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 BOOKS

Healthcare Learning Community members and staff have compiled the following list of books for those seeking in-depth study and up-to-date market intelligence. When purchasing, you may be directed to the publisher’s site, Amazon.com, or to Healthcare Learning Community’s e-commerce system.

If you have a book or other resource that you believe would be of interest to our members, please email the information to info@trainingindustryhealthcare.com for consideration.

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Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (Hardcover)
- by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery & Mark Thompson

In this book, Porras, Emery and Thompson talk to people-very successful people-to find out what made them so. The candidates had to have been successful for at least 20 years. This left them with a potential list of about 1000 people. 200 personal interviews were conducted over the last ten years and the results form the basis for the book.


 

Demystifying Outsourcing: The Trainer's Guide to Working With Vendors and Consultants
- by Debbie Friedman

Demystifying Outsourcing broadly spans every aspect of outsourcing educational initiatives from assessment to contracting to celebrating your successes! This book should be a core resource in every training manager's library because they will return to it again and again to check its helpful tools at each phase of a project and to keep raising their own quality level.


 

Developing and Measuring Training the 6 Sigma Way

This important resource translates the popular Six Sigma methodologies, tools, and techniques in a way that is customized specifically for the design, implementation, and measurement of employee development programs. A proven alternative to the Kirkpatrick Model, this new model offers a more effective method for designing and testing the effectiveness of training.


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Hipaa Rx: Privacy Rule Training for Pharmacies
- by Learnsomething com

This is a CD-ROM based program that covers all the training mandates of the HIPAA Privacy Rule for pharmacy industry workers. The program includes job-specific training and examples for retail and other pharmacy settings.


 

The Pharmacy Technician Skills-Building Manual
- by Karen Snipe

The only textbook/lab manual that delivers practical training This is a unique, hands-on workbook designed to meet the basic and entry level training requirements of pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technician students through the use of lab exercises. Includes nine training modules that can be utilized over a six month training program.


 

Training Therapy: Prophylaxis and Rehabilitation
- by Rolf Gustavsen, Renate Streeck

Moss, Norway. Thieme Flexibook Series. Pocket guide to medical training therapy for physical therapists and sports medicine specialists. Translation of the 2nd German edition, 1990. DNLM: Exercise Therapy.


 

Medical Informatics Around the World: An International Perspective Focusing on Training Issues
- by Andrew Steele

In the last ten years there has been an explosion in the use of computer technology in many facets of our lives while the international healthcare community has been quite slow to adopt this technology. Nevertheless, governments across the world are developing strategic plans and allocating financial resources to support the use of technology in healthcare. This book provides a global snapshot into such activities in 13 different countries. The perspective is from healthcare professionals embarking upon their own post-graduate training in medical informatics.


 

Thomson Delmar Learning s Pharmacy Practice for Technicians
- by Jane M. Durgin, Zachary I. Hanan

This valuable resource focuses on the competencies necessary to become a pharmacy technician in both institutional and community pharmacy practice. The framework of this easy-to-use book provides a stepwise approach for learning and understanding various components of the profession.


Communication Skills Training for Health Professionals
- by D. A. Dickson, N. C. Morrow, Owen Hargie

Communication Skills Training for Health Professionals provides the sound theoretical basis and practical approach needed to implement a higher standard of care through improved communication. This fully revised and extended second edition has several new perspectives, including the use of interactive video as a training medium; facilitating the transfer of training to work contexts; the communication audit and its role in quality assurance in health.


 

OSHA Training Guide for Medical Employers
- by Jennifer Busick

To comply with the OSHA regulations and reduce injuries, many small and medium-sized health care facilities and independent providers need basic training materials that address their major safety concernsn. This book aims to fulfill that need.


 

The Health Care Training Handbook
- by Kathryn S. Wall, Kathryn Wall

To remain competitive, health care executive must keep their staff abreast of everything-from the latest technological advances to the most complicated regulatory requirements. This is an increasingly difficult challenge faced today's health care organizations. That's where health care training consultants come inandmdash;health care trainers at every level must break from their traditional role and gain the skills and knowledge they need to become organizational development experts-chief learning officers-trusted consultants to top-level executives, managers, and clinicians.


 

Top 100 Health Care Careers: Your Complete Guidebook To Training And Jobs In Allied Health, Nursing, Medicine, And More
- by Saul Wischnitzer, Edith Wischnitzer

In Top 100 Health-Care Careers, Dr. Saul Wischnitzer and Edith Wischnitzer created a comprehensive guidebook to careers in health care. This handy manual contains descriptions of 100 different health care careers, but it goes much further than just giving simple descriptions of these occupations. In the text, the Wischnitzers explain exactly where to find top job opportunities and then walk you through the process of selecting a career path, securing financial aid for your education, and attaining your ideal job.


Esthetic Color Training 

Esthetic Color Training in Dentistry
- by Rade Paravina, John M. Powers

This book/CD-ROM helps users master the art of color selection to achieve the best esthetic results in dental procedures, such as those related to cosmetic dentistry, restorative dentistry, and prosthodontics. It covers everyday dental techniques such as bonding procedures, veneer application, and bleaching that require the dentist to precisely match dental materials to patients' teeth.


Training for the Healthcare Manufacturing Industries: Tools and Techniques to Improve Performance
- by James L. Vesper

Training is critical to compliance, product quality, and profitability. Focusing on employee performance and using a systematic approach to design, develop, deliver, and measure effectiveness of instruction can optimize the training investment. Drawing upon extensive training experience with large and small healthcare manufacturing companies, James L. Vesper gives you proven, effective techniques for planning, undertaking, and evaluating cost-effective training programs.


 

Training Manual for Health Care Central Service Technicians
- by American Society for Healthcare Central

The Training Manual is the premier reference and review publication for individuals preparing for examinations given by The Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution. It is a concise, applicable tool that can be used for orientation, training, and instructional programs in health care facilities and in institutions for learning. The Fifth Edition of the manual is the largest and most comprehensive to date.


 

Business Training for Registered Nurses
- by Pat Bemis

A must for all nurses interested in business including independent contractors, legal nurse consultants, holistic and traditional nurse practitioners, trainers, writers, and more. Business ideas, startup financing, sample contracts, office and bookkeeping setup, covers all the essential business elements.


 

Interactive Group Learning: Strategies for Nurse Educators
- by Deborah L. Ulrich, Kellie J. Glendon

Handbook of strategies for instructors to use in creating a dynamic group learning environment for student nurses. Shows how to combine such elements as writing exercises, cooperative learning, reviews, and new testing formats.


 

Teaching Strategies for Nurse Educators
- by Sandra DeYoung

This book is designed to help nurses learn how to teach. Whether they are teaching patients, staff, or students in an academic setting, nurses who are in the educator role need a theory base from which to work. They also must develop an understanding of educational issues and innovations like literacy and distance learning. They especially need to develop a wide repertoire of teaching strategies.


 

Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice
- by Susan Bacorn Bastable

The role of the nurse in patient teaching is central and critical to improving the health of individuals and the population at large. It is important in both institutional and community-based settings. Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice prepares nurse educators, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners for their ever-increasing roles in patient teaching, health education, and health promotion, and is an excellent text for students in nursing education.


 

Fuszard's Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing
- by Arlene J. Lowenstein

This new edition includes a wide variety of field-tested teaching strategies for multiple setting-traditional classroom, clinical site, and distance education.


 

Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality
- by Ann C. Greiner, Elisa Knebel

Represents the third phase of the Institute of Medicine's initiative, originally launched in 1996, for disseminating scientific information for improving human health. Provides information supporting the position of reforming health profession education for enhancing the quality of health care in the United States.


Basics in Medical Education
by Zubair Amin, Khoo Hoon Eng

Medical education, the art and science behind medical teaching and learning, has progressed remarkably.

Teaching and learning have become more scientific and rigorous, curricula are based on sound pedagogical principles, and problem-based and other forms of active and self-directed learning.

This book provides a balanced overview of the "why" of medical education, emphasizing the need for change and adaptation, and the "how", by demonstrating the way concepts and theories of medical education can be of immediate benefit to the medical teacher.


Community-Based Medical Education: Towards a Shared Agenda for Learning
by Noel Boaden, John Bligh

The trend in medical practice is towards long-term care in the community, as a result of medical advances, higher recovery rates, the aging population and fewer hospital beds. Medical education, however, is still focused on acute hospital care despite the high proportion of doctors who go into community practice.

Community-Based Medical Education addresses the need for change in medical education and outlines some of the key elements which are necessary to any effective reform of this kind. This invaluable text analyses relationships between health care and health care education, sets the scene for educational reform and suggests directions for the development of education programs.


Continuing Medical Education : A Primer: Second Edition
by Adrienne B. Rosof, William Campbell Felch

All over North America this primer has become a valuable aid to CME workers in the many locations medical schools, professional associations, hospitals, specialty societies, industry where the daily activities of CME are carried out.

It successfully combines clear explanations of some difficult concepts and theory in language that everyone will understand, practical examples, suggestions that come only from long years of experience, and brevity.


Higher Surgical Training in General Surgery
by Alfred Cuschieri, Robert J. C. Steele, A. R. Moossa

This revised new edition caters to the needs of the senior trainee surgeon undertaking specialist training in general sugery.

It gives detailed information on those specialties about which the general surgeon is required to have a working knowledge, with an emphasis on gastrointestinal and vascular surgery.


Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care
by Kenneth M. Ludmerer

This important critique of U.S. medical education from WWI to the present makes painfully clear that the training of the nation's doctors could be vital to your health.

Ludmerer reviews American medical education from World War I to the present, examining its exponential growth and response to social trends.

Ludmerer looks at the future of medicine in America and reveals some very disturbing trends in managed care, education, and research funding. With a wealth of factual details and insightful questions, this book is destined to have an impact on the future of medical education. Highly recommended for all libraries.AEric D. Albright, Duke Medical Ctr. Lib., Durham, NC Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Training Techniques in Cardiac Rehabilitation
by Barry A. Franklin, John P. Porcari, David E. Verrill, Paul S. Fardy (Editor)

Provides in depth information to help practitioners make informed decisions about the broad scope of nontraditional exercise programs available for cardiac patients.


Training Wheels for Nurses
by Barbara Arnoldussen

Nothing is more daunting than your first 100 days in a new profession unless you go in prepared. Who better to advise you on how to successfully make it through than hundreds of experienced nurses who have been successful themselves?


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