Concept of faculty supervisor position And factors influencing faculty staff Relationship and techniques of Working together

Nursing education prepares nurses to practice in a variety of settings. The impact of modernization, globalization and liberalization on the society has brought tremendous changes in general & nursing education.
The significant trends in modern education are creativity, changes in teaching- learning process & advanced educational technology.
The scientific and technological advances in medicine along with social changes have resulted in emergence of new diseases and the development of specialties and super specialties.
Advanced nurse practice enables nurses to practice in new roles such as nurse practitioner and clinical specialties.

Concept of supervision has changed in recent years. Today there is a more democracy in supervision. Educators think of supervision either as a guidance or working together for common goals.
Supervision of graduate staff nurses differ from that of student nurses in one aspect.
The supervision of students has two goals, the development of the student and the improvement of nursing care
The supervision of graduate nurse has one goal, the giving of high quality care.
As per dual role supervision can be of student nurses as a faculty or the supervision of staff nurses as ward in charge.

The supervision of students has two goals, the development of the student and the improvement of nursing care
The supervision of graduate nurse has one goal, the giving of high quality care.
As per dual role supervision can be of student nurses as a faculty or the supervision of staff nurses as ward in charge.
A good supervisor is approachable.
A good supervisor is also a good leader.
A good supervisor is fair: treats each individual impartially but accordance of his own special interest.
A supervisor should have infinite patience and hope.
A good supervisor is able to look at himself objectively: to try to put himself in the other person place and see how he will be affected by his own actions.

The following is nursing supervisor job description with detail about education, skills, experience and duties.
A nursing supervisor leads to a team of registered nurses, nurse’s aids and trainee nurses.
They ensure that there is adequate nursing staff during all the shifts.
It also their responsibility to make sure that nurses are properly educated and trained to handle different diseases and illnesses.
They organize and monitor nursing staff and nursing procedures.
The nursing department functions under their guidance adhering to the hospital policies and principles.
The supervisor position combines both nursing skills and managerial abilities.


Dual role model in NIMHANS The amalgamation of 1974 resulting in NIMHANS, the faculty of the nursing department took up the dual responsibility of providing clinical services as well as conducting teaching programs. In 1975, all the Grade II nursing superintendents working in the hospital were designated tutors to maintain uniformity in the department.
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1. SUB: NURSING EDUCATION Topic: : Concept of faculty supervisor position And factors influencing faculty staff Relationship and techniques of Working together Prepared by Mr . Abhinav Bhatt

2. INTRODUCTION Nursing education prepares nurses to practice in a variety of settings. The impact of modernization, globalization and liberalization on the society has brought tremendous changes in general & nursing education. The significant trends in modern education are creativity, changes in teaching- learning process & advanced educational technology. The scientific and technological advances in medicine along with social changes have resulted in emergence of new diseases and the development of specialties and super specialties. Advanced nurse practice enables nurses to practice in new roles such as nurse practitioner and clinical specialties.

3. SUPERVISION Concept of supervision has changed in recent years. Today there is a more democracy in supervision. Educators think of supervision either as a guidance or working together for common goals. Supervision of graduate staff nurses differ from that of student nurses in one aspect.

4. The supervision of students has two goals, the development of the student and the improvement of nursing care The supervision of graduate nurse has one goal, the giving of high quality care. As per dual role supervision can be of student nurses as a faculty or the supervision of staff nurses as ward in charge.

5. QUALITIES OF SUPERVISOR The first and most important, a supervisor must have something to give which is greater than that which is possessed by the individual whom he/she is supervising. A good supervisor inspires confidence by his ability and his expectation. A good supervisor has enthusiasm for nursing and a consuming interest in patients and their care.

6. A good supervisor is approachable. A good supervisor is also a good leader. A good supervisor is fair: treats each individual impartially but accordance of his own special interest. A supervisor should have infinite patience and hope. A good supervisor is able to look at himself objectively: to try to put himself in the other person place and see how he will be affected by his own actions.

7. NURSING SUPERVISOR JOB DESCRIPTION The following is nursing supervisor job description with detail about education, skills, experience and duties. A nursing supervisor leads to a team of registered nurses, nurse’s aids and trainee nurses. They ensure that there is adequate nursing staff during all the shifts. It also their responsibility to make sure that nurses are properly educated and trained to handle different diseases and illnesses. They organize and monitor nursing staff and nursing procedures. The nursing department functions under their guidance adhering to the hospital policies and principles. The supervisor position combines both nursing skills and managerial abilities.

8. NURSING SUPERVISOR JOB DUTIES Dual role model in NIMHANS The amalgamation of 1974 resulting in NIMHANS, the faculty of the nursing department took up the dual responsibility of providing clinical services as well as conducting teaching programs. In 1975, all the Grade II nursing superintendents working in the hospital were designated tutors to maintain uniformity in the department. Integrative Service-Education approach in CMC Vellore College of Nursing under Christian Medical College, Vellore, where nurse educators are practicing in the wards or directly involving in the delivery of nursing services. This enables the practicing nurse to share her practical knowledge to the student nurse who is practicing in the concerned wards

9. CLINICAL SUPERVISOR DUTIES A nursing supervisor may work in corporate hospitals or nursing homes. Usually, they work in big hospitals play a leadership role guiding nurses. Their duties are to: Take care of patients, sometimes like any other registered nurses. See to it that patients are getting the best care from the nurses. Get the nurses’ station organized. Hire adequately qualified and trained nurses. Assign shift and job responsibilities to various nurses. Monitor them and make sure that they are adhering to the hospitals’ guidelines.

10. Give in-service training to nurses. Resolve any issues with the nursing staff. Ensure that medicine and other essentials are always in full stock and readily available for use. Minimize wastage. Meet and appraise higher ups about the functioning, issues and developments with the nursing departments. Suggest improvements in nursing care. Always alert during the shift. Good computer skill.

11. Preparation of objectives for clinical experience Assess students having adequate theoretical knowledge to gain maximum benefits from experience to gain maximum benefit. Plan the course outline and so that theory can be correlated to practice Place and guide the students to get required clinical experience. Criticize constructively the student’s activities which improve their performance. Helps the students for effective charting of records and reports.

12. Educational qualification and experience QUALIFICATION: A master degree in nursing and certification is essential for a nursing supervisor’s position. Ideal to begin their careers as registered nurses and experience as a registered nurse in India.   NURSING FACULTY The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in school or college of nursing. Clinical faculty members are essential for the success of the nursing students. It is impossible to learn nursing without effective clinical experience provided in an environment that provides support and respect for students while they learn art and science of nursing.

13. CONCEPT OF FACULTY SUPERVISOR According to national League for Nursing (NLN), the main competency of the faculty role is described as “Creating an environment in classroom, laboratory and clinical setting that facilitates student learning & an achievement of desired cognitive, affective and psychomotor outcomes”. A clinical nurse is one who is practicing in the clinical institution such as hospital.

14. So a faculty supervisor is a nurse who is employed by an academic institution to teach nursing and who works in the parent or affiliated hospital supervising students and staff in a particular area on a regular basis. She or he will be accountable to all the activities performed by students and staff and also regarding the proceeding of the ward. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION: A master degree in nursing and certification or a basic degree or post basic degree in nursing.

15. RESPONSIBILITIES OF FACULTY SUPERVISOR As a Faculty Supervisor , she has to emphasize on……. Recommend, order, or authorize purchase of instructional materials, supplies, equipment, and visual aids designed to meet student educational needs and district standards. Develop tests, questionnaires, and procedures that measure the effectiveness of curricula, and use these tools to determine whether program objectives are being met. Address public audiences to explain program objectives and to elicit support.

16. Organize production and design of curriculum materials. Interpret and enforce provisions of state education codes, and rules and regulations of state education boards. Observe work of teaching staff to evaluate performance, and to recommend changes that could strengthen teaching skills. Prepare grant proposals, budgets, and program policies and goals, or assist in their preparation. Develop instructional materials to be used by educators and instructors. Inspect instructional equipment to determine if repairs are needed, and authorize necessary repairs

17. Advise and teach students. Update the content of educational programs to ensure that students are being trained with equipment and processes that are technologically current. Coordinate activities of workers engaged in cataloguing, distributing, and maintaining educational materials and equipment in curriculum libraries and laboratories. Develop classroom-based and distance learning training courses, using needs assessments and skill level analyses. Prepare or approve manuals, guidelines, and reports on state educational policies and practices for distribution to school districts.

18. FACTORS INFLUENCING RELATIONSHIP AND WORKING TOGETHER   TERMINOLOGY FACULTY Faculty refers to the individuals who give direct instruction to the students. Faculty may be instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, lecturer, nursing tutor etc. STAFF Staffs tend to refer to the office workers and support people on campus. Non-teaching employees of the college. An employee of the university other than faculty. E.g.:- the administrative staff (secretaries, assistants, deans, presidents, etc STAFF A group of assistants to a manager, executive, or other person in authority.

19. RELATIONSHIP The condition or fact of being related; connection or association. Connection by blood or marriage; kinship. A particular type of connection existing between people related to or having dealings with each other: has a close relationship with his siblings . A romantic or sexual involvement. The personnel who carry out a specific enterprise: the nursing staff of a hospital.

20. INTERPERSONAL Relating to the interactions between individuals: interpersonal skills . Existing or occurring between individuals: interpersonal communication or conflict.

21. FACTORS INFLUENCING RELATIONSHIP AND WORKING TOGETHER. Physical factor Personal factor Work load. Staff shortage. Facility shortage. Lengthy courses. Extra activities . Collegial Environment Institutional Support Leadership

22. PHYSICAL FACTORS Improper classroom setting, lighting facilities, water supply, furniture likes table, chair, desk in classroom and also inappropriate basic facilities like blackboard, Electricity, chock duster, crisis of inappropriate number of OHP with trolley, computer, OHP screen etc. lacking of all these thing in proper amount causes staff suffer from difficulty to work so due these causes staff relationship may be spoil.

23. WORKLOAD Depending on the type of institution, the workload for nursing faculty members may include any or all of the following: teaching, advising, committee participation, practice, research, and/or service. The faculty member’s ability to balance these competing responsibilities is critical if the environment is to be perceived as healthy. If faculty members are less than sanction post at that time personnel need to more work to accomplished goal and when works more than other faculty at that time relationship may be deteriorate .

24. Currently, due to faculty shortages, frozen positions, and increasing enrolments, workload may actually be increasing. This can impact the flexibility and autonomy that are seen as benefits in the nurse educator role. Also, faculty shortages may increase faculty-to-student ratios. While an individual state’s nurse practice act may limit these ratios in the clinical setting, the overall number of students in the program relative to the number of faculty available may increase, thus increasing workload. Nurse administrators and faculty members must collaborate to ensure that the distribution of workload remains consistent among the faculty. If the work environment is healthy, faculty members who perceive that they are treated fairly and that their work is valued and rewarded may be more tolerant of an increasing workload.

25. PERSONAL FACTOR If faculty has less experience, knowledge, less skill, abnormal attitude regarding modern technology at that time they unable to understand experience personnel and staff relationship may deteriorates.

26. STAFF SHORTAGE If faculty members are less than sanction post at that time personnel need more work to accomplished goal as the burden are more on staff. However, with this increase in enrolments comes a need for an increase in nursing faculty and clinical sites in which to educate these new nurses. If there are not enough qualified faculty to teach nursing students, the nursing shortage will most likely worsen.

27. This will indeed have a direct effect on the quality of care that patients receive nationwide. Multiple factors have emerged that shed light on the seriousness of the situation and innovative strategies are being implemented to help solve the nursing faculty shortage. Faculty shortage solutions are the guiding force for additional nursing student admissions. Another important factor affecting the faculty shortage is that of job satisfaction, stress, and burnout. To maintain current faculty on the job, more research should be conducted on factors affecting job satisfaction and what works to provide a better environment.

28. FACILITY SHORTAGE Due shortage of facilities, for e.g. equipments in laboratory, some kind of A.V. Aids and all these things more use in teaching so. More than one teacher wants to use it in same times so, due to this factor faculty influences staff relationship

29. LENGTHY COURSES Nursing course is lengthy and sub subject has more hours so this subject’s teacher works more hours. It develops problems between faculties .

30. EXTRA ACTIVITY Extracurricular activities are the part of nursing education. These kind of activity also performed by all teacher with their routine courses, it is so time consuming. It is compulsion to teacher to do it so its create problems and influence relationship of faculty.

31. COLLEGIAL ENVIRONMENT The collegiality of the environment is depend upon both organizational support and relationships with administrators, other faculty members, and students. This is consistent with the Gallup Organization finding that people who have a best friend at work are seven times more likely than those who do not have a best friend to be engaged in their job and organization ( Hannon, 2006 ). In contrast to good relationships with colleagues are the “joy stealing” bullying and intimidating games identified by Heinrich ( 2007 ).

32. ...it falls to the nurse administrator to take the steps necessary to remove a negative and/or ineffective faculty member so that a healthy work environment for other faculty members can be maintained A faculty member with a negative attitude or a prolonged “short-timer” can have a negative impact on the entire faculty group. This may occur with faculty members who had planned to retire but now need to stay in the workforce because of the current economic environment. The nurse administrator should make every attempt to promote a positive attitude among faculty. If this cannot be achieved, it falls to the nurse administrator to take the steps necessary to remove a negative and/or ineffective faculty member so that a healthy work environment for other faculty members can be maintained.

33. INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT Institutional support of the nursing education unit is necessary to support a healthy work environment. Another component of institutional support to evaluate is the presence of adequate personnel, financial, physical, and technological resources within the institution.

34. LEADERSHIP .....Nurse administrators need to recognize that they are leading a group of professionals..... The principles and elements found in the NLN’s Healthful Work Environments for Nursing Faculty (2005) include the “presence of expert, competent, credible, visible leadership” The leadership of the nurse e administrator is very influential in determining the culture of the organization and the overall health of the work environment. Nurse administrators need to recognize that they are leading a group of professionals. They need to learn how to lead by “letting go and listening, coaching, motivating and influencing, rather than by directing and controlling” so that faculty members are empowered.

35. TECHNIQUES APPLY FOR WORK TOGETHER TO MAINTAIN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP 1. DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUES. The head of the faculty should develop four type of decision making skill Tell decision : Sell decision Consult decision Share decision Tell decision: The head of the faculty makes the decision herself either because it is so important or so trivial. Sell decision : The head of the faculty knows that there is only one course of action so she tries to persuade other so that it will have a change of success.

36. Consult decision : The head of the faculty gets opinions from all the staff concerned but takes the final responsibility for making the decision herself. Share decision : The head of faculty allows other staff to share the decision making process and accepts the joint decision. 2. FOLLOW SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES :    There should be a specific purpose for interaction for achieving meaningful encounter. Goal should be clear to faculty and well accepted by them. 3. COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT There should healthy and comfortable environment in an institute to promote interaction between faculties with enough physical facility for proper work.

37. 4.CONFIDENTIALITY There should be confidentiality of information discuss among the faculty. 5 . DEVELOPMENT OF GOOD INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP SKILLS.   Warmth and friendliness: by the maintaining the qualities of warmth and friendliness throughout the helping relationship. Competence : competent staffs are in all skilled in all aspect capable to use their technical intellectual and interpersonal skill to evaluate strength and weakness. 6. AVOIDING INEFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES Certain types of comments and question should be avoided in most situations because they tend to impede effective relationship.

38. 7. DEVELOPING TRUST Developing trust to each other because good relationship is the base of trust. Information should well distribute among faculty and staff by proper communication channel. Optimal power utilization should be equally distributed among faculty and staff so that the influence of subordinates can be felt high levels. 8. INNOVATIVENESS Views should be invited from faculty where new goals and new procedures are invited. There should be team approach and effective system of problem solving technique for any problem arises between the staff. Avoid personal perception toward other person or faculty while distributing work

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