Achieving Excellence in Nursing Management

Abstract

This issue focuses on the theme ÔAchieving Excellence in Nursing ManagementÕ. Whilst the most important activity in health care today happens at the point of care and is provided by nursing staff; nurse managers, directors, leaders and educators have a pivotal role and opportunity to create and maintain a culture of excellence. Nursing excellence thrives in patient care areas when staff is supported by a healthy work environment in which to practice; given the tools of professional development; and encouraged, mentored and recognized. This edition of the Journal of Nursing Management is a Ômust readÕ from cover to cover for all nurse managers. The authors of the articles, commentary and conference report cover many topics that provide new knowledge, strategies and best practices for management and, ultimately, promote achievement of excellence in nursing management for the 21st century.

New Strategies to Assert the Value of the Perioperative Nurse

“…Professional nurses are constantly challenged to defend nursing excellence, which is exemplified by health care facilities where administrators and managers take measures to ensure that nurses are equipped with the tools to practice nursing in an work environment that encourages asking questions about clinical practice 8 . Specifically, perioperative leaders must provide nurses with guidance, mentorship, and education about how to provide excellent nursing care.…”

Examining the Role of Senior Nursing Leadership Requirements in Emergency Medical Centers

“…However, associated possibilities indicate that nursing leadership appears to be dependent upon on the role the in-charge nurse wants to use as a manager -Informational, interpersonal or decisional (Sullivan, 2012). These orientations regulate the specific behaviours that launch leadership resolve and connect to notions such as the level of clinical expertise and the adopted business orientation -as the challenge for nursing leadership development is not just to achieve job excellence, but to enhance and maintain it (Wiggins & Hyrkäs, 2011). However, this view disregards the role of the medical doctor in the Thai setting and lacks understanding of the doctor's power to affect team culture, contrary to Manser (2009) and materially influences the team learning capacity (Stein-Parbury & Liaschenko, 2007) through applicable communication processes (Greenberg, et al, 2007).…”