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Book Synopsis Demanding Patients? by : Anne Rogers
Download or read book Demanding Patients? written by Anne Rogers and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together concepts, policy issues and research findings on help-seeking and healthcare utilization. It focuses on lay decision making and examines the influences and factors shaping the relationship between health need and demand for care by examining the connections between people's experience of health problems, their care for themselves and their use of formal health care and community planning.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309495474 Total Pages :335 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It is important to take a systemic approach to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of health care. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being builds upon two groundbreaking reports from the past twenty years, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences, and contributing factors of clinician burnout and provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.
Book Synopsis Patient Safety and Quality by : Ronda Hughes
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Book Synopsis Practical Assessment and Treatment of the Patient with Headaches in the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Clinic by : Dawn A. Marcus
Download or read book Practical Assessment and Treatment of the Patient with Headaches in the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Clinic written by Dawn A. Marcus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migraine is an extremely common condition affecting 28 million Americans. Fully 1 in every 6 adult women suffers from this malady. Patients with migraine are frequently seen in the Emergency Room and Urgent Care Clinic for acute treatment of their headaches. Headache generally accounts for nearly 3 % of all ER visits, resulting in almost 3.5 million visits annually. There currently are no widely used guidelines for the treatment of patients with headache in the ER or UCC, and reducing the number of CT scans remains a key goal for administrators in many ER or urgent care settings. In one study, 35 drugs, alone or in combination, were used to treat migraine. The most common medication class used was narcotics, which were used in 25% of the visits. The next two most commonly used classes were antiemetics and NSAIDs. Only 5% of patients seen for headache received headache-specific medications during their visit. ER and Urgent Care physicians generally have little or no formal training in treating these patients. Consequently, they often feel less comfortable ruling out secondary causes of headaches and using appropriate headache treatment medications and procedures. Since many patients have received narcotics in previous visits, providers may view them as drug seekers. Patients seen in ERs and UCCs for acute treatment of their headaches often report high levels of dissatisfaction. They often end up in the ER or UCC because they don’t have a formal treatment strategy for their severe headaches. Health plans and insurance agencies are often frustrated by the high cost of fragmented care for patients with headaches. Because of the environment that most ER and UCC providers operate in, many unnecessary scans and tests are done because of uncertainty of the diagnosis and unfamiliarity of the patient. Primary care physicians are also frustrated by patients with headaches presenting to them after being seen in the ER or UCC, wanting a refill of their narcotics that they were given. Many patients don’t follow up with their PCPs and simply keep returning to the ER/UCC for their treatment. In short, all involved in the care for patients with headache are frustrated by the current system. The care for these patients is clearly not optimal. It doesn’t have to be that way. There are a wide variety of effective treatment options available, but are underutilized in the acute setting. With these treatment options, patients no longer have to be treated only with parenteral narcotics, only to perpetuate the cycle of suboptimal care described above. This concise handbook covers all aspects of acute headache care, including care of the child and adolescent with acute headaches, treatment of pregnant and breastfeeding women with acute headaches and appropriate evaluation of secondary headaches. In addition, two other novel chapters are included: one on caring for older patients with acute headaches as well as a chapter describing how to ensure a seamless transition of the patient back to a headache interested provider. Representing an important milestone in the care of patients with headache, this is the first concise handbook available to exclusively address the issue of headache treatment in the acute care setting. Including protocols and strategies that can be used right away, Management of Headaches in Emergency Room and Urgent Care Settings: Diagnosis and Management provides information about lesser known, but effective strategies such as greater occipital nerve blocks that can be easily learned and incorporated in the acute care setting. It emphasizes the continuity of care that is so vital to keep headache patients from returning to the ER and UCC for acute treatment.
Book Synopsis Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines by : Lisa C. Ruchti
Download or read book Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines written by Lisa C. Ruchti and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, hospital nurses must negotiate intimate trust and intimate conflict in an effort to provide quality health care. However, interactions between nurses and patients—which often require issues of privacy—are sometimes made more uncomfortable with inappropriate behavior, as when a patient has a racist and/or sexist outburst. Not all nurses are prepared to handle such intimacy, but they can all learn how to "be caring." In Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines, Lisa Ruchti carefully examines this fragile relationship between intimacy and professional care, and provides a language for patients, nurses, and administrators to teach, conduct, and advocate for knowledgeable and skilled intimate care in a hospital setting. She also recommends best training practices and practical and effective policy changes to handle conflicts. Ruchti shows that "caring" is not just a personality characteristic but is work that is structured by intersections of race, gender, and nationality.
Download or read book The Patient written by Hoyle Leigh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old-fashioned doctor, whose departure from the modern medical scene is so greatly lamented, was amply aware of each patient's per sonality, family, work, and way of life. Today, we often blame a doctor's absence of that awareness on moral or ethical deficiency either in medical education or in the character of people who become physicians. An alternative explanation, however, is that doctors are just as moral, ethical, and concerned as ever before, but that a vast amount of additional new information has won the competition for attention. The data available to the old-fashioned doctor were a patient's history, phys ical examination, and "personal profile," together with a limited number of generally ineffectual therapeutic agents. A doctor today deals with an enormous array of additional new information, which comes from X-rays, biopsies, cytology, electrographic tracings, and the phantas magoria of contemporary laboratory tests, and the doctor must also be aware of a list of therapeutic possibilities that are both far more effective and far more extensive than ever before.
Book Synopsis Health Professions Education by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Health Professions Education written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.
Book Synopsis Developing Your Compassion Strengths by : Mark Durkin
Download or read book Developing Your Compassion Strengths written by Mark Durkin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical book suggests ways in which healthcare students and practitioners can develop their compassion strengths. Discussing what compassion is and means, it includes a new compassion strength model and a series of exercises the reader can use for reflecting on and developing their practice. A hallmark of healthcare practice is compassion, yet there is a lack of understanding as to what compassion is and how it can be developed in practice. The book begins with the challenge of defining compassion, particularly looking at healthcare contexts and making links between self-care and caring for others. It then presents a new, evidence-based holistic model that brings together key elements of compassion for self and other, along with a scale that readers can measure themselves against. Identifying eight strengths "self-care, connection, communication, competency, empathy, interpersonal skills, character, and engagement" Durkin provides the theoretical background to each, accompanied with suggestions for practice and reflective activities. It ends with a selection of vignettes that readers can use to try out their strengths. Highlighting the concept of compassion strengths, and compassion as a way of being, this is an essential read for healthcare students and practitioners, whether involved in direct patient care or management.
Book Synopsis Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care, Second Edition by : Patricia E. Benner
Download or read book Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care, Second Edition written by Patricia E. Benner and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Book Synopsis Running Group Visits in Your Practice by : Edward B. Noffsinger
Download or read book Running Group Visits in Your Practice written by Edward B. Noffsinger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fateful Meeting A year and a half ago, I was sitting at a conference listening to Ed Noffsinger speak, and suddenly had the most profound ‘‘Aha’’ moment of my professional career. Here was someone presenting a practical and tested solution to some of the most challenging problems currently plaguing the US healthcare system, problems such as poor access to primary and specialty care; the uncontainable and rising costs of healthcare; our nation’s relatively poor quality outcomes; and finally, the sense of frustration, disempowerment, loneliness, and disenfranchisement that patients and their families too often experience. Dr. Noffsinger’s solution seemed deceptively simple—shared medical appointments (SMAs) that afford the highest quality healthcare to be delivered in the highest quality care experience—a group setting. Experience collected over a decade and involving more than 100,000 patient visits throughout the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe has demonstrated that SMAs, when used in primary care as well as in the medical and surgical subspecialties, lead to increased access to care, enhanced quality of care, and improved patient satisfaction. For physicians, the efficiency gains and team support from their participation in SMAs translate into much needed relief and improved career satisfaction.
Book Synopsis Interviewing and Patient Care by : Allen Jay Enelow
Download or read book Interviewing and Patient Care written by Allen Jay Enelow and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This standard text on medical interviewing retains its core of open-ended and more directed interviewing techniques, but the Fourth Edition is more firmly anchored in the everyday practice of medicine. It contains much new material on the components of the medical history, interviewing cognitively impaired patients, interviewing children and their parents and the elderly, the interview in continuing care and when time is limited, delivering bad news, and many other practical issues.
Book Synopsis Lens Surgery after Previous Refractive Surgery by : Frank Joseph Goes
Download or read book Lens Surgery after Previous Refractive Surgery written by Frank Joseph Goes and published by JAYPEE BROTHERS PUBLISHERS. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Doctor Goldman's Guide to Effective Patient Communication: Explanations of the Most Common Medical Conditions in Layperson's Terms and Helpful Provider-Patient Interactions by : Dr. Kissinger Goldman
Download or read book Doctor Goldman's Guide to Effective Patient Communication: Explanations of the Most Common Medical Conditions in Layperson's Terms and Helpful Provider-Patient Interactions written by Dr. Kissinger Goldman and published by Bookclick 360 Wordeee. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Goldman's Guide to Effective Patient Communication: Explanations of the Most Common Medical Conditions in Layperson's Terms and Helpful Provider-Patient Interactions is an important resource for doctors, clinicians, administrators, faculty, and students in the health professions. It contains instruction and learning objectives for interpersonal communication skills with self-assessment and self-awareness tools for the betterment of patient care as well as patient and provider experience. Giving case studies in a variety of patient care environments, Dr. Goldman utilizes contemporary terminology and references to master fundamental skills to help facilitate effective doctor-patient interaction when communicating diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and recovery.
Book Synopsis A Myofascial Approach to Thai Massage by : Howard Derek Evans
Download or read book A Myofascial Approach to Thai Massage written by Howard Derek Evans and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Myofascial Approach to Thai Massage, the author takes a radically different approach to Thai Massage by redefining the sen lines in myofascial terms. He provides a coherent system illustrating the function and benefits of Thai Massage through its actions on the myofascial network, lymph and blood flow. In addition, the author questions some of the more dubious moves in Thai Massage; looks at the ‘spiritual’ aspects of Thai Massage in terms of presence, attention and the therapist/client relationship; takes a unique view of Thai Massage and opens the way for further exploration of massage in the myofascial field; and includes some examples of working with clients to illustrate the themes. Although specifically about Thai Massage, content covers many aspects of the therapist/patient relationship - well explored in psychotherapy but surprisingly little covered in massage courses. To support the therapist: the book includes references to anatomy, physiology and therapeutic processes such as neuromuscular technique and covers massage and relaxation and the techniques and relationship skills that make good massage. the author has distilled the techniques, discarded what he considers dangerous or disturbing for the patient and concentrated on understanding the techniques and ways of working necessary to promote complete relaxation for the client.
Book Synopsis Hard Truths Of Being a Doctor Vol2 by : Dr. Pagalavan Letchumanan
Download or read book Hard Truths Of Being a Doctor Vol2 written by Dr. Pagalavan Letchumanan and published by Snappars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books will provide readers a deep insight to the reality of the medical field and healthcare system in Malaysia, and the misconceptions of doctors that society has blindly clung to for generations. Dr Pagalavan combines his experience with selected articles to illustrate the concerns on the mushrooming of medical schools, the quality of medical education, and the surplus of doctors in Malaysia and other countries
Book Synopsis Healing Through Communication by : Carol Leppanen Montgomery
Download or read book Healing Through Communication written by Carol Leppanen Montgomery and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993-05-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montgomery offers a theory of caring, grounded in both clinical practice and theory, that advances caring as an intrinsic part of nursing. Demonstrating the depth and complexity of caring communication, she describes the qualities and behavioral manifestations needed to communicate caring to the patient, while admitting the emotional risks facing caregivers. A model is presented which describes the support necessary within the health care system to sustain this level of communication and to help caregivers cope with these emotional demands.
Book Synopsis Medical Teaching in Ambulatory Care, Second Edition by : Warren Rubenstein, MD
Download or read book Medical Teaching in Ambulatory Care, Second Edition written by Warren Rubenstein, MD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated and extensively referenced, the new edition of this practical hands-on resource demonstrates the effective use of any ambulatory setting in medical education. The authors investigate the tools needed from a theoretical framework for teaching, in addition to essential teaching skills, dealing with difficult trainees, setting up a private practice as a setting for teaching, and more. The text provides pragmatic examples of real situations with specific strategies for addressing each.
