Leading and Managing in Nursing

Nurse’s can demonstrate leadership by facilitating outstanding care to patients and it is related to how one’s values and behavior affect others. A leader is all about with success and contribution and a successful leader set his/her standards, goals and strategies at high. One can become a leader by assigned or emerged but both will be working towards a common goal of good or bad. In leadership, positive attitude is the key to success and problems and challenge in healthcare industry demand that nurses seek and fill the gap.

Let me share one of my outstanding client care experience while I was working as an RN in Italy in the hospitals medicine unit. A 17 year boy was admitted to the medicine unit in sickle cell anemia with complaint of vomiting and weakness.

I was on my Monday evening shift and I was assigned for eight patients where seven of them were older and this teen named Mr.Govanni was with sickle cell anemia. When I took the handover from the dayshift nurse, I particularly noticed this patient from my assignment list because of his age and condition and at the same time the nurse who handed over the duty specifically told me that the teen boy was non-cooperative and also I saw it from the chart that the patient was getting the normal saline at 75cc/hr, CBC result morning( 6 am) showed HB-82g/dl, WBC 10.6. According to doctor’s order repeat CBC at 1600hr and if the HB is less than 80 transfuse two units of PRBC and lasix 40 mg in between the transfusion.

I visited each patients room and around 4PM I entered Mr.Govanni’s room and I noticed that he was doing something with his mobile and I greeted him but he replied without looking at me by shaking his head and said, oh!..yes, and he continued what he was doing. Hi...

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Reference

Michael R. Bleich, Colleen P. Kosiak,(Ed.) Managing, Leading, and Following. In P. S. Yoder-Wise(Ed.), Leading and managing in nursing (4th edition), (pp 11). Evolve: Mosby Elsvier.

Rose Aguilar Welch (Ed.)Making Decision and Solving Problems. In P. S. Yoder-Wise(Ed.), Leading and managing in nursing (4th edition), (pp 92-93). Evolve: Mosby Elsvier.

College of Nurses of Ontario,(2009).Practice Guidelines: Confidentiality and privacy-Personal Health Information. Retrieved April 3, 2014 from http://www.cno.org/Global/docs/prac/41069_privacy.pdf

College of Nurses of Ontario,(2009).Practice Guidelines: Conflict prevention and management. Retrieved April 3, 2014 from http://www.cno.org/Global/docs/prac/47004_conflict_prev.pdf