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This book supplies step-by-step guidance on how to roll out Lean daily management in a hospital setting. It provides a roadmap to help readers understand where their hospital currently is in its Lean process, where it¿s headed, and how their roles will change as they evolve into Lean leaders. The book breaks down the cultural progression of units into discreet, objectively measurable phases. It identifies what leaders at all levels of the organization must do to progress units into the next phase of development and includes case studies from different service areas in the hospital.

There are many books available covering the Training Within Industry (TWI) programs, but few include any unique material on adaptation or modification ¿ This dearth of new has caused practitioners to alter the programs without understanding the underlying principles. These changes have made the programs less effective. One must, however, maintain the principles used in the programs when changing the delivery of the programs to suit the culture. The purpose of The TWI Facilitator's Guide: How to Use the TWI Programs Successfully is to prevent the TWI programs from falling into misuse and disuse. This book will explain the main principles of the TWI programs and what they can accomplish, but it will also stress what they are not. This book reviews what the programs are and then explains how to use them. It tells why we do certain aspects of each program. When we know why we do something, we won¿t stop doing it for the wrong reason.

Many books explain how to construct a value stream map, but few explain the process conditions and characteristics required to ensure a value stream map can be completed successfully. This book fills this need. Although the book explains Lean methods and tools that maximize process performance, its main focus is on providing detailed guidelines, process conditions, and helpful tips for ensuring successful implementation. Presenting material in a manner that mirrors the natural sequence for implementation, the book includes simple calculations, worksheets, and examples that reinforce the concepts involved with determining production rates and process variation.

This fascinating guide to medical education introduces the reader to the historical development of this important subject through 100 powerful images from the prestigious Wellcome Library Collection that highlight key figures in the field and innovations that have taken place, not just in the recent past but over the centuries. The readable text that accompanies each image both describes that image and shows how the ideas arising from it have helped to shape modern medical education, with relevance to current clinical practice. This will be an invaluable and visual introduction for students, academics, managers and practitioners looking to gain a better understanding of the evolution of educational practice in medicine, and how it might progress in the future.

This comprehensive book addresses the modeling and design of controllers for the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used in wind energy applications. Focusing on the use of nonlinear control techniques, the text discusses the main features and advantages of the DFIG, describes key theoretical fundamentals and the DFIG mathematical model, and develops controllers using inverse optimal control, sliding modes, and neural networks. It also devises an improvement to add robustness in the presence of parametric variations, as well as details the results of real-time implementations.

Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs, increasing capacity, and strengthening the long-term bottom line.This updated edition of a Shingo Research Award recipient begins with an overview of Lean methods. It explains how Lean practices can help reduce various frustrations for caregivers, prevent delays and harm for patients, and improve the long-term health of your organization.The second edition of this book presented new material on identifying waste, A3 problem solving, engaging employees in continuous improvement, and strategy deployment. This third edition adds new sections on structured Lean problem solving methods (including Toyota Kata), Lean Design, and other topics. Additional examples, case studies, and explanations are also included throughout the book.Mark Graban is also the co-author, with Joe Swartz, of the book Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Frontline Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements, which is also a Shingo Research Award recipient. Mark and Joe also wrote The Executive's Guide to Healthcare Kaizen.

This new edition has been completely updated by two junior doctors who have achieved recent success in their finals, overseen by the book¿s experienced author team. The 150 EMQ themes, each with five stems, are arranged as 10 practice papers, each containing 15 themes. All the main conditions are included as well as more detailed knowledge suitable for candidates aiming at the higher deciles. Whether you work through the practice papers systematically or dip in and out by topic, this bestselling revision guide will offer a life rope for anyone preparing for undergraduate finals.

Accident prevention is a common thread throughout every workplace, yet keeping employee safety and health knowledge current is a continual challenge for all employers. Ergonomics and human factors knowledge must be included in, or be a part, of the safety management as a cross-disciplinary area concerned with the understanding of actual work situations and potential variables ensuring the safety, health, and wellbeing of all collaborators. The main goal of this new book is to present theories and describe practices to foster a safe work and working environment.

This book covers the entire basic science syllabus for the MRCS examination and is split into sections on pathology, applied surgical anatomy and physiology. Each question is accompanied by a detailed answer together with a road map highlighting important topics. Containing 1000 SBAs for the MRCS Part A, this revision guide is written and edited by expert authors with recent experience of passing the examination.

The management of patients with Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) is complex and requires a multidisciplinary approach including management of fluid, pharmacological agents, co-morbid disease, dietary/hydration, and occasionally, surgery. An understanding of the physiological alterations that occur in SBS is useful to understand the treatments employed for this condition. This book discusses these physiological alterations along with the roles of oral diet and fluid modifications, enteral and parenteral nutrition support, medications including trophic factors and surgical options.

This book offers reliability engineers a single source of introduction to the concepts, models, and case studies for making credible reliability assessments. It contains subjects and analyses that every reliability engineer should understand. Some, but not all of the subjects treated may be found scattered in the many reliability books in print, but no other book contains all the subjects examined in this book, including failure probability plots and discussions of the analyses of many sets of real failure.

Get ahead! The Prescribing Safety Assessment is an invaluable practice aid for students preparing for final exams. Written by an experienced team of authors under the guidance of series editor Saran Shantikumar, it covers two examinations¿ worth of questions matching the exact format of the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA). Candidates can work through the practice papers systematically or dip in and out of the book using the index as a guide to questions on a specific topic.

This book discusses glycobiology and various forms of human diseases. Topics covered include immunoglobulins, inflammation and glycosylation, the role and therapeutic significance of natural anti-glycan antibodies in malignancies and in normal and aberrant pregnancy, identifying urinary glycans as a possible method for the diagnosis of lysosomal storage diseases, glycobiology of human milk (biological roles and diseases) and pectins as biological modulators of human physiological reactions. The book includes analysis of comprehensive data and some productive conclusions and perspectives.

This user-friendly book on group theory introduces topics in as simple a manner as possible and then gradually develops those topics into more advanced ones, eventually building up to the current state-of-the-art. By using simple examples from physics and mathematics, the advanced topics become logical extensions of ideas already introduced. In addition to being used as a textbook, this book would also be useful as a reference guide for graduates and researchers in particle, nuclear and hadron physics.

This book covers key developments in green chemistry and demonstrates to students that the developments were most often the result of innovative thinking. Using a set of selected experiments, all of which have been performed in the laboratory with undergraduate students, it demonstrates how to optimize and develop green experiments. It provides a single and concise reference for chemists, instructors, and students for learning about green organic chemistry and its great and ever-expanding number of applications.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. It covers fundamentals and technologies, including the latest materials and newest developments. The authors address a variety of topics that include electrochemical processes, materials, components, manufacturing, and degradation mechanisms, as well as challenges and strategies. With contributions from researchers who are at the top of their fields and on the cutting edge of technology, the book includes in-depth discussions ranging from engineering of components to applied devices.

The MRCPsych examinations are the most important exams for any psychiatric trainee to achieve specialist accreditation. Written by authors with recent exam success and edited by the distinguished team behind Revision Notes in Psychiatry, this book provides candidates with the most realistic and up-to-date MCQ and EMIs, closely matched to themes appearing most often in the Paper B exam.

This is the first comprehensive book on managing greenhouse arthropod pests. The book contains the necessary information on major insects and mites, describing their biology and life cycle. The book includes color images for identifying and determining the damage these insects and mites can cause to greenhouse-grown horticultural crops. The book also assesses strategies for managing greenhouse pests, such as cultural, physical, and biological control as well as the use of pesticides, and describes how cultural practices and sanitation affect pest population dynamics.

Unearths the revolts, rebellions and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world from the eighteenth century to the present.

A new theory of markets, taking into account the increased knowledge, affluence and access to information of modern consumers.

Teaches self-help remedies that ordinary Americans can use to protect their consumer rights. This work explains the legalese that forms the basis for many common transactions, including consumer loans, credit repair, credit, consumer leases, usury, interest rates, Internet transactions, identity theft, distance contracts, and home shopping.

Challenges institutions to prioritize the use of chronological assessment results to benefit enrolled students in comparison with the more common practice of prolonged assessment cycles that generally benefit future students. Peggy Maki advocates for real-time assessment to identify patterns of underperformance and obstacles that require timely interventions for enrolled students to succeed.

Explores various kinds of families and societies through the lens of social science theories and methods. This book helps readers to learn how to integrate their personal family experiences and expectations into a broader social world.