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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Human Resources & Supervision > Guide to Effective Staff Development in Healthcare Organizations Guide to Effective Staff Development in Health Care Organizations: A Systems Approach to Successful Training edited by Patrice L. Spath Hardcover, 264 pages ISBN: 0787958743 978-0787958749 Jossey-Bass / AHA January 2002 (click button below for the very best currently available price for this important resource)   In Guide to Effective Staff Development in Health Care Organizations, Patrice L. Spath - a national authority on health care training - and a stellar panel of health care experts offer hospital administrators and managers a variety of techniques that they can implement to provide cost-efficient staff orientation, training, and continuing education. This book acts as a field guide for health care executives who must make informed decisions about which staff trainings and education strategies are best for their organizations. You can view an excerpt of this book here. A comprehensive resource for health care executives, Guide to Effective Staff Development in Health Care Organizations: Shows how to establish educational and training priorities Offers a model for integrating all facets of staff education and performance evaluation Summarizes the most significant health care training issues Includes information and tips on selecting training methods Presents adult learning strategies Offers strategies for measuring the value of training Recommended by the American Hospital Association, contributions in this book include: Building the Context for Learning: An Executive Priority (Anthony J. DiBella). An Organizational Model for Continuous Learning (Kathleen J. Heery). The Learning Transformation Process in a Health Care System (Diane Boynton, Donald C. Sibery). Training Challenges in Health Care Organizations (Connie E. Kuykendall, Sally Zuel). Selecting Appropriate Training Methods (Brenda I. Mygrant, Mary Carole McMann). Training the Adult Learner in Health Care Organizations (Donna J. Slovensky, Pamela E. Paustian). Measuring the Organizational Impact of Training Programs (Richard J. Wagner, Robert Weigand). Making the Most of Your Training Dollar (Patrice L. Spath). Nurse Scrub Training Program Decreases Surgery Costs (Christina Dempsey). Web-Based Training Expands Coding Education in a Large Health Care System (Gloryanne Bryant, Claire R. Dixon-Lee). On-Target Education Program Meets Training Needs of Surgical Services (Alice T. Speers, Karen L. Zaglaniczny, Christine S. Zambricki). Education Collaborative Augments Staff Training in Northern California Hospitals (Rebecca Petersen). The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. The Health Forum was created in the fall of 1998 through the union of The Healthcare Forum and the American Hospital Association's publishing and data and information subsidiaries. Patrice L. Spath is a partner in Brown-Spath & Associates, a health care publishing and training company based in Forest Grove, Oregon. During the past twenty years, she has presented more than 350 educational programs on quality improvement, case management, medical error reduction, and outcomes management topics. A prolific writer, she has authored or edited more than 150 journal articles. You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go Back to Pages / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore