Are first line nurse managers prepared for team building? This article emphasizes a team building study to determine how many where and how first line managerial nurses are knowledgeable in team building skills. Based on the article it seems the knowledge and experience of crucial team building skills in health care environments is lacking. The effectiveness and long term benefits of team building skills have been proven in multiple instances. Team building can provide business with the skills they need to work more cohesively as a group.
Personally speaking, I can relate to the comparison of broccoli and nursing theory. As a new nurse, I was resistant to the thought of applying theory to my practice. In the big scheme of nursing care, it appeared to be one more thing to tack on to my list of things to do. After all, I was overwhelmed with meeting the demands of patients, families, and physicians. In addition, I was trying to meet best practice standards, develop effective time management skills so my twelve-hour shift did not become a fourteen-hour shift, and often handling life-threatening situations.
Effective approaches in Leadership and Management Esther Edukuye Grand Canyon University Roles and Responsibilities in Leadership and Management NRS-451V February 10, 2013 Effective approaches in Leadership and Management According to Balsanelli and Cunha (2006) as cited in Rego, Graca Camara, & Ferreira. (2011). “careers are now an individual growth process that requires continuous acquisition of knowledge and skills, with employers being part of this process” (page51). In an hospital organization, to maintain an equilibrium or a common ground where neither the interest of the employees ( nurses) nor the goals of the organization are hindered or neglected, which may bring negative consequences to both sides, effective approaches in leadership and management , is indispensable. Hence this paper seeks to explore the similarities, differences, considering their theories, principles, skills and roles as a leader and a manager as it relates to dealing with nursing shortage and turnover in the healthcare business of today.
The Joint Commission (2012) defines risk management in healthcare as “the clinical and administrative acts undertaken to identify and evaluate the risk of injury to staff, patients and visitors and the risk to loss of the organization itself”. Studies have shown that the litigation against nursing homes is on the rise; thus making risk management very important in day to day care. Malpractice insurance premiums for nursing homes are also on the rise; this contributes to bankruptcy and forces many facilities to operate without malpractice coverage (Weinburg M.D & Levine, 2008). This threatens quality of care and access to healthcare for ill elderly people that need round the clock care. Effective risk management in a nursing home requires one to accurately
It is therefore crucial by which the nurses can figure out themselves in order to be able to establish on existing strength and applicable forthcoming action. As a care assistant I have worked in prevent infection, for instance through maintaining hand hygiene. However, I unfortunately witnessed bad handwashing technique by the qualified member staffs and among my colleague in many times which has conclusively brisked me to do my own research. I belief that by doing this I could able to expand my knowledge and skills in those areas of imperfection with enable me to provide high standard of evidence based care to the patient. In this essay I have not followed any reflective model as on one hand, I found difficult to cover all aspects of this ample topic and the other hand I will not describe only one particular event because there were many occasions which shown wrong pratice of hand washing.
Perhaps the biggest impact that the Impact on Nursing (IOM) report had on the nursing profession in general was creating an awareness of what is needed. Some changes in the right direction have been made, but most of the literature seems state, or at least suggest, that not enough has been done, or, given the widespread shortage of nurses, or can be done. For this reason, even more change is needed in the areas of nursing education, nursing practice, and nursing leadership. One of the areas of greatest concern when it comes to the future of nursing is education. There is a shortage of nurses, and not enough seats in nursing education programs to allow for everybody who applies to nursing school to be able to pursue a degree in nursing.
Prescriptive Authority and Nurse Practitioners Kaymie Chandler Johnston Austin Peay State University Healthcare Policy NURS 5001 February 7, 2013 Prescriptive Authority and Nurse Practitioners There are many healthcare policy issues that affect nurse practitioners today and in the future. The Affordable Care Act is to add approximately 32 million Americans to the roles of the insured at a time when there is a shortage of primary care providers. (Fairman, Rowe, Hassmiller, Shalala 2011). Nurse practitioners will be part of the solution for this shortage, but with ever tightening restrictions on the care that they can provide, it will prove more and more difficult to ease the strain on an already over-burdened system. One policy that is especially concerning and confusing to many advanced practice nurses and future advanced practice nurses is prescriptive authority.
Six Step Process with an Ethical Dilemma Nurses face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis anywhere they practice. In nursing an ethical dilemma can be caught between conflicting duties and responsibilities to your patients, your employer, and to yourself. There is no right answer to an ethical dilemma. As a nurse when finding yourself in an ethical dilemma you ask yourself “are you supposed to do what is right by your employer, but is it right? Or did you help the patient?” As a nurse you want to help the patient in every situation.
Solutions for Nursing Personnel Shortages Executive Summary Senior Human Resource Management should adopt some changes in order to combat the current growing nursing/healthcare personnel shortage. Employees simply want to be heard and sympathized with. Nowadays the nursing shortage has caused many problems in the healthcare industry. First and foremost, the quality of care being provided to patients is declining due to the fact that there are not as many nurses to care for the patient appropriately. As a matter of fact, the workload being dumped on the employees is steadily increasing.
Healthcare organizations are finding it difficult to provide quality healthcare services in a timely manner due to the nursing staff shortages. Healthcare facilities are attempting to develop solutions to solve this shortage problem, but the current solutions are resulting in short term negative impacts. This warrants the need to continue to look for innovative ways to offset the additional costs as well as the reduction in quality that is being felt. NURSING STAFF SHORTAGES Nursing Staff Shortages: Why is There a Problem and What Can be Done to Solve It? A large problem in today’s healthcare environment is a shortage of nurses to fill positions.