NUR Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing NUR 492 October 1, 2012 Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing Effective leadership and management are an essential part of any health care facility. Portraying excellence in this part of health care is necessary to deliver quality care to patients. The core to any facility is nursing and acquiring the best leadership and management is the key to any facility. Therefore, behavior, involvement, demeanor, and discipline of a healthcare facility start with their leadership, which develops the commitment and drive for this facility. This paper will explain the difference between leadership and management, explain characteristics of an effective leader, and last illustrate views of leadership.
Next step is to create communication plan and create meeting agenda. Communication is the main key for the successful project. Communication between the project manager and team and also between upper management is very important and should be done according to the communication
Scope Statement will provide an approved scope for the project that will guide work efforts and align resource commitments. Requirements Management Plan will provide a process to gather, analyze, document and manage to deliver of project requirements. Given the broad range of expectations for the new HRIS, it will be important to align on consistent scope. Statement of Requirements will provide an approved set of requirements for the project that will guide work efforts and align resource commitments. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) will breakdown project scope and requirements into groups of component tasks that will be manageable Schedule Management Plan will provide a process to gather, analyze, develop and control the schedule of project activities.
In most teams there must be someone in charge or a “team leader”. The team leader has primary responsibility for team development. (Taplin, Foster, & Shortell, 2013) Teams are most effective when one person is designated as the formal leader to whom everyone on the team is accountable. Qualified leadership requires definition of the leader's role and assignment of a particular individual to fill that role. In relation to nursing, the team leader may be designated by a job title, such as charge nurse.
A job description to fill a position for a Medical and Health Services Manager must be geared toward finding the very best for the position, but also to find the very best that will help achieve and maintain the organization’s goals. Human Resource Management (HRM), in developing a job description, must go through the strategic HR planning which enables HRM to analyze an organization’s external and internal environments (Youseff, 2012). This leads HRM to the job analysis and job design. According to Youssef (2012), “Job analysis and job design are critical for the success of subsequent Human HRM stages.” Once HRM has collected the data, the data is then analyzed, which leads into the job description. The job to be performed in terms of tasks, duties, and responsibilities to be fulfilled are the characteristics a job description identifies (Youssef, 2012).
The key to a successful project depends on consistent communication between all members of the team, clarity, and good performance measures. There are several steps that must be taking when selecting and acquiring an information system. The first step is to assign a project steering committee with people from different departments within or close to the organization; these individuals on this committee will coordinate, organize, plan, and manage the system acquisition process in researching what type of information system that would be right for the organization; then a project manager needs to be appointed to be the overseer of the project and to make sure the project will be on schedule as planned, staying on and within budget; next the project goals and objectives must be defined specifically for the organization and vendors will need to be screened and evaluated in order to get the best individuals for the project; after vendors have been screened and evaluated carefully, the organization should start receiving proposals from the screened vendors After all goals and objectives have been carefully established and understood, it is time to put a proposal together to receive
The mission statement is a written statement that states your team’s purpose and helps to inspire and motivate your team; the vision statement takes this one step further and looks at the desired future for your work team. Having the teams input into these goals and objectives helps give the team members ownership and a sense of belonging to the team. When the team’s goals are set, they need to have a certain criteria that must be met to make them a realistic goal. They must be clear, concise, have a set time frame, and most importantly, be measurable. These goals need to link with the organisations goals and KPI’s to help create a more efficient workplace.
Who should be responsible for updating and communicating a strategic plan? Why? Explain the reason of constant and essential updating of implementation and communication of a strategic plan? Who should be the in charge of the task i.e. updating and communicating a strategic plan?
Training and Development Paper HCS/341 December 10, 2012 Training and Development Paper Effective training and education in the health care industry are both equally important. The Human Resource Department (HR) is responsible for making sure that each employee has been properly trained for the job that they were hired to perform. Employee’s competencies are measured to decipher what training programs should be implemented for the overall benefit of the organization. Tracking and evaluating training effectiveness is necessary to determine if the training programs being offered are effective for both the employee and the organization. EFFECTIVE TRAINING AND EDUCATION In the health care industry it is vital that training and education
The goals focus on the Institute of Medicine’s description of needed objectives. It outlines their plan to achieve quality within that facility. It further discusses steps needed to be taken in order to realize the objectives with good information describing why each step is crucial in the process. This article provides a great outline for why quality control is needed within any healthcare setting and a source of possible solutions in order to realize the goal. The authors have strong backgrounds in the medical field as directors in managing care as well as planning strategies (Anderson, Amarasingham, & Pickens, 2007).