The current research and evaluation of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people demonstrates the increased demand for efficiency, accompanied by solid accountability in a time of extremely limited resources. This environment requires proficiency in working with these vulnerable populations in diverse cross-cultural settings. This timely publication is the first of its kind to provide this information to help researchers meet their demands. The authors have a very solid and comprehensive understanding of work in this setting. With decades of expertise working as researchers in AIAN communities, the authors have applied their knowledge by selecting key issues for discussion and examining the way in which these topics are applied to the AIAN community in a forthright manner. This book provides an overview of complex themes as well as a synopsis of essential concepts or techniques in working with Native American tribes and Alaska Native communities. Conducting Health Research with Native American Communities will benefit Native people and organizations as well as researchers, students and practitioners.

Conducting Health Research With Native American Communities

Politics & Social Sciences

PHD.

Teshia G. Arambula Solomon

Leslie L. Randall

Social Sciences

Amer Public Health Assn

The Senior Solution: A Family Guide to Keeping Seniors Home For Life!

Valerie VanBooven-Whitsell RN

PGCM

Health, Fitness & Dieting

LTC Expert Publications, LLC

Chronic heart failure is a complex condition that causes the body to deteriorate. When a person is diagnosed with the problem, it’s essential that they learn to pay closer attention to their health and make necessary changes to ensure a better quality of life. They can’t do it alone, though, so the caregiver’s guidance and support is crucial to the patient’s ability to follow through with the doctor’s treatment plan. The Comfort of Home for Chronic Heart Failure helps family members and professional caregivers provide the best at-home care possible. It offers an overview of the condition and its treatments and therapies, and then guides the caregiver through essential topics such as understanding the treatment plan, setting up the home for optimal ease and mobility, equipment, diet and nutrition, moving or positioning the patient, daily activities, and end-of-life care. A chapter on caregiver burnout contains tips and coping strategies to prevent this all-too common condition.

The Comfort of Home for Chronic Heart Failure: A Guide for Caregivers

Paula Derr

Maria M. Meyer

LISW)

Kay Kendall MSW

Jennifer Reese

Diseases & Physical Ailments

CareTrust Publications

Do you struggle trying to identify dermatologic conditions? Are you looking for an easy-to-use handbook with photos? What's Your Assessment? answers your skin-related questions! This collection of dermatology cases with color photos is designed to help you enhance your visual diagnostic skills and advance your patient care. What's Your Assessment? is ideal for nurses and other health care professionals at all levels of practice. What's Your Assessment? features: More than 60 real-life case studies. Four-color photos with each case. A variety of common and complex diagnoses. Patient education information. An easy, hand-held format for quick reference. A complete index of correct and differential diagnoses. Each What's Your Assessment? case includes history, description of skin lesions, differential diagnoses, nursing measures, and patient education. This 130-page book is indexed for easy reference. Apply your new knowledge directly to your practice!

What's Your Assessment?

Medical Books

Barbara Bielan

Medicine

JANNETTI PUBLICATIONS, INC.

Theft of controlled substances at hospitals has always been a problem of paramount importance, but even with increased security measures, it still occurs. Drug Diversion Prevention in Healthcare discusses the issue of drug diversion in detail and demonstrates the components of a solid prevention plan. Loaded with tools and checklists, this book is designed to help hospital security officials create awareness of the drug diversion problem. You will learn how to design a program to keep staff accountable for drug administrations, as well as audits that monitor drug distribution from delivery to patient administration.
This resource will help you: 
<li>Establish an effective drug diversion prevention plan among hospital staff</li> <li>Understand the fundamental issues of drug diversion</li> <li>Create awareness among staff using tools and checklists</li> <li>Learn to recognize suspected diverters and mitigate problem areas in your hospital</li> <li>Effectively confront and deal with diverters in your facility </li>

Drug Diversion Prevention in Healthcare

HCPRO

Kimberly New

HCPro

Get 25 copies for only $75!  This handbook training guide helps nursing staff understand why some patients and family members become difficult and shows staff how to deal with them. Case studies describe situations that could occur at any time. Nurses learn strategies to improve communication and customer service skills, de-escalate patient and family anger, and make use of alternatives to traditional restraints. This handbook, sold here in packages of 25, is part of the Handling Difficult Patients: Management Tools for Staff Preparedness training package.

Handling Difficult Patients: A Guide for Staff

Richard A. Bryan

(Reviewer)

Linda Childers (Reviewer)

Nursing

HCPro, Inc.

You're only six steps away from building a culture of accountability! 
An accountable staff is an empowered staff. Clinical Accountability in Long-Term Care: Six Strategies to Build a Culture of Commitment will teach directors of nursing, charge nurses, and staff educators proven strategies to empower staff members to take more ownership and responsibility in their jobs. Quantifying an intangible concept such as accountability can be difficult, but the author reveals the successful six-step plan that she uses with her own staff to achieve measurable results. This manual provides helpful tools to set expectations for behavior and standards of practice. A key training resource for both new and experienced managers, it is perfect for directors, administrators, managers, and staff educators. Clinical Accountability in Long-Term Care will help you: <ul>
<li>Set expectations to hold staff accountable in a variety of situations</li> <li> Practice accountability individually and within multidisciplinary work relationships</li> <li> Use active listening and assertive speaking</li> <li> Recognize and change noncommitments to commitments</li> <li> Differentiate between the terms "responsibility" and "accountability"</li> <li> Assess the level of accountability of managers and supervisors </li> </ul> Take a look at the Table of Contents <ul>
<li>
Chapter 1: What Is Accountability? <ul>
<li>Difference Between Accountability And Responsibility </li> <li>Accountability and Organizational Roles </li> <li>Designing Organizational Roles and Culture </li> <li>Interpersonal Interactions in an Accountability Culture </li> </ul>
</li> <li>
Chapter 2: Accountability Tools <ul>
<li>Everything You Need to Hold Yourself and Others Accountable </li> <li>Six Accountability Language Tools </li> <li>The Power of Accountability Language </li> <li>Develop a New Habit and Track Your Progress </li> </ul>
</li> <li>
Chapter 3: Personal Accountability <ul>
<li>Identifying Your Personal Level of Accountability </li> <li>Tell Your Accountability Story </li> <li>Your Communication Style </li> <li>Personal Accountability Situations </li> </ul>
</li> <li>
Chapter 4: Holding Staff Members Accountable <ul>
<li>Defining Accountability and Expectations for Your Staff </li> <li>Engaging in Effective Conversations </li> <li>Facilitating Effective Meetings </li> <li>Professional Staff Development </li> <li>Promoting Intolerance </li> </ul>
</li> <li>
Chapter 5: Holding Peers Accountable <ul>
<li>Accountability Conversations with Peers </li> <li>The Power of Public Accountability </li> </ul>
</li> <li>
Chapter 6: Seeking Accountability from Your Manager <ul>
<li>Managing Up </li> <li>Dealing with Different Types of Managers </li> <li>How It Feels to Be Held Accountable </li> </ul>
</li> <li>
Chapter 7: Physicians and Accountability <ul>
<li>Language Tools </li> <li>Listen to Understand </li> </ul>
</li> <li>
Chapter 8: Promoting Accountability with the A-Team <ul>
<li>Reaching Upward </li> <li>Language Tools </li> </ul>
</li> <li>
Chapter 9: How to Design Spectacular Meetings <ul>
<li>Everything You Need to Know to Lead an Effective Meeting </li> </ul>
</li> <li>Appendix</li> <ul>
<li>Teaching Tools </li> <li>Communication CPR Tool </li> <li>Communication Information </li> <li>Tips for Being a Clear Speaker and an Active Listener </li> <li>Agenda Template for Facilitating Productive Meetings </li> <li>Accountability Quiz </li> <li>Answer key to Accountability Quiz </li> </ul>
</ul>

Clinical Accountability in Long-Term Care: Six Strategies to Build a Culture of Commitment

NEA-BC

Inc.

Eileen L. Dohmann

Updated to reflect changes under the MDS 3.0, CAAs, and CMS Forms 672, 802, and 805, The Long-Term Care State Operations Manual features all the critical information you need to stay compliant with CMS survey regulations. CMS' recent revisions to Appendix PP include clarification and additional changes to the following F-tags: * F274: Revisions to the criteria for what constitutes a significant change * F286: Revisions to the information regarding storage of the MDS * F287: Revisions regarding transmission of data * F301: Updated to reflect MDS 3.0 ADL coding conventions * F309: Updated to include evaluation of whether or not a facility completed a Significant Change in Status Assessment when a resident elected or revoked the hospice benefit * F314: Updated to reflect MDS 3.0 definitions for pressure ulcer stages * F441: Revisions to investigative protocol for infection control regarding standard precautions for routine testing of blood glucose * F495, F496, and F497: Revisions regarding nurse aide training mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010. Now training must include initial and annual dementia management and patient abuse prevention training for all nurse aides. In addition to updating the references to reflect the MDS 3.0 and CAAs, Appendix PP also contains the revised CMS Forms 672, 802, and 805. No need to sift through CMS' massive online documents, waiting for files to download. This manual puts the information at your fingertips and provides convenient, direct access to download CMS' revised forms online. The Long-Term Care State Operations Manual provides word-for-word CMS regulatory guidance and forms on virtually every aspect of a nursing home's annual state survey. With this manual you will be able to: * Stay compliant with complete access to all recent F-tag revisions * Save time searching and downloading extensive government documents by using word-for-word CMS regulatory guidance and forms on virtually every aspect of a nursing home s annual state survey * Manage risk by understanding the scope and severity for each possible deficiency * Download and use all essential CMS forms to ensure thorough survey preparation In addition to using it for survey preparation, you'll turn to The Long-Term Care State Operations Manual from HCPro for staff training, policy making, risk management, and MDS reimbursement guidance. Save yourself time and hassle with this cost-effective alternative to printing out this 800-page document.

The Long-Term Care State Operations Manual

MULLINS

Ellen J.

CRNAC

Administration & Medicine Economics

With the current nursing shortage, recruiting and retaining the best nurses has implications for all levels of practice and all care delivery settings. Nurse Manager s Guide to Retention and Recruitment is a user-friendly guide for nurse leaders that provides sound theoretical perspectives, evidence-based practices, practical strategies, and tools for achieving the best recruitment, engagement, and retention outcomes for their organization. In addition, this book includes examples gleaned from the authors' collective years of experience and expertise in a complex urban healthcare market with large for-profit, not-for-profit, and public (county, state, and federally funded) healthcare organizations and systems.

Nurse Manager Guide to Retention and Recruitment

FACHE

FAAN

Victoria England

June Marshall

Cole Edmonson

NE-BC

The Joint Commission Mock Tracer Made Simple, 19th Edition, gets your entire team ready for the moment surveyors walk through your front door. The newest version of HCPro s premier survey prep guide breaks down the latest Joint Commission standards in a mock survey checklist format and guides you through practice tracers throughout your organization. These tools help train chapter leaders and committee members to easily delegate the right forms to the right people on their committees. This completely updated edition reflects changes to the Joint Commission standards and National Patient Safety Goals, including the adoption of the 2012 Life Safety Code®. It also comes with a companion PDF that makes it easier for survey coordinators to distribute tools and checklists to the appropriate staff.

The Joint Commission Mock Tracer Made Simple, 19th Edition

RHIA

Jean S. Clark

Heather Forbes

HACP

HC Pro

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