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Falling for the Village Vet
by Rachel DoveWelcome to Puddle Lake, where you can sink into Rachel Dove&’s cozy vet story!Keeping her distance… …is harder than she first thought! After a painful divorce, hospice nurse Susannah Harkin finds solace in a Yorkshire village with rescue pup Hendrix by her side. Until Dr. Chris Jennings disturbs her peace. Straight-talking Susannah clashes with the brooding new vet, and the fallout has the locals gossiping for weeks! Then, thrown together to host a charity drive, they find their sparks of anger turning into flames of attraction. Can Susannah&’s sunny nature thaw Chris&’s guarded heart?From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.
Falls and Cognition in Older Persons: Fundamentals, Assessment and Therapeutic Options
by Manuel Montero-Odasso Richard CamicioliDespite of the enormous efforts of researchers and clinicians to understand the pathophysiology of falls in older adults and establish preventive treatments, there is still a significant gap in our understanding and treating of this challenging syndrome, particularly when we focus in cognitively impaired older adults. Falls in older adults are a very common yet complex medical event, being the fifth leading cause of death and a main cause of insidious disability and nursing home placement in our world aging population. Importantly, falls in the cognitively impaired double the prevalence of the cognitively normal, affecting up of 60% of older adults with low cognition and increasing the risk of injuries. The past decade has witnessed an explosion of new knowledge in the role of cognitive processes into the falls mechanisms. This was also accompanied with clinical trials assessing the effect of improving cognition via pharmacological and non-pharmacologic approaches to prevent falls and related injuries. Unfortunately, this revolution in emerging interventions left a gap between clinician-scientists and researchers at academic centers where the new data had been generated and the practitioners who care for cognitively impaired patients with falls. Most advances are published in specialty journals of geriatric medicine, neurology, and rehabilitation. The aim of this book is to reduce this gap and to provide practical tools for fall prevention in cognitively impaired populations. The proposed book is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art update that covers the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and clinical presentation of falls in cognitively impaired older adults. We additionally aim to reduce the knowledge gap in the association between cognitive processes and falls for practitioners from a translational perspective: from research evidence to clinical approach. We will address gaps and areas of uncertainty but also we will provide practical evidence-based guidelines for the assessment, approach, and treatment of falls in the cognitively impaired populations. This book is a unique contribution to the field. Existing textbooks on fall prevention focus in global approaches and only tangentially address the cognitive component of falls and not purposely address special populations and/or settings as residential care and nursing homes. Due to the expected increase of proportion of older adults with cognitive and mobility impairments, this book is also valuable for the whole spectrum of the health care of the elderly. By including a transdisciplinary perspective from geriatric medicine, rehabilitation and physiotherapy medicine, cognitive neurology, and public health, this book will provide a practical and useful resource with wide applicability in falls assessment and prevention.
Falls in Older People
by Stephen R. Lord Catherine Sherrington Hylton B. Menz Jacqueline C. T. CloseSince the first edition of this very successful book was written to synthesise and review the enormous body of work covering falls in older people, there has been an even greater wealth of informative and promising studies designed to increase our understanding of risk factors and prevention strategies. This new edition is written in three parts: epidemiology, strategies for prevention, and future research directions. New material includes the most recent studies covering: balance studies using tripping, slipping and stepping paradigms; sensitivity and depth perception visual risk factors; neurophysiological research on automatic or reflex balance activities; and the roles of syncope, vitamin D, cataract surgery, health and safety education, and exercise programs. This new edition will be an invaluable update for clinicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, researchers, and all those working in community, hospital and residential or rehabilitation aged care settings.
Falls in Older People: Risk Factors, Strategies for Prevention and Implications for Practice
by Stephen R. Lord Catherine Sherrington Vasi NaganathanThis third edition of a trusted resource brings together the latest literature across multiple fields to facilitate the understanding and prevention of falls in older adults. Thoroughly revised by a multidisciplinary team of authors, it features a new three-part structure covering epidemiology and risk factors for falls, strategies for prevention and implications for practice. The book reviews and incorporates new research in an additional thirteen chapters covering the biomechanics of balance and falling, fall risk screening and assessment with new technologies, volitional and reactive step training, cognitive-motor interventions, fall injury prevention, promoting uptake and adherence to fall prevention programs and translating fall prevention research into practice. This edition is an invaluable update for clinicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, researchers, and all those working in community, hospital and residential or rehabilitation aged care settings.
Fallverstehen in der Pflege von alten Menschen
by Esther MatolyczFallverstehen ist ein zentrales Element der sozialen Arbeit, das auch für die Altenpflege immer wichtiger wird. In dem Buch zeigt die Autorin, wie ein handlungsleitendes Konzept für eine "fallverstehende" Haltung in der Altenpflege aussehen kann. Sie erklärt zunächst den Ansatz des Fallverstehens, um dann die Bedeutung des Erlebens von Klienten und Pflegenden, Beziehungsdynamiken, Gruppengeschehen und interaktionelle Phänomene zu erläutern. Anhand vieler Praxisbeispiele wird deutlich, wie sich Fallverstehen im Berufsalltag gestaltet und auswirkt.
Fallzahlberechnung in der medizinischen Forschung: Eine Einführung für Mediziner und Biostatistiker (essentials)
by Meinhard KieserMeinhard Kieser vermittelt anhand realer Beispiele die grundlegenden Prinzipien der Fallzahlberechnung und demonstriert deren Anwendung. F#65533;r die h#65533;ufigsten Anwendungssituationen werden die entsprechenden Fallzahlberechnungsformeln hergeleitet. Einsteiger haben somit die M#65533;glichkeit, die Grundlagen der Fallzahlplanung zu erlernen und einzu#65533;ben. Es werden au#65533;erdem die statistischen Hintergr#65533;nde der Formeln und allgemeinere Zusammenh#65533;nge erl#65533;utert und Hinweise gegeben, was bei jeder Fallzahlberechnung beachtet werden sollte. Damit geht das essential deutlich #65533;ber eine reine Formelsammlung hinaus und ist eine wertvolle Erg#65533;nzung f#65533;r Personen, die bereits in der medizinischen Forschung t#65533;tig sind und Erfahrung bei der Fallzahlberechnung gesammelt haben.
Fallübungen Care und Case Management
by Stefan Schmidt Ingrid KollakInterdisziplinäres Care und Case Management wird in vielen Krankenhäusern, Pflegeeinrichtungen und Rehabilitationseinrichtungen angewendet. Case Manager nehmen sich Patienten an, bei denen eine besonders komplexe Betreuungssituation mit umfassendem Hilfebedarf vorliegt. Das Handwerkszeug und die Kompetenz für diese Arbeit lernt man eher in der Praxis – daran knüpft das Buch mit seinen Fallbeispielen an. Anhand mehrerer Fälle wird das methodische Vorgehen im Care und Case Management mit seinen einzelnen Phasen Schritt für Schritt erläutert. Der Leser wird aktiv in die Lösungsentwicklung der Fälle eingebunden. Dabei werden Formen der Vernetzung erläutert, die richtige Auswahl an Leistungen und die Kombination der Hilfen diskutiert. Die Übungsfälle sind hilfreich zur Prüfungsvorbereitung, aber auch tätige Case Manager können ihre Arbeitspraxis überprüfen und bei Bedarf optimieren. Den Autoren, die selbst CCM-Ausbilder sind, gelingt es, bestehendes Wissens und zur Verfügung stehende Instrumente mit Methodik zu verknüpfen.Für Teilnehmer der Weiterbildung CCM, Mitarbeiter in Gesundheitseinrichtungen sowie für Lehrende und Studenten der Pflegestudiengänge.
Fallübungen Care und Case Management
by Stefan Schmidt Ingrid KollakOptimales 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.
False Claims: One Insider's Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption
by Lisa PrattaIn Big Pharma, lives are secondary to profit margins. But Lisa Pratta stood her ground—risking everything to expose the lies of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical business mired in deception, greed, and the systemic abuse of both patients and employeesAs a rising star in pharmaceutical sales, Lisa Pratta wanted to believe that she was helping improve the lives of people who suffered from illness. But as she climbed the corporate ladder, she uncovered a sinister world of bribery, fraud, and sexual harassment—all papered over with a thin veneer of corporate respectability.At Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Lisa found herself at a small company with a blockbuster drug that could have been a lifeline for patients suffering from multiple sclerosis—that is, if it was prescribed properly. But instead, Questcor chose profits over patients, training its sales force to push untested treatment regimens with the sole purpose of beating its competition. Lisa recognized this as not only dangerous but highly illegal. In the midst of this controversy, Questcor arbitrarily inflated the drug’s price to a jaw-dropping $28,000 per vial. Torn between her morals and the financial stability the job provided for her special-needs son, Lisa made a decision that would change her life forever: she reported the fraudulent practices of the company to the federal government. For nearly a decade, she led a double life—feeding insider information to the Department of Justice while enduring the relentless demands of her company to sell their drug using illegal marketing tactics. She faced constant fear of exposure, knowing that the government offered her no protection if her secrets were revealed. Nonetheless, Lisa pressed on, determined to hold Questcor accountable for the laws they were breaking and the lives they were endangering.This incredible true story offers a sobering look at the unscrupulous sales methods used by America’s corrupt pharmaceutical industry, spotlights the levers they pull to extract ludicrous profits from the sick and dying, and is a page-turning portrait of one woman’s heroic fight against Big Pharma and a mother’s struggle to protect her family.
False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by Karen Buhler-WilkersonSince its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the “rise and fall” narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society.
False Hope
by Marianne RiceMason Tucker prefers solitude and the company of his laptop, but when vivacious Emma Fulton begs for his computer expertise in tracking down family secrets, he agrees in order to keep an eye on the feisty brunette, as trouble seems to follow her wherever she goes. Welcome back to the world of the McKay-Tucker Men. Marianne Rice is pleased to present False Hope, Book 2 of her suspenseful, romance series.Emma Fulton never had to worry about much. Socially driven and happily single, she's been blessed with charm, good looks, and a close-knit community. But after a medical emergency, a dollop of family drama, and a series of near-tragic events, she finds she must question who she can trust.Preferring solitude to intimacy, Mason Tucker's relatives make it difficult to escape social gatherings and small talk. When Emma's mother marries into his family, he finds himself reluctantly drawn to the beautiful woman who is his complete opposite. But after helping her through a terrible discovery, Emma begins to break down some of Mason's communication barriers and insecurities.When Emma asks for his assistance in tracking down a secret, Mason tags along in order to keep her safe. Unfortunately, not everyone has Emma's safety in mind when danger waits for the perfect opportunity to strike.Content Notes: Spicy, Contemporary, Suspense, Medical, Athletes
False Hopes
by Daniel CallahanThis ground-breaking book by one of the nation's leading experts on medical ethics, Daniel Callahan, traces the root cause of America's health-care crisis not to inefficient organization or waste, but rather to society's and the medical community's relentless quest for perfection.
Familial Cardiomyopathies: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2735)
by Michael Regnier Matthew ChildersThis volume covers the latest advances in technologies that look at familial cardiomyopathies in greater detail, and provides new computational and experimental models that model, study, and detect disease at earlier stages. Together, this allows interdisciplinary research experiments to provide new insights for the development of novel interventions that slow, stop, or even reverse the disease process. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.Cutting-edge and practical, Familial Cardiomyopathies: Methods and Protocols aims to inspire further development of techniques used to study myocardial disease and the development of new, sarcomere-targeted therapeutic approaches for the maintenance of heart health and the treatment of heart failure.
Familial Endocrine Cancer Syndromes: Navigating the Transition of Care for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
by Fady Hannah-ShmouniThis book is composed of 13 informative chapters written by world-renowned healthcare providers and researchers in the fields of endocrinology, pharmacy, radiology, infertility, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychology and genetics. From topics covering psychosocial impacts to pharmacokinetic and homecare resources, the intent of this book is to provide guiding principles for a safe and informative transition of care for pediatric and adolescent patients with various familial endocrine cancer syndromes that are transitioning from pediatric to adult health care. It provides an in-depth exploration of the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, survivorship navigation intervention, patient, caregiver and primary care provider challenges, and multidisciplinary care plans for conditions such as MEN1, MEN2 and other familial and genetic endocrine neoplasias.Familial Endocrine Cancer Syndromes: Navigating the Transition of Care for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients is a much-needed resource, as the literature currently lacks a comprehensive publication to facilitate pediatric patients’ transition to adult clinics and resources following endocrine cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America
by Sandra M. SufianThe first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century. Disability and child welfare, together and apart, are major concerns in American society. Today, about 125,000 children in foster care are eligible and waiting for adoption, and while many children wait more than two years to be adopted, children with disabilities wait even longer. In Familial Fitness, Sandra M. Sufian uncovers how disability operates as a fundamental category in the making of the American family, tracing major shifts in policy, practice, and attitudes about the adoptability of disabled children over the course of the twentieth century. Chronicling the long, complex history of disability, Familial Fitness explores how notions and practices of adoption have—and haven’t—accommodated disability, and how the language of risk enters into that complicated relationship. We see how the field of adoption moved from widely excluding children with disabilities in the early twentieth century to partially including them at its close. As Sufian traces this historical process, she examines the forces that shaped, and continue to shape, access to the social institution of family and invites readers to rethink the meaning of family itself.
Familial Responses to Alcohol Problems
by Judith L. Fischer Miriam Mulsow Alan W. KorinekEffective interventions for alcohol problems that devastate familiesAn individual&’s alcohol abuse can devastate the rest of his or her family in various ways. Familial Responses to Alcohol Problems explores the latest research and state-of-the-art programs that provide effective strategies for prevention and treatment. Experts in the fields of alcohol and families discuss the most current studies, innovative programs, and practical therapy approaches that focus on the goal of bringing alcoholic individuals into recovery and mending the psychological impact on other family members. This single volume provides specific guides and evidence-based best practices, making it invaluable to any professional providing therapy or counseling to families experiencing the issues and challenges involved in recovery.Drawing upon the perspectives from family systems theory, Familial Responses to Alcohol Problems reviews the current literature, research programs, and therapy approaches to family response to alcohol. This comprehensive text discusses the topic from various points in the lifespan, including childhood, adolescence and youth, and older age. Discussions include examining situations when parents have the disease that impacts their children and other relatives, parents interacting with children to prevent or reduce a child&’s involvement with alcohol, attempting to involve a family member in seeking help with alcoholism, children intervening in a parent&’s alcohol abuse, couples who enter into recovery and deal with subsequent issues stemming from that misuse, co-occurrence of other disorders, and recovery that includes attention to spiritual development. Topics discussed in Familial Responses to Alcohol Problems include: the Michigan Longitudinal Study insight into the effect alcohol abuse in the family has on three developmental pathways of children three researched-based approaches to treating adolescent alcohol misuse in a family an overview describing the "invisible epidemic" of alcohol abuse by older family members three stages families encounter as they advance in recovery bringing a family member into treatment the impact of family recovery on members a research-based approach to bring the individual with the alcohol problem into contact with professionals evolving issues in recovery process, including couple identity, family origin issues, couple interdependence issues in four common comorbidity diagnoses with alcohol problems how and when spiritual issues may be used in family recoveryFamilial Responses to Alcohol Problems is a timely single resource presenting up-to-date research and therapy approaches, making this text important reading for educators, therapists, addictions counselors, and graduate students.
Familie begeleiden bij dementie (Nursing-dementiereeks Ser.)
by Ronald Geelen Magda HermsenDit boek geeft zorgverleners praktische adviezen om de familie van iemand met dementie kundig te begeleiden. Je leest aan de hand van praktijkvoorbeelden met welke situaties en ervaringen betrokkenen kampen. Van daaruit krijg je praktische kennis, die je kunt gebruiken om familie te helpen hun ervaringen te plaatsen en ermee om te gaan.Familie begeleiden bij dementie gaat in op de vraag wat je als zorgverlener voor de naasten van iemand met dementie kunt betekenen. Het gaat bijvoorbeeld over het verwerken van het verlies van iemands naaste, de stemmings- en gedragsveranderingen die bij dementie horen, de toenemende zorgtaken en steeds veranderende vragen waarmee familie te maken krijgt.Het boek is opgebouwd volgens het proces dat veel mensen met dementie doorlopen. Van het verblijf thuis, de dagbehandeling, de opname in een zorginstelling tot het levenseinde. Sommige onderwerpen worden apart besproken, zoals contact met de persoon met dementie, veranderingen in intimiteit, de schuldgevoelens die familie kan ervaren en de grote verwachtingen die familie van de zorg kan hebben.Auteurs van Familie begeleiden bij dementie zijn de psychologen Ronald Geelen en Magda Hermsen. Ronald Geelen werkt als psycholoog bij Thebe te Breda, is auteur van verschillende artikelen en boeken, waaronder Dementiezorg in de praktijk – deel 1 & 2. Hij werkt daarnaast voor het Centrum voor Consultatie en Expertise (CCE). Magda Hermsen heeft een eigen bureau voor training, coaching en supervisie. Zij is tevens als consulent werkzaam in opdracht van CCE. De illustraties in het boek zijn van haar hand.
Families Affected by Addiction: A Handbook (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Jim Orford Richard Velleman Marcela Tiburcio Gallus Bischof Abhijit NadkarniThis Open Access book sheds new light on the wide range of Affected Family Members' experiences. At a conservative estimate, there are at least 100 million adults across the globe who are affected by their relatives’ addiction problems. These Affected Family Members (AFMs) experience multiple stresses, coping dilemmas, and a lack of information and support, and are at heightened risk for ill-health. The results are very costly, both from the personal and from the public services point of view. The volume elaborates on the barriers to providing effective help, including political neglect, under-representation in both policy and service delivery models, the lack of involvement and encouragement from health and social care professionals, the stigmatisation and bias as barriers to care, and the range of evidence-based interventions. It also explores the similarities and differences of all of these areas depending on the type of addiction problem that the family is affected by – alcohol, illicit drugs, gambling, etc. While covering the more commonly reported work in high-income countries, the contributions put strong emphasis on the experience of AFMs in low- and middle-income countries. Given its truly global approach, the book will be a key resource for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers alike.
Families In Rehabilitation Counseling: A Community-Based Rehabilitation Approach
by Irmo Marini Michael J. MillingtonPresents an innovative family-based approach to rehabilitation counseling that can be put to use immediately While the family has traditionally been a secondary consideration in rehabilitation, this graduate text presents an innovative approach to rehabilitation counseling that focuses on the family as the center of a person-centered model, rather than as an adjunct to individual counseling. It advocates counseling in the context of community, requiring the recognition of social transaction as the primary focus of all interventions. The book provides the tools and knowledge base to effectively work with the family and within the community, delivering a new inclusive model of care and establishing best practices in research, practice, training, and management. The text examines the rationale for embracing family values in rehabilitation counseling and provides a framework that redefines the relationship between counselor and client in the context of family and community. It describes the community-based rehabilitation model in detail according to the International Classification of Function (ICF).
Families and Child Health
by Alan Booth Nancy S Landale Susan M MchaleIn recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the early origins of adult health. A growing body of evidence documents that maternal health before conception, prenatal and perinatal exposures, and conditions in childhood play critical roles in health over the life course. Scientific understanding of the multiple and interacting influences on child health and their role in later health continues to evolve rapidly, but greater attention to how families shape the conditions of early life that underlie childhood health is needed. This volume aims to advance understanding of this topic, with attention to mechanisms through which health disparities emerge and are sustained across the lifespan.
Families and Health: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
by Jorge DelvaPromote culturally competent social work practice with families of many traditions!This broad-ranging book highlights the enormous importance of the family in enhancing individuals&’ health and in safeguarding mental health. Families and Health offers an international scope and a multicultural frame of reference. The original research presented here includes both qualitative and quantitative studies on the role of family support in maintaining personal well-being. These empirical studies look at groups as diverse as elderly Samoans living in Hawaii, Nigerian families living in Africa, and children of all races and ethnic groups living in Florida foster care. The results are consistent across the cultures, however. Good family support prevents many health problems and ameliorates such unpreventable ones as aging. Poor family support leads to increased physical and emotional illness as well as higher rates of drug abuse and other addictions.Families and Health discusses the role healthy families play in various health and mental health issues, including: preventing drug use successful treatment for substance abuse caregiving of the frail elderly dealing with relatives who suffer from schizophrenia This helpful book will be of use in promoting culturally competent practice among social workers, psychologists, therapists, and gerontologists. It will also be of interest to policymakers, health and wellness researchers, and scholars in ethnic studies.
Families and Individuals Living with Trauma: A Guide for Therapists, Relatives, and Friends (Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy)
by Jeremy WoodcockThis book is an accessible guide for understanding and treating psychological trauma. Drawing on Dr. Woodcock’s extensive experience and the latest research, it offers an approach that integrates systemic therapy and psychoanalytic perspectives through the lens of attachment theory. The book’s chapters cover topics such as trauma and pain; traumatic death; how to respond when disaster strikes; social systems that promote attachment versus systems that create trauma; and how to look after ourselves as therapists, family, and friends of trauma survivors. Because no single therapeutic paradigm is sufficient to capture the complexity of trauma, the book brings together a wide set of therapeutic traditions and shows in detail how to apply a variety of treatment approaches, gathered from psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioral, intersubjective, mindfulness, and body psychotherapy traditions, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). The book’s vignettes and case studies provide clear illustrations of the theory outlined and demonstrate the use of interventions in a range of settings. It will appeal to qualified and training practitioners in the clinical and care professions and researchers from across the psychological sciences with an interest in trauma, as well as to a more general readership affected by issues relating to trauma.
Families and Social Policy: National and International Perspectives
by Steven K. Wisensale Linda HaasEmpirical research that describes ways to best handle social problems concerning familiesLeading authorities&’ studies show that from the effects of globalization many social and family problems and their solutions tend to be similar in nations world-wide. Families and Social Policy: National and International Perspectives explores
Families in the Intensive Care Unit: A Guide to Understanding, Engaging, and Supporting at the Bedside
by Giora Netzer Ashlee J. Vance Deena Kelly CostaThis first edition of this text was the first book to comprehensively survey the challenges in understanding and working with families whose loved ones are critically ill. The comprehensive nature of that book served as a state-of-the-art reference in this sphere for a broad spectrum of researchers and clinicians. All chapters were authored by established experts in the respective fields, providing an overview that has been used both in theory and practice.Since the first edition’s publication, the public recognition of the importance of families has increased dramatically as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most major decisions in the intensive care unit (ICU) are shared by clinicians and someone other than the patient. Improving communication between clinicians and these surrogate decision-makers has proven hard in multiple clinical trials. Families suffer, too, when their loved ones are critically ill. Anxiety,stress, and depression are common, and post-traumatic stress disorder may occur while their loved ones are still in the ICU. Families struggle to understand prognoses, and conflicts with the care team occur frequently. These conflicts not only injure families but also contribute to health care provider burnout. Now in its fully revised and expanded second edition, Families in the Intensive Care Unit reflects lessons learned during the COVID pandemic response, as well as knowledge gained about family support when families cannot be at the bedside.The chapter subjects again reflect a combination of breadth and depth. Physical and psychological morbidity are explored as barriers to effective decision-making, as are cognitive challenges. The full array of the interdisciplinary and interprofessional team is represented, emphasizing the multimodal approach. This edition includes administrative considerations for health care management and approaches for training members of the health care team. Similarly, family voices are also represented. The complete trajectory of needs of care are addressed, including survivorship and end-of-life care.
Families in the Intensive Care Unit: Understanding, Engaging, And Supporting
by Giora NetzerThis text is one of the first comprehensive resources on understanding and working with families in the intensive care unit. The text provides a conceptual overview of the Family ICU Syndrome, a constellation of physical morbidity, psychopathology, cognitive deficits, and conflict. Outlining its mechanisms, the book presents a guide to combating the syndrome with an interdisciplinary team. The text represents the full array of the interdisciplinary team by also spotlighting administrative considerations for health care management and approaches to training different members of the health care team. Family voices are featured prominently in the text as well. The book also addresses the complete trajectory of needs of care, including survivorship and end-of-life care. Written by experts in the field, Families in the Intensive Care Unit: A Guide to Understanding, Engaging and Supporting at the Bedside is a state-of-the-art reference for all clinicians who work with families in the ICU.