Practical Guide To Hospitalist Recruitment Retention

The demand for hospitalists continues to grow at an aggressive rate. According to the Society of Hospital Medicine, the number of hospitalists is projected to reach more than 30,000 by 2010. However, the demand for these specialists is expected to continue to grow at an even more aggressive rate, making it challenging for programs to meet the demand. In such a competitive market, how can your program recruit and retain the most qualified hospitalists? Practical Guide to Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention is a book and CD-ROM set that provides proven strategies from a leading hospitalist recruitment expert to help you find the right physicians for your practice and develop a strong program that retains committed hospitalists

The Right Way to Build and Sustain a Successful Hospital Medicine Program This first complete treatment of hospitalist recruitment and retention gives you all the tools and guidance needed to build a new hospital medicine program for your hospital. Moreover, it shows you how to reinvigorate and maintain an established hospitalist program, enabling your hospital to fully benefit from the improved clinical outcomes that a hospitalist approach can offer. All the key elements for building and maintaining an effective hospitalist program are covered, including: Developing a recruitment plan that attracts the right people and clearly sets forth expectations Hiring the best people to meet organizational objectives Implementing an effective retention plan that keeps high-quality staff motivated and committed to excellence Based on the author's extensive experience in both clinical practice and professional consultation with new and established hospital medicine programs, the book covers such critical topics as: Significance of current trends in hospital medicine Key factors in successful hospitalist recruitment and retention Role of the hospitalist in recruitment, retention, and stabilization of physicians in their communities Recruitment and retention of physicians in all specialties is a national challenge, and it is expected to become even more difficult due to an impending physician shortage. As more and more healthcare organizations come to understand and embrace the hospitalist movement, this book will prove essential in recruiting and retaining the staff they need to implement and sustain an effective hospitalist program.

You are a great clinician. But do you have the tools to become a great leader? Physicians who accept or are assigned leadership positions are too often left on their own to develop leadership skills and educate themselves on their responsibilities as medical staff leaders. These physicians may be great clinicians and enthusiastic about taking a leadership position, but neither of these characteristics automatically makes a great leader. Get practical answers for physicians in leadership. The Medical Staff Leaders' Practical Guide, Sixth Edition provides direction for physician leaders in hospitals--those who remain primarily clinicians, but who also accept positions of leadership in the hospital or medical staff organization. It gives an overview of physician leaders' roles and responsibilities in credentialing, privileging, bylaws development, performance improvement, physician management, and board/physician relations. Completely revamped and updated, this essential resource for medical staff leaders includes: - Tools and information needed to fulfill leadership responsibilities for all medical staff leaders, including directors of medical staff offices, vice presidents of medical affairs, medical staff presidents, credentials committee chairs and members, and committee and department chairs - Expanded analysis and strategies for overcoming current medical staff leadership challenges, including merger issues, medical staff development plans, physician practice evaluations, assessing and improving clinical competence, and more - Guidance and how-to advice on creating a positive medical staff culture, minimizing distrust or conflict, and improving policies - Tips and insights from experienced medical staff leaders currently working in hospitals How do you keep up with evolving roles? As relationships continue to evolve between hospitals and medical staff, it is especially important for physician leaders to be well-educated about credentialing, privileging, conflicts of interest, medical staff organization, the roles of various physician leaders and committees, performance improvement, and more. This practical guide includes in-depth reviews of the top five medical staff leadership responsibilities: - Medical staff structure and governance - Credentialing and privileging - Peer review and performance improvement - Hospital-medical staff collaboration - Medical staff culture Rise to the challenge of leadership! Written by experienced medical staff leaders currently working in hospitals, The Medical Staff Leaders' Practical Guide, Sixth Edition, gives physicians the tools they need to meet the challenges of a leadership role. The tools and advice in this guide will help you: - Overcome physician apathy, poor meeting attendance, lack of volunteers for leadership positions, and turf battles - Improve peer review, evaluation of physician competency, and physician/hospital relations - Deal with disruptive and impaired physicians, conflicts of interest, exclusive contract problems, accreditation challenges, and emergency department coverage challenges - Create a positive working environment - Gain a better understanding of the credentialing and privileging process Take a look at the table of contents: Introduction: Today's Effective Medical Staff Section I: Medical Staff Structure and Governance - Physician apathy - Poor meeting attendance - Poor medical staff communication - Unprepared leaders - Lack of volunteers for leadership positions - Conflict over member rights and responsibilities Section II: Credentialing and Privileging - Cumbersome and lengthy process - Turf battles - New technology privileges - AHP credentialing and supervision - Information and decision errors - Lack of reappointment data - Unnecessary, lengthy, or costly fair hearings - Lack of criteria for privileges Section III: Peer Review and Performance Improvement - Ineffective peer review - Disruptive conduct - Impaired physicians - Assessing and improving clinical competence - Excessive utilization - Medical records completion - Inappropriate physician practice evaluation Section IV: Hospital-Medical Staff Collaboration - Strained physician-hospital relations - EMTALA and ED coverage - Hospital-physician competition - Economic credentialing - Strained physician-nurse relationships - Costs exceeding reimbursement - Medical errors and patient safety - Ineffective medical staff influence with board and administration - Liability risk - Conflicts of interest - Exclusive contract problems - Corporate compliance challenges - Accreditation challenges - Merger challenges - Lack of effective medical staff development plan Who will benefit from this book? Directors of medical staff offices, vice presidents of medical affairs, medical staff presidents, credentials committee chairs and members, committee and department chairs

The forecast doesn't look good. A shortage of nurses continues to be a major problem. Facilities like yours are shelling out high salaries and signing bonuses just to get RNs in the door. Unfortunately, that hasn't proven to be enough. Once you get quality nursing professionals in the door, you need to know how to keep them from walking out. Staff in, staff out, staff in, staff out . . . Stop the revolving door from spinning! The "revolving door" trend is discouraging, but even more than that it's dangerous. Inadequately staffed facilities run the risk of preventable errors, avoidable complications, and increased length of stay and readmissions. And, many states are considering nurse/patient ratio legislation. A Practical Guide to Recruitment and Retention is a handy book that provides you with practical, field-tested strategies to attract and, more importantly, retain high-quality nursing and healthcare personnel. Filled with timely, user-friendly ideas, concepts, and tools, A Practical Guide to Recruitment and Retention helps today's nurse managers and nurse executives make effective decisions related to recruitment and retention. From recruiting student nurses to confronting troublesome nurses who can cause turnover, this book covers it all. Inside this must-have book you'll find: An in-depth look at youth recruitment Appropriate methods to recruit and retain every type of nurse Techniques for implementing quality work place improvements Ideas for recognition and reward programs Ways to embrace diversity in the healthcare workplace Numerous tools, templates, and procedures to adapt to your facility Case studies that will help drive the messages home and provide evidence of recruitment and retention strategies that work! Table of Contents Embracing diversity in the workplace Developing Nurse Managers and leaders Retaining and supporting the middle manager level nurse Helping the Nurse Manager "make time" for staff Improving interview skills and hiring techniques Employee and family-friendly policies and procedures Expanding the EAP program Focus on flexible orientation processes Surprising staff with the unexpected Professional models of care Implementing quality workplace improvement systems Assuring interdisciplinary collaboration Building collaborative practices between nursing and medical staff Methods that help staff feel a true part of the process Professional development Encouraging your staff to fulfill their career development Recognition and reward programs that promote retention The senior nurse executive's role in recruitment and retention Establishing an educational pipeline Working with Junior and Senior High Schools Working with nursing schools to secure staff Measuring recruitment and retention metrics Top ten things to do/not to do in recruitment What's working in the non-healthcare environment Learning Objectives Identify the major disadvantages of high staff turnover Identify diversity characteristics Discuss strategies for managing diversity in your organization Verbalize techniques managers can use to leave a perception with staff that you make time for them List warning signs that a manager is in need of support, guidance, and direction Discuss strategies that promote an employee friendly workplace Discuss program examples that leave a perception with staff that their employer is family friendly Identify the components of professional models of care Discuss the benefits of professional models of care Identify ways to implement quality workplace improvement systems Evaluate the results of implementing quality workplace improvement systems Identify effective methods of promoting collaborative practice between nursing, medicine, and other professional departments Discuss the benefits when nursing staff actively participate in systems and processes related to patient care List resources the staff nurse can access to enhance professional development Discuss how a commitment to professional development aids recruitment and retention Identify ways to reward staff for exceptional performance List essential aspects of the performance review that enhance retention Identify examples of appropriate goal setting for a staff nurse Identify methods to recruit young people into healthcare careers Discuss the value of establishing relationships with schools of nursing List examples of recruitment and retention data that is useful to manage your workforce Identify the values of using metrics to measure recruitment and retention success Identify ineffective recruitment strategies Identify effective recruitment strategies Identify recruitment and retention methods that have been proven successful outside the healthcare environment Compare basic recruitment and retention principles from the general workplace to those from nursing

A complete and up-to-date legal resource for administrators of tax-exempt healthcare organizations, the Third Edition equips you with a comprehensive, one-volume source of detailed information on federal, state, and local laws covering tax-exempt healthcare organizations. The Third Edition of this practical, down-to-earth book tackles complex legal issues by providing you with plain-English explanations and the appropriate legal citations for further research.

This Fourth Edition of the highly praised Practical Guide for Medical Teachers provides a bridge between the theoretical aspects of medical education and the delivery of enthusiastic and effective teaching in basic science and clinical medicine. Healthcare professionals are committed teachers and this book is a practical guide to help them maximise their performance. Practical Guide for Medical Teachers charts the steady rise of global interest in medical education in a concise format. This is a highly practical book with useful "Tips" throughout the text. The continual emergence of new topics which are of interest to teachers in all healthcare disciplines is recognised in this new edition with seven new chapters: The hidden curriculum; Team based learning; Patient safety; Assessment of attitudes and professionalism; Medical education leadership; Medical education research; and How to manage a medical college An enlarged group of 73 authors from 14 countries provide both an international perspective and a multiprofessional approach to topics of interest to all healthcare teachers.

A Practical Guide to Emergency Telehealth is the most thorough, up to date, and practical guidebook available for the design and implementation of a wide variety of acute and episodic distance-based clinical services. Historically it has been evident that Emergency Medicine stands to benefit from improvements in telecommunication technologies. This book helps readers understand how emergency telehealth can be used to improve care within and outside the ED, discover telehealth opportunities, identify solutions for health care disparities, guide them through to implementation, and support them to long-term success. Chapters feature case examples, checklists, and lessons learned from professionals who have been at the forefront of the telehealth industry. The content is designed for individuals and institutions at all levels of telehealth experience. It is fitting and essential for hospital administrators, information technology staff, emergency medicine clinicians, nurses, and other key stakeholders involved in the delivery of urgent and emergent medical care. Advance Praise for A Practical Guide to Emergency Telehealth "This excellent text will serve the practitioners with a ready reference as telehealth continues to grow in importance and utility in the aftermath of a global pandemic." -- Charles R. Doarn, MBA, FATA, FAsMA, Research Professor, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, MPH Program Director, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati "While telehealth as a method of providing care is not new, pre-COVID growth accelerated by the response to COVID-19 has been remarkable. Dr. Sikka and his colleagues have provided us with the most comprehensive body of work to date on this important subject." -- B. Tilman Jolly, MD, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer, Aveshka, Inc., Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University "This book provides an excellent summary of the contemporary issues in emergency telehealth, and is a must read for clinicians interested in this topic." -- Jesse Pines, MD, National Director of Clinical Innovation, US Acute Care Solutions