Oakes' Respiratory Home Care: An On-Site Reference Guide - Softcover

Dana Oakes; Kenneth Wyka; Kathleen Wyka

9780932887269: Oakes' Respiratory Home Care: An On-Site Reference Guide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932887260 ISBN 13: 9780932887269

Publisher: RespiratoryBooks.com, 2006

Respiratory home care carries its own set of challenges. Until now, medical professionals have had to carry around multiple resources while doing home visits. Oakes' Home Care book solves this problem, with a comprehensive pocket-sized book which covers care considerations across the spectrum of what s being provided. For the student this book provides an introduction to the various home challenges running alongside acute care situations. For the practitioner, this guide is simply invaluable in providing best-practice gold standards. Content ranges from discharge planning and initial patient assessment, to therapies, mechanical ventilation, disease management, pharmacology, reimbursement, accreditation, and more.

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From the Publisher:

This book does for Home Care what Dana Oakes' "Clinical Practitioner's Pocket Guide to Respiratory Care" does for Respiratory Care in general. It is co-authored with Kenneth and Kathleen Wyka, widely recognized as experts in the emerging home care world.

Home Care Therapists are increasingly being required to do within the home what was only possible previously in the clinical setting. Because of this, they absolutely need to have an encyclopedic amount of information ready for immediate use. Carrying a pile of textbooks would likely do the trick, but isn't practical; "Respiratory Home Care: An On-Site Reference Guide" condenses and organizes the information most needed.

Beginning with Discharge Planning and the Initial Home Visit; covering everything from Disease Management to Mechanical Ventilation; addressing reimbursement and education, Oakes and Wyka/Wyka have integrated a team approach from A to Z of information the therapist is going to need - in the most comprehensive book out on the market - at a fraction of the size (and cost, we might add!).

"Respiratory Home Care: An On-Site Reference Guide" is not a companion to providing competent care, it is the key.

About the Author:

Dana Oakes, BA, RRT-NPS. Mr. Oakes is currently an Educational Consultant and was formerly Director of Respiratory Care, VA Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; Educational Coordinator/Instructor, Respiratory Care Department, Children??s Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; and Director of Clinical Education, Respiratory Care Program, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, MD. Mr. Oakes has been in the Respiratory field for over 28 years and has over 14 years of teaching experience including one-, two-, and four-year advanced Respiratory Care programs.

Kenneth A. Wyka, MS, RRT, FAARC, is a respiratory clinical and home care specialist with Home Therapy Equipment in Clifton Park, NY. He is a former Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences and Director of Respiratory Clinical Education at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ. Wyka has in excess of 34 years experience, including Program Director at the Passaic County Community College, and Director of Respiratory Therapy at Valley Hospital. He is the author of Respiratory Care in Alternate Sites and Foundations of Respiratory Care and has authored chapters on home care and pulmonary rehabilitation in Egan??s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care.

Kathleen S. Wyka, AAS, CRT, is a respiratory home care therapist with Home Therapy Equipment in Clifton Park, NY. She has over 26 years experience in respiratory therapy, including roles as Director of Respiratory Care with Allied Health Care Services; staff respiratory therapist at Union Hospital, Children??s Specialized Hospital and Bayonne Hospital; consultant for sub-acute and long-term facilities throughout New Jersey. In addition, Wyka is responsible for authoring the home care chapter in the current edition of Whitaker??s Comprehensive Perinatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care.

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