A concise and pithy reference guide that gives senior managers and executives powerful, practical and accessible guidance on everything they need to know about change management to get the right results for their business. This book provides senior managers and executives with the powerful, coherent, practical and accessible guidance they need to drive value-adding change in their business. Encompasses what that level of management need to know, with sufficient theory, but primarily concrete guidance on achieving change. Structured in the series format of the Financial Times Briefing series, concise, pithy and to the point, these books offer: Powerful, practical advice to help executives make essential business decisions. A concise and focused overview to give executives the crucial information they need. Special design to help busy business leaders get the knowledge they need, fast.

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A comprehensive and practical guide to investment trusts. These investment vehicles have been underused by investors in the past, but that is set to change now that the Retail Distribution Review has banned commissions and put investment trusts on a level playing field. The book explains what investment trusts are and focuses on how to construct and run a trust portfolio. It offers investors, both experienced and novice, a concise and jargon free guide to these lucrative investment vehicles.

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Holistic overview of mental health for nurses in a practice setting All nurses play an important role in supporting mental health as part of holistic care provision. This book is designed to help students and novice clinicians to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to care for people across a wide range of specialist and non-specialist practice settings. Written by a highly experienced team of mental health nursing experts, the book covers all the common mental health conditions nurses are likely to encounter in practice. It provides essential information on assessing for and identifying people experiencing mental illness as well as how to provide appropriate responses, support and referral, across the numerous contexts in which nurses work. Fully updated and expanded, the sixth edition includes a wealth of lived experience perspectives designed to provide a critical perspective and a way of thinking about the issues more deeply, building empathy and understanding. - High-quality, evidence-based content developed specifically to meet the learning needs of students and novice clinicians in Australia and New Zealand - Describes the foundational principles and core mental health skills required by all nurses - Covers generalist health settings - content is relevant for nursing students across their curriculum - Focuses on mental health not mental illness - an emphasis on recovery-oriented practice, trauma informed-car, and the value of building therapeutic relationships - Articulates and demonstrates the expert knowledge and skills of mental health nurses and includes information on professional self-care for all nurses - Covers how to assess, manage and treat the major mental health problems people commonly experience - Provides scenarios for mental health screening, assessment, referral and support across a range of clinical settings - Key points, anecdotes, critical thinking exercises, tables and references in every chapter support learning - Online resources for nurses in the workplace, including videos and clinical scenarios - Commentaries by experts by Lived Experience in all chapters – understand what's helpful and what's not. New to this edition - New First Peoples chapters from both New Zealand and Australia – how to provide cultural safety - New chapter on preparing for mental health clinical placements - More content on suicide - More content on the impact of trauma, adverse childhood events on mental health and addictions

Awarded second place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Information Technology category. See how information technology intersects with health care! Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, 2nd Edition prepares you for success in today's technology-filled healthcare practice. Concise coverage includes information systems and applications such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, telehealth, ePatients, and social media tools, as well as system implementation. New to this edition are topics including data science and analytics, mHealth, principles of project management, and contract negotiations. Written by expert informatics educators Ramona Nelson and Nancy Staggers, this edition enhances the book that won a 2013 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award! - Experts from a wide range of health disciplines cover the latest on the interprofessional aspects of informatics — a key Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative and a growing specialty area in nursing. - Case studies encourage higher-level thinking about how concepts apply to real-world nursing practice. - Discussion questions challenge you to think critically and to visualize the future of health informatics. - Objectives, key terms and an abstract at the beginning of each chapter provide an overview of what you will learn. - Conclusion and Future Directions section at the end of each chapter describes how informatics will continue to evolve as healthcare moves to an interprofessional foundation. - NEW! Updated chapters reflect the current and evolving practice of health informatics, using real-life healthcare examples to show how informatics applies to a wide range of topics and issues. - NEW mHealth chapter discusses the use of mobile technology, a new method of health delivery — especially for urban or under-served populations — and describes the changing levels of responsibility for both patients and providers. - NEW Data Science and Analytics in Healthcare chapter shows how Big Data — as well as analytics using data mining and knowledge discovery techniques — applies to healthcare. - NEW Project Management Principles chapter discusses proven project management tools and techniques for coordinating all types of health informatics-related projects. - NEW Contract Negotiations chapter describes strategic methods and tips for negotiating a contract with a healthcare IT vendor. - NEW Legal Issues chapter explains how federal regulations and accreditation processes may impact the practice of health informatics. - NEW HITECH Act chapter explains the regulations relating to health informatics in the Health Information Technology for Education and Clinical Health Act as well as the Meaningful Use and Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.