Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ratios will unfairly burden hospital budgets, while reducing management flexibility in addressing patient needs.
Safety in Numbers is the first book to examine the arguments for and against ratios. Utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research, Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton weigh the cost, benefits, and effectiveness of ratios in California and the state of Victoria in Australia, the two places where RN staffing levels have been mandated the longest. They show how hospital cost cutting and layoffs in the 1990s created larger workloads and deteriorating conditions for both nurses and their patients—leading nursing organizations to embrace staffing level regulation. The authors provide an in-depth account of the difficult but ultimately successful campaigns waged by nurses and their allies to win mandated ratios. Safety in Numbers then reports on how nurses, hospital administrators, and health care policymakers handled ratio implementation.
With at least fourteen states in the United States and several other countries now considering staffing level regulation, this balanced assessment of the impact of ratios on patient outcomes and RN job performance and satisfaction could not be timelier. The authors' history and analysis of the nurse-to-patient ratios debate will be welcomed as an invaluable guide for patient advocates, nurses, health care managers, public officials, and anyone else concerned about the quality of patient care in the United States and the world.
Автор: Richard Schweid Название: The Caring Class: Home Health Aides in Crisis ISBN: 1501754106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501754104 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The number of elderly and disabled Americans in need of home health care is increasing annually, even as the pool of people—almost always women—willing to do this job gets smaller and smaller.The Caring Class takes readers inside the reality of home health care by following the lives of women training and working as home health aides in the South Bronx.
Richard Schweid examines home health care in detail, focusing on the women who tend to our elderly and disabled loved ones and how we fail to value their work. They are paid minimum wage so that we might be absent, getting on with our own lives. The book calls for a rethinking of home health care and explains why changes are urgent: the current system offers neither a good way to live nor a good way to die. By improving the job of home health aide, Schweid shows, we can reduce income inequality and create a pool of qualified, competent home health care providers who would contribute to the well-being of us all.
The Caring Class also serves as a guide into the world of our home health care system. Nearly 50 million US families look after an elderly or disabled loved one. This book explains the issues and choices they face. Schweid explores the narratives, histories, and people behind home health care in the United States, examining how we might improve the lives of both those who receive care and those who provide it.
Описание: Medical expenditure has become a heavy burden on the public sector and the family system in many countries.
Название: Personalised health care ISBN: 3030523985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030523985 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduction (Boccia) 1. Chapter 1: Identification of biomarkers for the prevention of chronic disease (Editors: Adany, Boccia). 1.1 Van Duijn (Identification of biomarkers for primary and secondary prevention - Liu)1.2 Boccia (Identification of biomarkers for tertiary prevention - Mariani, Giraldi, Pastorino)1.3 Adany (Application of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism-Related Risk Estimates in Identification of Increased Genetic Susceptibility to Specific Diseases)1.4 Giordano Bottа - Allelica (Non Academic Vision) Recommendation 1 Personalised interventions for the prevention of chronic diseases require robust evidence of efficacy and/or effectiveness of the new technology when implemented in health care. 2. Chapter 2: Evaluation of predictive genomic applications (Editor: Villari) 2.1 The economic evaluation of genetic/genomic applications (D'Andrea)2.2 The HTA approach for the evaluation of genetic/genomic applications (Pitini)2.3 Training needs in genomics of Public Health Professionals (Rosso) Recommendation 2A comprehensive evaluation of the value (outcomes/cost) of the new technology should also include evidence on the social aspects, and context-related dimensions to better support the clinical decision-making process. Genetic or genomic applications with evidence of efficacy, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness should be implemented in clinical and public health practice. 3. Chapter 3: Ethico-legal and policy issues surrounding personalised medicine (Editor: Sandor) 3.1 Zawati (Ethical issue) 3.2 Calabro, Hoxaij, Boccia (Policy issue, with a focus on training in genomics for healthcare professionals)3.3 Calabro, Sassano, Boccia (Policy issue, with a focus on citizens and DTC)3.4 Sandor (Legal issue) Recommendation 3The era of genomics requires that we clarify and validate the obligations and responsibilities of the research community, research participants, and the general public including patients through collaboration and dissemination of high-quality ethical, policy, and legal analysis. 4. Chapter 4: Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in informing healthy individuals on their genome: a sociotechnical analysis (Editor: Cornel) (Martina Cornel, Tessel Rigter, and Carla van El)4.1 Responsible translation of new genomic technologies in the context of screening of healthy adults4.2 Examples from hereditary cardiovascular diseases and hereditary cancers Recommendation 4 A dedicated effort is necessary to stimulate further implementation of evidence-based interventions in health care, such as testing of family members in cases of hereditary cancers or cardiovascular diseases. 5. Chapter 5: Identification of organizational models for the provision of predictive genomic applications (Editor: De Vito) 5.1 De Vito/Unim (Delivery models for genetic/genomic applications)5.2 Cornel (Barriers and Facilitating Factors for Implementation of Genetic Services)5.3 Gray/Jani (Design systems that integrate genomic information to deliver personalised care)5.4 Roldan (Clinical decision support tool to assist physicians in the screening of genetic diseases) Recommendation 5 The integration of genomic sciences in other medical spec
Автор: Antonio Jose Marques, Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queiros Название: Handbook of Research on Solving Modern Healthcare Challenges With Gamification ISBN: 1799874729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781799874720 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 67637.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While many fields such as e-learning, business, and marketing have taken advantage of the potential of gamification, the healthcare domain has just started to exploit this emerging trend, still in an ad-hoc fashion. Despite the huge potential of applying gamification on several topics of healthcare, there are scarce theoretical studies regarding methodologies, techniques, specifications, and frameworks. These applications must be examined further as they can be used to solve major healthcare-related challenges such as care plan maintenance, medication adherence, phobias treatment, or patient education.
Handbook of Research on Solving Modern Healthcare Challenges With Gamification aims to share new approaches and methodologies to build e-health solutions using gamification and identifies new trends on this topic from pedagogical strategies to technological approaches. This book serves as a collection of knowledge that builds the theoretical foundations that can be helpful in creating sustainable e-health solutions in the future. While covering topics such as augmented and virtual reality, ethical issues in gamification, e-learning, telehealth services, and digital applications, this book is essential for research scholars, healthcare/computer science teachers and students pursuing healthcare/computer science-related subjects, enterprise developers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the latest developments and research solving healthcare challenges with modern e-health solutions using gamification.
Описание: It has been almost 20 years since the Institute of Medicine released the seminal report titled, Crossing the Quality Chasm. In it, the IoM identified six domains of care quality (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centric) and noted a huge gap between the current state and the desired state.
Автор: Liang Название: The Impact of Patient-Centered Care ISBN: 9811639671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811639678 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book investigates the impact of patient-centered care (PCC) for older adults with chronic conditions and presents new evidence concerning its effects on the care process and health outcomes.
Описание: Viral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions offers compelling stories of stigma and discrimination as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This highly engaging book is ideal reading for those interested in teaching and learning about intersectionality, as Pfeiffer meticulously demonstrates how HIV stigma interacts with issues of treatment, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, social change, and international aid systems.
Автор: Paul B. Hofmann, William A. Nelson Название: Managing Healthcare Ethically, Volume 2: Organizational Concerns ISBN: 1640552553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640552555 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5267.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Healthcare systems tailor their structure and policies to create an ethically aligned organization. The best organizational practices and cultures are built on strong and consistent ethical decision-making that ensures quality and value-based patient care.
Managing Healthcare Ethically: Organizational Concerns focuses on how a healthcare organization’s ethical decisions and actions affect its operations and overall mission. The book establishes the need for clear policies and guidelines that foster and sustain an ethically grounded organization.
Gathering columns originally published in American College of Healthcare Executives publications, in particular Healthcare Executive magazine, this volume provides strategies for governing boards, committees, and individual leaders to define and improve their organization’s ethical standards of practice.
Описание: This book is for ICU patients` families, suddenly immersed in an alien and intimidating world. It clearly explains intensive care ranging from the details of the equipment and environment, to decisions about end-of-life care, focusing on how the reader can become an effective ...
Автор: Oppenheim, Bohdan Название: Lean healthcare systems engineering for clinical environments ISBN: 0367755327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367755324 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It has been almost 20 years since the Institute of Medicine released the seminal report titled, Crossing the Quality Chasm. In it, the IoM identified six domains of care quality (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centric) and noted a huge gap between the current state and the desired state.
Автор: Scott, W. Richard Etc. Ruef, Martin (university Of North Carolina, Usa) Mendel, Peter J. Caronna, Carol A. Название: Institutional change and healthcare organizations ISBN: 0226743101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226743103 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5861.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The changes in the US healthcare system since World War II are documented here, from new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, to financing mechanisms and underlying sets of organizing principles. The authors illustrate the work with five types of healthcare organizations.
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