1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828189903321

Titolo

Changing health care in Canada / / edited by Pierre-Gerlier Forest, Gregory P. Marchildon, and Tom McIntos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-4426-5923-8

1-281-99629-7

9786611996291

1-4426-7283-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Romanow Papers ; ; Volume 2

Altri autori (Persone)

ForestPierre-Gerlier

Disciplina

362.1/0971

Soggetti

Medical care - Canada

Medical economics - Canada

Medical policy - Canada

Public health - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers originally commissioned as part of the research activities of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada headed by Roy J. Romanow.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Changing Health Care in Canada -- Part One: System Change, Organization Change -- 1 Complicated and Complex Systems: What Would Successful Reform of Medicare Look Like? -- 2 Financial Rules As a Catalyst for Change in the Canadian Health Care System -- 3 Governance and Management of Change in Canada's Health System -- Part Two: Change and Providers -- 4 Planning for Care: Approaches to Human Resources Policy and Planning in Health Care

5 How Do Human Resource Policies and Practices Inhibit Change in Health Care? A Plan for the Future6 Changes and a Few Paradoxes: Some Thoughts on Health System Personnel -- 7 The Influence of



Physician-Payment Methods on the Efficiency of the Health Care System -- Part Three: Change and the Public -- 8 Public Involvement in the Development of a Health Care Vision -- 9 Public Participation and Citizen Governance in the Canadian Health System -- 10 Practical Strategies for Facilitating Meaningful Citizen Involvement in Health Planning

Sommario/riassunto

The second in a series of three volumes presenting a selection of the best studies prepared for the Romanow Commission, this volume focuses on the problem of change in health care and health systems. Combining the talents of experienced health policy experts with innovative researchers, the resulting studies provide unique perspectives on the difficult issues under scrutiny, including complexity in health systems, management of human resources, organizational control and regulation, and public engagement.Commissioned and prepared with applicability as the foremost criteria, all of the studies presented in this volume offer solutions in managing obstacles to change. Each study also includes an appraisal of the most recent literature in the field.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019234703321

Titolo

Guided reflection : a narrative approach to advancing professional practice / / edited by Christopher Johns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, : Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

9786612661686

9781444347975

1444347977

9781282661684

128266168X

9781444324969

1444324969

9781444324976

1444324977

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsChristopher

Disciplina

610.7301

Soggetti

Nursing - Philosophy

Self-evaluation

Self-knowledge, Theory of

Holistic nursing



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of: Guided reflection / Christopher Johns ; with contributions from Aileen Joiner ... [et al.]. 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Guided Reflection: A narrative approach to advancing professional practice; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; Chapter 1: The basic scheme; Chapter 2: Constructing the reflexiven arrative; Chapter 3: Deepening insights; Chapter 4: Weaving the narrative; Chapter 5: A feminist slant; Chapter 6: Awakenings; Chapter 7: Finding a new way in health visiting; Chapter 8: Falling through the net and the spider's web: two metaphoric moments along my journey; Chapter 9: Climbing walls; Chapter 10: Reflections on performance; Chapter 11: More than eggs for breakfast

Chapter 12: Shifting attitude with deliberate self-harm patients in Accident and Emergency (A&E)Chapter 13: Jane's rap: guided reflection as a pathway to self as sacred space; Chapter 14: Audiencing; Chapter 15: Coherence and ethics; Chapter 16: An accidental tourist; Chapter 17: Reflections; Appendices; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""...an important text for practitioners...this text is a valuable tool that develops self-inquiry skills."" Journal of Advanced Nursing  Reflection is widely recognised as an invaluable tool in health care, providing fresh insights which enable practitioners to develop their own practice and improve the quality of their care. Guided Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice introduces the practitioner to the concept of guided reflection, in which the practitioner is assisted by a mentor (or 'guide') in a process of self-enquiry,