RNSG 2535 – Integrated Client Care Management
Unit I - Introduction To Nursing Management
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2.
Behavioral Objectives
Discuss the management concepts
listed in the content column.
Discuss the influences on nursing
practice while fulfilling the role of
manager of care.
Content Outline
I. Manager of Care
A. Management vs leadership
B. Leadership styles/effective leaders
1. Autocratic
2. Democratic
3. Laissez-faire
C. Types of management
1. Chief nursing officer
2. Shared governance
D. Types of nursing care
1. Team
2. Primary
3. Functional
4. Total client care
5. Care pair
E. Delegation
Clinical Objectives
Recognize that political, economic and societal
forces affect the health of clients
Learning Opportunities
READ:
Zerwekh & Claborn (2009)
Apply management concepts in assigning and/or
delegating nursing care to other members of the
nursing team.
VIDEOS:
#M094-Communications Peer
Relationships
Use negotiation skills for the purpose of achieving
positive client outcomes.
COMPUTER SIMULATION:
#5046-Nursing Leadership and
Management: Assigning and
Delegating Client Care
Activities.
II. Factors influencing nursing
management
A. Individual
1. Motivation
2. Competency
3. Team leading experience
4. Role model for nursing
profession
B. Interpersonal
1. Communication skills
2. Assertiveness skills
3. Problem solving/conflict
resolution/negotiation
4. Critical thinking
5. Decision making
6. Group process
Identify and participate in activities to improve
health care delivery within the work setting.
Facilitate communication between client and
institutional or community resources.
Advocate on behalf of the client with other
members of the interdisciplinary health care team
to procure resources for client care.
Report the need for corrective action within the
organization.
Select human and material resources that are
optimal, legal, and cost effective to achieve
organizational goals.
Use basic management and leadership skills, act as
a team leader, supervise and delegate care and
contribute to shared goals.
Provide nursing care within limits of professional
nursing knowledge, education, experience, and
ethical/legal standards of care.
#5040-Applying Critical
Thinking to Nursing Skills: Shift
Assessment
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VIDM202RA-T Fall Prevention,
Part 1: Risk Assessment
VIDM202RB-T Fall Prevention,
Part 2: Preventive Strategies and
Products
VIDM202RA-T Fall Prevention,
Part 3: A Comprehensive Fall
Prevention Program
VIDWM522-T Patient Falls:
Protecting and Preventing Injury
VIDM192-T Patient Rights
VIDM223R12-T Patient Safety:
Your First Concern
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RNSG 2535 – Integrated Client Care Management
Unit I - Introduction To Nursing Management
Behavioral Objectives
Content Outline
C. Practice environment
1. Risk management
a. Incident report
b. Irregular occurrence
c. Variance reports
d. Failure to rescue
2. Policies and procedures
3. Chain of command
4. Board of Nursing Examiners
(BNE) delegation rules
5. Texas Nursing Practice Act
6. Standards of Care
7. Systematic approach for
setting priorities
8. Regulatory agencies
9. Quality Assurance for
Documentation
10. Rapid Response Team (RRT)
11. Management of Client
Complaints
12. Safety Risk for Suicide
D. Management of resources
1. Time
2. Cost containment
3. Materials
4. Space
5. Staff
E. Change process
1. Evidenced Base Practice Project
F. Client advocacy
G. Collaboration
H. Ethical/Legal issues
I. Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Clinical Objectives
Promote accountability for quality nursing practice
through participation on policy and procedure
committees.
Learning Opportunities
VIDM252C-T Restraints: Legal
Considerations and Patient
Rights
Delegate/assign to other health care providers
within legal parameters and evaluate delivery of
care.
Participate on organizational committees,
professional organizations and community groups
to improve the quality of health care.
VIDM257-T Evidence-based
Practice: What It Is and What It
Is Not
Serve as a member of voluntary health care and
community teams to provide services to
individuals and communities and unmet needs.
Promote collegiality among interdisciplinary
health care team members.
Collaborate with members of nursing and other
health care organizations to promote the profession
of nursing.
Participate in activities individually or in groups
through organizations that promote the profession
of nursing.
Recognize roles of professional nursing
organizations, regulatory agencies and
organizational committees
VIDM224TA-T HIPAA for
Healthcare Workers: An
Overview
VIDM215-T Nursing
Negligence: Protect Yourself,
Protect Your Patient
VIDM2544CR-T Never Events
and Hospital-Acquired
Conditions: Admission
Assessment and Quality
Reporting
Participate in an Evidenced Base
Practice Project.
Team lead one or two weeks
in clinical.
Present a management issue with
Post-Conference.
Practice within the RN role and Scope of Practice.
Serve as a positive role model for students, peers,
and members of the interdisciplinary health care
team.
Identify 2 National Patient
Safety Goals being implemented
in the clinical site.
Admit and discharge at least 2
clients.
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RNSG 2535 – Integrated Client Care Management
Unit I - Introduction To Nursing Management
Behavioral Objectives
3. Discuss the responsibilities of
the team leader.
Content Outline
III. Team Leader Responsibilities
A. Make client assignment for 3-4
team members
B. Observe transcription of health
care provider’s orders
C. Check crash cart
D. Chart audit of team members
nurses notes
E. Evaluate team members
performance on weekly
evaluation
F. Collaborate with health care
provider.
Clinical Objectives
Verbalize hospital codes and team leader's
responsibility (Code Blue, Red, Pink etc.)
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Learning Opportunities
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