Alice Gonzales : A Director Of Nurses

One of the bigger dreamer nurse leader is Dr. Bernadette Melnyk who has a dream to improve people’s lives and make a change (Alumni WVU). She has understood that all painful experiences make her more stronger and well prepared to face any issue ( Mattson, James). According to James Mattson who is an editor of Reflections on Nursing Leadership that Dr. Bernadette Melnyk prefers to be called as Bern. Bern is born in1958 and grew up in a Republic small town in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. She came from a poor lovely family and have one sister and one brother. Her mother died in front of her when she was 15 years old. At that time, she has suffered a lot. She believed that the right diagnosed for that difficult event that prevented her form sleeping was the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Because of that, Valium was prescribed for her by her family primary physician. However, she took the medication for a one night and decided to not take it again because she was feeling dizziness during the day. Her father and close friends were good supporter for her during that painful period. Few years later, she decided to be a nurses in the future because she volunteered at a hospital as a candy striper during high school. After that experience, she discovered that she has a passion to care for patients and help them to get better, but her father wouldn 't be able to pay the tuition for a bachelor’s degree. Her father has assured her that he is willing to work extra hours to pay

Nurse Manager Alicia Hubbard, RN, MSN, NE-BC, is the Nurse Manager at Texas Health Plano, Neurology/Telemetry unit. She started her nursing career in 2003 as a LPN. She achieved her BSN and MSN from Arkansas State University. She holds a nurse executive certification (NE-BC), which is designed for current BSN or higher degree, currently holds a mid-level or higher for at least 2 years in the last 5 years (ANCC: American Nurses Credentialing Center, n.d.). She has applied to the DNP program at University of Houston to further her education. Alicia has been has a manager for total of 11 years at several different hospitals with the last three and a half at Texas Health Plano.

This Nursing leadership interview was conducted with Gessy Targete-Johnson, who is currently the Director of Nursing Family Birthplace at Memorial Miramar Hospital. I decided to conduct my interview on her, due to the fact that this is a career goal I wish to accomplish. She has been in the Nursing Field for over 25 years. Gessy decided to enter the nursing field because, she has compassion for others and she wanted to make a difference in lives. She started out as a Labor & Delivery Nurse in 1991, she later went on to pursue her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, followed by her Master’s Degree immediately after. Gessy thrives on being productive, and she quickly learned the meaning of the word perseverance. In 2001, she was promoted to Nurse Manager in Labor & Delivery, and worked in that position for 8 years. While maintaining an active role in this area, she also went back to school for her ARNP license. In 2009, she became the Director of Nursing Family Birthplace at Memorial Miramar Hospital.

Slide 1: The expectations of nurses today are higher than ever with goals such as achieving top percentiles in nursing and patient satisfaction, to being among the top leaders in quality outcomes, and to build productive work relationships and environments. Nursing leaders serve as the primary link between staff, physicians, and the community. They are expected to be innovative, highly skilled, possess a certain degree of nursing knowledge, and produce qualified individuals to care for the growing population. According to Lorber, Treven, and Mumel (2016) “nursing leadership is pivotal because nurses represent the most extensive discipline in health care”. Because of this growing need for diversity in leadership and my background in the military, I decided to focus on the MSN Executive Track at Chamberlain College of Nursing.

A discussion regarding the health care reform or even health care in general can be somewhat controversial. The definition of health is drastically different depending on whom you speak to. Many would define health as " a person's absence of disease, others would describe good health based on the status of mind, body & social well-being" (GCU Lecture, module 2, 2012). According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, health is defined as "The overall condition of an organism at a given time". An individual's overall health affects the nation, this is where stakeholders come into value. According to Keele, Buckner & Bushnell a stakeholder is either an individual or an organization that either invest time and

Today was my first day back with Ms. Zelda Smith the Chief of the Nursing Supervisor Department. Ms. Smith and I met took a few minutes to get reacquainted and then discussed my goals and objectives moving forward. To recap, Ms. Smith and I worked on a very detailed resource binder intended to support personnel temporarily filling the Nursing Officer of the Day (NOD) role. The Nursing Supervisor section experiences a great deal of turnover related to staff being pulled away for military obligations. Ms. Smith now has five permanent non-military staff members including herself and but she also relies on military personnel as needed to support staffing demands and satisfy mandatory military training requirements. Ms. Smith hired one new

Good post this week. I didn’t know at all this organization before researched of this assignment.

In the case of “Thomas Green: power, office politics, and a career in Crisis”, it describes the dilemma of Thomas Green who works in a company called Dynamic Display. Thomas was recruited as an account executive, and then five months later, he was promoted as a Senior Market Specialist directly by the President Shannon McDonald. Thomas’s boss Frank Davis hadn’t expected to choose Green as the new senior market specialist, and he was very dissatisfied with Green’s work style and performance three months after the promotion. After being informed that Frank Davis had emailed McDonald about his concerns about Green’s performance, Green was getting really worried about his situation and not sure how to explain his perspective to

Interview of a nurse leader. Last week, one nurse a friend told me about an amazing colleague in her practice who she considered to be a transformational leader. This nurse is called Genine who incidentally works as an administrative and managerial nurse supervising other teams of nurses. She told me that Genine comes from a poor family in Ireland, and that she came here to support herself and her family. The amazing thing, she told me, about Genine is that she seems to be anchored within herself. She is constantly and genuinely friendly and warm to anyone regardless of religion, ethnic background, and socio-economic factors and so forth. Everyone, in turn, likes and respects Genine. And more so, Genine seems to be undisturbed by anyone's particular opinion of her. Intent on doing what is right and on performing her job in eh maximum quality, Genine consistently acts in an ethical manner, consults her conscience and internal measurements rather than hankering for approval of others, and seems to be consistently content and peaceful. My friend described Genine as having a certain 'Nirvana' the kind of blissful, detached from desires contentment that Buddhism espouses. In turn, Genine is consistently beleaguered by colleagues who seek her advice, patients who want just her to help them, and many, many people who tell her their problems.

She started to talk about the start of her nursing career, she started by working with children and continued her learning. The interesting thing that I found as I was reading was that she was learning in some place that nuns took care of the patients since she kept using the word sister’s. Nancy also saw the change from when doctors could only give the medicine to where the nurse could. She started nursing just as World War two started so she got to see soldiers coming with legs blown off and fracture that would take 12 weeks to heal, this was at a time TV did not exist so the soldiers did not have anything to do while they were healing however they did have little activities that they could make thing to be sold on open days. One of the thing that I found that I could relate to is that she does not like that she had to go from ward to ward to learn information about nursing.

She has also decided to go to Human Resources and she has been told that she must take her concerns to management and recommends the Employee Assistance Program. Joanne starts to look within the organization in finding another job that is not as demanding as her current position. She finds one that is appealing to her and she has been hearing positive thing about the clinic and their nurse manager. She applies and has been called in for an interview with clinic. Human Resources contacted her to see if she told her current nurse manager that she has applied for another job. She promptly told them that she had not and asked why she would need to tell him, especially if she did not get the position. She explained to the human resource representative that she feared that this would put a strain on the working relationship by prematurely informing her nurse manager of the application. The Human Resource representative informs Joanne that it is company policy to notify managers of any intent to leave. Joanne is embarrassed and frustrated, but will comply with company’s policy and hopes that her nurse manager will understand and not hold

Marie* is a very “put-together” woman. She dresses as if she is attending church every day of the week, appears to be very grandmotherly and she looks impressively good for her age. The gender that she expresses is female. Her speaking level is intelligent, with an overall proper use of grammar, correct enunciation, and a variety of words of phrases. Her hearing is mostly all there, though she had a little trouble hearing some of my questions, and she responded in a fair amount of time when a question was asked. I would determine her functionality as plenty sufficient, although she does live with her son and his family, though I am unsure if that is because of convenience or because there are issues that I do not know of since none were discussed. She is widowed and is living in her home of several decades with her only son and his wife.

Management constitute amongst major components of a company, organization or a business. As such, management oversees employees interactions with their supervisors and also control of people within a particular organization. Also, it includes critical and ethical decision-making process so as to address various ethical dilemmas experienced by employees while undertaking their respective assigned duties within the company. Ethical dilemmas are hereby to stay as issues usually arise now and then and place a variety of options that bear different repercussions. Therefore, it calls for ethical and critical decision-making skills so as to make the most appropriate option that bears more benefits in comparison to other options presented. While making ethical decisions, it 's substantially important to play heed to a certain ethical decision-making theory. This would enable an individual making the decision to ripe best possible consequences rather than living to regret. Moreover, ethical decision making is typically important in business as making a wrong decision may result not only in huge losses but also poor relationship amongst colleagues and miserable life for employee(s) working in a particular company or business in question.

A nursing director in a hospital organization is the chief of all nurses employed in the healthcare institution. He or she is appointed by the administrative body or a group of stock holders of the agency in accordance to the criteria stated by the policies of the organization as well as in congruence to the Nursing Law being applied in the state or location. By education and management experience, a registered nurse is given an administrative position wherein he or she can facilitate the implementation of the organization’s mission and vision statement to its personnel.

Steven, a staff accountant in the accounts payable section, is confident that he knows the “ins” and “outs” of the bureaucratic organization he works in. Kristin, a new manager of accounts payable, no non-sense type of manager, Kristin was experienced and determined to perform her new assignment with the same vigor that had brought her so much success throughout her career. Steven believes people seem to gain promotions and have the opportunity to work overtime based on who likes them rather than the quality of their work. As a result, Steven who is dissatisfied with what he senses are political machinations that have influenced managerial decision making within