Kathleen Bartholomew Book Package

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This book package contains four HCPro books by dynamic speaker and author Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN.

This book package includes:

Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective Nurse-Physician Communication
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This best-selling book by Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, delivers effective strategies for improving nurse-physician relationships. Bartholomew uses engaging case scenarios, critical-thinking activities, and real-world tips to help nurses understand and communicate with physicians.
This book helps you:

• Ensure patient safety through improved collegiality between physicians and nurses
• Increase recruitment and retention by creating a healthy work environment
• Empower nurses to improve communication by confidently interacting with disruptive physicians
• Increase productivity through creating a culture of accountability

Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat Their Young and Each Other
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Through captivating anecdotal scenarios, Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility examines the many facets of horizontal hostility and offers strategies to make your workplace more peaceful and attractive to current staff and future employees. Whether you’re a nurse manager looking to end the cycle of nurse-to-nurse hostility or a staff member who feels you are or have been a victim of such behavior, this book will help you:

• Understand horizontal hostility and why it occurs (includes a sample employee questionnaire to assess whether horizontal hostility is an issue in your facility)
• Recognize the ramifications of allowing horizontal hostility to occur and persist (e.g., nurses quit, patient care suffers)
• Identify methods to prevent horizontal hostility
• Implement best-practice strategies to deter horizontal hostility from re-occurring (includes steps staff and managers can take to remedy the situation)
• Improve the nursing culture at your facility

The Image of Nursing: Perspectives on Shaping, Empowering, and Elevating the Nursing Profession*
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This unique book brings you a historical assessment of the current image of nursing, as well as practical strategies you and your staff can use to elevate your image—from focusing on the ethics of nursing to professional communication with patients, physicians, and peers.

This book will help you raise your staff’s image, and the image of the entire nursing profession, by demonstrating how nurses can:

• Strive for increased professionalism
• Practice responsibility, autonomy, and accountability
• Focus on excellence in practice
• Improve communication with patients, peers, physicians, and managers
• Understand how nursing ethics is vital to professionalism

*This book was co-authored by Shelley Cohen, RN, MSN, CEN. It includes contributions from Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, RN-BC, Barbara J. Hannon, RN, MSN, CPHQ, Karen L. Tomajan, MS, RN, BC, CNAA, CRRN, Edie Brous, RN, MSN, MPH, JD, and Laura Cook Harrington, RN, MHA, CPHQ, CHCQM

Stressed Out About Communication Skills
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Learn how to succeed in the practice setting with the realistic strategies and practical communication examples found in Stressed Out About Communication Skills.

Inside this resourceful guide, you’ll find four sections devoted to the most troublesome communication scenarios that new nurses face, including:

• Nurse-to-patient communication
  Best practices for listening and responding to your patients and their families by understanding their fears and anxieties.  
• Nurse-to-nurse communication
  Tips to prevent horizontal hostility and what steps to take should you become a victim.
• Nurse-to-physician communication
  Techniques for communicating in a high-pressure situation and with someone who may not always treat you with respect.
• Nurse-to-manager communication
  Strategies on how to talk to your superiors, what to do and say if you are unhappy in your position, and how to make the adjustment from being a big fish in a small pond to becoming a small fish in a big pond.

About Kathleen:
Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, managed a 57-bed orthopedic and spine unit in a tertiary hospital in Seattle for six years. Recognizing that the culture of an institution is critical to patient safety, she now speaks across the country about the image and future of nursing, creating healthy work environments, communication, nurse-to-nurse hostility, and improving physician-nurse relationships. She is the author of the HCPro books Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat Their Young and Each Other, Stressed Out About Communication Skills, Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective Nurse-Physician Communication, and is co-author of The Image of Nursing: Perspectives on Shaping, Elevating, and Empowering the Nursing Profession.
As a registered nurse, Kathleen uses story to bring to light the challenges and issues facing nurses today. Her strength is her ability to link the academic world with the practical reality of the hospital. Her objective is to serve as a much-needed voice for nursing today.

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