Download or read book 2013 Standards for Urgent Care written by Jcr and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2013 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.
Download or read book Crisis Standards of Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-10-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters and public health emergencies can stress health care systems to the breaking point and disrupt delivery of vital medical services. During such crises, hospitals and long-term care facilities may be without power; trained staff, ambulances, medical supplies and beds could be in short supply; and alternate care facilities may need to be used. Planning for these situations is necessary to provide the best possible health care during a crisis and, if needed, equitably allocate scarce resources. Crisis Standards of Care: A Toolkit for Indicators and Triggers examines indicators and triggers that guide the implementation of crisis standards of care and provides a discussion toolkit to help stakeholders establish indicators and triggers for their own communities. Together, indicators and triggers help guide operational decision making about providing care during public health and medical emergencies and disasters. Indicators and triggers represent the information and actions taken at specific thresholds that guide incident recognition, response, and recovery. This report discusses indicators and triggers for both a slow onset scenario, such as pandemic influenza, and a no-notice scenario, such as an earthquake. Crisis Standards of Care features discussion toolkits customized to help various stakeholders develop indicators and triggers for their own organizations, agencies, and jurisdictions. The toolkit contains scenarios, key questions, and examples of indicators, triggers, and tactics to help promote discussion. In addition to common elements designed to facilitate integrated planning, the toolkit contains chapters specifically customized for emergency management, public health, emergency medical services, hospital and acute care, and out-of-hospital care.
Download or read book Urgent Care Medicine written by Tanise I. Edwards and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, practical manual is geared specifically for physicians and other clinicians staffing urgent care centres.
Download or read book Transforming Health Care Scheduling and Access written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Transforming Health Care Scheduling and Access, long waits for treatment are a function of the disjointed manner in which most health systems have evolved to accommodate the needs and the desires of doctors and administrators, rather than those of patients. The result is a health care system that deploys its most valuable resource-highly trained personnel-inefficiently, leading to an unnecessary imbalance between the demand for appointments and the supply of open appointments. This study makes the case that by using the techniques of systems engineering, new approaches to management, and increased patient and family involvement, the current health care system can move forward to one with greater focus on the preferences of patients to provide convenient, efficient, and excellent health care without the need for costly investment. Transforming Health Care Scheduling and Access identifies best practices for making significant improvements in access and system-level change. This report makes recommendations for principles and practices to improve access by promoting efficient scheduling. This study will be a valuable resource for practitioners to progress toward a more patient-focused "How can we help you today?" culture.
Download or read book Crisis Standards of Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophic disasters occurring in 2011 in the United States and worldwide-from the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, to the earthquake in New Zealand-have demonstrated that even prepared communities can be overwhelmed. In 2009, at the height of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee of experts to develop national guidance for use by state and local public health officials and health-sector agencies and institutions in establishing and implementing standards of care that should apply in disaster situations-both naturally occurring and man-made-under conditions of scarce resources. Building on the work of phase one (which is described in IOM's 2009 letter report, Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations), the committee developed detailed templates enumerating the functions and tasks of the key stakeholder groups involved in crisis standards of care (CSC) planning, implementation, and public engagement-state and local governments, emergency medical services (EMS), hospitals and acute care facilities, and out-of-hospital and alternate care systems. Crisis Standards of Care provides a framework for a systems approach to the development and implementation of CSC plans, and addresses the legal issues and the ethical, palliative care, and mental health issues that agencies and organizations at each level of a disaster response should address. Please note: this report is not intended to be a detailed guide to emergency preparedness or disaster response. What is described in this report is an extrapolation of existing incident management practices and principles. Crisis Standards of Care is a seven-volume set: Volume 1 provides an overview; Volume 2 pertains to state and local governments; Volume 3 pertains to emergency medical services; Volume 4 pertains to hospitals and acute care facilities; Volume 5 pertains to out-of-hospital care and alternate care systems; Volume 6 contains a public engagement toolkit; and Volume 7 contains appendixes with additional resources.
Download or read book Standards of Emergency Nursing Practice written by Emergency Nurses Association and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urgent Care Medicine Secrets E Book written by Robert P. Olympia and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Urgent Care Medicine Secrets, 2nd Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable. The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective. Fully revised and updated throughout, covering the full range of topics for understanding today’s practice of adult and pediatric urgent care—essential information for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Provides an evidence-based approach to medical and traumatic complaints presenting to urgent care centers, focusing on presenting signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis, office management, and when to refer for higher level of care. New chapters on Head and Neck Trauma, Chest and Abdominal Trauma, Toxicology, Diagnostic Imaging, Obstetrical Complaints, and more. Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams. Clear illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams expedite reference and review. Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime. An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. · New chapters!o Urgent Care Medicine: the past, present, and futureo Head and Neck Traumao Chest and Abdominal Traumao Toxicologyo General concepts in Diagnostic Imaging
Download or read book Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
Download or read book Urgent Care Emergencies written by Deepi G. Goyal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text was developed to help providers who evaluate low acuity complaints in any setting. The aim is to highlight common pitfalls in the management of those seemingly minor illnesses or injuries, which if not identified early or if managed incorrectly can have devastating and longterm consequences. This text will bring the provider's attention to high-risk aspects of chief complaints that may be encountered in a variety of low-acuity settings. Focused on high-risk pitfalls practitioners may encounter in everyday practice, each of the book's chapters is written by an expert chosen for his/her expertise in their respective topics. Chapters include clinical pearls for improving patients’ outcomes.
Download or read book Emergency Care for Children written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children represent a special challenge for emergency care providers, because they have unique medical needs in comparison to adults. For decades, policy makers and providers have recognized the special needs of children, but the system has been slow to develop an adequate response to their needs. This is in part due to inadequacies within the broader emergency care system. Emergency Care for Children examines the challenges associated with the provision of emergency services to children and families and evaluates progress since the publication of the Institute of Medicine report Emergency Medical Services for Children (1993), the first comprehensive look at pediatric emergency care in the United States. This new book offers an analysis of: • The role of pediatric emergency services as an integrated component of the overall health system. • System-wide pediatric emergency care planning, preparedness, coordination, and funding. • Pediatric training in professional education. • Research in pediatric emergency care. Emergency Care for Children is one of three books in the Future of Emergency Care series. This book will be of particular interest to emergency health care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the pediatric deficiencies within their emergency care systems.
Download or read book The CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to reprinting the PDF of the CMS CoPs and Interpretive Guidelines, we include key Survey and Certification memos that CMS has issued to announced changes to the emergency preparedness final rule, fire and smoke door annual testing requirements, survey team composition and investigation of complaints, infection control screenings, and legionella risk reduction.
Download or read book Emergency Care and the Public s Health written by Jesse M. Pines and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As US health care systems undergo a period of transformative change, so too will emergency care, and more specifically emergency departments. This transformation will include: The development of new diagnostic, therapeutic, and information technologies A growing need to prepare and respond to emerging public health threats The expansion of the role of allied health professionals to address the workforce crisis Novel expectations for care coordination The fundamental economics of emergency care under new payment models, and The key relationship with American law. Emergency Care and the Public's Health explores the complex role of emergency care in the context of these changes and as an increasingly vital component of health care systems both within and outside the US. From an expert emergency medicine team, this new title is a reference for emergency care and critical care providers, allied health professionals and hospital administrators. It is also for relevant for public policy and healthcare policy professionals.
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 1 written by Haile T. Debas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Surgery is part of a nine volume series for Disease Control Priorities which focuses on health interventions intended to reduce morbidity and mortality. The Essential Surgery volume focuses on four key aspects including global financial responsibility, emergency procedures, essential services organization and cost analysis.
Download or read book Flipping Health Care through Retail Clinics and Convenient Care Models written by Kaissi, Amer and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over time, a countrys healthcare system typically undergoes a number of developments as new demands emerge from the public and new legislation is passed from the government. These systems are composed of a number of interconnected parts, each one vital to the overall success of the system. Flipping Health Care through Retail Clinics and Convenient Care Models addresses the present state of the health system by focusing on current trends and future developments that could assist in delivering accessible and cost-effective medical care to the general public. Bringing together components of the present and future, this publication serves as an essential tool for students and researchers who want to develop a thorough understanding of the changing scope of the health industry in the public sphere.
Download or read book Emergency Department Compliance Manual written by Rusty Mcnew and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergency Department Compliance Manual, 2013 Edition provideseverything you need to stay in compliance with complex emergency departmentregulations.The list of questions helps you quickly locate specific guidance on difficultlegal areas such as:Complying with COBRADealing with psychiatric patientsNegotiating consent requirementsObtaining reimbursement for ED servicesAvoiding employment law problemsEmergency Department Compliance Manual also features first-handadvice from staff members at hospitals that have recently navigated a JointCommission survey and includes frank and detailed information. Organized bytopic, it allows you to readily compare the experiences of different hospitals.Because of the Joint Commission's hospital-wide, function-based approach toevaluating compliance, it's been difficult to know specifically what'sexpected of you in the ED...Emergency Department Compliance Manualincludes a concise grid outlining the most recent Joint Commission standardswhich will help you learn what responsibilities you have for demonstratingcompliance.Plus, Emergency Department Compliance Manual includes sampledocumentation that hospitals across the country have used to show compliancewith legal requirements and Joint Commission standards:Age-related competenciesPatient assessment policies and proceduresConsent formsAdvance directivesPolicies and protocolsRoles and responsibilities of ED staffQuality improvement toolsConscious sedation policies and proceduresTriage, referral, and discharge policies and proceduresAnd much more!Emergency Department Compliance Manual has been updatedto include new and updated legal and regulatory information affecting your ED,including:Updated questions and answers, covering such topics as:Physician Payment Sunshine Act requirementsWhat a HIPAA audit involvesJoint Commission requirements for patient-centered communicationJoint Commission requirements for the use of scribesHospitals' response to uncompensated emergency department careFactors, including drug shortages, that affect patient safetyJoint Commission requirements to manage patient flowThe Supreme Court decision's impact on health care reformFraud and abuse updatesOIG reassignment alertStage 2 meaningful use requirementsAffordable Care Act summary of health plan benefits and coverage (SBC)requirementsHospital value-based purchasing updateMedicare Shared Savings Program requirementsNew Joint Commission survey questions and answersUpdated sections on hospital accreditation standardsNew and updated forms, policies, and other reference materials to facilitatecompliance, including:Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Reciprocal Lateral TransferSample Lateral Transfer into HospitalTransfer ProcessCommonly Abused Prescription DrugsMedication Use AgreementED Director's Weekly Wrap-Up Reportto StaffCommunication Template: Staff MeetingSafety TriggersED Registered Nurse Clinical Ladder ProgramED Registered Nurse Clinical Ladder Program: Expectations/Criteria for EachDimensionED Nursing Education File ChecklistED New Hire PlanExtra Shift Bonus PolicyGuidelines for Extra Shift Bonus PayED Overtime JustificationED Communication ChecklistED Downtime Track
Download or read book Minimum standards and recommendations for medical teams responding to highly infectious disease outbreaks written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious diseases with epidemic potential remain a significant and constant threat to the health and security of populations around the world, requiring robust health emergency preparedness, readiness and response systems and capacities at local and national levels. Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs), the EMT Initiative and its global network focus on establishing common quality standards and recommendations for medical teams to respond to health emergencies rapidly and effectively, as well as strengthening and supporting national capacities through strong collaboration and coordination. This publication defines minimum standards for the establishment of such critical capacities in a predictable and quality assured manner, and will enhance the interoperability between national, regional, and international capacities. This will contribute to the development and classification of respective specialized care teams (SCT) within the EMT framework and will provide guidance to member states, ministries of health, national and international EMTs and other key stakeholders to develop capacities and trainings, preparing for, or responding to outbreaks of highly infectious diseases.
