Fast Facts for the Clinical Nurse Manager
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Fast Facts for the Clinical Nurse Manager by Barbara Farquharson Fry
This book presents a range of situations that consistently face clinical managers, from getting political to effect institutional change, to managing multi-generational workforce, managing change and resistance to change. This tool provides useful strategies for improving nurse retention through creating a healthier work environment. It also offers actual tools and worksheets that are useful for managing a variety of change. It includes: how to become more comfortable with the concept of change; how to try out competencies such as risk taking, innovation, flexibility, and creativity as a relationship manager; and, how to develop confidence in a new-found management style and leadership. This title is not for sale in the UKBarbara 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. She received a BN and diploma in Teaching in Schools of Nursing from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, a Change Management Certificate from Queen's University (1997), and a master of Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University (2003). Her master's thesis was Facilitating Workplace Relational Learning: The Intersection of Power, Caring, and Quality of Work Life. As a former staff nurse, nursing instructor, and nurse manager (for 16 years), she inspired a climate of personal excellence and professional competence in the workplace. Drawing on her experience as a nurse manager, healthy workplace relationship consultant, professional speaker, and adult educator, she shares her wealth of knowledge and strategies that work in today's changing health care workplace. She provides leadership in improving quality of work life and facilitates individual and group leadership and accountability for creating healthy workplace relationships. As a powerful, humorous, and inspiring speaker, she was the closing keynote speaker for the Canadian Nurses Association's 100th Birthday Celebration Conference (2008). Today, Ms. Fry continues to advocate and facilitate professionalism in nursing practice and to promote healthy workplace relationships. She is a frequently requested presenter and facilitator in both provincial and national nursing associations.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780826125682 |
| ISBN 10 | 0826125689 |
| Title | Fast Facts for the Clinical Nurse Manager |
| Author | Barbara Farquharson Fry |
| Series | Fast Facts Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer Publishing Co Inc |
| Year published | 2010-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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