Community-Based Healthcare : The Search for Mindful Dialogues / edited by Diane Tasker, Joy Higgs, Stephen Loftus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tasker, Diane, editor.

Higgs, Joy, editor.

Loftus, Stephen, editor.

Series:

Practice, Education, Work and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (CCX, 10 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2017.

Summary:

This is a book for practitioners working in community-based healthcare as well as educators of future practitioners and researchers exploring this practice field and for people with chronic disabilities and their families and carers. The book invites readers to re-think and re-shape the way that community-based healthcare is practised by practitioners and experienced/engaged with by clients/patients and their families and other carers. Based on a PhD study of therapeutic relationships in community healthcare settings in NSW, Australia, and on real-life experiences of practitioners, clients and clients’ families and care givers, this book paints a rich picture of the lived experiences of these participants in community-based healthcare. It examines the issues and challenges they face and the ways they deal with these. Key themes identified across the book are: the value and nature of relationships in this unique healthcare setting, the importance of time and using it well, the way good teamwork facilitates good community-based, patient-centred healthcare, balancing autonomy and equality with healthcare quality, practice wisdom embodied in healthcare, and ways of improving healthcare in clients’ own homes.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Diane Tasker , Joy Higgs and Stephen Loftus

Community-based healthcare / Stephen Loftus and Diane Tasker

Constructing mindful dialogues in healthcare / Diane Tasker and Joy Higgs

Narrative as a lens on practice / Diane Tasker

Hearing their voices / Diane Tasker

A model for mindful dialogues in community-based practice / Diane Tasker and Joy Higgs

Being a client / Mark Horton and Diane Tasker

Families / Tania de Bortoli , Diane Tasker and Catherine Murray

When a nurse comes to call / Helen Fenech , Jackie Finlayson and Diane Tasker

Care and caring / Gabrielle Klymenko

A doctor’s tale / Katriona Herborn

Therapy tales / Tania de Bortoli , Bronwyn Couch and Diane Tasker

The care assessor’s story / Sharyn Williams and Diane Tasker

Life after brain injury / Kathleen McCarthy and Diane Tasker

Mental healthcare in our community / Maria Fitzgerald

Palliative care / Debbie Horsfall and Joy Higgs

Case management / Jane Meiklejohn

Considerations for quality of life / Alfred De Leeuw and Chris Atkins

Collaborating in community-based healthcare / Anne Croker and Diane Tasker

A future path for healthcare in the community / Suzanne Alder

Soul-medicine / Helen Butlin

Critical companionship / Angie Titchen and Diane Tasker

Pursuing practice mindfulness and wisdom / Joy Higgs and Diane Tasker

A final word / Stephen Loftus and Diane Tasker

Contributors / Diane Tasker , Joy Higgs and Stephen Loftus

Practice, Education, Work And Society / Diane Tasker , Joy Higgs and Stephen Loftus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789463009959

9463009957

OCLC:

982429563