Experience the Power of Personalized Care What happens when one book collects specific, bite-sized reference information about:
* 20 of the world s most prevalent religious groups
* 20 of the widest spread cultural groups
* 7 of the most common disabilities, and
* 4 distinct generations?
You get a powerful guide to Personalizing Patient Care.
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, inform biomedical ethics decisions, and improve the patient experience.
FEATURES
*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, DNR, organ donation, withholding treatment), pre- and post-natal care, including attitudes toward contraception, genetic conditions, 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.
With all this available at your fingertips, it's no wonder PERSONALIZING PATIENT CARE is the essential guide for physicians, nurses, chaplains, social workers, therapists, educators, administrators, and other healthcare professionals in medical and educational settings.
Understanding how different cultures view healthcare helps caregivers tailor questions and treatment plans to the patient's needs.
This indispensable resource ...
** Presents carefully researched, non-judgmental information on faith, culture and other subjects vital to understanding patient needs.
** Includes material that has been compiled and tested over the course of 20 years.
** Has been accessed and utilized by thousands of caregivers at Florida Hospital (2,400 physicians and 7,000 nurses) as well as numerous other hospitals.
** Was created with feedback from various governing bodies and experts representing each group to ensure the information was accurate, up-to-date, and reflected the current practices of each group involved.
The range of professional training of the contributors include: healthcare, healthcare management, hospice, pastoral ministry, chaplaincy, curriculum creation, editorial, diversity and inclusion.
The contributors' diverse cultural roots and family history add perspective to the creation of the guide. Their combined cultural and family heritage includes African American, Arawak Indian, Chinese, English, Filipino, German, Ghanaian, Italian, Jamaican, Native American, Polish, Sierra Leonean (Temne, Mandingo, and Wolof tribes), and Spanish ancestries.
Florida Hospital's Office of Diversity and Inclusion enhances culturally-centered, unbiased whole-person care to patients and their families. The department provides strategic leadership by creating an inclusive organizational framework for patients, employees, and the surrounding community.
