The preceptor has a job to ensure the new nurse is competent with skills to provided adequate, safe nursing care to patients. The preceptor has to wear many hats with the new nurse such as role model, educator, friend, confidant, and socializer. The preceptor must observe the new nurse and evaluate the skills of the nurse. Ideally the preceptor will explain a process or skill, demonstrate it, and then watch as the new nurse demonstrates as it is performed independently. Precepting involves a commitment on both the preceptor and the new nurse.
According to Employment Equity and Diversity (2004), the mentor needs to be a person who is aware of their responsibilities in supporting staff and require training and resources to support them in their role. I assigned be a mentor to a new qualified midwifery nurse. I called her Nurse A (Appendix A). Even thought she has experience working in the surgical and medical unit before, she still need an experience and knowledgeable staff to guide and mentor her in a new clinical area .She is a very proactive person and willing to learn. Identifying learning needs, planning and managing the .student experience Plans of action formulated in order to achieve the learner's objectives.
1. A series of in-services on team development are being held for nurse managers at a teaching hospital by the staff development department. The educator has just reviewed the concept of group process roles and identified several of them by name. One of the managers asks, “ Could you please explain what exactly is meant by the gatekeeper role?” Which of the following responses by the educator is best? The Gatekeeper ensures that everyone has an opportunity to speak.
We will let her know that there is an open line of communication so if she ever feels uncomfortable or needs assistance on something that she does not feel knowledgeable or confident about then she can always go to a supervisor’s office. She will also be offered personal therapy to make her feel more comfortable and confident in her own sessions. Personal therapy should help benefit her in her personal and professional life (Oteiza 2010). Her personal therapy sessions should help her become more comfortable working with families instead of just children. Janice is a great part of this agency and after she completes some personal therapy and the policies are reviewed and enforced that records must be submitted in a
UNDERSTAND A RANGE OF LEADERSHIP STYLES, THEIR BENEFITS AND POTIENTIAL IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS AND PERFORMANCE 4. Identify the most commonly used leadership style(s) within an organisation and explain the likely effect this leadership style(s) has on a team’s performance. The most effective and commonly used leadership style used within an organisation is Situational Leadership. The success of this leadership style on enhancing the performance of its employees relies on the skills and the consistent execution of its principles by the ‘situational leader’. Situational leadership is a style that utilises all four leadership styles discussed in question 3: 1.
University of Phoenix Material Appendix A: Matrix of Theoretical Models Theoretical Model | Description of Theoretical Model | Type of health care change situation where model best applies | Kurt Lewin’s change theory | Kurt Lewin’s change theory model describes three stages of change that involves the freezing stage, the moving stage, and the refreezing stage (Ngozi, 2010). During the unfreezing stage, the nurse recognizes the need for change, creating awareness and beginning the process of accepting the imminent change. This step involves making nurses gain understanding on their daily activities, unlearn their bad habits, and expose themselves to new methods of attaining the objectives. This stage involves searching a method to make it possible for people abandon an old pattern that was inefficient. In the second stage, moving, the nurse accepts the need for change and implements the change.
To determine whether a new procedure falls within the RN scope of practice you would first clearly define the procedure at hand and ask if it was learned in your basic nursing program. If it was not part of a basic nursing program, determine if you learned the procedure as part of a comprehensive training program which included clinical experience, for example skills specialized to a specific floor or area of the hospital. Then determine if the procedure has become so commonplace in nursing literature and practice that it can reasonably be assumed within the scope, such as wound care and dressing. Find out if the procedure falls within your State Board of Nursing's scope of practice and then if it is in the hospital's policy and procedure manual, which the employer would believe to be within your scope of practice. Finally, determine if the procedure would pass the "reasonable and prudent" standard of nursing, meaning would a nurse with the same education and training perform the task.
Carol allows a few minutes for the nurses to read the agenda but starts the meeting on time. In control of voice and body language, and according to her agenda, Carol takes immediate control of the meeting with the opening statement of her focus and the expected outcomes of the meeting. As she set the tone and pace, the nurses follow quietly and surprised. Carol references her observations and expresses to run a professional nursing unit. She addresses the nursing code of ethics, the profession in itself and the nurses’ role in this career.
In the course of the years I have practiced nursing, I have had to learn new technologies, expand into different areas and grow. Now as the most experienced nurse in my unit, I use these same principles to help newer nurses develop their own practice. Sometimes when I have felt frustrated at a lack of knowledge, or competence, it helps me to take a moment and think about where in the 5 stages of development is this nurse. I know that using this theory as the key to my practice has had a prominent role in my own growth and in the role of mentor and preceptor that I have played. I believe that like art and medicine, nursing is a practice.
Contingency Theories of Leadership To successfully run an organization, many aspects must work together to ensure that everything runs efficiently and effectively. A major part to the effectiveness of the organization internally is leadership among the organizations staff members. But what is leadership and why is it important? We define leadership as the ability to influence group towards the achievement of a vision or set of goals (Robbins et al 2011). Without being able to communicate, direct and inspire people like leaders do, organizations would struggle to be successful as they would not be able to do effectively communicate visions and help overcome hurdles to the best of their ability.