A hard-working, intelligent Canadian nurse manager

A hard-working, intelligent Canadian nurse manager/leader who has current knowledge of the principles of leadership and management. The incumbent has the opportunity to create a new health care unit or organization in Canada. This new unit or organization can be a new nursing unit in a large urban hospital, a community health facility, a remote rural health clinic, or another type of health care organization where nurses are employed.

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The board expects a written submission of approximately 10-12 typed double-spaced pages, excluding title and reference pages, at the completion of this project. The final submission should include references to current literature on nursing management and leadership.

Sections to Include in Your Project

1. Determine the type of unit or organization you are developing. Give your organization a name. Describe the mission statement and values of your organization.

• Please write the paper in Canadian perspective
• Please create a palliative care unit in Vancouver, Canada
  • Focus on broaden its approach to palliative care to provide support to patients with serious chronic illnesses such conditions as end-stage heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD
  • Apparently in Canada, there are fewer than 85 residential hospices “in the whole country,” with an average capacity of only nine beds.
  • Canadian population is changing, so the way we provide health care needs to change to best care for our patients
  • Too many people are dying in hospital settings unfortunately… Canadians now have a right to medically hastened death, also known as doctor-assisted suicide, but no right to quality end-of-life care…..
• You can name it as:
  • Cascade hospice

2. Draw an organizational chart for your organization including yourself (the head person) in the chart.
3. Describe yourself at the head of your unit or organization – will you be a leader or manager? Manager What attributes or characteristics will you have or seek to develop? PARTICIPATIVE (Democratic) and COACHING manager How will you go about developing them?
4. Describe five strategies you will use to empower staff members.
   • Demonstrate I trust them
   • Show employees I appreciate their efforts to provide encouragement and build employees’ confidence:
   • Leave my office door open so that employees know their opinions are valued in order to truly empower them.
   • Communicate a clear vision so that everyone on the same page
   • Providing adequate information and resources
5. Describe one team that will function in your organization – include a description of your rationale for forming this team and describe how you will ensure the group will function effectively.
6. On the first day your new unit opens you come across two nurses having a heated debate in the hallway related to how supplies are ordered for the unit. Describe how you would handle this situation.

Assignment 4 Marking Guide –

• There is a clear and focused discussion of each section of the paper. (Maximum 20 marks)
• Reference to the literature is appropriate to each section of the paper and there is the application of a model when one exists. (Maximum 25 marks)
• The rationale is provided for the type of organization or unit you have chosen to develop. (Maximum 20 marks)
• There is a discussion of why the mission statement and values you have identified are appropriate for the type of organization chosen. (Maximum 20 marks)
• The paper has a scholarly presentation and adheres to APA format (6th ed). (Maximum 15 marks)