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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Nurses are often required to assume management and supervisory roles as they enter the field. This is difficult for new hires that lack leadership training.
| "If we are looking at the RNs and LPNs when they are hired into a nursing home setting, they instantly become kind of the leaders, or the managers, for that area. And they come in without leadership/management skills. Their interpersonal skills are always mastered. Their clinical skills are great, but it seems like there was a lack of training or education on how to step into that management position." | Central |
| "They understand the technical and medical aspects of being nurse, but not the person connected to the leadership part of it." | Central |
| "With the leadership skills, we consistently see our nurses—who are required to be leaders on any floor that they are working on—not being able to handle employees, not being able to direct them. So, we have to do training. And I feel, especially in a registered nurse role, they should be coming in with a good solid background of what would be expected of them." | Central |
| "People management." | Central |
| "Teamwork. Coaching." | Central |
| "Employer 1: If I had two applicants and one had leadership and management skills and one didn't—I would hire the one with those skills. But, you know, we have to train it because they don't have it. But if these schools could teach something in those areas—some type of leadership, some type of management—that'd be helpful. Because no matter who you are, if you're a LPN or an RN, you are going to have to work with the nursing assistants that were hire. And so you need to be professional, you need to be the leader, you need to be the one that makes sure that things get done the right way. Employer 2: At least have the understanding that that's going to be expected of you. Employer 1: Yes. Employer 2: Because I don't think they even get that. Employer 1: Yeah, they don't realize that's going to be expected." |
Central |
| "I don't think that's something that they are told through their education—that this is a leadership position. No matter if you are on the third shift or on the late shift, you are definitely probably at the top of the chain, you know? But I don't think they come in expecting to have that responsibility." | Central |
| "The other skill that I think goes with that is the ability to delegate. As we move forward with changing reimbursement, and health care reform, and everyone practicing at the top of their license—I'm going to have to be sure that I have the ability to effectively hand things off. And I think new graduates struggle more with the delegation." | Central |
| "We are actually moving to hiring only four-year degreed RNs for our long-term care facility. And we have standard long-term care, we have sub-acute, and then we have memory care. And because of the leadership skills that they need, we are finding that that's a better choice for us as we move forward." | Central |