Beth Boynton, RN, MS

Beth Boynton, RN, MS, is a nurse consultant, author, and teacher specializing in communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals and within organizations. She offers interactive workshops, leadership coaching, a ‘whole systems’ approach for culture change efforts, and a new method for building ‘people skills’ called ‘Medical Improv’. She has recently completed her second book, a core text called: Successful Nurse Communication: Safe Care, Healthy Workplaces, and Rewarding Careers which is scheduled to be published by F.A. Davis Publishing Co. Spring 2015. She writes about related issues at, “Confident Voices in Healthcare” blog. Her video, “Interruption Awareness: A Nursing Minute for Patient Safety,” and blog have drawn audiences from all over the world. She is trained in the Professor Watson Curriculum for Medical Improv through Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She has one grown son who is works in India, loves improv, Zumba dancing, walking, and swimming, and lives in Portsmouth, NH.

Books Authored:

Confident Voices: The Nurses’ Guide to Improving Communication & Creating Positive Workplaces, Ed. Bonnie Kerrick, RN, BSN. (2009) CreateSpace.

Areas of Expertise

  • Communication, collaboration, emotional intelligence, and medical improv as related to:
  • Patient safety
  • Workplace violence
  • Nurse and patient advocacy
  • Safe and Just Cultures
  • Complex Adaptive Systems

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