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About Us
The Founder
For more than a decade, I have had the great fortune to work with thousands of nurses throughout California as a team development consultant and trainer at Kaiser Permanente. In my role as trainer, I conducted a wide variety of skill-building trainings and seminars that addressed issues integral to nursing, including Critical Thinking Skills, Preceptor Skills, Cultural Competency, Assertive Communication, Team Building and Conflict Resolution.
Discussions with nurses revealed their top priority challenges to include managing work flow, communication among team members and a lack of accountability, (both colleagues and managers). Our discussions—which always focused on solutions to daily challenges, inspired me to create SupportForNurses.com. I learned a lot from the diverse groups of nurses I trained. Their struggles and their voices provided an indispensible contribution to the content of this website. Along with their voices, my role as a psychotherapist and organizational development consultant inform the content of this website as well.
Our Team of Experts
Just as nurses work as a team, SupportForNurses.com is a team effort. While my role is the founder and primary writer of the articles on the site, there is a team of experts who have given their ideas, considerable experience and writing talents to produce our terrific Toolkits and Tips Booklets.
Kathy Quan RN, BSN has over 30 years experience as a nurse. She is also an accomplished author and webmaster of several websites. Kathy is the author of our newest publication, The E-Toolkit, Nursing: Facing Challenges in the 21st Century: A Training Manual for Health Educators.; she has also written the updates for the following Tips Booklets: 102 Terrific Tips for a Successful Transition, New Grad to Competent Nurse; 72 (PLUS) Tips for Accurate, Ethical Documentation in the 21st Century; Tips and Strategies for Effective Time Management. To learn more about Kathy Quan, visit her websites: kathyquan.com and thenursingsite.com.
Geri-Ann Galanti, PhD is a medical anthropologist; her award winning work on cultural diversity in medicine has been applauded by health care professional s throughout the country. She has written extensively about the importance of integrating cultural competence into health care, including her highly praised book, Caring for Patients from Different Cultures. Dr. Galanti has authored several products for SFN: 65 Tips for Foreign-born Nurses Working in American Hospitals and Orienting Foreign-born Nurses to Work Effectively in American Hospitals: A Training Manual for Health Educators. To learn more about Dr. Galanti’s work visit her website, ggalanti.com.
To Your Success!
Jackie Brookman
Founder, SupportForNurses.com