Tag: clinical supervision

Supervision in Clinical Practice: A Practitioners Guide, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Scaife J
Pages: 432p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge, 3rd edition
eISBN-13: 978-1138651883

This fully updated edition of Supervision in Clinical Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide is packed with practical examples from personal and professional experience. Since the publication of the first two editions, health and social care organisations have become increasingly risk averse, resources more strained, and moves have been made towards stifling levels of clinical governance. In this edition Joyce Scaife counters the idea of supervision as a constraint and challenges some of the thinking associated with ‘evidence-based’ practice when this focuses on what can be easily measured rather than what matters. Joyce Scaife explores frequently encountered dilemmas including:

    • How can supervisors facilitate learning?
    • What are the ethical bases of supervision?
    • What helps to create and maintain an effective working alliance?
    • How can supervisors balance management and supervision roles?
    • How can supervisors work equitably in an increasingly diverse and pluralistic world?

The Essentials of Nursing Leadership

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Taylor R and Webster-Henderson B
Pages: 216p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Sage, (19 Dec. 2016)
eISBN-13: 978-1412962025

This new approach to leadership focuses on how students can develop leadership skills right from the start of their nursing programme through to transitioning to their first role. The book first takes students through the underpinning knowledge and theory and then through practical skills to help them understand all aspects of leadership and how it is a key component of providing quality care to patients in a range of environments and settings. Real stories from nursing leaders, practitioners and students are included to inspire students and show them how they can impact positively on practice, whatever level they are working at.

Key features include:

  • Real life focus, grounded in everyday practice, with lots of case studies and examples to help students see how theory relates to practice
  • Activities to help students reflect about their own practice, and about themselves as leaders
  • Video interviews with nurse leaders and students on the companion website
  • Further reading and links to journal articles in both the book and the companion website help students delve deeper and prepare for assessments.

Second Victim: Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Dekker S
Pages: 128p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge, (24 April 2013)
eISBN-13: 978-1466583412

How do people cope with having “caused” a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but they are victims too. They are second victims whose experiences of an incident or adverse event can be as traumatic as that of the first victims’. Yet information on second victimhood and its relationship to safety, about what is known and what organizations might need to do, is difficult to find.

Thoroughly exploring an emerging topic with great relevance to safety culture, Second Victim: Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience examines the lived experience of second victims. It goes through what we know about trauma, guilt, forgiveness, and injustice and how these might be felt by the second victim. The author discusses how to conduct investigations of incidents that do not alienate second victims or make them feel even worse. It explores the importance support and resilience and where the responsibilities for creating it may lie.

Drawing on his unique background as psychologist, airline pilot, and safety specialist, and his own experiences with helping second victims from a variety of backgrounds, Sidney Dekker has written a powerful, moving account of the experience of the second victim. It forms compelling reading for practitioners, risk managers, human resources managers, safety experts, mental health workers, regulators, the judiciary, and many other professionals. Dekker provides a strong theoretical background to promote understanding of the situation of the second victim and solid practical advice about how to deal with trauma that continues after an event leading to preventable harm or even avoidable death of a patient, consumer, or colleague.

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Thistlethwaite J and McKimm J
Pages: 104p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. (31 July 2015)
eISBN-13: 978-1118756386

Health Care Professionalism at a Glance offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education. This concise text includes how to identify and develop professional behaviours, how they are assessed, and how to challenge unprofessional behaviours.  Health Care Professionalism at a Glance:

  • Provides a user-friendly and thought provoking overview of health care professionalism
  • Introduces the main topics, key definitions and explores aspects relevant to learners and novice professionals
  • Considers fundamental features of professionalism that students are expected to acquire as well as how they are taught, learned and assessed
  • Includes summary boxes that highlight important points, reflection points, clinical cases and suggested further reading
  • Includes references relevant to different countries’ accrediting bodies

Staff Nurse Survival Guide: Essential Questions and Answers for the Practicing Staff Nurse

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By John Fowler. Pages: 233 Size: 2.1 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Andrews UK Ltd
Published: 12 July, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781856425018

Consisting of over 80 questions and answers from 19 different specialists, the 2nd edition of the “Staff Nurse Survival Guide” covers all the common situations that a newly qualified nurse might encounter. This second edition adopts the same easy to read question and answer format that made the first edition so successful with student nurses, qualified nurses and healthcare assistants. This handy reference guide contains ideas, principles and guidelines for a number of common and sometimes unexpected situations that newly qualified nurses are likely to encounter. Designed to be a quick reference for everyday use, this book provides readers with key information to tackle daily tasks at work with confidence. The new edition covers topics such as: dealing with complaints, mental health, clinical supervision, aggression, bereavement, central venous pressure monitoring, mentoring a student and much more. The questions are divided into five chapters: dealing with the unexpected, clinical nursing skills, dealing with bereavement and palliative care, principles of medication and the role of the staff nurse, allowing for quick and easy referral. It is an extremely useful pocket resource for all nurses.

Leadership and Nursing Care Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Huber, Diane Pages: 546 Size: 9.53 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 26 July, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780323449021

Features the most up-to-date, evidence-based blend of practice and theory related to the issues that impact nursing management and leadership today. A fresh, conversational writing style provides you with an easy-to-understand, in-depth look at these prevalent issues. Key topics include the nursing professional’s role in law and ethics, staffing and scheduling, delegation, cultural considerations, care management, human resources, outcomes management, safe work environments, preventing employee injury, and time and stress management.

ABC of Clinical Leadership, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Swanwick, Tim, Judy McKimm McKimm, Judy Pages: 100 Size: 2.09 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
eISBN-13: 9781119134329

The ABC of Clinical Leadership explores and develops the key principles of leadership and management. It outlines the scope of clinical leadership, emphasising its importance in the clinical context, especially for improving patient care and health outcomes in rapidly changing health systems and organisations. Using short illustrative case studies, the book takes a systematic approach to leadership of clinical services, systems and organisations; working with others and developing individual leadership skills. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect recent developments in the field, including current thinking in leadership theory, as well as a focus throughout on workforce development and working in multidisciplinary healthcare teams. International examples are used to reflect global practice and two new chapters on leading projects and followership have been added. Combining theory and practical clinical examples, and written by clinical educators with a wealth of experience of leadership in the clinical and educational environment, the ABC of Clinical Leadership is an ideal resource for all healthcare professionals, both during training and for continuing professional development.

A Leadership Journey in Health Care: Virginia Mason’s Story

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Kenney, Charles Pages: 184 Size: 2.71 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Productivity Press – M.U.A.
Published: 22 June, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781482299694

Since adapting the principles of the Toyota Production System to health care in 2002, Virginia Mason Health System has made enormous leaps forward in quality, safety, patient experience of care, and affordability. It has achieved world-class levels of patient satisfaction and has been honored as one of the safest hospitals in the country. A Leadership Journey in Health Care: Virginia Mason`s Story supplies an inside look at process improvement from the world leader in applying Lean methods to health care. It presents key lessons learned as well as the best practices developed at Virginia Mason during its 12-year process improvement journey. Just as important, Virginia Mason`s culture of leadership at all levels sets it apart from others in the health care universe. Describing why it`s critical for leadership to be actively involved in any process improvement initiative, the book illustrates exactly what leadership looks like at all levels within Virginia Mason. In the book, bestselling author Charles Kenney introduces breakthrough new work at Virginia Mason that most health care audiences have yet to read about. He details the reasons why governance has played such a big role in Virginia Mason`s success and discusses a game-changing initiative concerning respect for people. After reading this book, you will better understand the active leadership style that has propelled Virginia Mason`s success. By following the best practices and lessons learned, you will be prepared to teach, coach, and encourage your team to achieve streamlined and standardized work, sustained improvements, and increased patient satisfaction. Foreword by Carolyn Corvi, Virginia Mason Health System/Virginia Mason Medical Center Boards of Directors; Retired Vice President and General Manager, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Mentorship and Clinical Supervision Skills in Health Care

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lynne Wigens And Rachel Heathershaw.
Pages: 284 Size: 7.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Cengage Learning – M.U.A
Published: 22 April, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781408098998

This fully revised and highly accessible second edition of Mentorship and Clinical Supervision Skills in Health Care: Learning Through Practice, from the Nursing and Health Care Practice series, provides all the background, theory and practical knowledge required to be an effective mentor within nursing and health care. The text explores mentorship from the stance of a student and from that of a qualified health care professional, to encourage critical understanding and securing its appeal to professionals and trainees in the field. Completely up-to-date, this text is written in line with the new NMC requirements and provides coverage of key developments in the field including: the role of technologies and e-portfolios in nursing and health care education; the growing importance of experiential learning and the role of reflection; recent changes in assessment techniques and the conceptualisation of validity, reliability and discriminatory power.