This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses how safety is understood from an ethical, technical and social perspective, and offers examples of the problems that users, their helpers and professional carers have with assistive technology in everyday situations. The book provides insights from user-centred research and uses photographs to illustrate the main topic: how users and technology can work together to ensure safety. User-focused and combining experience with research, the book will interest users of these kinds of technology, health professionals who might introduce and/or prescribe them, engineers who develop and sell assistive technological gadgets, and architects who build safe homes - as well as researchers and students who work in these fields. It provides an overview of the existing technology, examines ways to test its effectiveness from the point of view of users, health professionals and researchers from different fields (architecture, education, engineering, facility management, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, rehabilitative medicine, physiotherapy, social science and speech therapy), and lists useful addresses, websites and literature

Optimales Management in der Patientenversorgung! Dieses Buch richtet sich an Fachpersonen aus dem Care und Case Management in Gesundheits- und Sozialeinrichtungen sowie Lehrende und Studierende in Pflegestudiengängen und zeigt anhand konkreter Fallübungen und Lösungen,  wie Care und Case Management gelingt. Die 3. Aufl. ist komplett aktualisiert und um neue Fälle erweitert.

"Yoga for Nurses provides the means for nurses to support and enhance our ability to care for ourselves. It gives nurses information and strategies to deal with the physical and mental imperatives found in our daily work life."
--Jill Howie Esquivel, RN, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (From the Foreword)

"The first yoga instruction book directed specifically toward nurses....Dr. Kollak...has written a book that assists nurses in taking time to care for themselves. The content in this book could be easily incorporated into a nursing inservice program as a means to prevent on-the-job, stress-related injuries."

--Cindy Ann Howell, RN, MS, CNOR, CMLSO
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Don't let mental stress, chronic pain, and fatigue disrupt your professional and personal life any longer.

Dr. Ingrid Kollak's Yoga for Nurses offers a tested therapy, proven to alleviate physical and mental pain, stress, and fatigue. As a yoga expert and a registered nurse herself, Dr. Kollak can show you how yoga is able to prevent and cure common ailments such as chronic neck and back pain, headaches, sore eyes, and lack of sleep.

With this book, you'll learn how yoga works physically to reduce pain by stretching and strengthening muscles made tense from your normal, repetitive work routine. Kollak also shows you how yoga works on a mental level to provide an exceptional anti-stress program.

This book, written "by" a nurse "for" nurses, presents a series of yoga exercises and practices that will allow you to regain your strength, reduce your physical pain, revitalize your mind, and transform your entire work experience.

Key Features:
Author is both a yoga expert and registered nurse Includes large print photos, detailing how each exercise should be done Contains different levels of yoga exercises, from easy-to-learn to advanced Exercises can be used both at work and in the home A fun, rewarding read

Komplexe Prozesse professionell überblicken und gekonnt zum Ziel führen! Dieses Buch bietet Fachpersonen aus dem Bereich Pflege und Gesundheitsversorgung einen konzentrierten Einblick über die Instrumente des Care und Case Management Prozesses. Lernen Sie die vielschichtigen Abläufe geschickt zu strukturieren und zielorientiert zu steuern. Mit Hilfe der vorgestellten Instrumente gestalten Sie die einzelnen Phasen positiv und decken konkret die Ressourcen und Bedarfe Ihrer Patient*innen auf. Sie ermöglichen eine effiziente interdisziplinäre Arbeit und helfen, die vollbrachten Leistungen zu evaluieren. Die 3. Aufl. ist komplett überarbeitet, neu strukturiert und durch neue Instrumente erweitert.

Schreibkompetenz ist in den Gesundheitsfachberufen täglich gefragt: für die Dokumentation und Informationsweitergabe im interdisziplinären Team, an Patienten und an Angehörige. Zeitmangel sowie Unsicherheiten lassen die Tätigkeit oft zu einer Last werden. Das Buch vermittelt anhand von Übungen Kompetenz im Schreiben und fördert die Reflexions- und Ausdrucksfähigkeit. Es enthält Praxistipps für das Selektieren und Strukturieren von Informationen und gibt Anregungen, wie Schreiben auch privat genutzt werden kann, um Überlastung vorzubeugen.

"Yoga and Breast Cancer" is a practical how to guide to using yoga to manage stress, relieve pain, and gain the strength necesary to make it through this illness. It follows the authors' own research in the subject that has shown a proven correlation between yoga practice and better health and outcomes after a breast cancer diagnosis. More than simply an exercise guide, the book is a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and physical activity that is a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility both during and following cancer treatments.

It is intended to support women during the critical phases of their disease as well as during times of secondary prevention and rehabilitation. It shows how yoga ameliorates difficulties after breast cancer therapy, improves a womans awareness of her body, thoughts and feelings, and guides towards leading a healthier life.

Nicht dokumentiert ist nicht gemacht Eine gute und verständliche Dokumentation und die schriftliche Weitergabe von Informationen an Kollegen, Patienten oder Kostenträger sind in therapeutischen Berufen gesetzliche Anforderung und ein wichtiges Arbeitsmittel. Doch die fehlende Zeit, der hohe Dokumentationsaufwand sowie eigene Unsicherheiten lassen diese Tätigkeiten oft zu einer Last werden. Durch kreative Schreibübungen für den Einzelnen und das Team fördert dieses Buch die Schreibkompetenz, Reflexionsfähigkeit wie die Ausdrucksfähigkeit. Schreibspiele trainieren die Wortgewandtheit und das objektive wie emotionale Wiedergeben von Informationen. Praxistipps unterstützen das Selektieren, Strukturieren von Informationen. Zusätzlich gibt das Pocketbuch Anregungen, wie Schreiben auch privat als Burnout-Prophylaxe genutzt werden kann, um Überlastung vorzubeugen.

This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses how safety is understood from an ethical, technical and social perspective, and offers examples of the problems that users, their helpers and professional carers have with assistive technology in everyday situations. The book provides insights from user-centred research and uses photographs to illustrate the main topic: how users and technology can work together to ensure safety. User-focused and combining experience with research, the book will interest users of these kinds of technology, health professionals who might introduce and/or prescribe them, engineers who develop and sell assistive technological gadgets, and architects who build safe homes - as well as researchers and students who work in these fields. It provides an overview of the existing technology, examines ways to test its effectiveness from the point of view of users, health professionals and researchers from different fields (architecture, education, engineering, facility management, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, rehabilitative medicine, physiotherapy, social science and speech therapy), and lists useful addresses, websites and literature

Was kann ich als Betroffene tun, um meinen Koerper im Heilungsprozess zu unterstutzen? Betroffene Frauen wollen hier oft aktiv werden und sind auf der Suche nach verschiedenen wirksamen Moeglichkeiten. Diese Buch zeigt ganz praktisch, wie Yoga bei der Bewaltigung der Krankheit unterstutzen kann. Behutsam holt die erfahrene Autorin die Leser ab und zeigt, wie sie Yoga im Alltag integrieren praktisch durchfuhren koennen.