Author: Daniel Farb; Bruce Gordo
Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare
Keywords: guidebook, safety, radiation, medical, osha
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1594912408
ISBN-13: 9781594912405

Medical Radiation Safety gives OSHA information specific to hospitals and medical situations, such as safety around X-ray equipment and radionuclides. It also includes extensive material on dealing with bioterrorism and decontamination. It is comprehensive, simple, and clear. It covers medical radiation, delivery modalities, protective measures, lab safety, spills, an in-depth view of radiation fundamentals, incident response, victim care, and past catastrophes. Readers will enjoy the approachable, compact, conversational tone of the book. Approved for national nursing contact hours--requires

Author: Daniel Farb; Susan Postnikoff; Cynthia Drake; Bruc
Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare
Keywords: guidebook, sales, device, medical, powerful
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1594912645
ISBN-13: 9781594912641

Powerful Medical Device Sales is a comprehensive guide for the medical device and pharmaceutical sales representative on sales skills to use with doctors and hospitals while observing correct procedures and building trust. It takes the attitude that consultative selling and considerate behavior create the most productive client relationships. It covers the structure of a hospital, medical staff, the hospital pharmacy, the hospital-based pharmacist, the nursing service, policies and procedures for hospital vendors, HIPAA essentials for the sales rep, sexual harassment, FDA regulations, operatin

Author: Daniel Farb
Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare
Keywords: writing, emphasis, sales, business, grammar, including, skills, clear, guidebook, clearly, lively, interactive, introduction, thinking
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2005-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 159491267X
ISBN-13: 9781594912672

This lively presentation of how to write clearly includes many examples of how to focus your thoughts and create clearly understood writing. It contains many of Dr. Farb’s own writing techniques and contains exercises drawn from business periodicals. You will learn how to make clear, forceful sentences, grammatical principles that affect clarity, arranging sentences into logical paragraphs, assembling paragraphs into documents, some basics of proof-reading, and how to develop clear thinking and convey it in writing. Readers will enjoy the approachable, compact, conversational style of th

Author: Daniel Farb; Bruce Gordon
Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare
Keywords: guidebook, practices, provider, quality, total
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2005-07
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1594912335
ISBN-13: 9781594912337

Total Quality in Provider Practices is a ground-breaking work that applies the principles of Total Quality Management to heatlhcare practices in a manner that is engaging, easy, practical, and sometimes entertaining. The work consists of four major sections: Part 1 teaches the ideas, history, and statistics of Total Quality Management and Six Sigma. Part 2 teaches how they apply to healthcare practices. Part 3 gives examples of the application of Total Quality Management principles to specific issues, such as patient scheduling, delays, informed consent, Pap smears, collections, and patient co

Author: Bruce Gordon; Daniel Farb
Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare
Keywords: guidebook, skills, sales, advanced
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2005-07
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1594912386
ISBN-13: 9781594912382

The Advanced Sales Skills Guidebook combines the company’s funniest and most interesting sales-related courses in one affordable package in a text-only version and keeps you on the cutting edge of sales. Many of these sections are also excellent for general business and personal development training. You will learn in Internet Searches how to search the internet for maximal payback. You will take the first three of our Sales Dramatics series: Sales Body Language, Sales Humor Delivery Skills 1, Sales Humor Writing Skills 1 to learn how to develop better rapport. You will take three of ou

Author: Bruce Gordon; Daniel Farb
Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare
Keywords: guidebook, management, osha
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-07
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1594912394
ISBN-13: 9781594912399

The OSHA Management Guidebook will develop your knowledge of OSHA compliance management while teaching you how to run an OSHA program and prevent injuries. It includes the following sections: Workplace Violence, Bloodborne Pathogens, Repetitive Strain Injury, Hazard Communications, Control of Hazardous Energy, Medical Recordkeeping, OSHA Penalty Policies, and Surviving OSHA Inspections. It is a package consisting of the most important areas that an OSHA manager needs to know. (Many of these titles are also relevant for hospital OSHA and JCAHO management.) Upon completion, you will have attaine

Author: Daniel Farb; Cyndie Koopsen; Caroline Young
Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare
Keywords: guidebook, errors, medication
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2005-07
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1594912424
ISBN-13: 9781594912429

This is an authoritative, compelling, well-written book that will leave the reader with a comprehensive view of medication errors and what to do about them. It is for everyone in the healthcare field plus the public. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to do the following: 1. Discuss the contribution of the current health care system to the increase in medical and medication errors, 2. Describe the scope of the problem, 3. Identify the key messages in the 2000 U.S. Institute of Medicine report, 4. Describe the major causes of medication errors. 5. Describe four types of medication e