Product Description

Although doctors, nurses, and administrators differ widely in their training and outlook, they share the same patients and the goal of providing safe and effective care. This book provides novel strategies for fostering collaboration among these diverse professionals. Each approach is illustrated by a case example and supported with practical tips for implementation. These strategies will help healthcare teams leverage their unique talents, improve patient care, and reconnect with the ideals that attracted them to a career in healthcare. This book describes how to use constructive conflict to open the lines of communication, maintain the loyalty of outpatient physicians, optimize the contributions of hospitalists, use crew resource management techniques to improve communication and collaboration, encourage physicians to reach consensus on clinical priorities, use clinical teams to reduce malpractice risk and improve outcomes, adopt disease-based approaches to patient care, use blogs to create virtual communities among professionals, and apply techniques from the Toyota Production System to empower frontline staff

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #912547 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Kenneth H. Cohn, M.D., M.B.A., FACS, is a board-certified general surgeon currently splitting his time between providing locum tenens surgical coverage in New Hampshire and Vermont and working as a consultant at Cambridge Management Group, which specializes in physician-physician and physician-administrator communication issues.

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended
Collaboration and communication are key skills for success in heath care organizations. Dr. Cohn presents us with diverse and innovative approaches that enhance collaboration and communication between physicians, nurses and hospital administrators. Each chapter provides unique and practical approaches--illustrated by a case, case analysis, and a list of key concepts--that can help health care professionals and administrators to understand each other's perspectives and to realize they are on the same team. Most important, Dr. Cohn gives physicians a voice and shows us how all can benefit when hospital executives actively and fully involve physicians and nurses in creative problem solving and genuine collaboration at all levels. A shared spirit of collaboration and ongoing improvement benefits those we work with and the patients we care for.