Psychological Safety and Toxic Culture in Nursing Shared Governance
by I recently received the March 2019 issue of American Nurse Today, the monthly magazine of American Nurses Association. The Leading the Way section includes a …
Author: Brad Poteat BSN, MS, RN
Anthropology / Community / Education / Nursing / Orientation
Model and Process in Nursing Orientation, Part 3
I began this series on model and process in nursing orientation to begin a dialogue on this important aspect of nursing life. Two weeks ago, …
Career / Community / Education / Nursing / Orientation / Philosophy
Model and Process in Nursing Orientation, Part 2
Last week, in Part 1 of this series, I began to explore the idea of models of nursing orientation and various processes of orientation I …
Career / Community / Nursing / Orientation
Model and Process in Nursing Orientation, Part 1
Last week, I mentioned my transition from night shift on a medical unit to day shift with a wound care unit. Thus far, I’ve survived …
Career / Community / Nursing / Orientation
Unit-Wide and Shift-Specific Community in Nursing
This week I make the transition from night shift on a medical unit to day shift with a wound care unit. The change will be …
Community / Complexity / Interpretation / Leadership / Nursing / Philosophy
Cultivation of Nursing Community: Stated vs. Shared Values
While reflecting on my recent posts, I’ve been thinking about several issues related to the enduring nature of nursing communities. What does it mean to …
Community / Complexity / Interpretation / Leadership / Nursing / Philosophy
Nursing and Curation of Meaning in Patient Records
Recently, I have been writing about sensitivity to complexity as a leadership quality for nursing (see here). So far, I’ve highlighted the awareness of relationships …
Career / Community / Interpretation / Nursing / Nursing School / Philosophy
Interpretation in Nursing: Toward Meaning in Nursing Communities
In my previous post, I highlighted an attribute essential to effective leadership in nursing: sensitivity to complexity. I noted that sensitivity to complexity involves an …
Career / Community / Complexity / Leadership / Nursing / Philosophy
Sensitivity to Complexity: Key to Leadership in Nursing
In my previous post, while discussing the structure of community, I mentioned the complexity of communities. I noted that the interconnections and interactions between the …
Community / Complexity / Nursing / Philosophy
Nursing Community: More Complex than Physical Space
In my previous post, I briefly considered the structure of community, looking for common factors of community mainly in place and social group composition. I …
Place and Structure in Nursing Community
In a previous post, I mentioned communal meaning making as an attractive force in my life. What is meaning making? What does it have to …
Everything Is Related to Nursing by Analogy
Having started a blog devoted primarily to nursing, I’m in the process of developing a list of topics I’d like to focus on. During the …