Personalizing Patient Care: A Reference Guide for Healthcare Professionals, 4th Edition

Experience the Power of Personalized Care
What happens when one book collects specific, bite-sized reference information about:
* 20 of the world s most prevalent religious groups
* 20 of the widest spread cultural groups
* 7 of the most common disabilities, and
* 4 distinct generations?

You get a powerful guide to Personalizing Patient Care.

PERSONALIZING PATIENT CARE is a valuable guide for improving a caregiver's understanding of how a patient's background may affect their needs, preferences, and expectations related to the delivery of care. This unique, field-tested reference will enable healthcare professionals to decrease readmissions, address healthcare disparities, inform biomedical ethics decisions, and improve the patient experience.

FEATURES
*In this newly updated fourth edition, healthcare issues are presented in tabular format for quick reference with separate listings for different religions, cultures, disabilities and generations.

*Issues covered include: attitudes toward blood, diet, and nutrition, healing environment, pain management, end of life issues (advance directives, autopsy, care of the dead, DNR, organ donation, withholding treatment), pre- and post-natal care, including attitudes toward contraception, genetic conditions, choice of birth process, infant baptism/dedication, neonatal/infant death or end-of-life care, and termination of pregnancy.

*An extensive bibliography of over 3,000 references is linked to notations in each section of every table indicating the primary source.

With all this available at your fingertips, it's no wonder PERSONALIZING PATIENT CARE is the essential guide for physicians, nurses, chaplains, social workers, therapists, educators, administrators, and other healthcare professionals in medical and educational settings.

Understanding how different cultures view healthcare helps caregivers tailor questions and treatment plans to the patient's needs.

This indispensable resource ...

** Presents carefully researched, non-judgmental information on faith, culture and other subjects vital to understanding patient needs.
** Includes material that has been compiled and tested over the course of 20 years.
** Has been accessed and utilized by thousands of caregivers at Florida Hospital (2,400 physicians and 7,000 nurses) as well as numerous other hospitals.
** Was created with feedback from various governing bodies and experts representing each group to ensure the information was accurate, up-to-date, and reflected the current practices of each group involved.

The range of professional training of the contributors include: healthcare, healthcare management, hospice, pastoral ministry, chaplaincy, curriculum creation, editorial, diversity and inclusion.

The contributors' diverse cultural roots and family history add perspective to the creation of the guide. Their combined cultural and family heritage includes African American, Arawak Indian, Chinese, English, Filipino, German, Ghanaian, Italian, Jamaican, Native American, Polish, Sierra Leonean (Temne, Mandingo, and Wolof tribes), and Spanish ancestries.

Florida Hospital's Office of Diversity and Inclusion enhances culturally-centered, unbiased whole-person care to patients and their families. The department provides strategic leadership by creating an inclusive organizational framework for patients, employees, and the surrounding community.

Aurora P. Realin, MBA, CDM, serves as Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at Florida Hospital. Born in the Philippines, Realin and her family moved to Queens, New York, when she was 13 years old. It was here she first experienced the wide range of diversity among people both in her school and community. She went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Communicative Disorders from the University of Central Florida and a Master's in Business Administration with emphasis in Health Care Administration from Southern Adventist University. She also holds a Certificate in Diversity Management in Healthcare from Simmons College.

Growing up in a medical family with a physician for a grandfather, a pharmacist for a grandmother, and a brain injury rehab certified registered nurse for a mother, Realin developed a passion for helping others from all walks of life with a special emphasis in the healthcare field.

Realin has worked at Florida Hospital for nearly twenty years. In addition to her hospital responsibilities, she serves as Vice-Chair and board member for The Central Florida Disability Chamber and is an active member of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce and the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Louis R. Preston, Jr., MDiv, CDM, serves as Diversity Officer and Director of Interpreter Services at Florida Hospital. Preston is a third-generation pastor and administrator for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In 2003, he accepted the call as Diversity Officer for Florida Hospital.

At Florida Hospital, Preston has played a major role in redefining the diversity program. Some of his accomplishments include restructuring the Diversity Committee, receiving permission from the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, an American Hospital Association (AHA) affiliate, to customize their Accountability Diversity Tool for the Florida Hospital culture. Under his leadership, Florida Hospital was the recipient of the 2007 Diversity Best Practice Beacon Award's Corporate Advocate for Diversity.

Preston holds a Master's of Divinity degree from Andrews University Theological Seminary, and a Certificate in Diversity Healthcare Management from the University of Massachusetts. He serves on the Chapter 57 Board for the City of Orlando and is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.