...(Meeting, email, etc.) Stake holders (higher up) Director of Nursing, Clinical Manager Management process: strategic communication plan reviewed and approved by senior management • Explain the Purposeful Hourly Rounding project in detail by giving a timeline of each phase of the project. • Present PowerPoint on Purposeful Hourly Rounding to both Clinical Manager and Director of Nursing and take feedback and modify presentation prior to meeting with nursing staff • Review the audit tool with the Clinical Manager prior to having champions begin audits on the unit of nursing staff preforming hourly rounding • Review HCAHPS scores with clinical manager...
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...Proposal to: Mayor and Chief Medical Officer Proposal Title: Nursing Care Center By: Nightingale Nurse Recruit, Nursing Director: Anesta Parris; Medical Information Technology Directors: Dawn Froemel & Ernestina Ayon; Laboratory Services Director: Andrea Dabney April 12, 2013 Introduction Please accept this proposal for the new Riverview Hospital Nursing Care Center. Key health care directors have contributed to this plan. Each director’s perspective is shared as related to his/her department. The following pages of this proposal contain their ideas and touch on the following considerations for the planning of this new facility: The specific department services provided How nursing care center services coordinate with the services the hospital provides How nursing care center departments interact and coordinate with each other to provide efficient and effective care Potential grants to assist with funding the nursing care center project How departments demonstrate consideration and application of the nursing care center code of ethics Executive Summary Nursing Director Executive Summary Nationwide, nursing staffs is changing in today world include not only long-term to care for their patients’. The population of people receiving treatments in the hospital is becoming highly trained and committed to health care staffs. The goal is to make a difference and to take action to improve the nursing staffs. Highly recommend to improve the nurses to limited access...
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...Tammy Wilson Karen Mach Eng-114-220N 29 August 2014 A Career in Nursing My career choice is nursing. Nursing is a highly in demand profession. Having a RN degree can open many doors in the medical field. They have nurses who work with children, those that work in Hospice and some take more of a manager position as a Director of nursing. The satisfaction of knowing you are helping another and that your job makes a difference in someone else’s life is the greatest reward. Pediatric nursing requires a desire to work with children. Pediatric nurses work in many settings such as clinics, hospitals, and schools. As a pediatric nurse you work closely with the family in the care of the child. Pediatric nurses can help grandparents meet their grandchildren's healthcare needs without neglecting their own. (Farmer, 1) Working with children who are battling cancer has to be hard emotionally. Bonds are formed between nurse and child during their treatment. It takes a strong loving person to work daily in a children’s unit. The rewards are sweet but the loses are bitter sweet. Hospice offers medical care toward a different goal: maintaining or improving quality of life for someone whose illness, disease or condition is unlikely to be cured. (Hospice Foundation of America) The focus shifts from curing the illness to helping the patient live with the illness for what length time they have left. Most hospice patients have 6 months to 1 year to live. Hospice nurses offer a lot of...
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...Prepared Nurse Interview Eduardo Mariano Grand Canyon University Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice NUR502 July 31, 2013 Master's Prepared Nurse Interview Interview This is an interview of a Master’s- prepared nurse who has recently assumed an Assistant Director of Nursing position. The aim of the interview is to show how a graduate of a Master of Science in Nursing would adequately prepare a nurse to assume a higher role in the field of nursing practice, education or administration. This achievement offers the individual with many opportunities for growth and opens the door to different career possibilities. I chose to interview B.A., a fellow instructor at the Anaheim nursing school where we teach. Aside from knowing that she is optimally qualified to fill her post, I am also awed by how she rose from the ranks, and how she values education as the tool to reach for her dreams. Overview of Career B.A. started her career after graduating as a Medical Assistant at Everest College (formerly Bryman College), La Palma in 1991. She worked from 1991 – 1993 at a surgical group practice clinic in Cypress, and was responsible for the back room. She gained clinical experience while assessing patients, taking vital signs, assisting doctors and performing venipunctures and injections. Not content with her work, she continued with her studies and became a Certified Nursing Assistant from Long Beach City College in 1993. She worked at the Skylight Convalescent Home...
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...to develop a more diversified staff, which they define as one representing the racial/ethnic diversity of their community. In addition to diversifying, there is an urgent need to modernize the nursing department, as its outdated procedures and inefficient practices concern accreditors. Compounding the hospital’s concerns is the recent retirement of the director of nursing—just as another nursing accreditation visit looms on the horizon. THE INTERVIEW HR director Jorge Hansen listens as the search committee discusses a candidate they have just interviewed for the director of nursing position. The candidate is Dr. Saryn Soysa, a heavyset, pleasant young woman. Although she is very much overweight, she looks even younger than her 32 years. Originally from Sri Lanka, she has been educated in U.S. universities and is now a U.S. citizen. Dr. Soysa’s credentials are truly outstanding. She took advanced exams, graduated early from college summa cum laude, and completed advanced graduate work by studying full time on national and international fellowships.With a doctorate from a prestigious U.S. graduate school, this articulate young woman has already won several research grants as well as a number of awards and honors. Her work experience is appropriate for the director of nursing position, and her references laud not only her skills, but also her...
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...MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: DATE: November 18, 2013 SUBJECT: State of the Organization CC: Board of Directors This is a brief report on the current state of the organization with a description of its design, and functionality, organizational structure. The following information is a review of the mechanisms of the organization. The organization design was based on the mission to promote better health in the community. The community consist of the consumers in the immediate area as well as from outlying communities within a 50 mile radius of the main campus. The vision is to create a health care system that can provide care throughout the continuum. Capital investments the system has acquired include primary care physician providers as well as three smaller hospitals to provide acute care to their immediate communities. The main campus houses a tertiary care hospital, a rehab hospital, a children’s hospital, a psychiatric hospital, and a long-term acute care hospital. Values of the hospital system include visibility in the community as a leader in health care providing innovative services. The hospital system also has an ambulance service, home health service, and a medical equipment provider. The main campus includes a 500-bed acute care hospital with 22 adult nursing units, a high risk labor and delivery unit, and an outpatient surgery unit. The children’s hospital has 250 beds with a neonatal intensive unit, and...
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...CURRICULUM VITAE Profile Goal directed, results-oriented, professional Healthcare Manager successfully managed in diverse areas including Nursing Leadership, Clinical Audit, Quality Management, Training and Education. Personnel Information Name: Fatme Khodor Elrifai Sex: Female Date & place of birth: 09-01-1978 Lebanon Address: Specialized Medical Center Hospital -Riyadh Phone work: 0114343800 x 3990 Mobile number: 0502855808 E-mail: f.alrifai@hotmail.com Languages Arabic Fluently written and spoken English Fluently written and spoken French Fluently written and spoken Education 2013- 2014: Ongoing Masters in Healthcare Administration/ Quality Management – Al Jinan University, North of Lebanon 2006 -2007: BS Degree in Nursing Sciences – Bridging Program 2000 – 2003: Three years in the TS-Nursing program, Technical Superior Degree 1997 – 2000: Three years in the Nursing program, Technical Baccalaureate Degree 1993 – 1995: High school education in Saint Joseph, North of Lebanon 1989 – 1993: Secondary school education in Saint Joseph, North of Lebanon - Nursing Leadership & Management (Deputy Director of Nursing at Kingdom Hospital Consulting Clinics, KSA/ Riyadh, 130 Beds, private, CBAHI and JCIA accredited primary healthcare institution. KHCC is providing various range of medical services including, but not limited to, Internal Medicine,...
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...Manager position on the sub- acute unit of the Alaris Health is Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. The purpose of this memo is to provide the Nursing Administration department the necessary information to be communicated with the incumbent Nurse Manager. The Alaris Health is a 222-bed facility providing long term care to senior citizens, sub-acute services such as intravenous therapy, diabetic teaching, pain management, wound care, and comprehensive rehabilitation services to the patients recovering from surgery. The Alaris Health at is dedicated to our patients and embraces innovative nursing methods based on evidence in practice to improve the health care we provide. We believe in self-governance in our nursing staff. The Alaris Health nursing administration supports self-governance to foster excellence in nursing professionalism. The nursing administration includes a Director of Nursing, Chief Medical Officer, Assistant Director of Nursing, and an Administrator. The Director of Nursing Services serves as a guidance-mentor and provides support as needed to ensure accountability of nursing professionalism. We recognize all our nursing staff as key members to our success for improving patient outcomes. As a potential candidate for the position of Nurse Manager, the position includes focusing on sophisticated planning of care for patients in the sub-acute unit. The Nurse Manager along with our nursing teams promote staff preceptor-ships, and mentoring for professional...
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...that the healthcare professionals are put in a position where they are inhibited in their involvement over the communication and networking systems between the Nursing Administration, the head of each nursing unit or the RN or LVN in charge, and the certified nursing aids. This executive summary takes a brief look at designing and developing a contract process program that integrates cooperation and communication systems between the Nursing Administration, the head of each nursing unit or the RN or LVN in charge, and the certified nursing aids. Another challenge for the Managed Care Organization of America is the unclear policies in the Hospital Equipment Management Program. This executive summary offers a proposal whereby the healthcare professionals would develop and monitor a two-way communication channel and incorporate it into the Hospital Equipment Management Program, hold related workshops that can be attended by the Director of Hospital Operations and the division managers, build a cooperation team that unites operational goals and develop systems that evaluate whether these operational goals are being met and implemented with success. This executive summary also gives a brief overview of how leadership and management affects operational goals and networking when the VP Ancillary Services undermined the Director of Hospital Operations by interfering with the training and handling of compressed gas cylinders. This executive summary will offer an environmental proposal...
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...Manager position on the sub- acute unit of the Alaris Health is Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. The purpose of this memo is to provide the Nursing Administration department the necessary information to be communicated with the incumbent Nurse Manager. The Alaris Health is a 222-bed facility providing long term care to senior citizens, sub-acute services such as intravenous therapy, diabetic teaching, pain management, wound care, and comprehensive rehabilitation services to the patients recovering from surgery. The Alaris Health at is dedicated to our patients and embraces innovative nursing methods based on evidence in practice to improve the health care we provide. We believe in self-governance in our nursing staff. The Alaris Health nursing administration supports self-governance to foster excellence in nursing professionalism. The nursing administration includes a Director of Nursing, Chief Medical Officer, Assistant Director of Nursing, and an Administrator. The Director of Nursing Services serves as a guidance-mentor and provides support as needed to ensure accountability of nursing professionalism. We recognize all our nursing staff as key members to our success for improving patient outcomes. As a potential candidate for the position of Nurse Manager, the position includes focusing on sophisticated planning of care for patients in the sub-acute unit. The Nurse Manager along with our nursing teams promote staff preceptor-ships, and mentoring...
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...Formal Writing Assignment Final Draft: Nursing Case Study SITUATION: You have a very sick patient. You are using this patient for your case study. The patient has a sister who is a nurse- Lori. Lori has been a nurse for many years, and because your patient is her sister, she is very concerned and even a bit suspicious about the illness and hospital care. She writes a letter to you, expressing concerns about her sister. She copies the letter to the Director of Student Nurses. AUDIENCE: You are writing Lori’s letter to you (a student nurse) with a copy to the Director of student nurses. You are writing your response letter to Lori and copying it as a report to the Director of student Nurses. MAIN POINT AND PURPOSE: In this assignment you will demonstrate your ability to: • identify the correct priority problem and nursing diagnosis for a patient • reflect on a patient’s perspective to accurately assess and analyze a condition or problem • use nursing research to identify a priority nursing problem for a case study • utilize research to formulate a nursing diagnosis and plan of care • apply APA format to the writing of a research paper TASK: 1. Write Lori’s letter (1 page). In the letter: • Describe Lori’s biggest concern/issue with the hospitalization or illness of her sister. • Explain why she thinks this is a big problem. • Include a brief description of the events that led to the hospitalization of her sister and information...
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...medications, and to know the dangers of combining certain medications. They should remain CPR certified and know what to do upon an overdose. Every employer has a chain of command that they follow for instructions on what to do next. The chain of command in an assisted living workplace is very simple. I will start from top to bottom on the command chart. The administrator is the head over everyone employed at the facility. Next, the administrator is director of social services, dietary director, director of nursing, activity director, maintenance director, housekeeping/laundry, business office, and admissions. The director dietary is over the kitchen employees which are the cooks and dietary aides. They refer all their questions and concerns to the director of dietary. The activity director is the person who does activities with all the alert and oriented residents. The activity aide usually leads most of those activities and the director of activities fills in when he/she is off work. The maintenance director is over the maintenance staff for all the fixing around the facility. Housekeeping/Laundry is over the housekeeping/laundry staff and they are responsible for linens being clean and the residents personal clothing being washed. The business office is in charge of the human resources and...
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...Running head: COMPETENCY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADN AND BSN LEVEL OF NURSING Competency Difference between ADN and BSN Level of Nursing Mari Rennie Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics July 8, 2012 Abstract This paper will show the associate-degree level of nursing being a foundation to a higher level of learning as in the baccalaureate-degree level all the way to the doctorate level, while also distinguishing the appropriate requirements. A patient care scenario will also be included to provide an example of how these two levels would differ in the real world. Competency Difference between ADN and BSN Level of Nursing There are many different levels of nursing that are determined by education. Education has a lengthy history dating back to the 1800s that includes nursing. There are several competencies that differ between the associate-degree levels in nursing versus the baccalaureate-degree level in nursing. The more education that is received the higher level of learning is accomplished, which in turn leads to advancement in career, less chance of errors, a more educated community, a less hostile environment, and better outcomes (Berry, 10/2010). Education Education has always been a vital aspect in life. In the realm of nursing education we have to thank Florence Nightingale for the start of the education movement back in the 1800s. She was very strong in her beliefs and wanted to find a career that would change women’s lives...
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...ramifications for nursing team members caring for patients. These recent changes have refocused the current workflow views back onto inter-disciplinary teams, and collaborative working environments, and lead to a reexamination of nursing roles in the Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) arena. Using action research methodology allows for the identification of areas of change, clarification of core and specialty skills, which in turn assist in the redefinition of nursing roles and eventually the adaption of a new nursing model. The new nursing model requires ongoing, detailed, and process driven education to establish and clarify the change objectives and new nursing roles. Quantitative and qualitative data collected from numerous sources, in conjunction with unit-based round tables, individual patients, nurse managers, and administrative interviews allows for consideration of multiple stakeholders. When patients vocalize a positive experience with services provided, this information helps to shape the new roles and responsibilities for the nursing teams. Proposed Change After the second California Medicare Services survey in 2013 major nursing deficiencies were highlighted between K Hospital’s patient acuities and the current staffing mix. In response to these specific deficiencies and under corporate direction an after action process improvement team was formed. Comprised of a regional chief clinical officer, a district resource chief clinical officer, three nursing unit managers...
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...Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1 A. Nursing Sensitive Indicators Nurses are integral key players in multidisciplinary teams caring for patients in complex healthcare systems. Hospitals, a primary care delivery portal within the health system, are inundated with patients requiring higher acuity care. Nurses must be prepared to recognize patients’ health care needs and provide quality patient care outcomes. The knowledge of nursing sensitive indicators can be helpful in providing the care which meets quality standards. Nursing sensitive indicators rely on evidence-based practice. The American Nurses Association created a repository for implementing, developing, and storing nursing sensitive indicators in the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, or NDNQI. The nursing sensitive indicators are a set of standardized performance measures intended to help hospitals assess the extent to which nursing interventions have an impact on patient safety, quality, and the professional work environment (Erickson, J. 2011). Nurses directly impact these measures and when evidence-based practices are adopted, patient care improves as shown in historical outcomes data. In the scenario of Mr. J there were multiple failures to recognize and use nursing procedural sensitive measures to improve his safety, quality of care, and patient satisfaction. Although Mr. J had mild dementia, he was appropriately responsive...
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