Project management in health and community services : getting good ideas to work /
By: Dwyer, Judith [author.].
Contributor(s): Liang, Zhanming [author.] | Thiessen, Valerie [author.] | Martini, Angelita [author.].
Publisher: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2013Edition: 2nd edition.Description: xxiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781743310489; 9781743310489:; 174331048X.Subject(s): Project management | Community health services -- Administration | Public health administration | Health services administration | Community Health Services -- organization & administration | Program Development -- methods | Program Evaluation -- methodsDDC classification: 658.404Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 658.404 DWY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0062888 |
Includes bibliographical references (p.237-243) and index.
Introduction -- Why project management? -- The industry, the organisation and project success -- Understanding project management -- The initiation phase: what do you want to do, and why? -- The project planning phase: what will you do, and how? -- Planning tools: scheduling, budgeting and the business case -- The implementation phase: getting it done -- The closing phase: handover, outcomes and evaluation -- Project templates -- Project management courses in Australia.
Until now, project workers in the health and community services industries have had to rely on books designed principally for architects, builders, and IT administrators. This textbook takes the principles of project management and places them into a context relevant for people working specifically in health and community services.