Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective Nurse-Physician Communication
Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, served as the manager of a 57-bed orthopedic and spine unit in a tertiary hospital in Seattle for six years. As a registered nurse and counselor, Bartholomew uses story to shed light on the challenges and issues facing nurses today. She has been a national speaker for the nursing profession for the past four years. Recognizing that the culture of an institution is critical to patient safety, she speaks on building community in the workplace and improving physician-nurse and nurse-nurse relationships. She is also the author of Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective Nurse-Physician Communication and Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat Their Young and Each Other.