Nursing Manager Interview

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For my interview, I spoke with one of the Nurse Practitioners (NP) that I interact with while working my shift at the hospital. I will call her Terri Smith because although I asked to use her quotes in my paper, I did not think to ask for permission to use her actual name. Where I work, many of our internal medicine physicians are hospitalists. During the night, they are covered by the umbrella of Quest Care. There are several NPs that work under the afore mentioned physicians and are there, on-call, when needed for their clinical expertise. It is nice, because even though I can’t develop much of a relationship with the doctors whose patients I work so hard to take care of, I get to have the opportunity to grow strong bonds with the NPs that I see almost every shift.

The Health Care System 's purpose is to meet the physical and mental health needs of the communities in which they serve, these systems operate using people working within heal care facilities as well as other health delivery resources. One group of individual that help with facility operations are nursing administrators. Nursing Administrators contribute in managing along with directing the nursing care delivery system. Their leadership style, characteristics, communication strategies, including the way that they negotiate as well as manage conflicts can determine the quality of the healthcare services treat the facility provide as well as help to develop a set of guidelines to standardize the type and quality of the nursing services. (Cipriano, 2011) Together the Nurse Mangers work toward the same goals along with guiding nurses in their practice and contribute to the facilities successes. (Frankel, 2011) The nursing leaders are advocates who directly affect the quality of the nursing care along with also having a positive impact on healthcare through leadership.

The Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health acknowledges the changing healthcare sector in the US and describes future vision of healthcare and the role of nurses to fulfill that vision. The United States always strives to provide affordable and quality healthcare to the entire population of the country. In order to achieve this goal an overall restructuring of the healthcare system was necessitated. Nurses are considered to be the central part of the healthcare system to provide high quality and safe patient care. Nursing in the US is the single largest segment of the healthcare workforce with almost 3 million nurses working in different areas across the county. The changing

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.

Another target for the nurse manager to perform is to maintain quality improvement in his or her unit in each feature. According to Hurst, Moore & Clark (2011), “Nurse managers who are strong advocates for developing a healthy work environment may be viewed as risk-takers. The workplace is an important setting for the nursing leader to address the mental, physical, social, and economic welfare of employees” (pp 1). This explains that the nurse manager initially communicates with her workers and has a good relationship as manager-employee relationship and directs the concerns and problems directly in order to deliver a confident setting to work efficiently. So that, the quality improvement will be sustained which will improve the proper care delivery.

This paper seeks to expand upon the 2010 Institute of Medicine’s report on the future of nursing, leading change, advancing health and illustrating its impact on nursing education, practice and leadership. There is an ongoing transformation in the healthcare system necessitated by the need to achieve a patient centered care in the community, public, and primary care settings in contrast to previous times. Nurses occupying vital roles in the healthcare system, need improvements in the areas mentioned above to

What a great start to know the role and responsibilities of a Chief Nurse Officer (CNO), when you get a chance to interview someone, who actually does the job. I was fortunate to seize an interview with Derek L. Curtis, DNP, MA, BSN, RN, the current CNO of Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJH) Hospital, on October 31, 2016. Curtis has 23-years of professional nursing experience with various leadership positions. He graduated Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1993 from the Medical College of Georgia, earned a master degree in 2001 from Webster University, and this year, from American Sentinel University with a Doctor of Nursing Practice in Executive Leadership. His nursing career started in the United States Army in 1993 in various capacities such

According to the American Association College of Nursing, “Master’s prepared nurses obtain a higher level of learning as well as key competencies.” The purpose of this paper is to provide insight on a Master’s prepared nurse conducted through an interview. My interviewee has obtained an MSN in Informatics and is currently employed in the Informatics field as a director of nursing informatics. He did his masters in health informatics from university of Walden. The main idea of this interview is to find out the ways in which he developed his nursing carrier. He is vey dedicated to his profession and has good knowledge. His commitment to the profession, and contributions to the profession is a true inspiration for me. His encouragement and support is leading me to start my master’s degree in health informatics.

I enjoyed reading your reply. You made some good points on the achievement of the MSN program’s learning outcomes demonstrating the principle of leadership and what being a good leader entails. You are right to be a good leader necessitates the ability to be competent, knowledgeable, honest and to have good decision-making and communication skills. I also feel that nurses in general just want to be appreciated and recognized in the workplace. The Journal of Nursing recognizes that "It is important for health care organizations to motivate their nurses by recognizing the rewards, the nurses value the most and not on the rewards the management offers" (Journal of Nursing, 2008). All modern health care organizations are under "continuous pressure

Changes in the Health Care System and the Practice of Nursing have become complex. Technological changes, complicated client needs, short hospital length of stay, and departure from acute care to community based care, all these changes have underscore the need for professional nurses to think critically in order to provide safe and effective client care. A better educated nursing workforce can provide good health education to patients and their families. The affordable care of 2010 has required the need for nurses to expand their role of practice to meet complicated patient demands. This has prompted the Institute Of Medicine to review the “Future of Nursing, Leading change and Advancing Health”. {Creasia & Fribery,2011}

As a manager of care nurses supervise the care of the patients by delegating nursing activities to staff and evaluating their performance. Assessment of cost effective care and safe individualized care are also part of being a manage of care. In the manager role, nurses may also work with interdisciplinary teams to ensure all the needs of the patients are being addressed and provide continuity of care in multiple health settings. As a manager of care, the patients may rely on nurses to be an advocate for patients and stand up for the patients’ beliefs and values. Nurse managers use of nursing research and scientific evidence will assist the nurse to improve outcomes, coordinate care, and treat the patients’ whole being of body, mind, and

The Nurse Manager has the responsibility to sustain quality, safety, innovation, efficiency, financial performance, and to assure that the staff is prepared and capable of delivering required patient care (Cathcart, 2010). The orientation can be accomplished in an efficient and cost effective manner that meets HR and JACHO requirements. For experienced new hires, managers can be given an Employee Handbook and a Staff Education packet. They can read them, complete the tests, and hand the required materials back to the Nurse Educator. A part of

Good managers are able to balance both personal and financial obligations, follow rules, and meet the demands of the organization using limited resources (Anderson, 2012; Surbhi, 2015). Managers have control over others through the power of their position; they implement policies and procedures and provide stability (Surbhi, 2015). Great nurse managers are proactive about current issues in health care, in their community, in their institution, and in their nursing practice (Cherie & Gebrekidan, 2005). The manager is skilled in formulating department goals and helping the staff to meet any challenges with priority given to providing quality patient care (Cherie & Gebrekidan, 2005).

My philosophy of nursing education grows out of my philosophy of nursing. Much has been said related to healthcare reform, healthcare globalization, and healthcare delivery. A resounding theme in all of these discussions is the need for nurses to take a position of leadership in the healthcare industry (Institute of Medicine, 2010). I believe nurses, as leaders, are uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between the healthcare industry and a rapidly changing global environment. Nurses are educationally in tune to the proposed changes that are being made, yet sensitive enough to address the needs of individuals affected by these changes. In a global community, nurses advocate for the individual.