: Cathie Brady, David Farrell, Barbara Frank
: Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance Doing Better Together
: Health Professions Press, Inc.
: 9781938870774
: 1
: CHF 104.70
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: Pflege
: English
"e,Essenti l reading for all current and future leaders in long-term care. The authors are outstanding in this field, and provide valuable insight."e, Nicholas G. Castle, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Policy& Management, University of Pittsburgh A really good book for anyone who wants the secret sauce that makes great nursing centers tick. J. Mark Traylor, President& CEO, Traylor-Porter Healthcare This insightfully written book will inspire, empower, and teach leaders in long-term care the skills needed to build relationship-rich communities. Kelly Papa, M.S.N., R.N., Corporate Director of Learning, Masonicare, and author of Effective Nurse Leadership: Transforming Long-Term Care From the authors of the award-winning Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care, this book provides a blueprint for success in today s performance-based healthcare system. It presents a tested approach to delivering optimal care to each resident using a proven, coordinated bundle of key practices that include:• Leadership that brings out the best in staff• A communication infrastructure to support teamwork throughout an organization• A high-involvement performance improvement process that delivers quality person-centered care and prevents avoidable declines This practical resource takes long-term care leaders through the critical steps to achieve staff stability, strengthen coordination of care, and maintain the highest practicable well-being for each resident. It demonstrates how engaging staff in continuous quality improvement produces consistently high-quality care. Whether care communities are excelling or struggling, leaders can benefit from these performance-improving practices. Filled with candid, impactful personal accounts about implementing quality improvement in nursing homes, A Long-Term Care Leader s Guide reveals precisely how leaders and their staff can do better, together. Downloadable, how-to guides include:• Three Steps to Transforming the Medication Pass: Individualizing Care and Managing Workflow• Rethinking the Use of Position-Change Alarms• Eliminating Off-Label Use of Antipsychotics: A 10-Step Guide for Nursing Homes• MUSIC& MEMORY?: Implementation Steps to Maximize Benefits: A Nursing Home Leader s Guide• Communication Infrastructure Self-Assessment