Role of the Nurse Leader and Manager in Regulatory and Practice Standards

One of the issues identified by the Minnesota Board of Nursing in Minnesota regards the ability to release specific legislatively mandated reports such as the yearly Adverse Health Events report. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minnesota Department of Health spent more than a year collecting input on improving the system to support safe patient care in a better way and in a rapidly changing and intricate healthcare environment (Minnesota Department of Health, 2020). However, the pandemic has negatively impacted this effort, which is straining the healthcare delivery system, communities, and individuals. Besides, neither the Minnesota Board of Nursing nor the Minnesota Nurse Practice Act provides a particular list of nursing procedures and tasks that differentiate or identify what is included in the Scope of Practice of advanced, professional or practical practice registered nurses (Minnesota Board of Nursing 2021).

How to educate the Unit

Accordingly, given that patients are rapidly evolving to primary care, community, and outpatient care settings in the U.S., and more services of nursing are also transitioning to home settings, outpatient, and community, the nurse leader needs to guide the training to include a combination of particular experience levels, creative think time and interdependence-based skills (Joseph & Huber, 2015). The nurse manager can use the CUSP tools like the Learning From Defects tool to collect feedback from staff. The quality data from the tool provides the nurse manager with the data needed to work with the nurses to address the problems and issues that the tool raises (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2021). This calls for involvement with the nurse staff in the process of defect analysis and in developing the action plan to address the matters raised by the tool.

Lastly, the nurse manager can also utilize the safety and quality measurement tools such as staff meetings, newsletters, and dashboards because these tools allow the nurse manager and nurse staff to discuss progress, create goals, and share ideas while exceeding or exceeding or meeting quality and safety goals. These opportunities are good learning points where staff members can collaborate, identify and address barriers noted in the dashboard while at the same time learning the evolving trends.

References

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2021). CUSP Toolkit, The Role of the Nurse Manager, Facilitator Notes. Retrieved 19/8/2021 from https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/nursing/nursing-notes.html#slide23