Session 9: Nursing Management
Clinical Nursing 2019 | Singapore Nurse managers are registered nurses who have educational qualifications and at least three to five years of clinical experience qualifying them to effectively supervise nursing units in hospitals, clinics, and other medical institutions. Generally, nurse managers are appointed to units compatible with their degree emphasis and clinical experience. Basic responsibilities associated with nurse manager positions include maintaining sufficient, qualified staff with which to operate the unit, budgeting the unit’s expenditures in accordance with available funds, ensuring patient issues are promptly and correctly addressed, and supervising all other routine operations of the unit, as well as any unforeseen occurrences that may arise. Considered a middle management position in larger medical facilities, nurse managers are tasked with overseeing the continued optimal functioning of the unit as well as the quality of the health care provided by ...