Author: Nelson A Paguyo MD
Publisher: Vantage Press
Keywords: healthcare, solution, comprehensive, crisis, americans, usa
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0533156203
ISBN-13: 9780533156207

Author: J. Michael Rona Consulting Group LLC
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: healthcare, series, lean, tools
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2009-12-23
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1439803501
ISBN-13: 9781439803509

While there are a growing number of books based on the Toyota Production System, or lean, focused on healthcare, there are very few that detail the tools that make lean more than just a way of thinking and put the methodology into practice. Based on Hiroyuki Hirano’s classic 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace and modeled after the Shingo Prize-winning Shopfloor Series for Lean Manufacturers, 5S for Healthcare adopts a proven reader-friendly format to impart all the information needed to understand and implement this essential lean methodology. It provides examples and cased studies bas

Authors:Søren Bisgaard, editor,
Publisher: ASQ Quality Pre
Keywords: healthcare, lean, six, sigma, examples, cases, quality, crisis, solutions
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0873897692
ISBN-13: 9780873897693

Healthcare around the world is in crisis as a result of complex structural and strategic problems that will require solutions at a very high level. This book demonstrates that effective solutions based on modern quality management principles can be applied to alleviate many problems locally within healthcare institutions. It is designed to support doctors, nurses, technicians, and administrators who are interested in applying quality management principles and the tools of Lean Six Sigma to improve healthcare within their own institutions. The book should also be of interest to politicians, pol

Authors:Kenneth H. Cohn, Douglas E. Hough,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: healthcare, praeger, perspectives, organizations, leading, volume, business
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0275992373
ISBN-13: 9780275992378

Authors:Christine Sorrell Dinkins, Jeanne Merkle Sorrell,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: healthcare, interpretive, studies, ethics, whispers, thinking, listening
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0299216543
ISBN-13: 9780299216542

Listening to the Whispers gives voice to scholars in philosophy, medical anthropology, physical therapy, and nursing, helping readers re-think ethics across the disciplines in the context of today’s healthcare system. Diverse voices, often unheard, challenge readers to enlarge the circle of their ethical concerns and look for hidden pathways toward new understandings of ethics. Essays range from a focus on the context of corporatization and managed care environments to a call for questioning the fundamental values of society as these values silently affect many others in healthcare. Each

Author: Thomas Zidel
Publisher: ASQ Quality Press
Keywords: healthcare, lean, offices, clinics, organizations, medical, principles, guide, transforming, implement, hospitals
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $75.60
ISBN-10: 0873897013
ISBN-13: 9780873897013

This book is an implementation manual for lean tools and principles in a healthcare environment. Lean is a growth strategy, a survival strategy, and an improvement strategy. The goal of lean is, first and foremost, to provide value to the patient/customer, and in so doing eliminate the delays, overcrowding, and frustration associated with the existing care delivery system. Lean creates a better working environment where what is supposed to happen does happen. On time, every time. It allows clinicians to spend more of their time caring for patients and improves the quality of care these patient

Author: Rani Srivastava RN MScN
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: healthcare, professional, competence, guides, clinical, guide, cultural
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-10-17
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0779699602
ISBN-13: 9780779699605

With a focus on client-centred care, this book provides an introduction to developing cultural competence in the health care setting. A unique presentation covering both theory and practice, the book begins with a strong foundational model for understanding culture. It then introduces general knowledge on culture which can be provided to a variety of settings, and ends with clinical applications illustrating how to apply knowledge and awareness to a variety of populations. With contributions from twelve leading experts, material is drawn from a wide range of health care settings and has str