Read about the works, which include a UMSON instructor’s guide on unconscious bias, in the Book Roundup featured in the latest issue of “CATALYST” magazine.
Mark T. Gladwin, MD, dean and John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and vice president for medical affairs, University of Maryland, Baltimore. “Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple,” Ninth Edition. (MedMaster, 2022)
“Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple” is a brief, clear, thorough, and updated approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts, and illustrations. Topics include Ebola, AIDS, flesh-eating bacteria, mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, and tuberculosis; the latest antibiotics; pandemic flu, including H7N9; SARS-like coronavirus; hepatitis C treatment options; HIV diagnostics and approved HIV meds; Zika virus; measles; and a new chapter on the latest emerging infectious diseases and drug-resistant bacteria.
The major update to this book is the addition of a new chapter on the SARS-COV-2 virus and COVID-19 disease, which delves into the nature of the virus such as infectivity within the body, transmission between individuals, timeline of infectivity, symptoms, risk factors, therapeutics, and vaccines approved for use.
Nikki E. Akparewa, RN, MSN, MPH, clinical instructor, Family and Community Health, University of Maryland School of Nursing. “The Clinician’s Guide to Microaggressions and Unconscious Bias: Racial Justice in Healthcare.” (Blurb, Inc., 2021)
Health care organizations and systems have been scrambling to respond to health inequity. This workbook is a transformational tool to put teeth to racial justice statements so that organizations can begin to align people with intentional processes. It is for the everyday clinician, faculty member, and clinical instructor who is searching for the tools needed to have authentic conversations about race, racism, and health equity. It also is for senior leaders and strategic business partners seeking to measure and improve performance around workplace safety. If you are not proactively linking processes to address inequity, you are not preparing health care professionals to be fully competent providers. And if businesses don’t create fully competent providers, their profit margins diminish as money is wasted on addressing harassment and bullying behavior. The workbook includes activities, definitions, and clinical scenarios that can be used to demonstrate ways to overcome biased health care and give patients the tools they need to thrive. There also are prompts to take action with guidance on next steps for those who want to bring social justice into clearer focus in hospitals, health systems, and academic institutions.
Read more in the Book Roundup in the latest issue of CATALYST magazine.
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