NURS 6051 THE NURSE LEADER AS KNOWLEDGE WORKER
NURS 6051 THE NURSE LEADER AS KNOWLEDGE WORKER
A nurse leader is required to develop and enhance knowledge worker skills related to data gathering, data analysis, and identifying clinical trends and patterns. The role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker is to come up with innovative ways that will improve health care access, increase the quality of care, and decrease overall healthcare costs (Turriago-Hoyos et al., 2016). The nurse leader strives to achieve these goals by focusing attention on the use of technology and the development of electronic systems for data collection and analysis (Darvish et al., 2015). Much of the challenge of matching technologies to specific patient-care units or service lines are guided by nurse managers and their staff.
Nurse leaders as knowledge workers have a role of determining data that will be most useful in guiding patient-care delivery and promoting positive patient outcomes. Nursing units collect lots of data daily. Nurse leaders utilize knowledge worker skills to ensure accurate data collection, reliable methods of analysis, and logical findings and conclusions (Ajanaku & Mutula, 2018).
They use electronic data systems and rapidly translate patient findings and information into knowledge that informs and produces quality patient-care outcomes.
Nurse leaders support electronic technology initiatives in their units. They come up with approaches to support education and empowerment that assist unit staff to collect clinical data, and identify patterns for delivering more efficient and effective patient-care services (Darvish et al., 2015).
References
Ajanaku, O. J., & Mutula, S. (2018). The relationship between knowledge management and nursing care performance. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, 84(2), 39-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/84-2-1785
Darvish, A., Bahramnezhad, F., Keyhanian, S., & Navidhamidi, M. (2015). The role of nursing informatics in promoting the quality of health care and the need for appropriate education. Global journal of health science, 6(6), 11–18. https://doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v6n6p11
Turriago-Hoyos, A., Thoene, U., & Arjoon, S. (2016). Knowledge workers and virtues in Peter Drucker’s management theory. SAGE Open, 6(1), 2158244016639631. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016639631
