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An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer Pub.,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.