Smart Nursing: How to Create a Positive Work Environment that Empowers and Retains Nurses (Springer Series on Nursing Management and Leadership)

At last, a book about the nursing shortage that links nurses, managers, and physicians using conceptual, communication, and leadership approaches. Smart Nursing addresses critical healthcare issues such as patient safety and nurse retention. Smart Nursing is an easy system of cost effective strategies that removes obstacles that interfere with nurse productivity. It enables nurses to use their full professional capacity to deliver safe patient care in a variety of clinical settings. It blends heathcare knowledge with business expertise to address the bottom line for managers. In short, the dollar difference between the present level of nurse productivity and a nurse's full professional capacity is the potential cost savings that Smart Nursing offers. For Further Information on our Author, Please Click Here.

nurse And Consultant Fabre Points Out That Health Care Management Practices In The 1990s Cost The System A Significant Number Of Nurses, Who Left Because Of Burnout Or A To Find A Career Where They Would Be Appreciated. She Introduces Her Smart Nursing Model—an Antidote To Further Waste Of Skills And Careers. After Discussing The Concept Of A Staff-friendly Culture And The Building Blocks Of Her Model, Which Include Respect, Simplicity, Flexibility, Integrity, Culture And Communication, She Shows How To Apply Those Building Blocks To Recruiting And Retention, Teamwork, Safety, Diversity, Leadership And Problem-solving Strategies. She Describes How Her System Benefits People And Groups Outside Of Nursing, Including Administrators, Physicians And Managed Care Professionals And Closes With Advice On What Individual Nurses Can Do To Create A Positive Workplace. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

Relationships-the importance of a staff-friendly culture Research: alarming data supporting nursing concerns Managers: raise your human resource investment return Crisis-reversing negative situations Nurses: what clinical nurses need to change Respect: learn to value nurses Simplicity: simplicity is not over-simplification Flexibility: be adaptable Integrity: integrity empowers you Culture: the art of creating a staff friendly culture Safety: preventing medical errors Staffing: recruiting and retaining the best nurses Diversity: the magic is in the mix Teamwork: building high performance teams Leadership: leading and mentoring others Consumers: satisfying our customers Non-nurses: the role of physicians, CEO's and trustees Managed care: having it all: safety, quality & cost control Education: when you stop learning, you stop living Opportunities: turning the problems into opportunities. "At last, a new book about the nursing shortage that links nurses, managers, and physicians using conceptual, communication, and leadership approaches. Smart Nursing addresses critical healthcare issues such as patient safety and nurse retention. Smart Nursing is an easy system of cost effective strategies that removes obstacles that interfere with nurse productivity. It enables nurses to use their full professional capacity to deliver safe patient care in a variety of clinical settings. Smart Nursing blends healthcare knowledge with business expertise to address the bottom line for managers. In short, the dollar difference between the present level of nurse productivity and a nurse's full professional capacity is the potential cost savings that Smart Nursing offers."--BOOK JACKET In "Jack and the Beanstalk," the mythical beanstalk grows and allows Jack to enter a mysterious world of peril and adventure, the land of the giant and his extraordinary riches.