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41) Foster
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"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...
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Through the comments of a professional who works with people afflicted with HIV/AIDS, as well as a woman who is HIV-positive, this video focuses on the place of spirituality in HIV/AIDS. How a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS impacts the whole person is described, including the spiritual dimension of the person. How HIV/AIDS impacts the spiritual need for meaning and purpose, the spiritual need for forgiveness, and the spiritual need for love and relatedness...
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Why is interprofessional education necessary in the health care practices? Interprofessional care is being considered one of the solutions to address the health human resource shortages faced in many countries. In order for health care providers to practice in an interprofessional manner, they need to know "how" to collaborate. The Centre for Interprofessional Education (IPE) at the University of Toronto is pleased to release multi-media tools that...
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Discussing end-of-life care with patients and their families can be very difficult. Despite the challenge, advanced planning helps to ensure that each patient can die as they wish. In this program you will learn the key points of an advanced directive and see examples of directives by statutes. These tools will not only teach professionals about the ethical dilemmas they face when end-of-life is near, but will also help families develop a sense of...
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Why is interprofessional education necessary in the health care practices? Interprofessional care is being considered one of the solutions to address the health human resource shortages faced in many countries. In order for health care providers to practice in an interprofessional manner, they need to know "how" to collaborate. The Centre for Interprofessional Education (IPE) at the University of Toronto is pleased to release multi-media tools that...
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Why is interprofessional education necessary in the health care practices? Interprofessional care is being considered one of the solutions to address the health human resource shortages faced in many countries. In order for health care providers to practice in an interprofessional manner, they need to know "how" to collaborate. The Centre for Interprofessional Education (IPE) at the University of Toronto is pleased to release multi-media tools that...
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Imagine what it's like to be constantly confused. It is a painful, frustrating problem for the client as well as the health care assistant. It is the intention of this program to give the health care assistant the necessary information to deal more effectively with the client/resident who is confused.
50) End of life
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This program discusses care at the end of life, primarily focusing on palliative care of individuals and their families.
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"Health care is killing our economy and, in many cases, killing us. Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans can't get care when they need it. This is bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for business. In The Long Fix, physician and health care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who's...
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In this program you will learn how to work with your patients to encourage proper dental health. We will disucss the harmful effects of plaque and provide you with practical solutions to help your patients take part in their own mouth care. Learn how to assist them with good oral health habits that will keep your patients smiling for years to come.
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The role of infection control in health care has become more important than ever before. This is due, in part, to some bacteria being resistant to antibiotics, and the increasing survival rates of the chronically ill and the elderly. This program will teach you to effectively treat infection and prevent the transfer of diseas.
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In this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet, a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown and Indigenous people--while ignoring and excluding them.
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"An indispensable handbook on all aspects of fatherhood during the first 12 months, by the author of The Expectant Father. The essential handbook for all things first-year father is now fully updated and revised. Not only will new dads get a month-by-month guide to their baby's development, men reading The New Father will learn how they change, grow, and develop over the first twelve months of fatherhood. In each chapter, Brott focuses on What's Going...
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Discusses the discoveries of Clinton Ober, a pioneer in the cable television industry who made claims about the health benefits people can derive by connecting themselves to the surface of the planet by sitting, standing, or walking barefoot on the Earth, or sleeping on special conductive sheets and pads connected to a metal rod stuck in the ground, and thus restoring and maintaining the body's natural electrical state.
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As seen on PBS, And Thou Shalt Honor is the complete two-hour original broadcast, including all of the profiles and interviews. The groundbreaking PBS special And Thou Shalt Honor brings to light the challenges facing today's caregivers. The struggles and rewards of caregiving are given equal treatment in this incisive and thoughtful series. Sensitively hosted by Joe Mantegna, the purpose of the program is to promote awareness of the issue, promote...
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"From the author of On Tyranny comes an urgent diagnosis of an American malady: our heartless system of commercial medicine and our politics of pain. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window,...
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