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Nursing Management in the New Paradigm: Principles and Practices
ISBN: 9780834206205 / Angielski / Twarda / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A text for undergraduate professional nursing students, emphasizing communication in the context of management and leadership activities. Part I provides the foundation for understanding the evolving support structures of health care delivery. Part II explores issues related to the professional acco
A text for undergraduate professional nursing students, emphasizing communication in the context of management and leadership activities. Part I provi...
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502,64 |
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Physician's Gde to Disease Management
ISBN: 9780834210035 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is designed to provide the physician with a working knowledge of disease management. Providers and managed care organizations are expected to deliver high quality care to defined populations efficiently, therefore knowledge of disease management is crucial. Included are discussions of evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines and outcomes management.
This text is designed to provide the physician with a working knowledge of disease management. Providers and managed care organizations are expected t...
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Primary Care Women/Child with HIV
ISBN: 9780867207095 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the comprehensive health care needs of both women and children with HlV infection from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors represent a wide range of disciplines including medicine, nursing, social work, anthropology, and epidemiology. This text is ide al for all health care practitioners who provide care to women and chi ldren with HlV infection, from physicians, nurses, and midwives to soc ial workers, counselors, and chaplains. Administrators and program pla nners will also find this book to be a valuable resource.
This book addresses the comprehensive health care needs of both women and children with HlV infection from a multidisciplinary perspective. The author...
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Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America
ISBN: 9781586486624 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare$2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those Americans who are insured, many suffer from poor health. In his ground-breaking proposal, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offers up a plan to comprehensively restructure the delivery and quality of our healthcare. By eliminating employer-healthcare and establishing an independent program to evaluate healthcare plans and insurance companies, he offers a no-nonsense guide to how government can institute private insurance options that will allow each of us a...
America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare$2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those ...
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Bills of Health
ISBN: 9781857751017 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is it that NHS workers are continually complaining that the service is underfunded while the Government claims that it is increasing NHS funding year on year in real terms? Is someone being economical with the truth, or is there a deeper explanation? Richard Lawson shows that at least one fifth of the NHS clinical budget is spent on trying to cure illness caused by unemployment, poverty, bad housing and environmental pollution. The NHS has been falling behind in the race to keep up with deteriorating health caused by worsening social and environmental conditions. Bills of Health offers...
Why is it that NHS workers are continually complaining that the service is underfunded while the Government claims that it is increasing NHS funding y...
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Casemix for All
ISBN: 9781857752175 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is vital for health service managers and clinicians, in both purchaser and provider organizations, in community and hospital settings. It helps the reader understand the principles and purposes of casemix and provides practical examples of using casemix groupings to manage services better. Its lessons are not just for acute services, but provide a way of understanding the complete spectrum of services required for a wide range of conditions, from individuals at risk to those with irreversible and progressive disease. The book explains why casemix groups are useful and the reasons...
This book is vital for health service managers and clinicians, in both purchaser and provider organizations, in community and hospital settings. It he...
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Who Cares?: The Great British Health Debate
ISBN: 9781857752434 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are born into it, it is there throughout our lives, and we die in its care. As the National Health Service passes its fiftieth birthday, there is a growing fear that the foundations on which it was established are crumbling. This book looks behind the headlines and explains in a simple, straightforward way, what has happened to our NHS, and what future waits in store.The most recent NHS reforms - the internal market - will be replaced. But by what? Can the system be made more accountable? How can the balance of knowledge be shifted towards the patient? Is the NHS underfunded? Should some...
We are born into it, it is there throughout our lives, and we die in its care. As the National Health Service passes its fiftieth birthday, there is a...
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Information and It for Primary Care: Everything You Need to Know But Are Afraid to Ask
ISBN: 9781857753684 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information is a key resource to primary health care and is increasingly required in individual practices. This book will demystify the subject, which is often presented in complex terms. It sets out in a simple and interesting way what information those working in primary care will need, the systems required to deliver them and how to set them up. Information and IT for Primary Care uses exercises, stories, key points, case studies, model answers and think boxes. Worldwide web links refers the reader to resources and shows how to get the most out of your computer. The book is user-friendly,...
Information is a key resource to primary health care and is increasingly required in individual practices. This book will demystify the subject, which...
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The New GP: Changing Roles and the Modern Nhs
ISBN: 9781857754926 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains how and why the Government's healthcare policies and modernisation programme have had, and will continue to have, a major impact on the lives of individual general medical practitioners. Eminent contributors examine critical features of the modernisation programme, including managing demand, the application of triage and clinical governance, and discuss what patients and doctors can expect in the future, and where the health service is going.
This book explains how and why the Government's healthcare policies and modernisation programme have had, and will continue to have, a major impact on...
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The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives
ISBN: 9789056995560 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes.
This volume examines anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication progra...
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Activism and LGBT Psychology
ISBN: 9780789036742 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Go beyond traditional approaches to therapy, research, and teaching Psychotherapy works toward change, but has traditionally focused solely on the individual. Today it is understood that discrimination and other adverse social conditions adversely affect the mental health of minority groups. Activism and LGBT Psychology takes note of the influence of social factors and offers examples of how mental health professionals can use their professional skills to empower the LGBT community. Respected leaders in the field of psychotherapy describe theoretical, clinical, community interventions, and...
Go beyond traditional approaches to therapy, research, and teaching Psychotherapy works toward change, but has traditionally focused solely on the ind...
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Outdoor Environments for People with Dementia
ISBN: 9780789038043 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how gardens and parks can be beneficial to residents Mounting evidence reveals that nature and outdoor environments provide individuals with dementia greater enjoyment in life, lower stress levels, and positive changes to physical well-being. Outdoor Environments for People with Dementia explores how fulfilling the fundamental genetically based need of human relationships with nature can improve the health and well-being of people with dementia. Top experts analyze current research and comprehensively examine how the design processes of gardens and parks can be closely connected to...
Learn how gardens and parks can be beneficial to residents Mounting evidence reveals that nature and outdoor environments provide individuals with dem...
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Outdoor Environments for People with Dementia
ISBN: 9780789038050 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how gardens and parks can be beneficial to residents Mounting evidence reveals that nature and outdoor environments provide individuals with dementia greater enjoyment in life, lower stress levels, and positive changes to physical well-being. Outdoor Environments for People with Dementia explores how fulfilling the fundamental genetically based need of human relationships with nature can improve the health and well-being of people with dementia. Top experts analyze current research and comprehensively examine how the design processes of gardens and parks can be closely connected to...
Learn how gardens and parks can be beneficial to residents Mounting evidence reveals that nature and outdoor environments provide individuals with dem...
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Effective Privatization of a Community Mental Health Agency - Assessing and Developing an Agency's Readiness to Change
ISBN: 9783836439367 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the story of a county that privatized mental health services by forming a nonprofit agency. The privatization created massive change, and at this agency the change created results that differed from the dire negative images found in the literature.
One explanation for these positive outcome was the use of an organizational analogue of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, a practice developed by William Anthony, from Boston Universitys Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, to help people cope with change. At this nonprofit, the PR analogue was used to assess the agencys readiness... This book explores the story of a county that privatized mental health services by forming a nonprofit agency. The privatization created massive chan...
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Relationship of Patient Safety Practices to Patient Outcomes
ISBN: 9783836464093 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Secondary data were used to examine the relationships between hospital characteristics, utilization of patient safety practices, and patient outcomes in a stratified probability sample of acute care hospitals in 20 states in the US. Patient safety outcome rates for infections due to medical care, decubitus ulcers, failure to rescue, and post-operative respiratory failure were calculated using the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator software; multivariate regression was used to determine the statistical significance of the relationships. Hospital characteristics were inconsistently related to...
Secondary data were used to examine the relationships between hospital characteristics, utilization of patient safety practices, and patient outcomes ...
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Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States
ISBN: 9780195301533 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reviews evidence of health disparities among gay and bisexual men, identifying individual and community factors that have contributed to these disparities, and suggests strategies for public health efforts to eliminate inequality in the future.
This book reviews evidence of health disparities among gay and bisexual men, identifying individual and community factors that have contributed to the...
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Case Studies in Nursing Case Management
ISBN: 9780834207899 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Case Studies in Nursing Case Management provides portrayals of health care organizations around the nation that have successfully implemente d case management programs. It reports on how case management is being used in inpatient, ambulatory, operating room, intensive care, home h ealth, and subacute settings. Specific populations such as pediatric, maternity, dialysis, geriatric, psychiatric, and AIDS/HIV patients are also addressed. Case managers' roles in managed care and community-ba sed settings as well as in insurance companies are described.
Case Studies in Nursing Case Management provides portrayals of health care organizations around the nation that have successfully implemente d case ma...
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Explosion and Blast-Related Injuries: Effects of Explosion and Blast from Military Operations and Acts of Terrorism
ISBN: 9780123695147 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explosion and Blast-Related Injuries is an authoritative text that brings together diverse knowledge gained from both the experience of clinicians treating blast casualties and the insights of scientists obtained from research and modeling of blast exposures. By providing information on explosion and blast injury patterns, as well as the mechanism of blast-induced injuries, it is a useful reference for both physicians and researchers. With contributions by experts from around the globe, the book covers topics such as the epidemiology of blast and explosion injury, pathology and...
Explosion and Blast-Related Injuries is an authoritative text that brings together diverse knowledge gained from both the experience of clinici...
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The Care of the Uninsured in America
ISBN: 9780387783079 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Dr. Cullen's chapter on information technology points out, what is required is not just a new electronic system that follows the patients, but a new language that creates and defines a system that can appropriately care for the patient. What we design for the complexities of caring for the medically underserved can serve as model for caring for everyone in this country. Many innovative, bold, and wonderful solutions have been developed as local/ regional models. As communities and states we can learn from, and support, each other. But the local models are not, by and large,...
As Dr. Cullen's chapter on information technology points out, what is required is not just a new electronic system that follows the patients, but a ne...
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200,77 |
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Empowered Work Teams in Long-Term Care: Strategies for Improving Outcomes for Residents & Staff
ISBN: 9781932529418 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creating empowered work teams--a method of involving non-management employees in brainstorming, problem solving, and decision making within an organization--has proven successful in the manufacturing sector and is now being applied to the long-term care field. This practical guide illustrates the far-reaching benefits of empowered work teams in long-term care organizations and explains in everyday terms how to implement the concept. Embracing the goals of the culture change movement, empowered work teams infuse direct care workers with a sense of efficacy and accountability. These...
Creating empowered work teams--a method of involving non-management employees in brainstorming, problem solving, and decision making within an organiz...
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