What is the impact of the nurse educator role on organizational effectiveness?

NUR665 Nursing Education Practicum Week 12

What is the impact of the nurse educator role on organizational effectiveness? Identify one area in your practicum setting/organization that needs improvement. Choose a theory or change model you have experience with. Applying the identified theory/model, propose a change and describe the organizational impact in your practicum setting.

Nursing practice nowadays and specifically in Lebanon is confronted by various obstacles such as the age and increasingly ill segment of the population of hospitalized patients, the burden of healthcare expenses and the need to stay up to date with the medical knowledge and technology advancements.

These demands are aggravated by a notable increasing deficit of nurses and an aged nursing labor force. In addition, novice designs of holistic healthcare services are being created to tackle a wide variety of demands in healthcare and influence the structure of the workforce and care delivery (Jamshidi, Mehrdad, & Jamshidi, 2012).

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To tackle these obstacles, employers will pursue nurses whose competencies are compatible with the practice settings demands, can function potently in inter-disciplinary teams across a wide range of healthcare environments. They should also be able to offer conventional nursing services in addition to other facilities such as case management and practice leadership, health advocacy and illness prevention (Fukada, 2018).

The nursing milieu must track the modifications in the healthcare settings to guarantee the continuous production of high quality, secure and efficient patient services. To achieve this, nurses must be prepared with the necessary competencies. Thus, policymakers and educators must primarily evaluate demands for the prospective workforce, based on requirements of the work setting (Ahluwalia, Damberg, Silverman, Motala & Shekelle, 2017).

Challenges facing nursing education

NUR665 Nursing Education Practicum Week 12Aligning education with the practice environment

Nursing education has a significant impact on the knowledge and competencies of nurses, all health care providers. Nurses with Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degrees are enabled to meet various patients’ needs; function as leaders; and advance science that benefits patients and the capacity of health professionals to deliver safe, quality patient care (Institute of Medicine, 2011).

The Lebanese healthcare system is becoming progressively more complicated; prospective nurses will encounter a highly challenging healthcare practice environment. The 20th century has been marked with various health care system modifications; due to recognized failures in Healthcare System as the Lebanese healt