Hospital Administration category: 168 books
by Florence Nightingale
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as The Lady with the Lamp, the tireless caretaker of...
Paramedics On and Off the Streets
Emergency Medical Services in the Age of Technological Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta.
Corman’s comprehensive research includes more than 200 hours of participant observation ride-alongs...
Heal Your Hospital
Studierende für neue Wege der Gesundheitsversorgung
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Wie sähe ein Gesundheitssystem aus, in dem der Patient im Mittelpunkt steht? Wie können ihre Beschäftigten die Selbstheilungskräfte effektiver stärken? Welches Vergütungssystem erfasst die Qualität medizinischer (Be-)Handlung am besten? Diese und andere Fragen diskutierten Studierende der Universität...
The Checklist Manifesto
How to Get Things Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Over the decades, the fields of health information systems and informatics have seen rapid growth. Such integrative efforts within the two disciplines have resulted in emerging innovations within the realm of medicine and healthcare. The Handbook of Research on Emerging Perspectives on Healthcare...
Find the Black Box
Prevent Needless Hospital Deaths
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
200,000 preventable deaths each year in the US healthcare system is like having 20
Boeing 747 airliners crashing each week. Things are bad in our nations healthcare
delivery system; people are dying needlessly in hospitals every single day. In Find
the Black Box, author Dr. Ira Williams provides a...
Emergency Department Design
A Practical Guide to Planning for the Future, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Emergency Department Design: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Future, second edition, is a one-of-a-kind resource written by the nation's foremost authority on emergency department design and published by the world's largest emergency medicine organization. It explains the architectural design...
The Quality Playbook
A Step-by-Step Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The Quality Playbook and the companion Workbook (which you can purchase separately on the publisher's website www.SecondRiverHealthcare.com) are about creating great clinical outcomes and safer care for patients, families, and communities; creating healthcare organizations that rank at the top...
Medicine at Michigan
A History of the University of Michigan Medical School at the Bicentennial
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
A trailblazer in American medical education since 1850, the Medical School at the University of Michigan was the first program in the United States to own and operate its own hospital and the earliest major medical school to admit women. In the late nineteenth century, the School emerged as a frontrunner...
Five Easy Steps to Prevent Falls
The Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Patients of All Ages Safe; not Five Easy Steps to Prevent Falls The Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Despite new approaches, education and increased focus on preventative measures, patients are still falling. The facts are undeniable: Up to 50 percent of hospitalized patients are at risk for falls, and almost half of those who fall suffer an injury. Falls not only impact patients, they also directly...
Paging God
Religion in the Halls of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how...
Care Coordination
The Game Changer How Nursing is Revolutionizing Quality Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Care coordination has always been a primary duty of nursing. Care Coordination: The Game Changer offers today’s most comprehensive insights, case studies, and strategies to advance nursing's role in care coordination and healthcare transformation. Care Coordination is the first book to show in clear,...
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 2: Patient Blood Management in a Jehova's Witness trauma patient
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Patients involved in major trauma frequently suffer from severe blood loss and anemia, which can be challenging to treat. Additional issues are presented in the population of Jehovah’s Witness patients, who refuse transfusions of allogenic blood or its components. We established a stable hemodynamic...
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 1: The importance of preoperative evaluation of hemostasis and anemia
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This case report describes the poor outcome of a female patient who underwent elective nephrectomy. Unfortunately, the patient was suffering from undiagnosed preoperative platelet dysfunction and anemia, although blood count and clotting were almost within normal ranges two weeks earlier at the day...