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Industry expert John Salyer lends 30 years of clinical and management experience to bring you a comprehensive handbook for respiratory care department managers. Not just another dry management book, this text is filled with useful case studies, practical examples, documents, references, and footnotes, as well as Salyer's own Immutable Truths, such as 'management and leadership are not the same thing,' and 'directors/managers are often the last to know what's going on in their departments'. This guide is focused on measurement theory and offers practical, real life examples of how to measure the performance of a respiratory care department. Features include valuable tables and figures, practical appendices, basic forms all respiratory care managers need, an extensive list of resources and weblinks, a list of common mistakes made by managers, and more. This is an ideal resource for all respiratory care department managers and all those interested in becoming one!

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John Salyer is the Director of Respiratory Therapy at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Seattle. He has previously held positions in respiratory therapy management at Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, and Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana California. He also held a faculty appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He has a background in health services research having formerly been the Director of Outcomes Research at the Primary Children's Medical Center. He has B.S. degree in health care management and an MBA, and is a fellow in the American Association for Respiratory Care. He has had over 60 research publications and is an editorial board member for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.

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