Fast Facts for the Clinical Nurse Manager: Tips on Managing the Changing Workplace in a Nutshell

by Barbara Fry RN, BN, MEd (Adult)

Overview

Clinical Nurse Managers face a multitude of challenges daily: managing a budget, interpersonal conflicts among staff, policy and structural changes, and many more. Using the concise "Fast Facts" format, this guide provides quick access to insights, strategies, and tools for resolving some of today's most challenging issues for nurse managers.

This book delineates the roles and responsibilities of clinical nurse managers in the rapidly changing healthcare system. It also provides useful strategies for creating a healthier work environment, which improves rate retention. Readers will learn to initiate institutional change, manage resistance to change, lead staff through times of fear and anxiety, manage the multigenerational workforce, and much more. With this book, nurse managers will develop a renewed confidence in both themselves and their staff.

Key Topics
• Presents a wide range of guidelines for dealing with staff issues, including conflicts among staff members, low morale, poor attitudes, and more
• Includes new, innovative perspectives on management, such as the importance of taking risks and the benefits of having a sense of humor
• Provides tips for maintaining work-life balance, managing responsibilities at work, home and in the community
• Incorporates the author's own experiences, challenges, and breakthroughs as a nurse manager.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826125699
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/19/2010
Series:	Fast Facts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	919 KB

About the Author

Barbara J. Fry, MEd (Adult), BN, RN, is president of Workplace ­Dynamix, Inc., an active member of the College of Registered Nurses in Nova Scotia, and a professional keynote speaker and facilitator.

Table of Contents

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Part I: The Bottom Line:

Part I: Managing What Lies Beneath

The Buck Stops Here: Managing Professional Practice

Power Politics and Possibilities: Managing the Art of the Possible

Competencies for a Changing Workplace: Managing New Rules, New Roles

Part II: The Here and Now

Managing New Realities

Anticipating Change: Managing Staff Anxiety, Uncertainty, And Fear

Got Gap?: Managing the Multi-generational Workplace

""It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...""

Managing and Facilitating Change and Transitions

Its Over: Managing the End of Old Ways of Being

From Isolation to Collaboration: Managing a New Way of Being

Now What? Managing Chaos and Confusion

Part III: Staff Gone Wild?

Managing Your Cast of Characters

Got Resistance? Expect It; Welcome It; Manage It!

Got Attitude? Managing the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly

Got Queens, Princesses, and Workplace Terrorists?

Got Bullying? Managing the Sound of Silence

Part IV: Predicting Your Workplace Future: Create it! Manage it! Love it!

Managing their Reign of Terror

Mission Impossible? Managing Work-Life Balance

Creating Your Future: Managing Purposeful and Values Driven

Workplace Relationships

Got Staff Meeting Nightmares? Managing Awesome Opportunities

From Workplace to Community: Managing Connectedness

Part V: From Surviving to Thriving:Tips and Tools for Thriving in a Changing Workplace

Top 10 Fast Facts for Thriving In a Changing Workplace: 10 More for Managing It

Conclusion

Discussion Guides: Tools to Inspire Creative Conversations

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