Personalizing Patient Care

by Aurora P. Realin and Louis R. Preston Jr

Book Overview

Personalizing Patient Care is a valuable guide for improving a caregiver?s understanding of how a patient?s background may affect their needs, preferences, and expectations related to the delivery of care. This unique, field-tested reference will enable healthcare professionals to decrease readmissions, address healthcare disparities, empower biomedical ethics decisions, and improve the patient experience.? In this newly updated fourth edition, healthcare issues are presented in tabular format for quick reference with separate listings for different religions, cultures, disabilities and generations.? Issues covered include: attitudes toward blood, diet, and nutrition, healing environment, pain management, end of life issues (advance directives, autopsy, care of the dead, BNR, organ donation, withholding treatment), pre- and post-natal care, including attitudes toward contraception, frenetic conditions, prenatal care, choice of birth process, infant baptism/dedication, neonatal/infant death or end of life care, and termination of pregnancy.? An extensive bibliography of over 3,000 references is linked to notations in each section of every table indicating the primary source.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999029924
• ISBN13: 9780999029923
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: AdventHealth Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Age Range: 21 years and up