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UPDATED 12/21/22 You know it by many names: employee handbook, company policy manual, staff handbook, or even employee manual.
Maintaining employees can improve practice efficiency, lower costs, and create a great team. However, making certain HR errors lowers morale in your practice and causes you to lose some team
When it comes to your dental, optometry, or other medical practice, there are very few things more important than your employee handbook. This forms the baseline for how you operate
Timekeeping may not always seem like the most essential consideration for your dental practice.
In most cases, we love vacations. Vacation means fun, relaxation, and a chance to unwind. It also means something that most of us cherish: Time away from the office!
COVID-19 has created a crisis for all healthcare providers, including optometrists. All optometry offices must stay on top of COVID-19 regulations to ensure a COVID-safe practice for team members and
It’s a rare person who wakes up in the morning and decides that they truly enjoy doing paperwork. This activity is not fun, and it’s time-consuming, to put it mildly.
There is no question about it: The COVID-19 vaccine has been a controversial one. Perhaps this controversy has been more significant than in the healthcare world, as many employers have
UPDATED 2/8/23 Unfortunately, almost every medical practice has to deal with an employee’s medical leave of absence caused by a medical emergency, sickness, or FMLA leave.
Here’s the unfortunate truth: Some employees don’t have your best interests at heart. While most employee complaints are serious and represent real issues, your job as a practice owner or
You opened your practice to care for animals, not manage paperwork. There isn’t a single veterinary practice that enjoys managing their employee’s paperwork and timesheets. It is cumbersome, labor-intensive, and
Whether you’re a doctor, dentist, optometrist, or other practice owner, your financial wellbeing is directly tied to your onboarding processes—both in obvious and not-so-obvious ways.
As an employer, you have many obligations to the people who work for you: To create a safe working environment, to protect them from discrimination or sexual harassment, and to
If you’ve been managing your practice for more than a hot second, you know that employee management is a vital tool for any practice. Done well, it can help your
Workplace violation documentation is one of the most often overlooked aspects of your HR process, and it’s absolutely necessary. Without proper documentation and record-keeping, you could face legal problems, penalties,
Whether your practice is an optometry clinic, a veterinary practice, a dental practice, or a physical therapy clinic, you and your team should always keep up with your continuing education
There isn’t a single optometry practice out there that hasn’t had employee issues at any point. Indeed, like any other medical practice, optometry employee issues are relatively common.
Many dental, optometry and medical practices want a policy that communicates that they have a drug-free workplace. This is necessary for practices due to countless reasons, including the safety of
You’re already busy enough with your dental, optometry, physical therapy, or veterinary practice. You don’t need further complications with electronic signatures to complicate your HR process. The simple act of
We get it: You have a million things going on in your healthcare practice. Between caring for your patients, dealing with insurance companies, and trying to ensure you have enough
