| Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center: Choices and Challenges 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Williams, Mary Beth (Author), Nurmi, Lasse a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 030646327X ISBN-13: 9780306463273 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: The goal of the comprehensive trauma center (CTC) is to help survivors and/or victims re-empower themselves, restore wholeness and meaning, and integrate the trauma(s) they have experienced into their lives so that they are no longer at the mercy of those external events. The CTCs described in this book vary in type and form but seek to provide a variety of services to victims and/or survivors by complementing and coordinating services with existing programs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Medical | Nursing - Emergency - Medical | Administration |
| Dewey: 362.18 |
| LCCN: 00026808 |
| Series: Springer Stress and Coping |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 7" W x 10" (2.29 lbs) 443 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Early Thoughts on Creating Comprehensive Trauma Centers This volume has been many years in writing. When Dr. Donald Meichenbaum first suggested it and I approached my coauthor Lasse Nurmi, it did not seem to be as formidable a task as it has become. Interviewing the centers in this book has taken years-to get responses, to summarize those responses, and to return the summaries for further comment. Many centers have been created in that time; others have suspended operation. This volume does not claim to present even a majority of those centers. However, the ones contained herein are representative of "what is out there. " The idea to create a comprehensive trauma center is not new. The initial section of this forward examines thoughts I proposed as part of my compre- hensive examination for my doctorate. Many of the ideas proposed then (1989) seem to fit now. It is my dream to put them into practice someday in the future. THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION QUESTION In 1989, one question on the written comprehensive examination ques- tions for my doctorate was, "If you were to create a comprehensive trauma center in your suburban area, making use of what you have learned in your doctoral] experience, describe the organization of that center, the mission, structure, personnel, funding, objectives, and services it would offer. " Some of the conclusions reached then now seem applicable to the task at hand: design- ing comprehensive trauma centers (CTCs) for the 21st century. |