UHW New Books - August 2024

"This book is designed to help you understand teams in the unique setting of palliative care. This book utilizes: Stories from nurses, social workers, physicians, patients, families, executives, chaplains, and pharmacists; Pearls from the Field: Provider and team takeaways; Best practices of team leaders; Tips for individuals and palliative care teams to communicate with other providers, departments, and senior leadership; Discusses how to improve...

Rooted in everyday hospital medicine, Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians addresses the challenges of delivering complex care to patients living with serious illnesses. Spanning emergency medicine, internal medicine, surgery and various subspecialties, each chapter reads like a story, comparing usual care with a step-by-step palliative-based approach. This case-based book features a multidisciplinary, palliative-trained authorship, including...

Shawn Stevenson is a health expert with a background in biology and kinesiology who has helped thousands of people worldwide to improve their health, through his private work as well as his #1 Nutrition and Fitness podcast on iTunes. In his work, Shawn brings a well-rounded perspective to the perennial question: how can we feel better? In investigating complex health issues such as weight loss, chronic fatigue and hormone imbalance, Shawn realised...

It is accepted that good nutrition is essential for maintenance of good health, prevention of disease and recovery from illness. This volume provides health care workers and students of nutrition and dietetics with practical information.

"Why is it so rare for people to truly own their work? How can the employee engagement numbers be so bad year after year with no sign of getting better? In this book, Jonathan Raymond invites us to reexamine our assumptions about the role of leaders and how culture change and personal growth actually happen. The idea is as simple as it is radical: personal and professional growth are one thing, not two. Through powerful stories from his time as CEO...