This text provides a comprehensive analysis of the utilization of health care resources and issues relevant to nurses and health care personnel. It emphasizes cost-effective approaches to the delivery of health care the nurse's important role in delivering high quality care. This text also provides some new and innovative perspectives on how nurses and health care personnel can manage resources efficiently, and it takes a look at the present and future challenges of health care resource management. * Provides an analysis of resource management systems that will minimize resource consumption to maximize consumer satisfaction. Presents a conceptual model for managing health care. * Provides a broad perspective on the need for effective health resource management specific to nursing and the health care industry. * Presents discussion and analysis of quality improvement outcomes and promotes strategies for cost containment. * Addresses the financial and economic forces impacting nursing care as well as the entire health care industry. * Analyzes the future trends and challenges related to resource management, which nurses will face as our health care delivery system continues to evolve. * Presents case studies followed by thought-provoking questions throughout the text to help readers learn and understand how nurses impact the cost-effective utilization of resources within the health care delivery system.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration calls attention to a serious need to study the problems and processes of interdisciplinary inquiry, to reflect on the current state of scientific knowledge regarding interdisciplinary collaboration, and to encourage research that studies interdisciplinary cognition in relation to the ecological contexts in which it occurs. It contains reflections and research on interdisciplinarity found in a number of different contexts by practitioners and scientists from a number of disciplines and several chapters represent attempts by cognitive scientists to look critically at the cognitive science enterprise itself. Representing all of the seven disciplines listed in the official logo of the Cognitive Science Society and its journal--anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology--this book is divided into three parts: *Part I sets the stage by providing three broad overviews of literature and theory on interdisciplinary research and education. *Part II examines varied forms of interdisciplinarity in situ rather than the more traditional macrolevel interview or survey approaches to studying group work. *Part III consists of noted cognitive scientists who reflect on their experiences and turn the analytical lenses of their own disciplines to the critical examination of cognitive science itself as a case study in interdisciplinary collaboration. Interdisciplinary Collaboration is intended for scholars at the graduate level and beyond in cognitive science and education.

Deals with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young people and their families. This book explores evidence that has been emerging from longitudinal and developmental prevention research.