Medical administration and management

This book highlights the progresses achieved in the role of nurses in the hospital, critical care unit, community field, hospital, and at home for patient care management in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), especially in the South Asia and the Middle East.

Bringing together recent international research in the field of hospital communication and interaction, the contributors to this book contextualize clinical professional work by focussing on the rising intensity of information and communication practices in organizations generally, and in health care in particular.

This book looks at the role nurses play when working with people who have dementia and their relatives.

This trusted textbook for both students and practitioners has sold over 75,000 copies across its four previous editions.

What do social workers need to know in order to practise skilfully and effectively?

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, this key textbook offers an insight on the theory of emotional intelligence and its vital practical value.

This book examines how healthcare organisations shape, adapt and resist developments in healthcare policy and practice.

Worldwide, approximately 500,000 in vitro fertilization cycles are performed every year.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.

Team training has become a tradition in healthcare, where it has helped produce significantly positive results in patient safety.

The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance.

Avedis Donabedian's name is synonymous with quality of medical care.

The ethical aspects of the operation of healthcare organizations (HCOs) are central to the delivery of health care.

Mental Health Informatics offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary issues in mental health that focuses on the innovative use of computers and other information technology in support of patient care, education, services delivery, and research in the field of mental health services.

This book offers health care leaders the necessary tools to both map their current stakeholder relationships and fashion concrete steps to produce greater stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and cooperative competition.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.

The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, their environmental footprint -- pollution, waste production, unsustainable food services -- contributes to harming community health.

The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, their environmental footprint -- pollution, waste production, unsustainable food services -- contributes to harming community health.

Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges.

Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges.

In a rapidly-changing healthcare industry, the American College of Physician Executives affirms: "e;These days, it isn't enough to be a good doctor.

In a rapidly-changing healthcare industry, the American College of Physician Executives affirms: "e;These days, it isn't enough to be a good doctor.

The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance.

No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City.

Structured clinical management (SCM) is a unified approach to the treatment of people with personality disorder, which is within reach of general mental health professionals without extensive additional training.

Structured clinical management (SCM) is a unified approach to the treatment of people with personality disorder, which is within reach of general mental health professionals without extensive additional training.

Screening programmes involve the systematic offer of testing for populations or groups of apparently healthy people to identify individuals who may be at future risk of a particular medical condition or disease, with the aim of offering intervention to reduce their risk.

Screening programmes involve the systematic offer of testing for populations or groups of apparently healthy people to identify individuals who may be at future risk of a particular medical condition or disease, with the aim of offering intervention to reduce their risk.

In order to provide sound, person-centred care, mental health nursing students need a thorough understanding of theory alongside the ability to translate this knowledge into practice.

Electronic health records are widely regarded as the 'connective tissue' of any modern healthcare system.

The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals.

The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals.

Emergencies in Mental Health Nursing is a practical and accessible guide for mental health nurses confronted with emergencies.

Emergencies in Mental Health Nursing is a practical and accessible guide for mental health nurses confronted with emergencies.

The purpose of economic evaluation is to inform decisions intended to improve healthcare.

Over the last thirty years, scholars of health care organizations have been searching for concepts and images to illuminate their underlying, and shifting, modes of organizing.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention.

The field of medical education and training has undergone dramatic changes within the past few years, and continues to evolve.

The rapidly growing developments in medicine and science in the last few decades has evoked a greater need for modern institutions, with modern medicine, advanced technologies, and cutting edge research.

Volunteers have a long been involved in supporting the delivery of palliative care.

Volunteers have a long been involved in supporting the delivery of palliative care.

Electronic health records are widely regarded as the 'connective tissue' of any modern healthcare system.

Fully revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing is the indispensable resource for all those caring for patients with mental health problems.

There are not enough resources in health care systems around the world to fund all technically feasible and potentially beneficial health care interventions.

The Maudsley Handbook of Practical Psychiatry has long served trainees in psychiatry, presenting them with practical and essential advice.

The Maudsley Handbook of Practical Psychiatry has long served trainees in psychiatry, presenting them with practical and essential advice.

Problem-based learning (PBL) has excited interest among educators around the world for several decades.

Clinical Governance is integral to healthcare and all doctors must have an understanding of both basic principles, and how to apply them in daily practice.

Fully revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing is the indispensable resource for all those caring for patients with mental health problems.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention.