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Book Nursing Delegation and Management of Patient Care   E Book

Download or read book Nursing Delegation and Management of Patient Care E Book written by Kathleen Motacki and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination-style case studies at the end of each section familiarize you to the way that content will be tested in the new NGN exam. - NEW! Leadership roles/competencies and evidence-based practice examples are included from across the care continuum: ambulatory care, long-term care, and community-based care. - NEW! Content on management in a culturally diverse healthcare environment relates to both hospital staff and patients. - NEW! Additional Evidence-Based Practice boxes relate to "innovation" topics in leadership and management. - NEW! Updated organization reflects the Magnet Recognition (2019) and Pathways to Excellence (2016) standards, allowing you to learn the skills and competencies that magnet status hospitals require when hiring nurses.

Book Controlling Costs and Changing Patient Care

Download or read book Controlling Costs and Changing Patient Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilization management (UM) has become a strong trend in health care cost containment. Under UM, some decisions are not strictly made by the doctor and patient alone. Instead, they are now checked by a reviewer reporting to an employer or other paying party who asks whether or not the proposed type or location of care is medically necessary or appropriate. This book presents current findings about how UM is faring in practice and how it compares with other cost containment approaches, with recommendations for improving UM program administration and clinical protocols and for conducting further research.

Book Crossing the Quality Chasm

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2001-07-19
  • ISBN : 0309132967
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.

Book A TEXT BOOK ON PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT

Download or read book A TEXT BOOK ON PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT written by Dr. Zuber Mujeeb Shaikh and published by KY Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patient Safety and Quality

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/

Book Improving Patient Care

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Grol
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-03-18
  • ISBN : 111852599X
  • Pages : 525 pages

Download or read book Improving Patient Care written by Richard Grol and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As innovations are constantly being developed within health care, it can be difficult both to select appropriate new practices and technologies and to successfully adopt them within complex organizations. It is necessary to understand the consequences of introducing change, how to best implement new procedures and techniques, how to evaluate success and to improve the quality of patient care. This comprehensive guide allows you to do just that. Improving Patient Care, 2nd edition provides a structure for professionals and change agents to implement better practices in health care. It helps health professionals, managers, policy makers and researchers to assess new techniques and select and implement change in their organizations. This new edition includes recent evidence and further coverage on patient safety and patient centred strategies for change. Written by an international expert author team, Improving Patient Care is an established standard text for postgraduate students of health policy, health services and health management. The strong author team are global professors involved in managing research and development in the field of quality improvement, evidence-based practice and guidelines, quality assessment and indicators to improve patient outcomes through receiving appropriate healthcare.

Book Performance Management in Healthcare

Download or read book Performance Management in Healthcare written by Jan Walburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new text demonstrates a step-by-step approach to understanding and improving performance management in healthcare organizations. It discusses the relevance of performance management to disease management and the professional development of the discipline, debates topical issues inherent in healthcare performance management, and includes case histories to assist in improving healthcare processes by making optimal use of tools and theories. It also investigates the application of the principles of the learning organization, performance management, and the theory and practice of quality management. Factors considered include: cost management and its implications transparency in healthcare results for all stakeholders information technology and its potential evaluation of feedback for further performance improvement. Combining case histories and examples with crucial theoretical framework, this book is invaluable reading for students of healthcare management, and all healthcare managers who strive to attain better care results.

Book A Healthcare Solution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark A. Vonderembse
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2016-10-14
  • ISBN : 1315350750
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book A Healthcare Solution written by Mark A. Vonderembse and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evidence is undeniable. By any measure, the US spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, yet its health outcomes as measure by longevity are in the bottom half among developed countries, and its health-related quality of life has remained constant or declined since 1998. In addition to high costs and lower than expected outcomes, the healthcare delivery system is plagues by treatment delays as it can take weeks to see a specialist, and many people have limited or no access to care. Part of the challenge is that the healthcare delivery system is a large, complex, and sophisticated value creation chain. Successfully changing this highly interconnected system is difficult and time consuming because the underlying problems are hard to comprehend, the root causes are many, the solution is unclear, and the relationships among problems, causes, and solution are multifaceted. To address these issues, the book carefully explains the underlying problems, examines their root causes using information, data, and logic, and presents a comprehensive and integrated solution that addresses these causes. These three steps are the methodological backbone of this book. A solution depends on understanding and applying the principles of patient-centered care (PCC) and resource management. PCC puts patients, supported by their primary care physicians, back in the role as decision makers and depends on patients being responsible for their health including making good life-style choices. After all, the best way to reduce healthcare costs and increase quality of life is to improve our health and wellness and as a result need less care. In addition, health insurance must be rethought and redesigned so it is less likely to lead to overuse. For many people with health insurance, the out-of-pocket cost of healthcare are small, so healthcare decision making is often biased toward consumption. Effective resource management means that healthcare providers must do a better job of acquiring and using resources in order to provide care quickly, productively, and correctly. This means improving healthcare strategy and management, accelerating the use of information technology, making drug costs affordable and fair, reducing the incidence of malpractice, and rebuilding the provider network. In addition, implementation is difficult because there are many participants in the healthcare delivery value chain, such as physicians, nurses, and medical technicians, as well as many provider organizations, such as hospitals, clinics, physician offices, and labs. Further up the value chain there are pharmaceutical companies, equipment providers, and other suppliers. These participants have diverse and sometimes conflicting goals, but each must be willing to accept change and work in a coordinated manner to improve healthcare. To overcome these problems, strong national leadership is needed to get the attention and support from the people and organizations involved in healthcare and to make the comprehensive changes that will lower healthcare costs, improve healthcare quality, eliminate delays, increase access, and enhance patient satisfaction.

Book Leadership and Management in Healthcare

Download or read book Leadership and Management in Healthcare written by Neil Gopee and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its Third Edition, this best-selling textbook continues to support you on your journey from being an emerging registered healthcare professional through to becoming a competent care manager. Action points, case studies and strong practice guidelines enable you to understand how leadership and management theory applies to the care you deliver in a wide range of care settings. Fully updated throughout, the new edition includes: More case studies and examples from a wide range of care settings and countries. New key topics such as dimensions of leadership, NHS Change Model, transition to registered practitioner and revalidation requirements, emotional intelligence and resilience. A companion website with access to further case studies, journal articles and web links. This book is essential for nursing, health and social care students taking modules on leadership, management and transition to practice in their final year, as well as for newly qualified professionals or those seeking to refresh their skills.

Book Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children

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.

Book Patient Care Management  A Lab Workbook for Prescription Practice

Download or read book Patient Care Management A Lab Workbook for Prescription Practice written by Richard Finkel and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Edition of Patient Care Management Lab: A Workbook for Prescription Practice develops and fine-tunes skills in reading, evaluating, and filling prescriptions. Students learn to decipher handwritten prescriptions, examine prescriptions for inaccuracies, evaluate a drug in relation to their patient's drug and social history, and fill prescriptions accurately. Each chapter corresponds to a particular disease state, summarizing the key characteristics and concerns with the associated drugs.

Book Health Professions Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 030913319X
  • Pages : 191 pages

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.

Book Nursing Leadership and Management for Patient Safety and Quality Care

Download or read book Nursing Leadership and Management for Patient Safety and Quality Care written by Elizabeth Murray and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an evidence-based approach that prepares nurses to be leaders at all levels. Learn the skills you need to lead and succeed in the dynamic health care environments in which you will practice. From leadership and management theories through their application, you’ll develop the core competences needed to deliver and manage the highest quality care for your patients. You’ll also be prepared for the initiatives that are transforming the delivery and cost-effectiveness of health care today. New, Updated & Expanded! Content reflecting the evolution of nursing leadership and management New! Tables that highlight how the chapter content correlates with the core competencies of BSN Essentials, ANA Code of Ethics, and Standards of Practice or Specialty Standards of Practice New!10 NCLEX®-style questions at the end of each chapter with rationales in an appendix New & Expanded! Coverage of reporting incidents, clinical reasoning and judgment, communication and judgment hierarchy, quality improvement tools, leveraging diversity, security plans and disaster management, health care and hospital- and unit-based finances, and professional socialization Features an evidence-based and best practices approach to develop the skills needed to be effective nurse leaders and managers—from managing patient care to managing staff and organizations. Encompasses new quality care initiatives, including those from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report, AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education, and Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Report which form the foundation of the content. Discusses the essentials of critical thinking, decision-making and problem solving, including concepts such as SWOT, 2x2 matrix, root-cause analysis, plan-do-study-act, and failure mode and effects analysis. Demonstrates how to manage conflict, manage teams and personnel, utilize change theory, and budget Uses a consistent pedagogy in each chapter, including key terms, learning outcomes, learning activities, a case study, coverage of evidence, research and best practices, and a chapter summary.

Book Patient Flow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randolph Hall
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-12-11
  • ISBN : 1461495121
  • Pages : 547 pages

Download or read book Patient Flow written by Randolph Hall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing delays experienced by patients. With an interdisciplinary approach, this new edition, divided into five sections, begins by examining healthcare as an integrated system. Chapter 1 provides a hierarchical model of healthcare, rising from departments, to centers, regions and the “macro system.” A new chapter demonstrates how to use simulation to assess the interaction of system components to achieve performance goals, and Chapter 3 provides hands-on methods for developing process models to identify and remove bottlenecks, and for developing facility plans. Section 2 addresses crowding and the consequences of delay. Two new chapters (4 and 5) focus on delays in emergency departments, and Chapter 6 then examines medical outcomes that result from waits for surgeries. Section 3 concentrates on management of demand. Chapter 7 presents breakthrough strategies that use real-time monitoring systems for continuous improvement. Chapter 8 looks at the patient appointment system, particularly through the approach of advanced access. Chapter 9 concentrates on managing waiting lists for surgeries, and Chapter 10 examines triage outside of emergency departments, with a focus on allied health programs Section 4 offers analytical tools and models to support analysis of patient flows. Chapter 11 offers techniques for scheduling staff to match patterns in patient demand. Chapter 12 surveys the literature on simulation modeling, which is widely used for both healthcare design and process improvement. Chapter 13 is new and demonstrates the use of process mapping to represent a complex regional trauma system. Chapter 14 provides methods for forecasting demand for healthcare on a region-wide basis. Chapter 15 presents queueing theory as a method for modeling waits in healthcare, and Chapter 16 focuses on rapid delivery of medication in the event of a catastrophic event. Section 5 focuses on achieving change. Chapter 17 provides a diagnostic for assessing the state of a hospital and using the state assessment to select improvement strategies. Chapter 18 demonstrates the importance of optimizing care as patients transition from one care setting to the next. Chapter 19 is new and shows how to implement programs that improve patient satisfaction while also improving flow. Chapter 20 illustrates how to evaluate the overall portfolio of patient diagnostic groups to guide system changes, and Chapter 21 provides project management tools to guide the execution of patient flow projects.

Book Hospital Operations

Download or read book Hospital Operations written by Wallace J. Hopp and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Hospital Operations, two leading Operations Management experts and five practicing clinicians demonstrate how to apply new OM advances and metrics to substantially improve any hospital's performance. Replete with examples, Hospital Operations shows how to generate principles-driven breakthrough ideas to systematically improve emergency departments, operating rooms, nursing unites, and diagnostic units." -- Back cover

Book Healthcare Technology Management   A Systematic Approach

Download or read book Healthcare Technology Management A Systematic Approach written by Francis Hegarty and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare Technology Management: A Systematic Approach offers a comprehensive description of a method for providing safe and cost effective healthcare technology management (HTM). The approach is directed to enhancing the value (benefit in relation to cost) of the medical equipment assets of healthcare organizations to best support patients, clinicians and other care providers, as well as financial stakeholders. The authors propose a management model based on interlinked strategic and operational quality cycles which, when fully realized, delivers a comprehensive and transparent methodology for implementing a HTM programme throughout a healthcare organization. The approach proposes that HTM extends beyond managing the technology in isolation to include advancing patient care through supporting the application of the technology. The book shows how to cost effectively manage medical equipment through its full life cycle, from acquisition through operational use to disposal, and to advance care, adding value to the medical equipment assets for the benefit of patients and stakeholders. This book will be of interest to practicing clinical engineers and to students and lecturers, and includes self-directed learning questions and case studies. Clinicians, Chief Executive Officers, Directors of Finance and other hospital managers with responsibility for the governance of medical equipment will also find this book of interest and value. For more information about the book, please visit the website.

Book Closing the Quality Gap

Download or read book Closing the Quality Gap written by Kaveh G. Shojania and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: