Hospital Administration Care category: 168 books
If Disney Ran Your Hospital
9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2004
The 9 1/2 principles in this highly personal and refreshingly written book will help any hospital team gain the extraordinary competitive advantage that comes from being seen as “the best” by their own employees, consumers, and community. It takes profound knowledge, not usually taught in business...
Josie's Story
A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The “wrenching but inspiring” true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate (The Wall Street Journal).
Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s...
Managing Diabetes and Hyperglycemia in the Hospital Setting
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
As the number of patients with diabetes increases annually, it is not surprising that the number of patients with diabetes who are admitted to the hospital also increases. Once in the hospital, patients with diabetes or hyperglycemia may be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, require urgent or elective...
Cleaning Up
How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences...
Climbing the Healthcare Management Ladder
Career Advice from the Top on How to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
“If you’ve set your sights on a career in healthcare management, this book will be your personal guide to what it takes to succeed. Who better to learn from than today’s top executives who have scaled the ladder ahead of you.” —Kathyrn Ullrich, author of Getting to the Top, Strategies for...
Care Coordination
The Game Changer How Nursing is Revolutionizing Quality Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Care coordination has always been a primary duty of nursing. Care Coordination: The Game Changer offers today’s most comprehensive insights, case studies, and strategies to advance nursing's role in care coordination and healthcare transformation. Care Coordination is the first book to show in clear,...
Preventing Hospital Infections
Real-World Problems, Realistic Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Nearly 2 million Americans develop a healthcare-associated infection each year, and some 100,000 of them die as a result. Such infections are highly preventable, particularly through the adoption and implementation of evidence-based methods for reducing patient infection at the point of care. In cases...
Social Work in the Hospital Setting
Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The book is about social work interventions in the different units of the hospital, from the history of social work in the hospital setting to the different units of the hospital, including emergency room, medical intensive care units, and discharge planning. The book is important because it is about the different interventions of the social worker with patients and families.
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...
Errors of Omission
How Missed Nursing Care Imperils Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
It happens all the time. In the hectic pace of your daily routine as a nurse, you forget to do something. It happens to the best of us. But what matters most is learning how to mitigate the risks associated with missed nursing care. Built on 10 years of extensive research, Errors of Omission: How...
by Fr Peter Michael Scott
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
A helpful guide on how to be an effective hospital chaplain, and parish priest to the sick. It offers advice on how to prepare for a hospital visit, why it is important to care for the sick in the parish and hospital; and how best to help the family of those who are ill. It contains the rite of Anointing...
Performance Improvement in Hospitals and Health Systems
Managing Analytics and Quality in Healthcare, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Healthcare Organizations offer significant opportunities for change and improvement in their overall performance. Hospitals and clinics are generally large, complex, and inefficient, and need serious development in process workflow and management systems, which will ultimately lead to better patient...
One Children's Place
Inside a Children's Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
“A welcome and poignant account of the intense human and political dynamics of a major children’s hospital that will have a substantial impact on the way you view children and their care.” —The New England Journal of Medicine
Lee Gutkind is a master at stepping into the worlds of medicine...
The Ultimate Obamacare Handbook (2015?2016 edition)
A Definitive Guide to the Benefits, Rights, Responsibilities, and Potential Pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
"The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, makes health insurance available to the majority of Americans.
In fact, failure to obtain coverage will result in penalties, but the process of obtaining insurance can be daunting. This brief handbook explains the law and its history and tells readers how to...