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- Title
RRTS AND LPNS: TRAILBLAZERS IN NURSING LEADERSHIP.
- Authors
Higoy, Lynard; Tarkowski, Tammy
- Abstract
Nursing managers are a large part of the health care team. They provide the nursing staff they lead with education, orientation and supervision. In today's complex and global workplace, health care leaders have a more challenging role than ever before. Nursing managers' job is to manage, and the need to empower, mentor, and coach their staff is needed to address these concerns brought forward by the COVID pandemic. Today's health care environment, especially in rural areas, is experiencing unprecedented reformation. COVID-19 burnouts resulted in nurses leaving the profession, resulting in job shortages, reduced health care services and huge nursing manager turnover. This unprecedented situation opened the doors of opportunity for other health care professionals, such as registered respiratory therapists and licensed practical nurses, to step into the management world. Not only due to nursing shortages, but these two professions are also proven to be inert leaders because of their flexibility and adaptability to new ways of thinking and delivering care. Leadership and relationship skills are essential to the future of health services organization in order to ensure a successful outcome for the patient it serves. RRTs employ approaches to practice that foster effective care in any health care setting, spanning across the continuum of care, such as critical thinking, systems thinking capacity, critical decision-making, collaborative team-based care, case management and care planning (Dubois et al., 2021). Although Canadian health care is now more open with non-nursing professions such as registered respiratory therapists (RRTs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) taking the role of nursing managers, these professions are still facing roadblocks and challenges. With nursing shortages, multi-professional collaboration is going to play an increasingly important role in health care today as there has been an increase in competition and requirements in management positions. According to Zaccagnini, higher education instruction is an essential factor in the professionalization of registered respiratory therapists (2021). Today, official professional statements have advocated for raising the entry-level diploma training to an undergraduate degree to meet the complex requirements of the health care environment and to remain competitive compared with other health care professions. This presentation will discuss the experience of nursing managers with an RRT and LPN background leading a nursing team in a rural health care setting. This presentation will unravel the roadblocks and challenges that non-nursing professionals experience when managing and leading a nursing staff. The presentation will also discuss future recommendations for health care professionals other than nurses to be successful in their role and how the public will accept this innovation in health care.
- Subjects
CANADA; RESPIRATORY therapists; RURAL hospitals; NURSE administrators; LEADERSHIP; WORK; PROFESSIONAL employee training; PRACTICAL nurses; CONFERENCES &; conventions; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; EXPERIENTIAL learning
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy, 2023, Vol 59, p134
- ISSN
1205-9838
- Publication type
Article