Handbook of Home Health Care Administration

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Completely revised and updated and written by experts in hospice and home care, this is the seminal resource for home health and hospice care administrators. It is an excellent, comprehensive reference that covers subjects such as management issues, certification standards, financial issues and tips on how to be a successful administrator.

New to this edition are chapters on:

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This highly readable new edition contains the knowledge essential to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. The author uses the format of the licensing examination and the guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators as the basis for the text.

The fifth edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the wealth of new legislation and regulations passed since the publication of the last edition in 2002; offers compelling new data on a wide array of topics ranging from websites, departmental area trends, and diet data, to risk management, major organizations in the field, drug lists, and information on diseases and disability. New sections on:

Distinguishing delirium from dementia
Psychosis from agitation
GERD
Glycemic control
Hand washing data

Customer Reviews:

CAN YOU SAY "TYPO".......2007-01-09

I'll be short and sweet about this. So you wanna be an LNHA, I suggest you get a hold of a lot more reading material than just this book. James Allen should be ashamed of his publisher -- there are millions of typos in it, and it is written straight out of the mind of a PH.D.

The book is very convoluted, but does contain much needed information you'll have to have for the NAB test. So too, you should buy the NAB book, along with a book by Hacker. Get ready to take a loan out, these books are not cheap. Then comes the test at $440.00, then another $250.00 for your license. Oh yeah, be sure to buy the test book that comes with this book(for an additional $35.00 or so), it does help.

In sum, I wish studying for the NAB was assigned a single text written in an exact format for which the test was exactly written. How it stands now there are at least three (3) texts (2 listed above and Allen's book) which I stongly recommend -- skip any others, you'll be spending money needlessly!

Good luck to us all and God bless America -- what's left of it.

A core book, with a'lot of problems....................2005-09-23

I'm a few short weeks away from taking the NAB exam to become a licensed nursing facility administrator. This book was the core text for the 5 courses required for licensure (at least it was where I attended, anyway.....to be more specific, it was the only textbook required for all 5 courses) - - a little disturbing when you think about it.

The book is so ripe with typos, it gets to be absolutely laughable......completely unacceptable. The trick, I'm told, to using this book and passing the NAB exam, is to simply train your brain to think like James Allen, PhD.

As a former state nursing facility surveyor (in Texas, no less - -a state that is brutal on nursing homes from a regulatory standpoint), I've seen a'lot of things in nursing homes - - both good things and bad. In one moment, I read Dr. Allen's words and think, "This guy's pretty sharp.", and the next minute, he's prattling on like some idealistic 20 year-old, and I'm thinking, "Has this guy ever actually ran a nursing home in his entire life?" Another core issues is: this guy IS NOT A NURSE and if he knew how much he embarasses himself when trying to talk about clinical issues, he'd stop re-writing this book. Trust me.....if you're over 25 years old, and have spent more than 3 hours handling some part of geriatirc operations, you'll find some of this guy's rambling to be pure comedy. While not relegated completely to geriatrics, this book is proof once again that the whole "gotta pass the board exam"-schtick is growing to be such a gross racket in this nation.
The book will teach you a little bit....primarily about circa 1970's and 1980's generic management theory....which this guy's brain must be totally overloaded with. Funny thing, is: why doesn't the book have photos, line drawings, better graphics? Most of the graphics are centered around teaching you the ADA requirements pretty much as they relate to Life Safety Code requirements- - not altogether worthless, but kind of a cop-out in my opinion.

If you're taking your 5 core courses needed to sit for the NAB exam, you'll probably have to buy this book......sorry about that. Read it, learn what you can from it.....keep the section on personnel managment......then use the remainder of it as confetti for your, "Hey I passed the NAB exam" party!

The US Health System: Origins and Functions

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Excellent book!

The US Health System: Origins and Functions
Marshall W. Raffel , and Camille K Barsukiewicz
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ASIN: 0766807142

Book Description

This review of the U.S. health system offers both an historical and current perspective. Readers will learn about the origins of our health system, the forces that have influenced its change, and how the system has responded to those forces of change to become what it is today. Key topics include costs, financing and access to health care, as well as the various different systems for delivering health care. Reform efforts are discussed and a new chapter covers information technology in health care. Web-based resources are referenced for additional research and information.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent book!.......1998-09-04

I especially liked the book's history of the development of medicine and the origination of our health care system in the US.

The Licensing Exam Review Guide in Nursing Home Administration: 1000 Test Questions in the National Examination Format on the Nab 2002-2007 Domains of Practice (4th Edition)

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Interesting....
Worthless
Worthless
Good but not great.
Much better than the green text book

The Licensing Exam Review Guide in Nursing Home Administration: 1000 Test Questions in the National Examination Format on the Nab 2002-2007 Domains of Practice (4th Edition)
James E. Allen
Manufacturer: Springer Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0826159230

Customer Reviews:

Interesting...........2007-04-03

Ok, so you want the real scoop, here it is!

In general, this test book, along with Allen's NHA book, is decent study material (just get over the typos and you'll be ok). Why folks complain is because this book, like many others, are filled with opinions, and vague generalities. But here is how you have to study. You buy this book, with the study guide. You buy or borrow the NAB book, and the book by Haacker. You read all three books, and do the study questions... no matter how dumb you think they are. Read Read and Read some more... there is no getting out of studying hard! If it were easy everyone would become an Administrator, right? When you study the test questions I find it is helpful to make up new questions yourself, and ask yourself "why", why is the answer what it is? This is the key to REAL LEARNING. I also recommend you not get bogged down on every single definition in the books, but you must at least get a grasp on what everything means -- this way you should have no surprises.

I hope you read, study, do the questions and make up new ones along the way. Also, call fellow students in your core of knowledge corse to get input. And please, we are all different, so don't go by one person's saying the test is easy (it's not), and don't go by those who flunk, for they did not read read read! Like I say, do your homework and get an excellent grasp on "WHY" "HOW" "WHEN" -- YOU CAN NEVER ASK YOURSELF ENOUGH QUESTIONS! Bottom line, if you study like this YOU WILL PASS! I passed both exams the first go round! I took the NAB test first, then 22 days later I took the State tests. NEVER EVER TAKE BOTH EXAMS ON THE SAME DAY -- YOU WILL BE SORRY IF YOU DO!

I hope this info helps you. I have great faith in the Lord, so there is nothing I cannot pass on the first attempt, I hope the same holds true for you! Good luck, I will let you go now, you should be reading right now, lol.

Gary from Ohio.

Worthless.......2007-01-19

I memorized every single question in this book and still did not pass the NAB test the first time around. DO NOT waste your money!!

Worthless.......2006-07-01

One word-Worthless!!!!!! This book is about a lot of people's different theories on the nursing home industry, uses terms that my administrator had never even heard of, and basically, just makes no sense at all! And to boot, it cost me $50 with shipping. Do not waste your time even thinking about buying it...

Good but not great........2006-01-18

Def. better than nothing but be sure to study everything and not just this book and the green administrators licensure book.

Much better than the green text book.......2005-12-11

A valuable study guide indeed. I passed the NAB exam a few weeks ago....and this book was a huge help.......a wise investment. Also, for what it's worth.......I had a'lot of experience in LTC (Assistant Activity Director, etc.)....I was also a State Nursing Home surveyor for 4.5 years before starting my AIT........listen up: the NAB is the hardest exam I've ever taken in my entire life! It's the kind of test that'll bring you to tears......trust me on this......study like you've never studied before in your life!!

Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health

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great

Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health
L. Michele Issel
Manufacturer: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: 0763748005

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This book will help you to systematically develop thoughtfully implement, and rigorously evaluate health programs across a varitey of health disciplines.

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great.......2007-03-21

Great book. I will keep this book on my self for future use.

The Continuum of Long-Term Care (Delmar Series in Health Services Administration)

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Excellent Service and Product!

The Continuum of Long-Term Care (Delmar Series in Health Services Administration)
Connie Evashwick
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ASIN: 0766815749

Book Description

Graduate students in health care administration, public health, nursing and social work will appreciate this comprehensive overview of long-term health care. It provides a solid framework for understanding this highly fragmented field. Key sections explain the operating characteristics of each type of long term health care facility; discusses case management, information systems and financing associated with long-term care; and details specific health care systems for seniors, children, mental health clients, veterans and rehabilitation patients. Client examples along with tables and graphs improve your understanding of material. An instructor's guide and review questions make this book useful for faculty and students alike. Key features *Covers long-term care for various populations and age groups that must be served *Discusses long-term care through hospitals, nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospices and assisted living facilities *Client examples, tables and graphs help improve understanding of content (KEYWORDS: health care, public health, administration, nursing, long-term care, graduate level)

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Excellent Service and Product!.......2005-10-05

I recieved my product as decribed and expeditiously! Thanks so much!!!

Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach

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Good Reference Book

Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach
Betty J. Paulanka
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Good Reference Book.......2006-12-30

Provides a wealth of information on many cultures that are useful for practicing nurses. Students wll also find this book useful.

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A great reference for school and home
Manuel of School Health
Excellent resource for school nurses

Manual of School Health
Keeta Destefano Lewis , and Bonnie J. Bear
Manufacturer: Saunders
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Legal Issues In School Health Services: A Resource for School Administrators, School Attorneys, School Nurses

ASIN: 0721685218

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This comprehensive and practical guide to the health issues and concerns of students from birth through age 21 is thoroughly revised and updated in the newest edition. The book provides easy-access to information on developmental stages, learning domains, acute and chronic illnesses, medical syndromes, substance abuse, special education and emergency illness. New topics include diseases and medications, DSM-IV disorders, violence, adolescent health, 21st century challenges, neuroscience findings from the genome project, and biotechnology information related to growth and health. MANUAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2ND EDITION is small, light weight, and very portable. Created for use in school and community settings, this new edition is a valuable resource for every nurse or educator who works with children.

Customer Reviews:

A great reference for school and home.......2007-02-26

The Manual of School Health, by Keeta DeStefano Lewis and Bonnie J. Bear, contains a wealth of vital information organized in a way that makes it easily accessible. As a reference book, the Manual reflects the rich background of the authors as both scholars and practitioners.

The topics/chapters, both comprehensive and wide-ranging, include

* Growth and Development characteristics
* Vision and Hearing
* Acute Conditions
* Chronic Conditions
* Affective and Behavioral Disorders
* Substance Abuse
* Violence
* Adolescent and Gender-Specific Issues
* Special Education
* Twenty-First Century Health Challenges
* Emergency Disaster Preparedness and First Aid

Each childhood condition and disorder is consistently and clearly listed with a definition, its etiology, characteristics, effects on individuals, health concerns/emergencies associated, management/treatment, additional information, and websites where one can acquire additional information. The authors have included information that the reader would have difficulty finding anywhere else.

The appendices are rich with information: charts, tables, and graphs that one can access with ease. The illustrations are clear and useful.

The authors have gone to great lengths to have the book reviewed by scholars, practitioners, and specialists in medicine and education to ensure that the information is accurate, current, and thoroughly practical.

The Manual of School Health should be an essential and indispensable part of every school health office. As a former school principal and current educational consultant and trainer, I highly recommend this book. As a husband and father of three children, I keep one in my home.

David Ghoogasian
Educational Consultant/Trainer
School Improvement Facilitator

Manuel of School Health.......2005-02-17

Dear Publisher,
I am writing in support of the book "Manuel of School Health by Keeta Lewis and Bonnie Bear. I am a School Nurse in Washington Unified School and I use the book frequently in my practice of School Nursing. I cover 4 schools including 3 elementaries and a middle school where I have approximately 2300 students. I often look up medical information in this book as well as make copies of the different pages for pages for parents and guardians. It is really the only book I have ever found that specifically covers our field of practice and the kind of illnesses we deal with on a daily basis. When I can copy a page and go over it with a family member, it very concisely outlines the treatment and care of the condition. Also, I especially appreciate the exclusion information the book details so that I know best practice guidelines and when to allow the student to return to achool. When it is in a book, in writing, it has validity and credibility and stips any arguement or debate about the guidelines. This book also helps me with information for teachers. They often ask me medical questions and I pull out my handy School Nurse manuel and can give them the answers they want in timely manner.
Thank-you fo publishing this very handy guide that I can use on a daily basis as a School Nurse in Northern California. Lanette Reeves, R.N.

Excellent resource for school nurses.......2000-05-14

This book is an excellent reference book for school nurses. It is user friendly and has basic information for nurses working in schools. The only comment is that was last revised in 1986. The information presented is basic information which one needs to know if working in schools. I do feel it is time for an update to include current topics that we see in schools--increased use of medications for behavior modification, eating disorder issues, etc. I am purchasing this book for my office.

How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace

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This is actually a brilliant History book, poorly marketed.
An Exemplar for General Interest Texts in Occupational Toxicology
Industrial Hazards

How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
Paul D. Blanc MD
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ASIN: 0520248821

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This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day--a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling exposé, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, How Everyday Products Make People Sick is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies. It presents a picture not of one exceptional or corrupt industry but rather of how run-of-the-mill manufacturing processes and consumer marketing expose workers and the general public alike to toxic hazards. More troubling still, even when such hazards are recognized, calls for their control are routinely ignored. Written for a wide audience, it offers a critical and disquieting perspective on the relationship between industrial development and its adverse health consequences.
Among the surprisingly common hazards discussed in How Everyday Products Make People Sick:
Glue and rubber cement
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Customer Reviews:

This is actually a brilliant History book, poorly marketed........2007-05-07

Some imbecile at the publishing company gave this book what they must have thought was a trendy title. By doing that, they missed the market for what turns out to be one of the most interesting history books I've read all year--and I read a lot of history.

What this book really is, is a history of how changes in industrial processes have had unintended health consequences. It also documents the political and social forces that have kept the health consequences of these various chemicals from being known and regulated.

All this sounds dry and dusty, but the author writes with a lively, well-documented, anecdote-rich style that modestly cloaks a depth of research far beyond what I've read in history books written by trained historians. It's a pleasure to read, and in the process of reading it you'll learn a great deal about the history of plastic manufacturing, how artificial textiles are made, the uses of industrial bleaching, and many dozens of other intriguing processes which make our world what it is.

What a pleasure to discover that there still are a few highly educated "renaissance" people in the world who can combine expertise in medicine, history, social thought and engineering to come up with such a delightful, well-written read.

If I had the power, I'd nominate this book for the National Book Award in History!

An Exemplar for General Interest Texts in Occupational Toxicology.......2007-01-19

Given the recent proliferation of pulp-professional books reviewing environmental toxicology, Dr. Paul Blanc's immediate challenge in *How Everyday Products Make us Sick* is to set his work apart from its peers. To anyone who merely browses Blanc's book, it will quickly become apparent that he easily obviates this challenge.

And to anyone who studies his book in depth, it will become clear that Blanc has at once established himself as a member of that rare species called "polymath;" a species populated by the likes of Jared Diamond, Joseph Campbell, and James Burke.

Of all such authors, Blanc's style and scope most closely mirrors that of Burke, whose celebrated "Connections" series on BBC set a new standard for integrated, iconoclastic scholarship. While, as an occupational toxicologist, I am admittedly partial to Blanc's field of study, I am anything but partial to its existing body of literature. Before reading--and re-reading--Blanc's book, I had yet to encounter a model for conveying occupational toxicology to the general public both coherently and charmingly.

Yet Blanc's breakthough compendium is nothing if not both charming and coherent. It will undoubtedly captivate both professionals and non-professionals, although non-professionals will likely gain the most insight from this book. (Professionals, and/or perfectionists, will reap immeasurable reward from Blanc's immaculate footnotes; worthy of separate publication in their own right).

Like James Burke, Blanc inter-weaves science, history, and culture with such electrifying (and refreshingly irreverent) flair as to virtually prove Mark Twain's saw that nothing has been more detrimental to human knowledge than traditional, pulpous modes of education.

Christian P. Erickson, M.D., M.P.H.
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christianerickson@alumni.duke.edu

Industrial Hazards.......2006-12-29

This book focuses on industrial hazards, with brief explanations, and reasonably complete histories, of the industrial processes insofar as the history and the knowledge of the process can inform knowledge of the hazard presented to workers and to product users. One key theme is how knowledge of many of today's industrial hazards has been with us for very long periods of time, but that--and I interject here my own view--given the emphasis on economic development concurent with the rise of industrial society--medical and regulatory efforts at controlling or reducing the risks of the hazards have been unsuccessful, due to the inconvenence or costs to the industries so associated. Without actually using the term "externalities," a propensity to assign those costs from industries to their employees, the environment, and to product-users is documented.

Another key theme is that the knowledge of the hazards and their tentatively arrived-at mitigation measures has ebbed and flowed, with populations thinking that effective controls have been implemented when in fact they have not been.

A further point of knowledge is that there is no clear dividing line between exposures in the workplace and exposures in the home. For this reason, and probably because the medical literature from which he is able to draw has dealt more with workplace hazards than with hazards in the home, the focus is on industry, though the writing moves from industry to the home when the hazards move there also. I would recommend the book to a popular audience for knowledge of industrial hazards in the home, but only if the reader is willing to learn the author's lessons regarding how the danger origininates in industry and moves from there to the home, and is willing to also learn the important lesson that the hazards to the workers who produce the products are significant factors in making product choices, as well as the actual toxic effect to the user. He quotes Jerry Garcia on the hellish aspects of vinyl record production. No special knowledge of chemistry is required to understand the text.

Unfortunately I do not have the book in front of me now, but from memory, here are a few of the topics covered:

- mercury fumes
- cotton dust
- carbon disulfide
- chlorine
- metal working fumes
- multiple causes of Parkinsonism

I do not mean to imply that the author appeared to me to be less than comprehensive in his addressing of toxic processes and products, although he did not deal extensively with military industries, nor with the current issue regarding the environmental distribution of uranium munitions. He touched on the shortcomings of the regulatory process under lassiz-faire capitalism, and sees the two most important upcoming issues, besides recovering from recent efforts at governmental deregulation and disassembling and hampering of regulatory agencies, as the toxic effects of additives to gasoline, and the toxic effects of wood preservation chemicals, both of which are throughly reviewed, noting the special dangers to children.

I enjoyed his end-noted documentantion of the most obscure points of his historical reviews, some of which were not even central to what he was saying. I felt he liked doing this sort of extensive research, was expert in his field, and that the writing was a labour of love.

Implementing Outcome-Based Homecare: A Workbook of OBQI, Care Pathways and Disease Management

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Implementing Outcome-Based Homecare: A Workbook of OBQI, Care Pathways and Disease Management
Melinda Huffman
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This workbook provides the tools necessary to implement outcome-based patient care using OASIS outcomes, OBQI, Care pathways and disease management.

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