Relationship Based Care Field Guide

This follow up title to the award winning Relationship-Based Care: A Model for Transforming Practice shows readers how Relationship-Based Care transforms the culture of care delivery. Written as a field guide, this book will inspire those who are working on the critical relationships that deliver superior care. The Relationship-Based Care Field Guide gives readers a sense of what It’s like to be part of an organization that never stops evolving. Long after Relationship-Based Care is alive and thriving in your organization, it will continue to grow and change. It is an essential resource, no matter where you are on your RBC journey!

This follow up title to the award winning Relationship-Based Care: A Model for Transforming Practice shows readers how Relationship-Based Care transforms the culture of care delivery. Written as a field guide, this book will inspire those who are working on the critical relationships that deliver superior care. The Relationship-Based Care Field Guide gives readers a sense of what It's like to be part of an organization that never stops evolving. Long after Relationship-Based Care is alive and thriving in your organization, it will continue to grow and change. It is an essential resource, no matter where you are on your RBC journey!

The result of Creative Health Care Management's 25 years experience in health care, this book provides health care leaders with basic concepts for transforming their care delivery system into one that is patient and family centered and built on the power of relationships. Relationship-Based Care provides a practical framework for addressing current challenges and is intended to benefit health care organizations in which commitment to care and service to patients is strong and focused. It will also prove useful in organizations searching for solutions to complex struggles with patient, staff and physician dissatisfaction; difficulty recruiting and retaining and developing talented staff members; conflicted work relationships and related quality issues. Now in it's 16th printing, Relationship-Based Care has sold over 65,000 copies world-wide. It is the winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award.

A Quick Guide to Relationship-Based Care is a 68-page booklet outlining the basics of Relationship-Based Care®. This valuable resource is ideal for orientation of the entire workforce in organizations implementing Relationship-Based Care. Written in easy-to-understand language, this book will help everyone in the organization (especially those in later implementation waves) to understand that they are truly part of something meaningful. This book will be a game changer for all organizations implementing Relationship-Based Care!

Relationship-Based Care is comprised of three crucial relationships: care providers relationship with patients and families, care providers relationship with self, and care providers relationship with colleagues. The caring and healing environment for transformational relationship based-care includes leadership, teamwork, professional nursing, care delivery, resources, and outcomes.

Advancing Relationship-Based Cultures explains and expands a fundamental and often overlooked truth in health care: It is the confluence of relational and clinical competence that advances relationship-based healing cultures. A relationship-based culture is one in which a critical mass of people provides care and service with relational competence. In these cultures, the skills that foster relational competence are actively developed, nurtured, practiced, reinforced, and evaluated. While countless thought leaders have championed the importance of improving relationships, this book provides a practical how-to for the creation and nurturance of healthy relationships in health care. Readers of this book will understand that a strategy that includes improving all relationships will improve all other measures as well. When you empower people, giving them the tools to take excellent care of themselves, one another, and the patients and families in their care, organizations thrive.

The Practice of Primary Nursing: Relationship-Based, Resource-Driven Care Delivery updates on where Primary Nursing fits in today's health care climate. Originally started at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in 1968, Primary Nursing has been used by many hospitals in the U.S., Canada, and the World. This new edition thoroughly explains the four important operating elements of Primary Nursing and outlines the actual steps taken at the unit level for successful implementation. Today's hospital needs the type of relationship-based care delivery that Primary Nursing provides. Winner of the 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award!

This book explains how staff development is an important element for a sustainable staff structure health care facilities. At the end each chapter the reader finds a to-do-list, to replicate the project. The book is devided into 4 parts: 1. Practicing culture change, 2. Learning emotional intelligence, 3. Establishing interprofessional collaboration and 4. How to create the future of healthcare. Anticipating these options and experiences will help leaders to inspire their teams with practical ideas.To find the right trainings for staff development can be time consuming. With this overview about international successful projects the reader has an update about innovations in healthcare and uses the knowledge for the reader's own team or healthcare institution. This book helps readers experiencing their own culture change in their organisation, and create the future of their team or facility with knowledge about how to develop a person-centred culture, how to implement the TeamProcessPerformance in their operation theatre, how to reduce stress by using simple HeartMath-methods. This book also informs on how to establish wellbeing at the workplace, and how to practice interprofessional collaboration to reduce mistakes and costs. Written by authors from UK, Turkey, USA, Scotland, Ireland and Germany, this book offers human resource managers a look beyond their national horizon and presents innovative international concepts.