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As you reflect on this week’s readings, discuss the most important competencies a Master’s prepared nurse leader should have for your chosen specialty CSM, INF, NED. How do these competencies guide your own practice? Does your career plan include the competencies you have identified? How important is specialty certification for today’s master’s prepared nurse?…
A master’s prepared nurse will gain insight into a world of nursing, possibly administration, and not often sough after. The master’s program of nursing gave M.D. the ability to advance his career, gain critical skill sets, and become an effective communicator. One of my hopes is to gain the same competencies that M.D., has through this program. This is the reason I have chosen GCU as my program of choice. Master of Science in Nursing With An Emphasis In Leadership In Heath Care, offers skills sets for finance, ethics, policy making, and leadership styles. As health care continues to change direction, so will the direction of nursing and in turn nurses will seek ways to become effective, diverse, and organized in their career…
The importance of education is very critical with the evolving health care system and when caring for another human being. Differentiating between an ADN and BSN nursing degree will give us a better and clear perspective. The National Council of State Board of Nursing (NCSBN, 2005) define Nursing competency as the “application of knowledge, interpersonal decision-making and psychomotor skills expected for the practice role within the context of public health” (p.70). The Board of Nursing focuses on entry level practice and competency to meet minimal entry level standards.…
A case management nurse is a health care professional who focuses on individual patients, their medical needs and their required services. Most case management nurses have a minimum of three to five years of nursing experience. Graduation from an accredited nursing school or college and an active RN license are required. Case management nurses must have the ability to prioritize tasks and make independent clinical judgments when necessary. Case management nurses need to have the ability to collaboratively and cooperatively work with interdisciplinary teams.…
The following paper describes and summarizes the interviewed completed with Mrs. F. (BSN, RN, TNS, CCRN, NE-BC) who is a Registered Nurse with extensive experience in the field of nurse managing. Mrs. F.’s work experience and background education will be presented along with pertinent material to enrich the description and discussion of nursing, leadership, and administration. The sequence of this document follows a pattern through which Mrs. F. allow us to a glimpse inside the organization for which she currently works and performs as an administrator for nursing services.…
There are many accessories nurse practitioners can use to make their job easier. Their days are often busy and anything that can make things easier is usually welcomed. Turn to Amazon for your needs, we make shopping convenient, easy and affordable.…
After taking the personality test to find out which career choice is right for me, I found out that I was a determined realist. A determined realist likes to accept responsibility and challenges. Hey, I’m up for any challenge that’s thrown at me! The career choice that fits my personality is a Nurse Administrator. “What is a Nurse Administrator?”…
broad array of skills all are critical to the kind of nursing care we provide, and they influence…
The nurse manager has direct impact on the development and implementation of tools such as…
The path to nursing leadership most often progresses from novice to expert nurse and then onto a novice nurse manager. The novice nurse manager is asked to lead and rarely given the tools or knowledge to be successful in this new role. The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition discussed by Patricia Benner includes the following five levels of competency in the clinical nurse (Benner, 1982):…
Melissa Herpel is the Nurse Manager at Express Family Clinic (EFC). She is remarkably achieved her Master 's degree of science in Nursing from University of Texas at Austin in 2005. She also holds Family Nurse Practitioner Certification (FNP-C), which is designed for current registered nurses who carry their Master of Science in Nursing. Individual in the program have the opportunity to learn and understand about their professional field and health care settings. Melissa opened EFC in 2011 and brilliantly working as Nurse Manager for last 5 years. She helped with all aspects of patient care including diagnosis, treatments and consultations. She performs independently with confidently and as part of a treatment team. She educates her patients about preventative care and prescribed treatments. She conducts physical, order tests and thus serve as a patient 's primary healthcare provider.…
Knowledge for the nurse executive includes clinical, evidence based practice, knowledge, delivery models, economics and policy of healthcare, governance, promote patient safety, evaluate performance and improvement and provide risk management. In Leadership, the nurse executive provides foundational and systematic knowledge, development of the leadership succession plan, and adjust leadership style to the situation. The nurse executive uses business skills for financial management, human resource, strategic and information and technology management. While, professionalism for a nurse executive includes self-accountability, career planning ethics and advocacy (AONE,…
Druskat, V. U., & Wheeler, J. V. (n.d.). How to Lead a Self-Managing Team. University of New Hampshire.RetrievedDecember1,2012,from pubpages.unh.edu/~vdruskat/SMR.How%20to%20lead%20an%20SMWTpdf.pdf…
There are many skills that nurses will need to be a great leader. Within this essay, the reader will learn different leadership theories, systems and complexity theories, advanced communication, and building consensus.…
That day, I began to reflect on nursing knowledge, previous experiences, and I transformed my nursing knowledge into action. I realized that I was very confident and proactive in this situation. I was confident that by arranging a family meeting, I was able to help the patient's’ family to respect the patient’ wishes. My response in this situation was to respect my patient’s wishes and teach the patient’s family. My thought and feelings about this situation is that I felt that I made a difference in my patient’s life. It was a very sensitive and hard conversation, but I was needed so that we can do what’s best for the patient. The consequences of my action was that it allowed the family to come together, answer any questions, and do what the patient wanted. If I had not arranged a family meeting, and if the patient was in respiratory distress, she could have intubated and would not have the opportunity to make the decision for herself. My actions matched my beliefs since, I truly believe that everyone should be able to make decision for themselves…