Productivity Press imprint: 189 books
PROPEL to Quality Healthcare
Six Steps to Improve Patient Care, Staff Engagement, and the Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
You got into healthcare because you wanted to help people, but quickly discovered providing high-quality care is challenging. Seemingly impossible demands are placed on you and your team. Some coworkers are constantly complaining; others are in their silos doing only what they must to get through...
Problem Solving for New Engineers
What Every Engineering Manager Wants You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book brings a fresh new approach to practical problem solving in engineering, covering the critical concepts and ideas that engineers must understand to solve engineering problems. Problem Solving for New Engineers: What Every Engineering Manager Wants You to Know provides strategy and tools...
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Daily Management
How to Use Effective Daily Management to Drive Significant Process Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Daily Management explains the critical parts of a continuous improvement strategy to achieve Operational Excellence and where reactive improvement through effective daily management fits in. In addition, it shows the consequences to your Operational Excellence...
Formulation Simplified
Finding the Sweet Spot through Design and Analysis of Experiments with Mixtures
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Many chemists – especially those most brilliant in their field – fail to appreciate the power of planned experimentation. They dislike the mathematical aspects of statistical analysis. In addition, these otherwise very capable chemists also dismissed predictive models based only on empirical data....
Blueprint for Engagement
Authentic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Authentic leadership is an approach to leadership that emphasizes building the leader’s legitimacy through honest relationships with followers which value their input and are built on an ethical foundation. By building trust and generating enthusiastic support from their subordinates, authentic...
by Suresh Patel
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Books in the Quality and Business Excellence series can help readers enhance customer value and satisfaction by integrating the customer’s voice into design, manufacturing, supply chain, and field processes. Although there are many Six Sigma books on the market, few clarify the essential aspects...
An Introduction to Nursing Informatics, Evolution, and Innovation, 2nd Edition
Evolution and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics supports nurses, consumers, patients, the interprofessional...
Big Book of Emergency Department Psychiatry
A Guide to Patient Centered Operational Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book focuses on the operational and clinical strategies needed to improve care of Emergency Psychiatric patients. Boarding of psychiatric patients in ED’s is recognized as a national crisis. The American College of Emergency Physicians identified strategies to decrease boarding of psychiatric...
Safer Hospital Care
Strategies for Continuous Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
From newborns switched in the nursery to medication mix-ups and hospital-acquired infections, we are all familiar with the horror stories about hospital safety, and unfortunately, the statistics say we aren‘t exaggerating. The safety issue in U.S. hospitals has become so profound and embedded, that we cannot hope to fix it without a paradigm shift
Poised for Peak Performance in Healthcare
A Practical Approach to Execute Expense Reduction and Revenue Enhancement Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The current healthcare system is under attack by market, government, and consumer forces. To stay solvent, organizations must be performing at the top of their game. This book provides detailed instructions to bring organizations to the next level of performance by teaching all the secrets straight...
Understanding the Law for Physicians, Healthcare Professionals, and Scientists
A Primer on the Operations of the Law and the Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Many workers in medicine, healthcare administration, science, and technology, no matter how strong their academic degrees or how distinguished their careers, find themselves baffled, frustrated, and even angered by their encounters with the law. Some of those occasions may lead to the need for a lawyer....
The Business of Humanity
Strategic Management in the Era of Globalization, Innovation, and Shared Value
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Companies across the world, for a variety of reasons, are committing to incorporating social responsibility into their business models and finding that their profits are growing and their long-term sustainability is enhanced—building "humanity" into their business models as the driver...
Satellite Marketing
Using Social Media to Create Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Satellite marketing uses multiple social media sites as a series of marketing sub-stations or "satellites." Each satellite is a stand-alone marketing effort, which means that if and when your prospects are engaged, they are being introduced to your brand, your product and services, and your...
The Mechanical Patient
Finding a More Human Model of Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Healthcare is very much dependent on the model of the patient that is assumed by healthcare providers. The current model derives from a chemical/mechanical view of the patient body. Simply put: we are healthy if all of our mechanical parts are working properly and if all of the chemicals in our body...