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Elsevier Health Professions titles offer everything you need to launch a career in a variety of professions - from educational resources for student learning to reference titles to support everyday practice. Complete curriculum solutions support educational programs in clinical laboratory sciences, dental assisting and hygiene, massage therapy, medical assisting and billing & coding, occupational therapy, pharmacy technology, physical therapy and rehabilitation, radiologic technology, respiratory care, sonography, speech therapy, surgical technology, and veterinary assisting and technology. Content on anatomy & physiology, basic science, medical terminology, law and ethics, documentation, job readiness, and more is supplemented by program-specific titles and review and testing solutions for classroom and certification exams, making Elsevier your destination for healthcare careers.

  • Nutrition and Dietetics for Health Care

    • 10th Edition
    • May 30, 2002
    • Helen M. Barker
    • English
    This book provides an introduction to nutrition and dietetics from a health care perspective. It goes beyond what can be found in general nursing texts while remaining at a level suitable for the pre-registration student.The text comprehensively covers the whole area of dietetics and nutrition with the topics divided into three sections:-The science of nutrition, Community Nutrition and Therapeutic nutrition and dietetics. It is therefore useful as a reference text for those already working in the field of patient care.It has been revised completely to include the latest government guidelines on nutrition.

  • Massage Therapy

    The Evidence for Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • April 11, 2002
    • Grant Jewell Rich
    • English
    This book aims to present, in a single volume, the best of modern massage research.While research indicates that 1 in 3 Americans use alternative health care modalities, little research has been completed and disseminated in the area of massage therapy. This volume will present about ten chapters in areas of research probably including studies of massage for: stress (post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, depression, abuse), spinal cord injuries, enhancing growth (pregnancy and infancy), pain reduction (rheumatoid arthritis, back pain, migraine, and fibromyalgia), pediatrics, the elderly, increasing employee satisfaction (chair massage), enhancing cognition (alertness, autism), and/or immunity (HIV, cancer).

  • Mieux se connaître pour mieux soigner

    Une approche du développement personnel en soins infirmiers
    • 1st Edition
    • January 29, 2002
    • Dominique Rispail
    • French
    Être soignant amène à être confronté à ses propres limites. Limites physiques d'une part : accueillir les urgences de nuit, vivre des rythmes décalés… Limites psychologiques d'autre part : supporter l'angoisse d'un patient en attente d'un diagnostic, gérer la détresse d'une personne dépressive, accompagner un enfant en fin de vie… Autant de situations où la confrontation à la maladie, à la mort, à la souffrance occasionne de nombreuses remises en cause chez le soignant. Pour exercer ce métier, l'étudiant comme le professionnel doivent donc apprendre à bien connaître leurs valeurs, leurs motivations, leurs émotions mais également leurs limites, leurs craintes et leurs aversions. Il s'agit d'améliorer la compréhension que l'on a de soi-même pour mieux communiquer, évoluer et s'épanouir, entretenir des relations professionnelles satisfaisantes et apprendre à gérer les situations difficiles. Ce guide de développement personnel, démarche issue des sciences humaines et initiée dans les années cinquante aux États-Unis, vise à aider les soignants à faire ce travail sur eux-mêmes. De façon simple et ludique, il propose des rappels théoriques, mais surtout de nombreuses applications pratiques, sous forme d'exercices et de tests pour aider les soignants et les futurs soignants à « avoir du CRAN » : se connaître, communiquer, se relaxer, s'affirmer, négocier.

  • Assisting at Podiatric Surgery

    A Guide for Podiatric Surgical Students and Podiatric Theatre Assistants
    • 1st Edition
    • January 10, 2002
    • Telford Thomson
    • English
    This book covers the time from the initial acceptance of a patient as a candidate for podiatric surgery to discharge after surgery. It is written in a way that whilst each section of the book follows the one before, each stand alone. Throughout the book highlighted 'tips' are given that cover some of the pitfalls often encountered by podiatrists during and after surgery.It is written from the assumption that the reader is a surgical student or an assistant with little practice or no practical experience in the operating room or assisting at surgery. The reader is taken step by step, explaining each problem or anticipated difficulty in the order that they may encounter it.

  • Self-Assessment Guide to Accompany Respiratory Care

    Principles & Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • January 10, 2002
    • Lucia Hess-April + 1 more
    • English

  • Whiplash

    • 1st Edition
    • December 17, 2001
    • Gerard A. Malanga + 1 more
    • English
    Cervical whiplash injuries continue to be a common problem throughout the industrialized world. Despite recent scientific developments, unhelpful treatment of whiplash injuries such as prolonged immobilization, passive modalities, and unnecessary surgery exist. Many patients with chronic pain are labelled as having "psychological problems." Overtreatment and excessive use of diagnostic imaging are common. Relatively recent developments in this field, backed by extensive study, have initiated an evolution in the treatment of whiplash injury.

  • Integrating Complementary Therapies in Primary Care

    A Practical Guide for Health Professionals
    • 1st Edition
    • December 13, 2001
    • David Peters + 3 more
    • English
    This book is a practical and readable guide to the integration of complementary therapies into mainstream primary care. Based on the successful experiences of the authors' clinical setting, it offers clinicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals a realistic routemap of the key issues, as well as practical ways in which to ensure close working, appropriate referrals, advice and treatment decisions. Patient information sheets and clinical guidance sheets for key conditions are included in full.The text covers:Practical steps to how complementary therapies may be integrated into mainstream caremodels and issues of research in complementary therapieshow to design an integrated service, with clear examplesfunding, resource and legal issuesissues related to economic evaluationadaptation of the service through a reflective approachclinical treatment option sheetspatient self-help and diet information sheets Of interest and practical help to a wide range of healthcare professionals, this book will be especially valuable to those currently working in primary care, family practice, and any complementary therapy field.

  • Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis

    • 4th Edition
    • October 25, 2001
    • Michael Heap + 1 more
    • English
    This book is an extensively revised edition of a highly successful and comprehensive introductory manual for the use of clinical hypnosis in the treatment of medical and psychological problems and disorders. Written with the interests and needs of the doctor or dentist in mind, its practical and clear approach maintains the tradition of high-quality information and usefulness established in previous editions of this book. After exploring the theoretical and historical background to hypnosis, and key techniques and approaches, the book looks at specific clinical situations and problems in which hypnosis may have an impact, and offers specific practical management guidelines including possible scripts.

  • Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury

    A Clinical Ergonomics Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Rehab
    • 1st Edition
    • October 8, 2001
    • Andrew Wilson
    • English
    In Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury the author presents a model for understanding musculoskeletal injuries. He describes the common types of musculoskeletal injury and explores the contributory causes involved before detailing effective models for therapy and methods of management.Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury is research-based. It develops models for the management of musculoskeletal pain that include manual therapy, exercise, ergonomic and psychosocial interventions. Throughout the text particular attention is paid to pain resulting from cumulative and chronic types of injury. The book will be a valuable resource for all practitioners who deal with the management of musculoskeletal pain as part of their day to day practice.

  • Neurological Physiotherapy

    A Problem-Solving Approach
    • 2nd Edition
    • October 8, 2001
    • Susan Edwards
    • English
    Neurological Physiotherapy aims to provide an improved understanding of problems commonly encountered by the therapist working with people with neurological disability. It describes aspects of posture and movement difficulties which may occur as a result of neurological damage and gives guidance to help the therapist to plan the appropriate treatment programme for each patient. Using a problem-solving approach the emphasis is on the identification of symptoms in relation to impairment and disability rather than on a detailed description of neurological conditions.

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