Nursing Coordination Case Study

Coordination is a means of dealing with interdependencies by effectively linking together the various parts of an organization or by linking together two or more organizations pursuing a common goal (Shortell & Kaluzny, 2005). Coordination is also one of the most important parts of management as well. During the interview I had with the director of nurses at a nursing home, we talked a lot about how the place was run and how it stays coordinated. It takes a lot of work being the director of nurses and you have to make sure everyone is doing their part to make it work.
Each nurse has 5 patients they have to take care of daily, now making sure these nurses are taking care of their patients and giving the patients what they need are the managers of each wing. There is an east wing and a west wing. Each wing has a day manager and a night manager and 4 nurses. Each nurse has to make sure their patient gets their medication, showers, physical therapy and if they cannot walk their selves, they have to make
My great aunt was in that nursing home for a little over a year and they always knew where the patients were, whether it was in the game room, the kitchen, the butterfly garden, or physical therapy. The patients nurse and the wing manager always knew where she was and always had a list of when they left and what time they came back, etc. Ways for coordination to be identified would be if something major was to happen and they didn’t have a plan, they can make one and if something like that were to happen again, they would know what to do. We had three hurricanes back to back here one year, and the first one they weren’t too sure what to do, they had meetings etc, by the time the third one came, they had a plan and knew what to do. Each person was assigned and area and had to stay there until they were told otherwise. They had designated spots for each wing of patients and knew where everyone was at each moment in