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President's Message
Joyce

It’s Almost Summer!

A dash of spring flowers, a cup of summer breezes, the smell of late evening showers, all add up to a recipe for lots of smiles and happy thoughts. As we turn our thoughts to a little “me time,” let’s contemplate on the finer values in our lives. Make time “to be” with your family, take overdue naps and late evening walks. RESURRECT your “free spirit.” As we look forward to summer and then fall, recall how each new season refreshes, uplifts and motivates us to yet again be the BEST that WE CAN BE! Nursing is our profession! It’s a part of us that is always there to fill our days with the ability to provide a need that only a true professional can give. So, as you look forward to great summer days and some “me time,” take time to CONTEMPLATE on the PASSION that first bought YOU to NURSING. Relive the JOY, the PRIDE, the EAGERNESS you felt when you received your nursing pen, 1st “professional” stethoscope or 1st paying RN job! Refresh yourself this summer and “Raise the Bar!” Take pride,! Have joy! Regain your eagerness for Patient Care!

Joyce

Stages of Management

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Master the four stages of management: Stage 1

Managers go through predictable stages as they assume leadership. Each stage has its challenges, growth, and development implications. If you're a manager, where do you fall? We'll review the four stages in the July through October issues of Nursing2006 SDU so you can learn what to watch for at each stage and what to do.

Stage 1: Fear and hesitation

This stage happens to new managers as well as to experienced managers moving to a new position within their organization. Things to watch for:

Paralysis or indecision

being reluctant to start doing managerial work
letting information-gathering and indecision consume you

Failure to trust staff

assuming trust comes with the managerial assignment
assuming that trust is easily maintained and hard to lose

Reluctance to find a confidante or sounding board

assuming that since you were given the job you're expected to have all of the answers
assuming that having someone to discuss issues with is a sign of weakness

Being too judgmental and critical; setting impossible standards

failing to understand that your success is now measured by the work that others do
punishing mistakes so harshly that they're not reported or are swept under the carpet

"Doing the work"

spending too much time at the bedside avoiding making tough managerial decisions
not finding satisfaction in the delayed success that comes from long-term initiatives

Things to do:

Observe successful managers. Shadow one successful manager in your organization: See how he behaves in meetings, with staff, and customers. What's his strategy?

Score early successes, get some wins, and "harvest low-hanging fruit." Make changes the staff has asked for repeatedly. Think like a patient: What's irritating, what's right?

Be analytical--start to build a mental model of the organization. Ask "why" questions. Use the basic nursing process to assess and implement new ideas/programs or services. Look for the causes of systems failures rather than simply solving problems.

Begin to delegate. Assign a report, a simple procedure, or attendance at a meeting so staff begins to adapt a style of shared responsibility. Model the behaviors you want to see in your staff.

Learn to consider your motivation and monitor your emotional reactions. Identify, accept, and remember your emotions.

Practice thinking about the future. Build a model of how you want the department to look in 3 to 5 years.

Key to career growth:
Gain a good insight and understanding of your organization's climate and your staff's trust through observations, discussions, and conversations.

Source: Master the four stages of management by RB Pickett, LK Shoemaker, and MM Kennedy, Men in Nursing, 1(3):12-14, June 2006

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