| Summary: | Annotation Team-Building Handbook: Improving Nurse-Physician CommunicationsKathleen Bartholomew, RN, MNProven strategies for effective nurse-physician communicationsCultivating positive workplace communications is a proven path to stronger teams and improved patient care, but integrating a collegial model of nurse-physician communications in a complex, multigenerational, and sometimes traditional staff environment can be challenging.Kathleen Bartholomew sTeam-Building Handbook: Improving Nurse-Physician Communicationsdelivers effective strategies for creating a high-functioning work climate through dialogues that are clear and respectful. This easy-to-read handbook provides thoughtful scenarios, exercises, and scripts designed to raise the effectiveness of nurse-physician interactions, to the benefit of all.Sold in packs of 10, Team-Building Handbook: Improving Nurse-Physician Communications is the perfect tool for staff training, for orientation and in-services, or for self-study.Table of Contents:About the AuthorIntroductionChanging the DynamicHow to Use this BookChapter 1: Understanding Work RelationshipsExploring Relationship TypesCollegial RelationshipsTry This: Collegial TechniquesCollaborative RelationshipsTry This: Collaborative TechniquesTeacher-Student RelationshipsTry This: Teacher-Student TechniquesFriendly Stranger RelationshipsTry This: Friendly Stranger TechniquesHostile RelationshipsTry This: Hostile TechniquesChapter 2: Taking the Pulse of the PhysiciansThe Physicians You Work WithTry This: Pulse-Taking ExercisePreventing Communications with SBARTry This: Calling the AttendingUsing the Power of Your NameTry This: Name RecognitionChapter 3: Taking Your Own PulseI Don t Do ConflictHow Do I Really Handle Conflict?Try This: Conflict AssessmentOur Goal in the Face of ConfrontationHow Can You Improve Your Responses?Try This: Jump Into the WaterChapter 4: Practical Tools for Everyday UseA Dozen Dependable TechniquesTeam-Building Handbook: Improving Nurse-Physician Communications will:Provide nurses with evidence-based strategies for improving communication with physiciansOffer personal stories and scripting for conveying critical information to on-site and on-call physicians through effective, formalized approachesExplain how to take the pulse of individual nurse-physician relationships and provide actionable steps to move toward more cooperative and collegial interactionsEncourage nurses to improve self-esteem and assertiveness through thoughtful and deliberate crucial conversationsInclude useful suggestions for humanizing nurse-physician relationships as a way to build cooperation and collegialityGive nurses and their managers affordable, hands-on materials designed to improve the workplace through use in orientation, in-services, and preceptor programs"
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