Charles Kunkle MSN, CEN, CCRN, BC-NA has more than 27 years experience as a nurse and has held multiple positions in emergency medicine, pre-hospital emergency medical services, cardiothoracic intensive care units and honed his skills over the years practicing as a flight nurse.
Charles gained international recognition for passionately speaking about a fatal event that occurred in the emergency department of St. Mary Medical Center in 2005. He was named nurse manager of the year by the Nursing Spectrum magazine in 2006 and was featured in RN magazine in 2007. In 2009 he launched No Time To Care Solutions, helping healthcare leaders throughout the country to energize, empower and engage bedside caregivers using his unique and easy to follow 8 step game plan approach. In March of 2016 Charles released his first book entitled No Time To Care: A Leadership Guide to Ensuring Caregiver Engagement. In 2017, his book was awarded Silver Medal, book of the year, by the American Journal of Nursing.
Charles is a motivational speaker who uses humor, story telling and life experiences to captivate audiences discussing topics such as bedside caregiver engagement, enhancing the patient experience and creating a team oriented approach to healthcare. As a trusted nurse leader with proven experience in program development, quality patient care delivery, cost reduction and successful team building, he is happy to share his innovative concepts with his audience. Charles guarantees that every attendee will leave his presentations and workshops with at least three inexpensive and fun ideas that they can easily implement tomorrow.
Charles gained international recognition for passionately speaking about a fatal event that occurred in the emergency department of St. Mary Medical Center in 2005. He was named nurse manager of the year by the Nursing Spectrum magazine in 2006 and was featured in RN magazine in 2007. In 2009 he launched No Time To Care Solutions, helping healthcare leaders throughout the country to energize, empower and engage bedside caregivers using his unique and easy to follow 8 step game plan approach. In March of 2016 Charles released his first book entitled No Time To Care: A Leadership Guide to Ensuring Caregiver Engagement. In 2017, his book was awarded Silver Medal, book of the year, by the American Journal of Nursing.
Charles is a motivational speaker who uses humor, story telling and life experiences to captivate audiences discussing topics such as bedside caregiver engagement, enhancing the patient experience and creating a team oriented approach to healthcare. As a trusted nurse leader with proven experience in program development, quality patient care delivery, cost reduction and successful team building, he is happy to share his innovative concepts with his audience. Charles guarantees that every attendee will leave his presentations and workshops with at least three inexpensive and fun ideas that they can easily implement tomorrow.
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No Time To Care: Improving the Patient Experience in 60 Seconds or Less
Throughout the United States, hospitals are challenged to meet the needs of their patients as well as the overwhelming regulatory and accreditation standards, set forth by governing bodies and accrediting agencies. In this challenging new work environment, patients are often cared for by bedside caregivers who are overwhelmed by the pressure to meet all of the expectations of the patients in their care, in addition to the expectations of their employers. Many nurses express that they feel overworked and believe they don't have time to provide compassionate patient centered care. When the nurses feel they don't have the time to fully care for their parents, burnout is sure to follow. In this presentation, nurses learn how to provide compassionate care to their patients WITHOUT adding anything more to their already busy day. The result? A patient experience that will exceed expectations and lead to the patient satisfaction scores that you desire. No Time To Care: A Leadership Game Plan To Ensure Caregiver Engagement How do you get a multigenerational workforce, who is feeling overwhelmed and burned out, to become motivated and accountable? In this constantly changing healthcare environment many leaders are expected to meet the metrics and goals set by their organizations and various regulatory bodies, while motivating the overworked and overwhelmed bedside caregivers enough to achieve the desired results. The reality is that patient satisfaction is the indirect measure of bedside caregiver engagement. This presentation will help leaders to energize, empower and engage the bedside caregiver so that they WANT to work for them to meet the desired departments goals. The speaker will provide an 8 step process that is easy to implement, inexpensive to maintain and most importantly, fun to do! |
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