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The fifth edition of this best-seller is packed with proven hands-on strategies, techniques, and tools to build and reinforce your management skills and meet the perpetual challenges health care super
Offers proven, hands-on, practical applications of both classic and current management principles in the healthcare setting. Packed with strategies, techniques, and tools to build or reinforce your management skills and meet the never-ending challenges that one may face daily as a healthcare supervisor--Publisher.
The Seventh Edition of this best-selling text continues to offer proven, hands-on, practical applications of both classic and current management principles in the healthcare setting. Packed with strategies, techniques, and tools to build or reinforce your management skills and meet the never-ending challenges that one may face daily as a healthcare supervisor, students and professionals alike will benefit from this classic guidebook that is now more reader-friendly and accessible. NEW to the SECOND EDITION: 4-5 additional review questions for each chapter Expanded material and new exhibits on delegation New discussion on the effects of organizational shuffling on employee motivation Expanded material on the legal implications of performance appraisal New section on Six Sigma New coverage of several more laws that affect employees and employment Updated material on HIPAA implementation Updated material on unions and union organizing in health care. “I have seen numerous texts and this is the best. Students at the grad level and in the field really benefit from it. Thanks for a quality publication.” —John A. Romas, MPH, PhD, Health Science, Department, Minnesota State University
Today's healthcare supervisors are continually faced with smaller budgets, fewer workers, and greater responsibilities. The seventh edition of Umiker's Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor continues to provide valuable information for future healthcare managers and supervisors who must address these challenges daily. Written primarily for those who have little to no management training, Umiker's offers practical suggestions for improving effectiveness, both as a supervisor and as an organization. Ideal for students in undergraduate, community, and career college programs, author Charles R. McConnell maintains Dr. William Umiker's clear, jargon-free writing style.
Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated with new issues in each of the six sections. the new edition includes chapter objectives, study questions and cases. This revision of a classic text on health care supervision is a hands-on, how-to handbook and is deal for someone assuming a new role as supervisor.
Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor, Third Editionincludes new chapters on customer service, managed care, safety and control of violence, rewards and recognition, and succession planning, all of which are new and compelling issues for health care supervisors. Women as supervisors and legal issues for supervisors are also growing topics that have been added to the new edition. This book sets itself apart from other texts on health care supervision in that it is a practical hands-on, how-to handbook. For the first time, a comprehensive Instructor's Guide is available with the new edition. This guide provides case studies, role playing exercises and pages that can be used as handouts.
For a thorough, timely, and distinctly effective overview of how information systems are being used in the health care industry today, turn to "Health Management Information Systems: " Methods and Practical Applications, Second Edition. Skillfully revised for both content and format, this exceptional teaching and learning tool gives students a solid command of vital information to set them on the path to professional success. Each chapter opens with a scenario that introduces students to a particular HMIS problem to be understood and overcome; new emphasis on application aids in helpful understanding to readers; graphics and tables throughout the text illustrate concepts for fast comprehension; plus, five major cases based on real-life experience.
Todays healthcare supervisors are continuously faced with smaller budgets, fewer workers, greater responsibilities and time pressure. The all new Fifth Edition of Umikers Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor continues to provide valuable information for future health care managers and supervisors who must address these challenges daily. Written primarily for those who have little to no management training, Umikers offers practical suggestions for improving effectiveness both as a supervisor and as an organization. Ideal for students in junior undergraduate, community, and career college programs, author Charles McConnell maintains Bill Umikers clear, jargon-free writing style.
