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Is It Okay For Leaders To Cry With Their Employees?

Healthy Workforce

Is It Okay For Leaders To Cry With Their Employees?

One of my clients (let’s call her Tammy) recently reached out to me for advice. I have been working with Tammy and her team to roll out our Department Culture Change Initiative. The intent of this...
Healthy Workforce

What Nurses Need Now to Get Through COVID-19

Never in our lifetimes have we (healthcare professionals) been challenged to this extent. COVID-19 has turned our worlds upside down.  Now, more than ever, we need something – anything – to help us get through...
Bullying

How Healthcare Executives Can Support Their Leaders Who Are Trying to Change Culture

An epidemic of bullying and incivility exists in healthcare that affects employee morale and turnover. Bullying also affects patient outcomes. The problem is that front line leaders do not always understand how to deal with...
Bullying

Using the Quadruple Aim as a Weapon to Eliminate Bullying & Burnout in Healthcare

Do you remember when medical care centered on the physician? When patients never questioned their treatment, couldn’t name the medications they were on (I take a pink pill in the morning, a blue pill at...
Personal Development

Beating Burnout With Optimism

Humans are born either more positive or more negative – it’s genetic. You can be born more positive but when you enter into a negative work environment, you can easily adopt the negative attitudes and...
Be Kind

Spreading Kindness as an Antidote to Cruelty

October is National Bully Prevention month. While the world focuses on how to stop bullying in schools, communities, and of course, the workplace, last year I decide to shift my focus a bit. As the...
Personal Development

10 Steps to Building Your Resilience

Can you believe that another year is almost over?!? The older I get, the faster the years seem to fly by. It seems like just yesterday I was a young adult venturing out to my...
Healthy Work Environment

PREVENTING NURSE FATIGUE: OWN YOUR PRACTICE

Nurse fatigue and burnout are huge problems. So many nurses start their careers with optimism, enthusiasm and an overwhelming feeling of joy but then get bogged down with the realities of the day-to-day challenges of...