About Me
In a nutshell, I spent 25 years in hospital nursing in every position from staff nurse to VP, then another 25 years developing and running a consulting company full of highly competent, wise and compassionate people who are continuously devising new strategies that move the profession forward. In 2000, I sold that company to the wonderful people who work there and am now enjoying semi-retirement.
During that time, I have seen (and been a part of) some amazing changes in the profession. I was in on the ground floor of the project that became Primary Nursing, and wrote a book about it. I have helped hospitals around the word, most recently in Hong Kong, design and implement Primary Nursing systems. I helped develop Leading an Empowered Organization, a leadership program that has reached well over 100,000 people around the world. They say I have conducted seminars for over 1 million nurses. It doesn’t seem like that many, but when I stop to think about it, I realize it may be right.
Through all of that, my passion for the staff nurse – the nurse at the bedside, delivering the care – has never wavered.
I have been in love with the nursing profession all my life, it seems. When I was 5 years old, I was hospitalized for a month, and the only good memory I have of it is the caring I felt from a nurse named Florence Marie Fisher. I knew then that I wanted my life to be about helping others experience that same caring when they were sick.
If you want more official information, see my bio on the Creative Health Care Management website.
My Dear Marie:
Being the first to comment “what about you” is a so wonderful moment very similar at the Summit of Sages we just had some days ago!
Coming from a different country, taking almost a day long to get there with a person very special and to myself “the most important nurse we have in Brazil”, your dear friend, Mrs. Lore Cecilia Marx. I knew so much about you since many years ago through Lore’s mind and eyes. And then when I saw you person to person in Oct 13th I think to myself: There is the most famous and wonderful woman that one of my Sages, Lore, wish I could ever know one day.
The time we spent with you and all the people were talking about the same matter was just “amazing”, that there is a meaning in our language some like a wonderful moment that a human might have to into this life. I really would like to thank you and congratulations for all your job around the world. Nothing that Lore always told me was different from that I saw through my own eyes.
Dr. Maya Angelou, John Nelson, Georgia, Leah, Dr. John Howe and every each special person that was there: an extraordinary moment certainly. Tears tears and tears coming from my eyes…
That was not enough: “The Rainbow in the clouds” meant so much to me and, as a magic moment, as soon as I left Minnesota / Saint Paul I started to see a lot of rainbows that the Nature gives to us. I never have seen so many rainbows in my life. From the airplanes windows and another ones. One of them, in Chicago, on Oct 18th, Mr. Bruce Komiske said to me right the time we saw it: “Make a wish!” – I answered that I did not need anymore, because I believe that God heard our pray. I am sure that Lore approves what I am saying to you and I am sure that the way you think about Nursing, Healthcare, Relationship, Primary Nursing, Healing, Social Justice is the same way that people who makes the difference in our World.
We must do together “Somewhere over the Rainbow”.
With love, Lilia.
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Thanks for the comment Lilia. The Summit continues to reverberate among groups of nurses here. I hope you are enjoying telling nurses in Brazil about the Social Justice topic and generating discussions among them about it’s meaning in nursing and in the world. Last night we had a salon here at my home and it was a remarkable event in that the discussion went deep into meaning….and reflected just how thoughtful and concerned nurses are about the injustices we see every day in health care….and in the world. I truly believe these discussions enrich our lives and can only lead to positive constructive outcomes. Let’s keep it going!
Please add me to your mailing list. Thank you for such an interesting lecture today. I would enjoy coming to one of your salons. Being a single mom with 3 boys and finishing my Masters in Nursing…schedule is busy but hope I will be able to come some of the time.
Marie,
Please add me to you mailing list. The lecture you gave our class was really engaging and I really enjoyed it.
Thank you,
DEar Marie
My English is a little better but I sttil had a lot of dificult to speak and
read. I wish you e very well weekend Lore Marx
Your English is always just fine. We can always manage to communicate and that is what is important. I look forward to being with you in Brazil or here in the US. Will you be going to the Relationship Based Care Symposium in July? (info on chcm.com). Also, have you heard I am doing the first ever Primary Nursing Practicuum the following week….August 3-8 here in Minneapolis. It will be a great experience and I plan to help people find all the answers they need to overcome the problems of short term patients and 12 hr. shifts…etc, etc.
Werte Marie Manthey,
ich bin Schüler der gesundheits- und Krankenpflegeschule in Mistelbach / Österreich und kann leider kein englisch sprechen oer schreiben, ausser ich würde einen Dolmetsch beauftragen. Man kann halt nicht überall gut sein, aber Pflege und Betreuung von kranken, aber auch von gesunden Personen im Sinne von Gesundheitsförderung liegt mir am Herzen. Ich bewundere Sie und Primary Nursing. Hierzu habeich eine eMail an sie gesandt. Danke wirklich sehr, dass es sie gibt. Würde sehr gerne viel mehr über PN erfahren, die Kostenfrage hemmt mein Bemühen allerdings.Mit freundlichem Gruß aus Österreich
Ms. Manthey:
The national Library of Medicine may be interested in purchasing a copy of Marie Manthey on the Authority of the Primary Nurse. Where can we purchase a copy?
Thank you
My book is The Practice of Primary Nursing and is available through our website, chcm.com….and I believe at Amazon as well. There is another book of importance on this topic, Relationship Based Care, also available from chcm.com and Amazon. Thanks for considering this.
Dear Marie,
I am so happy to have found your website and nursing salon blog. I have never heard of a nursing salon and am thrilled by the whole idea. I have often thought that nurses should be able to get together and talk about their nursing and the nursing profession in regards to moral distress and nursing challenges faced every day. I am masters prepared (nursing education, 2007 graduate) RN who works in a community hospital and teaches nursing for a couple academic institutions. A couple years ago our hospital was working toward Magnet status. I was part of the design team in which we formulated the by-laws for our shared governance. Within those by-laws we included “The Manthey Pledge”. I recently mentioned this pledge to my students and how we live by your words on the unit in regards to our relationships with each other and that it is a pledge that should be a part of every nursing unit. However, I do not know where this pledge originated from. I was hoping that you would be able to give me the reference for it. I believe you and I have a lot in common when it comes to the love of the nursing profession and I look forward to reading your books and blogs!
Respectfully,
Linda Allen MSN, RN
Boca Raton, Florida
Linda, I’m glad you like the idea of a Salon. My dream is to have them going on in every community where nurses are working with patients. What I especially like about them is the fact that they are completely separated from any institution….any hospital or any college. I like the fact that we get together and talk through big and small issues involved in our incredible profession…..and that we are helping each other in doing so. The other thing I love is that we have such wonderful mixtures of ages and experiences. When all these levels and types of life experiences are mixed together in a good conversation….the results are amazing.
I could go on and on about this….but mainly I want you to consider being a catalyst to getting one started in Boca Raton. It doesn’t really take anything but a few friends or ‘like-mindeds’ getting together and figuring out where and when. I do have some print material I can send that will help…..and I could come down and do a ‘kick-off’ if it would help…..I would just need my expenses covered. You don’t need me to get it started, however, and I will do everything I can to support you so it can be sucessful.
And…what you are calling the Manthey Pledge is really called Committment to my Coworker….and copies of the card can be obtained through my company’s website, chcm.com and there is a good description of how to use it in our book, Relationship Based Care.
LInda….let me know how I can be of help.
Dear Marie Manthey,
Hello! I’m Fátima Gerolin, from Brazil. I hope everything is fine! I am very happy to share with you our initial experience with the Primary Nursing in the hospital where I work here in Brazil. Lore Marx is guiding us and we are delighted to have this opportunity.
Respectfully,
Fátima Gerolin