Now What? Managing Chaos and Confusion
Now What? Managing Chaos and Confusion Once change has been introduced to your staff as inevitable, your main task and that of staff is to “make it work.” Meet…
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It’s Over: Managing the End of Old Ways of Being
It’s Over Managing the End of Old Ways of Being One of the advantages of good teamwork is the familiarity that team members have with one another. They know…
Got Resistance? Expect It! Welcome It! Manage It!
Got Resistance? Expect It! Welcome It! Manage It! Welcome to the murky, energy-sapping world of resistance, with its cast of shady characters. How do you recognize and manage overt…
“It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times . . . ” Managing and Facilitating Change and Transitions
“It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times . . . ” Managing and Facilitating Change and Transitions The ability to facilitate change and manage…
The Buck Stops Here: Managing Professional Practice
The Buck Stops Here Managing Professional Practice This chapter reinforces your ultimate accountability as the nurse manager to ensure that professional nursing practice is alive and well in your…
Frontier Nursing in the Literature
3 Frontier Nursing in the Literature It is the premise of this literature review that frontier nursing is a specialty practice, one that is on the extreme end of an…
Life in the Frontier
1 Life in the Frontier The term frontier nurse practitioner (NP) is based on the notion of place as central to practice; that place is the frontier. To understand how…
Health and Health Care in the Frontier
2 Health and Health Care in the Frontier This chapter establishes the notion that frontier dwellers fare worse than their urban counterparts on many measures of health. Disparate access to…
Recommendations and Conclusions
13 Recommendations and Conclusions Part I of this book paints a picture of life in the frontier for both frontier dwellers and frontier health care providers. This picture includes challenges…
Narrative Knowledge
11 Narrative Knowledge The concepts related to frontier nurse practitioner (NP) practice noted in the Chapter 3 summary of the literature (Table 3.1) are supported by the participant narratives. Additional…
