Whether you are a new nurse manager or a more experienced one, the following are skills that every nurse manager needs:
- Communication skills are essential. Nurse managers need to be able to convey information clearly and concisely.
- Decision making and leadership skills. Nurse managers are looked up to by their team to lead and be decisive. In addition, they should act as a role model to their team.
- Team-working and team building. A nurse manager needs to work well within a team and at the same time, to build a team by encouraging collaboration and managing conflict.
- Coping effectively with change. With constant changes happening in the healthcare industry, and especially during the current pandemic, a nurse manager needs to embrace change and to adapt to it.
