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You are an experienced staff nurse on an inpatient specialty unit. Today, a local nursing school instructor approaches you and asks.
Decide what you should do now. Outline a plan to resocialize Brian into his new role and make him feel like a valued part of the staff.
You have been working at Memorial Hospital for 3 months and have begun to feel fairly confident in your new role.
Learning needs and the maturity of those in a class often infl uence course content and teaching methods. Look back at how your learning needs.
Ensures that there are adequate resources for staff development and makes appropriate decisions regarding resource allocation during periods of fiscal restraint
Provides methods of meeting the special orientation needs of new graduates, international nurses, and experienced nurses changing roles.
Performs salary and payroll functions, insurance forms, physical examinations, income withholding forms, tour of the organization.
Discuss available educational and training programs and reviews selected policies and procedures, including medication, treatment, and charting policies.
Tour of the department, introductions, review of specific unit policies that differ in any way from general policies, review of unit scheduling.
You are a new evening charge nurse on a medical fl oor in an acute care hospital. This is your fi rst management position.
You are a baccalaureate nursing student who will graduate in 3 months. You are aware that most of the acute care hospitals.
You are the head nurse of an intensive care unit and are interviewing Sam, a prospective charge nurse for your evening shift.
Make a list of three or four interview questions you may face in your new graduate interview, which you feel most insecure about answering.
Select a healthcare agency in your area. Write an advertisement or recruitment poster that accurately depicts the agency and the community.
The Clinical Nurse–Leader Application You are the Unit Coordinator of a medical/surgical unit in a small acute care hospital.
You are serving on a committee of nurse–managers and staff nurses to develop guidelines and job descriptions for a new pay structure.
You work in an intensive care unit where there is an all-RN staff. The staff work 12-hour shifts, and each nurse is assigned one or two patients.
In a group, investigate the types of patient care delivery models used in your area. Do not limit your investigation to hospitals.
You are the director of a home health agency that has recently become part of a managed care system.
Determine the number and types of personnel needed to fulfill the philosophy, meet fiscal planning responsibilities, and carry out the chosen patient care.
Use integrated data management systems to track patient progress across care settings and allow continuous and ongoing improvement of treatment algorithms.
You are the head nurse of an oncology unit. At present, the patient care delivery method on the unit is total patient care.
Most nursing students begin their clinical training by doing some form of functional nursing care and then advancing to total patient care for a small number.
Jimmy Jansen is a 44-year-old man with type 1 diabetes mellitus. He was recently referred to your home health agency for case management.
When you hear the term “evidence based research” what does that mean to you and how can such research enhance organization planning and assessment? Explain.