Nursing Manager Role

Description

The aim of this paper is to discuss the advanced practice nurse manager role. The discussion will ensue regarding the nurse manager role: historical development; original and current educational preparation requirements; licensing, certification, continuing education, value requirements, skill requirements, options in the employment setting; issues of concern; and future projections. Based on the informed understanding of the nurse manager role new insights, personal strengths, and personal challenges that are envisioned for a nurse assimilating to this role will be provided. IntroductionLeadership is an integral part of nursing. Grossman and Valiga suggest that leadership is not necessarily tied to a position of authority (Grossman & Valiga, 2005, p. 4).

Nursing Manager Role

Also suggested by Grossman and Valiga is that each professional nurse has the potential and the responsibility to provide leadership in each of our individual areas of practice, institutions, professional organizations, communities, and our profession as a whole (Grossman &Valiga, 2005, p. 4). Leadership is a course in undergraduate education; nurses in any role are leaders in many capacities. This paper aims to look at the nurse manager role: historical development, educational preparation, skill requirements, value requirements, role options, concerns, future projections, and my perspective. Historical Development of Nurse Manager RoleThe first nursing leader was Florence Nightingale and leadership was implicitly discussed in the scope and standards of nursing prior to the 1996 revision when leadership appeared as an explicit standard.

Nursing Manager Role

American nurses association (ANA) standard 15 states: “The registered nurse provides leadership in the professional practicesetting and the profession” (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2004, p. 44). Further delineation of this standard will be discussed with regard to the skills and values needed by the nurse manager. Leadership is implicit in the code of ethics in provisions six through nine (Fowler, 2008, p. 143). This code was tentatively adopted from 1926 through 1940 from the “Nightingale Pledge,” which was written in 1893 by LystraGretter (Fowler, 2008, p.xiii). The code of ethics for nurses was unanimously accepted by the ANA house of delegates in 1950 (Fowler, 2008, p. xvi).

Nursing Manager Role

ANA’s code of ethics for nurses provision six discusses that the nurse participates in establishing, maintaining, and improving healthcare environments, as well as the quality of healthcare that is consistent with the values of the profession (Fowler, 2008, p. 143). ANA’s code of ethics provisions even discusses that the nurse participates in the advancement of the profession through contributions to practice, which may be through administration (Fowler, 2008, p. 143). Provision eight continues to discuss the nurse promoting community and politically to meet society’s health needs (Fowler, 2008, p. 143).

Nursing Manager Role

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• NURSING C2346 – (865 Documents),
• NURSING C622 – Ophthalmology (212 Documents),
• NURSING 341P – (159 Documents),
• NURSING 310 – 310 (107 Documents),
• NURSING 3165 – (104 Documents),
• NURSING 440 – 440 (84 Documents),
• NURSING 520 – 520 (61 Documents),
• NURSING 3069 – 3069 (41 Documents),
• NURSING 2 – 2 (35 Documents),