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J Dienemann

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PubMed1993

Nurse manager characteristics and skills: curriculum implications.

If one accepts the premise that all nurses need knowledge of management and leadership, then schools of nursing need to design their curriculum to provide administrative content and learning experiences to adequately prepare nurses for leadership positions. This study assays the opinions of nurse unit managers about the relative importance of different characteristics and skills in effective job performance. A sample of 73 unit managers from six hospitals and two community health agencies ranked human relations and communication skills as most important. Nursing knowledge and clinical skills were ranked second. Experienced managers thought political savvy and business or management skills were more important than did novice managers. The results of this study are discussed in relation to curriculum issues in nursing management at both the baccalaureate and the graduate level.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1992

Manager responsibilities in community agencies and hospitals.

Nurse executives facilitate the success of unit managers through job design, control of organizational environment, and the selection and development of managers. This article reports the results of a descriptive study that assesses the responsibilities and activities of nursing unit managers in hospital and community health settings. This information may be used by nursing administrators when refining nursing unit manager roles within their agencies.

Community Health Centers↗
PubMed1991

Merging expertise and resources for research.

Nurse educators and nurse administrators share an interest in research. When a group of nursing administrators identified a need for research in their community hospital, a collaborative effort was initiated with a nurse educator from a nearby school of nursing. The successful collaborative effort proceeded through the four stages as identified by Keefe, Pepper, and Stoner (1988): Initiation, generation, incorporation, and validation. The activities and outcomes of each stage are described. The results of the collaborative effort were positive, creating advantages for all involved.

Diffusion of Innovation↗
PubMed1987

Nursing research centers: a survey of their prevalence, functions and school characteristics.

A survey of all 124 NLN accredited schools of nursing with graduate programs in 1984 identified 50 nursing research centers. Their functions focused on research support, unlike most university research centers that focus on performing externally financed research. Secondary analysis of characteristics associated with research support and research productivity was done comparing schools with and without nursing research centers. Schools with research centers were significantly more likely to be large, have a history of an early commitment to research development, grant more graduate degrees, have more doctorally prepared faculty, and be more research productive than schools without. Nursing research centers seem to contribute to research productivity within the profession.

Efficiency↗
PubMed1976

The application of psychotherapeutic conceptual models in nursing practice.

Nurses, in order for their practice to be at a scientific level, need to consciously apply laws of change and stability of human behavior that have been identified by the behavioral sciences--especially psychotherapeutic theories. These are separated into several conceptual models which are organized around assumptions of the etiology of human behavior based on scientific observation and experimentation. They differ in emphasis and manipulation of the psychic elements of magic, faith, adaptation, and intellect. The beginning practitioner will probably find applying concepts from one model at a time most effective. She should base her choice on the congruence of the assumptions and emphasis of the models and her nursing assessment of the problem and her own philosophy of nursing. Her resulting choices of nursing intervention using a psychotherapeutic model should yield predictable goal attainment.

Education, Nursing↗
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Faculty performance appraisal systems: procedures and criteria.

This study investigated the consensus among schools of nursing in (1) using the eight elements of effective performance appraisal identified in the literature and (2) identification of domains, dimensions, and subdimensions of faculty performance. Content analysis was done of actual policies, procedures, and forms from 86 schools with graduate programs. Performance appraisal systems were found to be in an early stage of development. There was substantive agreement on teaching, service, and research as domains, with 25% or fewer schools also using faculty development, professional practice, and/or administration. There was less consensus as to the attributes of domains. Specific dimensions and their assignment to domains, as well as recommendations to guide future development, are discussed.

Education, Nursing, Graduate↗
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Restructuring nursing care delivery systems.

Job design and system redesign theory are applied to elucidate costs and benefits of alternative restructuring schemes. Strategies are outlined for nurse executives to use for successful reconceptualization of nursing positions.

Efficiency↗