The Handbook of Continuing Professional Development for the Health IT Professional

✍ Scribed by Klinnst, JoAnn

• Publisher: CRC Press LLC : CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Series: HIMSS Book Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Continuing professional development (CPD) is critical for the health IT professional. Healthcare is fast-paced, dynamic, ever-changing, and global. It’s both exciting and exhausting. And it is rapidly evolving through innovation, Federal incentives, and technological advancements. For these reasons, health IT professionals must embrace lifelong learning to ensure they have the professional competencies to advance initiatives that positively impact patient care. This handbook will provide the rationale and the resources to do so and will serve as a reference to accompany one’s career success.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editor 
Contributors 
Introduction
A Personal Testimony
I: POSITIONING THE HEALTH IT PROFESSIONAL FOR LIFELONG CPD 
1: Identifying Your Professional Potential
2: Creating a Personal Brand
3: Diversifying Your Skillset
4: Developing a Career Roadmap
5: Work-Life Balance: Does It Exist? Can You Achieve It?
II: Establishing and Nurturing Your Career
6: The Role of the Professional Association
7: The Importance of Volunteering
8: Earning a Certificate to Demonstrate Competency 9: Differentiating Yourself with a Professional Certification10: Seeking an Advanced Professional Designation
III: LEARNING FROM OTHERS 
11: The Mentoring Process
12: Managing by Walking Around
13: Experiencing a Job Exchange
14: The 360-Degree Assessment
15: Professional Coaching
IV : THE ASPIRING LEADER 
16: Developing as a Leader
17: Nurturing Inter-Personal Skills Development
18: Understanding the Multi-Generational Workplace
19: Minding Your Manners in the Workplace and Beyond
20: Encouraging Diversity in the Workplace
21: The Aspiring Female Health IT Executive 22: Joining the C-SuiteV: THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFELONG LEARNING 
23: Earning an Advanced Degree
24: The Many Facets of Continuing Education
25: Engaging Socially to Expand Professional Competency
26: Viewing the Workplace for On-the-Job Training
27: Talent Management for the Health IT Professional
Index

✦ Subjects

Medical informatics;Employees;Training of;Performance;Career development;HEALTH & FITNESS;Holism;HEALTH & FITNESS;Reference;MEDICAL;Alternative Medicine;MEDICAL;Atlases;MEDICAL;Essays;MEDICAL;Family & General Practice;MEDICAL;Holistic Medicine;MEDICAL;Osteopathy