Main description:

Notable for its use of real document examples throughout in addition to its central section's extended focus on narrative medicine and new media writing, Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success provides a wide-ranging, much-needed contemporary interdisciplinary perspective on the modes and contexts of writing that are most pertinent to healthcare professionals today. Aimed at students enrolled in university or college-level healthcare programs of various types as well as at current practitioners who might be seeking a portable, readable reference and guide, this book usefully and practically combines the detailed discussion of approaches to key healthcare document types - both professional and academic - with a thorough but focused overview of essential points of grammar, punctuation, and style.

Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements

Part I: Everyday Writing in Healthcare
Chapter 1: In-Patient Writing: Notes, Charts, and Reports
Chapter 2: Interpersonal Writing: Letters, Emails, and Presentations

Part II: Narratives in Healthcare
Chapter 3: Narrative Medicine, Parallel Charting, and Portfolio Writing
Chapter 4: Pathographies, Blogs, and Healthcare Wikis
Chapter 5: Social Media and Public Health

Part III: Fundamentals of Healthcare Writing
Chapter 6: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation, and Style
Chapter 7: Healthcare Research and Academic Writing (Part 1): Prewriting, Critical Analyses, Reports, and Essays
Chapter 8: Healthcare Research and Academic Writing (Part 2): Finding and Using Sources

Chapter 6 Review Quizzes

Glossary
References
Permissions Acknowledgements
Index