PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-How To Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals (Heritage)

For many health care professionals and social service providers the hardest part of the job is breaking bad news The news may be about a condition that is lifethreatening such as cancer or AIDS disabling such as multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis or embarrassing such as genital herpes To date medical education has done little to train practitioners in coping with such situations With this guide Robert Buckman and Yvonne Kason provide helpUsing plain intelligible language they outline the basic principles of breaking bad new and present a technique or protocol that can be easily learned It draws on listening and interviewing skills that consider such factors as how much the patient knows andor wants to know how to identify the patients agenda and understanding and how to respond to his or her feelings about the information They also discuss reactions of family and friends and of other members of the health care teamBased on Buckmans awardwinning training videos and Kasons courses on interviewing skills for medical students this volume is an indispensable aid for doctors nurses psychotherapists social workers and all those in related fields. 1 2 About Education and Training Programme Approval Criteria for Education and Training Programmes 3 CORU is Ireland’s multi-profession health regulator. The name CORU originates from the Irish Health and Social Care Professionals Council Guide to CORU 1 A Guide to CORU Want to find out more? We regulate the individuals who provide health and social care and promote greater patient safet Health and Social Care Professionals Council Health and Social Care Professionals Council1 Want to �nd out more? social care profession. We regulate the individuals who provide health and p CODE ON with Health Care ProfessionalsTABLE OF CONTENTSPreamble 1 Basis of Interactions 2 Informational Presentations by Pharmaceutical CompanyRepresentatives and Accompanying Meals CODE ON with Health Care ProfessionalsTABLE OF CONTENTSPreamble 41 Basis of Interactions 62 Informational Presentations by Pharmaceutical CompanyRepresentatives and Accompanying Meals Learn to master the latest lab testing techniques! Ideal for Medical Assisting and Medical Laboratory Technician programs, Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing in Ambulatory Care: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals, 4th Edition, covers the procedures and techniques of commonly used and new CLIA-waived, point-of-care tests, along with some moderately complex tests. Clear, step-by-step instructions and nearly 600 full-color photographs make it easy for you to learn each test and procedure. This edition includes a focus on new technology and the resulting significant advancements in testing.. Expanded coverage of electrocardiography and spirometry reflect the expanding roles of Medical Assistants and Medical Laboratory Technicians. Review questions in the book are accompanied by practice quizzes and videos online to help you master content and hone skills. Reinforce your understanding of laboratory concepts, terminology, and procedures! Corresponding to the chapters in Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing in Ambulatory Care, 3rd Edition, by Marti Garrels, this workbook provides activities and exercises for additional practice with lab testing skills. Skills check-off sheets track your progress as you become competent with laboratory and diagnostic procedures, and are designed to help you meet government standards for good laboratory practice. Chapters are organized into five sections: 1) terminology exercises, 2) review questions for fundamental concepts, 3) procedures, 4) advanced concepts, and 5) check-off procedure sheets for all the procedures presented in the textbook chapter.Review exercises test your knowledge of terminology, with exercises challenging you to match vocabulary terms with their definitions and to identify common acronyms.Skills checklists ask you to read, perform, and check off each step on the sheet to track your progress as you perform the chapter\'s lab procedures and analytical tests.A useful appendix includes forms for documenting safety, quality assurance, and CLIA compliance. NEW practice exercises match the text with a focus on new technology and significant advances made in recent years, including the latest CLIA waived test methods.NEW Electrocardiography and Spirometry chapter includes review exercises, questions, and skills checklists for these diagnostic tests. Learn the lab testing skills you need to know! Laboratory Testing for Ambulatory Settings: A Guide for Health Care Professionals, 2nd Edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common procedures and techniques of all the new CLIA waived, point-of-care tests along with some moderately complex tests. Clear, step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs make it easy to master each test and procedure. Written by noted educators Marti Garrels and Carol S. Oatis, this edition adds a new chapter on toxicology and information on five new procedures. A companion Evolve website lets you practice clinical laboratory skills.Complete coverage includes the most common CLIA waived tests for any healthcare professional in the ambulatory setting.A triad organization gives chapters a consistent, easy-to-follow format: Fundamental Concepts basic information related to tests and procedures.CLIA Waived Procedures step-by-step instructions for CLIA waived tests.Advanced Concepts further application of basic knowledge and skills towards a higher level of critical thinking and decision making, such as handling non-CLIA waived tests.Procedure boxes provide clear step-by-step instructions along with numerous full-color photos and illustrations.Key terms are defined and reinforced within each chapter.Common abbreviations associated with CLIA waived testing are cited at the beginning of chapters.7-10 review questions conclude each chapter, to reinforce learning.Acompanion Evolve website includes various activities and exercises to enhance learning with problem-solving scenarios. A workbook matches the chapters in the textbook, offering activities and exercises to reinforce laboratory concepts, terminology, and procedures. Skills sheets help you work through the competency-based procedures, and meet government standards for good laboratory practice. Sold separately.Over 60 new photographs and drawings clarify topics and show examples of laboratory specimens soyou will be able to identify them on the job.New chapter on toxicology.More extensive coverage of working with the microscope prepares you for the lab.Updated, expanded information about quality control and quality assurance provides relevant information so you can accurately and effectively perform in the lab.Updates on proper collection and processing of urine specimens, microbiology specimens, blood capillary and venipuncture specimens, which includes new urine culture using vacutainer system, new drawings for urine and influenza specimen collections, and the latest order of blood draw including the plasma separator tube, ensure that you have the most current information.Five new procedures with corresponding skill check-off sheets help you understand the most up-to-date protocols: Clinitek AnalyzerStandard Hematocrit INRatio New A1c+ Ki+iFOB method for fecal occult blood This money saving package includes the 2nd edition of Laboratory Testing for Ambulatory Settings?Text and Workbook. CODE ON with Health Care Professionals TABLE OF CONTENTS Preamble 4 1. Basis of Interactions 6 2. Informational Presentations by Pharmaceutical Company Representatives and Accompanyi For many health care professionals and social service providers, the hardest part of the job is breaking bad news. The news may be about a condition that is life-threatening (such as cancer or AIDS), disabling (such as multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis), or embarrassing (such as genital herpes). To date medical education has done little to train practitioners in coping with such situations. With this guide Robert Buckman and Yvonne Kason provide help.Using plain, intelligible language they outline the basic principles of breaking bad new and present a technique, or protocol, that can be easily learned. It draws on listening and interviewing skills that consider such factors as how much the patient knows and/or wants to know how to identify the patient\'s agenda and understanding, and how to respond to his or her feelings about the information. They also discuss reactions of family and friends and of other members of the health care team.Based on Buckman\'s award-winning training videos and Kason\'s courses on interviewing skills for medical students, this volume is an indispensable aid for doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, social workers, and all those in related fields. Communicating bad news is part of any health-care professional\'s routine work, yet it causes difficulties for those who see their role in terms of cure and care - towards restored mental health and physical health. If news is given badly, it can cause pain and confusion for the recipient, and stress and regret in the messenger. The conveyer of bad news may have no idea of the potential response, and so skills of information-giving must be combined with the ability to reflect the needs of the recipients, enabling them to take it in and move forward. Learn to respond effectively and appropriately to spiritual needs in a health care setting Spirituality, Health, and Wholeness: An Introductory Guide for Health Care Professionals explores the principles of spiritual care as applied to clinical practice. This book focuses specifically on the significance of spirituality in clinical settings with practical suggestions on how to apply these principles in the healing process. With chapters that begin with clear objectives and end with guided questions, this valuable textbook provides a framework that will aid health care facilities in addressing spiritual needs in a clinical setting and help faculty in mentoring students in the field. This practical guide will help you learn when and how to address spiritual issues in health care with patients for whom illness creates a crisis of faith as well as those for whom it provides support. Spirituality, Health, and Wholeness highlights not only the importance of health care professionals in providing emotional, mental, and spiritual care, but the necessity for them to address their own spirituality as well. The book includes the experiences and case studies of skilled authorities mostly from the Judeo-Christian or Judaic tradition who identify principles that they found to be important in working with patients from a wide diversity of spiritual traditions. Spirituality, Health, and Wholeness provides you with detailed information on: Ministryhealing a model of wholeness and healing that incorporates an integrated view of humanity through the four domains: spiritual, emotional, physical, and social the physiological impacts of humor and hope on mood, the neuroendocrine hormones, and the immune system spiritual coping with trauma an overview of the research literature and how to address the spiritual coping needs and concerns of patients the role of faith in providing meaning to physical illness and the importance of the role of the health Jan Mould, RN, BSN, MEd. HOSA - Future Health Professionals. Could this be you?. Communication. From the Latin word . communicare. – to share. Definition: make common; impart or exchange information.