Business training and education needs of chiropractors.

Objective: This report is an examination of the perceived need for business skills among chiropractors.

Methods: An online survey was completed by 64 chiropractors. They assessed the need for business skills and current levels of business skills.

Strategic analyses in nursing schools: attracting, educating, and graduating more nursing students: part 2-stakeholder analysis.

As mentioned in part I of our research, the shortage of nurses in the United States remains a persistent problem. Faced with this reality, nursing programs in colleges and universities continue to struggle to expand enrollment levels to meet the spiraling demand. In this part II of our research, we used another familiar tool in strategic management, stakeholder analysis, as one of the steps to discover ways to capitalize on stakeholder relations in a way that draws more students to the profession of nursing.

Satisfaction for health care employees: a quest for the Holy Grail?

This article proposes that, across industries, too much has been made of the importance of job satisfaction and its impact on organizational effectiveness. In addition, so much attention has been directed toward satisfaction that many health care employees, particularly nurses, now expect job satisfaction from their employers as an entitlement. In nursing, feelings about job satisfaction may, in fact, be exacerbated by the idealism which leads the young person entering the field to expect to be in a "helping profession" where workers almost automatically encounter the satisfaction that comes from giving the help which the patient desperately needs.

Legal and regulatory education and training needs in the healthcare industry.

As in any other industry, laws and regulations significantly impact the functioning of the healthcare industry. Some laws, such as those relating to malpractice and social insurance systems, affect the manner in which the industry operates. Other laws, such as those regulating antitrust and employment practices, affect the organization and the environment in which the industry operates.

Key tasks in healthcare marketing: assessing importance and current level of knowledge.

When examining the healthcare industry, the need for continuing education in internal functions (i.e., HR management) has been documented.

An expedited model for health care administration programs at the graduate level.

In this paper, we report the development of a theoretical model for health care administration programs at the graduate level. Our model development was prompted by recently-expressed concerns that the training available to managers and executives in health care fields is encountering a number of problems: it is typically lengthy and expensive, and involves too many prerequisites. In terms of content, the training available may be too narrowly focused on performing functions, such as accounting, rather than managing the functions.

The educational needs of healthcare managers and executives in the key strategic areas of healthcare.

Management approaches used by many healthcare organizations lag behind those of similar competitive industries. The authors of this article report findings from an exploratory study of executives' perceptions of training needs in managerial strategy. The authors asked executives to rate the level of knowledge required for each of five key areas in strategic management and then to assess actual levels of knowledge in the field.