Chapter one and two

- Introduction

    The Ministry of Health (Central Administration of Nursing) has paid great attention to developing the information and skills of nursing staff members in various specialized and precise nursing fields. All of these specialties share the basic skills in practicing the nursing profession that relate to leadership and administrative skills, and these are of special importance to nursing leaders, whether on the The senior or middle management level, so nursing leaders’ knowledge of the management rules and systems that govern the practice of the nursing profession, which represents great importance in improving the health system.

  From this standpoint, this guide has been prepared for chief nurses, agents and supervisors with the aim of increasing their administrative skills and practicing and working with management rules and systems, as this will reflect positively on performance.

Developing the administrative skills of nursing leaders

General goal:

This booklet aims to strengthen and update information, improve skills, and shed light on the concepts, foundations, and aspects related to nursing management topics to improve the nursing service provided .

The educational objectives of this booklet and how to use it and benefit from:

·       Assisting nursing leaders to develop their necessary administrative skills related to the work and tasks assigned to them.

·       The ability to self-educate and raise the level of professional performance.

·       The ability to deliver skills and information to those working under their supervision (supervisors and department heads)

·       Mentions the importance of management to achieve goals .

·       Explains the concept of management and its importance.

·       Discusses the principles and functions of management and how to apply them.

·         Describes the responsibilities and duties of effective nursing leaders.

·       Learn about the importance of planning.

·       Enumerates the types of planning.

·       Describes how planning is implemented.

·       Know the concept of problem and decision making.

·       Learn about the concept of organization.

·       Discuss the benefits of organization.

·       Knowledge of the steps/stages of organization.

·       Knows the concept of guidance.

·       Identify the elements of guidance.

·       Definition and types of delegation.

·       Identify the most important means of motivating subordinates.

·       Defining the concept and steps of managing meetings.

·       Discusses different styles of leadership.

·       Designing job descriptions for nursing staff members.

·       Describes the appropriate system for distributing nursing work within different units.

·       Define the basic concepts of time management.

·       Identify time wasters.

·       Definition of what reports are.           

·       Discuss the importance of the report.                     

·       Definition of what is meant by a hospital conditions report.

·       Determine the purpose of using the hospital conditions report.

·       Definition of what is meant by an accident report.

·       Determine the importance of oversight. 

·       Learn about the concept of performance evaluation.

·      Describes the advantages of performance evaluation.

·       Focus on reading the summary of each chapter.

·       Answer questions related to each chapter.

·       Matching the answers to the questions with the model answer within the book after answering them yourself.