ECE

Part one

• This is your last visit to your hospital unit as its nurse manager. It is critical that clinical units function effectively and deliver quality care that meets the patients’ needs and the staff feels confident about their performance. You now must meet your nurse manager responsibility focused on staff development for your unit. You are in a hospital that uses a decentralized approach, but there is a director of staff development and several staff development specialists who assist nurse managers when needed with unit-based education activities. How will you organize the unit’s staff development? Who will be involved? What impact does this have on the unit’s budget? How will you apply the staff development process and develop your plan? In the plan include a list of content that is specific to your unit that you want covered in the first year. Since this is the unit you have developed throughout this text, you need to consider decisions made in the past and characteristics of the unit and staff that you have described. part 2
• You make a lot of decisions as nurse manager for your unit. Select a problem that you might encounter on a daily basis on your unit, and apply the evidence-based management process as described in this chapter to your management question. Include references that you identify as relevant, and summarize the key points to answer your management question. What would you do to ensure that you use EBM in your daily work as nurse manager?