books about: private-care     books:       Caring for Your Collections2 reviews National Committee to Save Am Harry N. Abrams, 1992 Professional Help for the Private Collector This book was assigned reading in the Museum Studies program I completed several years ago. I found it to be very readable and useful. It is geared to the person who is serious about preserving the treasures he or she has collected or inherited. Among its lessons is the fact that virtually everything we do to maintain our everyday household objects is not appropriate for objects that we would ...             An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century2 reviews James Orbinski Walker & Company, 2008 An Imperfect Offering Dr. Orbinski's account of his life's work with Medecins sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders reads like a thriller. Orbinski's stories from his Irish-Canadian childhood as the son of very poor Irish immigrants give insight to his passion to help the less fortunate. The memoirs of his MSF work in treacherous places like Somalia, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Sudan reveal the inner politics of ...             At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries36 reviews Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm Clarkson Potter, 1995 Valentine's gift for husband My husband is an English professor and our house is filled with books. I read about this one in the Chronicle of Higher Education and knew he would love it. We always try to purchase unusual Valentine's gifts, so it seemed a perfect time to add it to our collection. He loves the book and has taken it to work to share with colleagues.             Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals16 reviews Lynn Grodzki W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 A must Read for any alternative healthcare provider I've just recently started building an acupuncture practice in a new city and I wanted some fresh ideas on marketing. I'm doing well but I'd like to do better and I HATE marketing. This book should be in all acupuncture schools. I'd love it if they would do a marketing seminar with this woman. Many of these ideas are easy to implement. Some of them are a small turn of phrase from those things ...             The Care of Fine Books1 review Jane Greenfield The Lyons Press, 1988 Excellent Buy I wish everybody had the enthusiasm for caring for books that Jane Greenfield does. Too many are classic, valuable tomes thrown into used bookstores and decimated over time. This book is an excellent guide to caring for your books, and making them valuable over time.             Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Handbook for Volunteer Service Managers1 review Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Volunteers in Hospice and pallative care Very compassionate overview and description of the organization of a hospice. Great emphasis placed orientation, and volunteer rules. A good handbook for service managers.             The Lactation Consultant in Private Practice: The ABCs of Getting Started2 reviews Linda J. Smith Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2002 Private Practice Must Have! This is an excellent book for newly certified IBCLC's, RN's looking to go into private practice, or anyone even considering entering the field of lactation science. It is well written and very informative. I especially appreciate the advice on time management in the field vs. time with family...as well as pointers to facilitate the best care for the mother/baby dyad.             I Never Walk the Halls Alone: A Nurse's Private Collection of God's Critical Care1 review Donna Kincheloe ACW Press, 2007 Inspirational, positive reading Donna Kincheloe is a Christian and a nurse, and as the title suggests those themes are the essence of the book. The book is a little thin for the price, but what is here is very good. It is loaded with scripture and comments about how those words apply to our everyday lives. It started off a little slow for me, I was really wanting to hear stories from the nursing perspective, but the ...             Performance-based Contracting for Health Services in Developing Countries: A Toolkit (Health, Nutrition, and ... Benjamin Loevinsohn World Bank Publications, 2008 In many countries the delivery of health services is inadequate and one way of improving the situation is to contract with non-state providers. Performance-based contracting is a type of contracting with: (a) a clear set of objectives and indicators; (b) systematic efforts to collect data to judge contractor performance; and (c) some consequences for the contractor, either rewards or sanctions, based on performance. Effective contracting for ...             The Manhattan Directory of Private Nursery Schools9 reviews Victoria Goldman, Marcy Braun Soho Press, 2002 An Excellent Resource for Parents! Victoria Goldman's Directory of Nursery Schools is essential reading for any New York City parent who is about to embark on the nursery school admissions process. An earlier reviewer criticized it for not critiquing the schools, but I think that is it's strength. It's a guidebook. It provides a description of each school and will help you narrow the choices of nursery schools to which you ...             The Private Regulation of American Health Care1 review Betty Leyerle M.E. Sharpe, 1994 Tour de force exegesis of capital's takeover of health care I have read many, many articles and books about managed care, but Betty Leyerle's book is by far the best and most penetrating analysis of the planned and schemed takeover of our health care system by big capital. As she explains and documents, the motives for managed care's rise are both money and ideology: The corporate sector was frightened by Medicare in the late sixties and the spectre ...             Establishing Private Health Care Facilities in Developing Countries: A Guide for Medical Entrepreneurs (WBI ...1 review Seung-Hee Nah, Egbe Osifo-Dawodu World Bank Publications, 2007 Establishing Private Health Care Facilities in Developing Countries: A Guide for Medical Entrepreneurs This is an excellent guide for medical professionals who would like to establish medical facilitites in the developing world.It is very easy to read and understand without overwhelming the medical professionals with minimal buisness background. I would highly recommend this book to all healthcare professionals.             Punch with Care: An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery2 reviews Phoebe Atwood Taylor Foul Play Press, 1995 A classic with punch. The war is over. Asey Mayo is back on Cape Cod waiting out a strike at the Porter (auto) plant. His old friend, Doc Cummings comes along and wants Asey to help him meet Carolyn Barton Boone, a glamourous activist who is President of a college. She's in the area with a bunch of students doing a study of small towns. Asey agrees when he's called upon to find a missing guest. As always there ...             Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment2 reviews Anne Colby, William Damon Free Pr, 1992 A classic in the field Colby and Damon have authored a classic in the field of Moral development. They tell the stories of many "moral exemplars" and draw from those stories a theory of moral development in adulthood. Carol Gilligan was one of the first psychologists to present evidence that the development of the self was central to moral thought and action (though she borrowed the idea from Freud). Colby and ...             The Preferred Provider's Handbook: Building A Successful Private Therapy Practice In The Managed Care ... William Poynter Routledge, 1994 Practical text for psychotherapists on how to market themselves to managed care organizations.             Successful Private Practice: Winning Strategies for Mental Health Professionals5 reviews Susan Frager Wiley, 2000 The classic example of not judging a book by its cover Don't be fooled by the new title and cover, it's the same book inside. Not one word has been changed - I hope! If you want to learn to "manage managed care," this is your book. It is certainly one aspect of private practice, but a truly "Successful Private Practice" is so much more than knowing how to navigate managed care. One of these days, maybe I will write the real "Successful Private ...             The Public-Private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy Rosemary Stevens Transaction Publishers, 2007 The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. "The Public-Private Health Care State" explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health care in terms of its history and its continuing evolution today. Historian and policy analyst, Rosemary Stevens has selected and edited ...             Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health (Harvard Series on Population and International Health) Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 2002 Global health problems require global solutions, and public-private partnerships are increasingly called upon to provide these solutions. Such partnerships involve private corporations in collaboration with governments, international agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. They can be very productive, but they also bring their own problems. This volume examines the organizational and ethical challenges of partnerships and suggests ways to ...             HIPAA Privacy: The Privacy Rule and Health Care Practice CD-ROM (HIPAA Training on CD-ROM for Health ... Learn Something Inc. Prentice Hall, 2004 All healthcare professionals need to know and abide by the new HIPAA guidelines. This program provides a comprehensive training in the rules and guidelines. KEY TOPICS: This complete program details why HIPAA matters and what it means, while providing activities and examples that address specific healthcare situations. Topics include: HIPAA Basics, Company Obligations, Penalties, Preemptive Provisions, and much more. 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