Nursing Leadership and Management



Nursing Leadership and Management

Deciding on My Message

By coming across the concern of people regarding the nursing profession over the internet and through the people who visit hospitals / clinics every now and then I selected this topic / issue to make it visible and credible in the eyes of the public and tell them how important this profession is. My major task is to increase the public's knowledge about nursing as a profession and the problems of communication in nursing and shortage in nursing.

Prior to 1980s healthcare was solely a physician's concern and certain problems like cardiac malfunctions were not considered problems until after symptoms were developed. This caused a lot of financial stress on the patients when they were treated at late stages of the disease. As a result of research it was suggested that care provided before the advent of symptoms can cost far less than the care provided after symptom development. Since then the trend of “Preventive Care” that is avoidance of disease or accident before it occurs, evolved. Managed care is the current concept for running a successful healthcare system which is a pre-planned treatment of the patient. In this system patient is considered as a client whose health is continually monitored and evaluated and treated accordingly. Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are examples of managed care system. This concept has entirely changed the healthcare scenario. The role of physicians and nurses has been redefined (Rosdahl, 2008).

Nurses do more than just looking after people. They have dependably have been at the bleeding edge of progress in social insurance and open health. They give progressing appraisal of individual's health. Their round the clock presence and availability, perception abilities, and vigilance permit specialists to bring about a noticeable improvement judgments and propose better medicines. Earlier being taken as the specialist's helper or assistant, today nurses not just have more avocation, however more admiration in their groups. Medical attendants are the first line of protection that patient much of the times go into contact with when they are sick. As the attendant performs an appraisal, they listen, accumulate qualified information, make nurturing judgments and later likewise make suggestions to the specialists for the forethought of the patient (Kelly & Crawford, 2013). Nurses who are experienced know more than new therapeutic understudies when it comes to patient mind, disease pathology and medication.

Nurses have more chance to go through with patients and listen to their concerns. In the case where the time is charged, for example that of a nurse professional, their rate is much lower than the specialist's and they are still equipped to invest more time in the forethought of the patient. As patients are outfitted with additional health informative content from the Internet, print and TV sources and go to their errands and clinic visits with an stack of printouts, the additional time that a medical caretaker uses heading over the material encourages a relationship of trust between the medical attendant and persistent (Blegen ...