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Delivering quality healthcare for people with disability / Suzanne C. Smeltzer.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Indianapolis, IN : Sigma Theta Tau International, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: xxix, 285 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781948057455
  • 194805745X
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WY 150.5
Contents:
Disability : a major health inequity -- The role of social determinants of health in disability -- Strategies to address barriers to healthcare for people with disability -- Intellectual and developmental disabilities -- Physical disability -- Psychiatric/mental health disability and neurocognitive disorders -- Sensory disability : hearing loss -- Sensory disability : vision loss -- Inclusion of students with disability : redefining nursing education / Beth Marks
Summary: "This book is based on the principle and belief that all healthcare professionals-regardless of discipline, level of education, or role within the healthcare system-have a role in caring for individuals with disability. As such, they need a basic understanding of the issue of disability to provide appropriate, optimal, and sensitive healthcare to those with disability. These issues and more are addressed in the chapters of this book. It is intended to provide information to nurses, nursing students, and other healthcare professionals to enable them to communicate with and provide quality healthcare to individuals with disability"-- Provided by publisher
List(s) this item appears in: Culturally Competent Healthcare
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Book NMC Library Stacks HV1553 .S5564 2021 Available 33039001533560

Chapter 9 written by contributing author: Beth Marks

Includes bibliographical references and index

Disability : a major health inequity -- The role of social determinants of health in disability -- Strategies to address barriers to healthcare for people with disability -- Intellectual and developmental disabilities -- Physical disability -- Psychiatric/mental health disability and neurocognitive disorders -- Sensory disability : hearing loss -- Sensory disability : vision loss -- Inclusion of students with disability : redefining nursing education / Beth Marks