NURSING

Nursing Decision Making Framework

Nursing Decision Making Framework

Introduction

Nursing is the ultimate academic discipline and practice profession to have been shaped by women's leadership. Nurses have joined professional nursing associations having gained greater control of their professional future and to have developed a greater awareness of nursing issues. Professional nursing associations also assisted nurses to communicate to the public what nurses have done, and to have been active and informed members of the nursing profession. Belonging to a professional nursing organization may indicate dedication and commitment to professional growth.

Nursing faculty members strongly believed membership in the professional nurses association is another important social component for facilitating socialization of nurses into the nursing profession and for the development of leadership abilities in nurses. The development of leadership behaviors in nursing, such as accountability, responsibility, autonomy, empowerment, and professionalism have been important issues for both nurse educators and for nurses practicing in the clinical setting. The nursing environment within healthcare has increasingly become more technical, and complicated requiring nursing leaders to have increased knowledge and understanding of nursing theory and nursing issues (Baillie, 1989).

Discussion

Nursing and Decision making

Decision making on the part of Nursing is undoubtedly the most important aspect of an healthcare organization's success in the modern era. Often, top management tries to analyze and identify which areas of opportunity are important to develop and improve healthcare, maximize efficiency and increase effectiveness. They look for the details, analyze and define the macro behavior of action plans to correct the faults. The most common factors relating to operational aspects are quality, efficiency, productivity, human resources' performance, efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, teams' capacity, obsolescence, maintenance costs, administrative, patient's service and logistics and others.

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