Nursing Organization Plan
Nursing Org Plan
The author of this report is asked to lay out a master plan for a nursing/medical organization spoken and enumerated from the standpoint of a new nursing executive. The plan given in this report will have six major sections. In the same order in which they will be covered in this report, these facets include contextual information, nursing strategic planning, culture and image, physical setting and technology, nursing's role in inter-disciplinary care and quality/success metrics. While crafting and expressing such a plan is a complex and daunting task, there are a few core principles that should guide anything and everything pertaining to the plan.
The Plan
The mission statement, vision statement and organizational assessments of the organization will all center on three basic ideals, those being integrity, quality of care and the utilization/realization of human capital. In short, the nursing wing of the organization in question will be run with the utmost ethics and integrity, will be run as efficiently and neatly as possible with compromising quality of care and the people working for and developing within the organization will be allowed to blossom and grow in their careers, in their culture/society and in the way they treat patients.
The hospital's nursing staff needs to be equipped with the latest and greatest standard equipment that exists and it needs to come from top-shelf health equipment suppliers and vendors like McKesson, Cerner and GE Health. Best and non-optional practices must be drilled into the heads of all nurses so that things are done the right way the first time, every time. Immediately disposal and absolutely no re-use of sharps, never allowing harm to come to a patient if preventable and so forth are just the tip of the iceberg as far as that goes. That said, nurses should not be intimidated into compliance and/or micromanaged. Instead, they should be empowered and allowed to thrive and flourish but if they stray out of the required practices, they need to be corrected swiftly and forcefully. In terms of organizational charts, the firm needs to follow a chain of command but the organizational chat needs to be as short as possible from top to bottom. The organizational chart should be much more horizontal and vertical. Even so, the lines of responsibility should be crystal clear and it should never be mistake or compromised who is responsible to do what and by when. Checklists and best practices should be followed to the letter and without fail. However, in the inevitable event that something does not fit neatly into a certain procedure or best practice, it should be assessed why there is not a fit and whether a revamp of a policy or procedure is called for. However, the normal order of things is to follow the prescribed procedures to the letter every single time.
As far as strategic planning goes, this is very crucial when speaking of the nursing profession. The nursing population is starting to age and many industry experts peg the average age of a nurse in the 50's and that is rather high ("Average age of nurses," 2010). New generations of nurses need to be encouraged, cultivated and brought up through the ranks but there should never be a failure to uphold the standards and quality of education that is required to get the proper certifications and degrees because unleashing unqualified and ill-prepared nurses into the world is only going to end badly for a lot of people involved including the nurses themselves and the patients they serve.
Parallel to that is the importance of choosing and grooming the right people to lead and direct the nurses. Nursing managers and executives should be, without exception, registered nurses themselves and should never simply be someone who is supposedly good managing people. There are industries that lend themselves to having non-industry experts managing people that are but the medical/nursing field is a field that should never manifest or behave in this way. All nurses and executives need to know in fine detail how to deal with crises, what their personnel are facing every day and what they need to do their job well. Nurses that are under such managers and executives will respect such managers a lot more than a non-nurse or novice nurse as there will be more trust in the idea that the nursing manager/executive knows the intricacies of the job rather than the public relations game and/or the dollars and cents of things...
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