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Understanding Team Dynamics and Encouraging Good Relationships
Good management means understanding how teams operate. It’s worth remembering that teams usually follow a certain pattern of development. It’s important to encourage and support people through this process, so that you can help your team become fully effective as quickly as possible. When forming teams, managers must create a balance so that there’s a…
Healthcare Reform and Environmental Services
As part of the proposed changes to healthcare, reimbursement for hospital care and post-acute care will be bundled; patient readmission’s will be at a lower rate in some cases; hospital reimbursement and performance will be directly linked; and physician self-referral will be more closely regulated. Out of those four important items, environmental services has a…
Three Skills That Improve Conversation
Three Skills That Improve Conversation By Brian Tracy One key to becoming a great conversationalist is to pause before replying. A short pause, of three to five seconds, is a very classy thing to do in a conversation. When you pause, you accomplish three goals simultaneously. The Benefits of Pausing First, you avoid running the…
Steps for Effective Staff Training
The most important staff related task we have in Environmental Services is in training. Almost every challenge or difficulty we face can be reduced or eliminated with training. To help you I’m going to list steps that will help you conduct successful training. This is not meant…
Environmental Cleaning Checklist
In view of the evidence that transmission of many healthcare acquired pathogens (HAPs) is related to contamination of near-patient surfaces and equipment, all hospitals are encouraged to develop programs to optimize the thoroughness of high touch surface cleaning as part of terminal room cleaning at the time of discharge or transfer of patients. Download the…
Wax or Finish
This should help those who get confused… Finish = what we put on the floor. Waxing = the verb used to describe the application of said finish. Wax = What you apply to a car’s paint. Also used to make candles. Film = What movies were on before DVD’s. We wax a coat of finish,…