Biomedical subjects

Laura Sachs

Publications and source records attributed to Laura Sachs.

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Verifying a job applicant's factual credentials.

Nearly one-third of all job applicants may make unjustified claims, exaggerate, omit important information, or lie in their resumes, employment applications, or interviews. Checking credentials before you hire is the best way to protect your staff and patients and to save time, money, and effort. In this article, the author identifies the most common job application lies and pinpoints the three most common resume/application red flags. In addition, the article suggests specific information that the applicant should supply in the application to help the employer get to the truth. It offers practical advice for verifying academic credentials, employment history, and awards and honors. Finally, this article provides useful suggestions for avoiding discrimination suits in hiring practices and techniques for coping with employees who have lied to you.

Credentialing↗

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Gathering useful opinions about the job applicant.

Getting people to talk to you about former employees' job performance can be like pulling teeth. It seems that everyone these days is afraid of saying the wrong thing and having even innocent remarks come back to haunt them. Most people say nothing. However, you can increase your chances of getting useful employment references by following a few basic guidelines. This article describes the most effective methods for conducting reference checks. It suggests who is most likely to talk with you about a former employee and how to make you approach. It provides specific questions to ask and to avoid when seeking opinions about the job applicant. This article also offers simple and easy-to-implement techniques for using reference checking to build goodwill and referrals for your practice.

Data Collection↗

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Becoming a better delegator.

Most medical practice managers know that delegation is a useful practice management tool to streamline both personal and practice efficiency. However, delegation is often underused, misused, and misunderstood. What, precisely, should be delegated in a medical practice and to whom? What are some of the obstacles to successful delegation, and how can the astute medical practice manager identify and overcome them? Which tasks should not be delegated? Finally, why do members of the professional practice staff sometimes resist delegation? In this article, the author provides answers to these intriguing questions, as well as a useful self-quiz to rate delegation skills. In addition, the author provides strategies and sample language you can use with your staff to make your own delegated tasks and responsibilities more enthusiastically accepted.

Administrative Personnel↗

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Firm but fair policies for staff vacations and holidays.

Paid holiday and vacations are a wonderful employee benefit for your staff. However, without some firm policies in place that anticipate and avoid problems, holidays and vacations can backfire in a medical practice and become a source of problems both for the practice and for the staff. This article provides concrete tips for reducing vacation and holiday conflicts and particularly for structuring a firm-but-fair vacation policy for new employees. It provides guidance for solo practitioners' vacation scheduling and offers a list of the most common paid holidays in professional practices today. In addition, this article offers answers to common holiday and vacation scheduling questions such as how to handle holidays that fall during a vacation and weekend holidays. Finally, this article offers specific advice for making the December holiday season a pleasant and trouble-free one for your staff.

Holidays↗