Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving deserves and may require societal support, and evidence-based practices have been established for reducing stress associated with caregiving. Despite the...
Born in the USA
How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and...
Ultimate Health
Finding It
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Western health related industries employ more people, consume more money, and have more dependent adherents than any other activity involving the entire population. Since the early 1900s, life expectancy at birth has increased from about 50 years to the low 80s. However, not all interventions have been...
The Familiar Physician
Saving Your Doctor In the Era of Obamacare
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Powerful forces of change are at the core of Obamacare—and they could either strengthen or destroy our family doctors. It’s a perfect storm that threatens our hope for more effective and personalized medical care and it holds the potential to drive our trusted Familiar Physicians toward extinction....
by Elizabeth Rasheed, Alison Hetherington, Linda Wyatt
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Exam Board: BTEC
Level: KS4
Subject: Vocational
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018
Help your students gain the academic expertise and employability skills needed for further progression in education or the workplace with this textbook, fully updated to reflect the new structure...
by Carlton Munson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Take social work supervision into the new millennium!
This newly revised edition of the classic text is a thorough, comprehensive guidebook to every aspect of supervision, including learning styles, teaching techniques, emotional support for supervisors, and supervision in different settings....
Governing the New NHS
Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory bodies. All these changes have made governance a...
How to Pass Your OSCE
A Guide to Success in Nursing and Midwifery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was developed for all undergraduate nursing programmes, with the aim of emphasising the need for nursing students to be competent in clinical skills, to assess clinical reasoning skills and as a means of standardizing the assessment process.
This...
by Anthony Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Partnership working is recognised as the most effective way of improving social care services, and a non-negotiable part of the government’s aim is to provide a seamless care service. However, for students undertaking placements or for more experienced professionals moving to a different service...
by Douglas E. Faries, Robert Obenchain, Josep Maria Haro
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This book guides researchers in performing and presenting high-quality analyses of all kinds of non-randomized studies, including analyses of observational studies, claims database analyses, assessment of registry data, survey data, pharmaco-economic data, and many more applications. The text is sufficiently...
Medical Terminology
A Student Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
This workbook has been developed for all individuals with little to no background in the health care field. It is a basic introduction to medical terminology. It provides the student with an opportunity to develop good word-building skills so that the student can identify medical terms by their corresponding...
Why Hospitals Should Fly
The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“How can it be that in 2008, a checked bag on an airline flight is still exponentially safer than a patient in an American hospital? Simply put, one industry has learned the realities of what it takes to make a human system safe, and the other has not.
So what does it take to...
Health at Risk
America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care...
Evidence-Informed Nursing
A Guide for Clinical Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This introductory text to evidence-based practice provides nurses and other health professionals with a clear idea of why they should use research information as a basis for high-quality patient care and how they should use that information in the clinical setting. In a logical progression which helps...