An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care
By: Eugenia L. Siegler, Saeid Mirafzali, Janice B. Foust, editors.
Contributors: Siegler, Eugenia L.; Mirafzali, Saeid.; Foust, Janice B.
Publisher: Springer Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Hospitals -- Administration; Hospital care; Hospital patients -- Services for; Hospital Administration; Ethics, Institutional; Inpatients; Patient Care; Quality Assurance, Health Care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Hospitals: from stand-alone to networks and systems; title: Ch. 2. Paying for hospital care; title: Ch. 3. Working in teams; title: Ch. 4. Nurses and nursing care; title: Ch. 5. Training physicians in the hospital; title: 6. Physician assistants and nurse practitioners; title: Ch. 7. Medical informatics; title: Ch. 8. Hospitalization can be dangerous; title: Ch. 9. Preventing functional decline; title: Ch. 10. Choosing alternatives to restraints; title: Ch. 11. Deciding about diets; title: Ch. 12. Wound care; title: Ch. 13. The delirious patient; title: Ch. 14. Isolation; title: Ch. 15. Care management and case management; title: Ch. 16. Hospitalists; title: Ch. 17. Easing the transition between nursing home and hospital; title: Ch. 18. Discharge planning; title: Ch. 19. Maintaining the patient's health in the community; title: Ch. 20. Families: roles, needs, and expectations; title: Ch. 21. Providing culturally competent care; title: Ch. 22. Ethics committees and case consultation; title: Ch. 23. The patient as research participant; title: Ch. 24. End-of-life care planning; title: Ch. 25. Preventing errors; title: Ch. 26. Risk management; title: Ch. 27. The role of outcomes research; title: Ch. 28. Creating quality improvement projects.