Effective Health Care Supervisor
Author: Charles R McConnell
The hands—on guide for front line health care supervisors, this long—time bestseller includes two new chapters on reengineering and downsizing and extensive revisions and updates throughout. This new edition covers all areas of supervision including time management, performance appraisal, motivation, and communication.
Mary L. Fisher
The fourth edition of this book places supervision in the context of today's changing healthcare environment. It is expanded beyond the previous edition in this respect, although the author admits that the basics of supervision are unchanged. The book stresses the need for supervisors to adapt to changes that will include expanding scopes of responsibility, a broader variety of duties, and redesigned work environments. New content includes the evolving roles of healthcare supervisors, reengineering, and staff reductions. The book's attempt to meet modern challenges for supervisors is well timed. The intended audience is first and second line supervisors. It is suggested as a textbook for supervisory development classes. The book is written in simple terms and is best positioned for those new to supervision. The author is a human resource officer in a New York hospital system, so is credible in his work experiences. He has numerous previous publications and his formal education is in engineering and business. There are few illustrations offered in this book. References, for the most part, are not offered in context, but there is a sparse annotated bibliography in the back of the book. Many of these books are dated "classics." Each chapter presents clear objectives and adds two exercises for practicing skills. The exercises can be helpful in a classroom setting. This text is comprehensive in the number of topics related to healthcare supervision that are covered. However, some topics are addressed superficially, such as budgeting for personnel costs. The contextual emphasis is timely and a sufficient reason to justify this new addition. Overall, this text needs to be evaluatedin relation to competing offerings. I would prefer more in-depth coverage of these important topics.
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Reviewer: Mary L. Fisher, PhD, RN, CNAA (Indiana University School of Nursing)
Description: The fourth edition of this book places supervision in the context of today's changing healthcare environment. It is expanded beyond the previous edition in this respect, although the author admits that the basics of supervision are unchanged.
Purpose: The book stresses the need for supervisors to adapt to changes that will include expanding scopes of responsibility, a broader variety of duties, and redesigned work environments. New content includes the evolving roles of healthcare supervisors, reengineering, and staff reductions. The book's attempt to meet modern challenges for supervisors is well timed.
Audience: The intended audience is first and second line supervisors. It is suggested as a textbook for supervisory development classes. The book is written in simple terms and is best positioned for those new to supervision. The author is a human resource officer in a New York hospital system, so is credible in his work experiences. He has numerous previous publications and his formal education is in engineering and business.
Features: There are few illustrations offered in this book. References, for the most part, are not offered in context, but there is a sparse annotated bibliography in the back of the book. Many of these books are dated "classics." Each chapter presents clear objectives and adds two exercises for practicing skills. The exercises can be helpful in a classroom setting.
Assessment: This text is comprehensive in the number of topics related to healthcare supervision that are covered. However, some topics are addressed superficially, such as budgeting for personnel costs. The contextual emphasis is timely and a sufficient reason to justify this new addition. Overall, this text needs to be evaluated in relation to competing offerings. I would prefer more in-depth coverage of these important topics.
Rating
2 Stars from Doody
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | An evolving role in a changing environment | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Health care : how is it different from "industry?" | 21 |
| Ch. 3 | The nature of supervision : health care and everywhere | 36 |
| Ch. 4 | Management and its basic functions | 47 |
| Ch. 5 | Delegation and empowerment : forming some good habits | 67 |
| Ch. 6 | Time management : expanding the day without stretching the clock | 89 |
| Ch. 7 | Self-management and personal supervisory effectiveness | 105 |
| Ch. 8 | Interviewing : start strong to recruit successfully | 127 |
| Ch. 9 | The one-to-one relationship | 144 |
| Ch. 10 | Leadership : style and substance | 159 |
| Ch. 11 | Motivation : intangible forces and slippery rules | 173 |
| Ch. 12 | Performance appraisal : cornerstone of employee development | 186 |
| Ch. 13 | Criticism and discipline : guts, tact, and justice | 209 |
| Ch. 14 | The problem employee and employee problems | 227 |
| Ch. 15 | The supervisor and the human resource department | 244 |
| Ch. 16 | Ethics and ethical standards | 263 |
| Ch. 17 | Decisions, decisions | 279 |
| Ch. 18 | Management of change : resistance is where you find it | 293 |
| Ch. 19 | Communication : not by spoken words alone | 304 |
| Ch. 20 | How to arrange and conduct effective meetings | 318 |
| Ch. 21 | Budgeting : annual task and year-long implications | 332 |
| Ch. 22 | Quality and productivity : sides of the same coin | 355 |
| Ch. 23 | Teams, team building, and teamwork | 372 |
| Ch. 24 | Methods improvement : making work - and life - easier | 393 |
| Ch. 25 | Reengineering and reduction in force | 413 |
| Ch. 26 | Continuing education : your employees and you | 427 |
| Ch. 27 | The supervisor and the law | 442 |
| Ch. 28 | Living with HIPAA | 460 |
| Ch. 29 | Organizational communication : looking up, down, and laterally | 479 |
| Ch. 30 | Unions : avoiding them when possible and living with them when necessary | 491 |
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Delights of Delicate Eating
Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell
"Gluttony is ranked with the deadly sins; it should be honored among the cardinal virtues," Elizabeth Robins Pennell declaims in this sparkling paean to the art of eating well. An ebullient guide to "the Beauty, the Poetry that exists in the perfect dish," The Delights of Delicate Eating is a choice collection, originally published in 1896, of the culinary essays Pennell wrote for London's Pall Mall Gazette.
Pennell began her career as a food writer, she confesses, "in spite of the fact that I couldn't boil an egg and my only qualifications were a healthy appetite and an honest love of a good dinner usually considered unbecoming to the sex." Her aim was to show that a woman could practice cooking as an art, preparing a complete aesthetic experience that combined exquisite flavors with a beautiful table, a soothing room, and lively conversation.
The Delights of Delicate Eating elevates "our daily bread" to a feast for the senses. Pennell leads the reader through the culinary delights of the day, from the fresh rolls of a solitary petit dйjeuner through elaborate dinners complete with spotless linen, flawless silver, and cut flowers in vases of Venetian glass.
Pennell sets good eating as the basis for good living, a healthy imagination, a happy marriage, stimulating conversation, and satisfying social intercourse. For all who would embrace such benefits, The Delights of Delicate Eating offers a lovely diversion.
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