Download or read book Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Processes and Effectiveness written by Beth Ann Hale and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was to test a causal model of interdisciplinary hospice processes and effectiveness. This research examined the impact of organization and team level structure constructs (organizational culture, team complexity, and team leadership) on hospice interdisciplinary team processes and subsequent influence on perceived team effectiveness. The relationships among perceived team effectiveness, team task satisfaction, and family satisfaction with hospice care were also examined.
Download or read book Textbook of Palliative Care Communication written by Elaine Wittenberg and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Textbook of Palliative Care Communication' is the authoritative text on communication in palliative care. Uniquely developed by an interdisciplinary editorial team to address an array of providers including physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains, it unites clinicians and academic researchers interested in the study of communication.
Download or read book The Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Team Dynamics on Treatments in a Behavioral Health Environment written by Gilton C. Grange and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The style of leadership in an interdisciplinary collaboration is an existing gap in collaborative literature. Studying the leaders in an existing interdisciplinary collaboration provided a description of the leadership style of the collaborative leaders of three behavioral health teams in New York City. This qualitative phenomenological study used structured interviews of interdisciplinary disciplines to describe the leadership style of the collaborative leaders within a team environment. The data collection and analysis were conducted using codes to identify dominant themes. The themes presented perceptions and experiences of three teams interacting collaboratively. The coding process identified five major themes that are unique components of leadership that suggests new methods of building collaborative leadership within the interdisciplinary team dynamics.
Download or read book Textbook of Palliative Nursing written by Department of Nursing Education and Research City of Hope National Medical Center Betty R. Ferrell Research Scientist and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 1269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2001, the Textbook of Palliative Nursing has become the standard text for the field of hospice and palliative care nursing. In this new edition, the authors and editors have updated each chapter to ensure that the content is evidence-based and current references are included. They also have retained the important focus on case studies throughout the text and practical, clinically-relevant tables, figures, and other resources. Like the previous edition, this text has an introductory section of the general principles of palliative care followed by a comprehensive section on symptom assessment and management encompassing twenty-one different symptoms. Other key sections include psychosocial support and spiritual care, providing holistic perspective on care of patients facing advanced disease. The text also includes an innovative section on special populations addressing those most in need of palliative care. The textbook is a useful resource for all nurses with the excellent section on end-of-life care across settings. In this new edition, the pediatric palliative care section has been greatly expanded and includes seven separate chapters on pediatric care. It includes a section on "special issues" addressing topics such as ethical considerations, nursing research, and public policy perspectives and concludes with a section presenting models of excellence including six international models. This edition also offers a narrative on dying based on a spouse's perspective. The text includes an appendix with an extensive list of resources for nurses in the field.
Download or read book Communication and Collaboration in the Hospice of Midland Interdisciplinary Team written by Amanda Ogletree and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploratory study of communication and collaboration within the Hospice of Midland Interdisciplinary team was conducted. This agency provides end of life care to terminally ill patients and their family members in the Midland, Texas area. Only 12 participants, eight nurses and four support staff, participated in this study. A weekly questionnaire was given to each participant as well as a qualitative interview assessing the effectiveness of communication and collaboration. The results revealed that the overall effectiveness of communication and collaboration perceived by the participants was neutral. This study suggests that Hospice of Midland may need to make improvements in the following areas: information shared during the communication and collaboration process; education of policies and procedures associated with communication and collaboration; technology; communication and collaboration from upper-level management; administration, and Board of Directors to members of the IDT; and awareness of what impacts confidence when communicating and collaborating. Continually reevaluating the effectiveness of communication and collaboration will also be beneficial because the communication and collaboration plays such a vital role in patient care.
Download or read book Professional Competencies for the Hospice and Palliative Licensed Practical vocational Nurse written by and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Healthcare Team Performance written by Leslie Bendaly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, proven techniques for improving team performance in the health care world Teams and collaboration have become an expectation in most healthcare facilities and environments. It is accepted that high performance, patient focused teams are critical to quality patient care. However, there is often a wide gap between traditional practices and the new behaviours and practices required for teamwork and collaboration. Improving Health Care Team Performance goes beyond theory to provide the knowledge, tools, and techniques required to develop a single team, or to develop an organization wide team based culture, from which exceptional patient care emerges. Most uniquely it emphasizes that effective teamwork goes far beyond team dynamics and provides detailed description of additional requirements, such as shared learning and change compatibility, and how to fulfill them. A practical handbook for healthcare leaders striving to ensure a superior patient experience and high quality of care, Improving Healthcare Team Performance not only provides specifics on how to develop high functioning teams, whether multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or departmental but also offers those dealing with the common healthcare leadership challenges of low morale, poor communication, interpersonal conflict, and lack of knowledge sharing the tools to take immediate action to improve performance. Providing a proven approach to addressing and preventing everyday issues impacting patient care, Improving Health Care Team Performance contains everything needed to identify areas of greatest need within a team or department, take targeted action to address key gaps, and measure progress towards positive change. Presents a clear depiction of what constitutes collaboration and a high-performing patient focused team. This includes the skills and practices required to improve team performance and ultimately the quality of patient care, how to develop new attitudes and behaviours within the team, as well as the leadership requirements for success in a patient focused, team based culture. Provides a set of development tools accessible online to help the reader quickly and easily apply the knowledge gleaned. Offers targeted solutions including tips/recommendations, a step-by-step approach for affecting necessary change at every level of the organization, and skills and team development activities. Designed for leaders working in any healthcare environment, Improving Health Care Team Performance is a practical approach to improving team performance and the quality of patient care.
Download or read book Approaching Death written by Committee on Care at the End of Life and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."
Download or read book Effective Collaborative Communication in Hospice Care written by Ami Ashleigh Bhatt and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork are necessary components for collaborative communication to occur between team members in a hospice admissions setting. Team interactions require trust, confidence and an equal effort by all team members. Effective communication can be achieved through collaborative communication between team members in Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) meetings and research has been done to support this concept. However, there is a dearth of research regarding overall collaborative communication in teams and specifically data examining communication in admission teams between clinical and non-clinical team members is limited. The study tested a survey instrument that will be piloted for future research efforts to evaluate the collaborative communication between the clinical and nonclinical team members in the hospice admissions setting. Interdisciplinary collaboration in a hospice and palliative care setting is influenced by effective communication.
Download or read book Teamwork in Palliative Care written by Peter Speck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teamwork is a complex but essential component of palliative care. The needs of people diagnosed with life threatening disease will vary greatly over time, and it is rarely possible for just one professional to be able to provide adequate care. In order to ensure an holistic approach, the whole multi-disciplinary team must be involved. Inevitable questions arise from such an approach, and this book seeks to address these. How does a team come into being? What different formats are there? How might the patient contribute to the effectiveness of their care and the way in which the team operates? What are the difficulties and frustrations encountered in developing and maintaining such teams? What models of working and styles of leadership have developed? How are power and authority handled within the team setting? The importance of team building, training, support, attention to group process, and stress management to protect the mental health of the team are explored. The ethical issues inherent in palliative care such as consent, autonomy, confidentiality, decision making within teams, and the legal implications of such are also discussed. The book concludes with one important question - do we know if teams are the most effective way of providing care? This book addresses key issues surrounding the role of the team in palliative care, and is an essential guide to reappraising the importance of collaborative teamwork, and enhancing understanding of existing team structures.
Download or read book The Hospice Companion written by Perry Fine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed of: The hospice companion / Perry G. Fine. 2008.
Download or read book The Hospice Companion written by Perry G. Fine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hospice Companion is an easy-to-navigate clinical decision support tool for caregivers of those with life-limiting illnesses. It features a thoroughly current guide to clinical processes and symptom management, providing hospice professionals with a concise summary of changes that have influenced clinical practice.
Download or read book Handbook of Hospice Policies and Procedures written by Marilyn D. Harris and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART OF THE NEW JONES & BARTLETT LEARNING INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY & ASSURANCE SERIES!Security Strategies in Linux Platforms and Applications covers every major aspect of security on a Linux system. Written by an industry expert, this book is divided into three natural parts to illustrate key concepts in the field. It opens with a discussion on the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities associated with Linux as an operating system using examples from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. Part 2 discusses how to take advantage of the layers of security available to Linux--user and group options, filesystems, and security options for important services, as well as the security modules associated with AppArmor and SELinux. The book closes with a look at the use of both open source and proprietary tools when building a layered security strategy for Linux operating system environments. Using real-world examples and exercises, this useful resource incorporates hands-on activities to walk students through the fundamentals of security strategies related to the Linux system.
Download or read book Hospice and Palliative Care written by Denice C. Sheehan and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospice and palliative care has evolved around the world as a method of caring that uniquely meets the needs of patients and their caregivers. Hospice and Palliative Care: Concepts and Practice offers theoretical perspectives and practical information about this growing field. Contributors from varied disciplines, including community medical care, geriatric care, nursing care, pain management, research, counseling, and hospice management, provide the broad professional approach so critical to quality palliative care.
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 The Hospice Companion written by Perry Fine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ever it is incumbent upon those who provide care to those with life-limiting illnesses to be keenly aware of both the extent and the limits of technological advances that can add either great burden or great benefit to seriously ill patients and their families. The Hospice Companion has been created to operationalize the mission and values of modern-day hospice through the individual and combined efforts of our most valuable asset, the hospice professional. The Hospice Companion is intended as a guide through which some mastery of the seemingly complex, challenging, and oftentimes chaotic world of advanced disease may be derived. Use of this "tool" to direct processes of care during the intensive interpersonal experiences of hospice work should allow the greatest opportunity for personal and professional growth and a deeply gratifying sense of accomplishment as you proceed in the all-important work of caring for the dying. The second edition features a thoroughly current guide to clinical processes and symptom management, providing hospice professionals with a concise summary of changes that have influenced clinical practice over the last several years. Moreover, each chapter now concludes with a list of recommended readings, culled from the complete literature searches were done for each symptom complex.
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Collaboration Factors that Influence Collaborative Experiences Among Hospice Team Members written by Rie Kobayashi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
