Download or read book Clinical Accountability in Homecare written by Eileen L. Dohmann and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn six proven strategies to hold your nurses, aides, and therapists accountable while working in the field. Foster an environment of responsibility and commitment for the best level of patient care. Set expectations for staff. Homecare staff often work in the field with little direct supervision. The level of autonomy can be challenging. In this first accountability book written for home health agencies, the author reveals her successful six-step plan that she uses with her own homecare staff with measurable results. This manual provides helpful tools to set expectations for behavior and standards of practice. It's a key training resource for both new and experienced managers. Perfect for directors/administrators, clinical managers, clinical operations managers, and clinical educators.

Download or read book Clinical Accountability in Homecare written by Eileen L. Dohmann and published by Healthleaders Media. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn six proven strategies to hold your nurses, aides, and therapists accountable while working in the field. Foster an environment of responsibility and commitment for the best level of patient care. Set expectations for staff. Homecare staff often work in the field with little direct supervision. The level of autonomy can be challenging. In this first accountability book written for home health agencies, the author reveals her successful six-step plan that she uses with her own homecare staff with measurable results. This manual provides helpful tools to set expectations for behavior and standards of practice. It's a key training resource for both new and experienced managers. Perfect for directors/administrators, clinical managers, clinical operations managers, and clinical educators.

Download or read book Accountability in Nursing and Midwifery written by Stephen Tilley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accountability is a key concern for nurses and midwives in the NHS today. Professional accountability—being responsible for your actions and for the outcomes of these actions—is part of the framework of clinical governance, which aims to provide good quality, cost-effective, evidence-based care. The second edition of Accountability in Nursing and Midwifery addresses current issues and key concerns in accountability, focusing on accountability in the four main branches of nursing (adult, child, learning disabilities and mental health), as well as in midwifery, community nursing, and nursing management. In an increasingly litigious society, the ethical and legal implications of accountability are growing and it is important that nurses understand the implications for everyday practice.

Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Download or read book The Future of Home Health Care written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individuals with disabilities, chronic conditions, and functional impairments need a range of services and supports to keep living independently. However, there often is not a strong link between medical care provided in the home and the necessary social services and supports for independent living. Home health agencies and others are rising to the challenges of meeting the needs and demands of these populations to stay at home by exploring alternative models of care and payment approaches, the best use of their workforces, and technologies that can enhance independent living. All of these challenges and opportunities lead to the consideration of how home health care fits into the future health care system overall. On September 30 and October 1, 2014, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council convened a public workshop on the future of home health care. The workshop brought together a spectrum of public and private stakeholders and thought leaders to improve understanding of the current role of Medicare home health care in supporting aging in place and in helping high-risk, chronically ill, and disabled Americans receive health care in their communities. Through presentations and discussion, participants explored the evolving role of Medicare home health care in caring for Americans in the future, including how to integrate Medicare home health care into new models for the delivery of care and the future health care marketplace. The workshop also considered the key policy reforms and investments in workforces, technologies, and research needed to leverage the value of home health care to support older Americans, and research priorities that can help clarify the value of home health care. This summary captures important points raised by the individual speakers and workshop participants.

Download or read book The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-11-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of home health care has raised many unsolved issues and will have consequences that are far too broad for any one group to analyze in their entirety. Yet a major influence on the safety, quality, and effectiveness of home health care will be the set of issues encompassed by the field of human factors research-the discipline of applying what is known about human capabilities and limitations to the design of products, processes, systems, and work environments. To address these challenges, the National Research Council began a multidisciplinary study to examine a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues resulting from the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. Its goal is to lay the groundwork for a thorough integration of human factors research with the design and implementation of home health care devices, technologies, and practices. On October 1 and 2, 2009, a group of human factors and other experts met to consider a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues associated with the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. This book is a summary of that workshop, representing the culmination of the first phase of the study.

Download or read book Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care written by Bruce Rosen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, along with the related issue of responsibility in health care, has continued to interest policymakers, analysts and scholars ever since. Indeed, there has been a renewed surge of interest in recent years, with growing attention to the notion of accountable care organizations in the US, clinical audits in the UK, and governance as stewardship in many other countries. Accountability and responsibility in health care was also the theme of a major international conference organized by the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research, which was held in Jerusalem in 2009. This book is a collection of scholarly articles on the themes of accountability and responsibility in health care and seeks to be the premier book in that field. It includes selected papers from the 2009 Jerusalem Conference, analytic essays on how accountability and responsibility are playing out in eight different countries, and reprints of some of the classic articles in the field. The book will interest policymakers, managers, researchers and students, and many of the ideas presented here will help shape the development of this field in the years ahead. Some of these ideas have appeared in other forums; the unique contribution of this volume is that it is the first to bring together so many different perspectives on accountability and responsibility in health care. This volume will both acquaint readers with some of the latest thinking on accountability and responsibility in health care, and will serve as a catalyst for future reflection, research and writing in this area. Contents:Preliminaries and Introductory Essays:Preface (Richard Scheffler)General Introduction and an Overview of the Volume (Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli and Stephen Shortell)Accountability in Health Care Reconsidered (Bruce Rosen, David Chinitz and Avi Israeli)Responsibility and Accountability — Talk is Cheap … (Avi Israeli)From the Classics:Introduction to the Classic Articles (Bruce Rosen)What Is Accountability in Health Care? (Ezekiel J Emanuel and Linda L Emanuel)The Ethics of Accountability in Managed Care Reform (Norman Daniels and James Sabin)Assessment and Accountability: The Third Revolution in Medical Care (Arnold S Relman)Agency, Contract, and Governance: Shifting Shapes of Accountability in the Health Care Arena (Carolyn Hughes Tuohy)Country Essays:Introduction to the Country Essays (Bruce Rosen and Suszy Lessof)Canada (Gregory P Marchildon and Sara Allin)Czech Republic (Ewout van Ginneke and Jan Šturma)England (Anna Maresso)Hungary (Péter Gaál, Szabolcs Szigeti and Matthew Gaskins)Israel (Bruce Rosen and Avi Israeli)Italy (Anna Maresso and Andrea Donatini)Finland (Lauri Vuorenkoski and Philipa Mladovsky)Spain (Sandra García-Armesto, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, M B Abadía-Taira and E Bernal-Delgado)Selected Papers From the Jerusalem Health Policy Conference:Preface (Shlomo Mor-Yosef)Introduction to the Conference Papers (Avi Israeli, Stephen Shortell and Bruce Rosen)Section A: Public Accountability: Governance and StewardshipIntroduction — Public Accountability (Richard B Saltman, Gabriel I Barbash and Jack Habib)Context, Culture, and the Practical Limits of Health Sector Accountability (Richard B Saltman)Difficulties in Making Accountability Practical (Ezekiel Emanuel)Responsibility and Accountability in Preventive Medicine — Are We Doing Too Much or Too Little? (Siegal Sadetzki)The Global Shortage of Health Workers and Pay for Performance (Richard M Scheffler)Addressing Healthcare Inequities in Israel by Eliminating Prescription Drug Copayments (Asher Elhayany and Shlomo Vinker)Common Trends in Public Stewardship of Health Care (Gregory P Marchildon and Wallace Lockhart)Section B: Social SupportIntroduction — Social Support (David Chinitz, Martin McKee and Rachel Nissanholtz)Legends of Health Policy and Management (David Chinitz)Solidarity in a Changing World (Martin McKee)Health Inequity in Israel: Past, Present, and Future (Leon Epstein)Reducing Health Inequalities in Clalit Health Services: From Vision to Reality (Ran Balicer, Efrat Shadmi, Ornit Bartal, Nicky Lieberman, Dorit Weiss, Margalit Goldfracht, Arnon D Cohen, Sigal Regev-Rosenberg, Orit Jacobson and Eli Defes)From Measurement to Comprehensive Policy: The Action Plan of Maccabi Healthcare Services to Increase Equity (Rachel Wilf-Miron, Irene Lewenhoff, Orna Shem-Tov, Einat Yaari, Avi Porath and Ehud Kokia)Tackling the Inverse Care Law in the UK (Rosalind Raine)Health Rights Information from the Perspective of Ethiopian Immigrants: Issues, Barriers, and Policy Recommendations (Nurit Guttman, Seffefe Aychech, Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Avital Moran and Linda-Réne Bloch)Social Support, Health Promotion, and the Built Environment: Vignettes from the Active Living by Design Program (Lawrence Brown)The Role of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives in Health Policy, USA (Karen Wolk Feinstein, Susan Elster and Scott Rosenblum)Section C: Personal ResponsibilityIntroduction — Personal Responsibility (Yael Ashkenazi, Mordechai Shani and Rosalind Raine)Personal Responsibility: Preliminary Remarks (Mordechai Shani)Personal Responsibility for Health: A Proposal for a Nuanced Approach (Harald Schmidt)Consumer-Driven Health Care: Conquering Health Care Cost and Quality Demons (Regina E Herzlinger)Personal Responsibility versus Responsible Options: Compliance Meets Public Health in the United States (Joseph R Betancourt and Marina C Cervantes)Leadership and the Road to Personal Responsibility for Healthy Behavior — Between Autonomy and Paternalistic Interventions (Gil Siegal and Neomi Siegal)Personal and State Responsibilities in Vaccination: A Two-Way Road (Baruch Velan)Supporting Behavioral Change: Whose Responsibility? (Gene Bishop)Patient Empowerment and the Doctor-Patient Relationship (Leah Wapner and Malke Borow)Section D: Performance ManagementIntroduction — Performance Management (Alan Garber, Amir Shmueli and Shuli Brammli-Greenberg)Aligning Incentives to Achieve the Performance One Cannot (Micro) Manage (Harold S Luft)From Quality Information to Quality Improvements: An Exploratory Study of Health Plan Actions (Bruce Rosen and Rachel Nissanholtz)A Four-Year Project for Implementing Hospital Quality Indicators in Israel (Jacob Dreiher, Eytan Wirtheim, Amit Nachman, Ehud Davidson, Arnon D Cohen, Anat Ahimas, Ronit Safar, Haim Bitterman and Itamar Shalit)The Role of Comparative Effectiveness Research in Health Reform (Alan M Garber)Pay for Performance: Proceed with Care! (Alan Maynard)Conclusions and Take-Away Lessons (Stephen Shortell) Readership: Policymakers, managers, scholars and researchers in the healthcare industry. Keywords:Accountability;Healthcare;Ethics;Governance;Health Workforce;Stewardship;Health Policy and Management;Personal Responsibility;Government;SocialKey Features:The book includes pivotal material based on a 2009 global health conference comprising over 700 individuals from more than 30 countriesThe volume showcases reports by leading experts from 8 different countries on the latest developments in global accountability and responsibility in health careFew books in this area offer such a unique perspective

Download or read book Families Caring for an Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.

Download or read book The Elusive Quest written by Carolyn L. Wiener and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wiener (Research Sociologist, School of Nursing, U. of California) examines the large oversight apparatus that has been established to promote hospital accountability and the arena that has developed around it comprised of consultants, measurement experts, researchers, software developers, and numerous others.

Download or read book Accountability written by Deborah Glover and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Total Quality Management for Home Care written by Elaine R. Davis and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donna Peters, a noted expert in outcomes and data management in home health care, and Tad McKeon, author of Home Health Financial Management, team up to assess the current home health care environment in light of quality, cost, and data collection issues. The most prevalent sources of data including outcomes measurement, professional standards, regulatory requirements, consumer expectations, care guidelines, and activity-based costing are examined. The book addresses how one uses data to derive information that can be used to improve performance and examines how to use data to achieve excellence, not just to satisfy regulators.

Download or read book Clinical Accountability in Long Term Care written by Randy Kozeal and published by Hcpro Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Orientation to Home Care Nursing written by Carolyn J. Humphrey and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for both financial and nonfinancial managers, this text covers six primary areas the author deems necessary for managers to incorporate into their decision-making processes: financial reporting, prospective and retrospective payment systems, cost accounting, management accounting, financial management, and strategic management. The author, a business and finance consultant, stresses the importance of teamwork in working toward an outcome management system that honors clients and coworkers, promotes innovation, and balances clinical and financial organizational requirements. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Download or read book Home Care Nursing Practice written by Robyn Rice and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This text covers conceptual information, leadership skills and current issues and trends. It provides clear and concise information about the best practices and quality improvement for the most common clinical conditions seen in home care." --Cover.

Download or read book Defining Primary Care written by Karl D. Yordy and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Professions Education written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.

Download or read book Health Care Comes Home written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, health care devices, technologies, and practices are rapidly moving into the home. The factors driving this migration include the costs of health care, the growing numbers of older adults, the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions and diseases and improved survival rates for people with those conditions and diseases, and a wide range of technological innovations. The health care that results varies considerably in its safety, effectiveness, and efficiency, as well as in its quality and cost. Health Care Comes Home reviews the state of current knowledge and practice about many aspects of health care in residential settings and explores the short- and long-term effects of emerging trends and technologies. By evaluating existing systems, the book identifies design problems and imbalances between technological system demands and the capabilities of users. Health Care Comes Home recommends critical steps to improve health care in the home. The book's recommendations cover the regulation of health care technologies, proper training and preparation for people who provide in-home care, and how existing housing can be modified and new accessible housing can be better designed for residential health care. The book also identifies knowledge gaps in the field and how these can be addressed through research and development initiatives. Health Care Comes Home lays the foundation for the integration of human health factors with the design and implementation of home health care devices, technologies, and practices. The book describes ways in which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and federal housing agencies can collaborate to improve the quality of health care at home. It is also a valuable resource for residential health care providers and caregivers.