Caring for the Caretaker or Instructions for Obstetric and Gynecologic Patients

Caring for the Caretaker: Eight Truths to Prolong Your Career

Author: Michael A Sherbun

These stories provide an understanding of how nurses have reacted and coped with workplace dynamics, both in their personal and professional lives.

Table of Contents:

Truth #1	Understanding your reality	1
Truth #2	Determining who you are	11
Truth #3	Achieving success with every conversation	37
Truth #4	Successfully caring for difficult people	59
Truth #5	Managing difficult coworkers and supervisors	75
Truth #6	Avoiding burnout in your job	87
Truth #7	Creating great teams and great managers	105
Truth #8	Creating your experience	127
	Closing : where do we go from here?	137

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Instructions for Obstetric and Gynecologic Patients

Author: Hugh S Miller

Thoroughly revised, the 3rd Edition of this popular resource makes it remarkably convenient to educate patients on over 200 major topics in this specialty—everything from sexually transmitted diseases and triple screen prenatal diagnostic testing...to pregnancy and related issues and hormone replacement therapy. The loose-leaf-page format makes it easy to photocopy the pages to give to patients to reinforce oral instructions, assist in health education and disease prevention, and foster informed consent. A CD-ROM included with the text offers the book's entire contents in convenient electronic form.

Allows practitioners to personalize and print out pages with additional instructions.

Makes key points simple to remember by providing useful aids such as mnemonics.

Uses tables and priority-based algorithms to summarize essential data.

Features over 200 topics in a 3-hole punched, perforated format.

Allows easy photocopying of printed teaching materials.

Promotes patient compliance with specific instructions.

Presents over 40 new topics, including androgen treatment В· birth defects В· cancer screening tests В· emergency contraception В· vaginal birth after Caesarian В· fetal lung maturity testing В· postpartum psychosis В· premature ovarian failure В· and many other heath related issues.

Offers web and telephone resources to direct patients to additional information about disease and health care.

Lists guidelines for when and why to call the office.

Provides icons for each section of the text, allowing users to locate particular information.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Andrea D. Posey, RN, BSN, MSN (University of Alaska Anchorage)
Description: This book provides a variety of instructions and illustrations for obstetric/gynecology patients that are ready to photocopy and distribute to clients. This third edition is an update from second edition published in 1997.
Purpose: The purpose is to make available an assortment of patient instruction sheets in a convenient manner by binding them in a single book. By doing this, it is easy for the nursing staff to locate and use the materials.
Audience: The book is aimed at the general, nonmedical public. The language used in the instructions is suitable and they are easy to understand. The author, Hugh S. Miller, MD, is an expert in the area.
Features: The book covers a number of topics that relate to obstetric and gynecologic issues. Some of the topics include women's health, pregnancy and breastfeeding, male and female contraception, and diagnostic procedures. The illustrations at the end of the book include basic anatomy that is uncomplicated. A CD-ROM is also included that allows printing of these forms from a computer.
Assessment: This publication is an excellent tool for the Obstetrics/Gynecology office. It offers comprehensive, understandable patient instructions. The third edition includes 42 new topics and updated information based upon recent research.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody