"Regardless of position or title, healthcare professionals from the bedside to the boardroom will discover Critical Conversations in Healthcare as a complement to enhance competency and purpose in managing communication to promote ‘win-win’ results." –Martin S. Manno, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CEN Associate Chief Nurse, Medical Center Education and Library Services Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center "Cheri Clancy’s Critical Conversations in Healthcare is a superb and inclusive primer on the importance of communication skills for practicing nurses. It is a wonderful resource on conversational know-how in healthcare." –Joan Kearney, PhD, APRN, FAAN Professor and Chair, Yale University School of Nursing Have you ever wished for help finding the right words when you are midway through another difficult conversation with a colleague, manager, or patient? The third edition of Critical Conversations in Healthcare feature do’s and don’ts, reflective questions, and practical tools to help you improve your on-the-job interactions. Whether you are new to the bedside or CEO of a major healthcare facility, this fully revised third edition will show you how to: · Communicate mindfully · Interpret body language · Deal with gossip and harassment · Address workloads and management styles · Overcome conversation traps · Improve the patient experience · Work with frustrated families, angry physicians, and uncooperative colleagues TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: The Importance of Effective Communication in Healthcare Chapter 2: Body Language Exposed Chapter 3: The Emotionally Intelligent and Emotionally Competent Nurse Chapter 4: Mindful Conversations Chapter 5: Mind Over Matter Chapter 6: Impromptu Scripting, Phrasing, and Acronyms Chapter 7: Interprofessional Coaching Conversations Chapter 8: Improving Patient Experience Chapter 9: Fostering a Healthy Workplace Environment Chapter 10: Organizational Culture and Behavior Chapter 11: On Social Media Chapter 12: Conclusion Appendix A: Sample Rounding Template Appendix B: Develop Your Own AIDET Worksheet

Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation—especially difficult ones—leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, the book teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person. This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You’ll learn how to: Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it Communicate more effectively across digital mediums When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results. Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.

While a number of books address the concept of therapeutic communication, i.e. communication between health professionals and their patients, few extend this focus to include communication between health professionals, fewer still address the critical relationship between communication and patient safety. Critical Conversations in Patient Safety bridges that gap.

Critical Conversations provides direction and solutions for deficits in healthcare that exist in verbal and non-verbal communication as well as scripting tool kits that can be applied in various situations and health care settings between nurses and colleagues and nurses and patients. Each chapter features dos and don'ts, reflective questions, and practical tools. Whether you are a new nurse at the bedside or the CNO of a major healthcare facility, this book will help you deal with gossip, harassment, and other tough topics; improve your ability to address workloads, management styles, and other tricky subjects with your managers; work with frustrated families, angry physicians, and disrespectful colleagues; overcome conversation traps that make you feel like you aren't getting your point across; improve the patient experience and effectively communicate with families.