The Antidote to Suffering: How Compassionate Connected Care Can Improve Safety, Quality, and Experience
The Antidote to Suffering: How Compassionate Connected Care Can Improve Safety, Quality, and Experience

Author: Christina Dempsey

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2017-11-03

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1260116565

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An indispensable guide to reducing the suffering―of patients and caregivers alike―and to improving healthcare delivery for all In our efforts to treat patients, cure illness, and manage institutions, healthcare professionals too often overlook the fundamental purpose everyone in the industry shares: to alleviate suffering. Press Ganey’s Chief Nursing Officer, Christina Dempsey, has worked everywhere in healthcare, from the ward floor to the hospital boardroom. She has also experienced the system as a patient and as a family member of a critically ill patient. In The Antidote to Suffering, this 30-year healthcare veteran and patient-experience thought leader argues that the key to improving healthcare is to reduce the suffering—physical, psychological, and emotional—of patients and caregivers alike through Compassionate Connected CareTM. Drawing on her 360-degree perspective, Dempsey offers a comprehensive, detailed, evidence-based plan that addresses the clinical, operational, cultural, and behavioral dimensions of care that every patient and caregiver experiences, in every setting. When suffering decreases, Dempsey argues, outcomes improve for patients and those who care for them. A virtuous cycle takes hold, leading to increases in morale, loyalty, and productivity and results in a culture that drives quality, safety, and value. It paves the path for creating a new national healthcare culture—one that values compassion, fosters efficiency, and drives innovation The Antidote to Suffering is the first book to explore the pervasiveness of suffering in our healthcare system, and to provide the strategies and tools to: * Identify and measure suffering throughout your organization * Create a system in which every clinical response is informed by compassion * Operationalize staff behavior to promote meaning and purpose * Increase productivity by building a culture of collaboration Reducing human suffering isn’t just a moral imperative for healthcare providers. It’s a practical way to improve organizations and fix our broken system—without sacrificing the respect, dignity, and compassion we all deserve.

Womansafehealth
Womansafehealth

Author: Elizabeth M Shadigian

Publisher: Womansafehealth Herstory, LLC

Published: 2016-07-17

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780989713009

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Drawing on the actual experiences of women, WomanSafeHealth: The Antidote to Status Quo Health Care uses cartoons and humor together with analysis and compassion to reveal what it means to meet a woman's health care needs. Author Elizabeth Shadigian, MD, FACOG is a board-certified OB/GYN specializing in the health, safety and well-being of women.

The Antidote
The Antidote

Author: Barry Werth

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1451655665

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In 1989, the charismatic Joshua Boger left Merck, then America's most admired business, to found a drug company that would challenge industry giants and transform health care. Journalist Barry Werth described the company's tumultuous early days during the AIDS crisis in The Billion-Dollar Molecule, a celebrated classic of science and business journalism. Now he returns to tell the story of Vertex's bold endurance and eventual success. The pharmaceutical business is America's toughest and one of its most profitable. It's riskier and more rigorous at just about every stage than any other business, from the towering biological uncertainties inherent in its mission to treat disease; to the 30-to-1 failure rate in bringing out a successful medicine; to the multibillion-dollar cost of ramping up a successful product; to operating in the world's most regulated industry, matched only by nuclear power. Werth captures the full scope of Vertex's 25-year drive to deliver breakthrough medicines.--From publisher description.

The Antidote
The Antidote

Author: Oliver Burkeman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1429947608

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Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives, and in society at large, it's our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity, and uncertainty—the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and ultimately uplifting, The Antidote is the intelligent person's guide to understanding the much-misunderstood idea of happiness.

Total Cure
Total Cure

Author: Harold S. Luft

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2008-10-31

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780674032101

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Proposals to reform the health care system do not guarantee the creation of a system with the quality of care patients want or the flexibility clinicians need. Here, Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American.

Restore Yourself
Restore Yourself

Author: Edy Greenblatt

Publisher:

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780981929910

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"In this important book, Edy Greenblatt shows us the way to achieve a higher quality of life and how to eliminate so many of the stressors that plague and tire us - especially the self imposed ones." -Bronwyn Fryer, Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review "This inspiring book translates years of thoughtful social scientific research into actionable strategies for bringing positive energy back into our work and lives. Restore Yourself not only advances the argument that restoration is critical to both productivity and happiness, it shows us HOW to find that energy and then capitalize on it every day." -Monica C. Higgins, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and author, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry .."astonishingly timely, useful and important. Please read it before you die because it may add a few years to your life." -Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and best selling author of Leaders, An Invented Life and On Becoming a Leader.

The Antidote for Everything
The Antidote for Everything

Author: Kimmery Martin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1984802844

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In this whip-smart and timely novel from acclaimed author Kimmery Martin, two doctors travel a surprising path when they must choose between treating their patients and keeping their jobs. Georgia Brown’s profession as a urologist requires her to interact with plenty of naked men, but her romantic prospects have fizzled. The most important person in her life is her friend Jonah Tsukada, a funny, empathetic family medicine doctor who works at the same hospital in Charleston, South Carolina and who has become as close as family to her. Just after Georgia leaves the country for a medical conference, Jonah shares startling news. The hospital is instructing doctors to stop providing medical care for transgender patients. Jonah, a gay man, is the first to be fired when he refuses to abandon his patients. Stunned by the predicament of her closest friend, Georgia’s natural instinct is to fight alongside him. But when her attempts to address the situation result in incalculable harm, both Georgia and Jonah find themselves facing the loss of much more than their careers.

Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care
Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care

Author: Neal Adams

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2004-12-03

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0080521576

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Requirements for treatment planning in the mental health and addictions fields are long standing and embedded in the treatment system. However, most clinicians find it a challenge to develop an effective, person-centered treatment plan. Such a plan is required for reimbursement, regulatory, accreditation and managed care purposes. Without a thoughtful assessment and well-written plan, programs and private clinicians are subject to financial penalties, poor licensing/accreditation reviews, less than stellar audits, etc. In addition, research is beginning to demonstrate that a well-developed person-centered care plan can lead to better outcomes for persons served.* Enhance the reader's understanding of the value and role of treatment planning in responding to the needs of adults, children and families with mental health and substance abuse treatment needs* Build the skills necessary to provide quality, person-centered, culturally competent and recovery / resiliency-orientated care in a changing service delivery system* Provide readers with sample documents, examples of how to write a plan, etc.* Provide a text and educational tool for course work and training as well as a reference for established practioners* Assist mental health and addictive disorders providers / programs in meeting external requirements, improve the quality of services and outcomes, and maintain optimum reimbursement

The Compassion Antidote
The Compassion Antidote

Author: Catherine Taughinbaugh

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781667810768

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If you are struggling with your teen's or young adult's substance use issues, "The Compassion Antidote" offers a proven framework for creating change. Catherine Taughinbaugh, Certified Parent Coach, reveals evidence-based strategies for more productive conversations with your child. She explains how positive reinforcement, allowing for negative consequences, setting clear boundaries, and taking care of yourself will give you the best chance to help your child with recovery. This easy-to-understand guide will help parents and other family members stay positive, and continue to help their child change. Along the way, readers will be inspired by stories from families who have the same struggles, fears, hopes, and dreams for their young adults and teens. You don't have to let go and detach from your child--you can lean in and stay close. Catherine draws on proven ideas from the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) approach to explain the necessary steps to better communicate with empathy and understanding. These strategies were developed by psychologists who have been studying addiction for years. "The Compassion Antidote" will change the way you think about your role in family addiction. It will give you the tools and strategies you need to help your struggling young adult or teen transform their life--from being tethered to their drug or alcohol use to reaching their potential and thriving.