Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for Effective Nurse-Physician Communication written by Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN is new to the SLCH library and has received much praise, come check it out (literally, you can have it for 14 days)!!

Kathleen uses the vehicle of story, liberally seasoned with humor, to present imaginative and creative approaches to age-old problems with communications between nurses and doctors.

                -Genevieve Bartol, RN, EdD, AHN-C(P) and  Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Kathleen’s work illuminates and defines a murky and omnipresent problem that has a strangle hold on the heart of the nursing profession.

                -Chancey Boye, RN

Kathleen Bartholomew, a gifted nurse and teacher, explores many of the dysfunctional dynamics destroying the morale of healthcare professionals, and she does it with a fresh, deadly serious voice interspersed with delightful humor that also inspires change.  This is a must read for physicians, nurses, or anyone trapped in a traditionally subservient role, regardless of whether that role is work-related or not.

                Allen R. Wyler, M.D., neurosurgeon and author of DEADLY ERRORS, a novel about medical errors