Healthcare Administration (MHA)

Prepares students to apply evidence-based practices that lead to high performance in healthcare organizations of all types and sizes. Integrates the long-standing clinical and logistical elements of excellent care with contemporary movements, such as establishing a transformational culture; continuous improvement; benchmarking, tracking, and measurement; servant leadership; staff empowerment and retention; and building interprofessional teams...

Instructor Resources: Teaching tips, sample syllabus and a sample course schedule. Success isn't something you are born with-it is carefully cultivated and mastered. And a job, when it works well, can fit like a glove and provide immense personal and professional satisfaction. This book's 50 succinct lessons will guide students as they begin their careers in healthcare management and help them achieve success and professional fulfillment-whatever their role. Each of the 50 lessons outlines traits, behaviors, and skills needed to maximize strengths, master career success, and achieve the perfect job fit. White and Lindsey, in various academic and healthcare management roles, have provided career counseling for hundreds of students and early careerists. Each lesson concludes with helpful exercises that will prompt self-reflection and recommended resources for additional information. Written in a conversational, friendly style, the 50 lessons broadly cover three major areas: managing yourself, managing your job, and taking charge of your career. The 50 lessons are filled with bulleted lists and quick tips and address specific topics such as: Establishing a life vision and developing a personal brand Managing the first 90 days of a healthcare management position Mastering presentations through writing and speaking tips Building and supporting strong teams Developing a professional development plan Balancing life and work New graduates of master's programs and early careerists in the field will particularly benefit from this book, but readers at other points in their career will also find it useful.

Specific emphasis on academic, clinical and policy leadership. A section on leadership development focuses on coaching and mentoring, business acumen, collaboration and patient advocacy. Authors are distinguished APN leaders from around the world along with junior authors who are emerging leaders being mentored by these leaders. This book will appeal to APN clinicians, students and emerging leaders who want to bring important global lessons to their work.

Features new to this edition include: A new chapter on human resources law that explains how employment law affects healthcare organizations Significant updates on end-of-life issues, such as aid-in-dying laws and the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm The status of health reform in the wake of attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Offering practical advice underpinned by theoretical perspectives, the book will help you to understand the principles of effective leadership and apply them to your own practice. You will learn: What leadership is and what skills and qualities you need to become an effective leader. About leadership within the cultural context of your work environment. How to use leadership skills to influence outcomes in the workplace...

A healthcare leader's guide to changing culture by embracing this secret....it starts with the leader but it's not about them.

Provides detailed framework for implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. Integrated approach, which can be used for both transactional and manufacturing businesses to better define ways to reduce costs, enhance processes ,and achieve faster implementation and new product or service development.

"Improve patient outcomes, lower costs, reduce fraud--all with healthcare analytics Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement walks your healthcare organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization."

Written for researchers, clinicians and doctoral students, this comprehensive reference delivers the essentials of intervention research with added content on evidence-based quality improvement. Although typically it takes years for research-based interventions to make their way to real world clinical settings, this "prolonged time for translation" frustrates researchers and their interprofessional teams. Includes key strategies for rapidly moving research-based interventions into real world settings in the form of evidence-based quality improvement...

Current, proven statistical methods for quality control and quality improvement Covers broad range of tools and techniques that make it possible to quickly identify and resolve both current and potential trouble spots within almost any manufacturing or nonmanufacturing process.