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A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance
Doing Better Together
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eBook - ePub
A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance
Doing Better Together
About this book
"Essential reading for all current and future leaders in long-term care. The authors are outstanding in this field, and provide valuable insight."
—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
—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
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Yes, you can access A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance by Cathie Brady,David Farrell,Barbara Frank in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Nursing. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Downloadable Resources
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword, X Marks the Spot: The Evidence, by Amy E. Elliot, Ph.D
- Foreword, by Jody Hoffer Gittell, Ph.D
- A Note to Our Readers: In It Together
- Introduction
- Shock and Awe, by David J. Farrell
- Part I People
- Part II Systems
- Part III Processes
- Index