Mental health tips for nurse managers

Healthcare grows increasingly complex as policy, economic, organizational, and patent care landscapes merge to create more accessible, affordable, safe, and quality models of healthcare delivery. Demand for rapid responses in increasingly larger, integrated, human-focused systems requires nurse managers to anticipate, initiate, and lead intensive change--and then rapidly prepare for the next initiative. Increased scrutiny through regulation, litigation, and public focus on transparency and patient outcomes provides additional health-care management challenges. Leading in healthcare delivery workplaces can be stressful. Here, Sherrod and Campbell discuss how nurse managers should deal with work, home, and life stressors and how to best maintain their mental health.