Discharge Planning for Home Health Care or Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

Discharge Planning for Home Health Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Author: Barbara Stover Gingerich

Discharge Planning for Home Health Care is a comprehensive, step—by—step guide to assessing the needs of patients and establishing a coordinated hospital—to—home discharge plan. The referral format and assessment tools provide the user with an organized and systematic approach for the transition of the patient through the continuum of care. This comprehensive resource is based on current reimbursement and regulatory issues and contains over 150 tools for easy application to a broad spectrum of health care settings.

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A combination of regulatory issues seeking quality cost-effective care, the increased acuity of discharged patients, and home care's readiness to meet the growing need for trained health professionals within the community have led to the need for enhancement of the home care coordination link in the discharge planning process. This manual provides a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to organizational discharge planning in 11 chapters: overview; the hospital discharge plan; the patient's perspective; the home care coordination perspective; the social work perspective; the nursing perspective; professional collaboration; external linkages; the effects of reimbursement--today and tomorrow; integration with alternative health care settings; and conclusions. A dozen appendices provide additional information. Loose-leaf in a three-ring binder. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Contents: Introduction * Overview * The Hospital Discharge Plan * The Patient' s Perspective * The Home Care Coordination Perspective * The Social Work Perspective * The Nursing Perspective * Professional Collaboration * External Linkages * The Effects of Reimbursement: Today and Tomorrow * Integration with Alternative Health Care Settings * Conclusion

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Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

Author: James T Reason

Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards, and defenses developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity, and their human and financial consequences are all too often catastrophic. One of the challenges facing the next millennium is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence.

This lucid book presents a set of common principles to further our knowledge of the causes of major accidents in a wide variety of high technology systems. It also describes tools and techniques for managing the risks of such organizational accidents that go beyond those currently available to system managers and safety professionals.

The author deals comprehensively with the prevention of major accidents arising from human and organizational causes. He argues that the same general principles and management techniques are appropriate for many different domains. These include banks and insurance companies just as much as nuclear power plants, oil exploration and production companies, chemical process installations, and air, sea, and rail transport.

Its unique combination of principles and practicalities make Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents essential reading for those people whose daily business is to manage, audit, and regulate hazardous technologies of all kinds. It is relevant to those concerned with understanding and controlling human and organizational factors, and will also interest academic readers and those working in industrial and government agencies.

About the Author: James Reason, Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester, UK. He is also co-author of Beyond Aviation Human Factors and the author of Human Error (1990).

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Presents a set of principles related to the causes of major accidents in high technology systems and describes tools and techniques for managing risks of such organizational accidents that go beyond those currently available to system managers and safety professionals. Deals with prevention of major accidents arising from human and organizational causes in many different domains, from banks and insurance companies to nuclear power plants and transport. For those working in management or regulation of hazardous technologies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.