AS FUTURE NURSE…

As a future nurse who is about to enter the nursing profession, to give quality of
care to individuals whether sick or well with skills, knowledge and will, is our
lifetime goal. But how? This is the challenge of everyone.

The future of Nursing depends on how each and every member of the
profession take up the challenges of the Filipinos and other world communities
and respond to their needs. Intelligent and committed practice will make nursing
gain rightful place in the world community and consequently thrive as a
profession. As a nursing leader, you must develop ways in achieving these goals
and to maintain the standards set for everyone practicing whether in the hospital
setting or in education guided by Planning, Organizing, Controlling and
Evaluation supported by different management styles and leadership.

To achieve a goal, there are objectives to aid you to plan for the positive
outcome, to organize resources, to control the achievement of results and to
evaluate the conclusions, whether you are in the hospital setting or in education.
In achieving objectives, it must be guided by principles and process.

As a nursing leader, you must decide in advance what to do, how to do it,
when to do it and who is to do it. This is what we called Planning. It is a cognitive
process of decision making based on facts and information in order to arrive at a
desired result. This is where budgeting—allocation of scarce resources and time
management enter—setting goals and priority, eliminates time wastes and using
of strategies. After planning, there is coordination of resources to accomplish
objectives. This is the entrance of the so-called Organizing. This is where
structures, relationships, classifications and time requirements took place. When
organizing already in place, the use of formal authority to assure the
achievements of goals and objectives positioned. This time, we are in Controlling
—the means and the end. This is where quality assurance, techniques and
discipline go into. Subsequent to all, determining how far objectives were
accomplished is the last step. This is Evaluation.

As a nursing leader, you must be participative, consultative and assertive.

You must express opinions and beliefs without infringing on and refuses to be
dominated or manipulated by others.

To sum it all, whether you are in hospital setting or in education, you must
be responsible, authoritative, and accountable to be able to achieve the lifetime
goal. It is not merely focusing on what already established but by improving and
establishing a more standards of excellence of interventions and taking steps to
ensure that each patient receives the expected level of care and the best
possible care available. With these principles, we, the Filipino nurses will be able
to compete with the world communities and respond to their needs