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Ehrenclou, Martine.

Critical conditions : the essential hospital guide to get your loved one out alive / Martine Ehrenclou.

Santa Monica, CA : Lemon Grove Press, ©2008.

xvii, 227 pages ; 23 cm

A step-by-step guide to patient advocacy, based on more than 150 interviews with nurses, doctors, social workers, and families.

Patient advocacy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Patient education -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Hospital patients -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Caregivers -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Hospital care.

Consumer education.

Medical care.

Handbooks and manuals.

Pages 143-204 consists of notes areas: "quick reference guide" and "daily progress notes."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218), webography (p. 219-220) and index.

You could save a life -- Getting started: the basics of being an advocate -- The primary nurse -- The doctors -- The importance of research -- Preventing medical error -- Preventing infectious diseases in the hospital -- Preventing fatal falls -- Language barriers and cultural issues -- Special attention required on routine medical and surgical floors -- If you live out of town -- How to support and comfort your loved one -- Hospital social workers -- Considering a different hospital -- HIPAA laws, advance directives, power of attorney, living will, and DNR -- How to take care of you -- Discharge planning and aftercare.

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