The Effective Charge Nurse Handbook

The Effective Charge Nurse Handbook: The Pocket Companion for Charge Nurse Leaders provides new charge nurses with the competency-based skills they need to act as frontline leaders and support their organization's quality of care mission. In this invaluable and compact handbook, charge nurses will learn the essentials of leadership and their crucial role in optimizing their organization's objectives, managing the continuum of care, and promoting a safe and harmonious workplace. The Effective Charge Nurse Handbook is designed to complement Charge Nurse Leader Program Builder: A Competency-Based Approach for Developing Frontline Leaders, for use by charge nurses themselves during orientation, in-services, or self-study. It also functions as a companion to charge nurse workshops developed through the Program Builder. Charge Nurse Leader Program Builder and The Effective Charge Nurse Handbook support the important work of creating a better, more professional environment for nurses.

The Charge Nurse Leader Program Builder: A Competency-Based Approach for Developing Frontline Leaders is a comprehensive curriculum and road map for developing frontline leaders and ensuring charge nurses are trained, mentored, and supported in their roles. The Charge Nurse Leader Program Builder is the complete resource for creating a new program or revitalizing your existing training. It defines relevant competencies and provides the tools and framework that you need to get a program up and running. Use the book and its accompanying tools and resources to hold charge nurse workshops for those new to the role and provide ongoing training and development opportunities. The curriculum is already developed for you, so you can immediately get started. You can also pair The Charge Nurse Leader Program Builder with The Effective Charge Nurse Handbook, a pack of 10 short, easy-to-read handbooks to give to charge nurses and support them in their important work of creating a better, more professional nursing environment.

Charge Nurse Program Builder: Tools for Developing Unit Leaders Tammy L. Berbarie, BA, RN, RN-BC Turn your charge nurses into frontline leaders! As of June 20, 2014, contact hours for nurses are no longer available with this product. Order your copy today and train efficient, competent charge nurses This all-in-one training resource contains customizable tools, templates, and checklists to help nursing leaders provide charge nurses with top-notch training. Whether you hold your own charge nurse training workshop or pass it on as a self-study, this book makes training your charge nurses easier and more effective. It covers all aspects of the charge nurse role, from conflict management to technical duties such as handling patient assignments and scheduling. This all-in-one resource: Equips charge nurses with the skills they need to provide leadership to staff on their unit Enables staff development professionals to provide ongoing training to hundreds of charge nurses using one resource Provides customizable training materials including a PowerPoint presentation and handouts Reduces the time spent developing training materials for charge nurses Use the tools, templates, and checklists for a training workshop or give the book to charge nurses to use as a self-study guide! Table of Contents: Chapter 1: What Is a Charge Nurse? Introduction Charge Nurse Traditional Roles: The Main Ingredients Charge Nurse Exemplary Roles: The Icing on the Cake Summary Chapter 2: Developing a Charge Nurse Job Description Job Descriptions and Charters Engage Team Members Summary Tools Chapter 3: Charge Nurse Succession Planning Identifying Goals Goal 1: Organizational Culture Goal 2: Building Talent Goal 3: Recruiting Talent Goal 4: Maintaining Talent Summary Tools Chapter 4: Planning Charge Nurse Orientation Charge Nurse Job Description or Charge Nurse Charter Regulatory Requirements Leadership Training Coordination and Delivery of Patient Care Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Department and Organizational Orientation Shared Governance Charge Nurse Preceptors Charge Nurse Workshops Orientation Documentation Performance Expectations and Evaluation Launching Your Program Summary Chapter 5: Incorporating the Job Description into Orientation Hiring for the Position Elements to Include in Orientation Charge Nurse Job Description Sample Summary Chapter 6: Regulatory Requirements The Joint Commission Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) State Board of Nurses American Nurses Association (ANA) Organizational Policies and Procedures Summary Chapter 7: Charge Nurse Leadership Training Leadership Team Building Conflict Resolution Communication Developing Talent Summary Chapter 8: Coordination and Delivery of Patient Care Patient Flow Process Staffing and Scheduling Patient-Centered Care Decision-Making Contract Staff, Agency Staff, and Unlicensed Personnel Special Circumstances Documentation Summary Tools Chapter 9: Patient Safety Emergency Management and Documentation Errors Data Collection Summary Chapter 10: Department and Organizational Orientation Leadership Meet and Greet Department Specific Orientation: Crucial Elements Summary Chapter 11: Shared Governance Charge Nurse Participation in Shared Governance Charge Nurse Retreat Charge Nurse Unit Meetings Summary Chapter 12: Charge Nurse Preceptors Preceptor Selection Criteria Training Charge Nurse Preceptors Charge Nurse Precepted Time Summary Chapter 13: Charge Nurse Workshops Crucial Elements to Include Charge Nurse Presentation Development Setting Expectations Building Your Charge Nurse Reference Book Summary Chapter 14: Performance Evaluations Charge Nurse Role in Performance Evaluations Peer Evaluation Tool Nurse Manager Role: Charge Nurse Evaluation Components of a Charge Nurse Evaluation Summary Chapter 15: Launching Your Program Charge Nurse Role in Performance Evaluations Peer Evaluation Tool Nurse Manager Role: Charge Nurse Evaluation Components of a Charge Nurse Evaluation Summary Appendixes

This brief but important book is designed to augment your leadership education and experience. It is also designed for a busy clinician who does not have the time or energy to wade through hundreds of pages of text. Now in it's second edition, this book can be read quickly in one two-hour sitting or as you have 10-15 minutes here and there. In conceiving this book, our goal was to develop a simple but comprehesive guide that is focused on the most crucial information you need to lead effectively in your role as charge nurse. As a result, we have focused on topics such as leadership, stakeholders/resources, self-awareness, patient safety, delegation, leading through conflict, navifationg change and mentoring. We hve devoted separate chapters to patient satisfaction and patient safety. These are over-arching concepts that require the implementation of all leadership skills. Each chapter is divided into two primary sections: Personal Lessons and Resources & References. The Personal Lessons section may contain: our thoughts on the topic, reflections, things to remember and case studies. The Resources & References section may include: short articles by other authors, key terms/acronyms, additional resources and references.

Constructionism has become one of the most popular research approaches in the social sciences. But until now, little attention has been given to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of the constructionist stance, and the remarkable diversity within the field. This cutting-edge handbook brings together a dazzling array of scholars to review the foundations of constructionist research, how it is put into practice in multiple disciplines, and where it may be headed in the future. The volume critically examines the analytic frameworks, strategies of inquiry, and methodological choices that together form the mosaic of contemporary constructionism, making it an authoritative reference for anyone interested in conducting research in a constructionist vein.

The first edition of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety took the medical and ergonomics communities by storm with in-depth coverage of human factors and ergonomics research, concepts, theories, models, methods, and interventions and how they can be applied in health care. Other books focus on particular human factors and ergonomics issues such as human error or design of medical devices or a specific application such as emergency medicine. This book draws on both areas to provide a compendium of human factors and ergonomics issues relevant to health care and patient safety. The second edition takes a more practical approach with coverage of methods, interventions, and applications and a greater range of domains such as medication safety, surgery, anesthesia, and infection prevention. New topics include: work schedules error recovery telemedicine workflow analysis simulation health information technology development and design patient safety management Reflecting developments and advances in the five years since the first edition, the book explores medical technology and telemedicine and puts a special emphasis on the contributions of human factors and ergonomics to the improvement of patient safety and quality of care. In order to take patient safety to the next level, collaboration between human factors professionals and health care providers must occur. This book brings both groups closer to achieving that goal.

The second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Nursing has been fully revised to reflect a more systematic approach to care delivery and to follow the patient pathway. Focused on the practical issues of nursing care and nursing procedures, this handbook has been written by nurses, for nurses. Reflecting current best practice, the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Nursing is an easily accessible and evidence-based guide for all levels of nursing staff working in critical care environments. It provides the nurse at the bedside with the answers to day-to-day problems experienced when caring for critically ill patients, and is also a guide to some of the less commonly encountered issues. The new edition of this handbook will continue to help support novice and experienced staff in critical care environments. Now including more detail on the psychological issues facing critically ill patients, and more information on the intricacies of receiving a critically ill patient and transferring from a critical care environment, this handbook is a concise, practical, and comprehensive resource.