As it happens: RBC Symposium Day 3_ Wednesday, June 21 June 21, 2017
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This is the busiest day of the CHCM International Relationship-Based Care Symposium, so to keep the posts from getting too long, will be sharing snippets & segments!
Launched by the wonderful Keynote by Lois Swope on compassionate care; with an all-attendee mid-day session on relationship-building in Indian Health from Phoenix Indian Medical Center; and concluding with a Poster Session; the day also included two breakout sessions with 5 choices each of those sessions! (Please join me in thanking the CHCM staff, they’ve been working extremely hard to bring this all together!)
As it happens: RBC Symposium Day 2_ Tuesday, June 20 June 20, 2017
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Today is the first official day of the 2017 International Relationship-Based Care Symposium, here in Minneapolis at the Hilton Minneapolis! Read on for notes, hand-out links and inside peeks into Day 2.
The MusicParadigm experience made a huge impression on me when I first took it in, several years ago. I told everyone I talked to about it for weeks! It is such a unique, substantively clear demonstration of the clear power of positive leadership. If you are experiencing it with us today, I would love to hear what you think of it! Otherwise I hope you catch it as soon as you’re able.
I’ve written about The James previously on this blog – along with UC-Davis they hold a pre-eminent position in US critical care health care systems for their extensive and inspired implementation of Relationship-Based Care.
1.Hosp, 6.Doors, 60.Wards – Such an amazing presentation, from a multi-site hospital in Italian-speaking Switzerland; implementing Relationship-Based Care – escaping silo’s and nurturing compassionate care.
Theory without Practice is empty and Practice without Theory is Blind – Emmanuel Kant
Next was a presentation from the CNO and the CMO about how they’re partnering at Pennsylvania Hospital, and creating an extraordinarily healthy culture there. The day ended with a delightful vocal experience of Full Voice lead byBarbara McAfee!
RAA Part III – Achieving Full Experience of Will Power June 15, 2017
Posted by mariemanthey in Creative Health Care Management, Manthey Life Mosaic.Tags: CHCM, Escape Victim Mindset, Mindfulness, Nurse-Patient Relationship, Primary Nursing, RAA, Relationship-Based Care, Self-Care
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This is part III of an initial series of articles about RAA. Here are links to the previous parts: RAA Part I RAA Part II
After 10 years of experience applying these ideas to professional roles and organizational structures, I began thinking about them in relation to my own life.
By this time one thing I knew for sure was that when nurses accepted responsibility for the Primary Nursing (PN) role, they experienced empowerment and manifested less victim behavior than before…..and much less than those who’s did not accept responsibility.
I also knew for sure that accepting responsibility was an experiential activity……not an intellectual activity. You can’t just think you are responsible….you have to experience it, to literally place yourself in the position of being responsible, in order to have full access to legitimate authority.
In PN, this only seemed to occur when the nurse established a responsibility relationship with the patient. The explicit establishment of that relationship was necessary in order for the nurse to experience responsibility acceptance. The closed door of power (personal or other) only opens when an individual experientially recognizes their responsibility.
So, my epiphany moment occurred when I asked myself the question of whether or not I had accepted responsibility for my life.
I immediately remembered with resentment areas of my life where I felt victimized. My ex-husband, a former boss….etc. With great clarity I knew that if I had truly accepted responsibility for all aspects of my life, I would not feel victimized by past events. As this thought process evolved, I recognized that accepting responsibility for one’s own life involves the three major components of behavior: thinking, feeling and acting.
So, accepting responsibility for my thinking meant I had to develop new thought processes. Often, my thinking fell into automatic pathways developed over the passage of life. These pathways needed to be examined and in many cases changed, as they led directly to victim thinking.
The new thinking required the development of new neuron pathways, and then also lots of deliberate practice until consciousness of choice became my automatic thought process in response to situations and events in my life. This involved learning to make space in my reactions to events and people for the experience of choice.
Likewise, accepting responsibility for my feelings meant I had to learn some skills for handling feelings in an appropriate way which also often involved changing the way I think. The connection between thinking and feeling began to be more manageable. Further, accepting responsibility for my actions helped me recognize the connection between thinking and acting and how action can positively influence thinking and feeling.
This overall development required me to develop new ways of being in my life, and the results have been increased positive energy, increased choices, and increased well-being.
Silo’s to Synergy: Symposium of Empowerment June 7, 2017
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In my career as change leader, I have constantly paid attention to what worked – and done more of that.
I’ve paid attention to what didn’t work – and tried to avoid that in the future.
A tactic for change that I’ve long been aware of is reaching outside the bounds of one’s own work area, and making connections with people who do different kinds of work. Finding common values and shared tactics with those people whose work is different from mine. Learning from their perspective on these shared values has been invaluable.
Oftentimes people in other areas have already invented this or that wheel, that I can use to get where I’m going faster (without having to invent it myself).
Much of the literature I’ve absorbed and learned from is written for a non-nursing audience – it was written for general business usually. Or sometimes was from other areas of the health care industry.
By reaching across the distance and making connections with others who share our goals, the work we can achieve together increases exponentially.
The CHCM International Relationship-Based Care Symposium will be that process, an accredited program curated specifically for leaders who want to achieve all they can in their careers.
We hope all of you attend who are able, and for those of you who can’t we will make available the materials and information as possible. It won’t be sufficient to create the experience and the relationships gained by attending, but we’d like to expand the positive outcomes in all ways possible!
Stay tuned, and if you have been able to see your way clear to attend just recently – it’s not too late to sign up!
Learning Objectives for upcoming RBC Symposium! June 2, 2017
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Register Today for the International Relationship-Based Care Symposium, co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing!
From Silos to Synergy: Showcasing Fierce Commitment to Extraordinary Care
June 19-23, 2017
Join experts in compassionate care, leadership, and organized development at the 2017 International Relationship-Based Care Symposium. During this event, you will identify strategies that you and your team can use to improve interprofessional collaboration; and learn practical tools and actions to achieve committed partnerships, cross-departmental teamwork, and cultural transformation.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by the University of Minnesota, Interprofessional Continuing Education and Creative Health Care Management. The University of Minnesota, Interprofessional Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:
- Identify how health care systems investing in Relationship-Based Care are improving interprofessional collaboration and cross-departmental teamwork.
- Articulate how a culture grounded in mutual respect, trust, commitment, and accountability promotes well-being of patients, families, colleagues, and self.
- Describe how all members of the health care team can experience joy and meaning in their work through full engagement and shared purpose.
- Discuss how to cultivate a health care culture that promotes synergy between health care disciplines to bring the organization’s vision and mission to life in daily practice.
- Identify best practices in interprofessional partnership resulting in improved health care outcomes.
- Define ways in which technology can be a powerful vehicle for strengthening partnerships between the health care team and the patients and families they serve.
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity, we are looking forward to seeing you there!
Discipline without Punishment (Poll!) May 30, 2017
Posted by mariemanthey in Creative Health Care Management, Leadership, Professional Practice.Tags: CHCM, Decision-Making, Escape Victim Mindset, Health Care System, Hospitals, Nurse Managers, RAA, Relationship-Based Care
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A crucial component of the Responsibility/Authority/Accountability paradigm is accountability, which means looking at results and determining what lessons can be learned, what needed behavior changes can be identified, what course corrections can be made.
Sometimes there is a need for the manager to address a staff nurse’s behavior directly, and the best way to do that is via positive discipline, which never includes punishment. The derivation of the word punishment is penalty, while the deviation of the word discipline is learning. We need a shift to discipline and away from punishment.
Punishment for mistake making and behavior problems is punitive when it incudes the intention of making the person feel shame or guilt. Guilt as a behavior modification tool seems to be coming back in to popularity again, and that is truly mind-boggling. And it is punitive.
I’d like to hear about your experience! Please join the conversation by participating in these two polls, and/or commenting.
Readers, please share examples of experiences when punishment (suspension, shame or guilt) was the goal; in contrast to times when discipline (learning) was the goal.
Recent travels: UC-Davis – among the best of the best! May 23, 2017
Posted by mariemanthey in Inspiration, Leadership, Professional Practice.Tags: Health Care System, Hospitals, Primary Nursing, Relationship-Based Care, Symposium
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I had the pleasure of visiting UC-Davis recently, and it was delightful as always to experience the culmination of so much of our shared vision of an optimal health care system.
Nursing here actually fits something I wrote years ago, a reprise of Judy Chicago’s “Merger: A Vision of the Future”
Here is that actual piece of hers:
And then all that has divided us will merge | And then compassion will be wedded to power | And then the softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind | And then both men and women will be gentle | And then both women and men will be strong | and then no person will be subject to another’s will | And then all will be rich and free and varied | And then all will care for the sick and the weak and the old | | And then all will live in harmony with each other and the Earth.
Here is my health care variant:
And then a collaborative practice will emerge | And then care will be wedded to cure | And then health will come to a world that is diseased | And then both doctors and nurses will be gentle | And then both nurses and doctors will be respected | And then no person will be treated as a task or a task do-er | And then health will be within reach of most much of the time, and journeys through sickness will be periods of nurturance and care | and then the act of one person caring for another at the time when they are vulnerable will be held as crucial to the human race.
UC-Davis is among that group of hospitals that I feel very nearly reaches those ideals! Thank you for having me, and I look forward to seeing you all again soon at the Symposium!
Announcement: CHCM Book Release! May 22, 2017
Posted by mariemanthey in Announcements, Creative Health Care Management, Inspiration, Leadership, Professional Practice.Tags: CHCM, Health Care System, Hospitals, People, Primary Nursing, Reading List, Relationship-Based Care
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I am excited to let you all know about Creative Health Care Management‘s newest book publication!
It is called Advancing Relationship-Based Cultures, and I love both the content and the book’s authenticity regarding health care today.
Edited by Mary Koloroutis, and David Abelson, the book explores the culture of health care organizations, what is necessary for optimal outcomes, and strategies to achieve those outcomes.
Advancing Relationship-Based Cultures explains and expands a fundamental and often overlooked truth in health care: It is the confluence of relational and clinical competence that advances healing cultures.
A relationship-based culture is one in which a critical mass of people provides care and service with relational competence. In these cultures, the skills that foster relational competence are actively developed, nurtured, practiced, reinforced, and evaluated. While countless thought leaders have championed the importance of improving relationships, this book provides vision and strategies for system-wide culture transformation….and it does so with a depth and authenticity that is breathtaking.
Readers of this book will understand that a strategy that includes improving all relationships will improve all other measures as well. When you empower people, giving them the tools to take excellent care of themselves, one another, and the patients and families in their care; organizations thrive and patient-care is optimal.
Chapter Overview
- Foreword: The Giver and the Receiver Are One
- Overview: Advancing Relationship-Based Cultures
- Chapter 1: A Relationship-Based Way of Being
- Chapter 2: Attuning, Wondering, Following, and Holding as Self-Care
- Chapter 3: Attunement as the Doorway to Human Connection
- Chapter 4: The Voice of the Family
- Chapter 5: Loving Leaders Advance Healing Cultures
- Chapter 6: One Physician’s Perspective on the Value of Relationships
- Chapter 7: Embedding Relational Competence
- Chapter 8: The Role Human Resources in Advancing Culture
- Chapter 9: Relationship-Based Teaming
- Chapter 10: Care Delivery Design that Holds Patients and Families
- Chapter 11: Evidence that Relationship-Based Cultures Improve Outcomes
- Chapter 12: Relationship-Based Care and Magnet® Recognition
- Epilogue: Continuing the Conversation
- Appendix
Softcover, 344 pages. (2017)
ISBN: 978-1-886624-97-9
Speak to Groups of People?? Never! May 21, 2017
Posted by mariemanthey in Creative Health Care Management, Inspiration, Manthey Life Mosaic, Nursing Salons, Professional Practice.Tags: CHCM, Conversations, Nurse-Patient Relationship, Primary Nursing, Relationship-Based Care, Staff Nurses
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Honestly, that’s how I felt in the early years of my career! The thought of speaking publicly was a nightmare.
As a student, I made a choice between the two options for my Master’s Degree based partly on which one involved less public speaking!
I was sure that speaking to large groups of people was not and would never be necessary for me – it is not a part of Nursing – and it terrified me.
I was physically affected – I’m not exaggerating – every time I had to do it for some reason.
I had nausea, I had knock-knees, I had so much static in my head that I could hardly hear my own thoughts. Every time I did it I felt like I had failed miserably, and no matter what, I would never do it again.
However, life went a different way for me.
I was part of the team that created Primary Nursing, and other people wanted to know about that process. There were two ways to communicate about it – speaking and writing. Writing took forever! The two articles we wrote in 1970 just took a really long time to put together, edit, format, get references, all of that. Then we did another article in 1973 – again, it just took a really long time. I was Chief Nurse at first one hospital and then another, and my available time was just very limited – it was really hard to fit in time for writing.
Much as I hated speaking, it was a way to deliver the information that I wanted others to know, in real time, most efficiently.
So for those initial five years of talking about Primary Nursing, it was excruciating every time. Every time I had knock knees, nausea, static in my head, the physical costs were huge. I would actually feel sick to my stomach just looking at my calendar and seeing a speaking date written on it. But I just had to go out there and do it anyway, because the importance of the message demanded it.
For me, getting up and speaking was a much more effective way to get the word out, than writing. People were curious and I wanted to let them know about Primary Nursing and its benefits for the nurse-patient relationship. The effect Primary Nursing had on the patient’s experience – that’s what was so important. My passion about that essence of Nursing just saw no boundaries.
So, I made myself learn how to do public speaking, even though for most of the first five years, nothing got better. It was just as horrible, just as debilitating, just as uncomfortable every time as it always had been, for years on end.
Years later, little by little, it started to get better. I began to get some sense of self-confidence about it, to the point where I was actually able to look at a speaking date on the calendar and not get terrible anxiety about it.
After that, I began slowly to not only be comfortable speaking, but to enjoy it. I began to be able to take in the visual and auditory feedback of the crowd and use that information to fine-tune my delivery. I learned how to be present with my message, and also present with the people I was delivering the message to.
And for these decades since then, speaking has been a huge positive for me. It’s still all about getting the message out – about Relationship-Based Care and other ways to enhance the nurse-patient relationship – in the best way possible.
The power of conversation is really what it all comes back to. I am engaging in a one-way conversation when I speak to audiences. I very much want for the audience to engage as well though, always. That’s why I like to speak within a schedule that allows for break-out sessions. I want folks listening to me to be able to speak with and listen to each other and me as well, and to have their experiences also be part of what is shared.
Nursing salons are another extension of that important need to connect – to hear each other and share each others’ experience.
Conversations Change People, People Change the World! – Margaret Wheatley
