Key Skills
You need to develop and improve your managerial skills on an ongoing basis as your career develops and as you meet new managerial challenges. Whether you manage a department or a project team, it’s important to know how to get the work done right.…
Managing Discipline and Dealing with Conflict
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, there are problems with individual performance. As a manager, you have to deal with these promptly. If you don’t discipline, you risk negative impacts on the rest of the team as well as your customers, as poor…
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…
Cleaning and Disinfection in the Hemodialysis Setting
The process of physical cleaning of environmental surfaces using detergent (soap), water, and friction is the critical step required prior to surface disinfection. The combination of the cleaning and disinfection processes is designed to remove and kill…
Why Not Keep Supplies in EVS Closets
The key is that sanitation, safety, and quality cannot be assured for items – particularly paper, textile products such as mops and cloths, and chemicals – that are kept in janitor/housekeeping, soiled utility, and other such areas. …
Cleaning To Save Lives
For any healthcare administrator to discount quality results – with documented evidence – and revert to justification based on square footage borders on the unconscionable and very possibly unethical. To ignore your results and measures…
Don’t Tell Me How Long It Takes
I consider myself a very progressive person who stays current with the latest technology and methods for cleaning and disinfecting healthcare facilities. I learn and share best practices. I communicate with my peers all over the country and I have…
Reviewing Housekeeping Operations
I had a great question last Friday… How would you review a housekeeping operation? Here are some of the steps I said would be important in reviewing their existing housekeeping operations or developing new outsourcing initiatives. Two key phases…
DFC Two Step Cleaning and Disinfecting for Patient Rooms
Here is the two step cleaning training video I participated in as a technical consultant. We filmed this video at the new beautiful Mercy Medical Center in Merced California. The purpose of this video is to help Environmental Services staff save lives.…
Seven Ways To Rock Your Mondays
Here are seven *spectacular* ways to make your Monday rock – and I bet they get you off to such a great start the whole week will rock too! 1. Take time to set your mind. A little time in prayer, meditation or just reflecting on all the amazing…
How To Give Your Employees More
Sometimes you are not in a position to give your employees more in terms of tangible rewards. Increases in pay or benefits, for example, may not be possible. But there is no limit to the intangible rewards you can give them. These "psychological…
Like, What Happened To Speaking With Conviction
Are people afraid to speak with conviction? Or are we losing people who really know, or at least believe they know what they are talking about.