Covering strategies for effective communication, Health Professional and Patient Interaction, 8th Edition provides the tools to help you establish positive patient relationships built on respect. Practical examples and scenarios show how to apply respect and professionalism to patients of various ages and levels of impairment. New to this edition is an Evolve companion website with video clips and simulation activities, each showing the principles of respectful interactions between health care professionals and patients. Written by an expert author team of Ruth Purtilo, Amy Haddad, and Regina Doherty, this resource addresses respect in the context of different practice settings, a diverse society, and difficult situations. Patient Cases introduce the patient’s point of view to illustrate key principles and encourage a more personal connection. Reflections boxes challenge you to apply critical thinking skills and your personal experience to different scenarios. Questions for Thought and Discussion at the end of each section help you apply your knowledge to a variety of situations. Interdisciplinary approach addresses basic issues that apply to many different healthcare disciplines. Strategies for effective communication are shown with patient examples and scenarios, applied to patients of all ages and with various levels of physical and emotional impairment. An emphasis on respect and ethics sets up a basis for building positive relationships with patients. Updated health care terminology keeps you current with communication in today’s health care settings. Expanded content on diversity reflects diverse patient populations and shows how to respect differences. NEW author Regina Doherty brings an occupational therapy perspective to this edition.

Learn how to navigate the complicated and challenging world of health care with Health Professional and Patient Interaction, 10th Edition. Covering strategies for effective communication and collaboration, this time-tested guide offers the tools needed to establish positive patient and interprofessional relationships that are built on respect. It not only covers respectful actions, communication standards, and good decision-making, but also demonstrates how those decisions directly shape successful patient outcomes. Practical examples and authentic scenarios highlight how to apply respect and professionalism to coworkers and patients of various ages and backgrounds across a wide spectrum of healthcare environments. It's the strong foundation you need to communicate effectively for positive, collaborative, and compassionate patient-centered care. - UNIQUE! Integration of respect throughout the text underscores its necessity across the many different types of interactions between the health professional and patient and establishes the foundation for positive relationships with patients and interprofessional care teams. - UNIQUE! Focus on interprofessional and intraprofessional collaboration addresses issues that apply to many different healthcare disciplines to help you identify with your specific field, as well as recognize themes that apply across a variety of healthcare delivery settings. - UNIQUE! Information on developmental and lifespan changes offers insight on the challenges experienced by patients, families, and caregivers and strategies for effective age-appropriate interactions. - UPDATED! Comprehensive, evidence-based content provides the most current information and strategies for being an effective and compassionate health professional. - Authentic patient cases and scenarios drawn from contemporary practice demonstrate strategies and tools for effective communication and collaboration with patients and colleagues in a wide range of healthcare settings. - Reflections Questions throughout the text challenge you to apply critical thinking skills and personal experience to different scenarios. - Questions for Thought and Discussion at the end of the book help you apply your knowledge to a variety of situations. - Extensive, updated references ensure content is current and applicable to today's clinical practice.

Easily navigate through the complicated and challenging world of daily on-the-job human interactions, with Health Professional and Patient Interaction, 9th Edition. Covering strategies for effective communication, this time-tested guide offers the tools you need to establish positive patient and interprofessional relationships built on respect. It not only covers respectful actions and good decision-making, but also demonstrates how those decisions directly shape your on-the-job success. Practical examples and authentic scenarios highlight how to apply respect and professionalism to coworkers and patients of various ages and various backgrounds across a wide spectrum of healthcare environments. It's the foundation you need to effectively and successfully communicate on the job. - Overall emphasis on respect sets up a basis for building positive relationships with patients and fellow health professionals through good decision-making. - UNIQUE! Authentic scenarios and examples demonstrate strategies and tools for effective communication with patients of all ages in a wide range of health care settings. - UNIQUE! Interdisciplinary approach addresses issues that apply to many different healthcare disciplines to help you identify with your specific field as well as recognize themes that apply across the healthcare spectrum. - Authentic patient cases give you a more personal connection as to how the various communications and actions discussed in the text affect the patient. - Reflections Questions throughout the text challenge you to apply critical thinking skills and your personal experience to different scenarios. - Questions for Thought and Discussion at the end of each section help you apply your knowledge to a variety of situations. - UNIQUE! New chapter on respectful interprofessional collaboration and communication discusses best practices for respectfully interacting with one's coworkers across the professional health team. - NEW & UNIQUE! Clearer integration of respect throughout the text underscores its necessity across the many different types of interactions between the health professional and patient. - NEW! Introduction on how respect impacts a professional's practice has been added to Part One of the text and covers critical topics such as establishing a professional identity and creating healthy, respectful relationships while being mindful of boundaries within such relationships. - NEW! Updated photos feature health professionals engaged in authentic clinical activities.

Ideal for all health care professionals, Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions, 5th Edition provides a solid foundation in basic ethical theory, the terms and concepts of ethics, and current ethical issues. Expert authors Ruth Purtilo and Regina Doherty outline a unique 6-step decision-making process as a guide to making effective choices that lead to a professional and caring response to patients. They also suggest practical approaches to commonly encountered clinical issues such as confidentiality, informed consent, information sharing, and end-of-life care. With this book, you will develop the skills you need to recognize, understand, and resolve ethical problems. Unique! 6-step process of ethical decision-making provides an organizing framework for the steps to take in arriving at an ethical decision. Step 1: Gather relevant information Step 2: Identify the type of ethical problem Step 3: Analyze the problem using ethics theories or approaches Step 4: Explore the practical alternatives Step 5: Act Step 6: Evaluate the process and outcome Patient stories begin each chapter with an ethical dilemma and frame the rest of the chapter, tying abstract principles to real-life situations and demonstrating the ethical decision-making process for each story. Content on end-of-life care shows how to develop a caring response toward dying patients and identifies basic ethical concepts applying to patients with life-threatening conditions. Unique! More than 100 Reflection boxes indicate important concepts and include space to jot down thoughts. HIPAA and patient confidentiality information covers current laws and addresses what types of information are appropriate and inappropriate to include in the patient's medical record. Questions for thought and discussion help you apply the ethical decision-making process to different situations. Unique! Over 80 summary boxes offer a quick review of the important information in each section. Unique! New coverage of biotechnology addresses the professional's role relating to environmental responsibility and the ecological costs of various health care interventions. Unique! New content on the intersection of technology and ethics describes the impact of advances in medical technology in rehabilitative care, and helps you face difficult conversations where you must offer hope while presenting realistic outcomes. Unique! New content on terrorism and disaster planning describes the ethical dilemmas professionals face in preventing terrorism and planning for disasters. New topics on the ethical decision-making process include the concepts of care, distinguishing ethical reasoning as a distinct part of your clinical reasoning and professional judgment, and attention to caregivers. New coauthor Regina Doherty, an occupational therapist, adds expertise and an OT perspective.

- NEW! Chapter devoted to cross-cultural communication promotes understanding of care in a diverse workplace - NEW! Chapter on diseases and disorders discusses communication with patients experiencing specific physical and mental illnesses and disorders. - NEW and UNIQUE! Words at Work dialogue boxes demonstrate actual conversations between healthcare workers and clients. - UPDATED! Content reflects the most current communication tools for the modern healthcare setting. - NEW! Full-color design and art program promote engagement. - NEW and UNIQUE! Communication Guidelines boxes direct you to best practices for the effective exchange of information. - NEW! Additional Taking the Chapter to Work case studies demonstrate real-life communication pitfalls and successes.

Essential guide to better communication in practice Communication is a core skill for all healthcare professionals, regardless of their specific discipline. The fifth edition of Communication: Core Interpersonal Skills for Healthcare Professionals provides a comprehensive introduction that will be invaluable for students undertaking any training program in health. The book guides students toward an understanding of all the basic communication techniques and skills they will need in practice. They will learn to develop self-awareness about the impact their words and actions might have on others, use a person-centred model to reconstruct their communication style and approach, and then apply their new knowledge and skills to real-life scenarios. Easy to read and logically ordered over four sections, this book will guide students towards developing lifelong communication skills that will ultimately enable optimal person-centred care, successful therapeutic relationships and positive patient outcomes. - A focus on person-centred care and culturally responsive communication - Assists students to reflect on their personal communication style and habits, then learn and practise strategies and skills to enhance future communication in practice - Builds confidence in communication through activities, scenarios and case studies - Explores communication with Indigenous peoples to improve healthcare outcomes - Includes digital communication – overviews and tips on navigating professional and personal electronic media - Scenarios, case studies, individual and group activities, role-plays and end-of-chapter questions support learning - Straightforward language makes learning accessible for students in all health disciplines - Student and instructor resources, including companion EAQ, companion video resource Stories in Healthcare Communication, quizzes, semester planner and a tutorial guide contribute to engaging students New to this edition - New chapter on the requirements of communication within multidisciplinary or interprofessional teams - Fully updated to reflect the latest research - Updated references throughout the text to reflect current discussion and requirements of communication in healthcare Instructor resources on Evolve: - PowerPoint slides - Semester planner - Tutorial activities - Testbank (MCQs) - Image collection Student and Instructor resources on Evolve: - Answers to end-of-chapter review questions - Student quiz (MCQ + T/F)

Build the skills you need to understand and resolve ethical problems! Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions, 7th Edition provides a solid foundation in ethical theory and concepts, applying these principles to the ethical issues surrounding health care today. It uses a unique, six-step decision-making process as a framework for thinking critically and thoughtfully, with case studies of patients to illustrate ethical topics such as conflict of interest, patient confidentiality, and upholding best practices. Written by Regina F. Doherty, an educator and occupational therapist, this book will help you make caring and effective ethical choices that improve patient care and outcomes. - UNIQUE! Ethical decision-making process provides an organizing framework to use in making the best decisions when faced with ethical problems. - Patient stories depict real-life situations and demonstrate the ethical decision-making process. - Reflection boxes depict important concepts and stimulate critical thinking. - Summary boxes highlight the most important information in each section. - Coverage of interprofessional team decision-making reflects this important, expanding movement in healthcare nationally and internationally. - Questions for thought and discussion encourage students to apply the ethical decision-making process to different situations. - NEW! Updated content throughout the book reflects the changes in the growing interprofessional movement. - NEW! Expanded content on clinician well-being includes tools for supporting moral resilience and preventing burnout in health professionals. - NEW! Updated content addresses the topics of social justice, health disparities, intersectionality, and health outcomes. - NEW! Updated national standards and regulations are provided for electronic health communications, data protections, and clinical research. - NEW! Coverage of scientific literature is expanded with studies on the effects of compassion on patient outcomes, patient safety, and provider and organizational well-being. - NEW! Coverage of ethical issues impacting healthcare and society includes topics such as medical scarcity due to healthcare supply chain shortages and extreme weather events due to climate change.

This new textbook is designed to provide students with all the necessary tools to effectively communicate with patients and other health care professionals. With its easy-to-read style, it is loaded with useful tips to help students engage into the practice of communication. It presents condensed amounts of content for learning the basic principles and then integrating elements such as case scenarios, questions, or hints and tips to encourage application of those principles into real-life situations. - Easy-to-read style provides practical information, hints, and tips. - Test Your Communication IQ boxes provide students with a short self-assessment test at the beginning of each chapter. - Spotlight on Future Success boxes provide students with useful, practical tips for improving communication. - Taking the Chapter to Work boxes integrated within each chapter are actual case examples with useful tips to guide students to practice and apply what they have learned. - Beyond the Classroom Activities exercises at the end of each chapter help students use knowledge learned from topics presented in the chapter. - Check Your Comprehension exercises at the end of each chapter provide questions and activities to test student knowledge of chapter content. - Communication Surfer Exercises focus on helping students utilize Internet resources to improve their knowledge and application of communication skills. - Expanding Critical Thinking at the end of each chapter provides students with additional questions or activities designed to apply critical thinking skills. - Legal Eagle boxes provide useful tips that focus on honesty, as well as ethical and legal communication between patients and health care workers. - Unique, interactive CD-ROM, packaged with the textbook, includes a variety of application exercises, such as voice mail messages, patient/caregiver interviews, chapter key points, and patient charts. - Audio segments on the CD-ROM provide communication in action to help students observe verbal communication examples and apply their skills.

Providing a solid foundation in sonography, Craig's Essentials of Sonography and Patient Care, 4th Edition prepares you to succeed in the classroom and in practice. Divided into two parts, this updated text first describes the origins and evolution of diagnostic medical sonography, defines important terminology, and provides proven study techniques such as note taking, effective listening, and test-taking strategies. The second section prepares you for the clinical environment, covering topics from the sonography perspective such as taking a patient's vital signs, safety considerations, body mechanics, patient transfer, infection control, emergency procedures, and assisting patients with special needs. Additionally, survival skills throughout the text seek to build students' problem solving skills to help them adjust both academically and in the clinical setting. - UPDATED! JRC-DMS content ensures you are up-to-date on the latest standards. - The only text devoted entirely to entry-level students provides a foundation of essential knowledge ensuring your educational and professional success. - Step-by-step presentation of patient care in a sonography setting teaches you how to perform basic medical techniques and interact with patients. - Safety Issues chapter explains how to scan with proper scanning technique and posture to avoid repetitive-motion musculoskeletal injuries. - Note boxes add information on applying concepts to the clinical setting. - Objectives and key terms introduce each chapter's important content. - Chapter summaries simplify study and review by recapping the most important points. - Glossary of Spanish phrases covers common instructions for better communication with Spanish-speaking patients. - HIPAA information provides the knowledge that you will need to comply with federal law. - NEW! Coverage of aseptic and non-aseptic infection control techniques prepares you to work with patients in the clinical environment. - NEW! Inclusion of critical thinking "survival skills" help you to adjust your problem-solving skills both academically and in the clinical setting. - NEW! Expanded accreditation section guides you through the full process in detail. - NEW! Full-color design helps break up content and bring it to life.

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