Reference no: EM133912817
Mr. Jacob Carlos is the charge nurse of the morning shift in a medical-surgical nursing unit. The census for the day is 24 with and the nursing team is composed of three staff nurses (2 regular staff nurses, one trainee, who just came on board two weeks ago), one nursing assistant and 1 administrative assistant (ward clerk). The night shift endorsed that 2 patients are scheduled for surgery at 7:00 and 9: 00 in the morning; one will undergo hemodialysis at 8:00 and still another will be brought to the Ultrasound for pelvic sonography. Two patients are scheduled for blood extraction for Complete Blood Count (CBC), Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS), cholesterol, triglycerides, Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, and Total Albumin - Globulin (A/G)Ratio. The staff in the Emergency Room called up to inform Nurse Jacob that a 60 year-old female patient with chronic asthma is now ready to be transferred to one of the private rooms in the unit. She needs oxygen and a pulse oximeter to evaluate the oxygen saturation of the patient.
Questions:
1. What principles of leadership and management will you use to manage these services?
2. What resources do you need in managing the situation in terms of human, material, physical, and technical resources? Justify your answer.
3. How will you coordinate the different schedules with the different departments, colleagues or co-staff nurses? Justify your answer.
4. Will you be needing a managerial support from you're your immediate supervisor? Justify your answer.
5. What standards of nursing practice will you uphold/apply on the given clinical situations?