Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, RC, MN
“Thank you so very much, again, for your work with us last week & for squeezing us in your busy schedule. It was a quick trip here - but you left a powerful trail - Your presentation absolutely hit home for us. I was so happy to see so many nurses and nurse leaders able to attend the sessions - and you have received overwhelmingly rave reviews! The evaluations have been 100% positive, many with positive comments &/or suggestions about who else should hear your presentation.”
Mary Hennen, RN,
BSN
,
MA
Interim Director of Professional Practice & Education Mercy & Unity Hospitals
"It's about time that nurses have a practical and timely book for assessing and eliminating the horizontal violence that marks so much of our professional life.
This book focuses on the origin and nature of the mutual violence and negativity (horizontal hostility) we have exhibited with each other and upon our colleagues for so long. It suggests ways to deal with it and move toward more healthy styles of relationship and interaction.
I simply cannot imagine a nurse (or anyone for that matter) who cannot benefit from using this resource. If you haven't obtained it yet, get it now; you will find here something that will truly add value to your personal and professional development."
Tim Porter-O'Grady, EdD, APRN, FAAN
Nationally respected expert
"Kathleen Bartholomew, a gifted nurse and teacher, explores many of the dysfunctional dynamics destroying the morale of healthcare professionals, and she does it with a fresh, deadly serious voice interspersed with delightful humor that also inspires change. This is a must read for physicians, nurses, or anyone trapped in a traditionally subservient role, regardless of whether that role is work-related or not."
Allen R. Wyler, MD
Neurosurgeon and author of Deadly Errors, a novel about medical errors
"Written with heart and stunning frankness, this seminal work is a how-to manual for achieving a rapid Renaissance in collegial practice. "
John J. Nance, JD
A Founding Board Member of the National Patient Safety Foundation
"Kathleen uses the vehicle of story, liberally seasoned with humor, to present imaginative and creative approaches to age-old problems with communications between nurses and doctors."
Genevieve Bartol, RN, EdD, AHN-C(P)
Professor Emeritus,
University
of
North Carolina
,
Greensboro
"This book is a 'must read' for all those nurses who want to enhance communication with physicians to create healthy, productive collegial relationships and improve patient care. Ms. Bartholomew analyzes and interprets all too familiar personal stories using a backdrop of theory to help us understand why we find ourselves in distressing interactions with physicians and how we can take action to initiate a process of healing."
Linda J. Westbrook, RN, PhD
Assistant Professor, Nursing Program,
University
of
Washington
, Bothell
" Kathleen's work illuminates and defines a murky and omnipresent problem that has a strangle hold on the heart of the nursing profession."
Admitting that disruptive nurse-to-nurse relationships exist in your facility is the first step to recovery . . .
The expression "nurses eat their young and each other" is so far removed from our idea of the caring and nurturing nurse, we shudder to think it could possibly be true. But the truth is, nurses are hurting each other. Long hours, difficult physicians, and the emotional demands of the job can take their toll and cause nurses of all ages to act hostile toward one another.
" This book tells it like it is. Until we (nurses) are willing to name what we've all experienced, nothing will change. But there's hope. We have the privilege of creating a healing environment for our patients and ourselves."
Elaine D. Goehner, PhD, RN, CPHQ
Swedish
Medical
Center
,
Seattle
,
WA
"Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility is a ground-breaking work that sheds light on a very dark secret in nursing: Shortages and dissatisfaction arise as much from the serious effects of internal, horizontal violence as from low pay, long hours, and poor treatment by physicians. For the situation to improve, it has to be recognized and discussed openly, and Kathleen Bartholomew has nailed both the diagnosis and the cure. Nothing less than the safety of the American patient depends on understanding and meeting these challenges."
John J. Nance, JD
Founding Board Member, National Patient Safety Foundation
For additional information regarding this speaker, please call (406) 586-8775.
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