Navigating Your Hospital Stay: A Step-By-Step Guide To Help You Understand and Manage Your Hospital Care - Softcover

Russell, Robin Rutan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1537299093 ISBN 13: 9781537299099

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

For most people, a hospital is an alien world. These institutions seem to use their own language and make decisions and rules that are not easily understood, and often, not clearly explained. Navigating Your Hospital Stay takes the guess work out of any hospitalization, offering step-by-step guidance from before you step through the hospital doors, to the time you are discharged home. With clear explanations of terms, and details of what you can expect during any hospital stay, Navigating Your Hospital Stay replaces anxiety with empowerment, and gives you the information you need to make decisions that will enable you to truly be a partner in your care. Navigating Your Hospital Stay includes the following important information: • Advance Care Planning • Medicare and other insurances • Choosing a hospital • Medical history forms • Emergency Care • Surgery and Anesthesia Navigating Your Hospital Stay will educate you and empower you to truly be a partner in your hospital care! This book is a tool and a reference and belongs on every family bookshelf!

About this title

About the Author

Robin Rutan Russell, BSN, RN, is a nurse, writer, and patient advocate. Her 34-year career as a nurse spanned the human life cycle, providing education and care from prenatal to hospice. Outside of hospital care, Robin has consulted with multiple law firms regarding nursing and hospital malpractice, as well as hospitals and home health agencies providing medical record documentation review for Medicare compliance and reimbursement. Currently, when not working as an educator and advocate for a growing number of private clients, Robin can be found visiting the museums, theaters, or food and coffee scenes in her newly adopted city of Cleveland, Ohio. She is also loves pugs and believes that is the most important thing to know about her!

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1537299093
• ISBN 13: 9781537299099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206