Visionary Leadership in Healthcare
Awarded first place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Nursing Management and Leadership!This book informs healthcare leaders to implement leadership theories at the micro and macro systems level. At a micro level, it explains how leaders build and maintain a healthy work environment at the individual or team levels. At the macro level, the book discusses leadership's role in facilitating change at the organizational, health system, national, global, and even planetary levels. It also expands leadership knowledge on how leaders can influence and transform practice, including policy change, disaster management, political and social determinants of health, diversity, equity, inclusion, and the Ethics of Belonging. Each chapter has a section to introduce how to integrate theories into practice.This book is timely, especially during this challenging time of pandemic. The chapters address ways to nurture a healthy work environment, mitigate organizational trauma, foster resilience, improve interprofessional collaboration, and promote exceptional patient experiences. The book gathers great minds in healthcare to make it unique from others. Each chapter uses a collective voice to shape the future of healthcare. The authors provide practical strategies for healthcare leaders to face the challenges regarding innovation, complexity, systems, and partnership in healthcare.The book comprises five parts, which support leadership development in clinical practice or academic settings. With an emphasis on collaboration and partnerships, it moves away from hierarchical forms of leadership to more engaged, open, equitable, inclusive, authentic, and caring styles. Following is a brief introduction of the five parts. Part 1 presents leadership theories in organizations. There are four chapters in this part. Part 2 addresses healthy work environments. The four chapters in this part support readers in establishing and promoting organizational culture and environments. Part 3 introduces and explains ways to apply novice leadership theories to practice. Part 4 is about collaboration, leading change, and innovation. Part 5 is about envisioning the future of healthcare leadership.Finally, this book guides readers to explore leadership possibilities and prospects from different standpoints. Our interpretation of leadership continues to grow. Through this leadership book, we hope readers create a vision beyond our current systems toward a global, life-sustaining perspective, inspired and moved to actions that promote the transformation and revolution of healthcare by leading to sustainable health and humanity.
Doc-Related 2022
Health care is the largest employer in the United States (U.S.), with over 16 million people in the industry. Over one million of them are practicing physicians. I'm one of them. Nearly 70 percent of physicians are employed by hospitals or corporate entities. Corporate entities include health insurers, private equity firms, and entities that own multiple physician practices.For physicians, rising practice costs and stagnant reimbursements have made it difficult to be independent. Doctors also see the writing on the wall related to emerging payment models that will require large financial investments in care management and information technology. In addition, the physician workforce is getting younger, and they desire more work-life balance, not the long hours I practiced earlier in my career. The result is that healthcare professionals are sacrificing full autonomy for stability.When I began practicing in 2001, I was the medical director of a rural clinic in Texas, performing the full scope of family medicine, including clinic, inpatient care, emergency room, nursing home, and even home visits. I delivered babies, performed c-sections, endoscopies, tubal ligations, tonsillectomies and assisted with various other surgeries. I followed my patients and their families throughout the continuum of care.Back then, I worked endless hours, but always loved what I did. That was a time before electronic health records and other programs and regulations increased the workload of what we do today. I'm not trying to argue against these measures, but they have taken a toll on the joy of practicing medicine.While practicing rural medicine, I realized I knew little about the business side of medicine, so I went back to school to get my Master of Business Administration (MBA). The business degree gave me new insights on streamlining workflows, health care finance, and how our system compares to other developed countries. It ignited a passion for me to change the industry on a bigger scale.As I've transitioned from full-time clinical care to more administrative responsibilities, it's been eye-opening to see how organizations make strategic and financial decisions. Research shows that only 16 percent ofhealth care organizations consider the impact of strategic decisions on the resilience and well-being of those affected. I initially thought writing about the inefficiencies in our health care system and its impact on health care professionals would be dated. That organizations would have solved this problem. Unfortunately, not much has changed over the last few years. I've always had a sense of humor about health care. This became official when my classmates named me class comedian in medical school. Malcolm Gladwell said, "Comedians have become the truth tellers. Satire allows you to say almost anything. That's where truth is spoken to power in our society. When you sugar-coat a bitter truth with humor, it makes the medicine go down."
Deaf Rhetoric
This book guides healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and medical interpreters in the United States (and internationally) in ways to better communicate with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) patients and sign language interpreters in healthcare settings. It also provides an overview of the healthcare communication issues with healthcare professionals and D/HH patients, and the advantages and disadvantages of using in-person interpreters vs. video remote interpreting (VRI). Due to technology development, hospital administrators have popularized the use of VRI and reduced the number of in-person interpreting services, which have negatively affected the quality of medical interpreting services and patient-provider communication. The COVID-19 pandemic also has accelerated the move toward more VRI, particularly in the US.The book addresses an understudied aspect of access and is written by an international deaf researcher from Japan who uses American Sign Language(ASL) and English as non-native languages. In order to identify appropriate interpreting services for specific treatments, the author focuses on healthcare professionals' and D/HH patients' interpreting preferences for critical and non-critical care in the US, and offers a new theoretical framework, an Ecology of Health Communication, to contextualize and analyze these preferences. The ecological matrix and its five analytical dimensions (i.e., physical-material, psychological, social, spatial, and temporal) allow readers to understand how these dimensions influence healthcare professionals' and D/HH patients' interpreting preferences as well as the treatment outcomes. This book concludes by prioritizing the use of an appropriate interpreter for specific treatments and allocating funds for in-person interpreters for critical care treatments.Deaf Rhetoric: An Ecology of Health Communication is primarily designed for healthcare professional students and professionals, hospital administrators, medical interpreters, VRI companies, and healthcare researchers. Scholars interested in the communication preferences of healthcare professionals and deaf people also will find this text useful. The book counters some of the power differences between healthcare providers and those who use medical services, and subtly reminds others that deaf people are not solely the receivers of medical care but actually are full people. The field of health care is growing and medical schools are increasingly called on to address cultural competencies; this resource provides a needed intervention.
Practical Strategies to Assess Value in Health Care
These days, the idea of "value" is at the center of many activities and decisions in health care in the United States. While there exist books that detail the technical steps for how to carry out a specific type of value assessment, such as cost-effectiveness or return on investment, there are few that attempt to teach healthcare professionals how to think about value. This book provides a deeper understanding of value as a concept as well as an endeavor (as in, to determine or uncover the value of care) within the healthcare industry by illustrating the different components of value that should guide decision-making processes for policy, infrastructure, and quality improvement. Through an exploration of theories of economics and implementation science, as well as practical suggestions for real-world applications, this text provides a foundation for the long and complicated "value" journey the US has bet its entire healthcare system on. In the US, policy to promote what is referred to as "value-based care" is here to stay. As we move forward within this construct, we need to move beyond the over-simplified definition of value as "quality per dollar spent" to a more functional framework for how to think about value that can adapt to different circumstances and points of view. Only then will it be possible to compare value across settings, conditions, and activities.The book consists of 9 chapters organized in four sections: Part I: Understanding the Challenges of Assessing the Value of Health Care Part II: A Primer on Fundamental Concepts and Current Techniques Used to Measure Value in Health Care Part III: A Discussion of the Real-world Motivations and Requirements that Should be Contemplated when Exploring ValuePart IV: How to Design and Perform a Value Assessment Practical Strategies to Assess Value in HealthCare is an essential resource for healthcare professionals at all levels and points of care who are interested in understanding how best to assess and interpret value for a particular situation including providers, administrators, payers, insurers, health plans, and policy-makers.
FACILITATOR GUIDE for Visionary Leadership in Healthcare
This Facilitator Guide is designed to work with the textbook and Learner Activities Workbook and follows a similar format. It includes reflective questions and guiding answers, narratives and guiding responses, quizzes and answers, and PowerPoint slides. Learners can use the reflective questions and narratives to guide their reading, thinking, and group discussions or activities. Like the textbook, this Facilitator Guide comprises five parts, which support nurse leaders' development in clinical practice or academic settings. PART I -- The guide presents leadership theories in organizations. There are four topics in this part, which are close-ly connected: PART II -- Leadership's roles in creating healthy work environments are addressed. The four topics in this part sup-port readers in establishing and promoting organizational culture and environments: PART III -- Four visionary leadership theories are applied in practice: PART IV -- The role of nurse leadership in collaboration, leading change, and innovation is presented: PART V -- The last part envisions the future of nurse leadership: With an emphasis on collaboration and partnerships, this book moves away from hierarchical forms of leadership to teach more engaged, open, equitable, inclusive, authentic and caring leadership styles.
McQs and Sbas in Intensive Care Medicine
Prepare with confidence for the FFICM and EDIC with this dedicated guide featuring 300 original multiple choice (MCQ) and single best answer questions (SBAs) covering the whole FICM curricula. Organized into ten practice papers so readers can practice the style and format of the real exam, questions cover a broad range of intensive care topics for postgraduate exams. Each answer includes a full explanation, up-to-date evidence-based guidelines and sources for further reading to ensure high-quality self-assessment. Written by a team of consultants, these original and high-quality questions have been developed over years of clinical experience. This invaluable resource provides intensive care medicine trainees with an ideal companion for the FFICM and EDIC and other postgraduate critical care exams.
In Their Own Words
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a doctor in today's highly regulated and often dysfunctional healthcare system? Would it interest you to learn why so many physicians are disillusioned with the conditions in which they are obliged to practice? Are you concerned about doctor shortages that could limit access to medical care? Would you like to know what physicians themselves have to say about the challenges, joys and sorrows of medical practice?
The Practitioner's Credo
As practitioners, it is easy to fall into the trap of exaggerated self-importance as we complete our education and move into the world of the professional. At that moment, the aura of being something special is there for the taking. We have worked hard, accomplished a major objective in life goals, attained the cultural level where respect has been secured with the potential to earn income such that we should never have to want for anything of a practical nature. Each of us during our training and schooling has striven to excel to demonstrate superior ability as we competed against other students for recognition of our accomplishments and our abilities. Yet, once we achieve the goal of becoming the professional that we aspire to be, we must step back and reflect on what we have and who we are. A successful practitioner is one who realizes that respect is a two-way street.
Patient Care Technician Study Guide
Introducing our Patient Care Technician Study Guide: CPCT Exam Prep Book with Practice Test Questions! Ascencia Test Prep's Patient Care Technician Study Guide includes everything you need to pass the Certified Patient Care Technician/Assistant (CPCT/A) exam the first time.Quick review of the concepts covered on the CPCT/ATWO full practice tests with detailed answer explanationsTips and tricks from experienced Certified Patient Care TechniciansAscencia Test Prep's Patient Care Technician Study Guide is aligned with the official CPCT/A framework. Topics covered include: Anatomy and PhysiologyPatient CarePsychosocial Care SkillsInfection Control Compliance, Safety, and Professional ResponsibilityBlood Specimen CollectionNon-Blood Specimen CollectionSpecimen Handling, Transport, and ProcessingElectrocardiograms (EKGs) The National Healthcareer Association (NHA) was not involved in the creation or production of this product, is not in any way affiliated with Ascencia Test Prep, and does not sponsor or endorse this product. About Ascencia Test PrepAt Ascencia Test Prep, we understand that healthcare professionals need high-quality educational resources. That's why our test prep materials are developed by credentialed experts with years of experience who are excited to share their knowledge with you. Whether you're just starting your career or ready to climb higher, we're here to help you feel ready on test day.
Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity, Spring 2021
The Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Research, Education and Policy is an open access journal published by Winston-Salem State University with support from the National Association of Medical Minority Educators. Visit www.uncpress.org for open access links and more information. Articles in Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 2021) are: - Diversifying Healthcare Fields by Enhancing Pipeline Initiatives- Impact of Diversity and Inclusion Education on Team Member Engagement- Open Space Technology: A Novel Strategy to Build an Inclusive Environment and Attract a More Diverse Workforce- Advancing Culturally Competent Healthcare Delivery through Interprofessional Collaborative Practice- The Development and Pilot Testing of an Evidence-Based Cardiovascular Disease Risk-Prevention Program to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Among African-American College Students - Rams Have HEART- Exploring the Inclusion of Cultural Competence, Cultural Humility, and Diversity Concepts as Learning Objectives or Outcomes in Healthcare Curricula- COVID-19 Challenges: Lessons Learned in an HBCU Nursing Education Program
Learning and Behaviour in Medicine
This concise, practical guide supports a broadly based understanding of continuing medical education and professional development, without being overly theoretical. Opening with the history of CME and CPD, their definitions and the difference between them, this book discusses recent changes in the culture of learning in medicine, including the transition of CME from didactic teaching to interactive, focused adult learning. It describes the replacement of a curricular approach by education driven by need, which, in turn, is defined by discovery and analysis of professional practice gaps. Particular emphasis is placed on the misdiagnosis gap, its causation and impact on patient care.Key Features Articulates the essential difference between CME and undergraduate and postgraduate medical education Highlights the importance of professional practice gap discovery and analysis Outlines the planning and design of CME in relation to Moore's Outcomes Pyramid Describes the various modalities of CME provision, methods of outcome assessment and accreditation systems Confirms the critical role that CPD plays in revalidation and maintenance of certification, with important considerations around fitness to practise It is essential reading for those who use CME and those who plan, design, deliver and accredit CME, including practising healthcare professionals from all specialties, and CME providers, both independent and linked to specialist societies.
Caring for Others Amid Covid-19
The book documents Recruitment and Retention in Long Term Care, in the Backdrop of Covid-19. Sustaining standards of care, cost structure and customer value are critical while recruiting and retaining talent for America's most deserving clients.
Caring for Others Amid Covid-19
The book documents Recruitment and Retention in Long Term Care, in the Backdrop of Covid-19. Sustaining standards of care, cost structure and customer value are critical while recruiting and retaining talent for America's most deserving clients.
Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care
Death, dying, loss, and care giving are not just medical issues, but societal ones. Palliative care has become increasingly professionalised, focused around symptom science. With this emphasis on minimizing the harms of physical, psychological, and spiritual stress, there has been a loss of how cultures and communities look after their dying, with the wider social experience of death often sidelined in the professionalisation and medicalisation of care. However, the people we know and love in the places we know and love make up what matters most for those undergoing the experiences of death, loss, and care giving. Over the last 25 years the theory, practice, research evidence base, and clinical applications have developed, generating widespread adoption of the principles of public health approaches to palliative care. The essential principles of prevention, harm reduction, early intervention, and health and wellbeing promotion can be applied to the universal experience of end of life, irrespective of disease or diagnosis. Compassionate communities have become a routine part of the strategy and service development in palliative care, both within the UK and internationally. The Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care provides a reframing of palliative care, bringing together the full scope of theory, practice, and evidence into one volume. Written by international leaders in the field, it provides the first truly comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the subject that will help to further inform developments in this growing specialty.
Successful Change Management in Health Care
Change is frequent in healthcare, yet change management is often far from perfect. This book considers the complexity of change within large organisations, explores existing models of change and emphasises the vital role of emotional and cognitive readiness in successful change management. Despite the plethora of organisational change management approaches used in healthcare, the success rate of change in organisations can be as low as 30 percent. New thinking about change management is required to improve success in service development, improvement and innovation. Arguing that emotional and cognitive readiness for change requires engagement with the people involved, and a thorough understanding of areas of friction and potential challenge, this book also delves into the neglected issue of emotion, examining emotional labour and emotion and change. It investigates how human emotion can be incorporated into Change Management Models, alongside and intertwined with cognitive approaches, to support effective change. Using the NHS as a central case study, this book incorporates examples of actual change from a range of healthcare settings from acute to primary care, enabling readers to see how Change Management Models can be adapted and utilised in practice. This is an essential read for students, as future change leaders, and practitioners and managers leading and managing change in healthcare.
27 Days in November
27 Days in November - Daisy's Story could not be written by Daisy herself. During her life, Daisy has recovered from a malignant brain tumour, a fat embolism in her lung that developed after a simple broken leg, which caused acute respiratory failure resulting in a 27 day stay in an Intensive Care Unit (much like what happens to the worst affected COVID-19 patients) and twenty years later, a stroke. Her survival, achievements, and triumph of character in the face of such experiences are remarkable. Our society doesn't usually see or acknowledge lives like Daisy's, and stories like hers are rarely told.Daisy's story moves back and forth in time to show how the past continues to resonate in the present day, and its fragmented structure reflects the incalculable effect of serious illness. There are letters, hospital literature and excerpts from medical papers to show the complexity and strangeness of Daisy's experiences, and of the person who tells her story, her mum.27 Days in November - Daisy's Story is a love letter from a mother to a daughter.
Every Deep-Drawn Breath
Winner of a Christopher Award--now with a discussion guide "Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books like this one, is that the ICU experience can be changed for the better" (The Washington Post) for both patients and their families. You will learn how in this timely, urgent, and compassionate work by a world-renowned critical care doctor.In this rich blend of science, medical history, profoundly humane patient stories, and personal reflection, Dr. Wes Ely describes his mission to prevent ICU patients from being harmed by the technology that is keeping them alive. Readers will experience the world of critical care through the eyes of a physician who drastically changed his clinical practice to offer person-centered health care and through cutting-edge research convinced others to do the same. Dr. Ely's groundbreaking investigations advanced the understanding of post- intensive care struggles and introduced crucial changes that reshaped treatment: minimizing sedation, maximizing mobility, and providing supportive aftercare. Dr. Ely shows that there are ways to bring humanity into the ICU and that "technology plus touch" is a proven path toward returning ICU patients to the lives they had before their hospital stays. An essential resource for anyone who will be affected by illness--which is all of us.
A Case of Culture
There are three major healing traditions in the world: Western biomedicine, supernatural healing, and holistic healing. In a world of increasingly blended cultures, languages, and traditions, what happens when these contrasting healing practices clash? In A Case of Culture, author Snigdha Nandipati delves into the unspoken challenges that immigrant patients face when seeking healthcare in the West, exploring how we can bridge these cultural divides in our healthcare system. The solution? Cultural brokers.In this book, readers will learn how cultural brokers advocate for their patients, enhance the patient-doctor relationship, and build cultural humility in the healthcare setting through stories such as: the hospitalist who revived her unconscious elderly Indian patient by calling her "Aunty"the Latino Evangelical priest who used his sermon to encourage worshippers to get vaccinated against COVID-19the psychiatrist who gained the trust of his Telugu patient with the skillful balance of spirituality and medicineReaders will better understand how culture plays a role in the medical care that is provided and how cultural brokers work to fill the growing culture gap in healthcare. This book will speak to healthcare providers and immigrant families alike - those who hope to look at culture and healthcare with fresh eyes.
Medicinal Plants
This book gives many examples of medicinal plants. It also describes the medicinal effects of these plants, and describes the mechanisms of action of many medicinal plant extracts. This book will be informative to many people in the world who currently want to include more plant-based foods and "herbs" in their diets. It will also educate those people who want to take plant materials as infusions/effusions or as smoothies to obtain micronutrients.
Conflicted Care
An eye-opening and compelling ethnography about how doctors make decisions The oath that doctors take to "do no harm" suggests that patient welfare is at the center of what it means to be a successful medical professional. It is also understood, however, that hospitals are not only vessels for medical care--they are businesses, educational institutions, and complex bureaucracies with intricate codes of etiquette that dictate how each staff member should approach situations with patients. In Conflicted Care, Hyeyoung Oh Nelson provides an in-depth look at the decision-making processes of physicians at a large, prestigious academic medical center--that she calls Pacific Medical Center--and finds that more often than not patient wellbeing is only one of several factors governing day-to-day decisions. The steps physicians take reveal a kind of hidden curriculum of the medical world, one that is guided by status and hierarchy, bureaucracy, norms for consulting with third-parties, regulations for interactions with patients, and medical uncertainty. While at an institutional and individual level patient care continues to be integral to everything the physicians do, they are forced to reconcile that vow with these other, often-conflicting internal logics. Harm, Nelson argues, is thus built into the practice of medicine in the United States. This harm can take the form of unnecessary treatments and consultations or inadequate treatment for pain to motivate specialist intervention that would otherwise be resisted. These and other practices have the overall consequence of significantly driving up inpatient care costs, which then results in patients forgoing needed, ongoing treatment once they receive their medical bills. Drawing on a deep ethnography of physicians in the Internal Medicine Service unit, Nelson offers a sharp assessment of current policies aimed at alleviating medical costs and explains why they are ineffective. She concludes by offering novel policy and practice recommendations for health care practitioners, policy makers, and healthcare institutions.
Essentials for Quality and Safety Improvement in Health Care
Patient safety and quality improvement in health care remain a global priority. Subpar performance in health care, however, is still common more than a decade after the christening of patient safety in Africa. The core principle of safety and quality improvement systems is to identify and assess the root cause of failures in order to learn from them and devise a means to improve and to avoid recurrence. This book is designed to encourage, facilitate and empower healthcare workers in the development and implementation of strategically driven patient safety and quality improvement initiatives for safer healthcare systems and healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Africa. It also highlights some of the profound challenges and barriers to designing and implementing patient safety and quality improvement interventions or programmes in the region and reiterates the need to remain focused and determined to work out solutions with confidence and overcomethese barriers. In the book, chapters highlight six essential components crucial for achieving evolutionary progress in safety and quality improvement in a healthcare system: Standard operating procedureAuditResearchSafety managementQuality managementEvaluationPractical steps in planning and conducting these six essential components are outlined with some specific features to aid learning and facilitate their implementation. The authors have experience and expertise in the medical practice gained in Africa and a decade of knowledge and experience from consultancy work in safety and quality improvement in health care within and outside the region. Essentials for Quality and Safety Improvement in Health Care: A Resource for Developing Countries is authored for both medical professionals and thosefrom other professions who are interested in and enthusiastic about patient safety and healthcare quality and therefore willing to build a career in this field. It is relevant to all health institutions, health and non-health workers, and can be used as a checklist while rendering quality and safe health care.
Permission to Care
Are you tired of feeling like you aren't permitted to connect with your patients?Can you envision creating a less sterile healthcare experience? Pharmacist Cory Jenks had all the elements to make a competent healthcare professional. Good looks, academic accolades, multiple board certifications, and a competitive residency. However, none of these items prepared him for truly caring for his patients in a chaotic healthcare environment, and he was struggling. After implementing lessons he learned as an improv comedian, Cory's perspective began to shift. In these pages, Cory takes you through the comical and powerful tools needed to create a memorable, humanizing experience for your patients and colleagues. You'll learn how to - Prepare for the unpredictability of healthcare.- Find more joy in your day-to-day work.- Express your personality while connecting with your patients. In whatever capacity you support patients and their families, this book will help you become a dynamic, adaptable, and empathetic caregiver.
Sudden Leadership
In a creative yet straightforward fashion, Dr. Malcolm Ogborn provides a valuable and insightful resource that can support professionals, particularly physicians, who find themselves thrust into leadership roles requiring knowledge and skills that have not been part of their professional training. Sudden Leadership follows the early leadership journeys of two fictitious physicians. For each scenario in which the characters find themselves, Dr. Ogborn reviews relevant, evidence-based literature and offers pragmatic and field-tested approaches that allow new professional leaders to face their challenges with confidence. Topics include defining one's identity as leader, attracting and engaging followers, motivating and managing others doing the work, running productive meetings, handling tough conversations, mastering time allocation, managing conflict, avoiding burnout, and leading system improvement.Engaging and educational, Sudden Leadership will make a vital addition to any professional's library.
Sudden Leadership
If you have been tapped on the shoulder to take on a formal or informal physician, medical, healthcare or technical field leadership role, and are wondering "How do I do this?", this book is here to help. In a creative yet straightforward fashion, Dr. Malcolm Ogborn provides a valuable and insightful resource that can support professionals, particularly physicians, who find themselves thrust into leadership roles requiring knowledge and skills that have not been part of their professional training.Sudden Leadership follows the early leadership journeys of two fictitious physicians. For each scenario in which the characters find themselves, Dr. Ogborn reviews relevant, evidence-based literature and offers pragmatic and field-tested approaches that allow new professional leaders to face their challenges with confidence. Topics include- defining your leadership, including knowing when to take a leadership role and when to turn it down- attracting and, more importantly, engaging followers and knowing when to lead by being a good follower- motivating and managing others doing the work and mastering the skills of delegation- running meetings that actually work rather than get in the way of work- handling tough conversations skilfully to achieve progress not confrontation- strong team leadership by embracing the natural development of teams and skillfully adapting your leadership style to changing team needs- mastering time allocation by understanding how you think about time, how you make time related decisions, and how you hold your self accountable for good use of your time.- successfully managing conflict as an inevitable and surprisingly productive part of human experience.- preventing burnout by recognizing it as an occupational phenomenon, not a mental illness- leading change or system improvement through clear targeting, familiarity with the determinants of change acceptance, well-planned and skilled advocacy and effective recruitment of a change team and alliesEngaging and educational, Sudden Leadership will make a vital addition to any professional's library.
Core Competencies of Civility in Nursing & Healthcare
Incivility and other workplace aggressions have a significant impact on the lives of healthcare professionals, faculty, and students, as well as the patients and families in their care. Incivility in academic and practice environments can provoke uncertainty and self-doubt, weaken self-confidence, and cause detrimental and lasting effects on individuals, teams, and organizations. These behaviors can fracture relationships and result in life-threatening mistakes, preventable complications, harm, or even the death of a patient.In Core Competencies of Civility in Nursing & Healthcare, Cynthia Clark-a nurse-leader dedicated to organizational change and an unwavering advocate for civility and dignity for all-provides an abundance of practical solutions to create and sustain communities of civility, diversity, inclusion, and respect in academic and healthcare environments. Using a wealth of evidence-based interventions, hands-on tools, and scholarly resources, this book expands current thinking on the topic of civility to create and support healthy, productive work and learning environments for the benefit of all.
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Public Health in Europe
This edition results from the research initiation project Arteria danubia (ArDa), with which a research association of Danube riparian states was established. The subject were and are health regions, which have to cope with very heterogeneous challenges due to their different starting situations in Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria. Health regions, as described in this work from five perspectives, represent a primarily organisational category in which health is managed. In addition, digital search engines and assistance systems are becoming more and more important - in the narrower context of health regions. Therefore, another thematic block deals with the topics of health literacy and these very search engines. Which are used how, and on what cognitive basis? It goes without saying that the therapy of patients affected by severe changes also takes place in the regions. Two oncological and one contribution to dehydrogenation prophylaxis constitute this third perspective of the book.
Voice of a CNA
Voice Of An Elevated Certified Nursing Assistant from the Bottom to The Top encourages patient care providers to become a Certified Nursing Assistant, a Registered Nurse, a Nurse Practioner - any specialty of a medical discipline. Push, Pull, Pursue. God Will Show You Favor Thru Christ In Jesus' Name
Basic Statistics and Epidemiology
This straightforward primer in basic statistics and epidemiology emphasises their practical use in healthcare and public health, providing understanding of essential topics such as study design, data analysis and statistical methods used in the execution of medical research. Assuming no prior knowledge, the clarity of the text and care of presentation ensure those new to, or challenged by, these topics are given a thorough introduction without being overwhelmed by unnecessary detail. Key features: Provides an excellent grounding in the basics of both statistics and epidemiology Full step-by-step guidance on performing statistical calculations Numerous examples and exercises with detailed answers to help readers navigate these complex subjects with ease and confidence Enables students and practitioners to make sense of the many research studies that underpin evidence-based practice Fully revised and updated for this fifth edition, now with additional exercises and question and answers online for self-testing An understanding and appreciation of statistics is central to ensuring that professional practice is based on the best available evidence, in order to best treat and help the wider community. Reading this book will help students, researchers, doctors, nurses, and health managers to understand and apply the tools of statistics and epidemiology to their own practice.　
Medical Doctors in Health Reforms
This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly funded health services in England and Canada. Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds on both sides of the Atlantic consider how the high status of the profession uniquely influences reforms. With summaries of developments in models of care, and the participation of doctors since the inception of publicly funded healthcare systems, they ask whether professionals might be considered allies or enemies of policy-makers. With insights for future health policy and research, the book is an important contribution to debates about the complex relationship between doctors and the systems in which they practice.
Permission to Care
Are you tired of feeling like you aren't permitted to connect with your patients?Can you envision creating a less sterile healthcare experience? Pharmacist Cory Jenks had all the elements to make a competent healthcare professional. Good looks, academic accolades, multiple board certifications, and a competitive residency. However, none of these items prepared him for truly caring for his patients in a chaotic healthcare environment, and he was struggling. After implementing lessons he learned as an improv comedian, Cory's perspective began to shift. In these pages, Cory takes you through the comical and powerful tools needed to create a memorable, humanizing experience for your patients and colleagues. You'll learn how to - Prepare for the unpredictability of healthcare.- Find more joy in your day-to-day work.- Express your personality while connecting with your patients. In whatever capacity you support patients and their families, this book will help you become a dynamic, adaptable, and empathetic caregiver.
Ending the Social Care Crisis
What lies behind England's crisis in adult social care, why has real change been so hard and what can be done? Ensuring effective, sustainable and affordable care and support for people of all ages is an urgent public policy challenge. This vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of the country's economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good lives. Drawing on the history of social care, international comparisons and lived experience, it sets out a different road to reform that will secure political traction and public support for change.
Breakaway
Breakaway: The International Medical Graduate's Guide to Alternative Careers is a thoroughly researched, comprehensive book that will give you an edge and guide you to a fulfilling career. The unknown path holds mystery and danger; it also holds promise and hope. This book will serve as a guiding light into the unknown. It will illuminate possibilities and probabilities.This book is divided into three sections. The first section assists in realigning your thoughts to powerful career options. It details the steps to realizing your breakthrough through rejuvenating your vision and reinventing your perspectives.The second section offers several alternative careers. You will read stories of real world professionals (former International Medical Graduates) who successfully transitioned to new careers. You will learn about each career's required education, skills, training, market trends, and sample companies.The third section spells out actionable solutions. It includes strengthening your knowledge base, sharpening your connections, and selecting a mentor. By the end of this book, you will feel ready to tackle the upcoming challenges of breaking away from medicine.
My Quest for Health Equity
Reading this book is like sitting down with Dr. David Satcher to hear stories of leadership and lessons learned from his lifetime commitment to health equity. Dr. David Satcher is one of the most widely known and well-regarded physicians of our time. A former four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he served as the assistant secretary for health, the surgeon general of the United States, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before founding the eponymous Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. At the core of his impact on public health, he is also a lifelong leader for civil rights and health equity. Born black and poor in the deep South, Dr. Satcher was a victim of an unjust health care system: he almost died of whooping cough at the age of two because Jim Crow laws meant that his black doctor could not admit him to a hospital. That experience was the first of many that shaped him as a leader and a healer deeply attuned to social inequity--someone who was determined to make a positive difference.In My Quest for Health Equity, Dr. Satcher takes an inspiring and instructive look inside his fifty-year career to shed light on the challenge and burden of leadership. Explaining that he has thought of each leadership role--whether in academia, community, or government--as an opportunity to move the needle toward health equity, he shares the hard-won lessons he has learned over a lifetime in the medical field. Drawing on his early memories, medical school days, experience in the civil rights movement, and professional highs and lows, Dr. Satcher touches on a number of topics, including- the essential qualities of leadership- leading from science to policy to practice- the importance of clear communication and continual learning- the need for workplace discipline- confronting failure- specific health issues, including the obesity epidemic, reproductive health, and mental health stigma- team approaches to leadership- and much moreIn this book, readers will discover a template for using leadership roles of all types to eliminate health disparities. My Quest for Health Equity is a vital resource for current and rising leaders.
Doctah-ing it Up
It's you being a student doctah for me.I get it, you're anxious because you're starting med school soon, and based on the med influencers, vlogs, and blogs you've seen and read, you're screwed. FALSE. Beloved, take a deep breath. No need to be afraid because I was just in your shoes, and I survived. A little battered and bruised, but I'm here. Throughout my first year of med school, I struggled to learn a bunch of things I wish I knew before starting my journey. And now, I get to use these gems to help guide you through your first year.Your transition into physicianhood doesn't have to be this period of mourning your glory days in undergrad, the sleep you used to get, or the fun you used to have. It can be an enjoyable chapter if you shift your focus from just being super smart to being as authentically whole as you can be.Candid and practical, Doctah-ing It Up is the tea on the academic transition, lifestyle changes, professional challenges, and growing pains that first-year medical students experience. This guide provides strategies and resources to help prepare students for fulfilling medical careers.Alright, tip number one: med students don't have time to leisurely read back covers. So flip it over and start reading!
The Power and Pain of Nursing
Your calling to alleviate suffering inspires your every move as a nurse to do the beautiful work you do. But if you're sacrificing self-care as you care for other people, the intensity of nursing can transform into fatigue and overwhelm that affects your entire life. Your clinicals taught you medicine, but you need extra skills to train your mind, body, and soul for healthcare work. In collaboration with Dominic O. Vachon MDiv, PhD, and MJ Murray Vachon, LCSW, CMFT, Beth Cavenaugh, RN, BSN, CHPN, offers the nurse's tool kit to stay grounded, tend to yourself with kindness, and minimize professional burnout. Full of simple and effective resources based on the science of compassion, this 30-day guide will help you renew your spirit so you can compassionately take care of your patients, your family, and most importantly, yourself. You'll discover: How to boost your composure and compassion while caring for an aging, sick, or dying patient.Simple daily reflection and embodiment exercises to bolster your mental health and prevent burnout.Meditation practice to breathe and recharge when facing workdays of loss, death, and grief.A gear-shifting care plan that eases your transition from work to home after intense shifts.Strategies to advocate for yourself and your fellow nurses-because empowered clinicians provide better care. With the right tools, your medical career can be an ongoing journey of love and resilience rather than exhaustion and depletion. Get The Power & Pain of Nursing for the compassionate support to heal your spirit while you help heal the world.
Boundaries of Care
In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan introduces readers to the lived experience of community health workers and how, through outreach and advocacy, these workers intimately shape and improve the well-being of their communities.
Ducks in a Row
Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined is for anyone who is unhappy with health care. This book shares wisdom and practical advice for those who rail against the status quo and yearn for authentic change. Sue Robins reimagines health care by rejecting the corporate model and steering us back to a foundation of caring for each other. Ducks in a Row explores how to create a gentler health care experience for patients and staff - one that is rooted in humanity. Drawing on the author's work life in patient and family engagement, Ducks in a Row describes a new health care world that includes storytelling, the arts, outreach and safe spaces for patient feedback.
Rheum for Improvement
Rheum for Improvement is a physician's account of how corporate medicine has transformed health care from a human interaction between a patient and their physician into a business transaction between a consumer and a provider. It is also a personal story of how frivolous legal action triggered that physician to become an outspoken advocate for health-care reform. It will be of interest to anyone who interacts with our health-care system, but especially physicians, who must navigate bureaucratic obstacles on a daily basis.As a patient, have you ever: --Had your health insurance deny a test or procedure that your doctor recommended by saying that it was not medically necessary?--Been told that you had to try one medicine before you could take the medicine that your doctor actually prescribed? --Had a procedure done that was covered by your insurer, only to receive a separate bill afterwards that you were not expecting?--Felt that your doctor has their nose buried in a computer instead of paying attention to you?If so, you are not alone. Rheum for Improvement addresses these and many other health-care issues that compromise the care that physicians can provide. It is a must read for anyone who has ever been or ever will be a patient.
Globalization, Health and the Global South
Globalization is a form of social change, reshaping the socio-spatial milieu in which humans strive, and in which health and disease are managed and controlled. And yet the effects of globalization are distributed unevenly, with opportunities open for some but not for all.Globalization, Health and the Global South is an important textbook for any student of this fascinating area. Examining the dynamics of globalization through the lens of the Global South, it highlights risks and vulnerabilities that affect different regions and contexts, exacerbating inequalities despite the continuing speed of global processes. The books takes a critical approach to the topic, offering readers a deep understanding of health discourses and discusses a range of key topics, including migrant health, the role of politics and diplomacy and the Coronavirus pandemic.Including further reading and end of chapter discussion questions, this essential textbook will be important reading for students across the health and social sciences.
Outsmarting the Next Pandemic
This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks. Focusing on a number of countries most expected to provide agility and organization in their crisis response - the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Taiwan - the book shows how failures in leadership from governments, executives, and institutions created a vacuum that was quickly filled by naysayers, conspiracy theorists, vaccine hucksters, and fake news generators. Through the key themes of healthcare, leadership, security, and education, the chapters address critical questions: Why have masks become such a polarizing force? How do you self-isolate if you don't have a home? How should equitable triage models for overwhelmed frontline healthcare workers be developed? Can we utilize artificial intelligence to educate the public about manipulated information they access concerning the pandemic? The book was written during the pandemic and weaves in to each chapter vignettes with personal revelations from a broad range of countries, including some also grappling with poverty, war, natural disasters, or revolution.It will appeal to academics, professionals, and policymakers interested in how law and health policy can converge on solutions for global infectious disease. It is suitable for use in upper-level courses.
Helpmates
In this excellent book, Harry Cole interviews many people involved in caring for loved ones who are critically or terminally ill. He provides practical guidance and suggestions for others coping with similar problems and situations.
Cancer Navigation
Passion and compassion for low income women of color is not an issue of lacking empathy, scientific or medical care. It is a social issue. Health care providers do their best to support, encourage, treat, and motivate those living with cancer; but many do not have the resources, training, or preparation to work as effectively as possible with patients from marginalized groups in a relatable and non-judgmental way. Cancer Navigation: Charting the Path Forward for Low Income Women of Color is a practical quick-reference resource for U.S. health care providers working with marginalized women throughout the cancer continuum. From community preventative outreach to survivorship, this accessible guidebook is a vital resource for physicians, social workers, case managers, and other cancer care providers who seek to provide more equitable care for low income women of color.
Changing How We Think about Difficult Patients
Physicians enter their professions with the highest of hopes and ideals for compassionate and efficient patient care. Along the way, however, recurring problems arise in their interactions with some patients that lead physicians to label them as "difficult." Some studies indicate that physicians identify 15% or more of their patients as "difficult." The negative feelings that physicians have toward these patients may lead to frustration, cynicism, and burnout. Changing How We Think about Difficult Patients uses a multi-tiered approach to bring awareness to the difficult patient conundrum, then introduces simple, actionable tools that every physician, nurse, and caregiver can use to change their mindset about the patients who challenge them. Positive thoughts lead to more positive feelings and more effective treatments and results for patients. They also lead to more satisfaction and decreased feelings of burnout in healthcare professionals.How does this book give you an advantage? Caring for difficult patients poses a tremendous challenge for physicians, nurses, and clinical practitioners. It may contribute significantly to feelings of burnout, including feelings of exhaustion, cynicism, and lost sense of purpose. In response, Dr. Naidorf offers a pragmatic approach to accepting patients the way they are, then provides strategies for providers to find more happiness and satisfaction in their interactions with even the most challenging patients and families.Here are just some of the topics the author discusses in detail: What Makes a "Good" Patient?The Four Core Ethical Principals of the Clinician-Patient RelationshipThe Four Models of the Physician-Patient RelationshipWhat Challenges Anybody with Illness or Injury? How "Good" Patients Handle the Challenges of Illness and InjurySix Common Reactions to Illness and HospitalizationOn "Taking Care of the Hateful Patient"Standards for Education in Medical EthicsDe-escalation Strategies Cultural, Structural, and Language IssuesTypes of Patients Who Tend to Challenge UsThe Think, Feel, Act CycleRecognizing Our Preconceived ThoughtsThree Common Thought Distortions About Patients Asking Useful QuestionsGetting Out of the Victim MentalityGuiding our Thoughts Through a Common ScenarioShow Compassion, Feel Compassion If you're a healthcare provider or caregiver, Changing How We Think about Difficult Patients will give you the benefit of understanding your most challenging patients, and a roadmap to positively changing your mindset and actions to better deliver care and compassion for all.
Annual Report - Massachusetts, Department of Public Health; 1966-1971
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Report of the Board of Health of Mississippi; 1886-1896
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Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of California for the Years of ... and ..; v.17
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First Medical College in Vermont
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