The forecast doesn't look good.
 A shortage of nurses continues to be a major problem.
Facilities like yours are shelling out high salaries and signing bonuses just to get RNs in the door. Unfortunately, that hasn't proven to be enough. Once you get quality nursing professionals in the door, you need to know how to keep them from walking out.
 Staff in, staff out, staff in, staff out . . . Stop the revolving door from spinning!
 The "revolving door" trend is discouraging, but even more than that it's dangerous. Inadequately staffed facilities run the risk of preventable errors, avoidable complications, and increased length of stay and readmissions. And, many states are considering nurse/patient ratio legislation.
A Practical Guide to Recruitment and Retention is a handy book that provides you with practical, field-tested strategies to attract and, more importantly, retain high-quality nursing and healthcare personnel.
Filled with timely, user-friendly ideas, concepts, and tools, A Practical Guide to Recruitment and Retention helps today's nurse managers and nurse executives make effective decisions related to recruitment and retention. From recruiting student nurses to confronting troublesome nurses who can cause turnover, this book covers it all.
Inside this must-have book you'll find:
 - An in-depth look at youth recruitment - Appropriate methods to recruit and retain every type of nurse - Techniques for implementing quality work place improvements - Ideas for recognition and reward programs - Ways to embrace diversity in the healthcare workplace - Numerous tools, templates, and procedures to adapt to your facility - Case studies that will help drive the messages home and provide evidence of recruitment and retention strategies that work!
Table of Contents
 Embracing diversity in the workplace Developing Nurse Managers and leaders Employee and family-friendly policies and procedures Professional models of care Implementing quality workplace improvement systems Assuring interdisciplinary collaboration Professional development Recognition and reward programs that promote retention Establishing an educational pipeline Measuring recruitment and retention metrics Top ten things to do/not to do in recruitment What's working in the non-healthcare environment

A Practical Guide to Recruitment and Retention: Skills for Nurse Managers

Medical Books

Shelley Cohen RN BS CEN

Dennis Sherrod EdD RN

Nursing

HCPro, Inc.

Give your new grads and experienced nurses the confidence and skills they need to be intellectually logical, to think independently, and to display high levels of critical thinking.
The ability to think critically is crucial to patient care, and reducing medical errors. And critical thinking skills are a hot-button issue right now. Managers and educators are looking for new ways to teach these valuable skills to their staff.
Build confidence and competence through critical thinking!
Critical Thinking in the Emergency Department: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act is an easy-to-read resource that explains the principles behind critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods in the Emergency Department. This essential book provides strategies for managers and nurse educators to use in developing critical thinking skills, as well as tools and resources to use in classroom training sessions.
Critical Thinking in the Emergency Department covers how to lead classroom sessions on developing these skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies. Examples of critical thinking skills that can be taught include:
 - Developing prioritization skills - Knowing when to call the physician - Effective documentation
Benefits for both novice and seasoned professional nurses!
Learn how to develop a culture of critical thinking, from coaching new grads through bad patient outcomes to encouraging experienced nurses by setting expectations.
You also get valuable resources such as:
 - Assessment tools - Case studies - Worksheets - Samples questions - Classroom handouts
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
 Introduction: Critical thinking in the emergency department 1. Defining critical thinking 2. New graduate nurses and critical thinking 3. The critical thinking classroom 4. Orientation: Bringing critical thinking to the clinical environment 5. Nursing practice that promotes and motivates critical thinking 6. Novice to expert: Setting realistic expectations for critical thinking 7. Applying critical thinking to nursing documentation 8. Relating critical thinking to its higher purpose 9. Resources and tools

Critical Thinking in the Emergency Department: Skills to Assess, Analyze, And Act

HCPro Inc.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Raise the standard of professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by teaching and developing nurses' critical thinking abilities.
Critical thinking is essential to nurses' success
 The ability to think critically is crucial to resident care, and reducing medical errors. This book provides nurse managers and educators with accessible and easy ways to teach these valuable skills to their staff.
Build confidence and competence through critical thinking
 Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing: Skills to Assess, Analyze and Act, is an easy-to-read resource that explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. This essential book covers how to lead classroom sessions for new graduate nurses and experienced nurses to develop critical thinking skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies. It includes learning strategies, and handouts to supplement the classroom.
Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing is for orientation and beyond, and includes tools and resources for ongoing development.
Benefits for both novice and seasoned professional nurses
 Learn how to develop a culture of critical thinking, from coaching new grads through bad resident outcomes to encouraging experienced nurses by setting expectations. You also get a CD-ROM with all the book's valuable and completely customizable resources specifically for long-term care such as assessment tools, worksheets, and sample questions.
Take a look at the Table of Contents . . .
Introduction: Critical thinking in the long-term care setting 1. Defining critical thinking 2. New graduate nurses and critical thinking

Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing: Skills to Access, Analyze and Act (Cohen, Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Ac)

HCPRO

The operating room (OR) is a complex, fast-moving environment, requiring nurses to display their specialized skills across the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative setting.
Raise the standard of your OR nurses professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by developing your nurses' critical thinking abilities.
Build confidence and competence through critical thinking
Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act is a new easy-to-read resource that explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. This essential book covers how to lead classroom sessions for new graduate nurses and experienced nurses to develop critical thinking skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies. It includes learning strategies, worksheets, and handouts to supplement the classroom learning.
Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act provides strategies for managers and nurse educators to use in developing critical thinking skills during orientation and beyond, and includes tools and resources for ongoing development.
Benefits for both novice and seasoned professional nurses
Learn how to develop a culture of critical thinking, from coaching new grads through bad patient outcomes to encouraging experienced nurses by setting expectations. You also get a CD with all the book's valuable and completely customizable resources such as operating room-specific assessment tools, worksheets, and sample questions.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Critical thinking in the perioperative department 1. Defining critical thinking 2. New graduate nurses and critical thinking 3. The critical thinking classroom 4. Orientation: Bringing critical thinking to the clinical environment 5. Nursing practice that promotes and motivates critical thinking 6. Novice to expert: Setting realistic expectations for critical thinking 7. Applying critical thinking to nursing documentation 8. Relating critical thinking to its higher purpose 9. Resources and tools
Who Needs This Book
Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act is a must-have for:
- Chief nursing officers - Directors of nursing - Nurse managers - Nurse educator

Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act (Critical Thinking (HcPro))

The Image of Nursing: Perspectives on Shaping, Empowering, and Elevating the Nursing ProfessionKathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN; Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CENYour hands save lives. The fate of nursing is in them, too.The groundbreaking book, The Image of Nursing: Perspectives on Shaping, Empowering and Elevating the Nursing Profession written byShelley Cohen, RN, BSN, CEN, and Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, with contributions from nursing experts in the field, examines the professional image of nursing today and what you and your staff can do to elevate it.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 professionalismPractice responsibility, autonomy, and accountabilityFocus on excellence in practiceImprove communication with patients, peers, physicians, and managersUnderstand how nursing ethics is vital to professionalismFind out what your peers really think about the image of nursingThe cornerstone of this book is based on revealing results from a national survey on the image of nursing, conducted to ascertain how nurses across the country feel about their image and what they would like to see change. These results will help you take stock of the profession’s current image and give you ideas for what can be improved.Take a look at the table of contents:One Profession, Many Images: Where Has Florence Nightingale Gone?Survey Says: Results from National Nursing Image SurveyMisperceptions of Image: How the Profession is PerceivedAutonomy, Power, and Image: Taking Steps Toward EmpowermentChanging Cultures: Cultivate an Environment for a Professional ImageCommunication: Chiseling a New ImageNursing Image and the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®Finding Our Voice: An Image of Professionalism and Nursing ExcellenceCode of Ethics for Nurses: An Image of Professional IntegrityFrom Voice to Action: How Nurses are Changing Our ImageShape Up Your Image: It’s Time for an Extreme MakeoverLeaders’ and Managers’ Roles in Promoting a Professional ImageA positive image is a requirement for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*The image of nursing at your organization is an important part of the journey to ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® designation, which sets expectations for nurse involvement in their organization’s strategic direction and initiatives, collaborative and collegial relationships with other disciplines, and respect for nurses’ work.Companion handbook for staff nursesYou can also purchase the companion handbook for bedside caregivers Shaping Up the Image of Nursing: Your Ethical and Professional Role.

The Image of Nursing: Perspectives on Shaping, Empowering, and Elevating the Nursing Profession

Kathleen Bartholomew RC RN MN

You and your staff are highly-educated, competent nurses who are entrusted with saving lives. Isn't it time your image reflects your level of education and professionalism?
The HCPro handbook, Shaping up the Image of Nursing: Your Ethical and Professional Role, which is the companion to the groundbreaking book, The Image of Nursing: Perspectives on Shaping, Empowering, and Elevating the Nursing Profession. Written by Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, and Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, with contributions from nursing experts in the field, The Image of Nursing, and Shaping Up the Image of Nursing, examine the professional image of nursing today and what you and your staff can do to elevate it.
The handbook - written for bedside caregivers - is the perfect resource to hand out to your staff to provide them with tools to take responsibility for their image as a nurse. This resource will also help nurses communicate their professionalism to patients, physicians, and other hospital staff.
Sold in packages of 25, this handbook will empower staff to:
- Strive for increased professionalism - Practice responsibility, autonomy, and accountability - Focus on excellence in practice - Enhance collaboration with physicians - Improve communication with patients, peers, and managers
Take a look at the Table of Contents: 
Chapter 1: Where Has Florence Nightingale Gone? Chapter 2: Misperceptions of Image: How the Profession is Perceived Chapter 3: Chiseling a New Image Through Improved Communication Chapter 4: Professional Development and Nursing Excellence Chapter 5: Ethics and Image: Your Professional Responsibilities Chapter 6: From Voice to Action: Media Representation and the Center for Nursing Advocacy Chapter 7: Shape Up Your Image: It's Time for an Extreme Makeover

Shaping Up the Image of Nursing: Your Ethical and Professional Role

Resident outcomes have come under growing scrutiny, both through new quality measures and the overall star rating. Nurses are the frontline staff who engage with residents daily, and it's crucial for them to understand how to apply critical thinking. When caring for residents and creating documentation, critical thinking can improve facility and resident outcomes while reducing medical errors, which will ultimately lead to more accurate reimbursement.
Raise the standard of professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by developing their critical thinking abilities. Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing, Second Edition, provides nurse managers and educators with accessible ways to teach these valuable skills to their staff.
This easy-to-read resource explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. Author Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, provides guidance on how to lead classroom sessions for new graduates and experienced nurses to develop critical thinking skills, including classroom processes and learning strategies. The book includes handouts to supplement classroom training.
Who should read this book?
 - Nursing home administrators - MDS coordinators - Directors of nursing - Charge nurses - Frontline staff involved in care planning - Other clinical managers
This book will help you: - Identify key aspects of critical thinking - Explain how nurses develop competency in critical thinking - Determine classroom strategies to teach, promote, and support the development of critical thinking - Determine ways to evaluate nurses' progress in critical thinking throughout orientation - Develop strategies for the development of critical thinking skills during the orientation process - Discuss the role played by managers and educators in promoting environments that support critical thinking - Analyze the challenges that both new and experienced nurses face when incorporating critical thinking skills in the practice setting - Explain interventions to help new and experienced nurses meet their managers' and preceptors' expectations for critical thinking - Understand the new quality measures and how nurses' actions and documentation affect a facility s star ratings - Educate staff by developing a culture of critical thinking - Coach new nurse graduates through bad resident outcomes by setting expectations - Encourage experienced staff to continually apply critical thinking - Apply critical thinking to nursing and documentation to improve resident outcomes
This book provides nurse managers and educators with easy ways to teach critical thinking to their staff, including customizable resources specific to long-term care, such as: - Assessment tools - Worksheets - Sample questions - Case studies
What's New?
 Developing a culture of critical thinking in nursing is crucial in today's long-term care industry. Resident outcomes have come under growing scrutiny, both through surveys (new quality measures) and overall star ratings. Nurses are the frontline staff that engage with residents daily, and they need to understand how to apply critical thinking to nursing. Critical thinking during documentation can improve outcomes in their facility, which will ultimately lead to accurate reimbursement. This update will cover the new quality measures and discuss how nurses' actions and documentation affect the facility's star ratings.

Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing, Second Edition

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