CARIMAH ABUL

BSM

Post Activity #6
M106

Interview through phone a top midwifery/nursing executive/supervisor/ school administrator you

know. Ask him/her what factors contributed to her promotion. Secondly, what adaptations he/ she
did while shifting from an employee to a supervisor.

I interviewed one of my friends as she is a head nurse of a government hospital in abroad. She was a
staff nurse before she become a head nurse. I ask her how she become a head nurse what factors
contributed to her promotions, and here what she said:“I was not promoted. I was just assigned
instantly to a newly open department that needs someone to be a head nurse. I was a staff for more
than a year then charge nurse for several months then instant head nurse”.

What adaptations you did while shifting from staff nurse to head nurse?
“Adapting to this new position was not easy. I experienced lots of trials and challenges at the
beginning of my journey. I was being supervised by an Irish team and watch by them every step of the
way. There were times that I felt that they are losing their hopes in me. It was the hard part because
they trust my assistant more than me. But eventually, they saw my transition/transformation into a
better instant head. The head of that Irish team (which is the medical director of our hospital) frankly
told me that they were observing me, and in some reason she told that I was challenge by them. But
at the end of that she was happy looking at me saying that “u have grown up”!. I was teary eyed
during that time because I remembered all my struggles. Thanks God! Now, I can say it confidently
that I am a competent and kind Head to my staff and to my department”.