Management Development For Care Nursing Home Managers

In his first book, visionary social care leader Liam Palmer, shares anecdotes and well researched articles to challenge, inform and ultimately raise standards in the care home sector. He applies his strategic thinking to a number of complex problems within care e.g. the ""agency problem"" and how to take charge of a challenged home. His skill is to unpick these dynamics and identify the drivers and forces at work. Common themes are accountability and the importance of using empathy. He weaves in elements from mindfulness, staff empowerment and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and CBT. Problems are opportunities that need our best efforts - everyone matters and ultimately he believes that delivering great care comes down to effective leadership.

In 2016, Liam's original book "Management Development for Care and Nursing Home Managers" shared articles on raising care home standards with a peer audience of 12,500, via www.linked-in. In 2018, he builds on these themes adding new material on the "revolving door" for home managers, how to sell care, the impact of poor management practice and managing the "greatest risk in your care home" and beyond. Before moving to healthcare in 2012, the author worked in organisations using "lean" and "world class" management concepts to develop a quality and customer focussed ethos. As of 2018, his local NHS hospital is implementing the same concepts to improve quality and customer satisfaction. Since moving to healthcare, he has been fortunate to work as a manager and consultant with a large private hospital group, a leading retirement village operator and several mid to large care home providers in the private and voluntary sectors.

Designated a Doody's Core Title! While the scope of long-term care settings has expanded from nursing homes and home care agencies to assisted living facilities and community-based health services, the training for nurses, managers and administrators, medical directors, and other professionals who work in these facilities is often fragmented. This book was developed to fill a widely-recognized gap in the management and leadership skills of RNs needed to improve the quality of long-term care. The book is based around learning modules in leadership and management competencies that were site-tested in three types of long-term care settings and revised based on the resulting feedback. Several of the nurse experts involved in the project contribute to this book. The leadership modules cover team building, communication, power and negotiation, change theory and process, management direction and design, and management that moves from conflict to collaboration. Two additional modules cover cultural competence and principles of teaching and learning related to adult education in the long-term care environment. Together, these skills will enhance the nurse's ability to build and interact with the geriatric care team, resolve conflict, negotiate for solutions, develop collaboration, and teach and mentor nurses and nursing assistants.

This book details and explains the nurse manager's tasks in a health service organisation, giving the practitioner and student a solid, in-depth grounding in essential managerial skills. The text deals with: quality assurance and improvement; strategic health and human resources planning; the design and commissioning of health service facilities; group dynamics; labour relations; job evaluation; leadership; staff development; financial management. Appropriate practical examples supplement theory and ensure the relevance of this five-part, multi-authored book which deals with all the basic managerial skills the modern nurse needs to provide a nursing service.

This book is a reference which addresses the many settings that geriatric care managers find themselves in, such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, and assisted living and rehabilitation facilities. It also includes case studies and sample forms.

This book focuses on the relationship between the media and those who work as paid care assistants in care homes in Britain. It explores this relationship in terms of the contemporary cultural and personal understandings of care work and care homes that have developed as the role has emerged as increasingly socially and economically significant in society. Three strands of analysis are integrated: an examination of the representations of paid care workers in the British media; the experiences of current and former care workers; and the autoethnographic reflections of the authors who have experiences of working as care assistants. The book offers a rich contextual and experiential account of the responsibilities, challenges, and emotions of care work in British society. Grist and Jennings make a case for the need to better value and more accurately represent care work in contemporary media accounts.

Handbook of Geriatric Care Management, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive and practical guide for care managers that addresses the multiple needs of aging adults and their families. An ideal teaching tool, it guides students and professionals along the journey of becoming a successful care manager. New to this edition are two new chapters on working with older veterans and helping clients with depression. Completely updated and revised, the Fourth Edition provides updated ethics and standards, a focus on credentialing and certification, numerous case studies, sample forms and letters, and tips for building and growing a care manager business.