Definitive airway management : when is tracheal intubation needed? / George Kovacs, Sam Campbell, and J. Adam Law -- Airway physiology and anatomy / J. Adam Law and John Tallon -- Oxygen delivery devices and bag-mask ventilation / George Kovacs and J. Adam Law -- Intubation by direct laryngoscopy / J. Adam Law and George Kovacs -- Alternative intubation techniques / J. Adam Law and George kovacs -- Rescue oxygenation / J. Adam Law and George Kovacs -- How to do awake tracheal intubations-oral and nasal / J. Adam Law and Ian Morris -- Rapid-sequence intubation / George Kovacs and John Ross -- Postintubation management / George Kovacs and Rob Green -- Approach to tracheal intubation / George Kovacs and J. Adam Law -- Response to an encountered difficult airway / J. Adam Law and George Kovacs -- Airway pharmacology / Kirk Macquarrie and Peter Zed -- Airway management in trauma and the traumatized airway / Mark Vu ... [et al.] -- Central nervous system emergencies and airway management in the suspected C-spine injured patient / J. Adam Law, Kirk Macquarrie, and James Thompson -- Cardiovascular emergencies / George Kovacs and Alec Ritchie -- Respiratory emergencies -- Laura Duggan and George Kovacs -- The critically ill patient / George Kovacs and Rob Green -- Airway management of the infant / Laura Duggan, Christian Soder, and Narasimhan Jagannathan -- Other medical conditions with airway management implications / Paul Linden and Turki Al Harbi -- Prehospital airway management / David Petrie, John Tallon, and George Kovacs -- Prehospital airway management : clinical considerations / George Kovacs ... [et al.] -- Human factors in airway management / Patrick Croskerry, J. Adam Law, and George Kovacs.
Saving lives by improving processes of care / Jeffrey Fried -- Disaster preparedness for healthcare professionals / Carl W. Taylor -- Overcoming rural healthcare challenges / Charles F. Rinker II -- Building and sustaining a culture of safety / Kenneth H. Cohn, Carol L. Sale, and Gary R. Yates -- Launching an innovation revolution in healthcare / Philip A. Newbold and Diane S. Stover -- Engaging physicians in collaborative supply cost management / Natalia Wilson, Anand Joshi, and Eugene Schneller -- Documentation as destiny : a tool for survival / Robert S. Hendler -- Collaborative approaches to emergency department call / Drew Erra and Michael Hogue -- Healthcare leadership : challenges and solutions / Edward J. O’Connor, Jeremy Mann, and C. Marlena Fiol -- Breaking down silos : the successful collaboration of two feuding healthcare partners / Ralph Jacobson -- The role of a physician executive in facilitating collaboration / Robert Reid -- Building a functional operating room culture / Stanley Mandel and Susan S. Phillips -- Innovations to address disruptive physician behavior / Susan Lapenta, Larry Harmon, and Mel Belding -- Coaching healthcare teams to improved performance / Elizabeth R. Becker and Ashley Wendel -- Engaging physicians to adopt and use electronic health records and computerized physician order entry / Joel C. Berman and Michael Green -- Physician integration : the SSM vision / William Thompson ... [et al.].
Introduction: Ethics in nursing : continuity and change -- 1. Nursing ethics : historical, cultural and professional perspectives -- 2. Nursing ethics - what do we mean by ’ethics’? -- 3. Becoming a nurse and member of the profession -- 4. Power and responsibility in nursing practice and management -- 5. Professional responsibility and accountability in nursing -- 6. Classical areas of controversy in nursing and biomedical ethics -- 7. Direct responsibility in nurse/patient relationships -- 8. Conflicting demands in nursing groups of patients -- 9. Ethics in healthcare management : research, evaluation and performance management -- 10. political ethics of healthcare : health policies and resource allocation -- 11. Corporate ethics in healthcare : strategic planning and ethical policy development -- 12. Making moral decisions and being able to justify our actions -- 13. relevance of moral theory : justifying our ethical policies.
The learning needs assessment project : improving service to persons with developmental disabilities & complex mental health needs in the central region of Nova Scotia