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Role of The Nurse Manager

The document discusses the various roles and responsibilities of a nurse manager in a healthcare organization. It outlines that nurse managers carry out key managerial functions like planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling. Some of their main roles include coordinating patient care, appraising nursing performance, allocating resources, acting as a leader and mentor, advocating for patients, disseminating information, facilitating learning, and promoting research. Nurse managers must also develop skills in various areas like technical, human, and conceptual skills to effectively manage their units and staff. The document emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication skills, and maintaining quality of care in the nurse manager's role.

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Role of The Nurse Manager

The document discusses the various roles and responsibilities of a nurse manager in a healthcare organization. It outlines that nurse managers carry out key managerial functions like planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling. Some of their main roles include coordinating patient care, appraising nursing performance, allocating resources, acting as a leader and mentor, advocating for patients, disseminating information, facilitating learning, and promoting research. Nurse managers must also develop skills in various areas like technical, human, and conceptual skills to effectively manage their units and staff. The document emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication skills, and maintaining quality of care in the nurse manager's role.

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Application Number:

ca12f9a8eccb11e996ae3db2647717a7
Name: Reena Vincent
Email id:reenavincent111@gmail.com
Affiliation :ugc19_ge03
Acknowledgement
Course name- Academic Writing
Role of the nurse manager
• Central objective
• At the end of the class students understand
role of nurse manager and able to describe
and apply while working in the health care
organization .
• Specific objectives
At the end of the class learner are able to
• Explain the various role of the nurse manager
• Explain the managerial skills of nurse
manager
Role of nurse manager

• All nurse managers carry out the managerial

functions of planning ,organizing, staffing

leading and controlling.


Coordinator of patient care with special emphasis
to optimum nursing cares
• First level mangers head nurse involve more in the
leading and controlling functions related to patient
care.
• Ensuring the delivery of the optimum nursing care is
the prime duty of nurse managers.
• Nurse manager need to know about the job
description of each member in the team.
• This will prevent nurses doing non nursing functions.
Appraisal of nursing care
• Evaluates the performance of the nurses. The aim is
to improve the quality of nursing care.

• Clinical supervision and helping poor performers to


improve through staff development are the two
important roles.
Resource allocator- allocating resources like
manpower and materials for the smooth functioning.

Leader

• Try to acquire traits of a leader. Leadership qualities


help the mangers to lead members more effectively.
Mentor
• Good manager is a mentor to her subordinates. An
experienced professional she can give proper advice
and guidance to team members.
Patients advocate
• Unit manager explain the rights of patients and right
of hospital in a convincing manner .
• Help to maintain trusting relationship between the
patient and nurse manager.
Disseminator
• Convey the information regarding the policies of the
organization to nurses with special reference to
patient care.
• Negotiator cordial relationship of nurse manager
with patients, staff and higher authorities helps to
perform this role in a fruitful manner.
Facilitator of the learning

• Helps to update their knowledge and skills through


staff development program me.

Promoter of the research

• Research culture in the unit. Motivate staff to


conduct research and publish articles.
Change agent
• Facilitate changes in nursing care to meet the
demands of the society. This enhance the
professional status of the nursing.
Managing health care setting

• Must keep abreast of the current and emerging


trends and issues that help her to meet the
challenges arise in the health care settings.

Role model

• By performing the all the above roles


Collaboration is essential in case management.

• Mutual respect and good listening

Skills required

• Nurse manager must share a strong work culture


with the team members.
Managing resources
• Includes all pesonnel,professional and non professional.
Manager responsible for managing the all resources
designated to the unit of care.
Quality care
• Constantly concerned with the quality of care that is
being delivered on his or her unit

• Professionalism
Managerial skills of nurse manager
• Identified by Robert Lkatze and Koontze

Technical skill
Mastery of things .Mostly required by first level managers

Human skill
Understanding of people

. It assist nurse manager to communicate ,lead and motivate


subordinates.
Conceptual skill

Thinking skill

• Ability to see the organization as whole.

• Mainly required by top level managers as they spend


more time in planning.
References
1 M. Suneetha .Management of nursing services and education .Ist
ed. Frontline publishers,2015 .

2 kumara N. Management of nursing services &education .4th ed.


Pv books publishers,2014.

4 C. Varghese. The nurse administrator .Ist ed .New age


international limited publishers, 2016

5 Vati J. Principles and practice of nursing management and


administration .Ist ed , Jaypee publishers . New Delhi 2013.
Course feedback
• Course academic writing was informative and
useful to me .My confidence level increased to
write research paper.
• Course coordinator Dr.Ajay has taken lot of
effort to make us understand the content .
• Thank you so much to entire team for such a
wonderful initiative .
Thank you

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