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First, Do Less Harm - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

First, Do Less Harm - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients’ hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. Despite (and sometimes because of) new medical information technology and numerous well-intentioned initiatives to address these problems, threats to patient safety remain and in some areas are on the rise. In First, Do Less Harm, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient safety from a variety of perspectives, finding many of the proposed solutions to be inadequate or impractical. Several contributors to this book attribute the failure to confront patient safety concerns to the influence of the "market model" on medicine and emphasize the need for hospital-wide teamwork and greater involvement from frontline workers (from janitors and aides to nurses and physicians) in planning, implementing, and evaluating effective safety initiatives. Several chapters in First, Do Less Harm focus on the critical role of interprofessional and occupational practice in patient safety. Rather than focusing on the usual suspects—physicians, safety champions, or high level management—these chapters expand the list of "stakeholders" and patient safety advocates to include nurses, patient care assistants, and other staff, as well as the health care unions that may represent them. First, Do Less Harm also highlights workplace issues that negatively affect safety: including sleeplessness, excessive workloads, outsourcing of hospital cleaning, and lack of teamwork between physicians and other health care staff. In two chapters, experts explain why the promise of health care information technology to fix safety problems remains unrealized, with examples that are at once humorous and frightening. A book that will be required reading for physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, public health officers, quality and risk managers, healthcare educators, economists, and policymakers, First, Do Less Harm concludes with a list of twenty-seven paradoxes and challenges facing everyone interested in making care safe for both patients and those who care for them.

DKK 276.00
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Do Elephants Have Knees? - Charles R. Ault - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Do Elephants Have Knees? - Charles R. Ault - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thinking whimsically makes serious science accessible. That’s a message that should be taken to heart by all readers who want to learn about evolution. Do Elephants Have Knees? invites readers into serious appreciation of Darwinian histories by deploying the playful thinking found in children’s books. Charles R. Ault Jr. weds children’s literature to recent research in paleontology and evolutionary biology. Inquiring into the origin of origins stories, Ault presents three portraits of Charles Darwin—curious child, twentysomething adventurer, and elderly worm scientist. Essays focusing on the origins of tetrapods, elephants, whales, and birds explain fundamental Darwinian concepts (natural selection, for example) with examples of fossil history and comparative anatomy. The imagery of the children’s story offers a way to remember and recreate scientific discoveries. By juxtaposing Darwin’s science with tales for children, Do Elephants Have Knees? underscores the importance of whimsical storytelling to the accomplishment of serious thinking. Charles Darwin mused about duck beaks and swimming bears as he imagined a pathway for the origin of baleen. A "bearduck" chimera may be a stretch, but the science linking not just cows but also whales to moose through shared ancestry has great merit. Teaching about shared ancestry may begin with attention to Bernard Wiseman’s Morris the Moose. Morris believes that cows and deer are fine examples of moose because they all have four legs and things on their heads. No whale antlers are known, but fossils of four-legged whales are. By calling attention to surprising and serendipitous echoes between children’s stories and challenging science, Ault demonstrates how playful thinking opens the doors to an understanding of evolutionary thought.

DKK 237.00
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What Ought I to Do? - Catherine Chalier - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

What Ought I to Do? - Catherine Chalier - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

What's Class Got to Do with It? - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

What's Class Got to Do with It? - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to Do Things with Dead People - Alice Dailey - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to Do Things with Dead People - Alice Dailey - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

What Workers Say - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

What Workers Say - - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Paradoxes of Delusion - Louis A. Sass - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

When Victory Is Not an Option - Nathan J. Brown - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

DKK 270.00
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When Victory Is Not an Option - Nathan J. Brown - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

DKK 959.00
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