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

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