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Educating Nurses on Scope of Practice – a foundation for safe empowered care
One of the most impactful investments a healthcare leader can make is to ensure nurses clearly understand their scope of practice—not just in policy, but in real-world application.Too often, scope of practice is taught once in nursing school and then only vaguely...
Coping in Turbulant Tines
As I talk with other healthcare leaders in the past few months, I have observed a common thread. I see many struggling to avoid living in crisis mode with the current turbulent times and the consequences being felt in healthcare. It bring back memories of...
Vague Feedback Challenges
Several years in a row I would go to meet with my leader for my annual review. I enjoyed my meetings with my boss generally, and I had always really enjoyed getting my annual review and having those conversation with my employees. I learned after the...
Career Roadmaps
A significant challenge I see with leaders in all industries although I do work more in healthcare than other careers, is that the conversations they have with their staff do not have depth or meaning as it relates to their careers. This easily can be a contributing...
No Time, No Money and Frantic Change – A Recipe for Disaster.
I met with another leadership coach, we were discussing the responses when talking with healthcare senior leaders and human resource leaders in healthcare sectors. When we discuss changes that could improve their entire organization, leadership...
Bridging the Gap
In a recent writing session as I work on my book sharing many of the events of my childhood growing up in family plagued with mental illness and extensive volatility and extreme abuse. I am reflecting on the gifts that I was able to obtain over time from those...
Let failure guide your success
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan Whether you follow...
Deep work or busy work?
Are there days where you realize at the end of the day, you did nothing but attend meetings, respond to messages and emails, and answer questions? Do you feel great about how productive you were that day? Most often not. In the last several years of my healthcare...
Fresh Eyes
If you’re like me, every time a third-party surveyor, consultant, or new colleague pointed out something in my work or my clinic that was being done incorrectly, I had two reactions—often contradictory. First, rejection and...
Preventing Emergency Department and Hospital Overutilization while Improving Patients’ Quality of Life.
Are you facing the challenges of repeat ED visits, re-hospitalizations, soaring costs due to non-compliance and frustrated healthcare teams from those “non-compliant” patients? Let’s review a case study and some recommendations that might help us think differently...
Ambulatory Care’s Best Decision
Nursing Shared Governance in ambulatory care involves a collaborative decision-making model where nurses and other stakeholders actively participate in shaping policies, procedures, and practices that affect patient care. This approach is particularly important in...
Leadership Develop – To do or not to do..
During one of the most critical times in healthcare recently, we saw the impact of a fullblown crisis on our staff, our leaders, our clinicians, and on our systems. This was ahuge test to see who in our organization had the foresight and ability to lead through the...
The Importance of 1:1s with your Employees – Turnover Prevention – Article 2 in Series
During this time of rapid employee turnover and struggles to find qualified and committed staff to do the work or provide the care that your organization needs, it’s a time to really reflect on how we support and develop our leaders in how they should lead. A...
Creating the most beneficial program for healthcare organizations.
Care coordination is one of the most powerful tools in healthcare. If designed and led well,, it can have a significant impact on patients, families, communities, health system financial health, quality metrics, and provider and staff satisfaction. A well-run program...
Key Factors in Quality Care and Staff Retention – Part 1- Observation and Shadowing
Through the years one of the biggest struggles for new clinical healthcare leaders is figuring out how best to lead, evaluate, mentor, and retain their staff. This article is part one of three articles outlining the essential components that I have seen to quality...
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