Author: Committee on Guidance for Establishing Standards o
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: situations, letter, report, disaster, care, establishing, crisis, standards, guidance
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-09-23
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0309144302
ISBN-13: 9780309144308

Book DescriptionThe influenza pandemic caused by the 2009 H1N1 virus underscores the immediate and critical need to prepare for a public health emergency in which thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people suddenly seek and require medical care in communities across the United States. Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations draws from a broad spectrum of expertise--including state and local public health, emergency medicine and response, primary care, nursing, palliative care, ethics, the law, behavioral health, and risk com

Author: Davis Coakley
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: service, geriatric, establishing
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1982-05
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0709907001
ISBN-13: 9780709907008

Author: Seth G. Jones
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: conflict, order, law, establishing
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2005-09-25
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0833038141
ISBN-13: 9780833038142

Examines nation-building efforts in such countries as Iraq and Afghanistan, and assesses the success of U.S. and allied efforts in reconstructing internal security institutions.

Author: Steven A. Koehler MPh PhD
Publisher: Firefly Books
Keywords: death, cause, establishing, postmortem
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-10-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1554072204
ISBN-13: 9781554072200

How forensic professionals determine the cause of an unnatural or violent death. Just how realistic are the autopsy scenes in television’s CSI? Using full-color photographs and detailed illustrations, Postmortem provides an exhaustive exposé of what really goes on in the autopsy room. The authors draw on 20 real-life case studies to describe the postmortem team of experts, the procedures they perform and the ways in which evidence is collected and interpreted. There are profiles of all the experts involved, including the scene photographer, the ballistics expert and the forensic to

Author: Stephen Page
Publisher: Process Improvement Publisher
Keywords: procedures, policies, system, establishing
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1998
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1929065000
ISBN-13: 9781929065004

Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures is a basic guideline for writing policy and procedure documents for any company, any size, and in any industry. This book is a primer and sets the stage for Stephen’s three other books: Achieving 100% Compliance of Policies and Procedures; 7 Steps to Better Written Policies and Procedures, and Best Practices in Policies and Procedures This book introduces the reader to the basic phases required for writing any policy or procedure. These phases are: Research, Writing the first draft, Reviewing the draft, Approving the draft, Publishing, Com

Author: Lou Taylor
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: design, studies, history, dress, establishing
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0719066395
ISBN-13: 9780719066399

This book, the sister publication to The Study of Dress History, is the first to detail the history of the collection, exhibition and museum interpretation of dress of all kinds. It examines the earliest European developments in dress history from the mid sixteenth century onwards, and explains the interest in dress collection and display both privately and in museums in Britain, France, the USA and Eastern Europe. Lou Taylor argues that only when women were permitted to be curators of dress within museums did the collection of all kinds of dress find its proper place in our museums of decorat

Author: Cheri Barton Ro
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: health, foundation, establishing, children, loss, pet
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-02-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 041594919X
ISBN-13: 9780415949194

Explaining the concept of death to a child is a very difficult, confusing, and uncomfortable experience for a parent, educator, or therapist, and it is a topic that is often first introduced by the loss of a pet - sometimes a child’s earliest exposure to loss and grief. There is an undeniably special bond that develops between people and their pets, especially between animals and young children, and while the death of a pet can be devastating to an adult, children are often deeply affected by such a loss. Without readily available outlets for their feelings, the trauma of pet loss can re