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Nursing Home Leadership
A comprehensive guide to the most
compelling need in nursing homes today!
Sold Out! No Longer Avalable!
Author: Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D.
As nursing homes become more and more complex operations, they demand more sophisticated management techniques. The top management positions -- Administrator and Director of Nurses -- can no longer be simply good technicians. They cannot any longer perform at the same level as past practitioners of these positions. What is needed to meet today's demand on nursing home management is leadership. Dr. Wayne D. Ford has prepared specific input for these key positions in nursing home facilities. He has prepared case studies and a list of action steps in each chapter which can be used for practical application of the materials.
Why merely manage, when you can LEAD?
"Easy to follow, with ideas you can use today ..."
"No other book comes close to this 'how to' of
real leadership in a nursing home ..."
Here are some of the benefits you will receive:
- Definitive answers to questions of leading the modern nursing home staff.
- State of the art methods for implementing quality processes putting you ahead of your competition.
- Marketing and motivating techniques for the Administrator and DON.
Table of Contents:
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Chapter 1 |
The Need for Leadership in Today's Nursing Home |
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Chapter 2 |
The Need for True Vision |
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Chapter 3 |
Building and Maintaining Your Team |
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Chapter 4 |
Making Regulatory Compliance Irrelevant Through Quality |
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Chapter 5 |
Failure - The Cost of Opportunity |
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Chapter 6 |
Marketing - Optimizing Your Assets |
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Chapter 7 |
The Magic of Training |
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Chapter 8 |
The Shadow of Managed Care |
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Chapter 9 |
Innovation of the Leader |
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Chapter 10 |
Nursing Supervision |
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Chapter 11 |
The House of a Thousand Smiles |
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Chapter 12 |
The Leadership Constant |
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Chapter 13 |
The Leader Investigates |
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Chapter 14 |
The Leadership Attitude |
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Chapter 15 |
Communications |
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Chapter 16 |
Patients - The Leader's Beneficiaries |
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Chapter 17 |
The Healthy Leader |
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Appendix 1 |
Quality Tools |
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Appendix 2 |
Checklists |
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Appendix 3 |
Composite Case Studies |
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Index |
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BOOK REVIEW
"Balance" (Official publication of the American College of Health Care Administrators) December 1998
RATING FOUR STARS
Nursing Home Leadership describes numerous useful leadership approaches. The book explains how to implement quality processes that could catapult a facility ahead of its competition.
BEST FEATURE The quality tools, checklists, and useful figures included in Dr. Ford's book help the reader apply practical solutions. Administrators will find the action steps at the end of each chapter particularly useful.
WEAKNESS The book includes composite case studies applicable to situations we face in our own operations. I would have liked to see the case composites expanded a bit more to include alternative solutions. It would have been useful if the book had described the best thing to do in each case. Examining and comparing the case studies to my own management style was a self-revealing process.
REVELATIONS I found a great list of tips on page 156 in the paragraph titled Successful Change Elements. You can use these tips when you're incorporating change and trying to make it go more smoothly.
UTILITY The book's material is directed primarily toward the administrator and director of nursing; however, a person in any leadership position in a nursing home would benefit. Executives of multiple facility chains will find useful material also.
RECOMMENDATION The book provides useful material to any new or experienced administrator, manager or supervisor as well as people in other types of supervisory positions in free-standing health care centers, physicians group practices and managed care provider companies.
(Reviewed by Melissa Tracey, M.Ed., president of Agapi Care, Inc., in Chicago.)
316 pages, 5.5" X 8.5" paperback, Only $69.95
Quantity discounts are available for orders of 5 or more copies.
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