Getting Real about Caring: What I Discovered about Authentic Caring as a Nurse Leader and One Step Forward

This book is about my life and career as a wife, mother and nurse leader in health care. For years I failed to lead caring. I knew I had sold my soul to the health care industry. As a student of caring science, I learned that who we are is how we lead. This connected me to my purpose and renewed my caring consciousness as a leader. * Patients are no longer seeking all things medical in their health care encounters. Patients are seeking authentic connections in their vulnerability and are turning to nurses. * Nurses' authentic caring capacity is waning. Health care is a beast to work in and drives nurses out of nursing. Nurses often feel alone and without purpose.* Reversing attrition is our 21st-century challenge. Health care will not change soon. Help is needed now. * We can no longer expect nurses to juggle clinical demands and authentic caring without support. Caring engagement conversations is one step forward.* My purpose: to highlight the contextual forces impacting all nurses, to highlight how caring consciousness cultivation keeps nurses in nursing, and a call to action for leaders to give voice to authentic caring and help nurses thrive in nursing. * Nurses thriving is our 21st-century legacy. Nurse leaders can save nurses from leaving nursing.

Author: Pat McClendon

Publisher: Authorhouse

Publication Date: Mar 19, 2019

Number of Pages: 168 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1728303842

ISBN-13: 9781728303840