Administrative Skills
Build administrative skills for nurse leaders. These blogs cover practical strategies for managing email, meetings, and productivity for nurse leaders.
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Running Your First Staff Meeting – Principles For Success
Your first staff meeting as a new leader can feel like a test you didn’t study for. The stakes feel high, you’re still unsure of yourself, and there’s pressure to perform. As a staff nurse, you may never have had to run a meeting, so it’s natural to feel some trepidation in this new territory
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Why managing mundane tasks is a strategic skill
It’s Monday morning, no call-outs today so you’re hoping that’s a good sign. 7:53, you arrive at your office, set down your bag, and log in. 77 unread emails, ugh. You check your calendar and notice a meeting at 8:30 titled “quick chat”, and you’re not sure what it’s about. Your phone buzzes: a text
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How much patient care should a nurse leader be doing?
Today as I’m writing this, I’ve just wrapped up a long shift where I spent a lot of time in direct patient care. We weren’t short-staffed, but tension was high and I could see standards starting to slip from overwhelm. I’m glad I did it, and I’m confident it was the correct choice of priorities.
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3 powerful email tips for nurse leaders
Photo by Brian J. Tromp on Unsplash What’s the current situation in your email inbox? Is your unread count in the dozens? hundreds? thousands? You didn’t become a nurse leader so you could read and write more emails. Neither did I. Nevertheless, most of us receive a mind-boggling volume of emails each day, to the