Hospital Administration category: 168 books
by Charles Kunkle
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
In any hospital setting, a team of enthusiastic and engaged caregivers translates into better patient outcomes. But how can leaders foster engagement among workers who, all too often, are overwhelmed by the pressure to meet the needs of patients as well as the growing expectations of their employers...
Das schlanke Krankenhaus
Führen und verbessern im Krankenhaus der Zukunft
Language: German
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Das Lean Hospital ist in aller Munde und schickt sich an, the next big thing zu werden. Was aber steckt hinter diesem neuen Wundermittel? Lässt sich industrielles Lean wirklich auf die Krankenhausbranche übertragen und zeigt es Wirkung für das Unternehmen, seine Mitarbeiter und Patienten? Jörg...
Winning Strategies
Building a Sustainable Leadership Pipeline through Talent Management & Succession Planning
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2017
Dr. Kevin Groves' approach to succession planning encompasses not just the CEO, but the entire leadership pipeline. Winning Strategies is the culmination of his work with healthcare organizations over the past 10 years to identify evidence-based succession management & talent development...
Incurable Me
Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A bold and persuasive polemic on the corporatization of healthcare by a pediatrician and pioneering advocate for integrative medicine.
In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine’s most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and...
The Ultimate Obamacare Handbook (2015?2016 edition)
A Definitive Guide to the Benefits, Rights, Responsibilities, and Potential Pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
"The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, makes health insurance available to the majority of Americans.
In fact, failure to obtain coverage will result in penalties, but the process of obtaining insurance can be daunting. This brief handbook explains the law and its history and tells readers how to...
Health Information Technology Evaluation Handbook
From Meaningful Use to Meaningful Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Governments and clinical providers are investing billions of dollars in health information technologies. This is being done with the expectation that HIT adoption will translate into healthier patients experiencing better care at lower cost. As the first wave of adoption comes to an end, stakeholders...
Designed to Adapt
Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Dr. John Kenagy’s formula for saving healthcare one problem at a time is termed “Adaptive Design,” a set of methods, skills and tools designed to get healthcare back to the ideals of patient care by cultivating adaptability into the everyday work of the organization and its people.
Dr....
How to Heal
A Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The ability to heal is not reserved for a gifted few. Anyone aching to ease the suffering of a sick friend or loved one can learn to become unconditionally present to the sick person rather than to the disease. Through stories filled with compassion, wisdom, and gentle humor, Dr. Jeff Kane shows readers...
Change Rx for Healthcare
Your Prescription for Leading Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Everywhere you look in healthcare, disruptive changes are emerging, yet the pressure to keep productivity up is ever-present. There are ways to minimize disruption and make adoption stick.
Change Rx for Healthcare: Your Prescription for Leading Change showcases a case study of a large, transformational...
Leading Healthcare IT
Managing to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Healthcare IT is a complex and rapidly evolving field. Success in this arena requires the ability to create a vision, set a strategy, foster collaboration, develop a plan and execute flawlessly every day. This book provides a clear, concise roadmap for professionals who currently manage, direct or...
Demand Better!
Revive Our Broken Healthcare System
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Much of the healthcare debate is centered on cost - the skyrocketing cost of direct patient care, the cost to insure millions of currently uninsured people, the administrative costs that eat up a large chunk of every healthcare dollar, the cost of defensive medicine to avert malpractice lawsuits....
Becoming an Effective Leader in Healthcare Management, Second Edition
The 12 Essential Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Administrators and managers in healthcare can improve their own expertise and performance by learning and mastering the 12 critical interpersonal, financial, and organizational management skills in this highly practical guide. This easy-to-read book applies basic business leadership principles specifically...
by Beaufort B. Longest, Jr., Kurt Darr
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Trusted for more than 35 years, Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems covers the fundamental frameworks for managing the organization and delivery of health services while emphasizing continuous quality improvement. Explored in this text are the essential knowledge and skills required...
Errors of Omission
How Missed Nursing Care Imperils Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
It happens all the time. In the hectic pace of your daily routine as a nurse, you forget to do something. It happens to the best of us. But what matters most is learning how to mitigate the risks associated with missed nursing care. Built on 10 years of extensive research, Errors of Omission: How...