Management Principles for Health Care Professionals, Fourth Edition

By Joan Gratto Liebler, Charles R. McConnell, Joan Gratto-Liebler

Book Overview

Management Principles for Health Professionals is a practical guide for new or future practicing healthcare managers. The customary activities of the manager "planning, organizing, decision making, staffing, motivating, and budgeting "are succinctly defined, explained, and presented with detailed examples drawn from a variety of health care settings. Students will learn proven management concepts, techniques, models, and tools for managing individuals or teams with skill and ease.
The Seventh Edition continues to present foundational principles of management in the context of contemporary health care. This thorough update offers many new examples including corporate compliance, standards of conduct and mandatory reporting, eHealth, revenue cycle considerations, cultural competency and diversity training, comparative effectiveness reviews. The Seventh Edition also offers expanded coverage of material relating to HIPAA, the electronic health record/personal health record, due diligence reviews, and healthcare reform legislation.
Key Features:
Offers new and updated examples throughout reflecting a wide variety of settings, including acute care, observation units, urgent care, continuing care facilities, and more
Includes a full-scale plan, with 500-day implementation schedule to illustrate project management
Explores newly emerging job positions, such as compliance officer, privacy specialist, data quality and analysis specialist, and contractual management teams
Includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 128408132X
• ISBN13: 9781284081329
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Less USA would raise the value

The book has been purchased as a suitability test for non-Dutch Health professionals. The book suits the purpose though the especially the first chapter is too much focussed on the USA situation. So we will skip chapter one in using the book. The price of the book is reflected in the use of extremely cheap paper.

five functions plus two

I use this when I teach the senior level management course in a school of nursing. there will be a new edition in fall 2007. The typical challenge faced by teachers of this content at this level is that when the stduents are in their very last semester, they need to "keep it real" and stay motivated to learn the content which may seem abstract at times. Most will not be going into management but they do need to know how a manager will think, because each of them will have to deal with a manager very soon. I think this book conveys the material as well as any. Not to fluffy not too in-depth. Covers the usual "five functions of management" ( staffing, directing, controlling, planning, organizing) and adds chapter four on the topic of decision-making as well. aslo include a description of bureaucratic imperialism, which in my view is a key concept for those seeking a deeper level of ability to predict organizational behavior.

Good Management college level book

I bought this book for my Health Care Management Class for college, and I think this is a good source. The readings are so complete that they are a little too hard for me, but it covers all the possible job-related experiences.

Management Principles for Health Professionals

The forth edition of Management Principles for Health Professionals has three parts and 15 chapters. Part one has two chapters about the health professional's modern arena. Part two has five chapters about management functions-planning, decision making, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. Part three has eight chapters about practical considerations for keeping the department running smoothly-budgeting; committees and teams; adaptation, innovation, and conflict management; training and development; authority, leadership, and supervision; human resource management; communication; and day-to-day management. Each chapter starts with chapter objectives and ends with exercises, notes, and appendix. There are exhibits throughout the book including but not limited to: mission, vision, values statement, philosophy, objectives, procedure, strategic plan, scheduling by shifts, guidelines for use of contractual services, job descriptions, process for written request for release of information, control tools, annual budget plan, worksheets for budgeting, calculating FTE, worksheet for comparison of storage options, follow up of committee actions, monitoring and evaluation of standards, quality assurance report, program evaluation, written warning and grievance procedure. Tables, figures, and cases are used throughout to help clarify concepts. The book ends with a index. This book is useful for nursing student, practicing nurse managers and other health professionals.