Search

Your search keyword '"Guy, Karen"' showing total 13 results
Start Over Author "Guy, Karen"
13 results on '"Guy, Karen"'

3. Doing it by yourself: introducing the self-administration of medicines into a new district general hospital and newly merged trust can be daunting. Karen Guy and Cheryl Gibbons examine the issues from a leadership and change management perspective

Author

Guy, Karen and Gibbons, Cheryl

Subjects
Drugs -- Vehicles -- Dosage and administration, Self medication -- Methods -- Standards, Drug delivery systems -- Management -- Standards, Nurses -- Practice -- Management -- Methods, Health, Health care industry, Company business management, Practice, Management, Standards, Methods
Abstract

CHANGE IS an ever present feature of organisational life (Burnes 2000) and its pace and magnitude have increased significantly over recent years. Many studies have demonstrated how organisations have experienced [...]

Published
2003

4. 'Wasting medicines often starts the moment a prescription is generated'

Author

Guy, Karen

Subjects
Hospitals -- United Kingdom, Hospitals -- Management, Medical wastes -- Evaluation, Pharmacists -- Practice, Medication abuse -- Analysis, Company business management, Health
Abstract

The patients are found to waste a large amount of medicine, as they don't take all the medicines prescribed to them. The hospitals have hence started prescribing partnerships, where in the patients are advised to get the left over medicines to hospitals that can reuse them.

Published
2007

5. Patients must have a holistic assessment of their needs

Author

Guy, Karen

Subjects
Medication errors -- Prevention, Drugs -- Dosage and administration, Drugs -- Practice, Drugs -- Management, Patients -- Care and treatment, Company business management, Health
Abstract

The practice of prescribing and administrating medicines to various patients should always be carried out only after a holistic assessment of their physical, as well as mental health needs. The author states that the task of administration of medicines is very complex and requires a lot of accurate knowledge and expertise, as even a small mistake can be very hazardous for the patient.

Published
2007

6. 'Medicines management is not just a pharmacy issue'

Author

Guy, Karen

Subjects
Nurses -- Practice, Prescription writing -- Management, Medicine -- Practice, Medicine -- Alliances and partnerships, Medicine -- Management, Company business management, Health
Abstract

The Hospital Medicines Management Collaborative (HMMC) has given the acute trusts the opportunity to work collaboratively with their local PCTs and other trusts inside and outside the HMMC to improve medicine management systems, since 2004. Healthcare professionals need to appreciate the roles of the pharmacy staff and the systems they work within, and working together with patients by forming partnerships in all aspects of prescribing and medicines management is the only way forward.

Published
2006

10. Reviews.

Author

Reed, John, Minne, Carine, Guy, Karen, Yakeley, Jessica, Sohn, Leslie, Hinshelwood, Bob, Podmore, John, Antonopoulos, Georgios A., Carroll, Andrew, Henderson, Christopher, Sarkar, Sameer, and Taylor, Celia

Subjects
NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews several books related to mental health including "The Shocking State of Britain's Prisons and the Need for Visionary Change," by D. Ramsbotham, "Guilt: Revenge, Remorse and Responsibility after Freud," by R. Speziale-Bagliaca, and "From Toxic Institutions to Therapeutic Environments: Residential Settings in Mental Health Services," edited by P. Campling, S. Davies, and G. Farquharson..

Published
2006
Full Text
View/download PDF

11. AHRA publishes updated Compensation & Benefits Survey.

Author

Guy K

Subjects
Data Collection, Humans, Planning Techniques, Societies, Medical, United States, Workforce, Radiology Department, Hospital economics, Salaries and Fringe Benefits statistics & numerical data, Technology, Radiologic economics
Published
2004

13. What happened after they took the CRA exam?

Author

Guy K

Subjects
Educational Measurement, Hospital Administrators standards, Humans, Professional Competence, United States, Certification, Hospital Administrators education, Radiology Department, Hospital organization & administration
Published
2003

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results