Management Principles for Health Professionals

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

• Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals
• Legal and Ethical Essentials of Health Care Administration
• Harvard Business Essentials, Decision Making: 5 Steps to Better Results
• Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications
• Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers
• Essentials of Health Information Systems and Technology
• Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management
• Introduction to Health Research Methods
• Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System
• Umiker's Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor