"The book covers educational requirements, opportunities, traditional and nontraditional career pathways, and helps students assess whether they are temperamentally and intellectually suited to a career in healthcare management. Based on the most current data from the U.S. Department of Labor and professional societies in healthcare management, the guide describes careers in 14 different healthcare and related settings. These include long-term care,...

"Analyzes the role played by the federal bureaucracy--civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers--and Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how bureaucratic maneuvering influences policy decisions and our international relations"--Provided by publisher.

As a part of the Nurse Manager's Guide series, this book gives a rounded understanding of the complexities of staffing and care delivery without focusing on a narrow view of traditional staffing. This book provides easy to understand examples to obtain quality outcomes, staff satisfaction, and patient satisfaction and safety. The Nurse Manager's Guide to Innovative Staffing provides models, figures, examples, important notes and stories, and learning...

""Supermax" prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider community, to the security of correctional institutions, or to the safety of other inmates. Prisoners are usually restricted to their cells for up to twenty-three hours a day and typically have minimal contact...