The HEALTH in Healthcare: Six Essentials for a Healthier Healthcare System

What makes healthcare healthy?

Healthcare is more than medications, procedures, policies, documentation, staffing numbers, and job titles. At its center, healthcare is still people caring for people.

In The HEALTH in Healthcare, Ginger Roberts, LPN, draws from nearly three decades of experience in healthcare—as well as her own experiences as a patient—to explore six essentials she believes can help create a healthier healthcare system:

H — Humanity
E — Empathy
A — Accountability
L — Leadership
T — Teamwork
H — Heart

With honesty about both the good she has witnessed and the mistakes she has made herself, Ginger examines what happens when the pressures of healthcare begin to overshadow the people at the center of it. She challenges caregivers and leaders alike to support those doing difficult work while still maintaining the accountability, competence, compassion, and responsibility that good healthcare requires.

Written from the perspective of an LPN who began her healthcare career as a nursing assistant, The HEALTH in Healthcare is not an indictment of healthcare or the people who work in it. It is a hopeful reminder of why the work matters in the first place.

For nurses, nursing assistants, direct-care professionals, healthcare leaders, students, patients, families, and anyone who believes healthcare can become healthier, this book offers a simple place to begin:

Humanity. Empathy. Accountability. Leadership. Teamwork. Heart.

Different roles. Same purpose. People caring for people.