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21 produkter
Complexities of Care
Nursing Reconsidered
Av Sioban Nelson, Suzanne Gordon
Inbunden, 2006
1700 kr
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"Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the polls as the most-trustworthy professionals. …
Safety in Numbers
Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care
Av Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
386 kr
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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 …
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough
Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession
Inbunden, 2010
476 kr
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The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including work …
First, Do Less Harm
Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety
Av Ross Koppel, Suzanne Gordon
Inbunden, 2012
354 kr
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Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of …
Beyond the Checklist
What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety
Av Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1252 kr
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The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible …
Collaborative Caring
Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care
Av Suzanne Gordon, David Feldman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
325 kr
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Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? Collaborative Caring takes an …
Nursing Against the Odds
How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
Häftad, 2006
226 kr
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In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers …
Complexities of Care
Nursing Reconsidered
Av Sioban Nelson, Suzanne Gordon
Häftad, 2006
314 kr
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"Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the polls as the most-trustworthy professionals. …
Life Support
Three Nurses on the Front Lines
Häftad, 2007
209 kr
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In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston—a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging, and …
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough
Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession
Häftad, 2011
209 kr
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The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including work …
Beyond the Checklist
What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety
Av Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
211 kr
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The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible …
From Silence to Voice
What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public
Av Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon
Häftad, 2013
226 kr
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This is an invaluable book for all nurses, especially those who are proud of being nurses and who have always wanted to make others understand our passion.â• Nursing StandardFor more than a decade, From Silence to Voice has been providing nurses with communication tools they can use to win the …
Bedside Manners
Play and Workbook
Av Suzanne Gordon, Lisa Hayes m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
296 kr
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In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital …
Caregiving
Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics
Av Suzanne Gordon, Patricia Benner m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
401 kr
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The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology, Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago, and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever before. Yet most people over sixty-five live …
Our Veterans
Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs
Av Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1337 kr
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In Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life. The authors critically examine the role of advocacy organizations, …
Our Veterans
Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs
Av Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
282 kr
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In Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life. The authors critically examine the role of advocacy organizations, …
Our Veterans
Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs
Av Jasper Craven, Steve Early m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
395 kr
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In Our Veterans , Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life. The authors critically examine the role of advocacy organizations, …
Battle for Veterans' Healthcare
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care
Häftad, 2017
124 kr
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In The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage.Gordon's …
Wounds of War
How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans
Inbunden, 2018
357 kr
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U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country-one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and …
Wounds of War
How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans
Häftad, 2020
219 kr
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U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country-one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and …
Nursing Against the Odds
How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
Inbunden, 2005
383 kr
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In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers …
