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Distance Learning Pack on Visual Handicap for Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and other Health Professionals
- An equipment guide
have preferred the legislation not to each section. The recurring theme is that have referred to them as nursing homes all staff need marketing skills. throughout. The chapter on management puts the A look a t health care trends covers emphasis on honesty, quality and - given health screening, occupational health, the clinical knowledge - the 'keep it rehabilitation and bravely comments simple' commonsense approach. Participative management with forward on future trends. The final chapter deals with income thinking is advocated and a dual focus This comprcahensivc hook in the hetween day.to day detail and long-term generation, NHS reviews, waiting list initiatives, cross-selling of services, the 'Equipment fot Ihatilrrl Pe(~plt.s e r ~ r s plaiiiiing is deemed essential long-stay sector, joint ventures, human 'rhe financial section provides clear is sponsored by The Arthritis and resources, and future developments. It Rheumatism Council. I t is divided into explanations of revenue, costs, capital covers issues such a s poaching staff from sections covering information sources, expenditure, growth, informative the NHS and the role of consultants housing, home management, furniture, technology and taxation, and gives fulfilling their commitment to the NHS. mobilit9, communication. preparation of insight into the financial side of private Physiotherapy is seldom mentioned and and cooking food, serving food, personal hospitals. It also mentions the inabiliity I would have liked a chapter on physiocare, clothing and dressing, parents of some staff t o Lome to terms with therapy management dealing with disabled hy arthritis, and gardening. It charging t'oi tit.,itment. important aspects such a s patient care, T h e st,affing section provides also includes a bibliography and address standards, quality audit, st& recruitment info1mntiun on personnel, management, list. Each section covers its topic in depth, developnirrit a n d t r a i n i n g needs, and training, budgeting, areas for development, marketing, and departwith cross referencing, and I S extremely recruitment and selection, performance easy to follow There a r e superb review, review systems, training and mental planning. Nevertheless this is a n excellent and illustrations a n d photographs t o development, and counselling. hlghly readable book for any physioThe contrihution of each individual to mniplcment the w i p t therapy manager who wants a n insight This will he an extrrnk.lg valuabk the achievement of the organisational into private medicine or aspires to be a referelice bouk to1 any rehabilitation/ goals is recognised and the value stressed. A fascinating insight is given into the hospital manager. physiotherapy/occupational therapy department and would also be a n registration and inspection of private Grace Dorey MCSP extremely inforniat,ive reference book hospitals and nursing homes but I would for d113 member ui a multid1sc1pli11ary L i a ~tii.;tlr+ p,itiei;t, -;jith of arthritis. Distance Learning Pack on Visual Handicap for I found the section on parents disabled Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and by arthritis of extreme benefit and I a m other Health Professionals sure physiotherapists in a working situation will find the same edited by Margot Hawker FCSP and Moya Davis, .A workbook containing 12 chapters of Nora Price MGSP Distalice Learning Consultant, Disabled Living learning material written by a team of Foundation, London, 1991 (ISBN 0 901908 57 6). specialist authors taking the student Illus. 198 pages. Available from Royal National through a planned sequence of study. The Institute for the Blind, PO Box 173, Peterborough chapters are under the following headings: PE2 OWS. f36.50including postage. 1 Using this pack. 2. A personal vie* The distance learning pack was the effects of visual handicap. 3. Look at produced by a project team consisting of it this way -three case studies. 4. Looking Effective Management of Private occupational therapists, orthoptists, physio- in - the structure and function of the eye. Health Care therapists, advisers on visual impairment, 5. Looking out - binocular vision. edited by Anthony Byrne and Haydn Cook and a distance learning consultant. 6. Making sense of it - visual perception. Longman, Harlow, 1989 (ISBN 0 582 04283 6) It was developmentally tested by subject 7. Helping nature - refractive errors 172 pages. f25. specialists, and by typical target users and their correction. 8. Identifying the My first impression of this book in the represented by students in schools of problem - assessment of visual handicap. 'Health Services Management' series was occupational therapy and physiotherapy, 9. Coping strategies - living with visual from the rover which portrayed a n staff in social services departments, and handicap. 10. Options - making choices. uninviting paperback with a title that health professionals in a wide range of 11. Support - specialist and professional was diffic,ult to rrdd It needed. I felt, the health authorities. The effectiveness of help. 12. Focus on therapy - a blueprint flair and e x p r t 1st clt an artist to create this extensive developmental research for good practice. Appendices. the necessary visual impact to capture my is evident in the quality of the finished 0 A reader containing appropriate extracts atteii t ion. product. It is an interesting and instructive from books and professional journals. The size and quality of paper were good, pack for anyone working with disabled .A resource file of useful pamphlets but the tight binding and type style people who additionally have visual bothered me, as did the positioning of difficulties. The special problems en- and addresses. the diagrams, many of which did not countered by these patients/clients must Notes for group users. fall in the anticipated logical sequence. be understood in order that the worker This pack could be used to advantage The child in me wanted the text livened may make an accurate assessment of with cartoons, pictures, photographs - the type of dysfunction which is present in many different settings: by students in most of the health care professions' anything - and preferably in colour. and so be able to offer the appropriate The book is divided into nine separate advice and management. There is a limited schools, by individual health professionals, chapters, each by a different author, knowledge of this field of disability by health professionals as part of in-service and focuses on providing information among health professionals and social training, by multi-professionalcare groups, by social services staff in group homes and for managers and aspiring managers of services staff, and the pack was designed domiciliary care. It could also be used as private hospitals and nursing homes. to help fill the gap in current educational a distance learning component in some Each chapter is well written, readable material. post-registration courses for health and extremely clear and deals with a The pack has been specifically designed professionals, eg those in the CSP PACE different aspect of private health care. for self-directed study, although it can be scheme. The first chapter on marketing is used as a group exercise with a group Wherever it is used, this pack will serve extremely interesting and covers history, leader/facilitator. The average study time ethical role, marketing orientation, is approximately 20 hours spread over a to raise awareness of visual impairment and should be available in departmental, responsibility for marketing, marketing six-week period. hospital and reference libraries. plan, audit and information systems and The pack consists of the following: Thelma Harvey BA MCSP future trends, giving helpful examples in
Arthritis
compiled by A K Wilson BSc. edited by G M Cochrane MA FRCP and A K Wilson BSc The Disabihfy lnforrnation Trust Ma!y MarIborough Lodge, Nuffield Orthopaedfc Cenrre W/riarnfll Road, Headington. Oxfora OX3 7LD. 1991 (ISBN 1 873773 00 5).Illus. 185pages. f 12.50 UK, f 18 overseas.
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have preferred the legislation not to each section. The recurring theme is that have referred to them as nursing homes all staff need marketing skills. throughout. The chapter on management puts the A look a t health care trends covers emphasis on honesty, quality and - given health screening, occupational health, the clinical knowledge - the 'keep it rehabilitation and bravely comments simple' commonsense approach. Participative management with forward on future trends. The final chapter deals with income thinking is advocated and a dual focus This comprcahensivc hook in the hetween day.to day detail and long-term generation, NHS reviews, waiting list initiatives, cross-selling of services, the 'Equipment fot Ihatilrrl Pe(~plt.s e r ~ r s plaiiiiing is deemed essential long-stay sector, joint ventures, human 'rhe financial section provides clear is sponsored by The Arthritis and resources, and future developments. It Rheumatism Council. I t is divided into explanations of revenue, costs, capital covers issues such a s poaching staff from sections covering information sources, expenditure, growth, informative the NHS and the role of consultants housing, home management, furniture, technology and taxation, and gives fulfilling their commitment to the NHS. mobilit9, communication. preparation of insight into the financial side of private Physiotherapy is seldom mentioned and and cooking food, serving food, personal hospitals. It also mentions the inabiliity I would have liked a chapter on physiocare, clothing and dressing, parents of some staff t o Lome to terms with therapy management dealing with disabled hy arthritis, and gardening. It charging t'oi tit.,itment. important aspects such a s patient care, T h e st,affing section provides also includes a bibliography and address standards, quality audit, st& recruitment info1mntiun on personnel, management, list. Each section covers its topic in depth, developnirrit a n d t r a i n i n g needs, and training, budgeting, areas for development, marketing, and departwith cross referencing, and I S extremely recruitment and selection, performance easy to follow There a r e superb review, review systems, training and mental planning. Nevertheless this is a n excellent and illustrations a n d photographs t o development, and counselling. hlghly readable book for any physioThe contrihution of each individual to mniplcment the w i p t therapy manager who wants a n insight This will he an extrrnk.lg valuabk the achievement of the organisational into private medicine or aspires to be a referelice bouk to1 any rehabilitation/ goals is recognised and the value stressed. A fascinating insight is given into the hospital manager. physiotherapy/occupational therapy department and would also be a n registration and inspection of private Grace Dorey MCSP extremely inforniat,ive reference book hospitals and nursing homes but I would for d113 member ui a multid1sc1pli11ary L i a ~tii.;tlr+ p,itiei;t, -;jith of arthritis. Distance Learning Pack on Visual Handicap for I found the section on parents disabled Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and by arthritis of extreme benefit and I a m other Health Professionals sure physiotherapists in a working situation will find the same edited by Margot Hawker FCSP and Moya Davis, .A workbook containing 12 chapters of Nora Price MGSP Distalice Learning Consultant, Disabled Living learning material written by a team of Foundation, London, 1991 (ISBN 0 901908 57 6). specialist authors taking the student Illus. 198 pages. Available from Royal National through a planned sequence of study. The Institute for the Blind, PO Box 173, Peterborough chapters are under the following headings: PE2 OWS. f36.50including postage. 1 Using this pack. 2. A personal vie* The distance learning pack was the effects of visual handicap. 3. Look at produced by a project team consisting of it this way -three case studies. 4. Looking Effective Management of Private occupational therapists, orthoptists, physio- in - the structure and function of the eye. Health Care therapists, advisers on visual impairment, 5. Looking out - binocular vision. edited by Anthony Byrne and Haydn Cook and a distance learning consultant. 6. Making sense of it - visual perception. Longman, Harlow, 1989 (ISBN 0 582 04283 6) It was developmentally tested by subject 7. Helping nature - refractive errors 172 pages. f25. specialists, and by typical target users and their correction. 8. Identifying the My first impression of this book in the represented by students in schools of problem - assessment of visual handicap. 'Health Services Management' series was occupational therapy and physiotherapy, 9. Coping strategies - living with visual from the rover which portrayed a n staff in social services departments, and handicap. 10. Options - making choices. uninviting paperback with a title that health professionals in a wide range of 11. Support - specialist and professional was diffic,ult to rrdd It needed. I felt, the health authorities. The effectiveness of help. 12. Focus on therapy - a blueprint flair and e x p r t 1st clt an artist to create this extensive developmental research for good practice. Appendices. the necessary visual impact to capture my is evident in the quality of the finished 0 A reader containing appropriate extracts atteii t ion. product. It is an interesting and instructive from books and professional journals. The size and quality of paper were good, pack for anyone working with disabled .A resource file of useful pamphlets but the tight binding and type style people who additionally have visual bothered me, as did the positioning of difficulties. The special problems en- and addresses. the diagrams, many of which did not countered by these patients/clients must Notes for group users. fall in the anticipated logical sequence. be understood in order that the worker This pack could be used to advantage The child in me wanted the text livened may make an accurate assessment of with cartoons, pictures, photographs - the type of dysfunction which is present in many different settings: by students in most of the health care professions' anything - and preferably in colour. and so be able to offer the appropriate The book is divided into nine separate advice and management. There is a limited schools, by individual health professionals, chapters, each by a different author, knowledge of this field of disability by health professionals as part of in-service and focuses on providing information among health professionals and social training, by multi-professionalcare groups, by social services staff in group homes and for managers and aspiring managers of services staff, and the pack was designed domiciliary care. It could also be used as private hospitals and nursing homes. to help fill the gap in current educational a distance learning component in some Each chapter is well written, readable material. post-registration courses for health and extremely clear and deals with a The pack has been specifically designed professionals, eg those in the CSP PACE different aspect of private health care. for self-directed study, although it can be scheme. The first chapter on marketing is used as a group exercise with a group Wherever it is used, this pack will serve extremely interesting and covers history, leader/facilitator. The average study time ethical role, marketing orientation, is approximately 20 hours spread over a to raise awareness of visual impairment and should be available in departmental, responsibility for marketing, marketing six-week period. hospital and reference libraries. plan, audit and information systems and The pack consists of the following: Thelma Harvey BA MCSP future trends, giving helpful examples in
Arthritis
compiled by A K Wilson BSc. edited by G M Cochrane MA FRCP and A K Wilson BSc The Disabihfy lnforrnation Trust Ma!y MarIborough Lodge, Nuffield Orthopaedfc Cenrre W/riarnfll Road, Headington. Oxfora OX3 7LD. 1991 (ISBN 1 873773 00 5).Illus. 185pages. f 12.50 UK, f 18 overseas.
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