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The Chapter Leader's Guide to Patient Rights

Author : Jean S. Clark
Publisher : HC Pro, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1601468113
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Chapter Leader's Guide to Patient Rights written by Jean S. Clark and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chapter Leader's Guide to Patient Rights: Practical Insight on Joint Commission Standards Jean S. Clark, RHIA, CSHA Quick, concise standard explanations for patient rights chapter leaders The Chapter Leader's Guide to Patient Rights breaks down the Joint Commission's patient rights requirements into easy to understand solutions to meet the challenges of these complex standards. You get simplified explanations of the chapter's key components along with communication techniques to help foster a strong and successful partnership between survey coordinator and chapter leader. Plus, to make staff training easy, this guide includes a downloadable PowerPoint(R) presentation highlighting key compliance takeaways. Also, receive bonus tools which include: Rights and Responsibilities of the Individual and Key Player Outline Rights and Responsibilities of the Individual Tracer Tool Patient Rights Direct Impact Standards List Chapter Captain Checklist Benefits ofThe Chapter Leader's Guide to Patient Rights: Keys to creating a culture of providing patient care, treatment, and services in a way that is collaborative with the individual patient Tips and suggestions for developing and implementing policies for selected elements of performance Guidance on communication techniques to inform patients of their individual rights and responsibilities Tools for proper delegation of roles and responsibilities to appropriate staff A responsibility checklist for chapter leaders to ensure compliance with patient rights standards What's inside: Interpretation of the newly revised Joint Commission patient-centered communication standard Simplified explanation of the requirements under the patient rights chapter Strategies to help patients participate in their own care decisions Description of informed consent, who participates and how to gain it from patients in a compliant way Easy-to-implement services your organization can provide for patients to inform them of their rights Table of Contents Part I: Patient Rights in the Organization The Rights and Responsibilities of the Individual How Does this Chapter Affect the Organization as a Whole? What is Its Impact on Leadership and Administration? Who Owns the Requirements of this Chapter? Part II: Communication and Impact of Patient Rights Getting Organized Duties of the Chapter Captain Communication to Physicians and Staff Communication to Patients The Impact of this Chapter Part III: Implementing Patient Rights Designing and Implementing Policies The Patient Handbook The Medical Staff Other Caregivers, Nurses, and Staff The Board and Senior Leadership Tracers and Chart Reviews Impact on Patient Care Who will benefit? CPHQ, CSHA, accreditation coordinators, accreditation specialists, survey coordinators, Joint Commission survey coordinators Earn Continuing Education Credits National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) This activity is pending approval by the National Association of Healthcare Quality for CE credits.

Chapter Leader's Guide to Patient Rights

Author : Jean S. Clark
Publisher : Hcpro Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781615690220
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Chapter Leader's Guide to Patient Rights written by Jean S. Clark and published by Hcpro Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rights of Patients

Author : George J. Annas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146120397X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book The Rights of Patients written by George J. Annas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Annas, America's leading proponent of patient rights, spells them out for you in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic. Thorough, comprehensive, and easy to follow-using a question-and-answer format in much of the text-The Rights of Patients explores all aspects of becoming an informed patient: • hospital organization • hospital rules • emergency treatment • admission and discharge • the patient rights movement • informed consent • surgery • obstetrical care • human experimentation and research • privacy and confidentiality • care of the dying • death, autopsy, and organ donation • medical malpractice.

Manual of Healthcare Leadership - Essential Strategies for Physician and Administrative Leaders

Author : Donald Lombardi
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071794859
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Manual of Healthcare Leadership - Essential Strategies for Physician and Administrative Leaders written by Donald Lombardi and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How physician executives and managers can become outstanding leaders in times of rapid change Written by authors who have more than sixty years of combined experience in healthcare, physician, and organizational leadership, this groundbreaking book is an innovative blueprint for overcoming the complex changes and challenges faced by leaders in today's healthcare environment. Rather than being a theoretic work, The Manual of Healthcare Leadership is intended to be a relevant, practical, and real-world guide that addresses the myriad organizational, regulatory, budgetary, legal, staffing, educational, political, and social issues facing leaders in the healthcare industry. One of the primary goals of this book is to enable readers to maximize the performance of each staff member in the interest of collectively providing peerless healthcare to their service community. The strategies offered throughout the text include the "why, what, and how" necessary to solve specific problems and challenges encountered by healthcare managers and leaders. Instruction is provided not only with text, but with diagrams and other resources specifically designed to demonstrate sequential thinking and the progressive application of solutions. With this book in hand, healthcare leaders will be able to confidently select, train, guide, and assess their staff. They will also be able to negotiate, plan, resolve problems, manage change and crisis, and handle the thousand and one other challenges that come their way on a daily basis.

Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes

Author : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 1587634333
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes written by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.

The Rights of Hospital Patients

Author : George J. Annas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rights of Hospital Patients written by George J. Annas and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Responsibility in Health Care

Author : G.J. Agich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400978316
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Responsibility in Health Care written by G.J. Agich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine is a complex social institution which includes biomedical research, clinical practice, and the administration and organization of health care delivery. As such, it is amenable to analysis from a number of disciplines and directions. The present volume is composed of revised papers on the theme of "Responsibility in Health Care" presented at the Eleventh Trans Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, which was held in Springfield, illinois on March 16-18, 1981. The collective focus of these essays is the clinical practice of medicine and the themes and issues related to questions of responsibility in that setting. Responsibility has three related dimensions which make it a suitable theme for an inquiry into clinical medicine: (a) an external dimension in legal and political analysis in which the State imposes penalties on individuals and groups and in which officials and governments are held accountable for policies; (b) an internal dimension in moral and ethical analysis in which individuals take into account the consequences of their actions and the criteria which bear upon their choices; and (c) a comprehensive dimension in social and cultural analysis in which values are ordered in the structure of a civilization ([8], p. 5). The title "Responsibility in Health Care" thus signifies a broad inquiry not only into the ethics of individual character and actions, but the moral foundations of the cultural, legal, political, and social context of health care generally.

Achieving Person-Centred Health Systems

Author : Ellen Nolte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108803725
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Achieving Person-Centred Health Systems written by Ellen Nolte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of person-centred health systems is widely advocated in political and policy declarations to better address health system challenges. A person-centred approach is advocated on political, ethical and instrumental grounds and believed to benefit service users, health professionals and the health system more broadly. However, there is continuing debate about the strategies that are available and effective to promote and implement 'person-centred' approaches. This book brings together the world's leading experts in the field to present the evidence base and analyse current challenges and issues. It examines 'person-centredness' from the different roles people take in health systems, as individual service users, care managers, taxpayers or active citizens. The evidence presented will not only provide invaluable policy advice to practitioners and policymakers working on the design and implementation of person-centred health systems but will also be an excellent resource for academics and graduate students researching health systems in Europe. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Crossing the Quality Chasm

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309132967
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.

Making Healthcare Safe

Author : Lucian L. Leape
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030711234
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Making Healthcare Safe written by Lucian L. Leape and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.

Your Rights as a Hospital Patient

Author : Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.). Boston Chapter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (489 download)

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To Err Is Human

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309068371
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book To Err Is Human written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine

The Rights of Patients

Author : George J. Annas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780809325153
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book The Rights of Patients written by George J. Annas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative ACLU guide to patient rights in a completely revised edition Now in its third edition, The Rights of Patients has long been considered the definitive guide to understanding the legal and ethical issues patients face in our often mismanaged healthcare system. Offering fully documented exposition and explanation of the rights of patients from birth to death, this concise reference covers topics such as informed consent, emergency treatment, refusing treatment, human experimentation, privacy and confidentiality, patient safety, and medical malpractice. George J. Annas’s fully revised and updated edition also offers specific advice to individuals on serving as patient advocates for friends and family members and focuses on helping patients and their advocates preserve their human rights, as well as their independence and dignity, while undergoing medical care. The volume is an invaluable resource not only for patients and their families, but also for physicians, hospital administrators, medical and nursing students, and other healthcare workers. Among the helpful appendixes Annas includes are a discussion of internet resources and a pregnant patient’s bill of rights.

Study Guide for Today's Medical Assistant - E-Book

Author : Kathy Bonewit-West
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323291791
Total Pages : 1329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Study Guide for Today's Medical Assistant - E-Book written by Kathy Bonewit-West and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 1329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use this study tool to master the content from your Today's Medical Assistant: Clinical & Administrative Procedures, 2nd Edition textbook! Corresponding to the chapters in the textbook by Kathy Bonewit-West, Sue Hunt, and Edith Applegate, this study guide helps you understand and apply the material with practical exercises, activities, flashcards, checklists, review questions, and more. Chapter assignment tables at the beginning of chapters guide you through textbook and study guide assignments, and make it easy to track your progress. Laboratory assignment tables list the procedures in each chapter, including study guide page number references, and indicate the procedures shown on the DVDs. A pretest and posttest in each chapter measure your understanding with 10 true/false questions. Key term assessments include exercises to help in reviewing and mastering new vocabulary. Evaluation of Learning questions let you assess your understanding, evaluate progress, and prepare for the certification examination. Critical thinking activities let you apply your knowledge to real-life situations. Practice for Competency sections offer extra practice on clinical skills presented in the book. Evaluation of Competency checklists evaluate your performance versus stated objectives and updated CAAHEP performance standards. Updated content includes exercises for topics such as electronic medical records, advanced directives, HIPAA, emergency preparedness, ICD-10 coding, documentation, medical office technology, medical asepsis, vital signs, pediatrics, colonoscopy, IV therapy, and CLIA waived tests. New activities provide practice for the Today's Medical Assistant textbook’s newest and most up-to-date content. New Emergency Protective Practices for the Medical Office chapter includes procedures, critical thinking questions, and other activities to help you understand emergency preparedness. New Wheelchair Transfer Procedure and Evaluation of Competency checklist includes a step-by-step guide to this important procedure. New video evaluation worksheets on the Evolve companion website reinforce the procedures demonstrated on the textbook DVDs. New practicum and externship activities on Evolve provide practice with real-world scenarios.

Pediatric Nursing Exam Prep Study Guide

Author : Springer Publishing Company
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 082616627X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Pediatric Nursing Exam Prep Study Guide written by Springer Publishing Company and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pediatric Nursing Exam Prep Study Guide gets right to the point with a targeted content based on the latest PNCB and ANCC exam blueprints. This easy-to-follow guide includes all the tools you need to prepare, practice, and pass the exam—and nothing you don't. PREPARE Concise coverage of the content you'll be tested on. Quick-reference features with complications, alerts, and nursing pearls. Need-to-know information to prepare you for exam day. PRACTICE Two full-length practice tests—one in book and one online—to assess your readiness and simulate the test-taking experience. Detailed rationales for correct and incorrect answers. Pop quizzes that highlight key information you don't want to miss. PASS The first time with Springer Publishing Exam Prep's 100% Pass Guarantee. With confidence, knowing you're well-prepared with all the skills and knowledge you need on exam day and in practice. With pride in your commitment to patient health and safety. CPN is a registered service mark of Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB®). PNCB® does not sponsor or endorse this resource, nor does it have a proprietary relationship with Springer Publishing. PED-BC™ is a registered trademark of American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). ANCC does not sponsor or endorse this resource, nor does it have a proprietary relationship with Springer Publishing.

The Complete Guide to the 1999 Hospital Survey Process

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780866886109
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (861 download)

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Hospital and Healthcare Security

Author : Tony W York
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0080886027
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Hospital and Healthcare Security written by Tony W York and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital and Healthcare Security, Fifth Edition, examines the issues inherent to healthcare and hospital security, including licensing, regulatory requirements, litigation, and accreditation standards. Building on the solid foundation laid down in the first four editions, the book looks at the changes that have occurred in healthcare security since the last edition was published in 2001. It consists of 25 chapters and presents examples from Canada, the UK, and the United States. It first provides an overview of the healthcare environment, including categories of healthcare, types of hospitals, the nonhospital side of healthcare, and the different stakeholders. It then describes basic healthcare security risks/vulnerabilities and offers tips on security management planning. The book also discusses security department organization and staffing, management and supervision of the security force, training of security personnel, security force deployment and patrol activities, employee involvement and awareness of security issues, implementation of physical security safeguards, parking control and security, and emergency preparedness. Healthcare security practitioners and hospital administrators will find this book invaluable. Practical support for healthcare security professionals, including operationally proven policies, and procedures Specific assistance in preparing plans and materials tailored to healthcare security programs Summary tables and sample forms bring together key data, facilitating ROI discussions with administrators and other departments General principles clearly laid out so readers can apply the industry standards most appropriate to their own environment NEW TO THIS EDITION: Quick-start section for hospital administrators who need an overview of security issues and best practices