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"Helping your students gain a competitive edge, CAREER SUCCESS IN HEALTH CARE: PROFESSIONALISM IN ACTION, 3e emphasizes the vital importance of focusing on behavioral skills and establishing a personal brand from "day one" of students' academic program. With its hands-on, interactive format, this unique worktext helps students develop their interpersonal skills to achieve success within their program, while seeking their first career position, and well beyond. Through interactive assessments, students evaluate their current behavioral and professionalism skills as well as develop effective action plans for improvement. Continuing the worktext's learner-friendly writing style, the Third Edition personally connects the material to students' individual life experiences."--
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Section I: COMMUNICATING WITH YOURSELF: ACHIEVING PERSONAL EXCELLENCE.
1. Study Skills: Laying the Foundation.
2. Characteristics for Personal and Professional Success.
3. Setting Goals and Time Management.
4. Stress Management.
5. Thinking and Reasoning Skills.
Section II: COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS: ACHIEVING PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE.
6. Types of Communication.
7. Communication in Action.
8. Communication Within an Organization.
9. Patient Interaction and Communication.
10. Your First Position as a Health Care Professional.
11. Professionalism in Action.
Info autore
Bruce Colbert is faculty emeritus and retired director of the Allied Health Care Department at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. The author of 12 traditional books and several electronic projects, he has also developed an interactive worktext and program on student success in the health care professions. Focusing on such topics as stress and time management, he has presented more than 300 regional and national lectures and workshops devoted to professional skills, enhancing critical and creative thinking and effective decision-making. In addition, he consults with educational programs to improve teaching effectiveness as well as presents active teaching workshops.Elizabeth Katrancha is a quality consultant accreditation specialist for the Veteran’s Health Administration. She has a background as a professor of nursing and is acutely aware of the soft skills that are needed in the next generation of healthcare professionals. She has published numerous clinical articles and her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Trauma Nurse, Orthopedic Nurse and Western Journal of Nursing Research.
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Developing your interpersonal skills and establishing your "brand" as a professional early in your academic career will directly affect your future success. With its unique "worktext" format, CAREER SUCCESS IN HEALTH CARE: PROFESSIONALISM IN ACTION, 3e helps you sharpen your interpersonal skills to showcase yourself as a top-performing student as well as a top-quality job candidate. Drawing from their many years of teaching, clinical experience, and conducting workshops concerning the behavioral domain, the authors deliver a worktext packed with real-life examples, clear direction, and step-by-step assistance in assessing your current state of professionalism and creating effective action plans for improvement. Equipping you with both academic and life skills, CAREER SUCCESS helps you reach your full potential.
