In any profession, reading is essential to building an excellent professional. The same is true for students who aim to work in Hospital Management. Building a literary background, with good references and relevant content, will make you an impeccable hospital manager.
That is why, in this post, we bring you tips on five books that will make all the difference in your academic and professional path. After all, working in Hospital Management goes far beyond numbers and organization: it means dealing with people, leading teams and running a hospital.
Keep reading and discover the books we picked to help you start preparing for the career you chose for your future!
If Disney Ran Your Hospital
Author: Fred Lee
Highly rated by the people who bought and read it, in this book Fred Lee delivers a special narrative about the importance of delighting patients through humanized, differentiated care, bringing together the worlds of Disney and a hospital.
The author has the background and authority to bridge these two environments, since he has served as vice president of Florida Hospital in Orlando and works at Disney University, a training program for Disney employees.
It is therefore essential reading for those who work with people, serving them in a humanized way, especially when dealing with them at a difficult moment, which is when someone is in the hospital.
Hospital Management Manual
Author: Haino Burmester
In this book of a little over 200 pages, you can delve into the administrative processes of clinics and hospitals in a coherent, systemic and integrated way. That is because the work offers a theoretical foundation on the management model and then presents it objectively, showing how to build a roadmap for evaluating and implementing the system.
For those who already want to understand “in practice” how to run a hospital, this book will prepare you for many situations you will face in the future.
Brazil’s Health in 2030
Author: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Essential reading for everyone who wants to work in the health field, including Hospital Management students. Whether in private or public hospitals, it is extremely important to question and understand Brazil’s health sector as a whole.
For that reason, in this book, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation prepared a series of essays about the country’s future health system in 2030. In addition to offering a look at the 2012 scenario, the book presents possible outlooks for Brazil’s health, including an optimistic and possible one, a pessimistic and plausible one, and an inertial and probable one.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
For everyone who wants to get along well with people, in any environment, this is the ideal book to teach you how.
And for you, a future Hospital Management professional who will work directly with large teams and will have the duty to organize them in the best way for a hospital to run well and be productive, it is essential to know how to deal with all kinds of people.
In this book, you will learn to share your knowledge in the best way, exercise good leadership and also win over the people around you.
Strategic Marketing for Health Care Organizations
Author: Philip Kotler
Already well known in the marketing field, Kotler turns his attention and his strategic communication methods to the health care sector in this book.
According to him, well-executed marketing inside a hospital can foster more trust and loyalty, improving the relationship with the patient in order to provide the best possible experience within the scenario they are in.
So, have you read any book on this list related to Hospital Management? Or would you recommend another work to your colleagues?
Tell us here in the comments about the best Hospital Management book on your shelf! Let’s grow together. 😉
