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re you a dauntless nurse? You are if
you speak up when patients are in
jeopardy, if
"first, do no
harm" is a per-
sonal conviction, and if you
stand up to intimidating sur-
geons and colleagues. It takes
both skill and courage to be
dauntless on a daily basis.
You'll learn how to develop
both by attending "The
Dauntless Nurse," a confi-
dence-building session by
nationally known speaker and
former surgical manager Kathleen Bartholomew,
RN, MN. You'll walk away with the skills needed to
National speak-
er for the nursing
profession for more
than a decade.
Former manag-
er of a 57-bed sur-
gical unit at the
Swedish Medical
Center in Seattle.
Authored books
on improving physi-
cian-nurse commu-
nication and ending
nurse-to-nurse
hostility.
Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN
Become a Dauntless Nurse
Build the confidence you need to
stick up for yourself and your patients.
• BE BOLD Ms. Bartholomew's
book, "The Dauntless Nurse:
Communication Confidence Builder."
communicate profession-
ally, assertively and
effectively when the
stakes and stress levels
are highest.
• Defining dauntless.
If you want a team that
will support and nurture
each other and keep
your patients safe, you
need nurses who are
dauntless. They must
consider every person in
their department a team
member, they don't join
in the blame game when
something goes wrong
and they routinely ask
peers for feedback. They
work out problems with
