Running head: TERM PAPER ABOUT HUSSIN AHMAD SOFIANY, BSN, RN, M.Sc.

College of Nursing
Graduate studies
NUR 502
Term paper about Hussain Ahmad Sofiany, BSN, RN, M.Sc.

Ohud Hospital, Almadina Almnawra

Nursing Director

1st semester (1442)

Credit hours: 2 credits
Prepared BY:
Mohammad Aljarrah
SUBMITTED TO:
Dr.AhmadAboshaiqah, RN, Phd in nursing
Associate professor
Faculty College of nursing
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HUSSIN A SOFIANY, BSN, RN, M.Sc. Nursing Director in Ohud Hospital, Almadina-Almnawra

I will highlight in this paper on Mr. HUSSIN A SOFIANY who is a holder of master’s degree in nursing from

KSU. He has been recruited recently as a manager of nursing department in Ohud hospital. He has been notified

about my intention to spend a day working with him in nursing management in the hospital to connect the

scientific experiences with the practical life and to discover how to implement them in a modern way. The main

point of the meeting was to discover how to apply managerial skills in nursing management of the hospital, that

was positively and tangibly reflected throughout the job satisfaction which was apparent on the nursing staff. Also,

to highlight on the practical ways of leadership skills away from theoretical enrichments. One of the apparent

things upon that character is that he merged and employed the means of modern technical and technological in

applying the managerial skills to achieve the wanted results quickly and easily. One of the innovated and modern

methods is to get benefits from the free services that is presented by some websites as survey service from monkey

survey website and Google company in the skill of shared governance. Also, to get benefits from the social

networking programs as WhatsApp, smart applications programs and e-mail for sending and concluding

information. In this presentation as objective, we will discuss some solutions that was presented by Mr. HUSSIN A

SOFIANY to apply the skill of continuous professional development for all the nursing staff in the hospital after

the scientific SWOT analysis and need assessment was performed to ensure the activation of useful scientific

sessions and to bring the quality of the clinical skills. In addition to the previous objectives, we will present the

modern and scientific method to apply the skill of leadership and the skill of staff meeting at the same time to

achieve eventually the shared decision. The goal of the applying that two skills in one time is to give the nursing

staff a chance for participating and giving opinions and to increase their believes in belonging to their health

organization and to feel that they are a part of internal solution. Later on, we will present each skill alone in details

and some images that reflect the positive results for the used ways in implementation of managerial skills.
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Implement orientation program:

Begin the process before the new person starts work. Send an agenda to the new associate with the offer letter so

that the employee knows what to expect. Stay in touch after he or she has accepted the position to answer

questions. Make sure the new person's work area is ready for the first day of work.

Mr. Sofiany he make sure that key coworkers know the employee is starting and encourage them to come to say

"hello" before orientation begins. A new employee welcome letter with an agenda allows coworkers to stay in

touch with the new employee and her schedule.

He assign a mentor or buddy, to show the new person around, make introductions, and start training. Let the

mentor have sufficient notice so that they can make preparations. The mentoring relationship should continue for

90 days and may continue much longer if the pair makes a great connection. Many relationships go on for years

and may even turn into a sponsorship.

He starts with the basics. People become productive sooner if they are firmly grounded in the basic knowledge,

they need to understand their job. Focus on the why, when, where, and how of the position before expecting them

to handle assignments or big projects. Don't overwhelm them with too much information.

He has some fun. Concentrate only on the very important topics of the handbook. Play some games—this can help

people learn. Games include Photo Match: after the tour. Each employee is provided photos of other employees

and a list of names. The object is to match the name with the face.

His plan to take the new employee to lunch or ask others to join the new employee in the lunchroom or in a

conference room with other members of the department. The first day on the job is not the day to leave the new

employee alone during lunch.

This is a good time for the supervisor to take the employee to lunch, include other coworkers, and make sure the
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employee is at ease. It's also an excellent environment in which employees can get to know each other and the new

coworker.

An effective orientation program—or the lack of one—will make a significant difference in how quickly a new

employee becomes productive and has other long-term impacts for his organization. The end of the first day, the

end of the first week, the end of each day in his employment, is just as important as the beginning.

The American Nurses Association (ANA, 2004) has defined nursing professional development as "the lifelong

process of active participation by nurses in learning activities that assist in developing and maintaining their

continuing competence, enhance their professional practice, and support achievements of their career goals". There

are many barriers to providing professional development for nurses (Aboshaiqah et al., 2012). These barriers

include time, accessibility, staff motivation, marketing and advertising, and financial issues (Ward & Wood 2000).

Beside that everyone believes in the importance of continuing professional development in improving the

quality of the clinical skills that we practice. Continuing education helps to minimize gaps between education and

training and practice, boosts clinical skills, and endorses the development of needed knowledge and practice skills

for continued professional competence (Price et al., 2004).

Through my presentation, I will demonstrate how is the skill of professional development implementing in

Ohud hospital. As well as some of the proposed solutions that applied by the director of nursing to overcome the

difficulty of applying this skill. As the beginning of the plan, that before the end of each year there is enough time

to make referendum letter on a website. The referendum letter contains a package of at least 25 clinical skill

accompanied with workshops that are suitable and designed for nursing staff. Also, it has another package of at

least 12 managerial skills with workshops for nursing leaders. With taking into consideration, that all clinical and

administrative courses can be implemented and committed by nursing clinical instructors internally without efforts

for external recruitment or payments. After the nursing staff and nursing leaders have voted for the favor and

needed courses that best suit their needs, the results presented to Mr. Sofiany and to supervisor of nursing training

to prepare annual training schedule.

All nursing staff are requested to attend all sessions held in compulsory. The annual training schedules.
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According to what was demonstrated, the process is undertaken by female section for their female staff with

taking into consideration the differences of the referendum results about needed and best suitable courses.

Eventually, we concluded that the professional development skill has been accomplished in satisfied manner. The

nursing education has had success to overcome the difficulties that were matched to the professional development

skill. Some of these solutions are described in terms of reducing training time, facilitate accessibility, utilizing the

organizational and human resources to prevent funding and financial barriers. Repeating the sessions to give

chance for all to be attended and avoid using their own weekly rest, as well as, directing discussing through the

development courses to the updates and new theme of the particular clinical or managerial skill.

A meeting is a gathering of two or more persons that has been convened for the purpose of achieving a common

goal through verbal interaction, such as sharing information or reaching agreement (Tropman 2014). Numerous

studies have concluded that work group teamwork leads to higher staff job satisfaction (Kalisch et al., 2007). The

participation of nursing staff members in monthly nursing meeting and act to give them an opportunity to share

solutions for health organizational concerns is one of my goals which ultimately aimed at increasing their job

satisfaction and their sense of belonging to our health organization. In Ohud Hospital, there is a meeting called

monthly nursing meeting. The focus of the meeting is pointed out according to what is required currently. Agendas

should be established in advance of the meeting and sent to participants for review and comments (Rose 2012).

The agendas of the monthly nursing meeting usually listed and conducted by nursing leaders at the beginning of

each month. Each nursing leader is requested to select a nurse to be a representative of that department in the

meeting. That delegated nurse not allowed to be a representative of his department in next meetings. So, everyone

has had an opportunity in sharing in monthly nursing meeting. Usually, next day to meeting, all events,

discussions, solutions, suggestions are summarized and send to all nurses through personal e-mails. As a

conclusion, staff meeting skill is an important skill to control health organizational concerns and to enhance job

satisfaction level of staff through participation in meetings and sharing with them the outlined solutions.
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According to that experience, we concluded that managerial skills are playing an important role in the managing

of nursing staff, controlling conflicts, improving quality of care, as well as, increasing the level of job satisfaction.

The implementation of these skills is required to keep the structure of the health organization and to minimize the

burnout and exhaustion of nursing staff. We have right to update the ways of implementation for these skills to be

parallel with our resources and to ensure ongoing development. Visiting other places of interest in the same area is

an effective way to update your knowledge about particular topic. Usually, in implementing managerial skills take

into consideration how to get benefits from advanced technologically programs that may enhance the accuracy of

the results.
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