Synopses & Reviews
"This book should be required reading for all who work in care settings and the text used for leadership and health care administration courses in colleges....Farrell's personal journal is as compelling as a good novel, except it is nonfiction! You want to laugh, cry, scream, and shout halleluiah."---Joanne Rader, R.N., B.S.N., M.N., Nurse Consultant, Rader Consulting
"The pages of this toolbox will be dog-eared from use. No more excuses! This works!"---Rose Marie Fagan, Co-founder and Founding Executive Director, Pioneer Network
"Nursing home leaders from the bedside to the boardroom need a `field guide' to help them make critical decisions and this book fills the gap."---Robyn Stone, Dr, PH., Senior Vice President for Research, LeadingAge, Washington, D.C.
Whether your care facility is flourishing or floundering, its success depends on what you do as administrator, director of nursing, or other leader. Your decisions and actions can improve staff performance and ensure high-quality care. The organization that prospers has staff who know you care. Based on the authors' abundant skill in guiding hundreds of nursing homes through organizational transformations, this book gives you the tools and strategies to achieve stable staffing, optimal care, and high census, and to become a leader in a thriving nursing home. Read one administrator's compelling account of a year making a difference in his nursing home, followed by elucidating examples, advice, and wisdom that come from decades of first-hand experience working with long-term care facilities.
This book is an essential resource for nursing home owners and corporate staff, administrators and directors of nursing, and all those committed to helping long-term care organizations to be better places to live and work.
Synopsis
What you do really does matter This book is a must read for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing, and others in leadership positions in long-term care. It offers practical, commonsense, easy-to-implement approaches that will yield immediate positive results. It also serves as a wake-up call to leaders who doubt their impact and as an affirmation to leaders who struggle daily to do a good job. Let Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care open the door to new possibilities and set your organization on a better course.
Too often long-term care leaders feel overwhelmed by regulatory, financial, and corporate constraints and succumb to the myth that staff turnover is an inevitable cost of doing business. This book debunks this myth, revealing the powerful link between staff satisfaction and successful organizational performance that delivers high quality, high census, good surveys, and a healthy bottom line.