Team-Building Handbook: Improving Nurse-Physician Communications Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN Proven strategies for effective nurse-physician communications Cultivating positive workplace communications is a proven path to stronger teams and improved patient care, but integrating a collegial model of nurse-physician communications in a complex, multigenerational, and sometimes traditional staff environment can be challenging. Kathleen Bartholomew'sTeam-Building Handbook: Improving Nurse-Physician Communicationsdelivers effective strategies for creating a high-functioning work climate through dialogues that are clear and respectful. This easy-to-read handbook provides thoughtful scenarios, exercises, and scripts designed to raise the effectiveness of nurse-physician interactions, to the benefit of all. Sold in packs of 10, Team-Building Handbook: Improving Nurse-Physician Communications is the perfect tool for staff training, for orientation and in-services, or for self-study. Table of Contents: About the Author IntroductionChanging the Dynamic How to Use this Book Chapter 1: Understanding Work RelationshipsExploring Relationship Types Collegial RelationshipsTry This: Collegial TechniquesCollaborative RelationshipsTry This: Collaborative TechniquesTeacher-Student RelationshipsTry This: Teacher-Student TechniquesFriendly Stranger RelationshipsTry This: Friendly Stranger TechniquesHostile RelationshipsTry This: Hostile Techniques Chapter 2: Taking the Pulse of the PhysiciansThe Physicians You Work WithTry This: Pulse-Taking ExercisePreventing Communications with SBARTry This: Calling the AttendingUsing the Power of Your NameTry This: Name Recognition Chapter 3: Taking Your Own PulseI Don't Do Conflict How Do I Really Handle Conflict?Try This: Conflict AssessmentOur Goal in the Face of Confrontation How Can You Improve Your Responses?Try This: Jump Into the Water Chapter 4: Practical Tools for Everyday UseA Dozen Dependable Techniques Team-Building Handbook: Improving Nurse-Physician Communications will: Provide nurses with evidence-based strategies for improving communication with physicians Offer personal stories and scripting for conveying critical information to on-site and on-call physicians through effective, formalized approaches Explain how to take the pulse of individual nurse-physician relationships and provide actionable steps to move toward more cooperative and collegial interactions Encourage nurses to improve self-esteem and assertiveness through thoughtful and deliberate crucial conversations Include useful suggestions for humanizing nurse-physician relationships as a way to build cooperation and collegiality Give nurses and their managers affordable, hands-on materials designed to improve the workplace through use in orientation, in-services, and preceptor programs