Leadership is the ability to have the inspiration to encourage others to follow and accomplish a mutual assignment. Being in this role requires an individual to have the strength to handle sufficiently amounts of responsibilities and accountabilities of every personnel that the individual is in charge of. With the acceptance of an invitation to interview a nursing teacher whose in a role of a leadership position, Sharon Price a clinical nursing skills instructor at the University of South Alabama. She has tremendous amounts of experience and education to perform the role of a leader. She graduated from the University of South Alabama in Birmingham School of Nursing and received multiple degrees, Bachelor of Science in nursing, 1977 and Master of Science in Nursing, 1980. Mrs. Price views leadership as “power in numbers,” but there should be an individual who has the force to spearhead the enterprise.
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Examples include medication errors, failing to prevent falls, not adequately providing for patient access to a call light when he or she needs help, a lack of assessment of risk for falls, and not instituting appropriate interventions”(192). In circumstances that errors are made during patient care the most immediate action to take is to notify your supervisor and the patient’s physician. The reason to notify these members is so that appropriate risk management processes can be followed. When dealing with medical procedures such as blood administration, mistakes are prone to happen, the steps following the error is most important. In a scenario that a patient missed a dosage of medication, Mrs. Price was asked to explain how she would handle this situation. “The first step would be to insure there was evidence that the patient had not actually received the dose. Did the nurse just neglect to document it? If the lapse in dosage was confirmed, I would contact the physician to alert him and request guidance as how to proceed”
Examples include medication errors, failing to prevent falls, not adequately providing for patient access to a call light when he or she needs help, a lack of assessment of risk for falls, and not instituting appropriate interventions”(192). In circumstances that errors are made during patient care the most immediate action to take is to notify your supervisor and the patient’s physician. The reason to notify these members is so that appropriate risk management processes can be followed. When dealing with medical procedures such as blood administration, mistakes are prone to happen, the steps following the error is most important. In a scenario that a patient missed a dosage of medication, Mrs. Price was asked to explain how she would handle this situation. “The first step would be to insure there was evidence that the patient had not actually received the dose. Did the nurse just neglect to document it? If the lapse in dosage was confirmed, I would contact the physician to alert him and request guidance as how to proceed”