Description

Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Healthcare Professionals, winner of the 2008 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award in the leadership and management category, is a collection of true stories that take place in hospitals and hospices. These stories remind health care professionals of the importance and sacredness of their work. They point out that everyone in healthcare plays a role in creating a healing environment.

For six years, Martin Helldorfer, a former monk and psychologist and senior executive at a Denver-based health care system, has written weekly inspirational e-mails to the organization’s employees. These messages have been a climate-shaping force at Exempla Healthcare. Healing with Heart, a gift-quality, portable book, is a compilation of the best of these emails. It is being used to improve the quality of person-centered care, support recruitment and retention results and reinforce a health system’s mission.
How People are Using Healing with Heart:
--management retreats, workshops
--staff meetings
--new employee orientation
--awards, acknowledge accomplishments
--holiday gifts
--nurse's week, hospital week gifts