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How to Farm for Profit: Practical Enterprise Analysis
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Practical review of ratio analyses in farm finance.......1998-10-15
This is one of the few concise texts that reviews the "Sweet Sixteen" ratios for understanding farm financing. The author's rationale directly supports the Farm Financial Standards recommendations as US Agriculture faces even more difficult times.
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Healthcare management is changing. Do you know which direction it's headed? HEALTHCARE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT is written to be relevant to you, whether you're a student or currently working in healthcare. HEALTHCARE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT is current, topical, and informative. No matter your status, this is the human resources and healthcare textbook you need to own to stay ahead of the curve.
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Competent Work - But Not Inspired.......2004-10-07
The healthcare field faces its latest crisis: staffing shortages resulting in upward pressure on compensation and quality of work life issues. HR is targeted for its inability to rise to the occasion and "get the bodies in here." Hiring standards and staffing ratios are pressured.
Studer tells us what we need to do to resolve these immediate concerns, with a demonstrable track record of success. But even the name of the most innovative and clear thinker in health care is absent from this book.
The book will migrate through the "need to know" dimensions of health care HR practice - its sponsorship by the American Hospital Association assures that. But competency stops way short of inspiration. In an industry in crying need for transformational leadership, don't esxpect it from the AHA.
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Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Second Edition presents the techniques and practices behind effectively managing peoplethe healthcare industrys most important asset. It provides the concepts and practical tools necessary for meeting the unique challenge of managing healthcare employees. A comprehensive resource, the book covers fundamental topics such as performance management and employee rights as well as more timely issues such as nurse workload management and managing diversity. This edition includes new information about: Healthcare workforce planning, nurse staffing, and workload Managing a diverse workforce and developing diversity programs Human resources budgeting and productivity analysis The unionization of physicians and nurses Strategies for retaining valuable staff Cases that illustrate key concepts are included, along with exercises that allow readers to apply and practice the information given
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Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success Second Edition.......2007-02-15
Book is new, come on time
Just for class.......2007-02-06
I needed this book for class.. So I think the chapters are a little lengthy... I get bored really quick and this put me right to sleep.
I am not an author just a student.
Excellent Text.......2007-01-30
I bought this book for a course in Health Care Human Resources. I think it is easy to read. However, many of the factors just focus on nursing issues. Not too many other issues are mentioned.
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Who hasn't gone into a shop or workplace at some point and seen the sign `You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps!'?
This over-used phrase becomes very real in the case of Beth Seager, an Admissions Manager in a busy British NHS hospital. Someone with very little authority but a huge amount of responsibility. She has to find beds for patients in a hospital that is claimed to work at 98% capacity - an impressive achievement that means the maximum time a bed is empty is less than 15 minutes. It's best not to mention the waiting times.
Unfortunately there are far more patients than beds and no money to bring more beds in. Someone has to decide whether a bed is taken by a patient who needs an extensive operation that will allow them to live a few more months, a breast cancer patient, or someone with two broken legs. Added to that, Beth is struggling against her caustic boss `Fearsome Fran' and her meddling assistant `Evil Eddy' who tries to undermine her and take her job.
Everything comes to a head when Fearsome Fran announces a new silver bullet plan to free up more beds. Beth knows that not only will it not work, but that she is effectively being demoted. But what can she do? She has 61 more patients than she has beds and a very short period to time to stamp her authority on Fran's new plan in order to stop it making things much worse.
Her luck changes when eligible bachelor Professor John Summers becomes her unlikely ally after becoming frustrated with the number of his operations that keep being cancelled. She also starts receiving some interesting advice over email from her brother-in-law in the US and slowly starts to believe that she can unravel the mess of the health service system and find the core problem and then the main constraint of her particular hospital.
We All Fall Down. Goldratt's Theory of Constraints for Healthcare Systems is a textbook written in the style of a witty, thriller novel. The reader is involved with Beth's challenges and dilemmas, and through her experiences, discover how Eli Goldratt's theories can be applied to the healthcare and service industries.
You don't have to be mad to work in the health services, you have to be caring, dedicated and resourceful as any errors can have fatal consequences. If you know someone from the health service, buy them this book so they can see the whole picture and what they can do improve the system. However, this book is also essential reading for anyone who has been frustrated by hospital delays or who works in other service industries such as teaching.
We All Fall Down is destined to revolutionise the service industry and not-for-profit sector in the same way that Eli Goldratt's book The Goal did for the manufacturing industry. Don't be left on the waiting list!
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Very good story - incredibly insightful.......2007-01-23
This book was a slow start, then I really started to come up to speed on the healthcare system, their challenges and issues and enter Harry, with the ideas on Theory of Constraints which Beth grasps very quickly and starts to put to use. It is very encouraging as she decides to take on this amazingly large task to hand, armed with just her new thinking and analyzing techniques. I really enjoyed the read. I was however very frustrated and disappointed at the endless number of punctuation, grammar, and other similar English language errors that the publishers had made. I will be sure to contact them to make them aware of it. Good read, and I highly recommend it.
We All Fall Down Stands Tall.......2006-11-13
Julie Wright's application of the Theory of Constraints to the healthcare system in the UK is relevant to anyone in the healthcare industry. The techniques used in the novel are so fundamental they transcend the model of financing and management of the system. In fact, you will have a better understanding of the system you are in if you read the book. I have always thought we physicians were a bottleneck in the system. Reading We All Fall Down confirms this. The novel is very entertaining, easy to read and makes some great points. I recommend it highly to anyone in healthcare management or leadership. It's not bad as a general read as well. Ed Millermaier, MD Chief Medical Officer, Ambulatory Care Division, Borgess Health, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
We all may fall, but this book stands tall!.......2006-07-08
Julie's book is very timely and instructive in how TOC can be applied to healthcare in particular, and the services industries in general. The book is engaging and powerful and also breaks new ground (such as expanding on Dr. Goldratt's 6 layers of resistance; and the real-world, relevant examples of use are especially good). In addition to the strong treatment of some of the key TOC Thinking Process tools, the book is a how-to for change management as well. I have read "We All Fall Down" 3 times, and each time have gained new insights into the applications.
Not good enough.......2006-06-16
I was quite disappointed with this book. I've heard that the results in the British Health System after implementing TOC are quite outstanding. If it's true, this book doesn't reflect it.
First of all, written as a novel, the backround story is not good. Two brothers are in a great fight and won't talk to each other because one of them is a TOC follower. Come on! I'm sure the authors's could've found a better backround story.
The description of how the NHS works is poor. The Health System is different from the one in my country, so I found it very hard to try to figure out how the NHS works, the different departments, the interactions, etc.
From the TOC point of view, good for someone just starting with TOC, but too light for someone who has read any other book.
To explain the concept of a system constraint, the book uses the same type of analogy used in Goldratt's "The Goal" (the boy scout trip), but the example and the explanation is not good.
The clouds built to find these problems conclude that the core problem of the NHS is the lack of communication between the different levels. I was expecting a more detailed analysis from the operations point of view.
In the last chapter a year has passed, and there is a summary of everything I would have expected the book to explain throughout the book, all in one chapter, with insufficient detail.
This book is good if you are involved in the NHS, and therefore know its problems, and if you know nothing about TOC.
If you want to learn about TOC Thinking Processes, I recommend Dettmer's "Goldratt's Theory of Constraints" with the main concepts, and "Management Dilemmas" (Shragenheim) with many interesting practical examples. Also "It's not luck".
If you want to learn TOC Operations, "Manufacturing at Warp Speed" (Dettmer & Shragenheim).
Project Management: Project Management in the fast lane (Newbold).
Unique and very highly recommended reading.......2006-05-08
We All Fall Down: Goldratt's Theory Of Constraints For Healthcare Systems, delightfully co-authored by Julie Wright and Russ King is an entertaining and thought-provoking novel in which co-authors Julie Wright and Russ King explore the intricate world of TOC and its effective use when applied to health care and service industries. Engagingly whisking its readers through Beth Segar's every-day digressively tedious life in combat with coworkers and happiness, We All Fall Down depicts the amusing tale of her introduction of Theory of Constraints in the workplace and its immediate effectiveness. We All Fall Down is unique and very highly recommended reading.
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Based on the research findings from a wide variety of healthcare providers, clinic administrators and practice managers, 222 Secrets of Hiring, Managing, and Retaining Great Employees in Healthcare Practices provides simple, easy-to-use advice and techniques for successfully recruiting, interviewing, compensating, managing, motivating, training, evaluating, and retaining great employees in the clinical practice setting. This unique book reveals the "secrets" to maximizing the potential of a clinical practice, with proven action-steps that can be implemented immediately, as well as reality checks, and tested tips to help you uncover the synergistic connection between employee satisfaction, patient satisfaction and practice growth to help your practice thrive.
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Learn the techniques and practices behind effectively managing people-the healthcare industry's biggest asset. This book presents all of the concepts and practical tools necessary for a manager to create a successful, customer-focused workforce in healthcare.
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Good book.......2007-01-18
A complete manual for human resources professionals that are looking to improve their skills and knowledge on the heatlth care field with classic instructions and eficient tools.
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Performance management is a management philosophy which focuses sharply on the achievement of good and sustainable results. It starts with a strategic process that takes account of internal and external factors and works out clearly defined, measurable strategic objectives, which are then put into operation. Performance management in the healthcare sector aims to constantly improve the results of the best possible healthcare processes by making optimal use of tools.
This text begins by addressing the organizational preconditions and provides a step-by-step approach for the realization of performance management in a healthcare organization. It then proceeds to discuss the relevance of performance management to disease management and the professional development of the discipline, and concludes with the topical debate on the publication of results and a set of case histories.
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OSHA Fire Safety provides a detailed look at fire safety in both industrial and hospital settings. At the conclusion of the course, you will have learned how to classify fires, fire plans, types of fire extinguishers and how to use them, what to do when a fire breaks out, how to prevent chemical fires and more.
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Behavioral Risk Management: How to Avoid Preventable Losses from Mental Health Problems in the Workplace (Jossey-Bass Managed Behavioral Healthcare Library)
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Intervention Strategies for the Workplace
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Yandrick has succinctly defined the evolution of workplace behavioral intervention programs. . . . This book is a must buy for every HR manager, management consultant, and EAP program manager concerned about the human elements of the workplace.
W. Dennis Derr, corporate EAP manager, Mobil Corporation
Behavioral Risk Management details how to identify potential mental health and behavioral problems on the job and outlines the intervention strategies that are most effective in preventing the behavioral risk.
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