Nursing Home Administration: Fourth Edition
Author: James E Allen
This highly readable new edition contains the knowledge essential to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. The author uses the format of the licensing examination and the guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators as the basis for the text.The fifth edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the wealth of new legislation and regulations passed since the publication of the last edition in 2002; offers compelling new data on a wide array of topics ranging from websites, departmental area trends, and diet data, to risk management, major organizations in the field, drug lists, and information on diseases and disability.
New sections on:
• Distinguishing delirium from dementia
• Psychosis from agitation
• GERD
• Glycemic control
• Hand washing data
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Reviewer:Katy T. Nguyen, MSN(University of Missouri-Columbia)
Description:This book covers the information necessary to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator.
Purpose:The purpose is to help new candidates in their preparation to take the NBA (national exam) for nursing administrator as well as to help new administrators understand the clinical management and regulations in the industry which help facilitate their role as leaders in long-term care facilities.
Audience:It is written for nursing home administrator candidates taking the national exam for nursing home administrator as well as for new administrators working in nursing homes.
Features:This is a good review of the area of gerontology and is an excellent guide to better practice in nursing home administration. Part one describes management and leadership; part two covers all aspects of human resources; part three explains finance and business accounting; part four addresses regulations, laws, and environment; and part five discusses resident care including nursing care and the aging process.
Assessment:This book would satisfy the learning needs of the entry-level administrator because it addresses the operation of a long-term care facility including management, clinical care, and regulatory requirements. It will strengthen the administrator's ability to meet the demands of a successful nursing home operation. In addition, it is valuable for those preparing to become licensed nursing home administrators.
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Allen (Health policy and administration, U. of North Carolina) has revised his textbook to keep as close as possible to current practice in a field experiencing explosive change. On general administration, budgeting and finance, law, patient care, and marketing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
Author: Beth Tompkins Bates
Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics—which was grounded in making demands and backing them up with collective action—by focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) to form a union in Chicago, headquarters of the Pullman Company.
Bates shows how the BSCP overcame initial opposition from most of Chicago's black leaders by linking its union message with the broader social movement for racial equality. As members of BSCP protest networks mobilized the black community around the quest for manhood rights and economic freedom, they broke down resistance to organized labor even as they expanded the boundaries of citizenship to include equal economic opportunity. By the mid-1930s, BSCP protest networks gained platforms at the national level, fusing Brotherhood activities first with those of the National Negro Congress and later with the March on Washington Movement. Lessons learned during this era guided the next generation of activists, who carried the black freedom struggle forward after World War II.
Author Biography: Beth Tompkins Bates is assistant professor of history in the Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Chicago Tribune
[A] splendid study. . . . By skillfully placing the union efforts of anonymous railway workers in their proper place at the forefront of the 20th Century struggle for black civil rights, Beth Tompkins Bates has given us a book of inspiring vision. This is an American story worth remembering and celebrating.
Eric Arnesen
An indispensable contribution to African American, labor, and political history, this study recasts our understanding of the history of the modern struggle for civil rights.
Choice
This well-documented study provides a valuable and needed reexamination of a largely underappreciated organization that helped lay the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement.
Robin D. G. Kelley
As Bates so eloquently demonstrates, the Pullman Porters emerged as a beacon of the black freedom movement.
Tera W. Hunter
This is an excellent piece of scholarship.
Quarterly Book Review
Bates allows her readers to gain a thorough knowledge of the racial climate in America through her flawlessly adept book that chronicles the politics of race in black America from the New Negro Movement of the Reconstruction era through World War II.
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1 | No More Servants in the House: Pullman Porters Strive for Full-Fledged Citizenship | 17 |
| 2 | The Politics of Paternalism and Patronage in Black Chicago | 40 |
| 3 | Biting the Hand That Feeds Us: The BSCP Battles Pullman Paternalism, 1925-1927 | 63 |
| 4 | Launching a Social Movement, 1928-1930 | 87 |
| 5 | Forging Alliances: New-Crowd Protest Networks, 1930-1935 | 107 |
| 6 | New-Crowd Networks and the Course of Protest Politics, 1935-1940 | 126 |
| 7 | We Are Americans, Too: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1943 | 148 |
| 8 | Protest Politics Comes of Age | 175 |
| Notes | 189 | |
| Bibliography | 243 | |
| Index | 265 |
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