NUR 302 Concepts In Nursing

You are the director of your department. A new CNO started within the past month, and as part of his organizational assessment has asked each department director to submit a memo outlining the nursing staff development processes and priorities for their area of responsibility.

To: Chief Nursing Officer

From: Director of cardiac department

Subject: Nursing staff development processes and priorities for their area of responsibility

The cardiac department is inclusive of 22 nursing professionals, 10 physicians and 15 midwives and each of these professionals are provided with shifts every week so that work pressure could be divided among them equally. The professionals are equipped with proper knowledge about the process and the interventions applied on the patient. However, while joining the process within the department, they have to go through orientation process for three months in which they are educated and informed with the facility, its processes and finally the depart and the rules and regulations related to it so that while starting their job, they can conduct their duties properly.

This process helps them to understand their knowledge about the process and if they feel their education is not enough to serve the facility, they can continue their education, while receiving the orientation program. Further, after the completion of the orientation program, each of the newer staffs go through one evaluation program known as the competency evaluation program. The evaluation program, which evaluates nursing professionals and their understanding of the organization, its policies, its laws and regulation and other important factors, could be identified. If they require more education of the process, could be provided with the information. Therefore, prioritizing the educational need of the nursing and other health professionals is the primary aim of this department within the healthcare facility.

Bibliography:

Bell, S.A., Rominski, S., Bam, V., Donkor, E. and Lori, J., 2013. Analysis of nursing education in G hana: Priorities for scaling?up the nursing workforce. Nursing & health sciences, 15(2), pp.244-249.

Iwasiw, C.L. and Goldenberg, D., 2014. Curriculum development in nursing education. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.