Smart Nursing: How to Create a Positive Work Environment that Empowers and Retains Nurses

At last, a book about the nursing shortage that links nurses, managers, and physicians using conceptual, communication, and leadership approaches. Smart Nursing addresses critical healthcare issues such as patient safety and nurse retention. Smart Nursing is an easy system of cost effective strategies that removes obstacles that interfere with nurse productivity. It enables nurses to use their full professional capacity to deliver safe patient care in a variety of clinical settings. It blends heathcare knowledge with business expertise to address the bottom line for managers. In short, the dollar difference between the present level of nurse productivity and a nurse's full professional capacity is the potential cost savings that Smart Nursing offers.

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Nurse and consultant Fabre points out that health care management practices in the 1990s cost the system a significant number of nurses, who left because of burnout or a to find a career where they would be appreciated. She introduces her Smart Nursing Model—an antidote to further waste of skills and careers. After discussing the concept of a staff-friendly culture and the building blocks of her model, which include respect, simplicity, flexibility, integrity, culture and communication, she shows how to apply those building blocks to recruiting and retention, teamwork, safety, diversity, leadership and problem-solving strategies. She describes how her system benefits people and groups outside of nursing, including administrators, physicians and managed care professionals and closes with advice on what individual nurses can do to create a positive workplace. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

June Fabre, MBA, RNC, has worked as a clinical nurse, educator, and manager in many specialties such as medical surgical, psychiatry, home care, long-term care, ambulatory care, managed care, rehabilitation, and cardiology. She decided to turn the challenges of working as a nurse into an opportunity--to start a business focused on producing positive health care change. Ms. Fabre believes that nurses can create positive change by supplementing their comprehensive medical knowledge with communication and leadership techniques.

Ms. Fabre is an author, speaker, and consultant on various topics such as critical thinking, high-performance teams, and the art of creating a staff-friendly culture. As a result, she has spoken to audiences large and small all across the country. In addition, she has published more than 30 articles in popular health care journals. Ms. Fabre received her RN and BS in education from State University College, Plattsburgh, NY; a BSN from Excelsior College, Albany; and an MBA from Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH. For more information, you can reach Ms. Fabre at www.junefabre.com