Improvement In The Healthcare Environment

Implementing change among all organizations is necessary to achieve success; within the health care industry change is constant and it is the role of management teams to assess, plan, implement and evaluate change to ensure satisfaction. Considering this among the other aspects of running a successful organization it is essential to ensure that there is minimal resistance and familiarity to change. Demands of the consumers and staff as well as regulations are continuously changing. The responsibility of managers is to successfully lead these inevitable changes.

This paper aims to address and discuss about the leadership and management of the nurse leader interviewed. This experience was a great opportunity to witness first hand how a nurse leader cultivate and manage their staffs in real life setting. Moreover, it provides a great access to gain insight and knowledge about nurse leaders’ vital responsibilities and role diversities in the organizations they work with. Nurse leaders pay more specific and close attention in handling the staffs and most importantly, patient care.

In healthcare it is very important to have strong leaders, especially in the nursing profession. A nurse leader typically uses several styles of leadership depending on the situation presented; this is known as situational leadership. It is important that the professional nurse choose the right style of leadership for any given situation to ensure their employees are performing at their highest potential. Depending on which leadership style a nurse leader uses, it can affect staff retention and the morale of the employees as well as nurse job satisfaction (Azaare & Gross, 2011.) “Nursing leaders have the responsibility to create and maintain a work environment which not only promotes positive patient outcomes but also

The national nursing shortage is predicted to continue to rise to levels that have not been seen since the 1960’s (Fasoli, 2010). Managers must create an environment that is conducive to employees. The leader needs to promote organizational commitment and retain employees by promoting a positive culture on the unit. Nurses want an environment where they can provide high-quality care to patients and leaders must help facilitate and maintain this environment. Employees also want to feel like their opinions matter to the manager, and they have a say in the future of the unit. Employees do not want to feel like they are not important, or their voices are not being heard.

The healthcare system is a constantly changing field. Change is a part of life and a part of change is learning how to cope with the new environment. Doctors, nurses, social workers, and managers are continuously educating themselves, staying updated on current events, attending seminars, learning about new technology, pharmaceutical breakthroughs and broadening their knowledge in their area of work. In this field, healthcare professionals have to be wiling to adapt and accept change. For the patients, it is the responsibility of healthcare providers to make the environment as stable as possible to accommodate patients well-being, however, the staff should be willing to accept an unpredictable environment. Sound Shore

Even though the results of the surveys utilized were satisfactory, the researcher thinks that providers still need to work on developing skills to their health care staff to build confidence for the future challenges. This will help to boost the organizational work culture and to face challenges confidently and effectively.

The four major components of nursing leadership are decision-making ability, influencing and directing others, facilitating process and relationship building (Paul, Day, & Williams, 2016).Very closely associated with leadership is the concept of management and though many people use the two terms interchangeably, it’s very important to know that leading is one of the key functions of management; the others are planning, organizing and controlling activities to pursue

It is very important to remember that a health care system is comprised of many parts and members, all having an important role in the function of its evolution. Healing is much more welcomed and prevalent in a system that performs in a balanced and effective way. The purpose of this essay is to incorporate key points about team quality improvement as it relates to my specific nine-month quality improvement plan. This essay will first give some background information about the plan before explaining how specific management techniques may be employed to ensure a smooth and successful health care organization. The essay will also include potential issues that might arrive during this process.

Nurse leaders and managers have an important role to play in facilitating the nursing team to implement and deliver high-quality patient centered care. (McSherry and Douglas, 2011; Douglas, 2011; Coulon et al., 1996). Effective leadership and management requires emotional intelligence, they should be able to and establish open communication and mutual understanding towards their staff. (Ezzatabadi, Bahrami, Hadizabeh, Arab, Nasiri, Amiresmaili & Tehrani, 2012). It is the role of the Nurse in charge of a ward, a shift or any area in the clinical setting is to be able to engage their staff and determine their strength, weaknesses, empower and support. In the case study there was a poor communication line established between the HIC/NIC and the

Just like my environment and support network played a role in my admission to the University of Richmond, these factors, along with many others, can also significantly impact a patient’s health outcomes. Studies have shown that one’s financial situation can either severely improve or hinder the success of a patient’s treatment as a patient’s income often determines the area in which they live. Patients with lower incomes are usually forced to live in the inner cities or in extremely rural areas. Both areas present obstacles to achieving the stable environment that is necessary for a positive health outcome. For example, in both areas, access to care is a major concern. In rural areas, the distance that some patients travel to receive the care that they need makes it impossible to see a doctor or visit a pharmacy regularly. For example,

As a result of this, healthcare professionals and nurses have to work in an innovative way to deliver quality care to the service users. Ilinca et al. (2012) suggest that innovation is one of the ways in which we could guarantee the future of the healthcare system. However, Gregory et al. (2012) suggest that high performance in healthcare delivery is measured in terms of patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience.

In the healthcare field, nursing leaders and managers face consistent issues in their respective practices that force them to alter the way they work and the way they think. In taking on a role as a leader within the field, nursing leaders and managers also take on the role of ensuring that work within an organization runs smoothly regardless of new issues that may arise in the healthcare arena. For instance, in today's healthcare environment, the issues of nurse shortage and nurse turnover have the capacity to alter the healthcare field and many of its respective branches and organizations should these problems not be managed properly by the leaders in the field. In viewing the issue at hand and in discovering how nursing leaders and managers are expected to act, and do act, in order to approach this issues, along with pinpointing the best approach possible to aid this issue, one can better understand which leadership styles are necessary for leaders to function.

A strong organizational culture provides both the company and its employees with direction and stability. The culture within an organization can be powerful enough to effect employee attitude and behavior as well as performance and turnover ratio. According to many scientific studies, there are seven primary characteristics used to define the culture of an organization: innovation and risk taking, outcome orientation, people orientation, team orientation, aggressiveness and stability.

Management and leadership skills in nursing and other healthcare professions are becoming a more and more widely spoken of subject, as they are essential skills for everyday practice in delivering care (Gopee and Galloway, 2009). Effective management requires the nurse to be able to draw on evidence based knowledge and experience to develop the ability to manage competently during practice. Skills without knowledge, appropriate attitude and understanding will not equate to competency (Watson, 2002).

Before I started this leadership/management coarse I had no idea what qualities a good leader manager needs to hold. I had no idea a registered nurse was considered a leader/manager. Now that I have reviewed all the chapters in the Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing (Marquis & Huston, 2015) I have a full understanding of how important leadership/management functions play in a nurse’s career. Chapters 12-25 describe roles and functions that are needed for a nurse to become a successful leader/manager. These chapters discussed the roles and functioning of organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.