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65 Tips for Foreign-born Nurses Working in American Hospitals is an essential, easy-to-use guide that supports the orientation process of foreign-born nurses—the perfect companion to our Training Manual toolkit.

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The Do's (and Don'ts) of Getting your Busy Manager's Attention
As many nurses are aware, many managers are extremely busy people with a lot of pressing responsibilities that often keep them away from staff.

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Calling on Managers: Managers can make a Marvelous Difference in Retaining New Nurses
Nurses who express satisfaction with their jobs often cite their relationship with their managers as the reason for their longevity. With retention as a front burner issue, skilled, visible managers are more important now than ever before. Here are five recommendations a manager can implement to keep that new nurse a satisfied, retained nurse!

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Toolkits

NEW: Orienting Foreign-born Nurses to Work Effectively in American Hospitals: A Training Manual for Health Educators

Are you a nurse educator or a health educator who needs a comprehensive tool to train foreign-born nurses to work and adapt successfully to an American health care environment? Orienting Foreign-born Nurses to Work Effectively in American Hospitals: A Training Manual for Health Educators provides the essential tools to support you. This user-friendly training manual provides everything you need to help foreign-born nurses make a successful transition to an American health care environment!

Orienting Foreign-born Nurses to Work Effectively in American Hospitals: A Training Manual for Health Educators, covers four major areas:

• The Role of the Registered Nurse
• Improving Cultural Communication
• Working with Patients
• Working with Multicultural Staff

Each section integrates information with an array of exercises and activities, such as case studies and role-plays to help with application.

BONUS: 119 PowerPoint slides to accompany and enhance your presentations!

Best of all, the training can be presented in a single session or in segments, depending upon the section or topic you wish to feature and the amount time you have.

Here's a sample of what you'll get:

1. What to do when you Disagree with a Physician's Orders
2. How to Respond when you don't understand an order
3. Overview of Privacy and Confidentiality Issues
4. Guidelines for the Effective Use of Interpreters
5. Do's and Don'ts of Nonverbal Communication
6. Critical Thinking and Nursing Errors
7. Common American Idioms
8. Improving Pronunciation

To see more, download this PDF sample of Orienting Foreign-born Nurses to Work Effectively in American Hospitals: A Training Manual for Health Educators.

Orienting Foreign-born Nurses to Work Effectively in American Hospitals: A Training Manual for Health Educators is available only as digital download (electronically). Your download includes the Training Manual and the coordinating PowerPoint slides.

For further training, consider purchasing copies of 65 Tips for Foreign-born Nurses Working in American Hospitals, the perfect complement to this training manual.

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