Case Studies in Health Care Supervison or Material Concerns

Case Studies in Health Care Supervison

Author: Charles R McConnell

This is a collection of case studies, most of which initially appeared in the quarterly professional journal The Health Care Supervisor. It is intended for use in the training and continuing education of supervisors, managers, and professionals working in health care or preparing for health care careers. Although it is a companion volume to The Effective Health Care Supervisor, supplementing the cases and exercises provided in that publication, it also stands by itself as a guide for supervisory training programs, and as a useful resource for a variety of other education activities.

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Presents 75 cases and a response to each, intended for use in both the initial training and continuing education of supervisors and middle managers in health care organizations. The majority of the case studies were developed from the experiences of supervisors and managers actively employed in health care settings. Most of the case responses came from editors and readers of the book, and are designed to encourage further critical thinking on the cases. The text can be used for self-study, in small groups, or as part of a supervisory development class. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Contents: Why Case Studies in Health Care Supervision? * What the Supervisor Needs the Most * Deciding What' s Important to the Supervisor * Identifying and Arranging the Cases *The Cases * Case Responses * Making the Case Method a Habit

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Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life

Author: Tim Jackson

The pressures of industrialization impose increasingly unacceptable burdens on the environment. Resultant soil degradation, ozone depletion, toxic pollution and gradual global warming ultimately impede our economic development and the progress of civilization.
Both old sayings and new trends of environmental management show that prevention is always preferable to any cure. By redesigning products, streamlining industrial processes, and readjusting patterns of consumption, it is possible to promote and sustain economic development within the limits of environmental protection.
Material Concerns offers the first non-technical introduction to preventative environmental management. Using detailed case studies from across the industrial world, it unites the essential themes in the current debate surrounding development: new thinking on pollution prevention and ecological economics, the calculated limits to sustainability, and the real implications of the shift to a service economy.