Crossing the Quality Chasm: a New Health System for the 21st Century
by Staff, Institute of Medicine, Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, America, Committee on Quality of Health Care in
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Studying health care organizations as complex systems, this book identifies practices impeding quality medical care and recommends principles and systems approaches for implementing change. The book calls on policy makers, health care leaders, clinicians, and regulators to radic…
Providing an overview of leadership theories and a practical guide to management tools and techniques, (this text) is illustrated thoughout with examples drawn from health and social care settings. Key topics covered include: - contemporary models of transformational leadership …
Exploring the need for individuals to engage with personal change through learning as an essential part of achieving significant change in organisations, this text explains how to engage with people's energy, enthusiasm & abilities to enable them to think & do things differently.
Valuable and practical, this handbook is for anyone with management responsibilities in health and social care. It includes case studies with textual commentary, activities, key references and clear explanations of essential management tools.
Valuable and practical, this handbook is for anyone with management responsibilities in health and social care. It includes case studies with textual commentary, activities, key references and clear explanations of essential management tools.
Learn what evidence-based management (EB management) is and how it can focus thinking and clarify the issues surrounding a decision. The book provides a straightforward process for asking the right questions, gathering supporting information from various sources, evaluating the …
Learn what evidence-based management (EB management) is and how it can focus thinking and clarify the issues surrounding a decision. The book provides a straightforward process for asking the right questions, gathering supporting information from various sources, evaluating the …
While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, this text give such appeals defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
The ABC of Practical Procedures is a fully illustrated guide to the core skills and procedures all those at the frontline of care need to know. With over 280 full colour illustrations, every stage of each procedure is illustrated with colour step-by-step photographs as it is bei…
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This exceptional book for nurses and nursing students guides the development of the comprehensive, professional communication skills to prevent errors that result in patient injuries and death. With a patient-safety focus, thorough coverage of communication and extensive, intera…