Nursing Leadership Plays a Key Role in Military Outpatient Care
Leadership can be seen as a simple hierarchy or pecking order with the traditional rank and file structure of the military. It is evident where one stands in this chain of command simply by identifying the emblems adorn upon the individuals chest. However, leadership is not limited to position or rank alone. One’s capacity to influence, assemble, and promote change allows them to provide leadership outside this rigid structure. For the military nurse in the outpatient setting, both the finite and aesthetic methodologies are necessary for the satisfaction of the patient and efficiency of the clinic. Without leadership on part of the Registered Nurse (RN), the ability to operate …show more content…
The primary the responsibility found in the traditional leader however is to achieve the goal of the organization. With the assumption that a nurse in charge is best for to address the patients’ wants and needs, how will this affect the bottom line? Even in the military, healthcare is still a business after all. Usually patient satisfaction and clinic efficiency are viewed as competing ideas. Anna Glenngard (2013) from the University School of Economics and Management, and the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) in Lund, Sweden suggests, “Measures of productivity are often criticized for not capturing aspects related to quality of services or patient satisfaction” (p. 163). This does not seem to be an issue for the military clinic run by nurses, as they seem to be able to balance …show more content…
Giving young professional nurses the opportunity to manage patients, providers, and military and civilian personnel gives them the opportunity to bring the unique nursing prospective to the traditional rigid style of leadership in the military. This hefty expectation and workload however has the potential to overwhelm the RN. According to Colonels Yackel, Lewis, Breckinridge, and Drs. Short and Turner (2013)
Although EBP (Evidence-Based Practice) has been adopted by the practice councils at inpatient MTFs (Military Treatment Facilities), it has been inconsistently used by practice councils who work in the 34 freestanding Army Medical Department (AMEDD) outpatient facilities
Leadership can be seen as a simple hierarchy or pecking order with the traditional rank and file structure of the military. It is evident where one stands in this chain of command simply by identifying the emblems adorn upon the individuals chest. However, leadership is not limited to position or rank alone. One’s capacity to influence, assemble, and promote change allows them to provide leadership outside this rigid structure. For the military nurse in the outpatient setting, both the finite and aesthetic methodologies are necessary for the satisfaction of the patient and efficiency of the clinic. Without leadership on part of the Registered Nurse (RN), the ability to operate …show more content…
The primary the responsibility found in the traditional leader however is to achieve the goal of the organization. With the assumption that a nurse in charge is best for to address the patients’ wants and needs, how will this affect the bottom line? Even in the military, healthcare is still a business after all. Usually patient satisfaction and clinic efficiency are viewed as competing ideas. Anna Glenngard (2013) from the University School of Economics and Management, and the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) in Lund, Sweden suggests, “Measures of productivity are often criticized for not capturing aspects related to quality of services or patient satisfaction” (p. 163). This does not seem to be an issue for the military clinic run by nurses, as they seem to be able to balance …show more content…
Giving young professional nurses the opportunity to manage patients, providers, and military and civilian personnel gives them the opportunity to bring the unique nursing prospective to the traditional rigid style of leadership in the military. This hefty expectation and workload however has the potential to overwhelm the RN. According to Colonels Yackel, Lewis, Breckinridge, and Drs. Short and Turner (2013)
Although EBP (Evidence-Based Practice) has been adopted by the practice councils at inpatient MTFs (Military Treatment Facilities), it has been inconsistently used by practice councils who work in the 34 freestanding Army Medical Department (AMEDD) outpatient facilities