Summary
Contents
Subject index
Each chapter flows well and holds the reader's interest. The book is suitable for learners and experienced practitioners. - Keith Hurst, Leeds University
The management of change in the context of new policy directives and agendas is a critical issue for healthcare practitioners. All professionals – not just managers - need to develop and implement new services designed to bring patients into the centre of healthcare delivery. This book looks at the leadership, interpersonal, and management skills needed to manage such change effectively within multi-professional healthcare settings.
Key Features
- Provides unique use of action research as a model for planning and implementing change at the patient-service interface
- Makes use of evidence and case studies to demonstrate the stages of the change process
- Includes tips and useful strategies for achieving change
- Shows dynamic change can be achieved at the individual, team, departmental and organizational level
- Covers a range of topics including: organizational culture; leadership; conflict resolution; managerial roles; and organizational analysis
Managing Change in Healthcare is ideal for all nursing and allied health care trainees taking courses in management and leadership. It will also be invaluable for qualified professionals and managers who need a clear and engaging guide to the key issues and skills underpinning effective healthcare management.
Conclusions
Conclusions
This book is about managing change in healthcare. The policy message is simple – where there is need to introduce a new local service, make improvements to an existing service or solve a problem which develops patient and client care – just do it. But seeing change as simple does not make it straightforward. Implementing lasting change is not easy.
The book is written against a backdrop of a world occupied by increasingly complex problems. These problems not only relate to the complexity of modern health and disease, its treatment, care and management but also to healthcare organizations, the costs and administration of their services, their management and leadership and, perhaps most significantly, the politics governing them. Not only this, but the social and global ...
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