In healthcare delivery, there’s a lot riding on the details. With so many patients to see and so much time pressure during the day, it can be difficult to track the multitude of follow-up calls that need to be made, reports completed, orders placed, and so on.
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Rehearsal is preparation time devoted to the most crucial and difficult parts of the presentation while simulating the actual speaking conditions as closely as possible.
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A well-managed daily schedule allows you to harmonize patients’ needs with the needs of your staff and colleagues.
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A type of communication (sometimes called “criticism”) that we give or get; a way to let people know how effective they are in what they are trying to accomplish, or how they affect you.
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Identify time wasters and get rid of them (e.g. scanning junk mail catalogues). Ask, “what is the worst thing that could happen if I don’t do this?” Socializing at work is fun, but can be a major problem for your productivity.
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Try and stay calm should something go wrong during your presentation. Don’t take the situation too seriously. The presentation may seem important, but in the grand scheme of things it isn’t.
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Reliability is how consistently a test measures what it attempts to measure. Why is consistency important? Well, when you measure something with an instrument two times, you want it to come out with the same answer (or close to it) both times.
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The facilitator begins by speaking with each party separately and privately. The facilitator invites each party to explain their own issues, to analyze their issues from the other sides’ points of view, and to try to explain and analyze the other sides’ issues.
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Presenting is a learned skill.  As a leader in the medical community, the moment you rise to speak you assume a position of leadership.
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Unfortunately, it is easy for notes to become a crutch for the speaker and a distraction for the audience. Following are some tips to creating effective notes and using them properly:
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