Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective Nurse-Physician Communication

Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective Nurse-Physician Communication Kathleen Bartholomew RN MN The #1 best-selling book on nursing empowerment is newly expanded and better than ever This book is required reading for anyone committed to working with nurses and the nursing profession toward forging new collaborative and supportive relationships both within and between nurses physicians and other healthcare professionals so that it can gain the stature and respect that will result in rebuilding the ranks of those willing and able to contribute to the nursing profession in a meaningful and contemporary manner. Jon Burroughs MD MBA CMSL A witty and entertaining book that delivers a mission-critical message. This best-selling book by Kathleen Bartholomew RN MN delivers effective strategies for improving nurse-physician relationships. Bartholomew uses engaging case scenarios critical-thinking activities and real-world tips to help nurses understand and communicate with physicians. Dont miss what Kathleen has to say in this expanded edition of Speak Your Truth. She now provides strategies for both nursing and non-nursing leadership to create and sustain a healthy work environment. This book helps you: Ensure patient safety through improved collegiality between physicians and nurses Increase recruitment and retention by creating a healthy work environment Empower nurses to improve communication by confidently interacting with disruptive physicians Increase productivity through creating a culture of accountability With new research highlighting the latest strategies for improving communication the expanded version now includes: A chapter for senior leadership containing organization strategies to improve communication and ways to intervene with disruptive physicians Fresh insight for leaders on establishing expectations with physicians nurses and other staff New strategies to promote zero tolerance for bad behaviors More ways to promote a collegial workplace Additional words of praise forSpeak Your Truth by Kathleen Bartholomew RN MN: "Unprecedented brilliant and right on target! Kathleen Bartholomew has dared to speak the truth about one of the greatest threats we face in patient safety: Dysfunctional physician-nurse communication and relationships." John J. Nance JD Founding Member of the National Patient Safety Foundation "Kathleen Bartholomew a gifted nurse and teacher explores many of the dysfunctional dynamics destroying the morale of healthcare professionals and she does it with a fresh deadly serious voice interspersed with delightful humor that also inspires change. This is a must read for physicians nurses or anyone trapped in a traditionally subservient role regardless of whether that role is work-related or not." Allen R. Wyler MD neurosurgeon author of Deadly Errors a novel about medical errors "Kathleen uses the vehicle of story liberally seasoned with humor to present imaginative and creative approaches to age-old problems with communications between nurses and doctors." Genevieve Bartol RN EdD AHN-C(P) Professor Emeritus University of North Carolina Greensboro "This book is a must read for all those nurses who want to enhance communication with physicians to create healthy productive collegial relationships and improve patient care. Ms. Bartholomew analyzes and interprets all too familiar personal stories using a backdrop of theory to help us understand why we find ourselves in distressing interactions with physicians and how we can take action to initiate a process of healing." Linda J. Westbrook RN PhD Assistant Professor Nursing Program University of Washington Bothell "Kathleens work illuminates and defines a murky and omnipresent problem that has a strangle hold on the heart of the nursing profession." Chancey Boye RN