An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care /
An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care /
Eugenia L. Siegler, Saeid Mirafzali, Janice B. Foust, editors.
- New York : Springer Pub., ©2003.
- 1 online resource (xv, 351 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Hospitals: from stand-alone to networks and systems -- Ch. 2. Paying for hospital care -- Ch. 3. Working in teams -- Ch. 4. Nurses and nursing care -- Ch. 5. Training physicians in the hospital -- 6. Physician assistants and nurse practitioners -- Ch. 7. Medical informatics -- Ch. 8. Hospitalization can be dangerous -- Ch. 9. Preventing functional decline -- Ch. 10. Choosing alternatives to restraints -- Ch. 11. Deciding about diets -- Ch. 12. Wound care -- Ch. 13. The delirious patient -- Ch. 14. Isolation -- Ch. 15. Care management and case management -- Ch. 16. Hospitalists -- Ch. 17. Easing the transition between nursing home and hospital -- Ch. 18. Discharge planning -- Ch. 19. Maintaining the patient's health in the community -- Ch. 20. Families: roles, needs, and expectations -- Ch. 21. Providing culturally competent care -- Ch. 22. Ethics committees and case consultation -- Ch. 23. The patient as research participant -- Ch. 24. End-of-life care planning -- Ch. 25. Preventing errors -- Ch. 26. Risk management -- Ch. 27. The role of outcomes research -- Ch. 28. Creating quality improvement projects.
This book offers an overview of key elements of the hospital -- its structure, administration, and its functioning. Students and new clinicians may be so focused on mastering specific clinical skills that they have little time to observe or question the whole process of care. This book looks beyond acute disease to the environment of care, how it works, how it doesn't work, and how it might improve. Issues discussed include understanding and communicating with families, the basics of hospital finance, how dangerous hospitalization can be to the elderly, and how to minimize errors. Medical stud.
9780826121950 0826121950 9780826121943 0826121942
Hospitals--Administration.
Hospital care.
Hospital patients--Services for.
Hospital patients.
Medical care.
Medical care--Quality control.
Hospitals--Business management.
Hospital Administration
Ethics, Institutional
Inpatients
Patient Care
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Hospitalization
Hôpitaux--Administration.
Soins hospitaliers.
Hospitalisés--Services.
Hospitalisés.
Soins médicaux.
Soins médicaux--Qualité--Contrôle.
MEDICAL--Hospital Administration & Care.
Medical care--Quality control.
Medical care.
Hospital patients.
Hospital care.
Hospital patients--Services for.
Hospitals--Administration.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RA981.A2 / I5526 2003eb
362.1/1/068
2003 F-730 WX 150 / I613 2003
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Hospitals: from stand-alone to networks and systems -- Ch. 2. Paying for hospital care -- Ch. 3. Working in teams -- Ch. 4. Nurses and nursing care -- Ch. 5. Training physicians in the hospital -- 6. Physician assistants and nurse practitioners -- Ch. 7. Medical informatics -- Ch. 8. Hospitalization can be dangerous -- Ch. 9. Preventing functional decline -- Ch. 10. Choosing alternatives to restraints -- Ch. 11. Deciding about diets -- Ch. 12. Wound care -- Ch. 13. The delirious patient -- Ch. 14. Isolation -- Ch. 15. Care management and case management -- Ch. 16. Hospitalists -- Ch. 17. Easing the transition between nursing home and hospital -- Ch. 18. Discharge planning -- Ch. 19. Maintaining the patient's health in the community -- Ch. 20. Families: roles, needs, and expectations -- Ch. 21. Providing culturally competent care -- Ch. 22. Ethics committees and case consultation -- Ch. 23. The patient as research participant -- Ch. 24. End-of-life care planning -- Ch. 25. Preventing errors -- Ch. 26. Risk management -- Ch. 27. The role of outcomes research -- Ch. 28. Creating quality improvement projects.
This book offers an overview of key elements of the hospital -- its structure, administration, and its functioning. Students and new clinicians may be so focused on mastering specific clinical skills that they have little time to observe or question the whole process of care. This book looks beyond acute disease to the environment of care, how it works, how it doesn't work, and how it might improve. Issues discussed include understanding and communicating with families, the basics of hospital finance, how dangerous hospitalization can be to the elderly, and how to minimize errors. Medical stud.
9780826121950 0826121950 9780826121943 0826121942
Hospitals--Administration.
Hospital care.
Hospital patients--Services for.
Hospital patients.
Medical care.
Medical care--Quality control.
Hospitals--Business management.
Hospital Administration
Ethics, Institutional
Inpatients
Patient Care
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Hospitalization
Hôpitaux--Administration.
Soins hospitaliers.
Hospitalisés--Services.
Hospitalisés.
Soins médicaux.
Soins médicaux--Qualité--Contrôle.
MEDICAL--Hospital Administration & Care.
Medical care--Quality control.
Medical care.
Hospital patients.
Hospital care.
Hospital patients--Services for.
Hospitals--Administration.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RA981.A2 / I5526 2003eb
362.1/1/068
2003 F-730 WX 150 / I613 2003