Nursing Management Process Flashcards
is defined as process of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling the managerial function of nursing in order to determine and accomplish the objectives of nursing care.
Nursing management
it has an ordered sequence of activities.
Systematic
it has great interaction and overlapping among the activities and each activity is fluid and flows into the next activity.
Dynamic
it ensures that nurses are patient-centered rather than task- centered.
Interpersonal
it is a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals.
Goal-Directed
it allows nurses to practice nursing with well or ill people, young or old and in any type of practice setting
Universally Applicable
proficiency in a particular workplace.
Technical skills
Involves human relations
Interpersonal skills
ability to see the organization as a whole.
Conceptual skill
used to investigate problems, decide on a remedy, and implement a solution
Diagnostic skill
obtaining power and preventing other employees from taking away one’s power.
Political skill
NURSING MANAGEMENT PROCESS: Focuses on
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
- is pre-determining a course of action in order to arrive at a desired result.
- is the process of establishing goals, defining, and developing strategy and tactic for action.
Planning
Planning formula by Kron
WHAT - is expected to do
HOW - it will be done
WHY - it will be done
WHEN - we expect to do it
WHERE - it will be done
WHO - is going to do it
CAN … It be done?
3-5 yrs long-term planning
Defines the direction and growth of the organization.
Prepared by top level management
Strategic plans
Tactics, techniques
1 yr short term planning
Involves middle & lower level managers
Operating plan
Mapping the day-to-day activities
Implements the nursing care plan
Done by the staff
Continuous or controlling plans
- Over-all management of the organization (set over – all goals and policies)
Top management- nursing directors, chief nurse
- Directs to implement the broad operating policies
- Staffing & delivery of services to the unit heads.
- Formulation of policies, rules & regulations, methods & procedures.
Middle Mgt. – Nurse Supervisors
- Charge Nurse
- Daily schedule
- Weekly plans of patient care.
First Level Mgt. – Head Nurse Senior Nurse
Elements of planning
1.Forecasting
2.Setting goals and objectives
3.Developing and Scheduling Programs
4.Preparing the Budgeting
5.Establishment of Nursing Standards, Policies
& Procedures
- estimates the future, the environment in which the plan will operate…
Example:
..who the client/patient are … their beliefs, customs,
dialects/languages, attitude…
.. the kind of care they will receive
.. the personnel (professional or non-professional)
.. the resources needed (equipments, facilities, supplies)
Forecasting
- Goals are broad statements of intent derived from the purposes of organization.
- Set Goals/Objectives and Determine Results Desired
are specific behavior or tasks set for the accomplishment of goal.
….more specific and concrete
Objectives
should be targeted within a frame
Developing and Scheduling Programs
technique for allocation of one’s time through..
Setting of goals
Assigning priorities
Identifying and eliminating wasted time
Use of managerial techniques to reach goals.
Time management
Planning for contingencies
Listing of tasks
Inventory
Sequencing
Setting and keeping deadlines
Deciding on how time will be spent
Delegate
Time management principles
– an annual operating plan.
- a financial roadmap.
- is a plan for future activities expressed in
operational as well as financial or monetary terms.
Budget
is a plan for allocation of resources based on preconceived needs, for a proposed series of programs to deliver patient care during fiscal year.
Nursing budget
is a financial plan to meet the future service expectations. ( manpower, equipment, supplies)
Hospital budget
FOUR Components of Budget
….in health care institutions
Revenue budget
Expense budget
Capital budget
Cash budget
summarizes the income management
Revenue budget
describes expected activity in operational and financial terms for a given period of time.
Expense budget
outlines the programmed acquisitions, disposals and improvement in the institutions physical capacity.
Capital budget
represents the planned cash receipts and disbursement as well as the cash balances expected during the planning period
Cash budget
indicate a level of quality or achievement
Standard
broad guidelines, standing plans used repeatedly, or basic rules that governs action at all levels in the organization.
Policies
- are more specific guides or directions for implementing written policies nursing Service Policies
Procedures
