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HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND PATIENT INTERACTION
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Seventh Edition

By
Ruth Purtilo, PhD, FAPTA, Professor and Director of Ethics Initiative, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA
Amy Haddad, PhD, RN, Professor, Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Department of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Description
The revised and updated seventh edition of Health Professional and Patient Interaction emphasizes respectful interactions in a wide range of health care settings. Strategies for effectively communicating with patients of all ages, as well as abusive, depressed and impaired patients, are illustrated through examples and various scenarios.

Contents


Part 1: Creating a Context of Respect

1. Respect: The Difference it Makes
2. Respect in the Institutional Settings of Health Care
3. Respect in a Diverse Society


Part 2. Respect for Yourself

4. Respect for Yourself: The Student Years
5. Respect for Yourself in Your Professional Capacity


Part 3. Respect for the Patient?s Situation

6. Challenges to Patients
7. Respect for the Patient?s Personal Relationships


Part 4. Respect through Communication

8. The Patient?s Story
9. Respectful Communication in an Information Age


Part 5. Components of Respectful Interaction

10. Professional Relatedness Built on Respect
11. Professional Boundaries Guided by Respect
12. Professional Closeness: Respect at its Best


Part 6. Respectful Interaction: Working with Patients Effectively

13. Respectful Interaction: Working with Newborns, Infants, and Toddlers
14. Respectful Interaction: Working with Children and Adolescents
15. Respectful Interaction: Working with Adults
16. Respectful Interaction: Working with Older Adults


Part 7. Some Special Challenges

17. Respectful Interaction when the Patient is Dying
18. Respectful Interaction in Other Difficult Situations

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 384 pages, publication date: MAY-2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-2244-2
ISBN-10: 1-4160-2244-9
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 27 Sep 2008
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