"Critical Conditions is well-written and organized with an intuitive layout such that patients and their families will benefit from its use for a single short-term hospital stay–as well as for long-term multiple hospital stays. A great patient and family resource.”
Peter B. Angood MD, FRCS, FACS, FCCM
Vice-President & Chief Patient Safety Officer The Joint Commission
Chicago, IL

"This book exceeds my expectations. I wish I'd had it for myself and my family years ago. Critical Conditions will be in hand if any of us are hospitalized. This book is number one for our family and friends."
Mia Vloet, RN, Newport Beach, CA

 
             
 

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Critical Conditions Wins 14th Book Award
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Award Winning Author and Patient Advocate Releases "The Patient Safety Checklist" to Prevent Medical Errors in Hospitals
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Author and Patient Safety Expert Offers Tips on How to Prevent Deadly Medical Errors during a Hospital Stay
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The Holiday Season is Hazardous To Hospital Patients
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Prevent Deadly Hospital Infections With Tips From Award Winning Book, Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide To Get Your Loved One Out Alive
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Award Winning Author and Patient Advocate Releases "The Patient Safety Checklist" to Prevent Medical Errors in Hospitals

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Hospital in Midst of Error Prevention Made Another Healthcare Risk Management.
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Hospital Care - Protecting Your Loved Ones
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"8 Tips to Survive A Hospital Stay"
Philadelphia Daily News - July 23, 2008
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"Ways to Improve Hospital Stays"
The Oklahoman
- August 6, 2008
"Ways to Improve Hospital Stays"
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ParentGiving.com
Martine is is a regular contributor to Parentgiving.com.

12 Tips For Your Parent's Hospital Discharge

Older Patients: At Risk in the Hospital
How To Be An Advocate For Your Parent, Grandparent, Spouse
or Other Older Loved One.

9 Ways To Reduce The Spread of Hospital-Acquired Infectious Diseases
When an elderly loved one is in the hospital, take these precautions to keep them safe.

5 Sure-Fire Ways To Reach Your Loved One’s Doctor
When a loved one is in the hospital, it’s frustrating to miss doctors on their hospital rounds. Here’s how to connect when you really need to reach him or her.

9 Steps To Surviving A Hospital Stay
All of us will at some point have to deal with our own hospitalization or the hospitalization of a loved one—a parent, spouse, relative or good friend, and cope with the realities of what is happening in hospitals today.

Critical Conditions: The 8 Rules Every Caregiver Must Follow When a Loved One is Hospitalized
Patients need an advocate at the hospital around the clock, a job none of us gets training for…until now.

Summer Surgery Strategy
Is a hospital stay in your near future? Stay out of the hospital in the summer months if you can, but if you have to go, learn how to prepare for a successful hospital stay.

The Primary Nurse: A Lifeline For You And Your Hospitalized Loved One
Whether your loved one is in the ICU, Cardiac Wing, Med Surg or another section of the hospital, his or her primary nurse is their lifeline as well as your own.

Preventing Medical Errors In and Out of the Hospital

Think you can be a patient in the hospital without an advocate? Think Again.

10 Steps To Help Prevent Your Loved One From Getting Sick in the Hospital

How to Reach The Doctors During Your Loved One's Hospital Stay

The Primary Nurse: A Life Line For You in The Hospital

Afraid of deadly medication mistakes if you're in the hospital? 7 tips to prevent them

How to survive a hospital stay ten steps

Afraid of Deadly Medical Errors If You Have To Go Into The Hospital? 12 Tips to Prevent Them

Surgery in Your Near Future? Stay Out of the Hospital in the Summer Months

7 Tips to Comfort Your Hospitalized Parent

Older Patients Are At Risk in the Hospital. How To Be An Advocate for Your Parent, Grandparent, Spouse or Other Older Loved One


 

   


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Critical Conditions is the winner
of 15 awards including:

-Winner of the Best Health/Safety Book, Mom's Choice Awards, 2010

-Eric Hoffer Category Finalist Award, 2010

-Winner of the Book of the Year 2009 (Bronze), ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards.

-Winner of the Best Health Book of 2009, Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Awards

-Winner of How-To Book of the Year 2009, San Francisco Book Festival

-Winner of How-To Book of the Year 2009, Nashville Book Festival

-Winner of How-To Book of the Year 2009, New England Book Festival

-Winner of the Best Health Book of 2008, The Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards

-Winner of the Best Health Book of 2008, Books&Authors.net

-Winner of the Written Art Awards, Fall 2009, Non-fiction/self help (second place)

-Winner of the Best How-To Book of 2008, DIY Book Festival Awards

-Finalist Health Book of the Year 2009, National Indie Excellence Awards

-Finalist in 2009 Health/Wellness category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards

-Honorable Mention, Self-help Book of the Year, 2009, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Awards

-Award winning Finalist, Health, National Best Books 2009, USA Book News

 

 
   
   
     

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