Care category: 6811 books
by Elsevier
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Learn how to effectively manage both people and a practice as a health care administrator with Elsevier’s Introduction to Health Services Administration. This comprehensive and easy-to-understand text includes an overview of health care delivery in the United States along with an exploration of...
by Judah L. Ronch
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
“…a particularly valuable resource for healthcare management and quality improvement professionals and students who are the successors of the culture change legacy.” —Michael James Lepore, Ph.D., Director of Quality, Research & Evaluation (Planetree), Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health...
by Barb Page RN, MSN, MBC
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What may be the first and only client service model for the nursing industry called, Performance-based NursingTM is strategically and thoughtfully presented in this book including the four key elements and foundational elements. There is nothing like this in the market today for nursing.
For...
Annual Review of Health Care Management
Revisiting the Evolution of Health Systems Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Dramatic changes to the structure of health systems since the 1980s has seen the development of large, integrated health organizations designed to provide scale and scope advantages, improve the quality of care and health outcomes, and provide greater bargaining power relative to payers and large...
Effective Staff Training in Social Care
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Effective Staff Training in Social Care provides a theoretical framework for training and professional development, focusing on group learning in a social care context. It tackles the tensions and dilemmas of those engaged in training amidst a climate of change and a mixed economy of welfare and examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book highlights views on responsive, participatory and democratic approaches to evaluation from an ethos of care. It critically scrutinizes and discusses the invisibility of care in our contemporary Western societies and evaluation practices that aim to measure practices by external standards....
by Jeyasankar Jeyanathan, Daniel Owens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has become widely employed in intensive care medicine (ICM) exams such as the UK Final Fellowship of Intensive Care Medicine (FFICM), the European Diploma of Intensive Care (EDIC) exam, or the Australia and New Zealand Fellowship of the College of...
Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care
Strategies for Prevention, Early Detection, and Successful Management of Perioperative Complications
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
This handbook is aimed at first-line health care providers involved in the perioperative care of adult and pediatric neurosurgical patients. It is unique in its systematic focus on how to deal with common and important clinical challenges encountered in day-to-day practice in the OR, the PACU, and...
Power and Conflict Between Doctors and Nurses
Breaking Through the Inner Circle in Clinical Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Through observations in three intensive care units, this book draws on the reality of practice to explore how nurses and doctors work in intensive care settings. It examines:
· the power held by the competing knowledge bases
· the roles of the different professions
· the decision-making...
Tears In My Gumbo
The Caregiver's Recipe for Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Tears in My Gumbo, The Caregiver's Recipe for Resilience is a heartfelt manuscript that speaks personally and passionately to the 44 million caregivers caught up in the silver tsunami sweeping this country and for all of the people who care about the caregiver. The book inspires and supports caregivers...
by Kathleen J. Prater, CCT
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
A step-by-step guide to mastering recognition and interpretation of pediatric EKGs for pediatric nurses at all levels, physician assistants, residents, paramedics, medical students, and technicians.
This time-tested publication has successfully trained numerous pediatric nurses from a leading...
Palliative Care for Children and Families
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Providing an in-depth look at the issues surrounding the palliative care of children and their families, this innovative text considers children with both malignant and non-malignant conditions, and the specialist care required. By addressing the complexities of providing palliative care to children,...
Listening for What Matters
Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Effective health care requires physicians tailor care to patients' individual life contexts, including their financial situation, social support, competing responsibilities, and cognitive abilities. Physicians, however, are poorly prepared to consider patients' lives when planning their care. The...
by Marianne Chulay, Suzanne Burns, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses AACN
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Essential Data Critical Care Nurses Must Know Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, this go-anywhere handbook features tables and figures that encapsulate all the information required to give safe and effective care to critically ill patients. Contents include:...