The Fundamentals of Healthcare Administration (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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The Fundamentals of Healthcare Administration: Navigating Challenges and Coordinating Care opens with a discussion on the differences between health, healthcare and health care and provides an overview of healthcare management and organizational trends. And it culminates in discussions of leadership, management, motivation, and organizational behavior and management thinking. Additionally, the topics of information technology, teamwork, health disparities, organizational culture, performance, and change are included in the discussions.

The book is filled with learning aids including introductions, chapter objectives, on-page definitions, key points, real-world examples, case studies, practical applications, discussion questions, and chapter summaries. This text is meant to enable students to critically analyze real-world healthcare management scenarios. The book is equipped with a case study and critical thinking questions that are used throughout the chapters to help the reader put the contents into action. This textbook will utilize one major case study called "Managing the Case of Mr. Rodriquez." Leadership examples, critical thinking exercises and/or questions have been added into each chapter to help the reader apply what he/she has read in efforts to aid in an understanding of the content. The case is laid out here in its entirety and will be referenced using a sidebar within or as a caption at the beginning of the chapters.