Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Getting Your Loved One Out Alive

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Lemon Grove Press, 2008 - Health & Fitness - 227 pages

Hospital patient care has become hazardous to the patient's health. There must be someone, a family member or good friend, to oversee and monitor the patient's medical care. Learn how to prevent medical errors, medication mistakes, hospital-acquired infectious diseases, and much more. Reach the doctors when you really need them - every time. Navigate the hospital with confidence.

Critical Conditions (winner of 16 book awards) is a step-by-step guide based on over 150 interviews with registered nurses, physicians and hospital staff, Ms. Ehrenclou's own experiences with hospitalized family members and hundreds of hours of research. It is a book for family members written by a family member who has been there. A reported quarter of a million deaths in hospitals nationwide were found to be preventable (The Fifth Annual Health Grades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study, 2008). If someone has a parent, spouse, sibling or child in the hospital, they must get actively involved in the patient's care to prevent medical errors. Hospitalized patients are recovering and cannot do this for themselves.

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... Pain Management Several physicians suggested that family members insist on pain management for the patient . If your loved one is in pain , speak to the primary care physician about it and ask them to order pain medication . Make sure ...
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... pain . Do you think you could get some medication as soon as possible ? Pain management is extremely important . Make it part of your job to monitor this and contact the primary nurse , repeatedly if necessary , to get your loved one pain ...
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... pain medication for her mother . Apparently the family member didn't realize that the primary nurse was responsible for giving medications or didn't know who the patient's primary nurse was . The family member finally approached the ...

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Contents

Introduction
1
You Could Save a Life
9
Getting Started The Basics of Being an Advocate
17
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Martine Ehrenclou is an award winning author and patient advocate. She consistently publishes articles in national magazines, newspapers, and on websites and has been interviewed on numerous nationally syndicated radio shows and by other national media. Martine is a monthly contributor to ParentGiving.com, TalkAboutHealth.com and many more. She currently lectures on the topics of patient advocacy and patient safety at hospitals, universities, organizations and bookstores. Martine is dedicated to patient empowerment, patient advocacy and patient safety. She writes a monthly blog and newsletter on these and other health related issues. She received her master's degree with honors in psychology from Pepperdine University, Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

TitleCritical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Getting Your Loved One Out Alive
AuthorMartine Ehrenclou
PublisherLemon Grove Press, 2008
Original fromPennsylvania State University
DigitizedMay 5, 2011
ISBN0981524001, 9780981524009
Length227 pages
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Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues
Health & Fitness / Reference
Medical / Administration
Medical / Caregiving
Medical / Health Care Delivery
Medical / Hospital Administration & Care
Medical / Physician & Patient
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