Introduction
The nursing unit is one of the central departments in the health care system. Nurses are key players in the welfare of patients. Leadership and oversight in this department are thus of uttermost importance. Proper administration ensures that resources and employees are readily available for patients when required. The district director nurse is in the correct position to execute unit management and enhance healthcare outcomes. This paper analyses district director nurse’s responses in an interview to determine their leading roles as practitioners.
Analysis
Various themes emerged in the responses the interviewee gave to the panel. First, nurse directors are involved in the oversight of hiring, training, placing, and firing employees. Human resource management is a huge responsibility as it determines the expertise and skills an institution acquires (Allah et al., 2020). Additionally, it means that the directors are accountable for any mistake employees make in the line of duty. The aspect, as mentioned earlier, can be challenging because a worker can have the needed level of education, skills, and experience and still make significant errors in practice. Thus, holding every employee responsible for his or her actions is essential instead of condemning the hiring manager. However, the leaders can identify challenges that face their juniors and address them timely to prevent the development of significant issues that might result in medical malpractice.
Secondly, the interview also indicated that hiring nursing workers requires scrutiny on various aspects. Some main elements checked include academic qualification, experience, and ethical practice. The latter implies that nursing is a critical area in the medical field and requires all-rounded employees to deliver quality care efficiently. Although there are different elements to consider while selecting nurses, ethics summarizes these requirements (Hoskins et al., 2018). Dealing with people and carefully handling physically or psychologically disturbed individuals obligates caregivers to be empathic, kind, humble, and generally good. However, sometimes clinicians are faced with dilemmas because of porous boundaries between them and the patients. Ethics are then used to solve such difficulties by considering the interests of all the involved parties.
Thirdly, the interviewee revealed that leadership in nursing means supporting junior employees and ensuring a conducive environment for service delivery. Nurses work under pressure, mainly in a rush to save lives and deal with emergencies. As such, they should have schedules that allow them reasonable time to rest between shifts (Al Sabei, 2020). The directors should have a workable strategy to ensure the workers rest well without affecting the nurse-patient ratio. Furthermore, managers should have incentive programs to keep their personnel motivated. Another aspect to consider should be regular training. Human health and diseases are ever-evolving, and thus health caregivers should always be ready. For instance, the COVID-19 pandemic taught the world the importance of disaster preparedness in the health sector (Guixia & Hui, 2020). Healthcare sectors across the globe were not in any way prepared for such an occurrence, and as a result, many paramedics died in the line of duty while saving lives.
Fourthly, the interview brought out the importance of communication in nursing. It is vital to pass information on to seniors and juniors during a patient’s care to ensure that every medic dealing with the client understands their role in the recovery process (Alkhaqani, 2022). For instance, once a patient enters a treatment facility, more often they are received by a receptionist who will then show them to the nursing station for vitals and triage. Then from there, depending on the diagnoses, they can go to a laboratory or the pharmacy. The above-stated chain in the treatment process requires strategic communication for a better patient outcome. The director should provide equipment and resources to enhance connection in the workplace.
The interviewee also argued that misconduct is not allowed among nurse practitioners, and therefore when one is given a repeat warning for certain undesired behaviors, they can be sacked. Caution governs this profession as it deals with matters of life and death. When a practitioner is alerted severally without change, it means that patients in their care are not safe (Millbank, 2019). If, in any case, they are relieved of their duties in one facility, they will not be hired by another institution without addressing their misconduct. There should be a regulation controlling medical personnel transfer from one institution to another. Those mentioned above will avert the same mistakes in a different institution.
Further, in nursing, there should also be standardized salaries for all employees of the same experience and educational background. The latter will prevent paramedics from moving from one facility to another in search of high payments (Mahoney et al. (2020). It will also assure them that they are well compensated for their work. The nursing directors are responsible for handling the misconduct and ensuring that the nursing bodies regulate salaries such that some service providers pay more than others.
Conclusion
The interview and the interviewee’s responses have revealed many functions of a nurse director. They are supposed to ensure that the facility has the skills and resources required to care for patients. Further, they oversee the day-to-day running of the facility. Moreover, they are supposed to ensure a conducive working environment for their juniors while ensuring that employees are updated with information through training. The directors also solve conflicts among colleagues or between medics and patients. Another critical aspect that has come up is enforcing laws and ensuring that the workers adhere to medical ethics. The leaders are also involved in policy formulation both internally and externally. Leaders in nursing lead by example; they support their juniors and show them exactly how work should be done. The administration in the nursing unit determines the health outcome of the patient.
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