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Nursing

Introduction The term management and leadership are often interchanged and interpreted as the same, but that is not always the case in nursing profession. This is because not every nurse can be considered as a good leader, and the same can be said about nursing leaders that are not necessarily managers. Primarily, a nursing manager holds the decision-making power in assigning organizational position, and is expected to carry out control over specific duties and processes. On the other hand, leaders may not have the same authority as managers, but the power that nursing leader posses is inherited from their ...

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Nurses have an important role in the delivery of health care, and the role of nurse managers and leaders is even more important as they have not only to fulfill their day-to-day responsibilities, but they also have to lead the health care team according to the changes in this rapidly advancing world (Rashid Al-Abri, 2007). In order know the ability to cope with the daily responsibilities and to fulfill the required demands of the management and leadership, the Nurse Manager Inventory Tool has been developed (Waters, 2014). This inventory helps in self-evaluation that is combined with ...

The measure of quality in the health care sector involves evaluating performance according to health care standards using the available data (Bozic et. al, 2010). It helps the stakeholders to prevent the overuse and underuse of health care products and services. In addition, it helps in good decision-making, avoiding disparities, discrimination and establishing strengths. The paper therefore, focuses on John Hopkins Hospital, which is among the largest hospitals that are recognized globally.

Publically available quality measures affecting health care organizations

Quality measures assist the stakeholders in all activities of healthcare institutions, patient perceptions, outcome and organizational systems, which aim at providing safe, equal, timely, effective and efficient ...

While analyzing the ‘state of the art’ of quality improvement in healthcare, it is identified that healthcare is yet to achieve a lot in terms of quality improvement. In spite of revolutionary technological advancements in the field of healthcare, care quality and patient safety is yet to be improved in various regards. For instance, medical errors still remain to be a major issue affecting patient safety despite explosive technological advancements occurred in the field of healthcare over the last decades. While going through ‘Hospital Compare’, an official government website maintained to compare the service quality of different hospitals in ...

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The healthcare environment requires that all stakeholders are aware of the need for change, as well as the best process of implementing that change. As such, it is important to note the specific challenges that face those working in healthcare, as they pertain to the organizations themselves. This paper covers the basics of the challenges that face healthcare organizations to highlight some of the specific challenges that are present in this industry. The specific issues of changes in pay for quality and the changing characteristics of clients are used to highlight why change can be challenging in healthcare. It ...

Melnyk et al. (2012) note that barriers to change do prevail as a result of resistance from managers, nurse leaders, and colleagues among other stakeholders within the healthcare environment. The following are detailed barriers to change as applied to the LOS or excess days. Firstly, nursing managers may feel threatened by the idea of change within the organization. Their sense of leadership implies that they could be satisfied with the status quo. Given the LOS project, the management may be unable to see how the process would benefit the current hospital environment. Secondly, there may exist a lack of ...

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The World Health Organization (WHO), 2010 noted that recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD). Early recognition is one of the major challenges with this overwhelming mood disorder. The main focus of this project is to provide easy access to educational materials to aid in the screening, assessment, and treatment of women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PPD was amended by The American Psychiatric Association, in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), to peripartum depression and specifies that the onset of mood disturbance can ...