Nurse Manager Interview This semester, I had the chance of interviewing Susan Holley-Washer, nurse manger of 4 Northwest. This floor is a telemetry and step down unit at the Loma Linda Veteran Affairs Medical Center. During this time, I had the opportunity to ask many questions covering several topics. The topics discussed her perspective on interviewing potential employees, counseling employees, employee evaluations, orientation of new personnel, budgetary processes, manager roles in governance
In the Grenada society today, there are a lot of nurses that are unemployed or who is presently working on a three day a week contract. This survey is to show data of the number of registered nurses that are unemployed or who works on a contract, while the Grenada community is in dying need of nurses in the health facilities. By using the four steps to successfully gather data in this survey, this essay will also simplify how to use those steps to complete a survey. Step one: in this step with
connection between professionalism and managerialism : a case study of nursing in portugal’. Journal of Professions and Organisation,1:176-190. In this essay it will be argued that Carvalho’s (2014) article is beneficial to develop an understanding for the connection between professionalism and managerialism but it is limited to a small sample size and population target which is not appropriate for an effective research. Besides, several other factors such as leadership, organizational environment
The aim of this essay is to provide a critique of two articles. The first article is, “Errors in the administration of intravenous medications in hospital and the role of correct procedures and nurse experience” conducted in Australia by Johanna Westbrook, Marilyn Rob, Amanda Woods and Dave Parry published on the 20th of June 2011. The second article is “Understanding the causes of intravenous medication administration errors in hospitals: a qualitative critical incident study”, conducted in the
how using a grounded theory methodology could be used to investigate how Nurses develop psychological protection strategies to minimise stress and anguish in high stress situations. Grounded theory is a highly popular methodology for qualitative analysis (Gibbs 2010), since its original inception or “discovery” (Glaser and Strauss 1967) has developed into many alternative schools. For brevity and the purpose of this essay, the author will only consider the Glaserian form of Grounded Theory which
The author of this essay will critically appraise tow nursing articles. A qualitative paper published in the Journal of Advance Nursing (JAN) which will be referred as ‘article one’. A quantitative paper published in the Journal of Wound Care which will be referred as ‘article two’ in this essay. Both articles are wound care related. In order to examine the strength and weakness of the articles, the author of this essay will use a set of tools using a methodological analysis. Therefore demonstrate
Introduction Throughout this essay, the author will define and look into many different aspects of research in relation to everyday nursing practice. A research topic of the use of distraction for children undergoing medical procedures will also be shown through different research processes. Evidence based nursing practice Schmidt and Brown (2012) defined evidence based practice as practice based on the best available practice, patient preferences and clinical judgement. Evidence based nursing is
analysis, experience of healthcare and effects of the illness, experience of spiritual needs and variation over the course of the illness, spiritual help/support, developing spiritual support guidelines and services, conclusions and implications for the nurse managers. The research design seemed appropriate to address the aims of the research as sampling, data collection and analysis was carried out on the basis of qualitative research method. Although the researcher fails to clearly state which type of
experiment tend to contribute to the experimental stimulus. Increasing physical activities was associated with a decreasing incidence of diabetes among people who are at high risk in the illness of diabetes. Furthermore, if it uses the large-scale sample, the same experimental conditions could be tested again using more advanced statistical instruments. Therefore, we could build our confidence about the validity, reliability and generalizability in the future researches. However, it remains shortcomings
This literature review essay will demonstrate a review of four different research articles and research related methodology The articles and review are based on the prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). The aim of this literature review is to review publications concerning the management of Catheter-related to UTI 's including the prevention. Articles reviewed include the various precaution and preventions concerning Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) The