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
I Look Fine Because Migraines are Invisible
I Look Fine Because Migraines are Invisible, Health Log Book (Printed), Migraine Log Book, Yearly Headache Tracker, Personal Health Tracker Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Health Planner 6 x 9 inches, plenty of space to note your headache record. This notebook will help you track your symptoms and assist you in finding effective relief, or decide if you need to seek medical attention. Simplistic layout & beautiful design. This book has a total of 100 pages, contain 5 inner cover and 95 planner pages.
Truths from the Trenches
Running a medical practice is not easy, and if you've been doing it awhile, you know that you must count on your office manager to make everything smooth. But how do you find this person? How do you train them to lead the staff so that everyone's productive and happy? There's a delicate balance to achieve and, full of real-life examples, this book outlines all the details to creating a high-performing, inspired medical team that's productive and profitable.
Dancing with Lewy
Nancy Poland's memoir, Dancing with Lewy, gives hope to caregivers tending to a loved one with a debilitating illness.
First, Do No Harm
"Crammed with provocative insights, raw emotion, and heartbreaking dilemmas," (The New York Times) First, Do No Harm is a powerful examination of how life and death decisions are made at a major metropolitan hospital in Houston, as told through the stories of doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators facing unthinkable choices. What is life worth? And when is a life worth living? Journalist Lisa Belkin examines how these questions are asked and answered over one dramatic summer at Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. In an account that is fascinating, revealing, and almost novelistic in its immediacy, Belkin takes us inside a major hospital and introduces us to the people who must make life and death decisions every day. As we walk through the hallways of the hospital we meet a young pediatrician who must decide whether to perform a risky last-ditch surgery on a teenager who has spent most of his fifteen years in a hospital; we watch as new parents battle with doctors over whether to disconnect their fragile, premature twins from the machine that keeps them breathing; we are in the operating room as a poor immigrant, paralyzed from a gunshot in the neck, is asked by doctors whether or not he wishes to stay alive; we witness the worry of a kidney specialist as he decides whether or not to transfer an uninsured baby to the county hospital down the road. We experience critical moments in the lives of these real people as Belkin explores challenging issues and questions involving medical ethics, human suffering, modern technology, legal liability, and financial reality. As medical technology advances, the choices grow more complicated. How far should we go to save a life? Who decides? And who pays?
Pandemic Blunder
Every American feeling anxious, concerned, and frightened about the COVID pandemic will benefit from reading Pandemic Blunder: Fauci and Public Health Blocked Early Home COVID Treatment. This book will help everyone protect their health by becoming better informed about medicines for preventing and curing the COVID infection. Pandemic Blunder is the first book to explain in detail how and why the federal government failed to do what medicine has always done: promote and support the earliest medical treatment that people can use in their home. Missing from current government actions is the early home/outpatient treatment for COVID that keeps people out of hospitals. The result was a pandemic blunder of massive proportions.Pandemic Blunder contains considerable medical information and data to support a number of proven safe, cheap generic medicines and protocols that knock out the coronavirus when given early. Read about the pioneering, courageous doctors who have been using innovative approaches to prevent their COVID patients from needing hospital care and facing death. The book includes many expert opinions from doctors who support the view that 70 to 80 percent of COVID deaths - many hundreds of thousands - could have been prevented. Don't be victimized by disinformation and propaganda from mainstream media. Learn how corrupt forces are aiming to make billions of dollars from expensive medicines and vaccines, and how hundreds of thousands of deaths could have-and should have-been prevented!Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn has decades of experience working on health issues and is a member of the two medical organizations most active in advocating for early home COVID treatment, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and America's Frontline Doctors. He wrote Pandemic Blunder to stop the blundering. It is not too late. We can prevent more deaths from COVID.
The Problem Employee
Healthcare executives must keep their problem employees in line (and keep turnover to a minimum) or fire them without incurring legal consequences. Yet, it is difficult to know how to bring problem employees back into line and to minimize and contain the damage they do. Many healthcare executives find the task to be a challenging, time-consuming, and vexing test of their leadership ability and patience.The Problem Employee presents complete, clear, how-to-do-it strategies for managing problem employees and delves into 17 of the most challenging and diabolical problem employees that healthcare leaders are likely to encounter. This is the book healthcare executives will need whether they find themselves supervising a toxic, untrustworthy, pessimistic, burned out, lazy, overworked, cliquish, or childish employee -- or whether they manage a prima donna, a drama queen, a bully, a gossip, or even a slob.What this book will do for you: Provide an at-your-fingertips ready resource that you can use today and tomorrow. Read individual chapters right away to help you manage your current problem employee. But also use this book as a career-long on-the-shelf reference that you can return to again and again as you (or one of your direct reports) encounter new and different types of problem employees.Teach you a tailored approach to managing the most common types of problem employees. There is no one-size-fits-all cookie cutter strategy that will work with every problem employee. This book takes a deep dive into 17 different types of problem employees. You'll learn what's behind each problem employee's unique behavior -- why a gossip gossips, a bully bullies, a prima donna is a prima donna, and a drama queen is a drama queen. Most importantly, you'll learn how to tailor your management strategy according to each problem employee's needs.Boost your confidence. Managing problem employees is a difficult, sometimes confusing, and often lonely task. The Problem Employee will help you to feel more confident because you will know what to do (and not do), when to do it, and how to do it, step-by-step. As well, each chapter includes a bonus feature that will give you examples of policies, helpful tips to share with your employees, or lessons about the variations in problem employees that often crop up. Teach you how to manage a star performer. While we can't classify star performers as problem employees, they do require special care and handling. This book includes a bonus chapter that addresses the special challenges of managing star performers. It also teaches you how to minimize jealousy and resentment from the rest of your healthcare team.If you're a healthcare executive or leader who manages even one employee, The Problem Employee is for you.Table of ContentsPART 1: PROBLEM EMPLOYEES: THE BIG PICTUREPART 2: MANAGING YOUR PROBLEM EMPLOYEESChapter 1: Managing a Toxic EmployeeChapter 2: Managing a BullyChapter 3: Managing Your Team's Weakest LinkChapter 4: Managing a Lazy EmployeeChapter 5: Managing a Drama QueenChapter 6: Managing a Childish EmployeeChapter 7: Managing a GossipChapter 8: Managing an Employee Who Dislikes YouChapter 9: Managing a Micromanaged EmployeeChapter 10: Managing an Overworked EmployeeChapter 11: Managing an Employee with Low MoraleChapter 12: Managing a Cliquish EmployeeChapter 13: Managing a Distrustful EmployeeChapter 14: Managing a Pessimistic, Cynical, or Gloomy EmployeeChapter 15: Managing a SlobChapter 16: Managing a Productive Prima DonnaChapter 17: Managing a Burned-Out EmployeeBonus Chapter: Managing a Star Performer
Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity
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 12, Number 2 (Fall 2019) are: - An Urban School District-University-Industry Partnership to Increase Diversity in the Health Professions: Lesson Learned from the University of Kansas Health Science Academy- Are Demographic Factors Associated with Diabetes Risk Perception and Preventive Behavior?- Using Simulation to Teach Biosafety and Interprofessional Principles to Students Underrepresented in the Healthcare Professions- Improving Rehabilitation Counselors' Knowledge of Co-Occurring Disorders, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Practices- African American Nursing Students' Perceptions of their Professional Image in the Media- The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Leadership and Diversity Training Program- Tips for Building a Pathway to Medicine for Underrepresented Minority Students Becoming a Mental Health Therapist
Those Who Care
"Those Who Care" is for the people who love and support transplant patients. The people who squeeze their loved ones hands, gaze fearfully as the transplant recipient is wheeled away, and know the pain of their heart being on an operating table even though your body is not. I've been where you are. In this journal I share my experience with you being one of "Those Who Care!" Transplant journeys can be vastly different, but the steps in the journey are similar. This journal is for us--the caregivers! If you are at the beginning of your journey you will be given insight into what to expect. My experiences will be a place of comfort for those of you currently active in the transplant process, and it will serve to remind you that you are not alone. For those of you who have already been through the process this journal is a place for you to reflect and document your feelings as certain milestone dates come around. There are features included that will be sure to keep you organized and well on your way.
A Paradigm of Care
Remember the pots hammered by spoons from high Manhattan windows, and parades of cars and pick-up trucks holding dear the medical professionals responding to covid-19. This book is part of that chorus, that march, to express appreciation for the giving of care. And beyond doctors and nurses, bless their hearts, to mothers caring for their babies, for captains for their teams, for the soon-to-be widowers for their wives and teachers for their students, but also for the ranchers for their cattle and the contemplative world for our environment. This is a book to think more closely of the support for care, individual as it so often will be, to be woven more closely together in a paradigm of care. Care is always prominent. Care for others, of the family, care for those of the tribe, care for animals and homes and gardens and properties, self-care. And the purse. Even without teaching, compensation, or legislation, care survives, but even with these helpings, it falls short of the need. We live in a crisis of care. Thinking explicitly and beyond health care. There is no mechanism of state and conscience that delivers care to all the venues of need, and seldom in the amounts needed. The reservoirs of care are far from empty, but at a mark that needs topping up. There is need for care advocacy, a care ethic, a paradigm. This book is about that paradigm. A care paradigm may bring comfort and recovery more fully to the people and organic creations of the world. The paradigm hears the moan of indifference. It draws upon the eyes of the heart. The paradigm is about how we see the need for care. The care paradigm, the grand beholding, is manifest in how we provide for others, how we nurture them, give succor, how we are disposed, and are not, to sacrifice to relieve their hurt. It is not only caring for those visibly needing care, unable to care for themselves, but caring for all. It is having a disposition that the hurts, large and small, that all of us carry, arouse concern and appreciation from and for each individual, the community and the world.
A Paradigm of Care
Remember the pots hammered by spoons from high Manhattan windows, and parades of cars and pick-up trucks holding dear the medical professionals responding to covid-19. This book is part of that chorus, that march, to express appreciation for the giving of care. And beyond doctors and nurses, bless their hearts, to mothers caring for their babies, for captains for their teams, for the soon-to-be widowers for their wives and teachers for their students, but also for the ranchers for their cattle and the contemplative world for our environment. This is a book to think more closely of the support for care, individual as it so often will be, to be woven more closely together in a paradigm of care.Care is always prominent. Care for others, of the family, care for those of the tribe, care for animals and homes and gardens and properties, self-care. And the purse. Even without teaching, compensation, or legislation, care survives, but even with these helpings, it falls short of the need. We live in a crisis of care. Thinking explicitly and beyond health care. There is no mechanism of state and conscience that delivers care to all the venues of need, and seldom in the amounts needed. The reservoirs of care are far from empty, but at a mark that needs topping up. There is need for care advocacy, a care ethic, a paradigm. This book is about that paradigm.A care paradigm may bring comfort and recovery more fully to the people and organic creations of the world. The paradigm hears the moan of indifference. It draws upon the eyes of the heart. The paradigm is about how we see the need for care. The care paradigm, the grand beholding, is manifest in how we provide for others, how we nurture them, give succor, how we are disposed, and are not, to sacrifice to relieve their hurt. It is not only caring for those visibly needing care, unable to care for themselves, but caring for all. It is having a disposition that the hurts, large and small, that all of us carry, arouse concern and appreciation from and for each individual, the community and the world.
Facing a Pandemic
Facing a Pandemic traces the history and spread of the HIV/AIDS virus in Africa and its impact on African society and public policy before considering new priorities needed to combat the pandemic. The central argument is that the theological motif of the image of God invites a prophetic critique of the social environment in which HIV/AIDS thrives and calls for a praxis of love and compassion.
How to Deliver Integrated Care
Care integration has become an important part of managing health and social care services all over the world. Bringing organisations together is thought to produce better access to care, reduce health care expenditure and improve quality of care for patients and service users. This book helps managers to think about how to collaborate in integrated care programmes. It provides practical advice on how to implement various aspects of care integration, such as finance, digital technology and evaluation. The book also contains chapters on the social and behavioural strategies, values and leadership approaches that should underpin integration. Each chapter contains key information based on the current state of research, illustrations from practical contexts and further reading.
C-Vitamiini - Luonnon Yleisl瓣瓣ke
Suuri v瓣est繹tutkimus Cambridgen yliopistossa osoittaa, ett瓣 korkea C-vitamiinitaso puolittaa kuolleisuuden - kaikista syist瓣! Taudeille alttiit nis瓣kk瓣瓣t - ihminen, apina ja marsu - eiv瓣t pysty syntetisoimaan C-vitamiinia geenivirheen johdosta. Tohtori Levy perustelee yli 1200 tieteellisell瓣 viitteell瓣, miten C-vitamiini torjuu virukset, bakteerit, myrkyt, s瓣teilyn vaikutukset, syd瓣nsairaudet, sy繹v瓣n, reuman, rappeumasairaudet ja vanhenemisen! Ihmisen painoinen vuohi tuottaisi 13 000 mg C-vitamiinia p瓣iv疇ss疇. Kohdatessaan sairauksia tai myrkkyj瓣, se tuottaisi jopa 100 000 mg C-vitamiinia p瓣iv瓣ss瓣! Ihmisille suositus p瓣ivitt瓣iseksi tarpeeksi on vain 75 - 90 mg! Luonnollisen C-vitamiinituotannon lis瓣瓣ntyminen tauteja ja myrkkyj瓣 kohdattaessa selitt瓣瓣, miksi niin monet villiel瓣imet pysyv瓣t elinvoimaisen tervein瓣, kunnes ne antautuvat vanhuudelle. My繹s ihmisell瓣 on tarve t瓣ydent瓣瓣 C-vitamiinia vaihtelevasti terveydentilan perusteella. On monia syit瓣 hyl瓣t瓣 saantisuositukset ja t瓣ydent瓣瓣 C-vitamiinia terveydentilan, ymp瓣rit繹myrkkyjen ja tartuntariskien mukaan. C-vitamiini on - Ylivoimainen laajakirjoinen mikrobil瓣瓣ke - Vertaansa vailla myrkkyjen vastal瓣瓣kkeen瓣 - Ainutlaatuisen tehokas suoja rappeumasairauksilta - T瓣ysin turvallinen ja myrkyt繹n ihmisille - "Kotonaan" ihmiskehossa - T瓣ydellinen yleisl瓣瓣ke koska se oli tarkoitettu siksi kehityshistorian alusta saakka! Kirja tarjoaa perusteellisen esittelyn ja yksityiskohtaisia tapauskertomuksia C-vitamiinin k瓣yt繹st瓣 ja tehosta. Kirja esittelee my繹s miss瓣 muodoissa sek瓣 miten sit瓣 tulisi k瓣ytt瓣瓣 terveyden ja pitk瓣ik瓣isyyden edist瓣miseksi.
Illustrated Catalogue And Price List Of Surgical Instruments, Hospital Supplies, Orthopaedical Apparatus, Trusses, Etc., Fine Microscopes, Medical Batteries, Physicians' And Hospital Supplies
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ACMPE Board Certification Exam Workbook
The ACMPE Certification Exam Workbook is a valuable tool to help you confidently approach the exam by putting broad medical practice concepts into a real-world perspective. The workbook provides you with: A systematic, guided, and interactive approachA review of all aspects of medical practice managementA hybrid learning approach that combines the characteristics of content review and assessmentA lighter overview and treatment of the content than a textbookAn interactive approach to guide you through assessments, practice questions, and detailed answers
Leading High-Reliability Organizations in Healthcare
This book details the attributes and practices that help high-reliability organizations (HROs) excel in the service they provide to their customers. Explaining what it takes to achieve high reliability in healthcare settings, it presents proven tools and concepts that leading healthcare organizations are using to improve safety and quality. The
Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement in Digitalen Zeiten
Die Digitalisierung des BGM ist schon l瓣nger zu beobachten und hat durch den technologischen Fortschritt in der Entwicklung von Wearables, Apps und sozialen Medien gute M繹glichkeiten, in einen digitalen Arbeitsalltag integriert zu werden. Daf羹r ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Instrumenten notwendig, um Mitarbeiter f羹r die das Thema Gesundheit zu sensibilisieren. Eine entscheidende Rolle wird auch den F羹hrungskr瓣ften zuteil, die ihr F羹hrungsverst瓣ndnis an die digitalen Zeiten anpassen m羹ssen. Denn der digitale Alltag bedingt zum Teil erhebliche Ver瓣nderungen im Arbeitsalltag.
Kidney to Share
In Kidney to Share, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. She takes readers through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. John D. Lantos, a physician and bioethicist, places Gershun's story in the larger context of the history of kidney transplantation and the ethical controversies that surround living donors. Together, they help readers understand the discoveries that made transplantation relatively safe and effective as well as the legal, ethical, and economic policies that make it feasible. Gershun and Lantos explore the steps involved in recovering and allocating organs. They analyze the differences that arise depending on whether the organ comes from a living donor or one who has died. They observe the expertise--and the shortcomings--of doctors, nurses, and other professionals and describe the burdens that we place on people who are willing to donate. In this raw and vivid book, Gershun and Lantos ask us to consider just how far society should go in using one person's healthy body parts in order to save another person.Kidney to Share provides an account of organ donation that is both personal and analytical. The combination of perspectives leads to a profound and compelling exploration of a largely opaque practice. Gershun and Lantos pull back the curtain to offer readers a more transparent view of the fascinating world of organ donation.
Delivering Superior Health and Wellness Management with Iot and Analytics
This in-depth book addresses a key void in the literature surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) and health. By systematically evaluating the benefits of mobile, wireless, and sensor-based IoT technologies when used in health and wellness contexts, the book sheds light on the next frontier for healthcare delivery. These technologies generate data with significant potential to enable superior care delivery, self-empowerment, and wellness management. Collecting valuable insights and recommendations in one accessible volume, chapter authors identify key areas in health and wellness where IoT can be used, highlighting the benefits, barriers, and facilitators of these technologies as well as suggesting areas for improvement in current policy and regulations.Four overarching themes provide a suitable setting to examine the critical insights presented in the 31 chapters: Mobile- and sensor-based solutionsOpportunities to incorporate critical aspectsof analytics to provide superior insights and thus support better decision-makingCritical issues around aspects of IoT in healthcare contextsApplications of portals in healthcare contextsA comprehensive overview that introduces the critical issues regarding the role of IoT technologies for health, Delivering Superior Health and Wellness Management with IoT and Analytics paves the way for scholars, practitioners, students, and other stakeholders to understand how to substantially improve health and wellness management on a global scale.
Denutrition de l’adulte hospitalise a Kinshasa en Republique Democratique du Congo
La d矇nutrition de l'adulte hospitalis矇 ? Kinshasa, en RDC fut 矇tudi矇e aupr癡s de 644 malades adultes hospitalis矇s dans 3 H繫pitaux (Saint Joseph, Kintambo, H繫pital provincial de r矇f矇rence). La d矇nutrition affecte 36% des adultes hospitalis矇s, ne montre pas de diff矇rence entre les services (chirurgie et m矇decine interne) (p=0,842843) et ni selon le sexe (p=0,781). L'璽ge moyen d'un adulte d矇nutri est de 46.5 簣 13,82 ans alors le s矇jour hospitalier moyen est de 38簣12.1 jours. Le stade II de d矇nutrition (16.0 - 16.9 de l'indice de masse corporelle ''IMC'') demeure le degr矇 de s矇v矇rit矇 le plus rencontr矇 ? l'admission et ? la sortie avec respectivement 46,3 % et 40,7%. L'IMC moyen n'a pu fortement 矇voluer de l'admission ? la sortie (de 16.22 簣1,80 Kg /m簡 ? 16.3簣 1.89 Kg /m簡; p=0,842376). La persistance de l'inflammation au cours du traitement (p
Do No Harm
After interviewing scores of patients and studying weight bias research, Hannah Hawkins has developed solutions for patients, and for providers, in removing weight discrimination from healthcare settings. Despite the fact that it has a 95% failure rate, weight loss is still the standard prescription for anyone in a bigger body, regardless of their medical complaints. Do No Harm: Fatphobia and the Medical Industry explores how fatphobia is harming patients of every size and age.In this book, you'll learn: How and why patients are being discriminated againstWhat patients in bigger bodies can do to advocate for themselvesHow to better your relationship with your health and medical providers in natural healthy waysWhy weight loss is a mythHow providers can remove weight bias from their practiceFilled with numerous studies and stories about people proving that weight loss doesn't improve health or work in the long term, Do No Harm will leave you with action steps to take your health into your own hands and educate the medical community on the harm of weight bias.
Social Cognitive Theory, Research, & Practice in Integrative Healthcare
Integrative medical practitioners acknowledge links between body systems in treatment, recognize that illness and disease manifest uniquely in each patient, and address the complexity of each human being in an individualized manner. Fundamental concepts related to the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) for understanding human behavior include outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, and skills. When working with targeted populations, public health practitioners can map-out the SCT to identify the social support, social network, and environmental factors affecting a community to achieve behavioral change. The SCT model can aid in the development of a plan of actions that public health practitioners can take next to address public health needs within a community in an integrative therapeutic manner.
Strategiewechsel Jetzt!
STRATEGIEWECHSEL JETZT! Viel zu lange schon kennen Verantwortliche die Schw瓣chen des aktuellen Gesundheitssystems. Viel zu lange begn羹gen wir uns mit Teill繹sungen und mit immer neuen Gesetzen zu Teilaspekten. Das Gesundheitssystem hat die Patienten aus den Augen verloren! Dabei haben wir kein Ressourcenproblem und unsere Leistungserbringer z瓣hlen zu den Besten. Aber wir kommen nicht entscheidend voran. Darin sind sich alle Experten einig. Unser Gesundheitssystem hat offensichtlich die F瓣higkeit verloren, sich selbst zu erneuern. Und Gesetze alleine reichen nicht. So kann es nicht weitergehen! Das Buch ergeht sich nicht in Defizitbeschreibungen. Vielmehr zeigt es auf, wie man das aktuelle Gesundheitssystem ziel- und patientenorientiert zukunftsf瓣hig machen k繹nnte. Dazu muss man an erster Stelle Gesundheits- und Versorgungsziele definieren, Zielkonflikte aufl繹sen wie etwa zwischen Versorgungsqualit瓣t und ?konomie, Verantwortung eindeutig zuordnen und Transparenz herstellen. Deshalb haben wir das Buch geschrieben. Mit nur 15 Regeln und Konstruktionsprinzipien zeigt das Buch den Weg zu einem Gesundheitssystem, wie wir es eigentlich alle verdienen. Diese Aufgabe ist allerdings so gro?, dass wir sie nur gemeinsam bew瓣ltigen k繹nnen. Gesundheitspolitik, Selbstorganisation, Bundesl瓣nder, Versorgungseinrichtungen und Leistungstr瓣ger m羹ssen alle an einem Strang ziehen. Und zwar in die gleiche Richtung! Nur beherztes Handeln bringt uns angesichts bevorstehender Herausforderungen in Gesundheitsversorgung und digitaler Transformation weiter. Dazu bedarf es aber Mut, Entschlossenheit und Energie von uns allen. Wir fordern: STRATEGIEWECHSEL JETZT!
Every Step Is a Gift
According to AARP, 78 percent of people find themselves in the position of caregiver to a loved one at some point in their life. But not many will embrace ultramarathons as a coping technique.Every Step Is a Gift: Caregiving, Endurance, and the Path to Gratitude explores Josh Lasky's eleven-year journey as a caregiver to his father who battled Parkinson's Disease. Josh was just twenty-one when he took on this Herculean responsibility, and although his story is unique, it is also universal.In his uplifting and life-affirming journey, Josh's service to his father turns into a personal source of strength for him after deciding to ride his bike, alone, from Washington, DC to Portland. Along the way he discovers his love for endurance sports while also uncovering the realization that, although caregiving can be challenging, it can also be empowering. Whether you're a caregiver, an athlete, or just dealing with the hardships of the human condition, this book can help you to find meaning in the struggle-and become stronger and more grateful in the process.
Patient Safety First
More people die each year in hospital accidents than in car accidents. This is a much needed systematic analysis of current issues, challenges and outcomes surrounding safety in patient health care in Australia.
Understanding Cancer Therapies
This book is an introduction to cancer treatment, the basics of radio- and chemotherapy, drug actions, the eradication of cancer cells, and the origins and persistence of pharmacological and toxicological effects of drugs. It provides research ideas based on knowledge of cancer metastasis, invasive and molecular pathways, diagnosis and treatment
High Reliability Organizations, Second Edition - INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE
Welcome to the instructor's guide for the second edition of High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety & Quality. This guide is designed to be a resource for educators in a variety of academic settings in courses focused on patient safety or quality management in nursing, health services administration, or clinical programs. This instructor's guide is divided into three sections: Unit 1: Using the Textbook for Teaching and LearningUnit 2: Resources for Teaching High Reliability for Patient Safety and QualityUnit 3: Chapter Learning Activities and Instructor SupportThis guide provides suggestions to guide faculty, nurse leaders, clinical staff nurses, quality and safety staff, or other healthcare professionals who are teaching others about the application of HRO principles to patient safety and quality problems using the second edition of High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety & Quality. For academic faculty, the chapter-by-chapter learning activities will help facilitate student learning about application of high reliability to patient safety and quality and can be used as part of a patient safety and quality course at a variety of academic levels.The student workbook contains the same chapter-by-chapter learning activities found in the instructor's guide. The instructor's guide contains supplemental materials including learning activity implementation strategies and student evaluation sections. There are several completed examples of fill-in responses or answers for instructors as well. A summative learning activity is included that gives instructors the opportunity to assess student ability to translate high reliability principles into practice.
High Reliability Organizations, Second Edition
Awarded second place in the 2021 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Professional Issues!Nurses represent the majority of healthcare workers and are on the front lines of delivery and provision of safe and effective care. As a result, nurses are ideally situated to drive the mission to achieve high reliability in healthcare. We expect the primary audience of this text to be frontline nursing staff, nurses in administration, quality and patient safety professionals, advanced practice nurses, and nurse educators. The healthcare professional who purchases this book will do so with the desire to learn more about the application of HRO principles to patient safety and quality problems. This book is unique in that it uses HRO principles as an organizing framework for practical application. The intent of the editors is to provide a quality and patient safety book that is useful to professionals doing the work of healthcare. Healthcare professionals are constantly seeking practical tools and descriptions of practices that will improve and enhance patient safety and quality outcomes. High reliability is a current goal for hospitals, and the principles are sound. However, there is little in the literature that discusses how to apply the principles at the front lines of care to improve outcomes. This text addresses this gap by placing the need for high reliability concepts into our current climate in healthcare through illustrative discussion (theory and research) of each of the five concepts of HRO, along with a description of a current best practice and/or tool that applies to the model. The goal of this book is to stimulate organizations to embrace high reliability concepts while striving to improve the quality and safety of care delivered to patients and families. We all benefit from a safer healthcare environment.The book is divided into eight parts: Part 1: This part provides background for the current safety and quality climate. Parts 2-6: These parts offer HRO concepts as a framework for the new model with examples. The first of these HRO concepts is that HROs have a preoccupation with failure. The second of these HRO concepts is that HROs restrain the impulse to view events through a single lens and are reluctant to simplify. The third HRO concept is that HROs demonstrate sensitivity to operations by making strong responses to weak signs. The fourth HRO concept is that HROs shift decision making away from formal authority and apply deference to expertise. The final HRO concept is that HROs have a commitment to resilience. Part 7: This part puts it all together and provides the reader with examples of how HRO concepts are assimilated into practice across the care continuum.Part 8: This part provides the reader with real-world examples of HRO principles employed in a variety of patient care areas. Comprehensive Instructor's Guide and Student Workbook are available for this book.
High Reliability Organizations, Second Edition - STUDENT WORKBOOK
ABOUT THE STUDENT WORKBOOKAs a student in a healthcare profession, you have probably heard of the concept of high reliability as a means to reduce harm, enhance quality, and improve outcomes. Patient safety and quality are of increasing importance to consumers, payers, providers, and organizations. As a large majority of the workforce, nurses are on the front lines of the delivery and provision of safe and effective care. The quest for high reliability must permeate an organization by way of leadership commitment, a culture of safety, continuous quality improvement, and every person's focus within the organization. This student workbook is designed as a companion to the primary textbook, High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety & Quality (2nd ed.), which explains how high reliability contributes to organizational quality and safety, recommends quality and safety activities based on high reliability principles, and integrates high reliability principles into healthcare practice.PURPOSE AND STRUCTUREThe purpose of this workbook is to provide learning activities that relate to each chapter in the book. These learning activities introduce students to high reliability, explain the concepts of high reliability and high reliability organizations (HROs), provide examples of what the concepts would look like ineveryday practice, and describe the information and tools nurses and other healthcare providers need for the organization to become an HRO. The first 26 chapters provide one accompanying learning activity, whereas the last five chapters provide context for the summative or final learning activity.Every learning activity reflects the content of its accompanying chapter. Students should read the chapter and supplemental materials and, if specified, focus on certain sections within the chapter prior to completing an exercise. Students may complete all these learning activities, but some instructors may choose only one or two from each chapter that meet the objectives of a particular course. Each learning activity begins with objectives, contains accompanying resource material or additional external resources, and has learning activity exercise-specific instructions. Nurses represent the majority of healthcare workers and are on the front lines of delivery and provision of safe and effective care. As a result, nurses are ideally situated to drive the mission to achieve high reliability in healthcare. It is our hope that the student workbook will prepare you to apply HRO principles to patient safety and quality problems in your place of practice because we all benefit from a safer healthcare environment.
Improving Financial and Operations Performance
The increasing pressure on the bottom line of healthcare provider organizations requires leaders who understand and can adeptly apply the basic principles of effective financial and operations management. To be successful in today's environment leaders must simultaneously improve quality and service while reducing expense. Improving Financial and Operations Performance: A Healthcare Leader's Guide is a collection of proven effective tips, tools, and techniques accumulated from real-world challenges and lessons learned logically organized to provide a straightforward approach to planning, assessing, managing, and monitoring a business enterprise to improve profitability.This book provides a clear, step-by-step "how to" approach for both new and experienced leaders seeking a leg up in tackling the myriad of common and complex challenges they are facing including conducting a budget variance analysis, managing labor and non-labor productivity and expense, performing a comprehensive financial condition analysis, growing profitable volume and market share, developing an effective business case for improving quality, and evaluating the financial impact of a future project. Written for clinical and administrative leaders working in the trenches, it provides practical and applicable tools with relevant, real-world, and replicable case study examples. The essential value of Improving Financial and Operations Performance: A Healthcare Leader's Guide is improving decision-making effectiveness, enhancing operations efficiency know-how, and developing strong financial management acumen to overcome the challenges in today's healthcare environment.Key Features: Author experience with extensive expertise as a former investor-owned hospital CEO, integrated health system vice president, managing director for the renowned turnaround experts, the Hunter Group, and graduate business school professor in management, finance, and economics.Realistic case examples to apply the key lessons through detailed practical and relevant case studies using clear step-by-step instructions.Calls-to-action at the end of each chapter with critical leadership imperatives to help prioritize and focus efforts on what matters most.Comprehensive glossary of key terms and concepts using plain easy to understand language.Appendices and Excel templates containing easy-to-use plug-and-play financial worksheets, checklists, best practice pathways, and performance assessments.eBook access purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.
Creating the Future of Health
Creating the Future of Health is the fascinating story of the first fifty years of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.Founded on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Health Services in 1964 the Cumming School has, from the very beginning, focused on innovation and excellence in health education. With a pioneering focus on novel, responsive and systems-based approaches, it was one of the first faculties to pilot multi-year training programs in family medicine and remains one of only two three-year medical schools in North America.Drawing on interviews with key players and extensive research into documents and primary material, Creating the Future of Health traces the history of the school through the leadership of its Deans. This is a story of perseverance through fiscal turbulence, sweeping changes to health care and health care education, and changing ideas of what health services are and what they should do. It is a story of triumph, of innovation, and of the tenacious spirit that thrives to this day at the Cumming School of Medicine.
Medical Quality ManagementTheory and Practice
This comprehensive medical textbook is a compendium of the latest information on healthcare quality. The text provides knowledge about the theory and practical applications for each of the core areas that comprise the field of medical quality management as well as insight and essential briefings on the impact of new healthcare technologies and innovations on medical quality and improvement. The third edition provides significant new content related to medical quality management and quality improvement, a user-friendly format, case studies, and updated learning objectives. This textbook also serves as source material for the American Board of Medical Quality in the development of its core curriculum and certification examinations.Each chapter is designed for a review of the essential background, precepts, and exemplary practices within the topical area: Basics of Quality ImprovementData Analytics for the Improvement of Healthcare QualityUtilization Management, Case Management, and Care CoordinationEconomics and Finance in Medical Quality ManagementExternal Quality Improvement -- Accreditation, Certification, and EducationThe Interface Between Quality Improvement and LawEthics and Quality ImprovementWith the new edition of Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice, the American College of Medical Quality presents the experience and expertise of its contributors to provide the background necessary for healthcare professionals to assume the responsibilities of medical quality management in healthcare institutions, provide physicians in all medical specialties with a core body of knowledge related to medical quality management, and serve as a necessary guide for healthcare administrators and executives, academics, directors, medical and nursing students and residents, and physicians and other health practitioners.
Challenging Concepts in Paediatric Critical Care
Providing the inside track on how the experts approach and deal with real-life clinical scenarios, Challenging Concepts in Paediatric Critical Care explores eighteen common, complex and often contentious topics seen in hospitals, high dependency units, and PICU's worldwide. These include cases on 'Paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome', 'Traumatic brain injury', and 'Safeguarding children in paediatric intensive care'. With a case-based approach, complex patient presentations are explored thoroughly so that assessment, diagnosis, and management are fully considered and explored with 'Clinical Tips', 'Learning Points', and 'Evidence Base' boxes. Throughout commentary from an international expert identifies and explains the key points and controversies of each case. Aligned to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health's paediatric intensive care medicine curriculum in the UK, the curriculum of Paediatric Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) course, and the European Paediatric/ Neonatal Intensive Care Diploma (EPIC), this text is ideal for training and assessment preparation. Aimed primarily at trainees and registrars in paediatric intensive care medicine, this text will appeal to those in the related disciplines of anaesthesia, emergency medicine, and paediatrics, as well as consultants and senior nurses.
W.I.L.D. The Pandemic
As the novel coronavirus shook America's way of life and exposed the holes within all of our systems, one system became an overnight reality show that EVERYONE was watching: Healthcare. The pandemic placed healthcare workers on the front line against this pandemic, and left medical facilities, regulatory agencies, and supply chains everywhere scrambling for cover...Literally, as there was no PPE to be found. Four leaders in the Sterilization, Reprocessing, and Leadership industries came together to share key takeaways from their experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In hopes that leaders understand how to be proactive every day, so when the next pandemic comes, these leaders are prepared for whatever comes their way. What I Learned During the Pandemic (WILD: The Pandemic) is an essential must-read for Sterile Processing Professionals and anyone in healthcare leadership looking to better understand how the novel coronavirus has impacted critical, yet often overlooked departments. The authors' insight serves as a much-needed guidepost, not only as the world continues to learn more about the moving target that is novel coronavirus, but also as healthcare professionals look to one another to apply the valuable lessons learned to help tame future beasts.
Own Your Value
Are you tired of working your fanny off to make other people rich?Do you have the freedom to control when, where and how hard you work?Do you work for a pharmacy employer that will guarantee you that you still have a full time job in the next 5 years?If you want to improve your business skills and put yourself in a position to succeed in the future, then read this book.This book is designed to shake you out of your complacency and engage your will to be financially independent. I began practicing Pharmacy in 1977. When I began there were no computers, no pharmacy technicians, no third-party payers, no PBMs, and hospital pharmacies were profit centers for their owners. Five times during my career my job has been sold out from under me because conditions in the profession changed. This forced me to learn how to learn to take care of myself. After every change I was able to earn more than I did before the change. However, the pace of change is now faster than ever before. Are you ready to handle a drastic career disruption right now? Do you have the skills to land on your feet and actually earn more than you can right now? I believe that the Future of Your Pharmacy practice lies in making yourself valuable to the marketplace. Your future will depend upon your ability to create a personal value strategy that will best use your abilities to build wealth. If you are not building equity in something you are at the mercy of a corporate decision derailing your financial plans. You need to stop waiting for permission and exercise your will to be great. If you believe that your employer will look out for your future, you are sadly mistaken. Do you honestly believe that what is best for your family enters in to any decision the industry moguls make when it comes to buying, selling, shrinking, expanding or closing locations? Do you think that you will be consulted when decisions about which jobs to outsource or downsize are being made? Are you willing to trust that the company you work for is going to take care of you and your family for the rest of your life? This book is designed to challenge frustrated, overworked professionals worried about the state of their profession, select and implement the best value strategy possible so they can get paid what they are worth and build a secure future for themselves and their families. This book will provide you with the motivation to develop your own unique business plan to generate financial independence. This can be by starting your own business, by creating a new professional service, or by using your pharmacist income to create a second line of income producing assets. The reality is that the pharmacist job market is soft and it will be up to you to create the income you need to fund your own retirement, while saving for your kids college expenses and taking care of your aging parents. During the 1990's and up until 2007 the pharmacist shortage created a seller's market for pharmacy labor. Wages rose, bonuses increased and pharmacists assumed this would last forever. During that market the employers paid more than they wanted to to keep their businesses open. Now the market has shifted and pharmacists are in oversupply. This means that wages will deteriorate unless you figure out a better way to increase your income.
The Ketogenic Diet Weight Loss
In case you're new to keto, read up on it with this convenient keto amateur's guide. Here's the essential significance: You chop route down on carbs (under 5 percent of your day by day calories) and increase the measure of fat you eat to 75% of your every day calorie standard. Protein makes up 20%. Restricting carbs and stacking up on fat is the place the keto weight reduction enchantment occurs. The keto diet powers your body to consume fat, as opposed to glucose, for vitality. At the point when your body can't get glucose from bread and pasta, your liver proselytes muscle versus fat and fat from your eating regimen into particles called ketones, an elective wellspring of fuel. This places you into ketosis, otherwise known as prime weight reduction mode. When you're on keto, you're less eager. Ketones help control hormones that impact hunger. They smother ghrelin, your "hunger hormone," and in the meantime they help cholecystokinin (CCK) - the hormone that keeps you feeling full. You won't have any desire to nibble as routinely, making it simpler to go longer without sustenance. Your body will at that point venture into its fat stores for vitality. The outcome? More weight reduction. Adapt increasingly here about how the keto diet stifles craving by GETTING A COPY OF THIS BOOK NOW
Burnout Breakthrough
Do you feel as though you never have enough time to get everything done?Are you missing out on important events in your loved ones' lives because you don't have the time?Are you exhausted, burned out and dissatisfied with your career and lifestyle? This practical and powerful book will show you how to take back control of your life. It is for physicians who suffer from excessive stress, over-commitment, and strained relationships. It addresses some of the most challenging problems that doctors face, such as daily time management and family concerns, in a concise, high-yield manner. More than half of physicians are burned out and frustrated with their careers. Some are struggling to balance their roles of physician and parent and often feel guilty for missing so much time with family. They feel a lack of joy in their career or purpose in their life. Burnout undermines their health, happiness and careers. It ruins the lives of their family members, their patients and those they work with regularly. It can even lead to self-destructive behavior, including substance abuse, depression, divorce and suicide. Burnout Breakthrough moves past the popular ideologies frequently touted to treat burnout and provides concrete solutions to the biggest problems facing physicians. Burnout Breakthrough illuminates a path out of burnout through: Concrete steps to take back control of your timePractical actions you can take right now to start the healing processA common sense way out of the stress, frustration and guilt many physicians feelClarity on your goals and a plan for your careerFollow the advice in this book to regain control of your work-life balance. Rediscover the purpose in your career and reclaim your valuable time so that you can enjoy your loved ones. What's stopping you from having a career you enjoy and a better work-life balance? Scroll to the top and click the "Buy Now" button.
Beyond Medical School
A DOCTOR'S BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS! You may be a physician who spent an exhaustive amount of years learning to be a great doctor, to help heal other human beings. But were you taught how to weigh your first job options, or how to go balance personal finances after medical school? What about communication skills? You're taught to make a patient whole without equal thought to listening to and really understanding the patient's needs and concerns. And how will you one day lead a team, start a business, or manage your own practice? How can you do all of this while balancing your personal needs? What about balancing a family life? In Beyond Medical School: Secrets of Successful Doctors, Dr. Gregory Corradino answers all of these questions and more. In this book, the author guides readers through core concepts essential for every physician, be it a young doctor fresh from medical school or a seasoned professional looking to sharpen their communication, leadership, and business skills. He hopes you'll learn here what he gained through decades of experience and an MBA: that education is a lifelong responsibility.
Virtuelle Realit瓣t, die Zukunft des Lernens
Aktuell ist eine Digitalisierung der Unterrichte geforderter denn je. Die Sch羹lerinnen und Sch羹ler in der Ausbildung zum Operationstechnischen Assistenten sind klar der Gruppe der Digital Natives zu zuordnen. Ein Umgang mit Digitalen Medien erfolgt meist spielerisch und ist fester Bestandteil des allt瓣glichen Lebens. Hieraus stellt sich die Frage wie ver瓣ndert sich das Lernen, wenn im Unterricht den Bed羹rfnissen nach Immersion und digitaler Vielfalt mit dem Einsatz virtueller Realit瓣t anstatt des klassischen Lehrervortrags nachgekommen wird? Im Rahmen dieses Bandes wird die Ver瓣nderung des Lernerfolges und der Motivation der Sch羹lerinnen und Sch羹ler beim Lernen mit virtueller Realit瓣t betrachtet. Dies kann nur mit Partnern bewerkstelligt werden. Es konnte die Firma Maindreieck.ecom zur Erstellung des virtuellen Erlebnisses gewonnen werden. Um die Studie nachhaltig zu pr羹fen, stand Frau Prof. K繹nig vom Institut f羹r Medizinische Lehre und Ausbildungsforschung am Universit瓣tsklinikum W羹rzburg mit Ihrem Rat und Ihrem Team w瓣hrend Studie dem Autor zur Seite.
Lean Healthcare
Lean Healthcare is written for healthcare leaders, managers, physicians, and professionals that are looking for ways to improve access, quality, safety, and service while maintaining or reducing costs. The book is packed with real life examples (including examples for hospitals, medical offices, pharmacies, imaging, and more) which can help the reader more easily understand how the lean principles developed for manufacturing can be applied in the healthcare setting. In this book you will learn step-by-step:1. What constitutes "waste" or "MUDA"2. How "waste" affects the costs and quality of healthcare 3. How you can identify potential "waste" or "MUDA" in your department or organization 4. How you can determine the cause(s) of any observed "waste" 5. What actions you can take to eliminate "waste" to reduce costs and/or improve quality or service 6. What actions you can take to prevent "waste" 7. How you can successfully implement changes needed to eliminate "waste". The book is divided into 6 chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of Lean along with a description of the 8 "wastes" and how they are impacting the healthcare system as a whole. This chapter also introduces the "Assess, Diagnose, Treat, and Prevent" (ADTP) model and explains how it can be used to implement Lean in your organization (note: the tools, techniques, and strategies discussed in the remaining chapters can be used with any performance improvement model and not just the ADTP model). The second chapter discusses different approaches (i.e., walking the "gemba", value stream mapping, etc.) that can be used to assess whether there is "waste" or "MUDA" within your department or organization. The third chapter discusses the most common tools and approaches that can be used to identify or "diagnose" the cause(s) of any waste or MUDA observed in your organization or department (i.e., the 5 WHYs, the Cause/Effect diagram, etc.) along with examples from healthcare showing how these tools can be used to determine or "diagnose" the cause(s) of waste you may observe in your department. The fourth chapter discusses the different strategies and approaches that you can use to "treat" or eliminate each of the 8 types of "waste". Approaches such as poka-yoke, kanban, load leveling, 5s, and more are discussed in detail along with examples showing how each of the approaches can be applied in a number of different healthcare settings (i.e., hospital, medical office, pharmacy, etc.) for treating" or eliminating "waste". The fifth chapter discusses the most common tools and approaches that can be used to "prevent" waste (i.e., FMEA, poka-yoke, simulation) along with examples from healthcare showing how each tool can be used to help "prevent" waste. The sixth chapter offers a number of strategies for leading the change effort needed to eliminate waste and improve access, quality, safety, affordability, and service. About the author: Scott has had over 35 years of management and leadership experience in healthcare. He began his career as a management engineer where he learned and mastered the principles of lean six sigma. Scott then served for several years as Director of Finance before becoming Assistant Medical Center Administrator. Over the years Scott had the opportunity to lead the surgical and rehab service line, the primary care and medical subspecialty service line, and the business and support services service line where he applied the principles of lean six sigma daily. During his 35 years of experience Scott saved over 20 million dollars while improving access, quality, affordability, safety, and service through the use of the tools and techniques described in his book "Applying Lean Six Sigma in the Healthcare Setting". Scott was also part of the adjunct faculty of a major university where he taught Healthcare Finance and Accounting to graduate and undergraduate students.
Health Services Planning
The third edition of Health Services Planning represents a necessary revision of the second edition (2003) and reflects the significant changes that have occurred in the social and health environments, the healthcare field, and the planning endeavor itself. The book reviews the history of health planning (with reference to activities in other countries) before describing the process from start to finish in great detail. The philosophy underlying health planning and its perception, past and present, are reviewed with a particular emphasis on the factors that are making health planning more relevant than ever.The steps in the health services planning process are reviewed and supported by how-to guidance, examples of planning applications, and planning case studies. The various levels and types of planning are described (societal, community, organizational; strategic, business, marketing), and the similarities and differences discussed. Newand updated chapters in this edition cover the planning requirements introduced through the Affordable Care Act, the rethinking of the community health needs assessment process, and the implications of the population health movement for health planning: The Social and Health Systems Context for Health Services PlanningThe Changing Environment for Health PlanningThe New Community Assessment ProcessFrom Community Health Needs Assessment to Population Health Assessment Health Services Planning, 3rd Ed., remains a critical resource for health administration programs, as well as an essential publication for health professionals in both public and private sector healthcare organizations that need to have an understanding of the planning process.
Body of Knowledge Review Series
This book provides a review of each task associated with the Human Resource Management domain in MGMA's Body of Knowledge for Medical Practice Management, 4th Edition. Healthcare executives are primarily responsible for all human resource functions in the medical practice. Their ability to analyze and improve human resource processes is paramount to the organization's success. From staffing plans, recruitment and retention to benefits, compliance and culture, the healthcare executive must master myriad skills and develop proper policies and procedures for effective human resource management. Leading a medical practice requires a set of technical skills and professional knowledge unique to the profession. The expertise and understanding needed in the Human Resource Management domain are critical for both the healthcare executive and the medical practice itself. By mastering this domain, the healthcare executive will be able to apply their talents to guide the organization toward success. This book and series serve as excellent study guides for the ACMPE board certification exams.
Chikitseya Kriya Vigyan Samiksha
Medicine is an ever changing science. Physiology is one of the main foundations of medicine and involves interacting and interdependent processes at the level of cells, tissues, organ systems, and at the level of a body as a whole. The first chapter of the book, thus begins with highly simplified presentation of the overall view of mammalian and particularly human physiology. This is followed by general physiology principals that make the basis of interrelation between the various systems that characterize physiology. Particular attention has been paid to cellular physiology, cardiac electrophysiology, neural and chemical control of respiration, renal mechanisms, and skeletal muscle physiology, Peripheral and central neurophysiological functions are presented with the details of neural pathways and their role. Special senses and the autonomic nervous system and the account of gastrointestinal tract and nutrition are properly covered. Endocrinology is described with mechanisms of hormonal action. The chapter on reproduction not only relates to the hormonal changes but also provides an account of maternal and fetal physiology.The book is an authentic text for undergraduate and the postgraduate students of medicine as well as for the students of allied sciences.
Physician, Heal Thy Financial Self
Achieving Mastery Over the Finances of Your Practice Do you lay awake at night wondering if your practice is doing well financially? Are you concerned about your reimbursement? Are you thinking that your group could be doing better, but it feels like you're missing something? Want a big piece of new equipment or an expansion, but not sure it will pencil out? Or, do you shudder every time a financial question comes up? If so, this book is for you.Walk through this concisely written executive summary of how to manage the finances of your practice in just a few hours a month. Get up to speed on which financial reports to run, how to analyze them quickly, and how to be sure that your cash and other assets are safeguarded. Utilize the Real World Work at the end of each chapter to break it down into manageable and understandable pieces. Take control of your practice finances once and for all.This book is a must-read for any physician owner or leader. Ms. Arena skillfully breaks it all down in her easy, conversational style as she demystifies many of the financial tools and building blocks to show you how to run your business successfully and how to achieve mastery over the finances of your practice.
Beneath the White Coat
This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases.
Medikamenten-Pocket Intensivmedizin
In diesem Buch f羹r die Kitteltasche finden sich die wichtigsten Medikamentendosierungen f羹r Perfusoren und Spritzenpumpen f羹r die Versorgung eines Intensivpatienten. Zum Beispiel zur kreislaufstabilisierenden Therapie, zur Analgosedierung, zur Einleitung oder Aufrechterhaltung einer Allgemeinan瓣sthesie oder im Rahmen der Reanimation. Auch auf Indikationen, Kontraindikationen und Nebenwirkungen der verschiedenen Substanzen geht das Werk ein. Zahlreiche Hinweise auf Besonderheiten machen das Werk besonders praxistauglich.
Agiles Prozessmanagement Im Krankenhaus
Die Organisation von Krankenh瓣usern ist komplex und deshalb un羹bersichtlich. Die Zusammenarbeit und das gegenseitige Verst瓣ndnis von ?rzteschaft, Pflegedienst, Verwaltung/Gesch瓣ftsf羹hrung und Maintenance sind unzureichend ausgepr瓣gt, da jede Berufsgruppe traditionell ihre Sondersichtweisen pflegt, wodurch es zu Reibungsverlusten, Fehlern, Kostenrisiken und Abspracheproblemen kommt, die eigentlich unn繹tig sind. Ferner stehen Krankenhaus und Kassenfinanzierung in einem st瓣ndigen Verteilungskampf um Budgets und Kosten.Wenn durch optimierte Organisation und sektoren羹bergreifende Zusammenarbeit die Datenlage evident wird, ist die Verhandlungsposition in Budgetverhandlungen entscheidend gest瓣rkt. Gleichzeitig gewinnen Kostentr瓣ger durch Transparenz Vertrauen in die zu finanzierende Situation von Krankenh瓣usern, um den Versorgungsauftrag nachhaltig erf羹llen zu k繹nnen.Ferner entsteht Transparenz in Personalerfordernisse, so dass Tarifverhandlungen ebenfalls objektiver erfolgen k繹nnen. Die Personalplanung wird verbessert.?rzte gewinnen mit Kanban zus瓣tzlich die M繹glichkeit, komplizierte F瓣lle medizinisch optimiert, dabei kosteng羹nstig diagnostizieren zu k繹nnen.OP, Notfallambulanzen, Stationen profitieren ebenfalls.Kanban stellt dabei allen Mitarbeitern im Krankenhaus eine gemeinsame Kommunikationebene auf der Basis objektiver Tatsachen zur Verf羹gung und schafft damit Offenheit und somit gegenseitiges Vertrauen.
