My Healthcare Hero

My Healthcare Hero
Author: Samantha Ochse
Publisher: Bookbaby
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2021-04-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781098367831

Grab a copy of My Healthcare Hero to honor the sacrifice and courage of our frontline workers and their families. This interactive story sheds light on the shared experiences of our healthcare professionals, and their children, during the COVID-19 pandemic, while offering answers to various questions they may be wrestling with. This story affirms that not all heroes wear capes!

Beyond Heroes

Beyond Heroes
Author: Kim Barnas
Publisher: ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 098488484X

Hospitals have long relied on the heroics of one brilliant nurse or doctor to save the day. Such heroics often result in temporary workarounds and quick fixes that leave not only patients and quality care at risk, but also increase costs. This is the story of an organization breaking that habit. Like a growing number of healthcare organizations around the world, ThedaCare, Inc. has been using lean thinking and the principles of the Toyota Production System to improve quality of care, reduce waste, and become more reliable. But lean thinking was incompatible with ThedaCare’s old top-down, hero-based system of management. Kim Barnas, former SVP of ThedaCare, shows us how she and her team created a management system that is stable and lean, to spur continuous improvement. Beyond Heroes shows the reader, step by step, how ThedaCare teams developed the system, using the stories of its doctors, nurses and administrators to illustrate. The book explores each of the eight essential components of the lean system, from front-line problem solving with the scientific method to daily team huddles and creating standard work for leaders all the way to the top of an organization. Finally, the author introduces four executives from healthcare systems across North America who have implemented ThedaCare’s system and share the lessons they learned along the way. Beyond Heroes is not just a call to action or an argument for a better healthcare system. It is a necessary roadmap through the rocky terrain ahead, one that healthcare leaders can customize to their special needs.

Get What's Yours

Get What's Yours
Author: Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1476772290

Learn the secrets to maximizing your Social Security benefits and earn up to thousands of dollars more each year with expert advice that you can't get anywhere else. Want to know how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits? You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these rules), but Kotlikoff, Moeller, and Solman explain Social Security benefits in an easy to understand and user-friendly style. What you don't know can seriously hurt you: wrong decisions about which Social Security benefits to apply for cost some individual retirees tens of thousands of dollars in lost income every year. How many retirees or those nearing retirement know about such Social Security options as file and suspend (apply for benefits and then don't take them)? Or start stop start (start benefits, stop them, then re-start them)? Or-just as important-when and how to use these techniques? Get What's Yours covers the most frequent benefit scenarios faced by married retired couples, by divorced retirees, by widows and widowers, among others. It explains what to do if you're a retired parent of dependent children, disabled, or an eligible beneficiary who continues to work, and how to plan wisely before retirement. It addresses the tax consequences of your choices, as well as the financial implications for other investments. Many personal finance books briefly address Social Security, but none offers the thorough, authoritative, yet conversational analysis found here. You've paid all your working life for these benefits. Now, get what's yours.

Is Mommy a Doctor Or Superhero?

Is Mommy a Doctor Or Superhero?
Author: Amy F Ho
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781088112205

Whether it's at a hospital, a clinic, at the park, or home, Doctor Mommy always takes care of everyone, everywhere! Through adorable illustrations and a whimsical cast of characters, this picture book inspires children with the realization that they too can be superheroes. Written by a physician, these depictions of life in healthcare are brimming with fun references, giving adults a chance to share their love of medicine with their kids. The real heroes in our lives are often the unspoken ones. This book is dedicated to our real-life superheroes, Doctor Mommies who both save lives and create lives.

40 Days of Hope for Healthcare Heroes

40 Days of Hope for Healthcare Heroes
Author: Amy K. Sorrells, BSN, RN
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496455894

Renew your faith and focus, and rededicate yourself to the profession you love with 40 Days of Hope for Healthcare Heroes! There’s hope for your weary feet and exhausted soul! Healthcare workers are suffering from their own epidemic of burnout and moral injury as a result of dwindling resources and being overworked. To care for patients, you need to find ways to take care of yourself. In 40 Days of Hope for Healthcare Heroes you’ll find inspirational readings and prayers to help renew your faith and focus, center your heart, and inspire you to rededicate yourself to the medical career you love. This beautiful giftbook combines short stories from the front lines, “Breakroom Boosts” to encourage and energize, space to journal, and prayers that are quick enough to recite during handwashing—something that occurs multiple times a day. Healthcare workers across all continuums of care will want to read this book to rediscover the joy of their calling and as a balm of relief for their caregiver’s soul.

Ask Dr. Nandi

Ask Dr. Nandi
Author: Partha Nandi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1501156810

The star of the award-winning TV show, Ask Dr. Nandi, which reaches over eighty-five million US households, empowers readers to become their own health hero. Dr. Partha Nandi delivers passionate, empathetic, and trusted health advice daily to over eighty-five million US households, is seen in ninety countries worldwide, and his Facebook videos have been watched by more than 1.5 million viewers. In a sound bite culture, Ask Dr. Nandi disrupts the status quo by engaging viewers with in depth discussions on the health and wellness topics that matter to their lives. A health hero means being an advocate for yourself and your family, in sickness and in health. It’s about building the confidence to gain knowledge and use that knowledge to make tough decisions. In Ask Dr. Nandi, Dr. Nandi gives readers the necessary tools to become empowered and take ownership of his or her health choices. Whether addressing bullying or prostate cancer, community and purpose or fitness and nutrition, Dr. Nandi tackles the tough questions, stimulates conversations, creates a new awareness of options and resources, and guides readers to confidently make the choices that are best for them.

Be My Hero

Be My Hero
Author: Linda Kage
Publisher: Linda Kage
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1901
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1311651322

Once upon a time, there was this pampered rich girl who was kind of full of herself. She really only cared about appearances and hiding all her dark, ugly secrets under the guise of an opinionated snob. But then Eva Mercer got pregnant, shot by a psycho, and kicked out of the only home she knew. Now she’s broke, unemployed, and has to start anew with a newborn to raise. But how? On the other side of town, sexy, tattooed orphan, Patrick Ryan, can’t get a break. He’s out on parole for defending the last damsel in distress while trying to help her support her child, but all he wants is to find his one true love. He knows this woman by scent, smile, and laugh, but he’s never actually met her. He doesn’t even know her name. He just knows she’s the key to fixing everything. One kind of hero can save you from physical harm. Another can rescue you from a different kind of doom. To reach their dreams, Eva and Pick can save each other. But first, they must open their hearts and learn how to trust.

The Nurses

The Nurses
Author: Alexandra Robbins
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0761189254

A New York Times bestseller. “A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes.”—People Nurses is the compelling story of the year in the life of four nurses, and the drama, unsung heroism, and unique sisterhood of nursing—one of the world’s most important professions (nurses save lives every day), and one of the world’s most dangerous, filled with violence, trauma, and PTSD. In following four nurses, Alexandra Robbins creates sympathetic characters while diving deep into their world of controlled chaos. It’s a world of hazing—“nurses eat their young.” Sex—not exactly like on TV, but surprising just the same. Drug abuse—disproportionately a problem among the best and the brightest, and a constant temptation. And bullying—by peers, by patients, by hospital bureaucrats, and especially by doctors, an epidemic described as lurking in the “shadowy, dark corners of our profession.” The result is a page-turning, shocking look at our health-care system.

Be Your Own Hero

Be Your Own Hero
Author: Catherine Owens
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734830200

Your Dreams Are Still AliveThe decisions we make from our heart, using good guidance and information, are often the best ones. Our culture focuses on reactionary health care rather than proactive life decisions. Often, we wait until there is a crisis before we really address the root cause. This approach can be devastating if we wait too long to choose a positive living environment. The answer is to seek the best quality of life in our aging years.THIS BOOK WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO:?Make proactive, educated decisions versus reactive, crisis-driven decisions?Identify the key influencers and their roles in the decision process?Define independence and what it means to you