Full Description
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview on critical care administration. The text reviews important aspects and considerations involved in developing an efficient, cost-effective critical care program, while maintaining a safe and high-quality work environment. Major topics covered include different models of critical care services, planning and budgeting, administration support, staffing models, tele/smart ICU, protocols and guidelines, and disaster preparedness and management.
Written by experts in the field, Critical Care Administration: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a practical, handy resource for critical care professionals involved in the administration and management of ICUs.
Contents
Critical Care Services: Scope of Practice.- Planning and Budgeting.- Setting the Goals.- Administration Support.- Quality Indicators: The Use of Metrics in Critical Care Medicine.- Internal Financial Audits in the ICU.- Models of Staffing.- Tele-ICU.- Digital Transformation: The Smart ICU.- Protocols, Policies, and Procedures: Tools for Quality Improvement in Critical Care.- ICU Design.- Disaster Preparedness and Management.- Critical Care Educational Modeling.- Humanizing Critical Care.- Billing and Coding.- Intensive Care Burnout.- Complementary Therapies.- Establishing a Research Program in the ICU.- Patient Safety in Intensive Care Medicine.
