Administrator
Educational Qualifications
- Degree in nursing (Bachelor, Master, etc.);
- Financial and organizational skills (budgeting, planning, etc.).
Scope of Practice
- Managing the nursing staff;
- Distributing roles and responsibilities to nurses;
- Drawing workplace schedules;
- Managing interactions between staff members.
Credentialing and Licensure Requirements
- Providing personal and professional information for licensing as a registered nurse (RN) ;
- Submitting data to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) (DeNisco & Braker, 2015).
Importance of the Role
The role of a Nurse Administrator is crucial to the functioning of a facility since an administrator addresses organizational issues.
Legal Aspects of the HRM Role
An HR manager must define the scope of a Nurse Administrator’s role and the range of legal responsibilities thereof.
Physician
Educational Qualifications
To get the position at the hospital, a physician must meet the following standards:
- Undergraduate degree as the foundation for further learning;
- Participation in and graduation from a medical program in education;
- Continuing education to acquire new skills and provide high-quality services.
The identified characteristics imply that the physician possesses the amount of knowledge required for high-quality services and further professional growth. Therefore, participation in graduate and undergraduate programs is a crucial part of a physician’s experience.
Scope of Practice
Although treating patients is typically viewed as the primary area of physicians’ activities, the scope of the target population’s services has been expanded significantly over the past few years. For instance, a physician may also focus on the tasks associated with the increase in patients’ satisfaction rates, the introduction of the tools that allow making the services more cost-efficient, etc. Furthermore, creating the environment for the informed patient care and the active promotion of patient education should be deemed as priorities for a physician (“LIP initial application quick start guide,” 2015).
Credentialing and Licensure Requirements
As a rule, the credentialing process for physicians implies that the following issues must be addressed:
- Providing personal details and any supplementary information required;
- Specifying the NPI and the Taxonomy Code;
- Providing information about professional education and training;
- Detailing the data about the license, federal DEA, or state CDS;
- Adding the documents for certification;
- Awaiting the peer review of the documents;
- Specifying the relevant details of personal history;
- Signing the necessary documents and submitting them (“LIP initial application quick start guide,” 2015).
Importance of the Role
A physician provides extensive opportunities for improved patient care. Furthermore, a physician is supposed to encourage interdisciplinary work among different units to improve the quality of care. Finally, patient education must be viewed as a crucial role of a physician.
Legal Aspects of the HRM Role
It is crucial for the HRM to determine the quality of healthcare service delivery that can be deemed as appropriate for physicians.
Registered Nurse
Educational Qualifications
To become a Registered Nurse (RN), one must make sure to meet the following criteria:
- Receiving a high school diploma;
- Graduating from courses allowing for the acquisition of the relevant skills;
- Getting a nursing license.
Scope of Practice
As a rule, an RN must carry out the following tasks:
- Raising awareness among the target population;
- Promoting health behaviors in the community;
- Performing patient examinations;
- Providing possible diagnoses;
- Suggesting the required behaviors to patients.
Credentialing and Licensure Requirements
- Providing relevant personal information;
- Providing the certificates proving the nurse’s competencies;
- Taking an examination.
Importance of the Role
The significance of an RN’s role is also very high. An RN promotes active communication between patients and healthcare practitioners. Furthermore, patient education becomes a possibility once an RN applies the necessary efforts.
Legal Aspects of the HRM Role
The issues of malpractice and negligence must be identified and documented so that patient safety levels could remain high (Claywell, 2014).
Nurse’s Aide
Educational Qualifications
- Passing the state examination;
- Getting high-school education;
- Passing the certified nursing assistant (CNA) program (Linnard-Palmer & Coats, 2016).
Scope of Practice
- Patient supervision;
- Assistance with essential tasks (e.g., patient bathing, feeding, etc.);
- Taking patients’ vitals;
- Administering medications to patients;
- Promoting patient education through active collaboration with the community.
Credentialing and Licensure Requirements
In order to receive a license for nursing practice, one will have to supply the following information:
- Nursing school transcripts;
- Training certificates;
- Copies of licenses (if any).
After the specified information is submitted, the consideration of the application begins (Linnard-Palmer & Coats, 2016).
Importance of the Role
A Nurse’s Aide provides extensive support and allows reducing the workload pressure from the nursing staff. Thus, the opportunities for an improvement in the quality of nursing services are created.
Legal Aspects of the HRM Role
It is the task of an HR manager to determine the liabilities of a certified nurse assistant.
Laboratory Technician
Educational Qualifications
To qualify for the job of a Laboratory Technician, one will have to meet the following requirements:
- Preferably associate’s degree and formal education as opposed to on-the-job training;
- Participation in postsecondary programs;
- Active acquisition of the necessary skills and knowledge, as well as the ability to apply them to solve practical tasks;
- Taking the Medical Laboratory Technician Practice Test.
Scope of Practice
The range of responsibilities that are assigned to Laboratory Technicians is typically limited to carrying out laboratory investigations of the patients. Afterward, a report including the key findings is provided to the healthcare practitioner (Graeter, ‎ Hertenstein, Accurso, & Labiner, 2014).
Credentialing and Licensure Requirements
To become a Laboratory Technician, one will have to meet the following requirements:
- Getting the degree of an Associate or a Bachelor;
- Specializing in either Clinical or Medical Laboratory Technician area;
- Understanding the key responsibilities of a Laboratory technician and being able to meet them respectively.
It should be noted, though, that certification may not be required when applying for the position of a Laboratory Technician. While the job requirements may vary depending on an organization, the general standards do not include the presence of a certification (Graeter et al., 2014).
Importance of the Role
Laboratory Technicians make a range of processes including diagnosing a health issue, checking the patient’s health status, etc., simple and fast, thus, making the schedule of the rest of the staff less busy.
Legal Aspects of the HRM Role
An HR manager must define the scope of a Laboratory Technician’s responsibilities in the context of a healthcare organization (Graeter et al., 2014).
Dietary Aide
Educational Qualifications
A Dietary Aide provides opportunities for improving patients’ well-being extensively due to a massive change in their dietary habits. Therefore, a Dietary Aide must meet the following requirements:
- Understanding the principles of good nutrition ;
- Understanding the concepts of life cycle nutrition and clinical nutrition;
- Being able to design an elaborate framework for food system management;
- Being capable of creating an efficient nutrition therapy based on the needs of a particular patient.
Scope of Practice
As a rule, a Dietary Aide performs a restricted number of functions. Particularly, the following responsibilities are usually attributed to a dietary aide:
- Offering food-related services to patients, including the identification of the required nutritional elements, the isolation of undesirable products, etc.;
- Promoting proper nutritional rules to the members of the target community;
- Designing and applying the tools for menu monitoring in the target environment to prevent the instances of developing food disorders and similar issues.
Credentialing and Licensure Requirements
To become a Dietary Aide, one must:
- have the certificate of a high school graduate, at the very least;
- pass the certificate programs for nutrition assistants;
- have on-the-job training under the supervision of a manager;
- be aware of the essential responsibilities, including the management of a patient’s diet, the promotion of patient education, etc.
Importance of the Role
The significance of a Dietary Aide is quite high. Because of a range of nutrition issues faced by the members of the global society, it is essential to make sure that healthy nutrition principles are promoted to the member of target communities. Therefore, the efforts of a Dietary Aide must be appreciated (Ehrlich & Schroeder, 2014).
Legal Aspects of the HRM Role
The role of an HRM is restricted to identifying the scope of a Dietary Aide’s work.
Maintenance Professional
Educational Qualifications
- Having at least a high school diploma;
- Preferably having a diploma in the relevant courses;
- Skills associated with the provision of relevant customer services.
Scope of Practice
- Maintaining the existing technological systems in a proper operational condition;
- Repairing the systems if necessary;
- Providing recommendations concerning the further improvement and enhancement of the systems’ operations and functioning.
Credentialing and Licensure Requirements
- A corresponding certification must be submitted;
- Have no criminal record;
- Provide the appropriate fees in advance;
- Pass the examination aimed at determining the degree of proficiency.
Importance of the Role
A Maintenance Professional plays an essential role in the context of a healthcare environment. A Maintenance Professional keeps the existing systems in check, thus, allowing for an uninhibited transfer of the relevant data, the management of the patients’ needs, and the accomplishment of the crucial goal.
Legal Aspects of the HRM Role
It is essential to make sure that the treatment of Maintenance Professionals should be fair and appropriate (Overly & Karlyn, 2013).
Building and Maintaining a Climate of Mutual Respect and Trust Among Employees
To promote a consistent increase in the quality of nursing and healthcare services, one must create an environment of cooperation and trust among employees. Therefore, one must encourage the target population to treat each other with trust and respect, thus, recognizing each other’s dignity and following the principles of ethical communication. Establishing a set of communication standards is the first step toward improving the workplace climate. Afterward, one should consider changing the corporate philosophy and ethics so that the importance of communication, honesty, value for human life, and other important ideas should be held as the foundational values (Koutoukidis & Stainton, 2016).
Exploring the Importance of Diversity in the Workforce
Because of the increasingly fast pace of the globalization process, nurses and other members of the healthcare environment must learn to work in the context of a multicultural environment. Herein lies the significance of diversity in the workplace as far as nursing is concerned. By promoting multiculturalism in the nursing setting, one will be able to provide the foundation for a more successful connection between a nurse and a patient. Particularly, nurses from specific backgrounds are likely to establish a tighter link with the community members belonging to the same culture. Thus, the focus on diversity in the workplace setting is a crucial element of the consistent quality improvement in nursing (Koutoukidis & Stainton, 2016).
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