Job Readiness for Health Professionals
Soft Skills Strategies for Success
- 4th Edition - March 4, 2024
- Latest edition
- Author: Elsevier Inc
- Language: English
Master the soft skills you need to succeed as a healthcare professional! A guide to personal behaviors, Job Readiness for Health Professionals, 4th Edition covers 48 different sof… Read more
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Master the soft skills you need to succeed as a healthcare professional! A guide to personal behaviors, Job Readiness for Health Professionals, 4th Edition covers 48 different soft skills, including effective communication, collaborating with colleagues, time management, and searching for and applying for jobs. Engaging, hands-on exercises help you apply these skills in a variety of circumstances and practice settings. Easy to read and easy to follow, this book describes the proven strategies and practices that will help you find your first healthcare job and advance in your career.
- Guidelines to building a professional portfolio include checklists, a certificate, mock interviews, and ways to keep resumes up to date, all helping you create an effective tool demonstrating job readiness and advancement
- Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills prepare you to analyze and handle situations, to better manage conflict and to quickly and effectively adapt to changes
- Case studies show how specific soft skills are related to the challenges and issues of the healthcare profession
- Work-text format includes journaling and self-reflection activities, providing opportunities to practice and apply skills
- Learning objectives for each chapter provide measurable outcomes for you to achieve
- Logical organization of topics begins with self-management and interpersonal skills, and moves on to communication skills, career building skills, and finally planning and advancing a career
- Storytelling approach uses vignettes and realistic scenarios to make the content more personal and relatable
UNIT I SELF-MANAGEMENT AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
1. Beginning Your Career
2. Managing Your Emotions
3. Building Emotional Strength
UNIT II COMMUNICATION SKILLS
4. Mastering Professional Communication
5. Building Relationships
6. Communicating in Health Care
7. Managing Conflicts
UNIT III CAREER BUILDING SKILLS
8. Being a Successful Student
9. Preparing for the Externship
10. Starting the Job Search
11. Apply for Jobs
12. The Interview Process
UNIT IV PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT
13. Ready for Work
14. Planning for Career Success
15. Advancing in Your Career
1. Beginning Your Career
2. Managing Your Emotions
3. Building Emotional Strength
UNIT II COMMUNICATION SKILLS
4. Mastering Professional Communication
5. Building Relationships
6. Communicating in Health Care
7. Managing Conflicts
UNIT III CAREER BUILDING SKILLS
8. Being a Successful Student
9. Preparing for the Externship
10. Starting the Job Search
11. Apply for Jobs
12. The Interview Process
UNIT IV PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT
13. Ready for Work
14. Planning for Career Success
15. Advancing in Your Career
“This book is an established resource designed to promote job readiness and the development of professional behaviors among health professionals…. [A]ims to provide a comprehensive resource focused on developing 48 unique soft skills and overall preparation to enter the job market…. [A]pplicable across a wide range of health professional programs…. These exercises help stimulate reflection and critical thinking skills.... [W]ritten at a level where even middle school or high-school students with an interest in the field of health care would be able to follow along,... [and] incorporates several unique features that are designed to promote discussion and critical reflection…. The book is visually attractive, using color photographs to illustrate things such as professional dress or body posture,… [and] cover a diverse range of topics relative to promoting professional behaviors.” — ©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Elizabeth D. DeIuliis, OTD, OTR/L, CLA, FNAP, FAOTA (Duquesne University)
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: March 4, 2024
- Language: English