Nursing Leadership Style and ICU Errors

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The assignment in this paper calls for the application of nursing leadership principles to reduce medical or medication errors in an ICU of a healthcare facility. In addition a discussion is presented with respect to risk management situations and programs as well as how to effectively implement a risk management program. Although not called for, but important, is a presentation on EMR with respect to nurse managers.

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"There exists today a significant need to foster a healthcare environment wherein there exists a partnership amongst educators, government regulatory agencies, practitioners, and professional organizations to assist the nursing profession with an insurmountable task; namely, to combine nursing education, experience, and learning into a best fit practice for the management of optimal patient care. In order to accomplish this challenging task there must exist, on all sides of education, an acceptable and proactive understanding of that which constitutes management in a nursing healthcare environment, regardless of the nursing healthcare delivery area. However, a state of effective management in nursing does not exist in a vacuum. The focus of this paper will be, therefore, on that which constitutes a sound leadership dais with respect to an important issue concerning all healthcare practitioners, namely, medical errors in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU)."

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