This course is part of a series of programs intended for public health administrators, and nurse administrators, who are relatively new in their positions (3 years or less), and who seek to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to succeed. The course discusses the major duties and responsibilities of Human Resources, the several Human Resources issues, & the major legal issues facing employers in the workplace.
There are seven video clips in this course:
Job Descriptions; Recruitment, Selection, & Orientation; Performance Appraisals; Compensation; Health, Safety, & Security; Corrective Actions; and Policy Manual and Unions.
This course is part of a series of programs intended for public health administrators, and nurse administrators, who are relatively new in their positions (3 years or less), and who seek to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to succeed. The course discusses the Public Health’s scope of practice, the rationale for strategic planning in Public Health, the guiding principles of strategic planning, & the major questions that should be addressed during the strategic planning process. There are four video clips in this course: Essential Services & Guiding Principles; What Have We Been Doing?; Components of a Strategic Plan; and Question & Answer Session.
This course provides awareness of and an introduction to the process of project management. The course contains eight modules that will define project management and offer an overview of the critical project management tasks of defining project scope; establishing tasks and milestones; sequencing tasks; exploring the concept of efficiency; establishing timelines; scheduling tasks and resources; and monitoring progress. This course is not supported by Mac operating systems.
No matter how effective a leader/manager you already are, this course is designed to refresh and refine the skills needed to lead your teams to success in todays fast-paced and stressful health care environment. By exploring effective leadership styles and strategies, this course provides specific tools to enhance leadership/management communication. This course is not supported by Mac operating systems.
In the years ahead Public Health Nursing practice will be affected by: new scope and standards of public health nursing; performance monitoring of public health practice; accreditation of public health agencies; and credentialing examinations such as the new National Board of Public Health Examiners. This program will explore how these new developments will impact public health nursing practice.
Public health educators have been inundated with competency sets and charged with determining the ability of their learners to perform at expected levels. This session will present concrete and practical strategies for linking competency achievement to training activities, identifying the level of skill developed in a training session, and provide participants an opportunity to practice using these “tools of the trade”.
This presentation is part of the New York/New Jersey Education and Research Center 28th Annual Scientific Meeting on occupational health disparities and occupational health issues in the changing workforce. In this presentation, the speaker discusses work-related fatalities and OSHA's mission and strategic outlook plan. Other topics include: enforcement; cooperative programs; and outreach programs.
This presentation will explain the key concepts related to evaluating organizational effectiveness in the public health domain. Examples will be provided throughout the presentation to illustrate the issues from a public health perspective. In addition, guidelines will be presented for executing an effective organizational evaluation process.
A performance measurement system will provide information to advocate for public health at state and local levels, shape policy decisions, support accountability, improve quality, and target resources to ultimately improve the health of the public. After all, what gets measured gets done. Join us as we discuss the concepts of the National Public Health Performance Standards Program and the goal that we all strive for, healthy people in healthy communities.
This presentation consists of a review of the 10 Essential Public Health Services that describe how a system promotes and protects population health. It also shows how the 10 Essential Services contributed greatly to the development of the Operational Definition of a Local Health department, upon which the forthcoming national accreditation standards will be heavily based. It finally addresses the relationship of the NJ Practice Standards to both the Operational Definition as well as the 10 Essential Public Health Services to determine the degree to which their health departments are prepared for voluntary accreditation.
