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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
The Ninth 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.
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.
Practical, straightforward, how-to information on mastering every management challenge you facemore quickly and effectively. This authoritative reference will help you promote proper and effective delegation, get organized and make better use of your time, improve communication skills, encourage self-motivation, and prepare all types of budgets.
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.
Nothing is more predictive of the viability and success of a health care organization than its leadership. Learn the skills this market demands and get the tools to master them with Becoming an Effective Health Care Manager. Built on sound business and health services management theories, and viewed through the lens of emotional intelligence and the author's years of direct experience, this book actively teaches both students and practitioners the relational, operational, and analytical skills that are necessary--and surprisingly rare--in today's health care management arena. Dramatically increase productivity and employee commitment and place yourself ahead of the pack by honing these financial and organizational management skills: motivation communication delegation counseling strategic planning personnel management staff coaching time and stress management teamwork conflict management interviewing budgeting resource management Each chapter is like a mini-workshop in each skill set, featuring learner-friendly objectives, self-assessment tools, case studies, real-world individual and small-group exercises, and review questions. As a health care supervisor, you can improve your own leadership skills or mold exceptional leaders and managers among your staff using this highly practical guide in workshops and continuing education seminars. Undergraduate and graduate students in health and nursing administration can learn essential skills that have been glaringly absent from curricula. Get Becoming an Effective Health Care Manager and help yourself or your students along the journey of becoming and then being an effective leader.
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.
A practical, hands-on workbook, Becoming an Effective Supervisor neatly fills the gap in supervision resources available to mental health practitioners. The workbook is designed to help clinical counselors and therapists create effective supervision programs of their own, and to address the individual needs of their students. The leading contemporary models of supervision are discussed, as well as the necessary components of a successful supervision curriculum. A framework is then provided for counselors and therapists to develop a personalized and highly effective supervisory style to implement with their own students. The unique exploration exercises in each chapter allow readers to actively integrate the information provided, and to apply these lessons and skills to their own supervisory experiences. Students too will benefit from her concise examination of the theories, applications, and goals of the supervision process. Along with a discussion of the ethical, legal, and multicultural issues faced by clinical supervisors, practical analyses and applications ensure that this book will be a valued addition to any clinical counseling or therapy library.
Containing ten years of experience, this complete "seminar in a book" includes success tips for supervisors, and "hands-on, real-world" activities that teach the many and varied skills necessary for success in today's workplace. It develops individuals who know not only about supervision, but who know how to supervise. Chapter topics cover leadership, facilitating change, communication, ethics, motivation, decision making and problem solving, performance appraisal, employee complaints, workplace violence, legal issues, training, health and safety, staffing, and team building and teamwork. For supervisors, team leaders, and work coaches--for on-the-job training, business and industry seminars, and distance learning.
