My Healthcare Hero

Grab a copy of My Healthcare Hero to honor the sacrifice and courage of our frontline workers and their families. This interactive story sheds light on the shared experiences of our healthcare professionals, and their children, during the COVID-19 pandemic, while offering answers to various questions they may be wrestling with. This story affirms that not all heroes wear capes!

This is a healthcare-oriented children's book for young readers. The author has worked in the healthcare field for a decade and was inspired to write this book to reinforce the healthcare habits that most healthcare workers have adapted to since COVID. This book opens up some great conversations about what mommy actually does at work, masks and vaccines.

Hospitals have long relied on the heroics of one brilliant nurse or doctor to save the day. Such heroics often result in temporary workarounds and quick fixes that leave not only patients and quality care at risk, but also increase costs. This is the story of an organization breaking that habit. Like a growing number of healthcare organizations around the world, ThedaCare, Inc. has been using lean thinking and the principles of the Toyota Production System to improve quality of care, reduce waste, and become more reliable. But lean thinking was incompatible with ThedaCare’s old top-down, hero-based system of management. Kim Barnas, former SVP of ThedaCare, shows us how she and her team created a management system that is stable and lean, to spur continuous improvement. Beyond Heroes shows the reader, step by step, how ThedaCare teams developed the system, using the stories of its doctors, nurses and administrators to illustrate. The book explores each of the eight essential components of the lean system, from front-line problem solving with the scientific method to daily team huddles and creating standard work for leaders all the way to the top of an organization. Finally, the author introduces four executives from healthcare systems across North America who have implemented ThedaCare’s system and share the lessons they learned along the way. Beyond Heroes is not just a call to action or an argument for a better healthcare system. It is a necessary roadmap through the rocky terrain ahead, one that healthcare leaders can customize to their special needs.

This book provides expert insights and strategies to help readers find their best career path in healthcare. It features healthcare professionals and their stories, giving unfiltered, unedited, no holds barred version of what it’s really like to be a healthcare professional in the 21st century.

Annie and Liam team up to form a community clinic and help their friends feel their best! From taking temperatures to giving advice, aspiring doctors and nurses will learn how to become a healthcare hero, too! After the story, readers will gain practical advice about career paths, challenges, and opportunities in an interview with a real-life doctor!

Meet the real-life health heroes! £1 from the sale of this book will be donated to NHS Charities Together. For readers aged 8+, Health Heroes is packed full of true stories of healthcare workers past and present, from all walks of life and from all around the world – from Florence Nightingale and Alexander Fleming to the midwives, doctors, paramedics and carers of today. From famous names to unsung heroes, these are real people being amazing – making new discoveries, putting themselves on the front line, and helping to take care of people in need, in all sorts of ways. Beautifully illustrated, and brimming with fun facts, information and inspiring true stories, this is the perfect read for future health heroes, fans of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, Greta’s Story and Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different – or anyone who just wants to join in the round of applause!

When Rugby the teddy bear gets chewed up by his family's new puppy, he needs help from a big team of healthcare heroes. Find out what each hero does at Fuzzer's Hospital to help Rugby get home safe and healthy! Mission Statement Our goal when creating Hospital Heroes: Rugby's Medical Adventure was to teach about lesser-known medical professions in a fun way. Some of the included professions are Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Dietetics, Respiratory Therapy, and Mental Health Counselor. The book promotes LGBTQ+ positivity and representation of diversity in healthcare. As Four-Star General Charles Q. Brown Jr. said in his interview with NPR, "You only aspire to what you've been exposed to. Sometimes we might self-eliminate just because we don't think we're qualified." It is extremely important for all children to see people who look like them represented as professionals with rewarding careers across all sectors. We desperately need more diversity in medicine. To accomplish more diversity in medical teams, we need to start with creating a safe, supportive workplace and professional culture. We hope that one day the children who read Hospital Heroes: Rugby's Medical Adventure will step into their clinical rotations 18+ years from now and feel confident that they are safe, equipped to help patients, and feel like they are exactly where they belong.

"Danny's Healthcare Heroes" was born out of desire to open the eyes of the next generation to jobs available to them in healthcare. Young Danny meets several such heroes firsthand as he journeys through recovery from a broken leg after a car accident. Not only is he grateful to each Healthcare Hero who helps him, but he's challenged with the idea of becoming one himself one day!

Superhero stories are age-old favorites, but recently the tale has undergone a real-life rewrite. While the coronavirus pandemic may be beyond our children's grasp, we can share with them the tale of the healthcare heroes who emerged in valor. Allow Fifth & Zilai to lend a hand as we thank all healthcare workers in our newest release "Thank You Healthcare Heroes."As the COVID-19 crisis swept the globe, healthcare heroes worldwide demonstrated the resilience and fortitude of real life superheroes. From doctors and nurses to hospital cleaning personnel and security, and all healthcare workers, we say thank you. You have rewritten the story of what it means to be a superhero to save our world.

The pandemic was hard on the entire world. But it was especially challenging for healthcare workers. Some healthcare workers are still silently dealing with the fallout of the pandemic. The stories and discussion within this book will help shed light on some of the ramifications that we are dealing with as a result.