Healthcare Systems Books
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Glossary Of Healthcare Terms For Environmental Services
This handy reference tool is a must have item whether you are new or a veteran in the health care field. Hundreds of terms and definitions organized alphabetically, both general and specific to environmental services, housekeeping, and textile care are included in this updated easy-to –use ...
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Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare is one of the industries with the highest injury rates. This long overdue second edition of William Charney’s seminal work covers exposure paradigms and offers solutions and models of protection. Extensively updated, the new edition includes new information on technology to protect healthcare workers, discussions of threats in the form of ...
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Patient Safety: The PROACT Root Cause Analysis Approach
As Medicare, Medicaid, and major insurance companies increasingly deny payment for “never events”, it has become imperative that hospitals and doctors develop new ways to prevent these avoidable catastrophes from recurring. Proactive tools such as root cause analysis (RCA), basic failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and opportunity analysis (OA) are useful in preventing error, but in the ...
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
While an ever-present and familiar toxin, carbon monoxide (CO) remains the number one poison in our environment. This silent killer is responsible for over 2,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. The public and healthcare communities need quality information about the many risks presented by carbon monoxide exposure. Edited by a leading expert in the field, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning ...
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ASTM Standards on Sterilization of Health Care Products (Basic Version)
Provides guidance on the application of dose measurement during all stages of the sterilization process.This new ASTM online collection gives you instant access to 14 ASTM standards related to ISO 11137 Sterilization of Health Care ProductsRequirements for Validation and Routine Control-Radiation Sterilization. These standards are updated throughout the year giving you the latest ...
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ASTM Standards on Sterilization of Health Care Products (Plus Version)
Provides guidance on the application of dose measurement during all stages of the sterilization process.This new ASTM online collection gives you instant access to 14 ASTM standards related to ISO 11137 Sterilization of Health Care ProductsRequirements for Validation and Routine Control-Radiation Sterilization. These standards are updated throughout the year giving you the latest ...
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Back Injury Among Healthcare Workers: Causes, Solutions, and Impacts
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently calculated nearly 60,000 musculoskeletal injuries to healthcare workers resulting from heavy lifting during attempts to move patients. Often the nurses, aides, orderlies, and attendants who suffered permanent injuries were forced out of the profession, straining an already inadequate pool of workers and wasting valuable knowledge and ...
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Safety Meetings for Health Care Workers
• Training your health care staff on the subject of safety has never been easier or more economical. With this comprehensive safety program, you get the materials to run an effective safety meeting on over 40 topics. • We provide everything you need to run a complete safety meeting. • No need to research topics, gather materials, or monitor new regs surrounding safety and health care … ...
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Consumer and Healthcare Packaging Standards - Print version
AVAILABLE IN PRINT or CD-ROM! This volume contains 85 of the latest standards on consumer and healthcare packaging. Standards cover: Flammability of Aerosol Products Water Vapor Transmission of Flexible Heat-Sealed Packages for Dry Products Minimum Application Torque of Type IA Child-Resistant Closures User Applied Drug Labels in ...
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Consumer and Healthcare Packaging Standards -CD-ROM
AVAILABLE IN PRINT or CD-ROM! This volume contains 85 of the latest standards on consumer and healthcare packaging. Standards cover: Flammability of Aerosol Products Water Vapor Transmission of Flexible Heat-Sealed Packages for Dry Products Minimum Application Torque of Type IA Child-Resistant Closures User Applied Drug Labels in ...
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Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition
Written by world-renowned health and safety researcher E. Scott Geller, Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition presents science-based and practical approaches to improving attitudes and behavior for achieving an injury-free work environment. This book teaches proactive applications of behavior-based psychology for improving health and safety. Relevant ...
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Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition
Written by world-renowned health and safety researcher E. Scott Geller, Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition presents science-based and practical approaches to improving attitudes and behavior for achieving an injury-free work environment. This book teaches proactive applications of behavior-based psychology for improving health and safety. Relevant ...
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Waste Management: Types of Waste Streams in Healthcare Facilities (pkg of 5)
The Continuing Education Series is ideal for environmental service technicians to improve their understanding of the industry and increase their marketability. This publication deals with learning how to identify various forms of waste and how to dispose of ...
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OSHA Compliance Management: A Guide For Long-Term Health Care Facilities
Designed specifically for the needs, preferences, and styles distinct to long-term care this OSHA Compliance Management: A Guide for Long-Term Health Care Facilities serves as an excellent working reference. It focuses on priorities and provides you with the background and tools vital to achieving OSHA compliance and inspection ...
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The Practical Application Of Disinfections And Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities
This comprehensive, easy-to-reference book takes the guesswork out of choosing and using disinfection and sterilization products. The guide includes more than 300 pages of useful information, presented in nontechnical language for the management professional. It provides an understanding of when, where, and how disinfection and sterilization should occur, as well as EPA registered chemicals ...
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Health Care Interior Finishes Problems And Solutions
This essential reference manual provides basic informaiton pluscritical insights you need to create and maintain an interior that is attractive, friendly and ...
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Staffing The Department-Key Considerations & Options
Staffing the Environmental Services Department in a health care setting has always presented a challenge. Today's labor environment multiplies these issues, plus new ones. Training entry-level workers, many of whom have not had the advantage of previous formal education about health care, about infection control, use and safety of cleaning chemicals, or many other intimidating components ...
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An Ounce Of Prevention: Waste Reduction Strategies For Healthcare Facilities
This book will illustrate a basic, but comprehensive, approach to implementing waste reduction and recycling strategies in health care facilities. Definitions will be given to terms in waste management world. Learn how to cut costs, improve productivity and understand the waste management ...
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Medical Devices: Measurements, Quality Assurance and Standards
This publication provides physicians, scientists, and members of industry and government with a comprehensive overview of the role and impact of medical standards and measurements on health care. The insights, discussions, and recommendations presented in this text are representative of many individuals' contributions. However, coordination of this endeavor is due to joint participation by ...
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Current Trends in Database Technology - EDBT 2006
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of nine workshops held as part of the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2006, held in Munich, Germany in March 2006. The 70 revised full papers presented were selected from numerous submissions during two rounds of reviewing and revision. In accordance with the topical focus of the respective ...
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