Personalizing Patient Care

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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 caregivers understanding of how a patients 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 its 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 patients 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 Hospitals 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.