Change Strategies In Nursing

I feel that overall there was not much change that could have been done for this nurse. The underlying issue was that she was unsatisfied with her own job and she was just taking it out on other students and coworkers. Our nursing instructor stayed with me and helped me complete my tasks in a timely fashion because she knew if I didn’t the nurse would be yelling trying to get me to do it. Also the nursing instructor confronted the nurse and told her that we were doing total care on our four patients and she could complete any of the other nurse tasks unless we had our tasks already completed. As the day went on the nurse calmed down more and was more approachable. Overall, I personally did not notice any of the change strategies observed that are found in the …show more content…
I think that one of the strategies that should be implemented in this situation would include behavior change, which includes learning self-awareness and how to control behavior in various situations (Marquis and Houston 561). I think the nurse needs to be informed of how her behavior exposes nursing students to a new type of nursing that might affect there opinion on choices their profession. Just from having this conflict with this nurse this one clinical, made me have a miserable day and I felt like I would never be successful and be a good nurse. I also feel that another strategy that could be implemented is structure change, which is when managers intervene to resolve conflict by using effective techniques and creating polices (Marquis and Houston 561). This would be beneficial because the nurse doesn’t really have the love and drive to be a nurse anymore and this negative work ethic affects everyone else working in this environment. I feel that just working with a negative nurse one clinical, changed my whole few for that day. Ensuring that nurses have positive and determined work ethics is key to successful nursing