Résultats pour "Culture and Politics of Health Care Work"

Don't Count Me Out

Rafael Alvarez

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need... Savoir plus

Life Support

Suzanne Gordon

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston--a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse special... Savoir plus

The Challenge to Change

Rebecca Kolins Givan

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness . New initiatives are the order of the day in ... Savoir plus

Safety in Numbers

Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, Tanya Bretherton

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing ... Savoir plus

Curing Medicare

Andy Lazris

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that... Savoir plus

Beyond the Checklist

Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall, Bonnie Blair O'Toole

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an es... Savoir plus

Wounds of War

Suzanne Gordon

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds ... Savoir plus

Nurses on the Move

Mireille Kingma

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• South African nurses care for patients in London, hospitals recruit Filipino nurses to Los Angeles, and Chinese nurses practice their profession in Ir... Savoir plus

The Big Squeeze

Handel E Reynolds

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to sc... Savoir plus

Inside Chronic Pain

Lous Heshusius

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• "With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey. Health professionals can learn how an ... Savoir plus

Where Night Is Day

James Kelly

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• "There is no night in the ICU. There is day, lesser day, then day again. There are rhythms. Every twelve hours: shift change. Report: first all togeth... Savoir plus

Beyond Medicine

Paul V Dutton

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In Beyond Medicine , Paul V. Dutton provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than ... Savoir plus

The Complexities of Care

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• "Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline o... Savoir plus

India and the Patent Wars

Murphy Halliburton

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• India and the Patent War s contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws sh... Savoir plus

Differential Diagnoses

Paul V Dutton

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, whi... Savoir plus

My Imaginary Illness

Chloe Atkins

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• How Patients Think At age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for mo... Savoir plus

The Big Squeeze

Handel E Reynolds

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to sc... Savoir plus

India and the Patent Wars

Murphy Halliburton

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• India and the Patent War s contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws sh... Savoir plus

Healing Together

Thomas A Kochan, Adrienne E Eaton, Robert B McKersie, Paul S Adler

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partn... Savoir plus

First, Do Less Harm

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems... Savoir plus

Achieving Access

Joseph Harris

• Livre broché | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• At a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries m... Savoir plus

The Changing Face of Medicine

Ann K Boulis, Jerry A Jacobs

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among ... Savoir plus

Circles of Exclusion

Dani Filc

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In its early years, Israel's dominant ideology led to public provision of health care for all Jewish citizens-regardless of their age, income, or abil... Savoir plus

Divining without Seeds

Iruka N Okeke

• Livre relié | Anglais | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness and death in Africa, yet health practitioners routinely fail to identify causative microorganis... Savoir plus