Health Professional and Patient Interaction, 9e

Description:

Easily navigate through the complicated and challenging world of daily on-the-job human interactions, with Health Professional and Patient Interaction, 9th Edition. Covering strategies for effective communication, this time-tested guide offers the tools you need to establish positive patient and interprofessional relationships built on respect. It not only covers respectful actions and good decision-making, but also demonstrates how those decisions directly shape your on-the-job success. Practical examples and authentic scenarios highlight how to apply respect and professionalism to coworkers and patients of various ages and various backgrounds across a wide spectrum of healthcare environments. It?€™s the foundation you need to effectively and successfully communicate on the job.

Features:

• Overall emphasis on respect sets up a basis for building positive relationships with patients and fellow health professionals through good decision-making.

• UNIQUE! Authentic scenarios and examples demonstrate strategies and tools for effective communication with patients of all ages in a wide range of health care settings.

• UNIQUE! Interdisciplinary approach addresses issues that apply to many different healthcare disciplines to help you identify with your specific field as well as recognize themes that apply across the healthcare spectrum.

• Authentic patient cases give you a more personal connection as to how the various communications and actions discussed in the text affect the patient.

• Reflections Questions throughout the text challenge you to apply critical thinking skills and your personal experience to different scenarios.

• Questions for Thought and Discussion at the end of each section help you apply your knowledge to a variety of situations.

New To This Edition:

• UNIQUE! New chapter on respectful interprofessional collaboration and communication discusses best practices for respectfully interacting with one?€™s coworkers across the professional health team.

• NEW & UNIQUE! Clearer integration of respect throughout the text underscores its necessity across the many different types of interactions between the health professional and patient.

• NEW! Introduction on how respect impacts a professional?€™s practice has been added to Part One of the text and covers critical topics such as establishing a professional identity and creating healthy, respectful relationships while being mindful of boundaries within such relationships.

• NEW! Updated photos feature health professionals engaged in authentic clinical activities.

Table Of Contents:

SECTION ONE: Creating a Context of Respect

1. Respect in the Professional Role

2. Professional Relatedness Built on Respect

3. Professional Boundaries Guided by Respect
SECTION TWO: Respectful Interaction in the Delivery of Care

4. Respect for Self: One?€™s Professional Role

5. Respect in a Diverse Society

6. Respect in Care Delivery Systems
SECTION THREE: Respect for the Patient?€™s Situation

7. Respecting the Patient?€™s Story

8. Respect for the Patient?€™s Family and Significant Relationships
SECTION FOUR: Respect through Communication

9. Respectful Interprofessional Communication

10. Respectful Communication in an Information Age
SECTION FIVE: Respectful Interactions Across the Life Span

11. Respectful Interaction: Working with Newborns, Infants, and Children in the Early Years

12. Respectful Interaction: Working with School Age Children and Adolescents

13. Respectful Interaction: Working with Adults

14. Respectful Interaction: Working with Older Adults
SECTION SIX: Some Special Challenges: Creating a Context of Respect

15. Respectful Interaction When the Patient Is Dying

16. Respectful Interaction in Complex Situations