice, Producing Guidelines For Practice That Provide A Major Step Toward Addressing The Needs Of The Patient And Assuring The Quality And Acceptance Of Chiropractic Health Services. This Publication Represents The Greatest Consensus Ever Achieved By The Profession And Is A Must Have For Every Chiropractic Student And Practitioner.

How do you care for ageing parents without destroying the family emotionally or financially? Author Dan Taylor has answered that question in The Parent Care SolutionT. Dan helps you to initiate the Six Conversations you must have with your parents to plan for their care. Using a unique Conversation Strategy he strips away the reluctance and the awkwardness that often surrounds this topic. Once the Six Conversations are completed he provides effective tools for organizing finances, making gifts, selling the family home, evaluating a care facility and selecting someone for the role of a The Parent Care SpecialistT. Dan has taken all the complexity around this subject and reduced it to a simple confidence producing set of conversations and actions.

I cannot even envision the magnitude of the number of families that are trying to cope with This little manual has been a work-in-progress. It began as my personal resource list and information file. As it grew, I realized that many other people were in the same circumstance as I was. So, I began to collect and organize my information. This is the result, I hope this will be helpful to you in your journey. someone with Alzheimer's disease, or with some other form of dementia that interferes with daily living. According to statistics issued by the Administration on Aging, the number of people with limitations to their activities of daily living (ADL) in 1990 was 18.8%. By the year 2040 this number will grow to 21.4%. Already there are too few Long Term Care facilities available. Already there is a huge shortage of nurses. There are too few professional home-care providers as well. The result is that people who opt to keep their loved ones at home instead of an institution find that help is scarce and expensive. The result is that there is an increasing need for training and support services for family or spouse caregivers. Those who have chosen, or been financially forced, to go this route are largely left to their own devices to discover how to be a good caregiver, and stay alive and healthy themselves. This manual is intended to be a step-by-step tool for at-home caregivers. There is nothing easy about dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Statistically, caregivers often die before the patient. Don't let yourself become a part of that statistic. Try to see the humor in the things that will happen, and share your laughter with your loved one. Learn to put the past in the past, take one thing at a time, prioritize your life to accommodate your present task, and remember Who it is that walks beside you. Find the help that you need, if not here, the bookstore, the internet, the counselors at Long Term Care facilities, friends, family, support groups.

I wish there had been a book like this when I was fighting alongside my partner, Stella, as her 24/7 caregiver in a 19-month battle against the deadliest brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Too often I felt sideswiped by unexpected obstacles. The Internet was a great resource, but having a book at hand illuminating the day-to-day struggle--treatments, questions, decisions, emotions, surprises--would have helped immensely.

After Stella died in November 2000, I wanted to write such a guidebook for caregivers and patients who, sadly, are following in our footsteps. As I reviewed hundreds of e-mails to and from friends, Brain Tumor List members, doctors, and others, I realized the book was already written. It provides an almost-daily, immediate chronicle of our experiences, including weeks in a Mexican clinic. A detailed Table of Contents and Index help readers find information about doctors, treatments, medications, and problems ranging from bed sores to radiation injury.

In addition, the book offers a positive message about love, devotion, and fighting for life that, I hope, will inspire others as they confront negativity on a daily basis in their struggle to prevail against all the odds.

The classic text on mountaineering first aid has been updated to include the latest treatment protocols for backcountry injuries. *Revised to meet the current standards of first aid care by the American Red Cross and the Wilderness Medical Society *Updated figures and drawings that illustrate essential first aid skills *New quick-reference boxes that summarize recognition and treatment of many first-aid problems. This completely revised and updated 5th edition gives you all the latest information on assessing and treating conditions you may encounter in the wild, from serious injuries such as dislocations and fractures to unexpected major illness to weather-related problems. With quick-reference checklists of symptoms and procedures, recommendations on first aid kits and equipment, and more, Mountaineering First Aid will prepare you for anything in the backcountry.

Manual Handling in Health and Social Care is written for all those involved in the manual handling of adults or children - including those carrying it out, assessors, managers and commissioners. It lays out the current legal requirements in a non-technical way and includes case studies illustrating the law applied in practice, across health, social care and sometimes educational settings. The book applies to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. An extended introduction sets out challenges, past, present and future, including safety, balancing risk with duties to meet people's needs, human rights, avoidance of blanket policies, mental capacity, safeguarding, the limited resources of statutory services and single-handed care. It also considers some of the legal implications of increased use of technology (including remote assessment), as well as the "mechanisation" of care and its application to manual handling. The main part of the book is in the form of an A-Z guide, providing quick access to relevant legislation and common law (negligence) rules applying to personal injury cases. It covers also, extensively, judicial review legal challenges to decisions, when people and their families disagree with manual handing decisions that have been made. In addition, relevant ombudsman cases are included. The book will be essential reference for staff and managers in health and social care settings, students, legal professionals and all those working to ensure good practice and compliance with the law.

Service learning is a reciprocal partnership that bridges the gap between professional education and society. It is a powerful teaching/learning strategy that helps students learn while helping communities to help themselves. This groundbreaking book: emphasizes the importance of service learning to nursing education provides an introduction to the principles and concepts of service learning presents effective service learning activities currently employed in nursing curricula

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Stephen Sinatra reveals why heart disease is the #1 killer of women in America today. Heart Sense for Women shatters the myths that keep this a hidden epidemic and outlines a prescriptive plan for natural prevention and treatment. In this valuable resource, women will discover:

* How to recognize early warning signs of heart attacks
* 15 key risk factors and how to protect yourself
* How being in touch with your emotions can lower your risk of heart disease

From the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy to the 12 heart-healing food groups, from key stress management techniques to inspiring true-life stories, Heart Sense for Women is a book that no woman should be without.

An understudied aspect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is the creation of hundreds of thousands of grandparent-headed households that have become home to children bereft of one or both of their parents. Such "skip-generation parenting" presents a host of challenges to the families involved and the social programs designed to assist them. Despite this unprecedented caregiving responsibility, older surrogate parents remain relatively invisible, hidden in the shadows of HIV care and the demands of raising a child. The primary goal of Invisible Caregivers is to generate, support, and guide program and policy initiatives designed to meet the needs of elder surrogates and their families.

Most social service programs are not able to identify the needs of older surrogates, often because these surrogate parents in HIV-infected families are reluctant to make their needs known for fear of social stigma or possible reductions of benefits. Multiple systemic barriers to case management and other services also frustrate attempts to bring available resources to elder caregivers. These barriers include professional ignorance or denial that HIV affects surrogates, eligibility restrictions through CARE, limited funding and age restriction on OAA, and a fragmented health and human service system. Because the issues facing elder caregivers are many and varied, this collection covers a host of issues: community health, aging, HIV services, child welfare, education, public policy, and mental health.

This portable clinical handbook provides quick access to all major bio logic agents and their respective nursing management. Individual chapt ers on all major categories follow a consistent, clinically useful for mat of: overview of biology, mechanism of action, regulatory approvals, clinical tips, side effects, administration/dosing, and bibliography .

Recounts the first experience of women nurses in an American war Although the Civil War was the first major American conflict in which women nurses played a significant role, the dearth of information about these women makes the diary of a Southern medical worker an especially important document. A Confederate Nurse records the daily experiences, hardships, and joys of Ada W. Bacot, a plantation owner and childless widow whose Southern patriotism prompted her to leave her native South Carolina to care for wounded Confederates in Charlottesville, Virginia. Bacot's journal sheds light on her own experiences and also on the themes that dominated the lives of Southern white women throughout the nineteenth century. A Confederate Nurse reveals the Confederate nationalism that motivated some Southern women and the work these women performed to sustain the war effort.

Scottish-born, Alabama-bred Kate Cumming was one of the first women to offer her services for the care of the South's wounded soldiers. Her detailed journal, first published in 1866, provides a riveting look behind the lines of Civil War action in depicting civilian attitudes, army medical practices, and the administrative workings of the Confederate hospital system.

Living and Dying at Murray Manor is a classic text that documents how the "work" of everyday life in a nursing home is accomplished. Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer, involved in activities ranging from performing menial "toileting" work to serving as a gerontologist at staff meetings. The result is not a survey of statistics about nursing homes but an examination of the social organization of care in a single home the author calls Murray Manor. During his stay, Gubrium became an increasingly accepted part of life at Murray Manor and was thus able to view the institution in its natural state. His research reveals how staff, clientele, relatives, visiting physicians, and funeral directors negotiated their respective roles, needs, and goals - and how, in the end, Murray Manor emerged as an organized social entity.