Basic healthcare rights and ethics, concentrating on requirements for advance directives and regulatory compliance for doctors, nurses, managers, social workers, and allied health professionals.
Presents techniques of total quality management and six sigma which are applied to medical, dental, and healthcare practices in a practical manner. This work features examples and electronic workbooks that enable the user to create a total quality program.
For all members of a healthcare organization including office staff, executives, managers, doctors, nurses, and therapists. Includes hundreds of techniques to improve customer care in any organization and implement total quality management in customer service.
This lively presention of how to write clearly includes many examples of how to focus thoughts and create clearly understood writing. It contains many of Dr. Farb’s own writing techniques and contains exercises drawn from business periodicals. Readers will enjoy the approachable, compact, conversational style of the title.
This title is part of the University of HealthCare / University of Business Interactive Training Library, which offers authoritative, clearly written material in an interactive form for better comprehension and documentation of completion. Today's critical care nurse needs a variety of skills and the ability to work with very different types of patients. The Basic Critical Care Training Program is designed for any nurse who wishes to obtain the solid foundation of skills and knowledge needed to safely and effectively care for the critically ill patient. Nurses who are just beginning their careers, nurses currently working with critically ill patients, and nurses who wish to change their clinical emphasis and begin working in critical care units are excellent candidates for this program. This program allows you to study when you want to and to practice valuable critical thinking skills prior to taking care of patients. The combination of flexible, instructor-supported, distance-learning and real-time preceptor-supervised training provides the new critical care nurse with an opportunity to learn valuable new skills and to cement concepts and clinical experience. This is the most cost-effective way available for hospitals to develop critical care nurses and for nurses to advance their careers. This 75-contact-hour program is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation and is designed to be coordinated with a well-designed preceptor/mentor training program in a critical care unit. The program is based on the textbook recommended by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses: AACN Clinical Reference for Critical Care Nursing. The course consists of 28 modules, as follows: Cardiac (5 modules), Respiratory (6 modules) Neurological (5 modules), Gastrointestinal (3 modules Haematology (2 modules), Endocrine (2 modules), Renal (2 modules) Special (3 modules). Upon completion of this course, you will be able to provide safe, entry-level critical care nursing practice as you begin working with a preceptor/mentor in a critical care unit. Completing the Basic Critical Care Training Program will distinguish you as a knowledgeable, skilled, and committed professional. There are 875 pages in the course. It includes e-mail access to a Critical Care Nurse. You must have Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher running on your computer. Supported operating systems are Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, or XP. You will need Internet access to e-mail us your unique key and receive a password key. License is for one user on one computer. An additional computer owned by the same user will generally be approved at the discretion of the publisher.
A thorough presentation of the current crisis and what to do about it for doctors, nurses, healthcare administrators, allied health professionals, hospitals, managed care, risk managers, lawyers, and public health officials.
Understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual needs at the end of life is crucial for today's health care providers. The goal of this guidebook is to provide an overview of end-of-life care, with an emphasis on the team approach to care.
Documentation of age-specific competence of staff in healthcare organisations is a requirement for JCAHO certification. Divided into two parts, this work teaches you to explain why age-related competence is important for JCAHO inspections, and list and describe steps in the implementation of an age-related competence program.
This is an authoritative, compelling, well-written book that will eave the reader with a comprehensive view of medication errors and what to do about them. It is for everyone in the healthcare field plus the public. Upon completion of this book readers will be able to discuss the increase in medical and medication errors, describe the scope of the problem, and understand how drugs are ordered and delivered.
Botulinum toxin is the most toxic compound known and has already been used in warfare and in attempts at bioterror. Bioterrorism Botulinum will completely teach you on the subject.
Plague has killed millions of people throught the centuries. It is also know as "Black Death". In this age of bioterrorism and capacity for aerosol dispersion, this disease has gained renewed interest.
Solid learning about sales and business letters intersperses the humorous mistakes of a pharmaceutical/medical device salesman as he learns how to write sales letters. Readers will learn principles of the strategy of writing letters, the parts of a letter, specific letter types, common mistakes in letter witing and etiquette, letter formatting, and the basics of reports and executive summaries.
Bioterrorism Tularemia teaches health workers in particular and lay people in general about the disease tularemia and how to apply that knowledge to a bioterror attack.
HIPAA regulations, HIPAA training, HIPAA compliance, and HIPAA security for the administrator of a HIPAA program. For beginners to advanced, from small practices to large hospitals and health systems.
Human Genome Introduction will explain what is the Human Genome Project, why everyone should be aware of it, and how it will impact everyone. The program is simple and pictorial for the benefit of those without much of a scientific education. It covers human genetic diseases, basics of cellular biology and DNA, why the Human Genome Project is necessary, genetic terms and principles, the Human Genome Project, gene therapy, DNA investigative techniques, DNA fingerprinting, the types of genomic companies, applications of genomic research, and the ethics of gene testing.
Smallpox has been one of the scourges of mankind until it was supposedly eradicated in 1980. But there are indications that it is being preserved for use in bioterrorism and is considered a major threat by the U.S. government. Bioterrorism Smallpox teaches you about the organism that causes smallpox, its transmission and more.
Anthrax has already been used as an instrument of bioterror, is a significant danger now, and is usually fatal in its inhalation form. Bioterrorism Anthrax teaches about the organism that causes anthrax, its transmission and prevention, its laboratory diagnosis, its clinical manifestations and diagnosis, its treatment, and the bioterror parameters of the disease. This course is geared toward healthcare professions, but it is clear enough for the general public.
Anthrax has already been used as an instrument of bioterror is a significant danger now, and is usually fatal in its inhalational form. Bioterrorism Anthrax teaches ou about t the organism and more.
The Customer Care in Healthcare Guidebook the perfect way to learn about the human side of healthcare in an interesting and conversational manner. It combines 4 Customer Care in Healthcare titles into one package. Titles included are Reorganizing for Customer and Patient Care, Customer and Patient Care, Provider Patient Relationships, and Handling Difficult People. They focus on teaching a technique or idea followed by reinforcement and application via questions and answers. This is an excellent tool to increase an organization's commitment to customer care. The principles behind the concepts are relevant to almost every business, not just healthcare. Those readers who wish to have an accompanying program with video and interactivity should also purchase the CD version. Contact hour credits are available.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.