/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111124_Arthrex_TB-378x82.jpg

Subscriptions

Advertising

Resources

About Us

Contact Us

Create An Account Forgot Your Password?
Trouble logging in or creating an account? click here
Home This Month E-Weekly Newsletter Building a Facility Article Archive Second Opinions
Search:
Benchmarking
General Surgery
Accrediting/Quality
Anesthesia
Code/Bill/Reimburse
Building/Renovating
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110502_Provista_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120126_ASP_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111226_Soma_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111202_Arthrex_LB-154x100.jpg
Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > July, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 7

Staffing

How Tight Is Your Team?

Jenny Pietrick, RN

We've all heard about the importance of open communication, about how it can improve patient outcomes, limit infighting and free nurses to do what they do best. There's not a manager alive who would disagree with those notions. But do you have the patience, persistence and guts to turn around a communication-challenged staff? The hard truth: It's very tough to do, but it is doable if you work at it.

Sign in to continue reading.
Email Address:
Password:
Categories: Staffing/Training
Keywords:
Face; Huddle; Identifying; Involve; Observe; Staff; Watch; accountable; achieved; address; addressed; advice; alive; anxiety; apparently; areas; arrive; asked; backbone; bickering; bigger; break; brew; brought; business; care; cases; cathartic; caused; choking; clashing; cohesive; colleagues; comment; communication; communication-challenged; compliant; concept; confronted; considered; constructive; context; continue; couple; courageous; criticism; culture; day's; dealing; dealt; dependable; develop; direct; disagree; disappears; discuss; dismayed; doable; dynamics; emotional; end; engaged; env... show all keywords
Face; Huddle; Identifying; Involve; Observe; Staff; Watch; accountable; achieved; address; addressed; advice; alive; anxiety; apparently; areas; arrive; asked; backbone; bickering; bigger; break; brew; brought; business; care; cases; cathartic; caused; choking; clashing; cohesive; colleagues; comment; communication; communication-challenged; compliant; concept; confronted; considered; constructive; context; continue; couple; courageous; criticism; culture; day's; dealing; dealt; dependable; develop; direct; disagree; disappears; discuss; dismayed; doable; dynamics; emotional; end; engaged; environment; exercise; faces; fair; feedback; flip; forgive; free; frequent; front; fun; function; gain; go-getter; goal; gossip; greater; group; grow; growing; guts; hard; head-on; hear; helps; high; honest; hostile; idea; identify; impact; importance; improve; improvement; individuals; infighting; input; insisted; interactions; issues; level; limit; lines; listen; made; make; manager; matter; meet; meeting; members; minds; minutes; moment; morning; mutual; needed; nurse; offended; offhand; office; open; opening; opinions; outs; patient; perform; performances; performing; performs; persistence; personal; physician; polite; pose; position; positive; pre-op; prep; preparing; prevent; problem; professional; professionalism; pull; put; quality; quarterly; quick; receive; recently; recognize; reflected; regular; regularly; replace; requests; respect; rest; review; reward; rewarding; room; rude; someone's; speak; special; spend; staff; strength; stress; struggle; surgeons; surgical; system; takes; team; team-building; tears; techs; tension; things; time; told; tough; trust; trusting; turn; turnaround; unattended; valuable; wait; weaknesses; weeds; weeks; word; work; worker; working; works

© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP 2011. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.

PRODUCT & SERVICE RESOURCES
Did You See This?
A showcase of products and services geared to make your facility better.

Architects' Showcase
Is a beautiful, efficient new facility in your future?
Other Articles That May Interest You
You Might Be an OR Nurse If ...
34 dead giveaways that you're hooked on surgery.
Court Says Hospital Was Right to Yank Disruptive Doc's Privileges
Christian Guier, MD, was known for "level 10 yelling" and throwing scissors.
Nurse Fired to Appease Anesthesiologist
Court: ASC was within rights to dump nurse and hire doctor.