Innovative Staffing For The Medical Practice

Medical practices need to employ the right staff with the right skills doing the right things in order to optimize provider productivity and efficiency and to provide quality and personalized patient care. In this new book, consultant and best-selling author Deborah Walker Keegan addresses two vital questions: 1.Do you have the right staff? 2.Are they doing the right things? This book helps you create the "right" care team for your medical practice - one that is current with today's delivery system and one that optimizes provider productivity and efficiency, practice profitability, staff recruitment and retention, and patient value. This must-have resource presents tools and techniques to help you: Learn if you have the right staff by analyzing staff volume and skill mix Innovate your staffing model for each key step in patient flow: telephones, check-in, visit, check-out, and patient follow-up Redesign work processes to meet patient needs and improve staff efficiency Revise staff roles due to electronic health records and virtual medicine Discover inventive strategies to optimize flexibility and leverage physicians Effectively integrate nonphysician providers in the care team Staff the patient-centered medical home model Recruit, recognize, and retain the "best" staff And more As an added bonus, the book includes a Web link to an annually updated staff modeling tool that allows you to input your staffing data and compare it to the most recent MGMA median benchmarks. In turn, you may identify opportunities to improve staffing and practice performance.

This book explains how staff development is an important element for a sustainable staff structure health care facilities. At the end each chapter the reader finds a to-do-list, to replicate the project. The book is devided into 4 parts: 1. Practicing culture change, 2. Learning emotional intelligence, 3. Establishing interprofessional collaboration and 4. How to create the future of healthcare. Anticipating these options and experiences will help leaders to inspire their teams with practical ideas.To find the right trainings for staff development can be time consuming. With this overview about international successful projects the reader has an update about innovations in healthcare and uses the knowledge for the reader's own team or healthcare institution. This book helps readers experiencing their own culture change in their organisation, and create the future of their team or facility with knowledge about how to develop a person-centred culture, how to implement the TeamProcessPerformance in their operation theatre, how to reduce stress by using simple HeartMath-methods. This book also informs on how to establish wellbeing at the workplace, and how to practice interprofessional collaboration to reduce mistakes and costs. Written by authors from UK, Turkey, USA, Scotland, Ireland and Germany, this book offers human resource managers a look beyond their national horizon and presents innovative international concepts.

Nurse staffing is the foundation for excellent patient care and outcomes. Decades of research on hospital staffing and patient outcomes has given a clear message: Safe Staffing Saves Lives. However, there is no magic bullet for solving staffing issues. Nurse managers and leaders have struggled to find a method to staffing over the years, causing turnover and a lack in patient and staff satisfaction. The Nurse Manager’s Guide to Innovative Staffing, Second Edition helps nurse managers understand everything from the current state of staffing to innovative solutions to unique care delivery models. Readers will find: Detailed examples of staffing plans, policies, and delivery models Calculation formulas and worksheets, including full-time equivalencies (FTEs), PTO, and productive vs. nonproductive time Sound strategies for introducing new processes and technology

Rightsizing is the process of determining whether a medical practice has the right number of staff doing the right things at the right time, with the right resources to achieve optimal practice performance. With declining reimbursement and increasing costs, medical practice executives frequently look to staffing as a means of reducing costs. Before taking action, however, they need to know that a higher level of staffing may increase practice revenue. Authors Deborah Walker and David Gans provide the systematic approach to rightsizing staff in the medical practice. They outline a five-step process to benchmark and analyze current staffing, productivity and work processes to realign staffing levels and responsibilities. This book includes a number of tools and resources to help practice executives apply the staff rightsizing process to their organizations. By following the authors' guidelines, practice leaders will realize that rightsizing doesn't always mean downsizing or reducing costs. It means having the right number and right mix of staff to ensure optimal physician productivity and practice efficiency to maximize the practice's financial performance. Book jacket.

Leadership in Nursing Practice: The Intersection of Innovation and Teamwork in Healthcare Systems, Fourth Edition gives nursing students the tools and knowledge they need to develop the leadership skill set to be successful as a clinical nurse.

The Handbook of Medical Leadership and Management couples the essentials of clinical leadership with a practical approach to help healthcare professionals be effective clinical leaders and managers. Beginning with a theoretical analysis it then focuses on practical ways of being a good manager and leader and the day-to-day requirements of a consultant working within a multi-professional clinical team. This is an essential resource for all those leading and managing a clinical team and those who aspire to lead, covering a broad understanding of the requirements of effective leadership. This includes quality care, patient safety, how to ensure good outcomes, using data for improvement, commissioning services and developing business cases, as well as the development of person-centred care and the education of the next generation of leaders.

This thought-provoking study examines the ethical, legal, and social problems that arise with cutting-edge medical technology. Using as examples four powerful and largely unregulated technologies—off-label use of drugs, innovative surgery, assisted reproduction, and neuroimaging—Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy illustrate the difficult challenges faced by clinicians, researchers, and policy makers who seek to advance the frontiers of medicine safely and responsibly. Supported by medical history and case studies and drawing on reports from dozens of experts, the authors address important practical, ethical, and policy issues. They consider topics such as the responsible introduction of new medical products and services, the importance of patient consent, the extent of the duty to mitigate harm, and the responsibility to facilitate access to new medical therapies. This work's insights into the nature and consequences of medical innovation contribute to the national debate on how best to protect patients while fostering innovation and securing benefits.

Staffing tools and techniques to help medical practice administrators create the 'right' care team for their medical practice--one that is current with today's delivery system and that optimizes provider productivity and efficiency, practice profitability, staff recruitment and retention, and patient value.