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Monday Morning Manager

You’re Hired!
July 21, 2008 9:45 AM by Douglas Laher
Perhaps you've been there before. You're a department manager in a large academic center in a metropolitan area. You have vacancy rates in excess of 10 percent, and your hospital just added a new 100-bed critical care tower that will require an additional Read More...
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Respiratory Therapy 2028: Visions of the Magic 8-Ball
July 7, 2008 8:14 AM by Douglas Laher
Many people across the country celebrated the 4 th of July with fireworks, backyard barbecues and visiting family. These acts are a celebration of the birth of a free country. On July 4 th of 1776, our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence Read More...
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Walk the Walk
June 13, 2008 1:56 PM by Douglas Laher
On April 29 th , a reader posted a comment to the blog titled A Chain is only as Strong as its Weakest Link . Here is an excerpt from Jim; a Respiratory Care Shift Supervisor. "I anticipated the day that change could happen, which is the main reason I Read More...
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Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
June 5, 2008 10:25 AM by Douglas Laher
It's been one of the greatest privileges of my career to serve as a guest lecturer at my alma mater, The Ohio State University. Two years ago, my old program director Herb Douce asked me if I'd like to come back to campus and speak to the graduating senior Read More...
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The Best Advice Comes When You Least Expect It
April 24, 2008 12:21 PM by Douglas Laher
As I look back on my career, I shutter to think what could have been. I graduated from the Respiratory Therapy program at The Ohio State University in 1993. I was never much of the academic type and was anxious get on with graduation. I chose the Cleveland Read More...
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The Kalahari: Friend or Foe?
March 25, 2008 9:12 AM by Douglas Laher
The Kalahari Desert in Africa is one of the hottest places on earth. The conditions are so unbearable, only the fittest can survive. Without water, dehydration takes place within hours... not days. Poisonous scorpions and rattlesnakes lie in wait... their Read More...
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Why Ask Why?
March 6, 2008 11:54 AM by Douglas Laher
I'm not sure that I understand, nor do I know why the NBRC recently granted a one year amnesty period for certified respiratory therapists who graduated prior to 2005 to sit for the RRT exam. While extending this period allows the NBRC to "help us meet Read More...
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When You’ve Got It, You’ve Got It
February 29, 2008 1:59 PM by Douglas Laher
I don't know that I ever bought into the notion that respiratory therapy (or anything else for that matter) was like riding a bike. "Once you learn how, you'll never forget" my dad used to say. Hence was the reason I was so apprehensive this week when Read More...
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Writing Your Own Ticket
February 26, 2008 12:34 PM by Douglas Laher
So there I was, sitting in my office trying to reassure my evening shift supervisor. After more than a month of non-stop, action-filled evenings that routinely included multiple rapid response calls, traumas, and code BLUE's, Mark had had enough. "Doug... Read More...
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When the Going Gets Tough… the Tough Get Going
February 25, 2008 9:29 AM by Douglas Laher
It's like clockwork every year... a new strain of influenza hits us like a shot to the back of the head with a baseball bat. Inevitably, there is always a strong respiratory component associated with the virus that cripples both the patients and the hospital Read More...
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There's no "I" in "Team"
February 18, 2008 3:46 PM by Douglas Laher
As an avid sport's fan and a lifelong Clevelander, the emergence of LeBron James as an NBA superstar has been fun to watch. This was no more evident than last night as I watched the NBA All-Star game. While almost securing a triple-double, LeBron continued Read More...
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Honesty is the Best Medicine
February 18, 2008 3:31 PM by Douglas Laher
Well it's that time of year again on the north coast for annual employee performance appraisals. Unfortunately for many employees, this occurrence is nothing more than a speed bump on their way to their annual salary increase. "Just tell me how much and Read More...
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Optimizing Performance by Asking the Right Questions
January 28, 2008 12:05 PM by Douglas Laher
In our last segment, we briefly discussed the importance of asking thought-provoking questions in pursuit of creating highly efficient departments. Unfortunately, the culture of western civilization has taught us that knowing the right answer is more Read More...
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Buy-in vs. Commitment
January 23, 2008 1:55 PM by Douglas Laher
So many times we hear that the most essential ingredient in the successful implementation of a new project, protocol or initiative is staff "buy-in". This implies that the staff has embraced the proposed change and has bought into the thought that it Read More...
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