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Career Success in Health Care: Professionalism in Action, 4th Edition

Bruce Colbert, Elizabeth Katrancha

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Career Success in Health Care: Professionalism in Action 4th Edition by Bruce Colbert/Elizabeth Katrancha
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Helping your students gain a competitive edge, Colbert/Katrancha's CAREER SUCCESS IN HEALTH CARE: PROFESSIONALISM IN ACTION, 4th Edition, emphasizes the vital importance of focusing on behavioral skills and establishing a personal brand from "day one" of students' academic programs. With its hands-on, interactive format, this unique worktext helps students develop their interpersonal skills to achieve success within their programs, while seeking their first career positions 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 4th edition personally connects the material to students' individual life experiences.

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Meet the Authors

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Bruce Colbert

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, he also developed an interactive worktext and DVD program on student success. 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

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.

What's New

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  • There is a deeper focus on connecting professionalism and career skills to employment and career success, which students are challenged to explore through self-assessment, SMART goal achievement and application of learning to personal and professional growth.
  • Activities to enhance critical and creative thinking have been added alongside expanded content on areas of communication skills, patient satisfaction skills and varied health care careers.
  • Expanded coverage around ethical and legal issues in health care, infection control and health care to areas outside of the traditional hospital setting has been added.

Features

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  • Anticipatory Exercise: Each chapter begins with an anticipatory exercise to immediately immerse students into chapter concepts, set the tone and establish real-world relevancy for learning the skills.
  • Test Yourself: Equipping students with the tools to check their own progress, self-test exercises assess learners' current level of knowledge and behavioral skills in each topic area. This establishes a baseline to measure growth, helping students maximize their study time and course success.
  • Skill Application: After students assess their current level, the worktext walks them through ways to build upon their progress as well as interweaving various related skill applications to guide them in their improvement. Based on their assessment and interaction, the skill applications culminate into a personalized action plan for enhancement of the behavioral skill.
  • Food For Thought: Offering additional insight, this feature stimulates further thought and critical thinking related to the behavioral skill set being developed.
  • Just for Fun: Fun thought activities that also teach a lesson.
  • Case Studies: Case studies to pull integrate and test on multiple concepts and show real world relevance.

Table of Contents

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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.

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