Hardwiring
Trust: The Foundation of High Reliability Teams
Chronic, long-term stress has had a profound impact on health care professionals; often increasing unconscious overt and covert behaviors and straining team relationships. At the same time, increasing demands on leaders have made it challenging to monitor insidious changes in group norms. How healthy is your team?
This session outlines healthy habits to hardwire and sustain trust and respect. Without trust as a foundation, it is impossible to meet the ever-increasing demands of change, hold staff accountable, or create the safe environment that both patients and staff deserve.
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Explain the impact of overt and covert behaviors on team performance and patient safety.
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Explain the relationship between power, trust, and communication.
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Identify one current unhealthy group norm that impacts patient and staff safety.
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State one action you will adopt to create and sustain a culture of regard.
From
Pandemic to Promise: A Care Plan for Nursing
The 2020 pandemic demanded the immediate and intense attention of nurse leaders to
effectively respond to an on-going crisis. By nature and necessity, our focus narrowed. This
session widens the lens by reviewing insidious national health issues that continue to
contribute to the declining health of Americans. How can 4.6 million nurses actualize our
potential, reverse current trends, and heal our profession? With a care plan for our beloved
profession. In this session we asses and diagnosis our profession; providing a common framework
from which to actualize the healing potential of nursing.
Nursing
Leadership Webinar Series with Nursing Salons
This program consists of a series of three webinars followed by an on-site visit. The in-person
session will give a high-level re-cap of the previous webinars (and can be recorded). This
presentation is followed by three nursing salons where I facilitate and encourage nurses to
share their realities, shift their perceptions, and share strategies to thrive. Salons create a
safe place for nurses to integrate the material and learn from each other. The result is
increased bonding between nurses because they can acknowledge a shared reality and internalize
that they are part of a team and a noble profession.
The main objectives of this program are to support and inspire nurses by:
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Re-framing current challenges by presenting a broader perspective, and providing the opportunity
to create a new story
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Empowering voice and emphasizing the need for each nurse to speak their truth while role
modeling professionalism
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Personalizing knowledge so that they can objectively identify their limits, and learn skills to
counter-balance stress
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Renew hope, optimism, and community by providing the opportunity to share individual realities
in a group setting
Webinar
1 PERSPECTIVE: Framing Reality
Research has shown that optimism is one of the most critical factors to resilience. But after more
than a year of being a nurse in a pandemic, nurses are struggling to remain positive. Constantly
bombarded by personal and professional stressors, nurses are, in one word, suffering.
In
the first of three sessions we take an objective look at the reality of nursing in 2021-2022. We
will review a care plan for our profession, and then take this information down to a personal
level to identify supportive, positive actions that give us a hopeful perspective from which to
re-frame and engage in our everyday realities.
Webinar
2 Team Players Who Speak Their Truth
In
the culture of health care nurses who disagree passively or aggressively to the norm are labeled
as not being a good “team player”. Self-silencing became a survival norm.
Ironically,
what is needed to protect our patients, profession and organization is for nurses to stand
firmly in their power and truth. To do so we need to be skilled professional, communicators. In
this session we look at the relationship between power, self-esteem and voice. We review how to
address the non-verbal innuendos that tear us down, and how to professionally communicate our
thoughts and opinions so that others will hear and validate our shared reality knowing that
communication is the greatest predictor of any team's success.
Webinar
3 Compassion Fatigue: When You Don't Even Have the Energy to Burn
The
antidote to burn-out is compassion. But compassion takes energy and nurses are struggling. It is
well documented that to care for our patients, we must care for ourselves — and that
managers must care for their staff. What does caring and compassion look like as a daily
experience? And what actions can you specifically take to tighten the bonds of community within
your own unit?
In
this webinar we learn the PERMA MODEL: Strategies to Counter-Balance Stress which is
used by soldiers who are in combat for lengthy periods of time. We learn how to acquire habits
that will help us thrive by applying this model to their own personal situations and creating
personalized interventions.
The
Dauntless Nurse: Becoming a Skilled Communicator
Ultimately,
it is the confidence and skill with which we hold our everyday conversations that will pave the
way to a future time when our patients are safe, our voices are heard, and the skills and
knowledge of this incredible profession are valued and utilized.
America
needs nurses who are bold and intrepid; who have the confidence and skill to represent this
noble profession. And at no other time in history have their voices been so desperately
needed. Hospital based errors are now the third leading cause of death in America, despite
our professional ethic of "First Do No Harm" - and yet recent surveys show that the majority of
nurses are still avoiding the difficult conversations. In addition, the health of
Americans is insidiously declining as the rates of cancer, diabetes and obesity steadily
rise.
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Explain
two reasons why our country needs nurses who are dauntless.
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Assess
your confidence level in mastering challenging conversations.
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Identify
a conversation that you have been avoiding and apply the DESC model.
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Discuss
how and why courage plays a critical role in becoming dauntless.
A Passion for the Art of Nursing (Based on Sigma Theta Tau's
book: “The HeArt of Nursing”, C. Wendler)
Abstract
Nursing is both a science and an art. The science of nursing requires us to engage our minds,
while the art of nursing
engages our soul. Using the power of story, Kathleen inspires nurses to be in awe and
appreciation of nurses' work. This
lecture challenges the way we perceive our own profession, reminding us of the moments where we
have connected to
another human being on the deepest of levels. When we encourage the role of nurse as artist, and
integrate these
qualities into our daily routine, we unleash our own personal power. Nursing then becomes a
place to be nourished rather
than drained.
Objectives
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Re-kindle your passion for the nursing
profession
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Describe the benefits of practicing both
the art and science of nursing for both patients and nurses
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Identify two situations in your practice
where you have experienced or observed nursing as “art”
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Explain why the art of nursing has been
portrayed as 'less than' science
Understanding Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility: Why Civility
Matters
Abstract
The expression “Nurses eat their young” is so far removed from our idea of the
caring and nurturing nurse that we
shudder to think it could possibly be true. But the truth is nurses are hurting each other.
Stories from the 'front
line' cannot be ignored. These stories are the voices of nurses telling the world about their
experiences. The first
step to healing our relationships is the most difficult: to recognize and openly discuss the
problem. Only by
understanding the origin and reasons for our behaviors can we even begin to create the healing
environment that is so
desperately needed in nursing- for ourselves, as well as our patients.
Objectives
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Understand that nurse-to-nurse hostility
is an unconscious human behavioral response
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Explain why nurses experience un-caring
behaviors from their peers.
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List one action that you can take to
build a culture of healthy relationships and/or decrease horizontal hostility in the
workplace.
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Describe the impact of horizontal
hostility on the patient, our peers, and our profession
Strengthening RN/MD Relationships
Abstract
The patient is the one who loses when nurses and physicians are in conflict. Research shows that
not only do poor
nurse-physician relations affect morale and retention, but also patient mortality. In order to
achieve best practice, we
need to understand why we play this game and how it started. Learn practical strategies for
building good relations that
will be ego-boosting for both nurses and physicians and leave this presentation with the courage
and determination to
improve your working relationships.
Objectives
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Identify two strategies that you can
implement immediately to improve MD/RN relationships at your workplace.
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Explain one reason for the source of
physician-nurse conflict.
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Recall a situation where you experienced
or witnessed a power differential
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Describe a current situation in your
practice where physicians and nurses play “the game”.
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