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Code Green
Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing
Inbunden, 2003
631 kr
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We are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the quality of their nursing care, such as Boston's …
Nobody's Home
Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide
Inbunden, 2004
755 kr
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"At present nursing homes are designed... like outmoded zoos. Residents are kept in small rooms, emotionally isolated. Occasionally they are visited by family members who reach through the bars and offer them treats. Aides keep their bodies clean and presentable.... America invests huge amounts of …
Nurses on the Move
Migration and the Global Health Care Economy
Inbunden, 2005
1690 kr
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South African nurses care for patients in London, hospitals recruit Filipino nurses to Los Angeles, and Chinese nurses practice their profession in Ireland. In every industrialized country of the world, patients today increasingly find that the nurses who care for them come from a vast array of …
Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
Av Ann K. Boulis, Jerry A. Jacobs
Inbunden, 2008
718 kr
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The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become …
Never Good Enough
Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training
Av Ariel Ducey
Inbunden, 2008
1690 kr
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Frontline health care workers have always been especially vulnerable to the perpetual tides of health care 'reform,' but in the mid-1990s in New York City, they bore the brunt of change in a new way. They were obliged to take on additional work, take lessons in recalibrating their attitudes, and, …
Complexities of Care
Nursing Reconsidered
Av Sioban Nelson, Suzanne Gordon
Inbunden, 2006
1690 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. …
Differential Diagnoses
A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Inbunden, 2007
732 kr
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Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care …
Safety in Numbers
Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care
Av Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
384 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 …
Circles of Exclusion
The Politics of Health Care in Israel
Av Dani Filc MD
Inbunden, 2009
660 kr
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In its early years, Israel's dominant ideology led to public provision of health care for all Jewish citizens-regardless of their age, income, or ability to pay. However, the system has shifted in recent decades, becoming increasingly privatized and market-based. In a familiar paradox, the wealthy, …
Inside Chronic Pain
An Intimate and Critical Account
Inbunden, 2009
370 kr
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"With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey. Health professionals can learn how an articulate middle-class female white patient thinks (with all that thinking entails) when her world is irreversibly altered by pain. She does not …
Healing Together
The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
Av Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1690 kr
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Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the …
Changing the Course of AIDS
Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis
Inbunden, 2009
669 kr
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Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers …
Vanishing Physician-Scientist?
Inbunden, 2009
747 kr
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Throughout history, physicians have played a vital role in medical discovery. These physician-scientists devote the majority of their professional effort to seeking new knowledge about health and disease through research and represent the entire continuum of biomedical investigation. They bring a …
My Imaginary Illness
A Journey Into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis
Av Chloe Atkins
Inbunden, 2010
396 kr
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How Patients ThinkAt age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and on health …
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 …
Notes on Nightingale
The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon
Av Sioban Nelson, Anne Marie Rafferty
Inbunden, 2010
1690 kr
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Florence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishment of the world's first nursing school; and advocacy for …
Divining Without Seeds
The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa
Inbunden, 2011
573 kr
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Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness and death in Africa, yet health practitioners routinely fail to identify causative microorganisms in most patients. As a result, patients often do not receive the right medicine in time to cure them promptly even when such medicine is …
Out of Practice
Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America
Inbunden, 2011
370 kr
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Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and …
Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine
Health Care Fraud and What to Do About It
Inbunden, 2011
421 kr
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U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New York's Medicaid fraud …
Fields of Combat
Understanding PTSD Among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
Inbunden, 2011
761 kr
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"If you consider Iraq—like I do, probably twenty-nine out of thirty days—to be the pinnacle of your life, then where do you go from there? And I'm sure that a lot of veterans feel that way. To them, that was it. That was everything. So now what? They have to find something meaningful and …
Caring Self
The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides
Inbunden, 2011
1690 kr
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 1.7 million home health aides and personal and home care aides in the United States as of 2008. These home care aides are rapidly becoming the backbone of America's system of long-term care, and their numbers continue to grow. …
Challenge to Change
Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom
Inbunden, 2016
616 kr
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There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. Often, as we know all too well, these efforts are not …
Question of Competence
Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century
Av Brian D. Hodges, Lorelei Lingard
Inbunden, 2012
732 kr
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Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven …
With God on Our Side
The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
Inbunden, 2012
395 kr
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When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral …
Cleaning Up
How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients
Av Dan Zuberi
Inbunden, 2013
1690 kr
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To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the …
First, Do Less Harm
Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety
Av Ross Koppel, Suzanne Gordon
Inbunden, 2012
352 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 …
Big Squeeze
A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram
Inbunden, 2012
1690 kr
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In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the …
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 …
Where Night Is Day
The World of the ICU
Av James Kelly
Inbunden, 2013
312 kr
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"There is no night in the ICU. There is day, lesser day, then day again. There are rhythms. Every twelve hours: shift change. Report: first all together in the big room, then at the bedside, nurse to nurse. Morning rounds. A group of doctors moves slowly through the unit like a harrow through a …
Creating the Health Care Team of the Future
The Toronto Model for Interprofessional Education and Practice
Av Sioban Nelson, Maria Tassone m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1690 kr
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One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate with each other across professional boundaries, and to start to think and act like a team that has the patient at its center. The team-based care …
