Nursing is both an art and a science. In how one deals with the emotional stressors from both the job and the people one interacts with, to how to deal with a situation on the floor and to dealing with patients. The purpose of this paper shall be an in depth look into how a nursing manager uses the tools available to them to help their employees curb the overall stress load. This paper shall also look into the process of policy and the thought that goes into them.
Literature Review
The purpose of the article Why the Nation Needs a Policy Push On Patient-Centered Health Care By Epstein, Fiscella, Lesser, and Strange is to help describe patient-centered care and why it matters.
Patient-centered care ultimately derives from …show more content…
Res. J. Public Environ. Health 205 sides of leadership”. The strengths are; “ability to initiate and implement change, empowerment of members, being a role model, specifying members roles and carrying members along while the weaknesses are; being too broad with ambiguous vision and the characteristics overlapping with those of other leadership theories” (Northouse, 2010).The author therefore, critically analyzed the scenario based on those two sides of transformational leadership theory (Onwe, 2014).
This article does its own study on the pros and cons of transformational leadership and citing its own sources. In the end Onwe proposes that when taking a leadership role, in the future would combine both transformational and some elements of transactional and team approach for greater effectiveness (2014). The article Assessment of the Work Environment of Faculty of a Medical College, Pakistan purpose is to perform a study on the working environment in a certain medical facilities. This study found that the environment affected not only the staff but also the efficiency of the staff’s day to day activities (Saeed, …show more content…
They are the most widely distributed group of health care professionals. They are employed by public, private and not for profit organizations. In some rural communities nurses are the sole providers of health care. While they may work without local medical and allied health support, access to health colleagues is enabled through the use of information communication systems and “fly in fly out” health care services. Nurses’ roles vary according the context in which they work however the essence of practice remains constant. Holistic care that has the person, group, community as the focus characterizes practice (Francis,