If I Were A Nurse Supervisor In 'Little White Lies'

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The making of a nurse leader takes education, training, and experience. Whatever the personality trait of a professional nurse, this self-discovery will only be a means to aim in becoming a nurse leader. A professional nurse in leadership is one that is transformational, involved in a professional organization, a change agent, and has a high Emotional Intelligence to be able to manage a team. She is aware and knowledgeable of the inevitable changes occurring in the nursing field. She is highly capable in setting up strategies for conflict resolution and culturally competent with such capacity in achieving high performance in a diverse healthcare team. Most importantly, her leadership promotes

Scholarship. During my interview for UMMC I was asked if I had a bachelor’s in nursing to which I replied no. I was hired with the agreement that I would pursue my degree with two years of working. This isn’t the ideal way someone wants to continue his or her education. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth feeling forced to pay for more education when you are already licensed as a registered Nurse. At first you feel as though all of the hard work you put into your ADN program is worth pennies because you don’t have BSN next to your name. But then you realize, nursing is no easy task. It requires all that we have learned in this program; the valued ends, presence, praxis, self-care, leadership, advocacy and now scholarship. Having completed

When was the last time you were in the hospital or a loved one was in the hospital, and ever wondered where the nurse is, and they haven 't returned for hours. You finally push the assistance button several times, and they open the door and hurriedly say, “I will be right back”, then you don 't see them for a while again. When they come back to check up on you, you explain to them what you need, and then they send in a less qualified staff member to assist you. At this point, you become very annoyed and frustrated not to mention scared to be admitted in the hospital to begin with. Little do you know, your nurse has ten other patients and other non-nursing tasks that they are responsible taking care of. They have been working a double shift and are extremely exhausted, and a large stack of charts that they will have to do before their shift is over. As a patient, you now become frustrated and are not happy about this; as a nurse, they are just as frustrated as you are, not only because the amount of work they have but more importantly they can 't deliver the appropriate care they long to give. For most hospitals they do not hire enough registered nurses for reasons that are good and bad. This is an issue that needs to be addressed not only locally but nationally and on a constant basis. When there are too many patients for one registered nurse to attend to, nurses become exhausted, mistakes are made, and patients are unsatisfied. A minimum nurse to patient ratio needs to be

Being a leader in the profession of nursing requires pride and dedication to the nursing career path. This is why I decided to conduct my interview with Pamela Prefontaine, a leader in the nursing field. Prefontaine graduated from Bellin School of Nursing in 1982. She then went on to get her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. Prefontaine then graduated from the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 2009 with a master’s degree in medical informatics. Prefontaine was the team leader of pediatrics at Bellin from 2001-2007. She has also been a team leader of a medical and surgical floor at Bellin also. Furthermore, Prefontaine was also the assistant director of the NICU at Saint Vincent’s Hospital. She currently is a consultant for informatics.

Accountability: As an endorsed enrolled nurse my responsibility is to be accountable for my actions and know the legal and ethical requirements and ramification of care for my patients. It’s my own professional practise to accept accountability and responsibility for my own actions and know my own level of competence and accept delegation from an RN or others in the health care team but also choosing whether or not I feel competent and do so these tasks by demonstrating and recognising my own level of competence and providing safe and practical care for patients

Does the Big Nurse, despite Chief’s perception of her, have the patients’ best interests and well being in mind? Why or why not?

This is a very interesting story and a victorious one too. Maternal-child nurses are faced with complex dilemma that requires careful consideration. This couple would have been disappointed if they wife had finally ended up getting epidural injection after laboring for hours. I am glad you used your critical thinking to advocate for this family. Our job is to do what is best for our patient.

Nurse staffing refers to the ratio of nurses to patients in a particular unit. The current global nursing shortage is simply wide spread and dangerous lace of skilled nurses who are needed to care for individual patients and the population as a while. A study on the nursing shortage by Linda Aiken of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, fund that an estimated 20,000 people die each year, because they have checked into a hospital with overworked nurses. (The American Nurses Association, Inc., 2010).

I stare fascinated as the doctor deftly slices through the patient’s flesh. Hands operate swiftly on the supine body; not a trace of doubt could be found in the movements.

A woman called truth stood alone and was terribly dejected on account of all men ’s falsehood now.Indeed,unfortunately,truth is in short supply today----and getting scarcer,but it is the real bottom line in every area of society.We need to say truth in the face of personal pressure.There is a story told about a surgical nurse ‘s first day on the medical team at a well-known hospital.She was responsible for ensuring that all instruments and materials were accounted for during an abdominal operation.The nurse told the surgeon that one sponge was left ,however,the doctor denied.The rookie nurse objected.Smiling,the surgeon lifted his foot and showed the nurse

For my leadership paper I decided to focus on the nurse leader who hired me into my current position. I felt like this particular nursing leader would be a good fit for this paper because she saw leadership potential in me and hired me into a leadership role even though I had no prior leadership experience going into the job. I feel that it is important to recognize a member of management who is able to see qualities inherent in people that they might not even be able to see in themselves.

Ethical issues in nursing will always be an ongoing learning process. Nurses are taught in nursing school what should be done and how. Scenarios are given on tests with one right answer. However, there are situations that nurses may encounter that may have multiple answers and it is hard to choose one. “Ethical directives are not always clearly evident and people sometimes disagree about what is right and wrong” (Butts & Rich, 2016). When an ethical decision is made by a nurse, there must be a logical justification and not just emotions.

The problem at hand was brought to light when in the case study when it said, “Jane reveals that the nurse recruiter assured her that there have been exceptions to the policy that prohibits new employees from changing positions until the 90-day probationary period has been completed” (Values Based Decision Making). The issue at hand is the fact that the recruiter told Jane that she could get out of waiting the ninety-day probationary period; this could cause tension between Jane and the job she is currently in and with other candidates, because it would look like the recruiter was using favoritism. In order for anyone to make any decision, it is important to understand the rule that states that new employees who have not worked for ninety-days

When reflecting on the above situation I think it is clear that Emily had a responsibility to act. The act of falsifying training documents to increase staffing on the floor seems, at first glance, relatively benign. However, think of the backlash this could have not just operationally but to someone’s personal life. The impact a misinformed or inadequately trained nurse could have is profound as a simple wrong move could cost someone his or her life. Due to the severity of the situation and as a nurse, Emily had the responsibility to take action. Despite how unpopular a decision it was Emily did the right thing. Getting through the near-term negative backlash is easy in comparison to dealing with the long-term effect of not taking action.