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What a week Respiratory Care week was!
November 17, 2009 3:28 PM by Roger Berg
Wow, what a week National Respiratory Care Week was! I hope you had as much fun and excitement as my staff and I did during this wonderful week where we have an opportunity to express our appreciation to staff members for the outstanding work they do Read More...
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Fun Ways to Celebrate Respiratory Care Week
October 5, 2009 4:59 PM by Roger Berg
With only three weeks left before Respiratory Care Week, perhaps you are as busy as my team is preparing for this annual event. Each year, we form a Respiratory Care Week Committee to take charge of this celebration. This year, the committee decided to Read More...
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Respiratory Care Week 2009 Coming Soon
September 24, 2009 6:39 PM by Roger Berg
It seems as though we were celebrating Respiratory Care Week 2008 only a couple of weeks ago. Now the 2009 version looms on the horizon. How quickly another year has flown by. One of my sons-in-law told me the reason the years seem to fly by faster as Read More...
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Delegating Responsibilities to Others
August 19, 2009 6:35 PM by Roger Berg
Delegating responsibility is a challenging and sometimes difficult thing to do for many department managers, supervisors or lead therapists. One of the major reasons for this challenge is the assumption that "I can do it better." Some leaders belive that Read More...
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Finding Your Saturday-Night Essence
May 4, 2009 6:13 PM by Roger Berg
The other day, while I was listening to some "Timeless Favorites" on the radio, I heard "Whatever will be, Will be (Que Sera, Sera)" by Doris Day. Part of that song asks the question, "What will I be?" Back in the days before dirt and dinosaurs I remember Read More...
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Feeling Overwhelmed?
April 29, 2009 4:57 PM by Roger Berg
I was talking with a colleague who is also a manager of respiratory care and she indicated that she was overwhelmed with work and didn't know how she was going to be able to accomplish all that is being asked of her to do. I initially made the assumption Read More...
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Employee Retention
March 3, 2009 8:16 PM by Roger Berg
In these challenging economic times-when many hospitals have imposed a hiring freeze, eliminated unfilled positions, initiated staff layoffs, increasingly restricted or totally eliminated travel and education budgets, and reduced or frozen capital budgets-I Read More...
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