A guide for health care professionals on lead

Collaborative working in end-of-life care: developing a guide for health and social care professionals.

This article describes a project to develop collaborative working between palliative care nurse specialists and community matrons for patients with a non-cancer diagnosis. Pathways to clarify decision-making in end-of-life care were created as part of the project and were subsequently developed into a guide for use by health or social care professionals caring for any patient, irrespective of d...

Mental Health Across Cultures: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals

Benson and Thistlethwaite are general practitioners who have written an introductory yet thorough practical guide on mental health to assist all health professionals working in multicultural contexts. While some book introductions (Chapter 1) can be quite tedious, theirs is quite fascinating as it provides some examples of their personal and professional cross cultural experience with refugees ...

Decision Making for Enteral Nutrition in Adult Patients with Dysphagia – A Guide for Health Care Professionals

Evidence-based management: a practical guide for health professionals

HYPOTHESIS Are different events involved in the development of sporadic versus hereditary tumours? The possible importance of the microenvironment in hereditary cancer In a recent review, Weinberg (1989) has discussed apparent violations of multistep carcinogenesis when in some cases full transformation of primary cultures by single oncogenes (ras) has been reported. Normally at least two coope...

Cautioning Health-Care Professionals

Science and practice seem deeply stuck in the so-called stage theory of grief. Health-care professionals continue to "prescribe" stages. Basically, this perspective endorses the idea that bereaved people go through a set pattern of specific reactions over time following the death of a loved one. It has frequently been interpreted prescriptively, as a progression that bereaved persons must follo...