An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Springer Pub. c2003
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 351 p.)
ISBN:0826121942
0826121950
9780826121950

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