Managing the Respiratory Care Department / Edition 1

by John W. Salyer

Overview

This timely, comprehensive handbook provides critical information on preparing to be a manager, how hospitals work, structuring a department, measuring department performance, staffing and scheduling systems, billing systems, budgeting, evaluating new technology, staff development, developing a culture of accountability, clinical practice guidelines, and more. An ideal resource for anyone interested in or already working in a respiratory care department!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763740443
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	12/12/2007
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	486
Sales rank:	469,991
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

John Salyer is the Director of Respiratory Therapy at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center Seattle. He has previously held positions in respiratory therapy management at Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, and Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana California. He also held a faculty appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He has a background in health services research having formerly been the Director of Outcomes Research at the Primary Children’s Medical Center. He has B.S. degree in health care management and an MBA, and is a fellow in the American Association for Respiratory Care. He has had over 60 research publications and is an editorial board member for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.