What is the best way to help an employee learn professional skills? Is it through sitting in a classroom with a lecturing “trainer?” How about having employees sit through an hour-long slide show with a speaker describing all the new trends with statistics to back it up? While both of these present their own unique […]
Every nurse early in their career has had a Charge RN they did not want to work under on a shift. Ineffective shift leaders may lead “reactive” instead of proactive, be pessimistic, unpredictable, poor under stress, or may even find it challenging to relate to other nurses viewpoint. This is why nurse leaders with high […]
What is employee engagement? Gallup defines it as the level of commitment, passion and loyalty a worker has towards their work and their organization. CNOs can take action to drive nurse engagement; in fact Magnet hospitals are even graded on engagement metrics like leadership access/responsiveness and RN to RN teamwork and collaboration. To help a […]
Nurses make up the largest employee category in U.S. health systems. More than ever, healthcare leaders are advocating for the need to retain confident nurses who can lead, and be ready for change and complexities in managing patient populations. Nurses are on the front line of patient care and are crucial for advancing health. When […]
1) Improve your coaching mindset – Retaining nurses will require adjusting styles to adapt to a new generation of nurses What nurses expect from their leaders is changing. Gone are the days of command control leadership when staff were expected to be grateful because they had a job. Today’s nurses, especially the Millennial workforce, want […]
Nursing executives generally agree that financial indicators of hospital success and reimbursement are often not understood by bedside nurses. That’s understandable, given that nurses join the profession because they care about people, not about finances. But not providing this knowledge keeps nursing staff from understanding the bigger picture and seeing the critical role they play in the […]
Webinar with Dr. Rose Sherman. Develop a Coaching Mindset to Improve Millennial Nurse Retention. When: Thursday October 18, 2pm-3pmET. Catalyst Learning will send you a link, look for a calendar invite from our Office Manager, Claire Ballard. SIGN UP HERE! About the webinar What nurses expect from their leaders is changing. Gone are the […]
When Charge Nurses are surveyed, it is no surprise that they state that dealing with conflict on the nursing unit is one of the most challenging aspects of being in charge. It’s unavoidable; it’s uncomfortable and problematic. But it can also be beneficial. Utilizing various conflict modes and practicing some reliable strategies in the midst […]
There is an art to properly delegating the use of nursing Assistive Staff (Unlicensed Assistive Personnel), your healthcare workers who assist in patient care activity under the delegation of a nurse. Nurses need to be clear with expectations on how to use them, and some nurses decline to delegate tasks if they are responsible for […]
What Is Emotional Intelligence in Nursing? Emotional intelligence in nursing is the ability to perceive, understand, and manage your own emotions while accurately reading and responding to the emotions of patients, families, and colleagues. It is not a personality trait. It is a set of learnable competencies that directly affects clinical outcomes, team function, and […]
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