Time Managment is all the buzz right now and no doubt you have been on a course or seminar (if you haven’t you probably soon will be). They are often helpful but they are a bit prescriptive. Here is a link to a blog that approaches time management in a much more dynamic way, I’ve [...]
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Time Management – a flexible approach
Posted in Leadership, Leadership & management in Care Award, Management, Uncategorized, tagged Time managment on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Step by step guides to success
Posted in Equal opportunities, Leadership, Leadership & management in Care Award, Leadership and Managment Award NVQ, Management, Managing meetings, Motivation, Performance management, Uncategorized, tagged Care, Care managment, LMC A1 on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These excellence checklists provide invaluable advice for leaders and managers tackling a range of everyday issues.
I have looked at most of them, especially those that are more likely to appeal to the Health and Social Care Sector – they are well worth exploring and most are worth downloading.
Don’t hesistate – click here: InvestorsinExcellence
CRM (NEW)
Managing equal opportunity [...]
Leadership and Management in Care Award
Posted in Care, Leadership, Leadership & management in Care Award, Leadership and Managment Award NVQ, Learning, Management, tagged Care, LMC A1 on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE RMA AWARD IS NOW REPLACED BY THE NEW LEADERSHIP AND MANGEMENT IN CARE AWARD.
THIS BLOG WILL FOCUS ON THIS AWARD AND WILL MAP NEW POSTS TO THE UNITS! THE BLOG WILL REMAIN A USEFUL RESOURCE FOR ANYONE IN THE CARE SECTOR, ESPECIALLY MANAGERS.
THE FOLLOWING IS SOME BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT THIS NEW AWARD WITH A [...]
CRB: Checks for volunteers……new guidelines.
Posted in Abuse, Care, Management, News, tagged Add new tag, Care on August 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CRB Checks for volunteers -guidance just published – click the link for easily readable booklet.
Practice Guides: free from SCIE!
Posted in Care, Leadership, Leadership and Managment Award NVQ, Learning, Management, Training on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Free resources, especially when they come form an authoritative source are always to be welcomed. The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has a wealth of important free stuff as well as good links to all kinds of useful sites. For me, the Practice Guide 1: Managing Practice is a must and anyone in first [...]
Stroke care – calling ‘best practice’ – can anyone help?
Posted in Care, Management, Stroke care on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The issue of stroke care is one I often think about. Many homes do stroke training and updating. But in truth it is hardly the focus for most care/nursing homes. Have any of you out there got any best proctice guidlines you could share with us?
Meanwhile this from the BBC gives a taste of the [...]
Great Management Quotes of Our Time: Peter Drucker.
Posted in Care, Dignity challenge, ILM, Leadership, Management, Quality, Quotes, Wisdom on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what [...]
NVQ evidence: pliagerism and correct citing of sources.
Posted in Learning, Management, Pliagerism, Training, Uncategorized on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Professional reflection: Plagiarism in the NVQ process.
Philip McMullen. Jan 2008.
Introduction.
Whether evidence is presented in handwritten, printed or electronic formats, the assessor /verifiers ought to have an understanding of how to establish that the evidence presented is original, and where and to what extent it relies on citing other people’s work. This skill-set requires having an [...]
Mental Health Act 2007
Posted in Management, Mental health, Uncategorized, tagged Care, Care managment, Mental Capacity Act on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a download to expalin the Mental Capacity Act ending with a good flow diagram for practical use. The link is at the bottom of the page -well worth it!
Depatment of Health.
Dementia: too low a priority by health and social services.
Posted in Care, Management, News on July 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The care of people with dementia needs to be urgently improved, the government’s spending watchdog said on Wednesday.
“Despite a steeply rising trend in cases of dementia the condition is being given too low a priority by health and social services,” the National Audit Office said.
“Too few people are being diagnosed, or being diagnosed early enough, [...]
