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Nurses Week: Nursing catalogue discount
Looking for new resources and training materials for your nursing staff? You’re in luck, because today in honor of National Nurses Week, HCPro is offering a 30% discount on anything in our nursing catalogue.
You can find the HCPro 2012 Nursing Catalogue at http://www.hcpro.com/NursingCat2012. This is a great opportunity to check out our newest books, educational packages, and training materials.
Please enter source code NRSWK2012 at checkout to receive your 30% discount.
Tomorrow we will feature our final offer for Nurses Week. Be sure to brush up on your nursing knowledge and check back here!
Nurses Week: Training video discount
Today we’re celebrating Nurses Week by offering 30% off the price of any of our nursing training videos. Our videos cover topics such as effective mentoring, improved communication, nurse-to-nurse relationships, and accountability in nursing. Visit HCPro’s Healthcare Marketplace to browse our selection of training videos!
Please enter source code NRSWK2012 when placing your order to receive your 30% discount.
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Making the leap from “one of us” to “one of them”
One day you’re part of the group. Helping each other out, complaining about never having the supplies you want when you need them, and chipping in for pot luck holiday meals. The next, you’re promoted to manager and suddenly you become “one of them.”
Becoming a nurse manager is a tough transition for anyone, but it’s even harder when you become manager of the same unit where you worked as a staff nurse. Suddenly, you’re the one with the power—you can finally make the decisions you’ve always wanted to—but you also have all the responsibility.
One of the hardest issues to navigate is reconfiguring the relationships between yourself and your former peers. It’s key to acknowledge that the relationship has changed and that your new role is quite different.
Shelley Cohen, RN, MS, CEN, president of Health Resources Unlimited, and staunch nurse manager advocate, has written that the first things to do is obtain a copy of your job description and share it with staff. That was, they understand what you’re accountable for and what your priorities will be. [more]
The importance of succession planning and training nurse managers
By Betty Noyes, RN, MA
The management gap in healthcare is a real and increasing issue of concern. We do not seem to have enough talented managers to meet the goals of our organizations.
Without sufficient skills, first-line managers do not benefit an organization. The first step to increase the number and education of managers is to provide effective training designed to specifically improve organizational performance.
Currently, healthcare costs are high. When all elements of healthcare reform are implemented, higher costs may ensue. There will be a demand for more change and greater resilience from our management teams. Unless we have managers who are resourceful in their management skills, we will not achieve new and improved ways to succeed in the goals of safe, high-quality care at a reasonable cost.
Four basic rules for engaging direct-care nurses in quality improvement
To engage direct-care nurses, nurse leaders need to follow four basic rules:
1. Be transparent with your staff at all times
2. Make accountability for improvement at the unit and staff nurse levels
3. Give your staff the tools to succeed
4. Continually reward and recognize improvement
Here is a more in-depth look at each of the four basic rules. [more]
Nursing reviews change across the country
Everyone has to undergo a performance review, including nurses. At some facilities, it can take place annually, maybe every six months, or even every other year. Nurses may be asked to fill out a 10-page form that helps their managers score qualities such as “leadership” or “respectfulness.” Or maybe the nurses don’t have to fill out a form, but rather have an electronic system tracking every project they do, and if a task is not completed on time, the information is logged into a performance system.
No matter the case, many organizations are changing the way performance reviews are conducted to separate top performers from underachievers. According to Hewitt Associates, 10% of managers and 11% of other employees are now judged solely on the results they achieve, as opposed to a combination of hard figures and additional behavioral characteristics. [more]
President Obama thanks nurses for their commitment
On June 16, President Obama spoke in front of more than 1,000 cheering nurse delegates and RNs at the biennial American Nurses Association (ANA) House of Delegates to thank ANA and nurses for all their hard work and commitment in the journey to passing healthcare reform.
“Nurses are the beating heart of our healthcare system,” said President Obama in a press release from ANA. “Because you know our healthcare system so well, that is why you have become such fierce advocates for reform.” [more]
June 1 nursing strike postponed; National Nurses United prepare for June 10 strike
June 10 could mark the largest registered nurses strike in U.S. history if nurses from California and Minnesota cannot reach an agreement in contract negotiations. Originally scheduled for June 1, nurses in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, rejected pension and labor proposals from the hospitals, and believed there was no other option but to strike the day after their contracts ended.
Now, as many as 25,000 nurses are set to strike on June 10 over patient safety in U.S. hospitals. Thirteen thousand nurses in California and 12,000 in Minnesota are set to strike, even though each strike was not coordinated to fall on the same day. All of the nurses are members of the National Nurses United, the nation’s largest professional association and union for nurses. The nurses are also members of the California and Minnesota Nurses Association.
Bedside nurses encouraged to be patient safety champions
The University of Kansas Hospital (KUMED) in Kansas City, KS, has created a program to encourage nurse involvement in patient safety. The program, Quality Safety Investigators (QSI), is a way to improve bedside nurses’ involvement in championing quality and patient care. KUMED provides each nurse involved in the program with tools, resources, and training that focus on unit-specific initiatives. [more]
