Nursing leadership and Management
question and answer assignment
Read Chapter 5
1. Describe the organizational characteristics of the facility in which you currently have a clinical assignment. Include the following:
a. Type of organization
b. Overall climate of the facility
c. How the organization is structured
d. Formal and informal goals and processes of the organization
2. Why is the work climate of an organization important to nurse leaders and managers?
3. What are the ways in which a nurse can enhance his or her expertise?
4. Explain “shared governance,” and describe how it can affect the power structure of a health-care organization.
5. Why is it important for staff nurses to understand the culture and real goals of the organization in which they work?
1. Describe your ideal organization. Explain each feature and why you think it is important.
2. Interview one of the staff nurses on your unit. Find out what practices within the organization help to empower the nurses. Compare this list of practices with those discussed in the textbook.
3. Recall the last time you walked into a hospital, clinic, or physician’s office for the first time. What was your first impression? Did you feel comfortable and welcome? Why or why not? If you could change the first impression this facility makes, what would you do?
4-What changes could be made at a very low cost? What changes would be expensive?Finally, discuss why it is important for a health-care facility to make a good first impression
Answer preview
Describe the organizational characteristics of the facility in which you currently have a clinical assignment.
The type of organization in which I currently have a clinical assignment is a private institution for profit making. The main goal of this organization is to increase profitability. The overall climate of this facility is a caring environment towards both inpatient and outpatients. This climate is enhanced through the skilled nursing managers that are hired by the facility. On the other hand, the firm has a hierarchical organizational structure in which employees are ranked from the most senior to the bottom subordinates (Whitehead, Weiss and Tappen, 2015). There are processes…
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