Fast Facts for the Clinical Nurse Manager: Managing a Changing Workplace in a Nutshell / Edition 2

by Barbara Fry RN, BN, MEd (Adult)

Overview

"The book is easy to read and makes great points, especially about employee issues... This is a great resource for clinical nurse managers. They will find the information on dealing with employee issues helpful and timely. The activities and conversation guidelines are easy to use and relevant in the current healthcare climate... Score: 95 - 4 Stars!

—Cynthia Lee Cummings, RN, MSN, EdD, CHSE, University of North Florida Brooks College of Health, Doody's Reviews

Clinical nurse managers face myriad challenges, including administrative, clinical, and interpersonal issues. This concise, practical resource offers wise guidance for nurses working in this complex, fast-paced role. Addressing common complaints and anxieties, it offers quick access to insights, proven strategies, and tools for effectively coping with such situations as institutional change, a multigenerational and multicultural workforce, resistance to change, and toxic behaviors.

Fully updated and revised, the second edition provides sound advice to address the changing dynamics in health care that challenge clinical nurse management. It offers strategies for boosting staff morale during times of fear and anxiety, explains how to reclaim professional practice and focus on quality of care, advocates for nurses at senior levels, and discusses how to maintain one"s identity in an interdisciplinary setting. Designed to assist clinical nurse managers at all levels in developing new and effective ways of leading in a rapidly changing health care environment, this resource helps foster a better professional practice for the nurse manager. It features concise chapters and bulleted information for quick access and at-a-glance Fast Facts in a Nutshell boxes. Also included are helpful tools and worksheets for managing a variety of challenges, along with the "Top 10 Fast Facts for Thriving in a Changing Workplace."

New to the Second Edition:

• Completely updated and revised
• New chapter, "A Call to Action: Recovering the Lost Art of Nursing"
• New content on fostering and nurturing therapeutic relationships
• More information on rewards and recognition to keep staff motivated

Key Features:

• Presents timely content ready to be applied in a professional setting
• Presents information in an easy-to-access format with concise chapters, bulleted lists, and Fast Facts in a Nutshell boxes
• Advocates a back-to-basics approach to clinical care
• Packed with current, useful, and accessible information that fits in a pocket
• Written by a noted author, keynote speaker, and facilitator highly experienced in helping nurses in leadership roles

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826127884
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/18/2015
Series:	Fast Facts
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

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

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: The Bottom Line: Managing What Now Lies Beneath

1. The Buck Stops Here: Managing Professional Practice

2. Power, Politics, and Possibilities: Managing the Art of the Possible

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

Part II: The Here and Now: Managing New Realities

4. Anticipating Change: Managing Staff Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Fear

5. Got Gap? Managing the Intergenerational Workplace

6. “It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times . . . ” Managing and Facilitating Change and Transitions

7. It’s Over: Managing the End of Old Ways of Being

8. Now What? Managing Chaos and Confusion

9. From Isolation to Collaboration: Managing a New Way of Being

Part III: Staff Gone Wild? Managing Your Cast of Characters

10. Got Resistance? Expect It! Welcome It! Manage It!

11. Got Attitude? Managing the Good, the Okay, and the Downright Ugly!

12. Got Queens, Princesses, and Workplace Terrorists? Managing Their Reign of Terror

13. Got Bullying? Managing the Sound of Silence

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

14. Mission Impossible? Creating Work–Life Harmony

15. Creating Your Future: A Back-to-Basics Approach

16. Got Staff Meeting Nightmares? Managing Awesome Opportunities

17. From Workplace to Community: Managing Connectedness

Part V: A Call to Action—From Surviving to Thriving to Recovering the Art of Nursing: Tips and Tools for Managing a Changing Workplace

18. Recovering the Lost Art of Nursing

19. Top 10 Fast Facts for Thriving in a Changing Workplace (and 12 More for Managing It!)

Appendix: Conversation Guides and Activities—Tools to Inspire

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Cynthia Cummings, EdD, RN, CHSE, CNE (University of North Florida Brooks College of Health)
Description: This book provides nurse managers with strategies for managing and leading in healthcare settings.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide current information on managing in a changing healthcare environment.
Audience: The audience is clinical nurse managers.
Features: The book discusses staff issues, change, politics and the future of the workplace. The best parts of the book are the "fast facts" and summaries, as well as the conversation guidelines and activities. The book is easy to read and makes great points, especially about employee issues. I particularly appreciated the activities in the appendix.
Assessment: This is a great resource for clinical nurse managers. They will find the information on dealing with employee issues helpful and timely. The activities and conversation guidelines are easy to use and relevant in the current healthcare climate.

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