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Nursing Management, 2007.
An analysis of various styles of nursing management and their advantages.
2,577 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper discusses important aspects of nursing management. It looks at various theories of nursing management, and of management in general, and explains their advantages. It describes patient-centered care and its impact on nursing care for the individual. The paper then discusses courses for nursing students and the skills that should be included in the curriculum. The paper includes complete referenced sources at the end.
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""Unfortunately," Kerfoot (2006) states, ". . . many nurses leave work every day believing they weren't the nurse they could be that day because they work for an inauthentic leader." Authentic leadership, deemed as vital by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is noted to be one of the six standards necessary for establishing and sustaining Healthy Work Environments. Inattention to authentic leadership constitutes a staid block not only to patient safety, recruitment/retention, but also negatively impacts an organization's financial viability."
"Authentic leadership, ascribed to a leader or manager by others, "is the perception that the leader is real, sincere, and defined by honesty and integrity." (Kerfoot, 2006) Authentic leaders' authenticity stems from their character. These naturally open individuals identify with those who are on front-lines, unlike some who put themselves first and exploit others. They are not, as some novice leaders, caught up with the tasks of managing and leadership, but along with ensuring their work is done, are also tuned in to a the needs of the staff and patients."
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Nursing Case Management, 2008.
A literature review investigating the role of nursing case management in the areas of quality of life and re-hospitalization.
1,795 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This paper explains that nursing case management is a care delivery model designed especially to coordinate and manage high-quality patient service across the variety of healthcare systems. The author suggests that, with steadily rising medical costs combined with an increasing number of older patients, case management provides a means of practicing cost containment and yet providing excellent care. The paper conducts a literature review on the role of nursing case management in the areas of quality of life and re-hospitalization and concludes that the literature review was disappointing because it did not reveal any studies comparing case management versus traditional nursing care and that the articles reported generalizations lacking statistics.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Case Management and Quality Of Life
Case Management and Rehospitalization
Discussion
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"In a study specifically providing care to older women with breast cancer, Jenning-Sanders and Anderson (2003) recognized the many challenges that an older woman and her family face when diagnosed with breast cancer. They hypothesized that using nurse case managers may help older clients and their families to adapt to the many issues associated with this illness. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe how older breast cancer clients perceive the care received from nursing case managers."
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Nursing Management, 2005.
This paper discusses the importance and developments in the nursing management field.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 133.95
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The paper evaluates the importance of nursing management in guiding a specific case study. The paper considers that important issues such as conflict management and systems theory are critical to this discussion, as they offer an understanding of the responsibilities that nurse managers are required to assume in today's healthcare environments.
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"In the modern nursing environment, numerous challenges are faced on a daily basis with regards to nursing management of activities and personnel. It is a natural occurrence to expect that some individual personalities will not always coincide with each other, even in an environment that depends upon cooperation and the ability of individuals to work cohesively in a team atmosphere. Therefore, the ability of nurse managers to handle these conflicts effectively offers support in maintaining a cooperative working environment, particularly in high-stress situations. There are a number of key strategies that must be evaluated for their value in promoting nursing relationships and teamwork in unlimited healthcare settings. The following discussion will evaluate existing research in this field in greater detail, addressing the significance of strategic development in the nurse management field, as well as recommendations for improvement when nurse-related conflicts arise in the workplace."
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Nursing Management, 2006.
This paper discusses conflict issues within nursing management.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper serves to identify conflict issues that currently exist within the labor and delivery unit. These issues include a division of the nursing staff, an inability of the staff to cooperate with one another, and tension in the workplace. The paper focuses on the writer's personal response to these concerns. The response is examined in the writer's inability to fully function with increased tension ever present in the workplace, and insistence on altering schedule in order to avoid the tensions. Organizational impact is identified through the resignations and transfers of nurses within the unit. The impact is also evident in a weakness of the organizational culture that no longer is receptive to outside information and practices. The writer notes that this is a significant change from the open organizational culture that once existed in the unit. Finally, recommendations are derived from the discussion of leadership, organizational change and management practices.
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"The labor and delivery unit where the writer is employed is comprised of experienced nurses with five or more years of service in the medical profession, and new nurses that are just beginning their nursing careers. When the new nurses first began to arrive into the unit the majority of them possessed advanced degrees in nursing, while the experienced nurses had not been required to have extensive education credentials."
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The Effects of Union Strikes on Nursing Management Roles, 2007.
A look at the management roles of the nurse, and the effect that union strikes have on these roles.
2,022 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper reviews and discusses how union strikes affect the management roles of a nurse. The paper reports that nursing shortages are a contentious issue and that union demands play a substantial role in this shortage of nursing staff.
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Introduction
Analysis and Explanation of Issue
Application
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"There is a good deal of confusion on many of the key points as to what makes a union actually successful. A successful union is one that does more than just support employees when there is a strike. Unions work to get better wages for employees, better benefits for employees, and ensure that strikes do not take place. Much of the difficulty in determining whether a union is effective comes in determining the criteria for effectiveness and creating a model that can be used across all industries and all unions. This is much more difficult than it sounds and is causing many who study this issue a great deal of trouble. There are two models that have been considered important by researchers into the subject, but neither one has been completely adopted (Bell, 1999)."
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Nursing Leadership and Management, 2008.
This paper discusses the concept of power within the field of nursing.
770 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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In this article the writer notes that nurses find themselves in a unique position when compared to other professions. Although highly educated themselves, many nurses in management positions find themselves automatically being placed in a reduced position of power. The writer points out that this subordinate position is often apparent when dealing with other healthcare professionals, supervisors, and management. This essay looks at several issues regarding power and management, particularly in how it relates to nursing. The writer concludes that power is a term used to refer to an inherently unequal position between people and that it is used to gain control over an individual or event.
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How Does Leadership Differ from Management?
What is Power?
Seven Bases of Power
Conclusion
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"The seven bases of power are reward, punishment, legitimate, expert, information, and connection. The use of these seven bases of power enables the nurse to shift this unequal relationship to some degree. Every nurse must, at some time, deal with individuals who are not nurses and still affect patient care. Some of these people are family members or are people with that share a relationship with the patient outside of the care facility. Others of these people are those individuals from other departments such as social services or radiology. And, of course, nurses must deal with physicians on a daily basis."
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Nurses and Pain Management, 2004.
Examines the pain management strategies that could be employed by nurses towards alleviating pain in a variety of patients.
2,578 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 20 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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The first part of this paper examines the background and reviews the current literature regarding pain management. The next part then examines the key pain management issues and the pros and cons of establishing pain management standards.The paper then examines these proposed guidelines from a nursing viewpoint in line with the 2001 Code of Ethics, as well as the ANA's "Nursing's agenda for the future." Next, the paper addresses how a proposed set of pain management guidelines affects nursing practices and the practice of health care, in general. In the last section, the paper makes further recommendations on how pain management strategies could be tailored to facilitate the practice of nursing.
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"Pain management takes a backseat in a variety of medical specialties. Tanabe and Buschmann (1999), for example, found that 78 percent of patients experience severe pain in the emergency room. Furthermore, clinicians often followed a standard pain treatment program that did not take into account the severity of an individual patient's pain. As a result, many patients did not receive adequate pain medication, despite the availability of pharmacologic solutions."
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Leadership Strategies for Nurse Managers, 2007.
This paper discusses the challenges nursing managers face and strategies for overcoming them.
1,253 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 42.95
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In this paper, the challenges facing nursing managers are outlined and possible solutions are presented. The author believes that nursing managers must adopt a more participative or transformational leadership style. These leadership strategies are defined and analyzed. The role of organizational culture is discussed in terms of a health care delivery system being similar to a business. The author concludes by endorsing the adoption of a more collaborative or transformational approach to leadership that encourages collaboration among members of the healthcare team and the community at large.
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"Nursing leaders of tomorrow must prepare to help make complex decisions within the community and help meet the goals and objectives of the health care organizations they work with (Campbell, et al. 1998). Common challenges facing tomorrow's nursing leaders include meeting the challenges of "higher level reasoning" associated with a leadership position and acquiring the critical thinking ability necessary to aid in complex decision making functions at the leadership level (Campbell et al. 1998). Nurses also face the challenge of overcoming obstacles including "dwindling and inadequate resources" that may result from changes in health care policy and tighter insurance policies, procedures and programs (Donahue, 482). Still other challenges nursing leaders face include providing multidimensional care to an increasingly diverse population of patients (Marquis & Huston, 2006). Today's patient is multi-faceted; for nursing leaders to provide adequate care they must understand the implications culture, ethnicity and beliefs have on patient care, as well as understand how access to care (influenced by managed care, socio-demographic variables and insurance) may affect an individuals health and patient outcomes (Marquis & Huston, 2006). "
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Diversity & the Nurse Manager, 1999.
Impact of cultural & educational diversity on organizational human resource management, nursing leadership, conflict, value structure and decision making.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 10 sources, $ 47.95
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"THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY ON THE ROLE OF THE NURSE MANAGER
This research reviews the impact of cultural and educational diversity on the role of the nurse manager. Such diversity affects the role of the nurse manager within the contexts of both organizational human resource management, where diversity characterizes the nursing staff, and the management of patient care, wherein diversity characterizes both nurse and patient populations. The focus of this current research is on the organizational human resource management context of the role of the nurse manager.
Within the context of organizational human resource management, the cultural and educational diversity of a nursing staff can affect several responsibilities of the nurse manager. These.."
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Case Management in Nursing, 2003.
A discussion of care management in nursing over the past century.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper defines and discusses care management in nursing from the early 1900s to the present. The paper examines the roles of nurse case managers and enumerates the advantages and disadvantages of nurse case management. The paper also mentions the training needed to be a successful nurse case manager and assesses the future of the profession.
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"This paper looks at what constitutes case management, how it developed historically, the roles of nurses in case management, and the advantages and disadvantages of case management...."
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Community and Managed Care in Nursing, 2005.
A review of literature on the pros and cons of case management in both community nursing and managed care nursing.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses community and managed care nursing. The main thrust of the paper is the evaluation of a nursing article that discusses the pros and cons of case management in both community nursing and managed care nursing. This paper then goes on to discuss the social justice approach to nursing.
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"Healthcare and all of the fractured issues included in it is one of the most explosive topics in our society today, both politically and consumer wise. Horror stories are continually told about, among other things, the costs of insurance, the inability to receive care, racial and ethnic disparity, and a host of other intervening variables and conditions. Sometime in the past several years America's healthcare system has managed to avoid the checks and balances of the institutional system and plunge into a state of national crises. Economic and business driven healthcare (i.e., market), wherein medical practitioners are seemingly more interested in stock options and bottom line profits than in their patients, is a blight on society as a whole as well as a failing grade for the government whose obligation it is to preserve and protect the country's citizenry."
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Risk Management Issues in Nursing, 2005.
An analysis of risk management issue in nursing in neonatal units.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses risk management in the health care facility. The paper further discusses the issue of infant circumcision being performed on the wrong patient, and provides a history as to the reasons that this procedure is commonplace in America. The paper also discusses elements of a risk management plan for neonatal units, and the health care staff regaining trust between the staff and the patient.
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"Risk Management Issues in Nursing Modern health care facilities are consistently at risk of complications or medical mistakes, especially when there is a significant degree of short staffing, as well as an overcrowded patient population. In the infant unit of most hospitals that can often be the case, with very few nurses available per shift to care for the needs of newborns. Yet, when proper risk management plans are implemented in the facility medical errors can be at a minimum, and the issue of the quality of care for infants can be met relating to any procedure. David Gollaher (1994) contends that neonatal circumcision has become commonplace in the United States. Since the late 1800s the procedure has become routine in American hospitals following birth, and in this country it would appear rare for the procedure to not be performed (p. 6)."
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Management: Nursing, 2008.
An overview on nursing leadership using Jean Orlando's theory in nursing practice, leadership, and management today.
1,070 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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The paper discusses the functions of nursing care, nursing duties and what is expected of nurses. The paper highlights the importance of setting good examples, such as, showing respect to patients, rather than merely telling other nurses to show respect, and following up with questions to ensure orders are clearly understood at all times.
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"This means that the nurse must reflect what she orders in her own actions, for example, showing respect to patients, rather than merely telling other nurses to show respect to patients, and she must follow up with questions to ensure her orders are understood. Learning by doing and repetition is an essential part of nursing practice--hence, the use of residency education. But it is not enough that a nurse merely be told what to do. Taking the younger and less experienced nurse through the physical process of, for example, checking a patient's blood sugar for the first time is helpful in instilling what is necessary during the process."
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Management and Economics in Nursing, 2005.
This paper discusses management, budgets and the subject of economics within the area of nursing.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the field of nursing and economics. For the sake of the assignment, the writer selected the ICU unit of a hospital to implement a EMR program. Discussion is presented in this article with respect to need, cost and benefit. Further, a presentation is provided with respect to an actual real life budget proposal. The writer proposes the budget as a five year plan and presents the cost per bed.
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"The intensive care unit (ICU) within the Heatherwood Healthcare facility is probably one of the most stressful hospital units in which an individual medical provider can work. The literature is replete with research dealing with the effects of working in an ICU situation with respect to the individual's level of anxiety, frustration, and anger as well as with the relationship between ICU assignments and familial relations, divorce rates, psychosomatic problems, and developing personality disorders. In an attempt to reduce the level of stress associated with working in an ICU unit, healthcare facilities have implemented costly stress reduction programs, limited shifts, shortened workdays, and offered relaxation therapy programs. Unfortunately, however, one aspect of the ICU stress related phenomenon that has generally been overlooked at Heatherwood is that of the "patient record keeping paper jungle and associated costs"."
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Leadership Management in Nursing, 2005.
An analysis of change theory with regards to nursing practice.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the concept of change theory in the analysis and planned resolution of a problem. The paper suggests that successful change in a workplace relies on management to make it as non-threatening as possible to the employees, as well as on the employees to be motivated to begin the change. This paper focuses on change in relation to nursing.
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"Leadership Management in Nursing Question #1: Define change theory in the analysis and planned resolution of a problem. Marilyn Ray, Marian Turkel, and Fara Marino (2002) suggest that change within the health care industry has become a consistent process in the globalized world (p. 1). Change theory suggests that individuals fear change within the organization because individuals believe that through changing elements of the workplace they have lost their personal effectiveness in the organization. Change theory, therefore, relies on the success of management to make any change within an organization as non-threatening as possible, and provide for a "psychological safety" for the employees that will be relied upon to accomplish the change. Additionally, employees must be motivated to begin change, and this will be dependant on the manager's ability to analyze the situation from the perspective of the team."
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