This is a supplementary textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and organizational sociology. Each chapter is written by experts in a particular industry and demonstrates both positive and negative results when specific theories are applied in the actual companies.
The majority of us now die in hospitals and many of us will end up in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for the last few days of our lives. Yet for most people, what happens in an ICU remains a mystery. This collection of stories about the experiences of intensive care patients, their families and carers, is about ordinary people facing terrible tragedies and the ways they cope with them. The author, a practicing intensive care clinician, takes the reader on a journey inside an ICU and reveals to the...
This book explores the existing inequities within the U.S. healthcare system and their impacts on individuals and in particular Black women, who seek life-saving healthcare. Specifically, it documents the impact of racial and ethnic inequities on the quest for critical health care in the context of a major health care crisis. More poignantly, as a healthcare consumer recently plunged into the marketplace for life-saving health care, the author systematically explored and documented the process...
Critical Race Theory in Education (Education and Social Theory)
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an international movement of scholars working across multiple disciplines; some of the most dynamic and challenging CRT takes place in Education. This collection brings together some of the most exciting and influential CRT in Education. CRT scholars examine the race-specific patterns of privilege and exclusion that go largely unremarked in mainstream debates. The contributions in this book cover the roots of the movement, the early battles that shaped CRT, and ke...
The Hammonds of Redcliffe
This book tells the story of four generations of a prominent South Carolina family, beginning with James Henry Hammond, a pre-Civil war state governor and later US senator, and the man who coined the phrase "cotton is king", and ending with the remaining Hammond descendants, living in New York but retaining ownership of the old family plantation in redcliffe. It provides a detailed account of the fortunes of a Southern family over a century. Readership: students of Amercian History.
Whether you or someone close to you has received a terminal diagnosis -- this period of time can be a final gift.Guidance for the patient You've been terminally diagnosed, and you need advice to help you make the best of the situation and the time you have left. Here's guidance, including: -- Emotional adjustment-- Medical care-- Hospital vs. home care-- Legal and financial arrangements-- Saying goodbye Support for the caregiver As a caregiver to someone who is terminally ill, you can be a gu...
Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine - E-Book
by Judd Landsberg
Neurogenic Dysphagia
by Tobias Warnecke, Rainer Dziewas, and Susan Langmore
Advances in Cystic Fibrosis, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #43)
In this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editors Drs. Clemente J. Britto and Jennifer L. Taylor-Cousar bring their considerable expertise to Advances in Cystic Fibrosis. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as genetics of cystic fibrosis (CF): clinical implications; innate and adaptive immunity in CF; novel applications of biomarkers and personalized medicine to define the spectrum of CF; emerging approaches to understand CF pathogenesis; and more. Contains 18 relevant, pr...
Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Essentials of Terror Medicine
by Shmuel C Shapira, Jeffrey S Hammond, and Leonard A. Cole
Critical Care and Hospitalist Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple
by Michael Donahoe
Crisis Management in Anesthesiology - E-Book
by David M Gaba, Steven K Howard, and Amanda Burden
Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - A.P.I.C.E.
by Antonio Gullo
Rare Conditions, Diagnostic Challenges, and Controversies in Clinical Neuropsychology
Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine (What Do I Do Now Emergency Medicine)
Many emergency clinicians encounter a gap in knowledge and skills when presented with serious life-threatening illness, particularly in patients with advanced and terminal illness. Over the last decade, studies have shown that patients who receive palliative care in the emergency setting have improved clinical outcomes with better symptom management, improved goal concordant care, and more effective resource utilization that delivers improved patient centered outcomes. Palliative Care in Emergen...