John Frain
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2018
Description
'The ABC of Clinical Professionalism' considers recent evidence on how healthcare practitioners maintain professionalism including how values are developed and affected by the working environment, the challenges of maintaining personal and organisational resilience and the ethical and regulatory framework in which practice is conducted.
Description
Being a good clinician is not just about knowledge - how doctors and other healthcare professionals think, reason and make decisions is arguably their most critical skill. This book covers core elements of the thinking and decision making associated with clinical practice from what clinical reasoning is, what it involves and how to teach it.
Author
Publisher
Wiley Blackwell
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Clinical communication underpins safe patient care. The effective health professional sees illness through the patient's eyes and understands what matters most to him or her. Effectiveness means gathering hard clinical data about the physical changes affecting the patient, understanding why the patient is concerned, conveying this to other health care professionals and involving the patient at every stage of management decisions. The evidence for...