Nurses strengthen their power base when they network with nursing colleagues and other supporters to build consensus on important issues. Another important value that a professional nursing organization can bring to the profession is networking. By networking in an organization a professional can gain many new connections to help grow in their field. Through a network, there comes exposure to information, innovative ideas, new products, techniques, or changes in the workplace environment. Many times, opportunities for advancement come through colleagues and professional organizations.
The Role Everybody Plays in Maintaining a Healthy Workplace The Role Everybody Plays in Maintaining a Healthy Workplace Introduction Everyone desires to work in a place that is trusted, safe and conducive to positive patient outcomes. Many factors can influence a healthy work environment. Among these factors are skilled communication between staff, patient and their family members. Other factors are the cultivation of new leaders, recruitment and retention of new nurses without neglecting the novice nurse (Ebright, 2010). Finally the professional nurse should have enhanced autonomy and control over nursing practice (Weston, 2010).
Therefore Ashford General Hospital will began to close the huge gap of the nursing shortage by implementing a education assistance program that would allow nursing students and graduates an opportunity to receive education funding and clinical training in return for a commit to work for the organization. Ashford General Hospital will began to close the gap of the nursing shortage by joining forces with nursing schools and universities as an incentive to offer top notch clinical training from experienced nurses in return for the new nursing graduates to commit to working for the organization. This will provide top quality hands on training, education, and help boost the confidence of new nurses in training by combining clinical experience with classroom experience which will aid in decreasing the nurse burn-out rates. Ashford General Hospital will also implement quality improvement to ensure that the new strategizing to fill the nursing shortage is providing the organization with the support needed to address patient satisfaction, patient safety and the organizations finances. The quality improvement will support the administrators and leaders to ensure that Ashford General Hospital is financially able to continue to expand on their collaboration efforts with nursing schools and universities as well as offer tuition assistance to nurses that commitment to working for the organization.
Abstract Planning and delegating nursing care efficiently and effectively is an essential skill for all registered nurses to develop and master. The nursing process will assist the registered nurse to effectively plan and implement nursing interventions as well as to appropriately delegate nursing interventions to co-workers. Additionally, following the professional standards for nurses will assist in safely managing a patient load. Equally important is the use of communication. Effective communication is essential to ensure patient safety and positive outcomes, as is effective communication between nurses and the multidisciplinary team.
On the other hand, as more nursing colleagues enter the workforce from different cultures and varied language backgrounds, differences among nursing staff can create problems in communication and lead to conflicts that affect the workplace. Nurses have to work effectively together to give culturally competent care to patients. This paper will explore 1) the historical development of cultural diversity in nursing, 2) the importance of a cultural competence when caring for multicultural patient groups, 3) the ways to lessen misunderstandings and problems that result from a culturally diverse nursing staff working together and, 4) the role of nursing administrators in leading an ethnically and culturally diverse workplace. Background Cultural sensitivity has been developing in the United States over the past sixty years. Beginning in the 1950s, Madeline Leininger founded the transcultural nursing movement and the ethno nursing research method.
Transformational leadership is a leadership style where leaders create an inspiring vision of the future, motivate their followers to achieve it, manage implementation successfully, and develop the members of their teams to be even more effective in the future. Therefore, as a new DNP transformational leader with an instinctive ability to analyze and problem solve, I propose to address the curricula and practice competencies related to nursing skill standards. These standards create concepts that supports defining leadership roles and eliminating health disparities. Sherman (2012) states that transformational nurse leaders are able to identify the changes their environment needs, guide the change by inspiring followers, and create a sense of commitment to change. Transformational leadership hinges on a high level of engagement between leaders and followers.
Nurses as Cultural Broker Nurses as Cultural Broker We live in a world where various people with different cultures interact and intermingle. Values, beliefs, and norms that some people practice and have been accustomed to are different from other people. These often leads to conflict and misunderstanding especially if both individuals involved does not speak the same language or share the same beliefs. In a healthcare setting, nurses have always been the frontline in providing direct patient care. We encounter and provide care to a variety of patients and among them are the minority, underserved, and disadvantaged patients.
They often have great communication skills and established relationships with physicians and gained their respect and trust. Veteran nurses are expected to mentor novice nurses and build healthy intergenerational collaborative work relationships ( Mason, Leavitt, Chaffee, page 462). The veteran and boom generation nurse have very traditional work ethics and tend to be more willing to work longer hours at their jobs
This can be accomplished through continuous monitoring, evaluation of any activities that need improvement. For example some hospital have QI teams made up of nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers. These teams’ helps in ensuring QI are done in an efficient manner. According to (L.Long, 2003) “Influencing nurses to accept and implement best practice and continuous quality improvement into everyday nursing activities and to change practice is a significant challenge for any nursing service.” I believe including nursing in quality improvement teams can help influence them into participating more in quality management. Usually quality improvements are viewed by staff as another workload added onto an already busy workload.
I loved going with her and see what she was doing like taking care of other people and help them get well. That is when I realized my passion for nursing and I wanted to be like my mom, a nurse, to help and care of others. When we look up the word “nurse” in the dictionary, we will read something like “somebody who cares for a sick person.” I believe that there is more into that simple definition. Nursing is a very powerful profession, it allows people to influence and touch lives. I am very willing to achieve this big responsibility.