University Nursing Report: Nurse Leadership and Management (N4455)

This report analyzes the roles of Nurse Managers and Nurse Leaders within a healthcare organization, contrasting their responsibilities and required skill sets. The report emphasizes the Nurse Manager's role in supervising staff, recruiting, and managing the nursing department's finances, while also highlighting the Nurse Leader's ability to influence, inspire, and effectively communicate to enhance patient care. Key aspects discussed include effective communication strategies, which are vital for exchanging ideas and building therapeutic relationships with patients and staff. The report also provides a brief overview of the Serenity organization, outlining its mission, vision, and values, and highlights its functional structure within the context of providing comprehensive healthcare services. The assignment addresses the importance of understanding organizational structures and the application of leadership and management principles within a nursing context. The report draws upon various references to support the information and analysis of the roles and responsibilities of a nurse leader.

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Nurse Manager
The nurses, who have an advanced degree of MSN including the Nurse Administrator
concentration, and have complemented their Registered Nurse practice, become the Nurse
Manager (Doria, 2015). The nurse managers are helps and supervise the other nurses and staff in
the organization to enhance new practices and ideas for the advancement of the hospital
organization. They act as a mediator in between the staff and higher management, and sometimes
wear various kinds of hats. Apart from providing effective treatment, their other roles are to
recruit nursing staff and guide them thoroughly. They are not bound by a specific role; they are
responsible for managing the staff in the organization, employing the officials and assist the
doctors and the general physicians to implement efficient care (Shirey, Ebright & McDANIEL,
2013). Apart from these, they also helps in budgeting the finances of the nursing department and
keeping up with the patient records and papers. Nurse Managers are also required to suggest new
and innovative ideas, which can benefit the organization. They have a multi-tasking role, which
is quite entertaining as their skills and talents are put to efficient use of betterment of the
organization (Kallas, 2014). They also help in the discharge planning of the patients, as the
process requires extra care and effort. Nurse Managers develops an education plans for the new
nurses to efficiently mentor them about the practices and policies of Nursing.
Nurse Leader
A leader is capable of influencing others and communicate effectively, similarly in the
field of nursing, the nurses who are able to effectively plan and deliver the healthcare with other
health professionals, staffs, physicians and social workers, are considered as nurse leaders

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(Bender, 2014). The terms nurse managers and nurse leaders are not interchangeable, because
not every nurse managers are leaders and there are nurses who efficiently lead their department
without being assigned as managers. Their main role is to influence others to pursue the vision of
future by inspiring them and motivate others by effectively communicating, in order to enhance
the patient care (Wong & Laschinger, 2013). Nurse leaders are able to handle responsibilities
like evaluating the medications and intravenous infusions, maintaining the patient’s records,
monitoring the samples of patient, patient’s body temperature, pulses and blood pressures
(Bender, Connelly & Brown, 2013). Apart from these, the nurse leaders also supervise the staffs
for enhancing the patient care.
Effective Communicator
Communication plays a vital role in the field of nursing, because it helps in exchanging
the ideas, emotions and thoughts clearly between the nurses and other officials and patients.
Nurses are supposed to be transparent and should use simple language to deliver the messages
accurately. When it comes to the patients, the nurses are believed to build a therapeutic
relationship in order to enhance the treatment procedure of the patient. While interacting with the
staffs and hospital officials, nurses explicitly deliver the message to avoid any kind of escalations
and confusions. Effective communication helps the patients understand about their health issues
and guides them how to overcome their disabilities (Bramhall, 2014). Nurses become an
effective communicator by keeping a good sense of humor, by timely responding, by listening
actively, by connecting with the patients emotionally, by maintaining a positive body language
and by effectively communicating the ideas with their patients, peers and other staffs of the
organization (Ennis et al., 2013).

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