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by Stephen C. Schimpff, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Approximately 100,000 deaths per year in the United States result from preventable medical errors. This figure is about twice the number of people who die in car accidents and five times the number of murder victims annually, and twenty times the number of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan...
The Secrets of Medical Decision Making
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn't. This new book shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient. Dr. Reznik describes actual cases from his clinical...
Your Money or Your Life
Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told,...
by Kathleen Heery, MS RN CCM
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
After many years in the health care and insurance industries, author Kathleen Heery MS, RN, CCM was struck by the reality that health care services could better align with health and that the chaos and expense in receiving these services could be better coordinated. The Affordable Care Act, also called...
Coercive Care
Rights, Law and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue. This edited volume explores the concept of ‘coercive care’ in relation...
by Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, Karen Goldsteen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The eighth edition of this best-selling text, valued for its concise and balanced introduction to the U.S. health care system, is entirely updated to reflect alterations to health care services, delivery, and financing resulting from the Affordable Care Act. The text describes how our health care...
The Public-private Health Care State
Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. The Public-Private Health Care State explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health...
Selling Our Souls
The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but...
Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse
Critical Care Nursing in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This pocket-sized reference for new and seasoned intensive care unit (ICU) nurses contains critical knowledge presented in the clear, precise, "Fact Facts" format. It provides quick access to a broad array of guidelines, procedures, and equipment used by ICU nurses daily as well as on a less frequent...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The only text to combine comprehensive physiology of the neonate with nursing management, it has been extensively used worldwide for education, orientation, and training since its original publication in 1993. Thoroughly updated, this new edition incorporates the most up-to-date research findings...
by Jerome Beker
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work presents and illustrates an anthropological model of child and youth care work and explores the associated benefits of such an approach. Author Rivka A. Eisikovits’model enhances workers’on-the-job effectiveness with clients and co-workers and improves...
by Doug Elliott, RN, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Developed in conjunction with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN), the text has been written and edited by the most senior and experienced critical care nursing clinicians and academics across the region. ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing is a resource that will foster the development...
Manual of Critical Care Nursing - E-Book
Nursing Interventions and Collaborative Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
It's the ideal go-to reference for the clinical setting! Compact and easy to use, Manual of Critical Care Nursing, 6th Edition presents essential information on approximately 80 disorders and conditions, as well as concepts relevant to caring for all critically ill patients and functioning in the...
by Mary Fran Hazinski
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Now completely up to date to meet the needs of today's pediatric nurses, Mary Fran Hazinski's Nursing Care of the Critically Ill Child, 3rd Edition, remains the foundational text of pediatric critical care nursing. Known for its outstanding organization and clear descriptions, this comprehensive reference...