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Manage your time and energize your life

Quick-E! Pro Time Management: A Guide for Nurses is designed to help you make the most of your time. This one-of-a-kind resource includes proven strategies and techniques as well as charts, graphs, and exercises designed to help you manage your time better, avoid burn out, and improve your work-life balance.

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Managing time throughout your career
Chapter 2: Getting started—today!
Chapter 3: How you spend your time as a nurse
Chapter 4: Delegation: The art of sharing responsibilities
Chapter 5: Through the patient’s eyes
Chapter 6: Understanding—and managing—workflow
Chapter 7: Surviving shift work
Chapter 8: Achieving a healthy work-life balance

Learning objectives:

Discuss time management challenges faced by new graduates
Examine time management struggle typical of experienced nurses
List ways to start improving time management skills
Describe how to use a time management organizational tool
Assess how you spend your time as a nurse
Identify areas for development with regard to time management skills
List talks you might delegate to an unlicensed assistive staff member
Recognize potential obstacles to effective delegation
Describe the CPR process that can be used for rounding
Discuss the difference between value-added and non-value-added activities
Identify three factors that can interfere with efficient documentation
Recognize the significance of unit design in effective time management
Discuss two ways technology is changing the nursing profession
Identify three ways to improve performance on the day shift
List three techniques to adjust your body to working the night shift
Explain three strategies to energize your body for the night shift
Identify the potential for burnout in your professional life

Intended audience

Bedside caregivers and staff nurses
Nurse managers and leaders/charge nurses
Staff educators/education directors/development specialists

About the Author

Debbie Buchwach, BSN, RN-BC, is an education consultant in the Center for Learning and Change Management at the Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland, Oregon.

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