Manager and leader are often used interchangeable. They both have different distinctive features in the role that they play. Management is a problem oriented process whom coordinates the activities of the group to maintain balance and direction (Zerwekh & Claborn, 196). Leader on the other hand One nursing leader or manager that I could think of that satisfies the role of a nursing manager is a nursing supervisor that currently works at my job. She has been a nurse for over twenty years. She graduated from the University of Connecticut with the bachelors of Science in nursing and worked five years at St. Francis Hospital as a staff nurse on the cardiac floor. She then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she obtained her masters of science in advanced nurse practitioner at Chamberlain College. After ten years of service at the VA hospital as a nurse practitioner, she moved to Connecticut where she works as a nursing supervisor; she also held teaching positions at a few nursing schools, works at a doctor’s office and currently working on her doctoral degree. She is the nursing supervisor at my job for almost ten years. The job responsibilities include providing patient care as well as overseeing all nursing staff in the entire facility. Also, she ensures there are adequate nursing staff during the shift interacts with families and patients and works with other healthcare providers to solve any problems that arise during the shift. In addition to directing and supervising all aspect of patient care, she also collaborates with other members of the healthcare team to provide the most efficient care. Based on the description of my supervisor, the knowledge about the difference between a manager and leader and observing her role as a nursi...
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The authors in this article aimed to discover nurse manager leadership styles and their outcomes. Nurses from hospitals in the Northeastern part of the United States were asked questions. The data was collected in a locked room, alone, so no one would influence the answers of someone else. The results were put into a software program and displayed for analysis. Results showed when choosing a nurse for a managerial leadership role, one should choose someone if they have the basic components of transformational leadership, not transactional leadership. The authors show that transformational leadership had revealed positive patient outcomes, retention, and satisfaction in the nursing staff. Those nurse leaders who have qualities of transformational leadership are encouraged to build on those skills constantly.
Define Nursing Nursing is a knowledge-based profession within the health care sector that focuses on the overall care of individuals. According to The American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP), “defines nurse practitioners as registered nurses who have received graduate-level nursing education and clinical training, which enables them to provide a wide range of preventative and acute health care services to individuals of all ages. They deliver high-quality, cost effective care, often performing physical examinations, ordering tests, making diagnoses, and prescribing and managing medication and therapies”. Nurse Practitioners are able to specialize in a particular area, such as family and adult practice, pediatrics, and women’s health; and refer patients to other specialists when necessary. Some nurse practitioners work under the supervision of a physician while others run their own practices.
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A Certified nursing assistant is one of the members of the health care team. It is also known as a CNA or Nursing Aide. They refer to the ones they care for as residents or patients. In the medical field, a CNA is the lowest paid, however they are the ones who do all of the work such as physical work. They come in contact with the residents more than anyone else; they are the prime care givers. They are always under the supervision of licensed practical, licensed vocational and registered nurses, known as LPN/LVN or RN. The residents/patients that they deal with need long term care, like nursing homes and caring for them at their home. Since they are long term, staying with a faculty up to several months and even years, many CNA’s create a bond and close relationship with them. The main thing they do for them is produce basic care for them or known to them as activates of daily living or ADL. Great paying CNA jobs are very easy to find, even though it requires little training and a variety of skills.
“Registered nurses treat patients and help prevent disease, educate patients and the public about various medical conditions and health issues, and provide advice and emotional support to patients’ family members both physically and mentally.”(Registered). It is important for the individual going into this occupation to search out the pros and cons of the different areas of nursing. Sometimes gender plays a part in choosing the specific area of an RN. For instance, the strength of males is needed in areas of physical therapy. While the gentle attributes of women are needed in the care of babies. “A nurse must like people and want to help them, and must also have self-reliance and good judgment, patience, honesty, responsibility, and ability to work easily with others.”(Jacobi). The occupation of a registered nurse includes many advantages such as having the ability to assist your family in medical needs, the salary is attractive and above the average scale, and it offers great job security.
(Become a Nurse Leader. n.d.). A nurse leader is someone who leads by example and helps their team meet goals by empowerment and healthy work environments. Continuing my education and working on my Bachelor of Science degree will help me attain my goal later in life, of being a nurse leader. Being a nurse leader involves lifelong learning and advancement. I believe treating others how you want to be treated is a good way to be successful in leadership. Everyone makes mistakes and it is how we learn from them that makes us a better person. I will be a nurse leader that is honest and encouraging. I will use personal experiences to relate to my team. I will adopt characteristics from various leadership styles to form my own. If the situation calls for a more autocratic role such as during an emergency or code, that is the style I will use. If the democratic or transformational approach is more appropriate, then that is the style I will lean towards.
There is growing evidence that nurses experience deteriorating work conditions, with increasingly unsupportive work environments, non-family working hours and increased stress. The supervisor-nurse relationship is often the buffer between organizational demands and professional workplace expectations. Notably, effective supervisor-nurse relationships predict high organizational commitment and well-being and retention. Thus, the quality of workplace relationships, especially those with supervisors, perceived organizational and colleague support, motivate nurses to stay in the profession.
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DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF DELEGATION OF DUTY BY NURSE MANAGER SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONCEPT Delegation of duty is an important skill necessary for effective management in any organization, nurse managers require this skill to function properly, delegation of duty is a complex skill and it requires specialized clinical judgment to effectively delegate duties. Nurse Managers are required to understand the needs of the patients and family in order to delegate a care giver capable of rendering the required service. The skill of delegation is as important as the skills of patients care in the nursing profession. Delegation helps to relieve the nurse manager of some burden and allow the nurse to focus on other important aspect of care of the patient,
Nurses as Knowledge Workers Knowledge workers are clinical scholars, expected to adapt and drive new and evolving technologies in the health care system. With the advancement from the industrial to the information age and the development of new technological inventions to support quality of care and outcomes, nurses are constantly expected to advance their knowledge, techniques, skills, and education. Nurses as knowledge workers actively combine routine (e.g., obtaining vital signs, medication administration) and non-routine work involving analysis, critical thinking, decision-making, collaboration, clinical reasoning and judgment. As clinical scholars, nurses are excellent at innovation because they understand change is inevitable and
Technology play a critical role in transforming the health care delivery system. As such, the utilization of electronic health records, EHR continues to increase. Nurses are the biggest users of the technology, which calls for a strategy to engage them in the EHR implementation and adoption. However, the implementation of such technology comes with a degree of uncertainty regarding the outcome of the innovation. The nurse facilitator should thus know that the implementation of EHRs affects nurses and their needs must be considered in the process.
Leadership is defined by Northouse (2013) as a transactional experience between persons whereby one individual influences a group of individuals who have a mutual goal. Leaders may hold authority attributed to them by the group, substantiated by how they are regarded, whether or not they have positional authority. In contrast to management, where the goal is to provide order through control, leadership is concerned with producing change through transformation and practical adjustments (Northouse, 2013). Because of the nature of nursing, its obligation to promoting health and healing of people, nursing leadership concentrates change efforts based on human needs and concurrently ponders the needs of administrations largely because they understand the interrelatedness of the two influences.
The first thoughts that come to mind when thinking of a professional nurse are good communication skills, problem solving skills, flexibility, empathy, and respect. As a nursing student we are learning the basis of all of these skills inside and outside of the lab. It is also important as a nurse to be a critical thinker. Even now as students we are being pushed and challenged to think in ways we never had to before. Communication skills are the basis to having a good relationship with your client.
These characteristics of a nurse manager show how their leadership plays a role in their position in the nursing field. Without this position in the nursing structure, it would be very difficult to produce positive results in providing optimal patient ca...