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The book will be valuable for clinical staff who want to understand patient safety and make their own unit safer.
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This book introduces the reader to the principles and practice of effective leadership and management in relation to themselves as an individual, a team member and a practitioner with the client.
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Written by one of the leading researchers in First Nations and Inuit Health, this is the only entry-level text to address the current state of knowledge in the field of aboriginal health.The book places aboriginal health in Canada within its historical and philosophical context as it addresses soci…
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Knowledge Translation in Health Care is a practical introduction to knowledge translation for everyone working and learning within health policy and funding agencies, and as researchers, clinicians and trainees. Using everyday examples, it explains how to use research findings to improve health car…
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This book presents the work of clinical health care teams and natural work groups, quality improvement teams, committees, and task forces comprising employees in health care settings. It discusses the importance of collaboration and interactive problem-solving among professionals from diverse disci…
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Leadership theory utilizing the CASTLE principles. CASTLE is an acronym for six attributes: Courage, Authenticity, Service, Truthfulness, Love, and Effectiveness. The successful application of the CASTLE Principles can lead to personal growth and improved organizational performance. This book also …
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The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability are fairly and constructively balanced. The First Edition of Sidney Dekker's Just Culture brought accident accountability and criminalization to a broader audience. It made people question, perhaps for the first t…
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Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underd…
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Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resulted in new roles, decisions, and vulnerabilities whilst practitioners are also faced with new levels of complexity, adaptation, and cons…
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Health and Social Justice provides a theoretical framework for health ethics, public policy and law in which Dr Ruger introduces the health capability paradigm, an innovative and unique approach which considers the capability of health as a moral imperative. This book is the culmination of more tha…
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Deals with adolescent medicine. This guide is suitable for health care facilities that treat adolescents. Recommended by the American College of Physicians for their internal medicine library, it includes chapters that cover psychosomatic illness and complementary medicine. It can also be used for …
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Nursing programs everywhere are looking to evidence-based practice (EBP) with renewed enthusiasm. This is often sparked by an effort to elevate clinical quality and improve outcomes, but nursing programs also turn to EBPs as a way to reinvigorate the practice environment. EBP de-emphasizes ritual o…
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Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociolog…
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The book is divided into four sections: an overview of the mental health of indigenous peoples; origins and representations of social suffering; transformations of identity and community; and traditional healing and mental health services. Cross-cutting themes include: the impact of colonialism, se…
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Helping to promote healing in Aboriginal people with addiction and mental health issues requires specialized knowledge and unique skills. Health, social service and justice workers must first have a grasp of history and the emotional legacy that today's generation of Aboriginal people carry. They m…
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Since its first publication in 1936,Sabiston Textbook of Surgery has been regarded as thepreeminent source fordefinitive guidance in all areas of general surgery. The 20th edition continues the rich tradition of quality that has made this classic text synonymous with the specialty and a part of gen…
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A manual to provide health care professionals with information that will support them in their kowledge, and skill building in providing cuturally competent services to first generation immigrant and refugee women, including; Ante-partum with focus on pregnancy, intra-partum with focus on labour an…
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The health disparities affecting Indigenous peoples in Canada might well be understood as a national epidemic. Although progress has been made in the last decade towards both understanding and ameliorating Indigenous health inequalities, very little research or writing has expanded a social determi…
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The I2I is a how-to guide for driving change using KT activities. It is built around the concept of innovation: products, actions, services or relationships that have the potential to enhance health outcomes. The guide illustrates how to move from innovation to implementation in a thoughtful manner…
This resources explores the 20 best practices for ensuring frontline nurses have the time and interprofessional support they need to practice to the full extent of their training and skills.
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