A single reference source for understanding, leading, and managing the change process to skillfully translate vision into results. Change Basics will enable you to skillfully introduce and manage change. With an essential background on reasons for initial resistance and an analysis of possible outcomes, it provides specific strategies to counter opposition and implement a change initiative in your organization.
Emerging policy changes are encouraging adoption of a team-based approach to healthcare, yet most healthcare professionals receive little training in how to practice integrated care. Basics of Behavioral Health in Primary Care is a playbook for mental health and medical professionals to share in addressing behavioral health concerns in primary care. Concise and practical, this clinically-focused book addresses the needs of a diverse group of healthcare providers, as well as students preparing for careers in the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare.
In this fully updated 2018 edition of The Back to Basics Diet, the popular guide to healthy and effective weight loss, author David Hack dismisses common advice to eat less and move more as well-meaning but misguided. Cutting through the hype and confusion of so many popular diets, David takes readers back to basics in terms of what we should be eating and reveals the astonishing truth about our modern diet. The Back to Basics Diet offers a straightforward explanation as to why a plant-based diet and gentle daily exercise holds the key to successful weight loss. This remarkable and proven weight loss system is based on modern science and the intriguing story of human evolution. After a fascinating journey back into our evolutionary past and a brief look at the workings of the human body, David reveals the secret of what and when to eat to ensure we lose weight and keep that weight off for life. The initial seven-week weight loss programme helps readers adapt to a new, healthy lifestyle and is followed by a method that helps them stay on track after the initial change. With a two-week food template, recipes, motivational tips and some good old-fashioned common sense, this empowering book is sure to become an indispensable guide to lifelong health and permanent weight loss.
Overwhelmed by orbitals? Terrified of thermodynamics? Agitated by acids and bases? Have no fear! This follow-up to the award-winning Chemistry Basics will clear up your chemistry woes. In More Chemistry Basics, the ninth book in the bestselling Stop Faking It! series, author Bill Robertson introduces additional chemistry concepts and explains science basics using easy-to-follow activities that help teachers learn the fundamentals.
Climate Change: Evidence and Causes is a jointly produced publication of The US National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society. Written by a UK-US team of leading climate scientists and reviewed by climate scientists and others, the publication is intended as a brief, readable reference document for decision makers, policy makers, educators, and other individuals seeking authoritative information on the some of the questions that continue to be asked. Climate Change makes clear what is well-established and where understanding is still developing. It echoes and builds upon the long history of climate-related work from both national academies, as well as on the newest climate-change assessment from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It touches on current areas of active debate and ongoing research, such as the link between ocean heat content and the rate of warming.
Written by one of the founders of the field and addressing all of the major issues, World History: The Basics is both an ideal introduction to world history and an important statement about the past, present and future of the field.
Summaries a portion of the research conducted under a two-year joint project of the American Society for Training and Development and the U.S. Department of Labor.
This book provides guidance on how to meet the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry as a beginner. It includes procedures for production and packaging, batch auditing as well as all quality measures used in the pharmaceutical industry. This book also provides questions and answers with each chapter for institutes and trainers providing basic training to the new graduates and new comers to the industry. Basics of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Quality Operations: A Comprehensive Guide is primarily written for anyone in the pharmaceutical industry interested in development and manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and finished pharmaceutical manufacturers in both sterile and non‐sterile areas. The book is a simple, concise, and easy to use reference tool covering basic quality concepts required by the pharmaceutical educational institutions and professional certification bodies. It describes details of all GXP activities that are directly related to Quality, Safety, and Efficacy of the products manufactured under the umbrella of Quality Operations, common testing methods which are used in any modern industry, Requirements of Validation and Qualification of equipment, facilities and processes, integral segments of Drug product manufacturing, storage, and distribution practices. The material provides stepwise guidance on how to evaluate, audit, qualify, and approve a pharmaceutical product to enhance the GMP within the industry. The book is written with the idea of providing basic knowledge to undergraduate students who are preparing to enter the industry at the end of their graduation. The book would also be beneficial for institutions conducting pharmaceutical technology study courses in terms of GMP and GLP applications. Features: Provides readers and front line health care product manufacturers, all the information they need to know to develop a GMP oriented industry with trained and skilled personnel and manufacture products that meet GMP and regulatory requirements. Provides stepwise guidance on how to evaluate, audit, qualify, and approve a pharmaceutical product and packaging material to enhance the GMP within the industry. Includes significant processes and steps in production for all common dosage forms. Explains how in‐process and finished products are released. Provides an ideal and effective tool for anyone starting Quality Assurance/Quality control/Production responsibilities.
Change Management is not a single, coherent and agreed upon approach but rather an assortment of tools, techniques, methods and simple good intentions - all of which are simply and practically broken down by this book. The problems with change management is at all levels of management and many people have roles which require them to not only perform the traditional day-to-day tasks associated with being a manager, but also need to deliver ongoing change in their teams, departments or divisions. They want straightforward and practical advise that is easy to understand and can be applied immediately, which this book delivers. It shows how change management can be constructively approached by a practical frame work.
