The main purpose of this book is to provide clear, straightforward information about the key requirements relating to health and safety in dental practices, with a practical and user-friendly approach to help manage these issues on a day-to-day basis. It assists practice managers, dentists, dental nurses and other team members in making health and safety 'second nature' by integrating it into their usual routine - thereby preventing accidents, addressing unacceptable working practices, and...

The perfect guide for managers to help with employee absence. Contains hundreds of helpful tips to bring your absence rate down this book sets out the authors own tried and tested methods. Learn how to: Manage the absence process from the first instance of sickness: Hold high impact return-to-work meetings: Deal with the doctor dilemma and get useful medical information: Tackle the employees that 'go to ground': Handle complaints of stress effectively: Carry out 'the headmistre...

By one estimate, the U.S. wastes $480 billion annually on healthcare expenditures that don’t improve care. Worse, because of faulty systems – not personnel – up to 98,000 people die every year due to preventable medical errors – and that doesn’t count non-terminal events such as hospital-acquired infections. In Hospital Operations, two leading operations management experts and four senior physicians demonstrate how to apply new OM advances to substantially improve any hospital’s o...

This much-needed text offers an authoritative introduction to strategic marketing in health care and presents a wealth of ideas for gaining the competitive edge in the health care arena. Step by step the authors show how real companies build and implement effective strategies. It includes marketing approaches through a wide range of perspectives: hospitals, physician practices, social marketing, international health, managed care, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. With Strategic Mark...

The scope of occupational health nursing practice has expanded and taken on a variety of roles, giving rise to opportunities for nurses to care for workers in various workplace settings. Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing provides a highly practical and accessible guide for nurses entering or already engaged in this important field.The text begins with the foundations for occupational health practice, covering the domain of occupational health and the role of the m...

This book gives a rounded understanding of the complexities of staffing and care delivery without focusing on a narrow view of traditional staffing. This books provides easy to understand examples to obtain quality outcomes, staff satisfaction, and patient satisfaction and safety.

Are you complying with health and safety regulations in the workplace?Making mistakes in many areas of health and safety can be both incredibly dangerous and hugely costly. So what can you do to avoid hazards and expensive, time-consuming legal battles? That's where Health & Safety at Work For Dummies comes in. Cutting through the clutter, it provides you with the practical, must-know information you need to ensure your workplace is a suitably safe environ...

There are more than 100 areas of specialization in Nursing. Interestingly, this was a discovery for me even as a Registered Nurse. Each area is so unique and gives a sense of fulfillment as the individual continues to grow and develop in the career. A lot of time when a nurse is seen, the first thing that comes to mind is the hospital rooms and patients bedside. As much as this is true and remarkable, there are more than 100 other ways to be a nurse and love it. Examples are Flight Nurse, ...

This new edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concentrates more on the newer kinds of occupational disease including those (like “RSI” and pesticide poisoning) where exposure and effects are difficult to understand. There is specific emphasis on work, health and wellbeing, with links to public health, health promotion, the value of work, disabled people at work, the aging workforce, vocational rehabilitation, evidence based practice, and further chapters on the healt...

This digital offering reflects the revised and updated study guide based on the same format as the actual exam and provides an easy-to-use, effective way to review essential concepts and practice test-taking skills. Toggling between the revised sixth edition of Nursing Home Administration and the test questions, the reader will learn correct and incorrect answers, and their rationales as they appear in the textbook. This digital guide covers the latest changes in the domains of pr...

The Health at Work Guide is a practical and easy to read guide that covers all you need to know about health at work including managing absence, health surveillance, stress, mental ill health and wellness. It de-mystifies the term “occupational health” and common perceptions about ill health and absence. Although written primarily for the UK, the principles and behaviours discussed within it are universal so regardless of whether you have no access to occupational health care at all or wo...

Studying for exams, working in teams, writing detailed yet succinct reports and importantly time management aren’t second nature to most, so this book provides clear guidance and will be an essential tool for anyone taking a health and safety course.For many students the learning experience will be a return to studying after some considerable time so this book combines practical advice with helpful exam-related information.Case studies and activities based on key heal...