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November 16, 2020

Overview

Today's nurse manager is busier than ever. That's why we've created a one-stop hub featuring the latest insights and tools for nurse managers. With this portal, you'll have access to implementation resources, best practices, and lessons from your peers. For more information on our nursing topic and to subscribe to our newsletter, click the link below.

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Retention
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Win Millennials’ Loyalty
This best practice study will explain why millennial RNs are often engaged in their work, but not loyal to the organization. See practice 11 to identify critical staff at high risk of turnover and proactively intervene to keep them at the organization.

First Year Nurse Retention Toolkit
Use this toolkit to implement three critical strategies for promoting professional growth and building nursing loyalty in the first year. See tool 1 to develop actionable feedback and prepare a conversation road map to help staff grow, tool 8 to structure your stay interviews, and tool 9 to identify career development opportunities that will engage staff in their work.

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Nurse manager burnout
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Nurse manager time audit
This audit will help you assess how you’re spending your time to identify opportunities for delegation or support.

Put an end to nurse manager overload
This report will help you identify opportunities to rescope the nurse manager role, reducing burnout.

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Staff recognition and engagement
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The Customizable Staff Recognition Card
Use this customizable card to easily build appreciation into your nurses' daily work.

Celebrate the little things with a boost board at your organization
Use our toolkit to set up a boost board at your organization—it’ll help staff recognize their bright spots, share them with colleagues, and get the little boost they need to keep going.

The Manager's Guide to Engaging Staff
Get more than 20 ready-to-use tools to improve your team’s engagement. You'll find tools to recognize staff, collect their input, support their professional development, and more.

Make every week 'Nurses Week': 5 ways to recognize nurses year-round:
Learn strategies and best practices that help leaders at all levels recognize nurses during and beyond Nurses' Week.

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Patient experience
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The Patient Experience Toolkit
Access seven tools to implement a three-part holistic strategy to improve the patient experience.

Motivational interviewing role-play workshop
Learn how to lead a role-playing practice session with clinicians on how to use motivational interviewing techniques to engage patients.

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Emotional support
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Compassion Fatigue Assessment
Use this tool to help staff recognize the visible and invisible signs of compassion fatigue, investigate the root causes of compassion fatigue, and seek additional help, if necessary.

How to check in with a staff member about their well-being
Use this tool to help identify staff who may be experiencing emotional stress and prepare leaders to conduct a well-being check-in.

Picklist of emotional support options
Use this picklist to identify where you can invest to support your staff working on the front line.

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Education and onboarding
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Audit unit readiness to receive new graduate RNs
Use this audit to identify if your unit is ready for new graduates and any necessary next steps to help you become prepared.

Critical Thinking Diagnostic
Use this diagnostic to uncover specific competencies on which frontline nurses excel, as well as those in need of improvement. The Critical Thinking Diagnostic also enables nursing leaders to identify the specific individuals—or key groups—in greatest need of improvement.

The Experience-Complexity Gap
As retirement-age nurses exit the workforce while the influx of new nurses continues to grow, the net effect is a decline in the overall experience of the nursing workforce. Start with Path One: teach novice nurses more effectively by fiercely scoping weeks 1-12 and standardizing preceptor work.

The Nurse Preceptor Toolkit
This toolkit has nine tools designed to help organizations update their preceptor support to more effectively teach the growing workforce entering practice in today's complex care environment. Start with the preceptor program diagnostic. This tool helps you assess your organization’s preceptor program compared to industry best practice and identify the greatest opportunities for improvement. After completing this diagnostic, use the remaining sections of this toolkit to improve the prioritized areas.

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Patient safety and quality outcomes
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The Nurse Manager’s Guide to Improving Unit Outcomes
Use this toolkit to develop consistent and comprehensive care standards that are actionable at the front line and will reduce unwarranted care variation.

The High-Reliability Clinical Enterprise
Use this study to equip nurse leaders with actionable guidance on achieving high reliability across their health systems despite the many complications posed by today’s environment.

Frequently asked questions about preventing patient falls and related injuries
Dr. Patricia Quigley answers our questions and reviews the latest strategies for reducing falls with injury, including how to measure fall reduction, how to staff prevention teams, and more.

The Critical Thinking Toolkit
Use this toolkit to enhance bedside nursing performance by focusing on five core components of critical thinking. See the problem recognition section to help nurses anticipate, recognize, and clearly communicate signs of emerging problems.

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Professional development
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Win Millennials' Loyalty
Provide newer nurses with a range of experiences by facilitating transfers to different units or care settings and retain millennials by providing longer-term career pathing. See steps 2 and 3 to provide nurses with a range of experiences by facilitating transfers to different units or care settings and to provide longer-term career pathing.

How to Flex RNs Across Sites of Care Using Blended Roles
Learn how to flex nurses across units or sites of care and expand their breadth of experience without altogether leaving their role – or the organization.

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