Synopses & Reviews
Interactive worktext covers the workplace readiness skills identified by the SCANS project and the National Health Care Skill Standards. The book allows learners an interactive assessment of current work skills and assists them in developing achievable goals and a specific action plan and portfolio to optimize future success in the work world. This second edition maintains a writing style that helps to personally connect the material to the individual learner's life experience. While easy to read, the text still challenges the learner to think and apply information for their personal and professional enhancement.
Synopsis
This interactive worktext covers the workplace readiness skills identified by the SCANS project and the National Health Care Skill Standards. It allows learners to gain an interactive assessment of current work skills and assists them in developing achievable goals to optimize future success in the work world. This second edition maintains a writing style that helps to personally connect the material to the individual learner's life experience. While easy to read, the book still challenges the learner to think and apply information toward their personal and professional enhancement.
Synopsis
This innovative worktext covers the workplace readiness skills identified by the SCANS project and the National Health Care Skill Standards. It includes information on the interpersonal as well as the professional skills required to enter the health care work force. Topics such as critical and creative thinking, ethics, interviewing and communication are addressed with a balance of humor and real-life examples to help engage readers. Numerous individual and group activities are included to help students develop these necessary skills.
About the Author
Bruce Colbert is an Associate Professor and Director of the Health care Department at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. The author of six traditional books, he also developed an interactive worktext and DVD program on student success. He has given more than 200 regional and national lectures and workshops devoted to professional skills, such as stress and time management, enhancing critical and creative thinking, and effective decision making. Mr. Colbert also consults with educational programs to improve teaching effectiveness.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Study Skills: Laying the Foundation. Chapter 2 Personal and Professional Characteristics for Success. Chapter 3 Setting Goals and Time Management. Chapter 4 Stress Management. Chapter 5 Thinking and Reasoning Skills. Chapter 6 Types of Communication. Chapter 7 Communication in Action. Chapter 8 Communication within an Organization. Chapter 9 Patient Interaction and Communication. Chapter 10 Your First Job as a Health Care Professional. Chapter 11 Selected Topics.