Now in its Sixth Edition, this foremost leadership and management text incorporates application with theory and emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. More than 225 case studies and learning exercises promote critical thinking and interactive discussion. Case studies cover a variety of settings, including acute care, ...
"New York Times"-bestselling author Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the U.S. can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.
When someone in your family suffers from Alzheimer's disease or other related memory loss diseases, both you and your loved one face immense challenges. For over 20 years this book has been the trusted bible for families affected by dementia disorders. This authoritative guie provides all the practical and specific advice you need to make care ...
Offering comprehensive coverage of effective nursing leadership and management, this third edition challenges nursing students to learn the structure, concepts, and relationships of their future trade with a wide array of interactive tools. It presents the foundations and strategies for effective nursing management and leadership from role ...
From financial journalist Mahar, this sweeping portrait of the business of the healthcare industry over the last 20 years is filled with characters, gripping stories, and trenchant economic, political, and business insights.
Introduction to Health Services, 6E builds on a well established format written by nationally recognized authors with updated research and statistics. This revision reflects critical updates in health care finance, health care access, managed care, insurance, and home health.
Describing the U.S. health services system is no easy feat. In one volume, the authors cover the conceptual basis for the system; its historical origins; the structures of ambulatory care, inpatient care, and other important service structures; the translation of these structures into health services themselves, and the manifestations of their ...
Written from a public health or population perspective, this book provides a clear overview of the US healthcare system and the professional, political, social, and economic forces that have shaped it. It is intended as a text for an introductory course in the organization and delivery of US healthcare, for students in public health, medicine, ...
For courses in undergraduate Nursing Management and Leadership. Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing provides students with the necessary skills to make sound management decisions in a dynamic health care environment. Used worldwide, this award-winning book is now offered in an updated, revised edition to reflect the many changes in ...
Twenty years after its original publication, "Feeding the Hungry Heart" continues to inspire women and men, helping them win the battle against a hunger that goes deeper than a need for food. This book contains stories both heartrending and inspiring from many of those whom Roth has met through her lectures, workshops, and retreats.
Now in its Fifth Edition, this text is designed to teach nursing students to apply effective decision-making, leadership, delegation, prioritization, and patient management skills to real-world practice situations. With its emphasis on critical thinking and collaborative decision making, this book has been highly successful in building students' ...
Advances in medicine and pharmacology, changes in general medical terminology, and a dynamic rehabilitation environment make Medical and PsychosocialAspects of Chronic Illness and Disability a much-needed addition to the rehabilitation literature. This fully revised and expanded Second Edition provides basic medical information on disability for ...
Increases students' interest and practical understanding by including practitioner perspectives throughout the text. The student will gain a real view of the practicing health professionals. Contains professional association description and application forms, which provide mechanisms for students to easily join the associations. Students will be ...
This third edition has been revised to incorporate an increased focus on policy and a strengthened feminist perspective. Politics and policy are discussed within each of the four spheres of a nurse's environment: the workplace, government, community, and professional organizations. Contributed to by over 100 nurses, the text includes vignettes ...
This comprehensive text provides students with the background and application information needed to plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion programs in a variety of settings. The third edition of Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs has been updated from beginning to end. This revision includes 142 new references ...
Covering the basic structures and operations of the U.S. health system, Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System is a clear and concise distillation of the important topics covered in Delivering Health Care in America by the same authors. Ideal for courses in health policy, allied health, health administration and more, this comprehensive ...
Introduction to Health Care addresses the core competencies needed by health care professionals regardless of medical specialty. Topics common to all health care professions such as communication, infection control, environmental safety, controlling health care costs and professionalism in the workplace are presented in a "job authentic" manner ...
Now you can give your students an overview of public health that gives special emphasis to governmental roles and political processes, provides a summary of key scientific and technical tools used in the field, and makes critical comparisons between public health activities and the responsibilities of medical care delivery and financing. This new ...
A refreshing new text that gives students a solid grounding in the principles, practices, and skills essential to successful public health administration. With this text you get full coverage of traditional public health responsibilities -- assessing the burden of disease, preventing and controlling health threats, and developing policies and ...
Thoroughly updated and revised, "Leadership and Nursing Care Management, 3rd Edition", addresses basic issues, such as law and ethics, staffing and scheduling, delegation, cultural considerations, and management of time and stress, while providing readers with the core concepts that separate adequate and exceptional nurse managers. It presents a ...
This newly revised edition of "Nursing Leadership and Management" is a dynamic and insightful presentation of the leadership and management issues most important to today's nursing leaders. Rooted in evidence and research, this work offers solid foundations and real-world perspectives from nurses, managers, and health care personnel. Key topics at ...
This book offers a systems approach to the complex modern US public health system, grounded in a conceptual model that characterizes public health by its mission, functions, capacity, processes, and outcomes. It covers the origins and development of the modern public health system, then reviews the organization of the public health system at the ...
"Core Concepts in Health", now in its 7th edition, has been reviewed, revised and updated. This edition offers improvements in its revision, combined with the book's scientific accuracy, complete coverage of health-related topics, innovative learning aids, and strong emphasis on individual responsibility. Topics discussed include HIV, food ...
The groundbreaking program for healthy aging through movement and flexibility. In the revolutionary , Thomas Hanna demonstrates that so many problems we accept as inevitable over time-chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatigue, and even high blood pressure -need never occur if we maintain conscious control of nerve and muscle, a state ...
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