Care S

Author : Sveinung Saegrov
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843391159

Get Book

CARE-S by Sveinung Saegrov Pdf

CARE-S presents the result of an extensive EU project, Computer Aided Rehabilitation of Sewer and Storm Water Networks. The projects developed a complete management system for sewer and storm water assets, including methods and software. It comprises methods and models for the three levels necessary of management, namely the long-term planning, the project ranking and the technology selection. The results of a comprehensive testing of CARE-S in representative European cities are also included in the book. Long-term planning relies on state-of-the-art description, judgement of future service-life and available measurements, including CCTV. This information is handled in tools for Performance Indicators, network condition prediction and investment needs. Project ranking is conducted by an elimination system and includes analysis by tools for structural condition, hydraulic performance and customer requirements. The system identifies projects that can be included within actual budget limits. Selection of appropriate technologies relies on a comprehensive database for renovation and repair techniques and their properties, applied into the conditions of the single projects. The purpose of this book is to present a new generation management system of sewer and storm water assets. Due to ageing systems and increasing demands to these networks, and the complexity of systems and problems, advanced management systems are necessary to secure an optimal use of limited resources for repair, maintenance and renewal. In the future, management should be based on solid objective information given by computer programs and databases, and judged by professional management engineers. The market for modern urban water network management including software and consulting services is expected to increase substantially during the coming years. This is the first book to consider a complete management system for sewer and storm water assets. The book presents a system that will improve the cost-effectiveness of sewer and storm water assets by at least 10%. The book presents the methodology and software for modern maintenance and renewal of wastewater networks.

Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : IOWA:31858055672798

Get Book

Patient Safety and Quality by Ronda Hughes Pdf

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Author : Mark L. Goldstein
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437917918

Get Book

VA Health Care: Overview of VA¿s Capital Asset Management by Mark L. Goldstein Pdf

The Vet. Health Admin. (VHA) operates one of the largest integrated health care systems in the country. Better mgmt. of VHA's large inventory of aged capital assets could result in savings that could be used to enhance health care services for vets. In response, VHA initiated a process known as Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES). Through CARES, VHA sought to determine the future resources needed to provide health care to our nation's vets. This testimony describes: (1) how CARES contributes to VHA's capital planning process; (2) the extent to which VHA has implemented CARES decisions; and (3) the legal authorities that VHA has to manage its real property and the extent to which VHA has used these authorities.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264383746

Get Book

OECD Health Policy Studies Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for the Elderly by OECD Pdf

This report presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive cross-country assessment of long-term care (LTC) workers, the tasks they perform and the policies to address shortages in OECD countries. It highlights the importance of improving working conditions in the sector and making care work more attractive and shows that there is space to increase productivity by enhancing the use of technology, providing a better use of skills and investing in prevention.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2146 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Legislation
ISBN : SRLF:DD0001686419

Get Book

Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Anne T. Donahue
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781773052595

Get Book

Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue Pdf

Witty and painfully honest essays about perfection vs. reality: “Hilarious…[an] incredibly distinctive voice.” —Emma Gannon, bestselling author of Olive From the author of the popular newsletter That’s What She Said, Nobody Cares is a candid personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties. As she shares her hard-won insights from screwing up, growing up, and trying to find her own path, Anne T. Donahue offers all the honesty, laughs, and reassurance of a late-night phone call with your best friend. Whether she’s giving a signature pep talk, railing against summer, or describing her own mental health struggles, Anne reminds us that failure is normal, saying no to things is liberating, and we’re all a bunch of beautiful disasters—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. “Her essays about the less photogenic moments of her life contain their own sort of beauty, the kind that comes from failing and persevering. From breaking down her anxiety disorder to getting in touch with helpful and well-deserved female rage, Donahue is as inspiring as she is droll.” ―Vulture “Frank, funny, observations.” —Cosmopolitan “I don’t know how anyone could read her and not immediately fall in love.” —Scaachi Koul, author of One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Author : Janet R. Carpman,Myron A. Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118235409

Get Book

Design That Cares by Janet R. Carpman,Myron A. Grant Pdf

Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors, 3rd Edition is the award-winning, essential textbook and guide for understanding and achieving customer-focused, evidence-based health care design excellence. This updated third edition includes new information about how all aspects of health facility design – site planning, architecture, interiors, product design, graphic design, and others - can meet the needs and reflect the preferences of customers: patients, family and visitors, as well as staff. The book takes readers on a journey through a typical health facility and discusses, in detail, at each stop along the way, how design can demonstrate care both for and about patients and visitors. Design that Cares provides the definitive roadmap to improving customer experience by design.

Author : Christopher Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Caregivers
ISBN : 9780190074456

Get Book

Who Cares by Christopher Howard Pdf

"Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members. In the United States, that responsibility belongs not only to governments, but also to charities, businesses, individuals, and family members. Their combined efforts generate a social safety net. Many academics and journalists have studied discrete pieces of this net. However, it is still hard to see larger patterns and learn general lessons. Who Cares pulls these pieces together to offer the first comprehensive map of the U.S. social safety net. The central theme of the book is care. Part I describes how much we care about people in need as well as who we think should take care of them. Individual chapters capture the views of ordinary citizens, business and labor organizations, churches and other charities, and public officials. The emphasis in Part II is on tangible acts of caring. Who pays for government programs and charitable services? Who are the most important caregivers, public and private? How adequate is the care that people receive? Each chapter answers these questions for specific human needs-income, food, housing, medical care, and daily care. Although the U.S. social safety net is extensive, major gaps remain. Blacks, Hispanics, and individuals who are not employed full-time are more likely to suffer. These problems exist even when the economy seems healthy; Who Cares is based heavily on evidence from the years right before the COVID-19 pandemic. The postscript offers an initial assessment of how the social safety net performed during the pandemic"--

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309068376

Get Book

To Err Is Human by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America Pdf

Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine

Author : Joan C. Tronto
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501702754

Get Book

Who Cares? by Joan C. Tronto Pdf

The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit"—that there are simply too many demands on our time to care adequately for children, elderly people, and ourselves—she asks us to reconsider how we allocate care responsibilities.At the same time, while democratic politics should help citizens to care better, most people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as too remote from their lives to make a difference in this sphere. Tronto traces the reasons for this disconnect and argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life.

Author : Madeleine H. Kimmich
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0877663866

Get Book

America's Children, who Cares? by Madeleine H. Kimmich Pdf

Author : Mark Earey
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048879

Get Book

Worship that Cares by Mark Earey Pdf

An introduction to the principles and skills of pastoral liturgy. Inter-denominational, this text can be used across different Christian traditions, in both formal and informal contexts and to meet traditional and non-traditional pastoral needs.

Author : Danny Bond
Publisher : Danny Bond
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781937189006

Get Book

God Always Cares by Danny Bond Pdf

Are you battling anxiety and fear? Do you believe your problems are too small or too big for God? Does it feel like your entire world is crashing down around you? Whatever the circumstance, you may be discouraged, depressed and hopeless. You start thinking you can't handle it, that there's no way out, and that God doesn't care. But I have some very good news for you. There is hope for you real hope, even through Job-like circumstances. God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is also the Father of compassion and all comfort. He comforts us in all our afflictions. You may not realize it yet but He does. And I'll show you Biblical truth that will drive this home in your life and warm your heart.

Author : François J. Amours
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z31496010X

Get Book

Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas by François J. Amours Pdf

Author : Sharon E. Straus,Jacqueline Tetroe,Ian D. Graham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781444357257

Get Book

Knowledge Translation in Health Care by Sharon E. Straus,Jacqueline Tetroe,Ian D. Graham Pdf

Health care systems worldwide are faced with the challenge of improving the quality of care. Providing evidence from health research is necessary but not sufficient for the provision of optimal care and so knowledge translation (KT), the scientific study of methods for closing the knowledge-to-action gap and of the barriers and facilitators inherent in the process, is gaining significance. Knowledge Translation in Health Care explains how to use research findings to improve health care in real life, everyday situations. The authors define and describe knowledge translation, and outline strategies for successful knowledge translation in practice and policy making. The book is full of examples of how knowledge translation models work in closing the gap between evidence and action. Written by a team of authors closely involved in the development of knowledge translation this unique book aims to extend understanding and implementation worldwide. It is an introductory guide to an emerging hot topic in evidence-based care and essential for health policy makers, researchers, managers, clinicians and trainees.