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the
Head
Nurse
By
D/ Ahlam EL-Shaer
Lecture of Nursing
Administration
Faculty of Nursing
Mansoura University
Out Lines
Definition of the head nurse
Nursing Management Levels
Criteria for selection of the head
nurse
Different roles of the head nurse:
I Patient care Management.
II Staff management.
III Unit management.
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hospital
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Nursing Management
Levels
Top management
(director of nursing service department)
I
II
III
I. Patient
care
Management.
Head nurse must have a body of
scientific knowledge and proper
competencies to be able to use
the five steps of nursing process
and ensure that each staff nurse
is able to use nursing process to
provide patient care
II. Staff
management