The Insider’s Guide
From prerequisites to applying, this Book reveals the 7 steps every aspiring nurse needs to know to get into nursing school and thrive!
Tasting YOUR OWN Medicine
From viewing medicine as a team sport, to the author's experience going undercover as "Karen" to gain insight on the experience of attending a child birthing class, Tasting YOUR OWN Medicine: How to Advocate for Yourself in Healthcare Settings is a book meant to empower individuals to take control of their medical decisions and advocate for themselves in conversations with their health professionals. It includes research and narratives from people who have experienced the healthcare system as patients themselves or on behalf of loved ones, and from professionals working within the system, including some of the author's own personal experiences as a patient.Being inquisitive and curious about your care does not make you a bad patient. Providing patients with that voice both as a loved one and a health professional can be immensely valuable in their ultimate outcomes and benefit all parties involved. Tasting YOUR OWN Medicine is a nonfiction book that speaks to everyday adolescents and adults, trained patient advocates, and healthcare professionals who want to look at patient advocacy, empowerment, and support in a whole new way.
End of life IS life
Hospice provides specialized services in managing complex symptoms caused by advanced diseases. Hospice does not mean you're going to die today. This is one of the biggest misconceptions. This book aims at decreasing the level of anxiety by just a notch. Realizing that the minute you're born, our end of life clock begins. The services hospice provides will aid you or your loved one to focus on optimal quality of life at end of life.
Improving Nurse Retention & Healthcare Outcomes: Innovating with the Impact Model
Awarded third place in the 2021 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Professional Issues!Empowering, engaging, and retaining qualified nurses are critical healthcare priorities. Why? Nurse retention is directly correlated to healthcare outcomes, and nurse turnover has a negative, multidimensional effect on healthcare organizations.Turnover affects job satisfaction among clinical nurses, which leads to burnout, making it harder for them to provide safe patient care and achieve overall organizational initiatives. Further, the high costs associated with nurse turnover can have a huge impact on a hospital's or health system's profit margin. Improving Nurse Retention & Healthcare Outcomes will help clinical nurses understand how to elevate their practice as frontline care providers and give executives a new, strategic approach to nurse retention. Authors Judy Thomas and Mellisa Renter outline the IMPACT Program they created to stimulate empowerment and professional growth. In addition to explaining the program, how it works, and what it has achieved, this book provides an implementation path to make an immediate impact on nurse empowerment, engagement, and retention.Chapter 1 outlines the retention practices commonly used by most organizations. As you'll see, these practices are often nothing more than short-term fixes. They only see you through the immediate crisis, are quite costly, and offer little return on investment in terms of overall strategic initiatives. Chapter 2 discusses the key stakeholders and instrumental decision points in the creation of our program to improve nurse retention. Chapter 3 takes a high-level look at the structure of the IMPACT Model. Chapters 4-7 offer step-by-step details on each phase of the IMPACT Model. Chapter 8 describes the type of leadership commitment ittakes to start and sustain a program of this magnitude. Chapter 9 explains how we obtained leadership buyin from the get-go to begin the process of developing a program and achieved broader organizational buy-in to sustain it once it was off the ground. Chapter 10 reveals outcomes from specific IMPACT Model projects completed by participating nurses as well as broader organizational gains associated with the IMPACT Model. Chapter 11 showcases the professional journey of clinical nurses as they navigate the program. You will gain a greater perspective on how the IMPACT Model empowers clinical nurses, who spend the majority of their time on the front lines. Appendix A: Includes our full Explanation of Activities forms. Appendix B: Offers full-page forms discussed earlier in the book
Health in a Fragile State
Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into focus John M. Janzen's earlier books on African health and healing, revealing the collaborative effort by local, national, and international agencies to create viable alternative institutions to those that represented the centralized state. This book documents and analyzes the realignment of existing institutions and the creation of new ones that shape health and healing. Janzen explores the manner in which power and information, including science, are legitimized in the preservation and improvement of health. Institutional validity and knowledge empower citizens and health practitioners to gain the upper hand over the region's principal diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, and HIV/AIDS.
The Unshackled Prescription
Healthcare is often a confusing maze with many moving parts. It can be hard to understand your role as a patient and the power that you wield within that role to get your needs met.Seeing the vast amounts of misinformation, distrust of political and other leaders, and the subpar performance of the U.S. in the COVID-19 pandemic, author Rahul Anand was inspired to write The Unshackled Prescription: How YOU Can Fix American Healthcare to cultivate a broad understanding of American healthcare. Tackling a range of topics from the history of America's healthcare system, The Unshackled Prescription uses stories from within the system as told by doctors and patients alike. Anand explores ideas of how to tackle malpractice nightmares, power struggles between patients and providers, exorbitant pharmaceutical prices, and the consequences of these, and more. Reading The Unshackled Prescription, you will discover how to navigate the maze of American healthcare to better advocate for yourself, your loved ones and, perhaps, the larger patient community through your actions.
M(odified) E(ssay) Q(uestions) for Medicine Finals
There is a paucity of high-value examination-style questions for final-year medicine undergraduates. This book uses true (and modified) clinical scenerios (for realism), appropriate and pragmatic clinical questions (for clinical reasoning), explanations and tips in solutions (for self-reflection). The good reception received for Vols. 1 and 2 is the main stimulus for this Vol 3. The strong selling points are highly challenging and realistic clinical questioning, comprehensive solutions (which include wrong answers that candidates may give), and useful examination-oriented and practice-based tips for selected solutions.The book is useful for:
M(odified) E(ssay) Q(uestions) for Medicine Finals
There is a paucity of high-value examination-style questions for final-year medicine undergraduates. This book uses true (and modified) clinical scenerios (for realism), appropriate and pragmatic clinical questions (for clinical reasoning), explanations and tips in solutions (for self-reflection). The good reception received for Vols. 1 and 2 is the main stimulus for this Vol 3. The strong selling points are highly challenging and realistic clinical questioning, comprehensive solutions (which include wrong answers that candidates may give), and useful examination-oriented and practice-based tips for selected solutions.The book is useful for:
Hospitality and Health
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.In the last several decades, international traffic volume has significantly increased, raising the risk of infectious diseases and their spread. In this important volume, the impact of health issues is explored in connection with travel. Not only does the book explore the risk of diseases such as H1N1 (otherwise known as swine flu), malaria, salmonella, and Legionellosis, it also addresses health regulations for travel to foreign countries, alcohol use and hospitality-related health problems and issues, medical tourism (patients seeking less expensive medical procedures in countries other than their own), and much more.
One Little Mosquito
One Little Mosquito brings to the fore, the prevalence of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. The author creates a realistic story with fictitious characters. She gives an interesting account of how malaria foils two events within a week. Alero rises to the challenge and makes a great impact.
Voices That Care
From Simon & Schuster, Voices That Care is Neal Hitchens' collection of stories and encouragements for people with AIDS/HIV and those that love them. In this powerful and inspiring book, readers go beyond the usual stereotypes of AIDS sufferers as the author imparts the realities of ordinary people who have acquired the syndrome and of those who love and care for them.
The Hospice Choice
Hospice is the primary system to provide care for the terminally ill and their families. Warm, compassionate, and absolutely practical, this definitive resource from the National Hospice Organization will answer all your questions about hospice care and will show you how to make this comprehensive and flexible system work for you and your family. The Hospice Choice illustrates the gamut of situations dying people and their families may face and suggests ways to manage them. Throughout is information on the broad range of services hospice can provide: Physicians and Nursing Services: to help with care specifically designed to keep the patient comfortable and at home Counseling Services: to help families and patients sort out their needs and responses Respite Services: to allow caregivers needed breaks Bereavement Counseling: to provide support for surviving family members and significant others for as much as a full year after loss The Hospice Choicealso addresses sensitive issues like methods of payment, issues of ethnicity, the special problems raised by sudden death, and the realities of caregiver exhaustion. It will give you the concrete information, support, and encouragement that will help you make wise, compassionate decisions for yourself and for your loved ones.
Living with Tourette Syndrome
From Simon & Schuster, Living with Tourette Syndrome is Elaine Fantle Shimberg's guide to understanding Tourette syndrome, its effects, and how to handle it in various settings. With chapters dedicated to understanding the effects of Tourette syndrome, the impact it can have on families, and the role it can play in adulthood and the classroom, Living with Tourette Syndrome is an essential guide for any affected by the disease.
Innovative Leadership for Health Care
Suzanna FitzpatrickMichael Morrow-FoxNeil E. GrunbergAs we face a global pandemic, the importance of effective health care leadership has become glaringly apparent. We have health care systems, practitioners, and researchers that have conquered many diseases, including smallpox, tuberculosis, and polio, and developed effective treatments for many other physical and mental health conditions. Still, cooperation, coordination, compassion, communication, and a focus on virtuous character among health care professionals and the general public remain challenging and even more essential. So, you might ask, why this book? This text is the tenth book in the Innovative Leadership series. Over the past decades, we have seen leaders' expectations increase as the world has become more interconnected and complex. Great strides have been made in learning about the brain and how it impacts human behavior and leadership development. Leaders must update how they think about leadership (their internal algorithm) and how they behave as leaders. Innovative Leadership is the art of evolving how leaders lead to ensure they can weather their organizations through the broad range of changes they will face over the next decade and beyond. In times of dramatic change, our leaders must move institutions forward and create the thriving future we hope to leave for future generations. This book provides health care workers with frameworks and tools based on the most current research in leadership, psychology, neuroscience, and physiology to help them update or innovate how they lead and build the practices necessary to continue to update their leadership skills. In 2014 we published the Innovative Leadership Book for Physician Leaders. We wrote this new book to update the 2014 volume based on the latest research and to serve all health care professionals.
Euthanasia: Searching for the Full Story
This open access book has been written by ten Belgian health care professionals, nurses, university professors and doctors specializing in palliative care and ethicists who, together, raise questions concerning the practice of euthanasia. They share their experiences and reflections born out of their confrontation with requests for euthanasia and end-of-life support in a country where euthanasia has been decriminalized since 2002 and is now becoming a trivial topic.Far from evoking any militancy, these stories of life and death present the other side of a reality needs to be evaluated more rigorously.Featuring multidisciplinary perspectives, this though-provoking and original book is intended not only for caregivers but also for anyone who questions the meaning of death and suffering, as well as the impact of a law passed in 2002. Presenting real-world cases and experiences, it highlights the complexity of situations and the consequences of the euthanasia law.This book appeals to palliative care providers, hematologists, oncologists, psychiatrists, nurses and health professionals as well as researchers, academics, policy-makers, and social scientists working in health care. It is also a unique resource for those in countries where the decriminalization of euthanasia is being considered. Sometimes shocking, it focuses on facts and lived experiences to challenge readers and offer insights into euthanasia in Belgium.
Social Work in General Practice
In the early 1970s general practitioners were well aware that they were being asked to deal not only with physical illness in their patients but also with the stresses relating to social and emotional problems. Increasingly often they were working together with health visitors and social workers in attempting to respond more effectively to these demands. Originally published in 1972, this study describes the attachment of a social worker to a group general medical practice in London, indicating why, for all social groups, the general practice is an appropriate point at which psychosocial problems may be identified and treated. The authors describe the nature and range of patients' problems that come to light in the consulting room; how patients present their problems to the social worker; and the kind of help the social worker is able to offer. They explore the extent to which the general practice setting provides opportunities for preventive therapy and further describe how social work in general practice can most effectively be related to existing social services in the community, particularly to the reorganised personal social services. Their findings are supported throughout by illuminating case studies. The book also discusses the integration of the social worker into the general practice team, the problems that have to be solved and the mutual enlightenment that results. This emerges as an extremely encouraging and instructive experiment, which will immediately interest social service departments and social workers, doctors and nurses, both students and those in practice. The wide spectrum of social problems encountered and dealt with by the social worker in a general practice make it a particularly stimulating account.
Becoming a Surgeon
Have you ever wondered what a surgical residency is like? Becoming A Surgeon is an inspirational account of Dr. Joe Garri's time spent in general surgery residency. Recounting five years of training through real-life anecdotes and interesting personalities, this compelling book peers through the retrospective lens from Dr. Garri's many years of private practice. While autobiographical, Becoming a Surgeon is in some ways a universal story reflecting the experience of many surgical residents in Western medicine. Each chapter deals with topics related to the training of surgeons, including the personal sacrifice involved and the challenges of learning the craft. It also addresses the heart-warming and heart-breaking experiences in dealing with patients and their families. Becoming A Surgeon is a must-read for anyone interested in medicine, surgery, or the training by which surgeons are forged. If you want to learn about doctor-patient dynamics and the interactions of young doctors with students, colleagues, and mentors, this book is for you. It is an insightful case study of one doctor's unforgettable journey and metamorphosis through the process of becoming a surgeon.
Physic And Physicians
Physic And Physicians: A Medical Sketch Book, Exhibiting The Public And Private Life Of The Most Celebrated Medical Men Of Former Days; With Memoirs Of Eminent Living London Physicians And Surgeons (Part Ii) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Help! I’m a Caregiver
Have you recently become a caregiver, or perhaps are considering it as a profession? Or have you recently been one for a time and are experiencing the stress and anxiety that most often accompany it? Then you are in need of this book.Caregiving is a very stressful role and occupation for many reasons. This book will acquaint you with the many aspects involved and will frankly deal with the areas as well that are often embarrassing to discuss.It will offer help and guidance along with spiritual comfort to both caregiver and patient as both navigate these difficult waters. And it will offer practical suggestions to make this journey run smoother.By the time you finish the book, you will come to see that caregiving is a calling and that caregivers should be thanked and celebrated for being willing to fulfill this vital role. And celebrate and thank them we will, as well as thanking God for giving the strength and support to be one.
Testing Knowledge
This volume presents the collective adventure of Dingdingdong, the Institute for the Co-production of Knowledge about Huntington's Disease, founded in 2012 between Paris and Brussels.Katrin Solhdju's Testing Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis pursues the question of taming the violence of the new species of medical foreknowledge represented by genetic testing. Adopting historical and epistemological perspectives on diagnostic situations, including observations from anthropological field research, speculative storytelling, and ancient oracles, Testing Knowledge proposes a new ecology of predictive diagnostic gestures, which potentially concern us all.Testing Knowledge is preceded by the Dingdingdong collective's Manifesto (2013), which tells the story of the young Alice Rivi癡res, who in 2006 took the presymptomatic, genetic test, foretelling her that she will eventually develop Huntington's. Her first-person account of the revelation of her test results, which she experienced as an act of poisoning or cursing, pulls the reader into the manifold ethical, psychological, and existential issues inherent to medical predictions.Testing Knowledge is preceded by a foreword from Alice Wexler, author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research, and followed by an afterword by philosopher Isabelle Stengers.
The QI Challenge P
Efforts to improve the quality of healthcare have failed to achieve a meaningful and sustainable improvement. Patients continue to experience fragmented, inconvenient, and unsafe care while providers are increasingly becoming overburdened with administrative tasks. The need for change is clear. Healthcare professionals need to take on new leadership roles in quality improvement (QI) projects to effect real change. The Quality Improvement Challenge in Healthcare equips readers with the skills and knowledge required to develop and implement successful operational improvement initiatives. Designed for healthcare providers seeking to apply QI in practice, this valuable resource delivers step-by-step guidance on improvement methodology, team dynamics, and organizational change management in the context of real-world healthcare environments. The text integrates the principles and practices of Lean Six Sigma, human-centered design, and neurosciences to present a field-tested framework. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover topics including identifying and prioritizing the problem, developing improvement ideas, defining the scope of the project, organizing the QI team, implementing and sustaining the improvement, and much more. Clearly explaining each step of the improvement process, this practical guide: Presents the material in a logical sequence, gradually introducing each step of the process with clearly defined workflow templates Features a wealth of examples demonstrating QI application, and case studies emphasizing key concepts to highlight successful and unsuccessful improvement initiatives Includes end-of-chapter exercises and review questions for assessing and reinforcing comprehension Offers practical tips and advice on communicating effectively, leading a team meeting, conducting a tollgate review, and motivating people to change Leading QI projects requires a specific set of skills not taught in medical school. The Quality Improvement Challenge in Healthcare bridges this gap for experienced and trainee healthcare providers, and serves as an important reference for residency program directors, physician educators, healthcare leaders, and health-related professional organizations.
Building a High-Value Health System
Countries and institutions worldwide face the challenge of planning and paying for health care that effectively meets the needs of citizens and employees. While there are many criticisms of existing healthcare models, current literature offers little guidance for individuals who want to carry out the work of redesigning and improving their health system. Using a step-by-step format, Building a High-Value Health System systematically provides analytical tools and functional skills for designing and implementing a health system that fits a population's needs. Active, learner-directed methods teach readers how to assess the needs of a population, analyze the performance of a health system, assess available capacity, and develop system design options that are feasible within this context. The book then describes the strategies through which change agents can implement and sustain these systems in the future. Through global case studies and detailed guidance, Building a High-Value Health System prepares readers to analyze and understand their own health system and take actions to build a better one.
Media Analysis and Public Health
This volume showcases new approaches to studying public health in traditional and emerging media, suggesting that we need more analyses that focus on the production of media and on power dynamics, as well as studies of audience reception of media messages. The collection asks a variety of questions about the role of media in analysing public health. Contributors ask: who is influential in producing the stories we see in the press and on social media? Who benefits, and who is damaged, by media debates on health topics? They investigate the role of big business in seeking to shape public opinion and consumption in print and online media; how issues such as hand washing come to be framed over time by newspapers; how conflicts over immunisations get covered; how health promotion messages do their work; and the positive role of online media in helping foster drug safety. Together, they reach the conclusion that since mass media is a crucial element of civic society, more in-depth understanding of how it works and what impacts it has on public health is essential.Given the crucial role of the media in shaping health debates, pushing certain issues up the policy agenda, defining problems for audiences and presenting potential solutions, this book's analysis will be of interest to all those studying how the media shape policy, as well as public health researchers with an interest in mass communication. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.
The Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the Twentieth Century
This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths than any other disease. The book examines and compares trends in coronary heart disease mortality rates for individual countries. The most detailed analyses are for the United States, where mortality rates are examined for race, sex, and age groups and for geographic regions. Popular explanations for the rise and fall of coronary heart disease mortality rates are examined.
Healthcare Systems
In this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design, management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health reforms or systems improvements in their country or region. The resulting case studies, of 52 individual countries and five regional groupings, cover 152 countries or territories, or three-quarters of the world's nations. Each chapter author was asked to think 5-15 years into the future and make a prediction on how their health system could be strengthened as a result of the successful unfolding of their case study.The types of projects our authors have chosen to explicate into the future are wide-ranging. They vary from e-consultation services in Estonia, achieving universal health coverage in Argentina and Mexico, reforming long-term care in the Netherlands, reassessing care for the aging population and the frail elderly in Australia, streamlining the health system through Lean Thinking in Nigeria, using regulation to improve care in South Africa, developing a new accreditation model in Turkey, through to a critique of physician specialization in Russia and applying IT initiatives to improve care in China, Lebanon, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and Wales. Chapter writers recognized that the improvement work they were doing was part of a moving target. There was general agreement that the effective use of limited resources and overcoming hurdles and constraints were crucial to enhancing health systems in order to deliver better care over the medium term. While some initiatives required considerable funding, many were relatively inexpensive. These case studies demonstrate ways in which fruitful application of partnerships and creativity can make considerable gains in strengthening healthcare delivery systems. FeaturesThe third book in a series on international health reform Involves 146 contributing authors, five regional editors, a series editor and a highly skilled support team to explore sustainable improvement in health systems in the future Encompasses a time horizon of the next 5-15 years Covers 152 countries or territories, with 52 individual countries and an analysis of five regional groupings comprising 100 countries
Bringing Value to Healthcare
The healthcare sector is on the cusp of sweeping disruption. The hallmarks of the old system-pricing that's disconnected from outcomes and incentives for treating sickness rather than maintaining health-are no longer sustainable. And yet, after decades of financial success, it's difficult for most established industry players to grapple with meaningful changes to their business models.In their latest book, Bringing Value to Healthcare: Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model, Rita Numerof and Michael Abrams lay out the roadmap to a healthcare system that is accountable for delivering optimal patient outcomes at a sustainable cost. Based on in-depth research and decades of experience consulting with leading hospitals, insurers, and device and drug manufacturers, Numerof and Abrams provide a market-based approach to addressing the ills of the current healthcare system. In addition to highlighting industry challenges and opportunities, the authors also outline the changes required of consumers, employers, and policy makers to move to a patient-centered model characterized by value, accountability, and transparency.This is the handbook for payer, provider, pharmaceutical, and medical device executives who are seeking to preserve today's profitability while positioning their organizations for success in the very different markets of tomorrow. The book's guidance is illuminated by case studies and each chapter concludes with a self-assessment tool and key questions.Getting to a new future isn't easy. But if it can't be envisioned, it can't be realized. Bringing Value to Healthcare is that critical first step.
Operations Management in Healthcare
This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Operations Management in Healthcare: Strategy and Practice describes how healthcare organizations can cultivate a competitive lead by developing superior operations using a strategic perspective. In clearly demonstrating the "how-tos" of effectively managing a healthcare organization, this new edition also addresses the "why" of providing quality and value-based care. Comprehensive and practice-oriented, chapters illustrate how to excel in the four competitive priorities - quality, cost, delivery, and flexibility - in order to build a cumulative model of healthcare operations in which all concepts and tools fit together. This textbook encourages a hands-on approach and integrates mind maps to connect concepts, icons for quick reference, dashboards for measurement and tracking of progress, and newly updated end-of-chapter problems and assignments to reinforce creative and critical thinking. Written with the diverse learning needs in mind for programs in health administration, public health, business administration, public administration, and nursing, the textbook equips students with essential high-level problem-solving and process improvement skills. The book reveals concepts and tools through a series of short vignettes of a fictitious healthcare organization as it embarks on its journey to becoming a highly reliable organization. This second edition also includes a strong emphasis on the patient's perspective as well as expanded and added coverage of Lean Six Sigma, value-based payment models, vertical integration, mergers and acquisitions, artificial intelligence, population health, and more to reflect evolving innovations in the healthcare environment across the United States. Complete with a full and updated suite of Instructor Resources, including Instructor's Manual, PowerPoints, and test bank in addition to data sets, tutorial videos, and Excel templates for students. Key Features: Demonstrates the "how-tos" of effectively managing a healthcare organization Sharpens problem-solving and process improvement skills through use of an extensive toolkit developed throughout the text Prepares students for Lean Six Sigma certification with expanded coverage of concepts, tools, and analytics Highlights new trends in healthcare management with coverage of value-based payments, mergers and acquisitions, population health, telehealth, and more Intertwines concepts with vivid vignettes to describe human dynamics, organizational challenges, and applications of tools Employs boxed features and YouTube videos to address frequently asked questions and real-world instances of operations in practice Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers, as well as full suite of instructor and student resources
When We Do Harm
Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD's rich stories and research explore patient safety. Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it's a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there's no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in our national healthcare conversation. Drawing on current research, professional experience, and extensive interviews with nurses, physicians, administrators, researchers, patients, and families, Dr. Ofri explores the diagnostic, systemic, and cognitive causes of medical error. She advocates for strategic use of concrete safety interventions such as checklists and improvements to the electronic medical record, but focuses on the full-scale cultural and cognitive shifts required to make a meaningful dent in medical error. Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. The errors she dissects range from the hardly noticeable missteps to the harrowing medical cataclysms. While our healthcare system is--and always will be--imperfect, Dr. Ofri argues that it is possible to minimize preventable harms, and that this should be the galvanizing issue of current medical discourse.
Signs of Life
In this anthology we see from the point of view of patients, care-givers and family members. Physician and writer Sarah Sasson has curated a collection that is international and unforgettable.In a Californian cafe, a music-lover develops psychosis while drinking green tea. In a Ghanaian paediatric ward, a doctor cares for a boy with kidney disease, while definitive treatments remain out of reach. In Melbourne a mother watches as her son resists being taken to respite care.This is not a book about death and dying. This is a book about life and how we live it. These stories reveal what is truly valued in this world, and speak to the ferocity with which we love.
Signs of Life
'Signs of Life' is an extraordinary anthology, an astutely put together collection, that peels away the layers of health so we can see the complexity underneath. Disease, illness, decline, and deterioration; all these failings of the human body are at the heart of this selection of poignant and beautifully written stories. Seen through the eyes of these talented writers, what we end up with is not despair and hopelessness, but a visceral understanding of the fierceness of being alive and the love that forms the scaffold of how we care for one another. Michelle Johnston, author of 'Dustfall.'In a Californian cafe, a music-lover develops psychosis while drinking green tea. In a Ghanaian paediatric ward, a doctor cares for a boy with kidney disease, while definitive treatments remain out of reach. In Melbourne a mother watches as her son resists being taken to respite care.This is not a book about death and dying. This is a book about life and how we live it. These stories reveal what is truly valued in this world, and speak to the ferocity with which we love.
Principles of Medical Professionalism
The Geneva Declaration, a modern successor to the Hippocratic Oath, was recently revised to include the clause I will attend to my own health, well-being, and abilities in order to provide care of the highest standard. As the practice of medicine enters the modern era, a combination ofdisruptive factors, including the increased use of electronic health records and changes to the US healthcare system, have left physicians struggling to find happiness in their careers. Principles of Medical Professionalism emphasizes an often-neglected aspect of medical professionalism: how and why physicians ought to focus on their self-care, happiness, and well-being as they advance through the process of socialization into the medical community of practice. This book will helpstudents manage their expectations about the profession while becoming more resilient to the disruptions in the field and equip health professionals of all levels with the practical knowledge and tools to integrate the values of medical professionalism into their professional identity. Ultimately, this book aims to empower physicians to transform their patient care in a way that incorporates an attention to healing, caring, and compassion while upholding a duty to serve the patient and society.
Pioneer Physicians Of Wyoming Valley, 1771-1825
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The 10-Minute Physical Exam
The 10-Minute Physical Exam ̶ recognizing medical syndromes, is a training manual directed at all who seek to improve skill, confidence, and clinical diagnosis in physical examination. The two-part manual departs from traditional manuals. In part one, sole emphasis is on developing a consistent, easily performed, whole body screening examination that lessens the likelihood of missing detectable clinical signs, that often occur with unstructured and inconsistent routines. The routine is sequenced in four parts, the mini-exams, that conform to the patient's physical position during the examination and, once practiced and perfected, are combined into a single fluid routine that can be completed in less than ten minutes.Proper gown and draping techniques allow discrete but adequate exposure of the body.Part two is a compendium of 51 medical syndromes, each with a list of potential clinical signs and a facing page with an annotated patient figure, in color. The purpose is for interest and to serve as a reminder that clinical diagnosis requires knowledge of the clinical signs of medical conditions. There are additional blank ages and figures for readers to add their own syndromes. This is an attractively illustrated manual that will become a cherished resource for any clinician.
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Die betrieblichen Kosten sind in Krankenh瓣usern, Arzt- und Zahnarztpraxen, Medizinischen Versorgungszentren oder Pflegeeinrichtungen ein Dauerthema. Personal-, Material- oder Energiekosten steigen scheinbar unaufhaltsam und wirken sich negativ auf die wirtschaftlichen Ergebniszahlen aus. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund von Erl繹sbudgetierungen, Honorardeckelungen und begrenzter Einnahmeerzielungsm繹glichkeiten ist es daher wichtig, die vorhandenen Potenziale auf der Aufwandseite zu nutzen und die Ausgaben im Griff zu behalten. Nicht alle Kosten sind "gottgegeben", und man ist gegen羹ber bestimmten Kostenentwicklungen auch nicht v繹llig machtlos. Wichtig ist dabei, die Balance zu halten, zwischen dem medizinisch Notwendigen und dem wirtschaftlich Sinnvollen. Bei allen Kosten羹berlegungen steht im Vordergrund immer das Patientenwohl, dessen Sicherstellung es allerdings leistungsf瓣higer und wirtschaftlich stabiler Gesundheitseinrichtungen bedarf. Anhand von 8 Leitfragen und daraus abgeleiteten Kapiteln sollen die vielf瓣ltigen M繹glichkeiten zur Kostensteuerung und anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen konkrete Handlungsanleitungen f羹r Gesundheitseinrichtungen aufgezeigt werden. F羹r den "Schnellzugriff" enth瓣lt ein Glossar am Ende des Buches Kurzbeschreibungen wichtiger Kostenfachbegriffe. Jedes Kapitel enth瓣lt eine Zusammenfassung sowie die jeweiligen weiterf羹hrenden Literaturhinweise.
India’s Public Health Care Delivery
This book describes the present awful state of India's Public Health Care Delivery, its dismal planning and implementation. It argues that it can be remedied comprehensively and effectively, using its 'own already present' resources. A radical re-evaluation of some sacrosanct ideas and discarding many of these, especially in Primary Care and its structure is required. It can be done without disadvantage to the last man served. This book starts with the sea change India has undergone and emphasizes new ways of managing health. High quality work force creation and its deployment, an unsolved problem is effectively given a solution. The bulk of the book discusses the entire public health care structure and function and how it can be newly laid out with proper work force allocation, hitherto grossly inadequate, including professionals from other training backgrounds. It is total solution that will help India to achieve the goal of Universal Health Care.
108 Days
"This book is really riveting and I found myself grimacing, denying, experiencing shock and awe, nodding and finally understanding so much about her saga and attempts to protect her dying husband from one medical error after another. If you want a good read, pick up 108 Days." - Toni Brayer, MD. Following an explosive electrical accident, Curtis is admitted to one of America's top hospitals with a severe burn injury to 35% of his body. Recovery is soon derailed due to an error in the radiology department which he is not expected to survive. Deadly hospital acquired infections are prevalent and easily spread. Complications, setbacks and additional injuries requiring further treatment are routinely provoked by inconsistent caregivers and chronic neglect.Curtis hovers on the brink of death while his wife, Lisa and her sister, Dawn battle daily in a desperate fight to save his life.
Saving Lives, Saving Dignity
Death is not a question of "if," but a question of "how" and "when."The doctor approaches you and says, "Your mother is seriously ill and we have to put her on a ventilator to keep her alive. Do you want us to do everything?" Your answer is, of course, "Yes, I want you to do everything." You think, "Why is he asking me this question?" You assume that by doing everything, your mother will be saved. What you may not realize, however, is that this decision may subject your loved one to a great deal of suffering without changing the outcome. When asked, most people say they would like to spend the last part of their life at home, surrounded by their loved ones, in a comfortable environment.Modern medical technology allows us to prolong life, but often in a way that directly contradicts what a patient wants at the end of life. Allow Dr. Molk and Dr. Shapiro, two seasoned Emergency Physicians, to guide you through these crucial considerations: Quality of lifeEmotional and financial costsPotential benefits/disadvantages to the patientImpact on caregiversCovid-19-related issuesLet this book help you have important conversations with loved ones and physicians in order to make this decision intelligently. A good death is doable!
The Allied Health Professions
The allied health professions have gained legitimacy through the pursuit of research evidence and the standardisation of practice. Yet there remains very little analysis or understanding of these professions. Adopting theory from the sociology of health professions, this unique text explores the sociological, economic, political and philosophical pressures that have shaped the professions. Drawing on case studies and examples from occupations including optometrists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists to emerging vocations, including pedorthists and allied health assistants, this book offers an innovative comparison of allied health professions in Australia and Britain. By telling the story of their past, this original book prepares the allied health professions for a new and different future.
Strategies for Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions
High quality instruction in an authentic clinical environment is a must for all healthcare programs. Packed with strategies to help clinical instructors develop as educators and strengthen their teaching practice, this text is a key resource for those new to educating in a clinical setting. The first part of this practical book explores becoming a clinical instructor. It looks at the responsibilities of the role as well as the traits of effective clinical instructors. Introducing the concept of teacher identity, it offers suggestions for making the transition from healthcare practitioner to clinical educator. The book's second part provides information on teaching in the healthcare environment. It introduces principles of curriculum design and planning, pedagogy and teaching strategies, performance assessment, and the delivery of constructive feedback. The final chapter in this part discusses helping students prepare for entry into the healthcare workforce. The book ends with a chapter on ways to support clinical instructors. Including reflective practice exercises, practical tips for dealing with challenging situations, and sample rubrics and templates, this useful book provides a foundation for the healthcare practitioner who is beginning a career in clinical education. It is also a valuable guide for more experienced instructors and those who manage clinical instructors.
India’s Private Health Care Delivery
This book brings together all the major components of the private health care sector in India, with detailed description of its evolution, the foundational ideas, its development, the positives and ill effects on the population. It suggests intelligible and practical remedies for public good. The book presents a comprehensive review of private health care sector's resistance to Indian Government's reforms like the national medical commission, NEET, clinical establishment act and the new boost to the traditional medicine by the Indian government. The author has discussed contentious areas like Corporate Hospitals, Capitation Fee Colleges, Pharmaceutical Industry, Western Models in Health Care, Integration of Medical Systems, Ayushman Bharat Scheme, Health Insurance and Public Private Partnership on a massive scale.
Essential Resource Guide for Caregivers
NOW IN ITS 6th EDITION (2021)Are you a family caregiver?Are you overwhelmed and stressed trying to find the resources you need?Are you exhausted from searching the Internet, only to come up empty handed because you didn't know everything that was available to you, or where to find it? Are you tired of throwing your money away?If saving time and saving money is important to you...Then you NEED this book!And how does FREE sound? (Everybody likes FREE!!!) This updated, 2021, 6th-Edition Resource Guide is specifically directed to caregivers who don't know where to look for financial help, don't know all the options available to them, don't have the time to research websites for hours or wait on the phone in frustration, while pushing endless buttons after voice prompts go on forever and take you nowhere... If this sounds familiar... then This is the book you've been searching for!It provides information quickly and easily by identifying the programs, services, and products you need-saving both time and money-and all from the comfort of home! Many of these resources are FREE!You will discover... Unknown government, profit, and nonprofit agency resourcesHow to easily save thousands of dollarsevery year MULTIPLE ways to actually get PAID to care for a family member or loved one-including which states actually offer PAID time off from your job or workplace in order to care for themFREE services and programs you don't even know exist, including those hard to find, and those you haven't consideredQuick and easy access to informationStep-by-step, easy-to-follow instructionsWhere to look, who to call, and what to specifically ask forWhere to find FREE respite care relief when you're exhausted and need time offAll this and much, much, MORE!This Resource Guide has it all covered.Many of these resources are the best kept secrets out there. You will be amazed at what you discover, and how many of these resources are actually FREE! All you need to know is where to find them. This book eliminates most of the legwork, stress, and overwhelm associated with caregiving-and allows you to concentrate on more important things-like spending quality time with those you love!So scroll up now, click the "Add to cart" button, and grab several copies today!You'll be so glad you did!Your search is over, and HELP has arrived!!!Now in its 6th Edition (2021), you will see for yourself why this is the book caregivers (including their friends and families) have been raving about-and why they are recommending it to others!
Lab Values Interpretation
This is the official textbook on Lab Values Interpretation created by Nurse Academy.Are you looking for a guide to quickly learn how to interpret laboratory values? If so, this is the right book for you.Lab Values Interpretation is a simple and easy to understand book that introduces the concept of lab values and their corresponding interpretations to those that are looking for a simple overview of the subject matter, while also providing a quick recap of the most important information for those that just want to refresh their memories.The skill of being able to interpret laboratory investigations and understanding the science behind them is very important in the medicine field. It is said that approximately 65-75% of decision making in medicine is done based on the results of laboratory tests. Hence, there is immense pressure on the need for health practitioners to correctly interpret lab values and what they mean in terms of a patient's health.This book is meant to alleviate some of those pressures by explaining the lab values of the most common tests. Laboratory values essentially provide data in an objective form that relates to the patient's health. Therefore, they can aid in the early diagnosis of diseases that have not yet had clinical manifestations, thereby leading to more effective management of such conditions. They can also aid in monitoring the progress of various diseases so that treatment can be modified accordingly.Needless to say, insufficient understanding of laboratory tests in a clinical setting can lead to misinterpretation of results, which in turn will jeopardize patient safety.In this book you will: Get an in-depth understanding of what lab values are and how they are determined.Learn how to correctly interpret the lab values of over 35 lab tests.Be able to objectively measure your patient's health.Use your new skills every single day at work.Be able to use this book as a point of reference for the normal range of lab values.Be able to test your knowledge with some questions that have been added to the last two chapters in the book.Additionally, in this book you will learn the interpretation of the lab values of tests that include the following: Basic Chemistry PanelCardiovascular testingEndocrine testingLiver and Kidney testingPregnancy and Genetic testingHematology and Oncology testingImmunology testingPulmonary testingAs well as Gastrointestinal testsWith this book, you can say goodbye to any jittery feeling you might previously have whenever you try to interpret lab values because this book will allow you to analyze lab values gotten from lab tests in a confident and fearless manner.Purchase this book now and begin learning how to interpret lab values of over 35 tests easily and correctly!Don't forget to drop a review if you enjoy the book and recommend the book to your fellow medical practitioners so that they can benefit from the knowledge in the book.We look forward to your feedback! ★★★★★Nurse Academy
Perspectives on the Person with Dementia and Family Caregiving in Ireland
This book is about dementia in Ireland and what has and has not been happening in a country where dementia has been a taboo topic for so long.
Bug Out Bag Encyclopedia
What if...you had the power to choose life over death? Disaster can take many forms including those created by nature and those by man. In addition to preparing for hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and the like, you need to also be ready for civil unrest. Even former safe havens like gated, affluent, suburban neighborhoods have been invaded by angry mobs. People are alarmed and buying firearms in record numbers, including many first-time buyers. But firearms alone are not enough. Will you be a survivor? You can take control and choose life by taking the time now to assemble a Bug Out Bag (also known as a "BOB") to help you survive when disaster strikes. The key is to prepare now. When disaster strikes, it's time to "grab and go." There may be no time to gather things from around your house. And it will be difficult or impossible to shop for items that others who failed to prepare are also desperately trying to procure. This book saves you valuable time and expense learning how to put together your survival bag or BOB. Chapters are organized to make it quick and easy for you to find the information you need. Those of you who already have a BOB can use this book to determine if there may be other items to consider adding to your kit or to perhaps replace existing items. Some of the information covered in this book includes: ● The concept that three BOBs are better than one and why you should consider setting up bags to help you survive short-, medium-, and long-term emergencies● A list of recommended items and the rationale for including them in your BOBs● A detailed list of items organized by survival category (e.g., 1st aid, water, fire, shelter, food, communication, etc) along with the size, price, and weight of each item. The items are coded to tell you which of the three bags they are best suited for.● Specific products in different price ranges are presented to help people with different budgets.● Learn how item selection within specific survival categories differs depending upon the anticipated duration of the disaster.● How to organize the survival items inside your BOB for easy access and recognition● How your BOB items will differ if you're on foot versus escaping by automobile● Items to include for your pet● Reference list for additional information Use this book to: ● Create your own personalized list of items within each survival category to put into your three customized BOBs● Calculate an estimate of the overall price and weight for each of your BOBs based upon your item selection. You can then add or subtract items from your BOBs to optimize price and weight. When feasible, you'll be better off staying in place where you'll have the benefit of your network of friends and family as well as shelter and supplies afforded by your home or office. Under dire circumstances, you may be forced to flee fast. The information in this book will ensure that you have the critical items necessary for you to survive whether you're able to shelter in place or if you're forced to escape to another location. Building a BOB is your survival insurance. Like having car or medical insurance: ● You hope you never have to use it● It's too late to get it when an emergency happens● And, you'll be ever so happy you have it when you need it! Life or death in the face of an emergency? The choice is yours. Empower yourself. Get started now to help ensure your survival.
The Home Health Care Industry in the U.S
"This book is an x-ray of the joys, abuses, and cacophony in the home healthcare industry in the United States. The Home Care Providers industry here is one of the fastest-growing healthcare industries. It flourishes because medical advancements now make it possible for people to live longer. Suppose you decide to sign in for their services in your golden age or earlier. In that case, almost all you had worked for in life could be subjected to indirect management by this industry and its affiliated institutions. The home care company you pick will work together with your lawyer, doctors, social worker, case manager, insurance company, and state institutions like Medicare, Medicaid, and more. You may land in an intricate spider's web that will keep you miserable for the rest of your days on earth if you fail to do proper planning with them. Extensive investigations by the author of this work give a more exact reading into their maneuvers, saving targeted actors in their care chain from sliding into harmful traps. It guides them to prepare ahead of time in order to be sparedembarrassment and any impending doom."
Prescription Comedy
The secret to healing from physician burnout, re-connecting with loved ones and rediscovering daily joy resides in an unlikely place: the comedy club. In Prescription Comedy, author Dr. Pranathi Kondapaneni shares her personal journey with on-the-job burnout and how an almost accidental foray into the world of comedy proved key to her cure. What you'll discover: Why so many physicians succumb to burnout and suffer a loss of faith as they toil under the weight of a medical system that doesn't value connection Where the true value of comedy truly lies: in cultivating a connection with the audience that extends far beyond making them laughHow Dr. Kondapaneni's personal quest to improve the physician-patient communication bond led her to discover and explore comedy Simple lessons that can help you defeat physician burnout"In sharing my journey, I aim to help fellow physicians who feel downtrodden, disenfranchised, and disenchanted by the weight of this medical system," says Dr. Kondapaneni. "Unless one has walked in the shoes of a shattered physician, it's hard to understand the swamp which can swallow a physician whole." This book was written for physicians, who are often seen as lucky to have a stable, well-paying career. They ultimately carry the burden of treating our most precious resource: health. Couple this responsibility with a broken healthcare system, and physicians face a hefty load indeed. The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.-Mark Twain
The Medieval Economy of Salvation
In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individuals--townspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiastics--saw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards.In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
