Healthcare professions

Healthcare organizations worldwide face persistent challenges relating to turnover and intention to leave the nursing profession among registered nurses. Factors contributing to their retention and well-being at work include high job satisfaction, professional competence, and self-efficacy. Few multicenter studies have investigated these factors in relation to work experience in a Nordic context.

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In healthcare, regulation of professions is an important tool to protect the public. With increasing regulation however, professions fnd themselves under increasing scrutiny. Recently there has also been considerable concern with regulator performance, with high profile reports pointing to cases of ineficiency and bias.

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Ebook Health information management technology an applied approach (4th edition): Part 1 includes contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to the HIM profession, chapter 2: purpose and function of the health record, chapter 3: content and structure of the health record, chapter 4: healthcare data sets and standards, chapter 5: clinical vocabularies and classification systems, chapter 6: reimbursement methodologies, chapter 7: health information functions, chapter 8: secondary data sources, chapter 9: healthcare statistics and productivity, chapter 10: clinical quality performance improvement and m...

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Ebook Health information management technology an applied approach (4th edition): Part 2 includes contents: Chapter 11: healthcare delivery systems, chapter 12: ethical issues in health information management, chapter 13: legal issues in health information, chapter 14: fundamentals of electronic information systems, chapter 15: introduction to electronic health information systems, chapter 16: electronic health records, chapter 17: information security, chapter 18: principles of organization and work planning, chapter 19: envisioning the future of the health information management profession.

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There is no consensus on best content, set-up, category of involved healthcare professionals or duration of rehabilitation-programs for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, and outcomes show varying results. Individual care regimes for sub-groups of patients have been proposed.

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Nurses in Africa are arguably the most important frontline healthcare workers available in most healthcare facilities, performing a broad range of tasks. Such tasks are considerably presumed in the causation of workload. Nursing is listed among the highly risky professions for developing low back pain.

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In view of heightened rates of suicide and evidence of poor mental health among healthcare occupational groups, such as veterinarians, doctors, pharmacists and dentists, there has been increasing focus on the students aiming for careers in these fields.

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The transition to a value-based payment system offers pathologists the opportunity to play an increased role in population health by improving outcomes and safety as well as reducing costs. Although laboratory testing itself accounts for a small portion of health-care spending, laboratory data have significant downstream effects in patient management as well as diagnosis. Pathologists currently are heavily engaged in precision medicine, use of laboratory and pathology test results (including autopsy data) to reduce diagnostic errors, and play leading roles in diagnostic management teams.

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Globally, the phenomenon of reality shock is a major contributor to the attrition of healthcare professionals. Reality shock negatively impacts on initial workplace transition, productivity, and ultimately, employee retention, hence it is important to ascertain its causative factors so that measures can be taken to mitigate its effects. Relative to other health professions, the field of radiography has been slow in detailing the occurrence of reality shock, and attrition is a major problem affecting the profession.

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Research has shown that a large portion of healthcare cost is due to medical errors. There are many factors that cause medical errors but one major factor is linked to healthcare professionals who are not adequately trained with the appropriate skills. Virtual environments and simulations are being used to help improve training in many different areas, including the healthcare profession. This paper explores the usage of Second Life in healthcare education and its ability to improve patient safety.

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The document Essentials of Anatomy And Physiology this is your textbook for your first course in human anatomy and physiology, a subject that is both fascinating and rewarding. That you are taking such a course says something about you. You may simply be curious as to how the human body functions or you may have a personal goal of making a contribution in one of the healthcare professions. Whatever your reason, this textbook will help you to be successful in your anatomy and physiology course.

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Working with biomedical electronics in the healthcare environment is an exciting and rewarding career. Our goal is to bring that career challenge to the student with mechanical and critical thinking abilities in addition to a compassion for those suffering from medical maladies. And, given that healthcare is evolving into a technological monolith, the available technology is changing the ways doctors and nurses treat their patients. Maintaining and repairing medical devices is distinctly correlated to the healthcare profession itself.

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The pharmacy profession and the role of pharmacists in the modern healthcare systems have evolved quite rapidly over the last couple of decades. The services that pharmacists provide are expanding with the introduction of supplementary prescribing, provision of health checks, patient counselling and many others. The main ethos of pharmacy profession is now as much about keeping people healthy as treating them when they are not well.

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The field of health informatics is taking center stage in the 21st century. As the information age evolves into the knowledge age, the enabling technologies will give us access to the data, information, and knowledge we need, whatever our discipline or field. Within nursing and across the healthcare team, we will look to these enablers to strengthen our ability to act knowledgeably on behalf of — and in concert with — the patient. Although informatics has already changed the way we practice our professions, we will continue our journey of transformation daily....

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This series is directed to Healthcare professionals who are leading the transformation of health care by using information and knowledge. Historically, the series was launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, to offer a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology; still other books in the series focused on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computerbased patient record, electronic health records, and networked Healthcare systems.

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IN THIS DAY and age of professionalism, many careers that years ago didn’t require much expertise now require not only formal training, but also some type of recognized certification. This is particularly true for many healthcare professions, including nursing assistant/nurse aide (NA). Prior to 1987, there were no standards in nursing homes and the quality of care was in question.As the public began to hear horrible stories in the media of the abuse and mistreatment of residents in nursing homes, the government decided to step in and take action.

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When we suffer personally, and when we encounter the suffering of another person, we are confronted with many questions. A taken-forgranted and apparently robust future now jeopardized leaves in its place a hollow of uncertainty and fragility. Painfully unsettling, suffering seems to call forth a natural human proclivity to distance oneself from the specter of vulnerability. Understandably there is a tendency for healthcare professionals to protect ourselves from the ravages of suffering encountered in the lives of the persons we care for.

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This edition of Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions continues the theme of interdisciplinary collaboration in health professions education. The need to capitalize on the contributions of numerous healthcare professionals is increasingly more important in light of the current, complex healthcare system. Education has a knowledge base that crosses over disciplinary lines and is one we need to understand in order to be effective in our work.

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This book is about change in the management of public services – how much of it and what consequences. For over two decades the goal of restructuring welfare provision has been at the heart of UK government policy. Under the Conservatives the focus was on controlling expenditure and re-organising services to make professionals more accountable for resource decisions. In health, education and social care, the objective was to install a system of managed provision heavily influenced by the practices of private firms.

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The purpose of this book is to investigate the medical interactions which occur between a variety of healthcare professionals and women who have experienced domestic violence. This relates specifically to the medical profession as opposed to other professionals who are accessed as part of wider help-seeking activities.

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