INTRODUCTION
Nursing is a vital service in any health care facility. Without an effective Nursing Service, patient care will suffer. It integrates all the hospital's vital services. The Nursing Service is burdened with the expansion of the nurses' functions, rapid turnover, and the structural constraints within the health care facility, such as, understaffing, poor working conditions and inadequate supplies and equipment which is very true in the government hospital setting. Despite all these constraints and problems, the Nursing Service is still expected to render quality services. Nursing has an obligation to society which has accorded it with recognition and respect. Nurses are not only accountable to their profession and institutions,
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Management and leadership theories have frequently been applied with success in healthcare environments. However, healthcare organizations, and specifically hospitals, are different from many businesses in that they provide a societal service that has not been traditionally identified as a business. Cook (1983) developed and tested a theory of hospital response to a regulatory environment. According to this theory, as regulatory activities related to hospitals increase, there will be a managerial level response which will include decentralization and increased participation in decision-making and more budgeting and controlling activities among middle managers. A technical level response was also predicted related to changes in patient care scheduling and services, changes in nurse staffing, development of new services to fit the market, and changes in clinical practices, many of which would affect or involve professional nurses, and thus, nursing administrators as well. All of the above changes have great implications for the nursing administrators and would serve to increase his managerial functions and responsibilities, again to provide better planning and delivery of quality health care services. This study focuses on the nursing management functions. The knowledge of this process assures nurses of smooth functioning of their units in attaining their goal of quality care through the judicious
Week One Discussion Two Response to O 'Neill The addition of nurse leaders in the executive suite is essential in facilitating the perception that nurses are critical decision makers in the health care industry. Furthermore, it is imperative that a formal succession plan is incorporated in organizations to assure strategic leadership, quality care, and operational effectiveness incorporate nursing at the uppermost level of decision and influence (Trepanier & Crenshaw, 2013). The Chief Nurse Executive role is evolving as a tactical authority in acquiring a major influence on our nation’s health care delivery systems and clinical outcomes (Bradley, 2014). As health care shifts and changes, nursing must be at the forefront to assure optimal influence
Nursing administration on a national level is best described by The National Center for HealthCare Leadership (NCHL). This is a non profit organization that exemplifies quality care and leadership in the 21 st century. The goal of this organization is to improve healthcare on a national level through efficient and effective management that is in accordance with it’s mission. In keeping with it ’s mission, NCHL embarked upon an ambitious initiative with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examining the role of the senior leadership team in promoting quality and safety in his/her organization (Disch, Dreher, Davidson, Sinioris, & Wainio, 2011).
The Nurse Practice Act is a specific set of rules and regulations. The purpose is to oversee the safe practice of nursing and safety of the public. NPA lists the standards and scope of nursing practice, along with requirements for licensure, the types of titles and licenses and educational standards. The Nurse Practice Act is a nurse’s guide to safe practice (Russell, K. 2012).
Due to hospital care reaching an all-time high in America, we need nurses now more than ever before. Currently in America, we have an issue with nurses having too many paperwork to fill out. In the article “We Need More Nurses” by Alexandra Robbins argues we need more nurses in the hospital. Nursing shortage has been a common issue throughout the world. Because of this issue others are being affected in many different ways.
Fourth, Consolidation has changed a lot throughout the healthcare economy by reducing competition, market power, and raising prices. Consolidation consists of wholesalers, organizations, insurance, and large hospital systems (Burns, Bradley, and Weiner, 2012). Fifth, the delivery of healthcare which is mostly dominated by non profit organizations. they also have a slow rate of change in the non profit sector of the hospital which accounts for about 15-20 percent (Burns, Bradley, and Weiner, 2012). One way to confront the need for stornger managers in the healthcare field is to address the issues.
In order to be a strong leader one must understand the role leaders play as well identify different traits that resemble leadership qualities within themselves. The article I reviewed was Leadership of Healthcare Professionals: Where do we stand? and it describes the different types of leadership approaches and theories that can be effective within the healthcare setting. The main objective for a leader is to adapt to change as well as be able to cope with change. Leaders are known to have strong influential skills that can affect their team or the environment that they work in.
hence when nurse are understaffed, the patient centered safety culture is broken, health care provided in safe manner and safe environment is essential for patients wellbeing, but when the nurse/patient ratio is compromised, the nurses are unable to perform quality care and often leads to deterioration of health standard for the public leading to more mortality and morbidity. She also highlights that profit motivation becomes the main driving engine for the corporate driven hospitals and the health care system thus compromising on the patient safety. So with the understaffing of nurses, some of the common health care needs of individuals and communities lay threatened. The very first need of the individual to get a standard quality health care is being compromised.
This may involve effective mobilization of the available nursing staff and review of the responsibilities durations for the nurses to the recommended levels to avoid straining the workforce. Consequently, reorganization will help redistribute nursing functions among the available staff, thereby averting high personnel turnover due to overload. Similarly, the manager is likely to employ the staffing function to identify and hire qualified nursing personnel to fill out the understaffed nursing levels. This will significantly reduce individual workload and enable nurses to adequately address the unique needs of their clients, thereby facilitating delivery of quality and personalized nursing care to patients. Thirdly, the nursing manager is likely to employ the controlling function to assess work results against established performance standards in an effort to determine the effects of nurse turnover and shortage on the organization.
Acting as a liaison between the nursing staff and other members of the administrative staff, they are often in high-level management roles. Though not in a direct patient contact role, they are often involved in the policy making within an organization affecting patient care (Ferguson-Pare, 2003). The nurse administrator meets the same competencies in the nine essential areas, but have additional competencies in organizational and system leadership, communication and relationship management, knowledge of health care environment, as well as business skills and principles (AONE,
Health and social care in the recent era needs effective leadership and management in order to make their service successful. It is noticed that proper management is required for the change implemented within health or social care organisation because integration of change with the goals is important phase. Health care management and leadership is the growing profession in which opportunities for both indirect and direct care settings has been increasing. Healthcare organisations are considered as the dynamic and complex business setting that needs effective management and leadership techniques or approaches in order to make sure that the individuals are provided with effectual services. While on the other hand, it is observed that various
A nurse must keep up to date on education and new processes in health-care, so they can provide the best care. As a nurse, you have promised to give each of your patients the best care that can possibly be given. Nurses must follow a code of ethics, to act safely, provide ethical care no matter how they feel about the patient or the reason they are in your care. Following this code of ethics shows your commitment to caring for people and society, it is a guide of ethics and standards to follow to keep everyone safe. Nursing is also a wonderful opportunity to meet hundreds of people from almost every nationality and every walk of life.
Nursing is a responsibility to provide the finest care regardless of the patient’s age, race, religion, sex, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or their past. Nurses must keep up to date on education, new processes, policies and keep informed about new laws and regulations in healthcare, so outstanding healthcare can be administered. As a nurse, you have undertaken a responsibility to provide people the finest quality care that can possibly receive. It is a nurses’ duty to follow the code of ethics, to act
The Organizational Review The organization Memorial Hermann Health System is a provider that strives for excellence. The Memorial Hermann mission is “To lead healthcare to superior patient outcomes through the creation of a high-reliability culture with evidence-based quality and patient safety as our core value. " Having a strategic plan with specific measures of Clinical Excellence, Do No Harm, Saving Lives” (Memorial Hermann Health System, 2013).
Specifically, 1) We explain and analyze how well Barbara Norris done in her first month as a nurse manager and describe her management control approach to performance improvement. 2) We more specifically, evaluate the adequacy of changes Barbara Norris is trying to make. 3) We recommend an action plan for Barbara Noriss to improve staff 's performance.
It includes the promotion of health, the prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people” (WHO, 2018). This means that nurses care for both those who are sick and unable to care for themselves, healthy people, and the dead. One of the duties of the nurse is to educate the patient and public. As such nurses also go into the communities to create awareness on recent developments and how to manage our environment to prevent the inhabitants from becoming sick. Nursing to me is showing that love; care and compassion to those in need.