Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications - Couverture souple

Ledlow, Gerald (Jerry) R.; Coppola, M. Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0763781517 ISBN 13 : 9780763781514

Editeur : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications concentrates on leadership as a subject of study and enables students to apply and practice the theories, models, and responsibilities of leadership within a health organization context. This thorough, well-organized text includes practical cases from leaders in various health professions, presenting leadership principles with an emphasis on enabling and empowering students and professionals to become better leaders in practice, develop an efficacious personal leadership model, and improve health outcomes through better leadership. Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications provides students with the fundamentals of leadership theory and bridges the gap between theory and practice with an emphasis on practical application. With exercises and discussion questions to reinforce key concepts and create critical thinking opportunities, Leadership for Health Professionals combines theoretical foundations with practical applications and is the ideal text to prepare students and professionals for leadership opportunities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gerald (Jerry) R. Ledlow, PhD, MHA, FACHE-Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University Dr. Ledlow, as a board certified healthcare executive and Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, has led team members and managed resources in health organizations for over twenty five years with fifteen years as a practitioner and a decade as an academic, teacher-scholar. He has successfully held positions in: 1) executive level positions in corporate and military health systems in the areas of clinical operations, managed care, supply chain and logistics, information systems and facility management; 2) management positions in health services, medical material and supply chain; and 3) various academic leadership positions as the director of doctoral programs at two universities, director of academic affairs, director of student services, director of the center for survey research and health information as well as holding tenured faculty positions at two doctoral research universities. Dr. Ledlow earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from the University of Oklahoma, a Masters of Health Administration degree from Baylor University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree from the Virginia Military Institute. He has held tenured graduate faculty positions at Central Michigan University, has taught graduate courses for Ohio University as well and currently is on the graduate faculty at Georgia Southern University. Dr. M. Nicholas Coppola is the Program Director of the Healthcare Master of Science (MS), in Clinical Practice Management, at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He is also the (elected) American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Regent for the West Texas Region. In this capacity, he represents the interests of nearly 500 senior healthcare executives in West Texas and New Mexico. Dr Coppola retired from the U.S. Army in 2008 after more than 26-years of officer and enlisted service. He served in progressive leadership positions in Engineer, Infantry and Medical Units. Dr Coppola is also the Past ACHE Regent for the Army. In this capacity, he represented the interests of Army healthcare executives worldwide before vacating the position. Dr Coppola is the Founding Associate Dean of the Army Medical Department s Graduate School, and was additionally the Founding Program Director of the Army-Baylor Graduate Program in Health & Business Administration (MHA/MBA joint degree). He is an ACHE Fellow, and a Past Fellow of the US Medicine Institute. Dr Coppola earned a Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University, and a Master of Health Administration from Baylor University, Texas. He has a Ph.D. in Health Service Organizations and Research from the Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0763781517
• ISBN 13: 9780763781514
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 412
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible