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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.
| "We look for, especially in a nurse, a sense of leadership. They are on the floor, on the unit, and they are the leader of that health care team. There may be the RN, the LPN, and the nursing assistant, but the RN is really the owner of the care on the unit. So, you need to have someone who understands that, and is willing to accept that responsibility. Which means they think, 'Gosh, if something happens to one of my patients, whether I did it or the LPN did it, I should have caught it and I'll take ownership of it to make sure it doesn't happen again.' I mean, it's not punitive things. It's just like, 'This shouldn't happen. This isn't our standard of care, I recognize that, and we're going to fix that.' So, I think that sense of leadership and that accountability is very important—especially today, now that some of our payment relies on how our patients and their families rate us on the care." | Northeast |