Smart nursing

Staffing shortages in nursing are the focus here, and the author brings together nurses, administrators and physicians through shared ideas, clearer communication and stronger leadership.

Patient safety and the retention of nurses are treated as urgent problems. The book lays out inexpensive tactics for removing the barriers that hold nurses back from working at their best, so they can provide safe care across many different clinical settings.

Written with managers in mind, the book combines clinical knowledge with business reasoning. Its central claim is that the gap between how productive nurses are now and what they could achieve represents money that can be recovered.