Nurse Managers, whether in hospitals, long-term care, community clinics, or other healthcare settings, are an increasingly important part of the healthcare delivery system. Often with a span of management responsibility that covers significant numbers of staff and even multiple shifts, the nurse manager performs a key role in the process of coordinating the multiple elements of patient and client healthcare.
The Colorado Health Institute's "2008 Colorado Registered Nurse Survey" states that 17% of the registered nurses in the state work primarily in an administrative capacity, indicating that over 9,000 Colorado nurses perform work that is administrative or mangement in nature.
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10/28/2008
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Wieck, K Lynn
The role of the nurse manager in today's intergenerational workplace has become more challenging. This article compares a scan of recent health regulatory and policy reports with the needs and priorities of today's emerging workforce. The resulting environment is one in which managers find themselves being told to retain staff without the ability to sculpt the workplace into a arena where young workers want to stay. A manager's tool kit is presented defining the skill set needed for successfully managing the twenty-something generation to retain them in health care.
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2005
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Alabama Center for Nursing
According to Randolph Rasch, the program director of the family nurse practitioner program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and the first African-American male to receive a PhD in nursing, Caucasian women are overrepresented in nursing in comparison to the general population (Hilton, 2005).
