Get the official Joint Commission standards and other accreditation requirements in the 2013 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Critical Access Hospitals (CAMCAH). A portable, updatable 3-ring binder includes color-coded tabs that allow you to find exactly what you need for standards compliance when you need it. Key Topics: * Gold tab standards requirements including the 2013 standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and Accreditation Participation Requirements * Blue tab information about the accreditation process, policies, and procedures * Details on the NEW Intracycle Monitoring process and the Focused Standards Assessment (FSA), optional for critical access hospitals * Keys to successfully using the manual for survey preparedness * Practical survey preparation information on the Early Survey Policy, documentation requirements, standards applicability, and more Key Features: * Integrated regulatory requirements for deemed status * Icons to help you navigate scoring, criticality, and risk areas addressed in the FSA * Easily updated with the Subscription Update Service * A table listing all changes from 2012 to 2013 To keep your 2013 CAMCAH up to date, you need the 2013 Subscription Update Service.

Hospital and Healthcare Security, Fifth Edition, examines the issues inherent to healthcare and hospital security, including licensing, regulatory requirements, litigation, and accreditation standards. Building on the solid foundation laid down in the first four editions, the book looks at the changes that have occurred in healthcare security since the last edition was published in 2001. It consists of 25 chapters and presents examples from Canada, the UK, and the United States. It first provides an overview of the healthcare environment, including categories of healthcare, types of hospitals, the nonhospital side of healthcare, and the different stakeholders. It then describes basic healthcare security risks/vulnerabilities and offers tips on security management planning. The book also discusses security department organization and staffing, management and supervision of the security force, training of security personnel, security force deployment and patrol activities, employee involvement and awareness of security issues, implementation of physical security safeguards, parking control and security, and emergency preparedness. Healthcare security practitioners and hospital administrators will find this book invaluable. - Practical support for healthcare security professionals, including operationally proven policies, and procedures - Specific assistance in preparing plans and materials tailored to healthcare security programs - Summary tables and sample forms bring together key data, facilitating ROI discussions with administrators and other departments - General principles clearly laid out so readers can apply the industry standards most appropriate to their own environment NEW TO THIS EDITION: - Quick-start section for hospital administrators who need an overview of security issues and best practices

Here’s the most complete and easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients. It’s really two books in one! The first half provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan; the second half covers the safe prescription and administration of psychotropic medications. And, the concepts can be applied to a variety of healthcare settings…from in-patient hospitalization through the outpatient clinic…to home health and private practice. Completely revised and updated throughout, the 9th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge and new medications in the field, including the DSM-5, all of today’s new psychotropic medications, and the 2012-2014 content in the NANDA Nursing Diagnoses: Taxonomy II.