Authenticity in Nursing

by Pete Smith

Overview

The patient–clinician interface is the most sacrosanct space in healthcare.
How well we inhabit that space informs how well we deliver care.
A system is perfectly designed to deliver the results it does, so if those results include preventable errors – fatigue, burnout, bullying and ‘never’ events – then something is amiss.
In Authenticity, change becomes possible.
Nurses:
Awesome today;
Awesome tomorrow;
Awesome always.
But only ever human.
And only ever as good as the system allows us to be.
Increasing the technical skill of a health care clinician makes for incremental change.
Improve the culture within which we work and suddenly quantum change is possible.
Patient safety and clinician wellbeing are functional imperatives.
Authenticity is the key driver towards reducing healthcare delivery risk.
Choose to agree or disagree, but only the brave will seek to understand.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164803360
Publisher:	Tellwell Talent
Publication date:	01/27/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Pete Smith is just a guy at the shallow end of the gene pool. He spent the first five years of his life under a farmhouse playing in the dirt with his Matchbox® cars.
He spent the next eleven years surrounded by cows.
His brother, Greg, five years older, had severe Down Syndrome.
Greg was much, much cooler than Pete could ever be.
So how did this kid who knew more about cows than humans end up as a career nurse? And how did this unpolished introvert finish up philosophising on nursing?
The world is a mysterious place. Some would say complex, dangerous and chaotic.
But really, it is quite simple if we allow it to be.
When he is not doing farming stuff, drinking coffee with his awe-inspiring wife or chopping Granny's wood, he may be found in his Cognitive Laboratory conversing with his totally awesome international collaborators and constructing mind maps on whiteboards.
Pete's motto?
"I think, therefore I ... ummm?"

Table of Contents

Also by Pete Smith: ... iv

Introduction ... v

Dedication ... viii

Rules of Engagement ... x

Authentic, a Definition ... xi

Samaritans, Each and Every One ... 1

A Midwinter Morning Dream ... 4

Waking Up to Contentment ... 7

Know Thyself ... 9

Trend Setting ... 13

Will ... 15

Game Theory of Burnout ... 19

High Effort or Low Effort? ... 21

Surgery Stat! ... 25

Malicious Compliance ... 28

Dead Man's Anchor ... 30

Soil ... 32

Therapeutic Window ... 34

Microclimates ... 36

The 1.5 Metre Rule ... 38

The Fractal Nature of Circles of Influence ... 40

Integration of a Safety Culture ... 44

The Bully Bell ... 46

White Cow ... 51

Top Down ... 55

Crabs ... 58

Cognitive Laboratory ... 59

Mission Brown ... 64

Red Flags ... 66

So How do Red Flags Help? ... 69

The Authenticity of Standards ... 71

The Plimsoll Line ... 74

Self-care ... 76

Bricks and Mortarboards ... 79

Tragedy of the Commons ... 81

Max ... 86

Faster, Faster Too Busy to Care ... 88

"I will stuff their mouths with gold" ... 91

Enabling Advocacy ... 94

Learning with Purpose ... 99

READD ... 100

Timelessness in the Desert ... 115

Human Factors ... 118

Regenerating a Supportive Culture ... 120

Exam question ... 126

About the Author ... 127