Hospitality in hospitals today is the need of the hour, however it is the most neglected aspect in hospitals in India. This book provides structured and detailed exposition on hospital and health care administration emphasizing on optimum utilization of resources and cost-effective health care services ensuring quality of care. The practical experience in the health sector has been put into paper in the form of this book with the purpose: • To improve the delivery of health services by improving administration through education, system flowcharts, record maintaining. • To gain specific understanding of the nature and orientation of employee in the health care industry, their attitude, motivation, commitment, professional growth. • To understand the practical aspects of these techniques for application to health industry. • To gain awareness of the various management technique s and methods like manpower planning, job techniques, work assessment, employee and patient counselling, cost-effectiveness analysis, marketing planning, NABH preparation. Flowcharts, pictures, tables and schematic illustrations present the practical implementation of various steps and methodologies of health services Presentation of various management techniques and methods like manpower planning, job techniques, work assessment, employee and patient counselling, cost-effectiveness analysis, marketing planning, NABH preparation

Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, by Theodore A. Stern, Gregory L. Fricchione, Ned H. Cassem, Michael Jellinek, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, is your ideal source of guidance on consultation-liaison psychiatry! Experts from the Massachusetts General Hospital—widely respected as one of the world's premier psychiatric institutions—provide practical advice on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric issues experienced by in-hospital, medically ill adults and children. This compact resource reads like a handbook, but delivers all the details you’d expect from a textbook. Understand and manage the psychological impact of chronic medical problems, life-threatening diseases, disfigurement, and more. Effectively manage difficult patients, including those with hypochondriacal and conversion disorders. Find information quickly thanks to an improved chapter organization, and get just the answers you need with concise yet complete coverage appropriate for psychiatrists and generalists alike. Implement the most current, effective pharmaceutical therapies as well as cognitive-behavioral approaches.

Handbook of Health/Nursing Informatics and Technology is written based on the revised IndianNursing Council (INC) syllabus. This book is supplemented with diagrammatic presentations, flowcharts, key points in the boxes and tables. Each chapter's text is provided with diagrams wherever felt essential to explain the text.Salient Features• Chapter outline in each chapter provides summary of the contents discussed within the chapter• Content contributed from Nurses (professors at nursing colleges and bedside nurses), computerprofessionals ensures the quality of provided text• Annexures such as keyboard Short cut keys, Flowcharts (denoting the sequence of steps in computer usage) and Practical usage of hospital information system or health information system might help the teachers to teach the subject effectivelyDigital Resources• eBook• Section wise powerpoint slides• Videos for some important chapters

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- Updated! Chapter on the Prevention of Workplace Violence emphasizes the AONE, Joint Commission's, and OSHA's leadership regarding ethical issues with disruptive behaviors of incivility, bullying, and other workplace violence. - Updated! Chapter on Workplace Diversity includes the latest information on how hospitals and other healthcare facilities address and enhance awareness of diversity. - Updated! Chapter on Data Management and Clinical Informatics covers how new technology helps patients be informed, connected, and activated through social networks; and how care providers access information through mobile devices, data dashboards, and virtual learning systems.

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