Nursing

Take back your valuable time

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, September 1, 2006

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For a time management process to work effectively, it is important to know which aspects of our personal time management need to be improved. Below you will find some of the most frequent behaviors that reduce productivity in the workplace. Check those that you feel are the major obstacles to your own time management and refer to these as your time crooks.

  • Interruptions from telephone calls
  • Interruptions from personal visitors
  • Meetings
  • Tasks you should have delegated

Fortunately, there are strategies you can use to manage your time, feel more in control, and reduce stress. If you stop to analyze how you spend your time, you will identify that you are both the cause of and the solution to your time challenges.

Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course, "Nursing CE Series: Time Management & Delegation for Nurse Managers." For more information on this and other courses in our library, go to http://www.hcprofessor.com/.



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