A Long Term Care Leader S Guide To High Performance

Learn the leadership and teamwork practices needed for continuous quality improvement in your long-term care environment! From the authors of the award-winning Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care: What You Do Matters, this new book will show you how to develop the necessary systems, staff, and processes to deliver the right care for each resident. Outlined here are the critical steps needed to achieve and sustain organizational stability as quickly and efficiently as possible, even in struggling care communities. This guide details how to implement a set of well-established, interconnected practices that will achieve the greatest outcomes and improvements, as well as increase the well-being of your residents. KEY PRACTICES INCLUDE: Consistent staff assignments; Regular communication "huddles"; Quality improvement that includes staff closest to a resident; Involving CNAs in care planning EVIDENCE-BASED RESULTS INCLUDE: Improved staff performance and cohesiveness; Shared goals, knowledge, and mutual respect; Increased staff retention and satisfaction

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In This Book, transformational leader Nancy Fox guides you along a management path leading to more person-centered services, helping you to meet today's imperative to improve the efficacy and quality of service delivery. Seamlessly interweaving the latest insights about human, social, and organizational behavior with her own decades of experience in elder care services, Fox provides a powerful collection of succinct leadership lessons for all nursing home and assisted living administrators, directors of nursing, and hospital and home health managers. Fox's encouraging and inspirational style taps into the power of story and the wisdom of experts from diverse fields- from business, science, philosophy, art, and history-to teach the leadership skills that will produce and maintain high-performing, caring communities with engaged and committed staff. This practical resource provides assessment and change-guiding tools, including a Quick-Reference Matrix to guide the person-centered leader across domains of responsibility. Learn resonant lessons in both the art and science of effective leadership to improve your care delivery services, starting today! Book jacket.

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