Fundamentals of Management in Physical Therapy: A Roadmap for Intention and Impact helps to strengthen the development of transferable management skills and pragmatic business knowledge for physical therapists. This book will help physical therapist students, academic faculty, clinical faculty, adjunct faculty, and clinicians to learn how to manage effectively at all levels and in a variety of diverse settings within the profession of physical therapy and within health care teams/organizations. Learners have multiple opportunities to reflect upon and apply practical and relevant information to build fundamental management skills that translate across settings.
The book is a resource to help physical therapist assistants as students and as practitioners manage up and across, and to strengthen their ability to leverage high performing teams and value-based care.
Fundamentals of Management in Physical Therapy helps to strengthen the development of transferable management skills and pragmatic business knowledge for physical therapists.
Unit 1 Introduction
1. Management Essentials: Developing Your Management Style
2. Learning to Manage: Strategies for Success
3. Getting Down to The Business of Physical Therapy
Unit 2 Introduction
4. Creating Culture and Why It Matters
5. Purpose-Driven Operations Management
6. Managing People (Human Resources Management)
7. Managing the Financial Bottom Line (Financial Management)
8. Marketing a Physical Therapy Practice (Marketing Management)
Unit 3 Introduction
9. Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Change
10. Business Modeling: Identifying Successful Practices and Avoiding
Unsuccessful Ones
11. Getting Started: Planning for the Future
Jennifer E. Green-Wilson, PT, MBA, EdD, is an Associate Professor in the Healthcare Administration program (HCA) at SUNY Brockport in Brockport, New York. She is also the principal of the Institute for Business Literacy and Leadership in Rochester, New York. She is the President of the Physical Therapy Learning Institute (PTLI) and the founding Director of the LAMP Leadership Institute for the Academy of Leadership and Innovation of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). Previously serving as a Director on the Board of Directors of the APTA, she speaks nationally and internationally on topics related to management, business literacy, and leadership in physical therapy and healthcare.
